When I was growing up in Texas, it was generally well known that you usually could not tell Texans what to do.  They were independent types.  But as with the rest of the United States, and the World, so much has changed that these days a Texas Governor can feel free to issue an executive order forcing toxic injections upon young schoolgirls.  So much has changed and the unthinkable is fast becoming not only the thinkable but the norm.

Rule by Dictate in Texas

In this case, on February 2, 2007, Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, issued a widely-publicized executive order requiring that all young girls in Texas government schools be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus (HPV) prior to entering the sixth grade in order to prevent them from developing cervical cancer later in life.  The implementation of the executive order – which actually uses the word “recommended” – is to begin in September 2008.  Apparently, it was issued with the specific intention to bypass the Texas State legislature, members of which have already begun to receive numerous complaints from parent-constituents across the State.

According to an Associated Press report, and in the “Why are we not surprised?” department, Governor Perry has received money from Merck & Co., the manufacturers of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, for his re-election campaign.  Moreover, his former chief of staff, Mike Toomey, is reportedly a paid lobbyist for Merck, while his current chief of staff’s mother-in-law, Rep. Dianne Delisi, is the Texas state director for “Women in Government,” a Merck funded §501(c)(3) nonprofit group of female legislators that has been pushing for mandatory HPV vaccinations in every State.  And the Governor’s aides met with Merck lobbyists last August.  No wonder, then, that Perry issued his executive-order mandate, which some say even the Texas State legislature has no power to overturn.  Yet the Texas House Public Health Committee – probably in reaction to the uproar – just voted 6-3 to pass a bill, H.B. 1098, that would overturn Governor Perry's executive order, according to the Houston Chronicle (Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 2/22/07). "He also has ties to Women in Government, a Merck-funded advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country. His current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for the group," reports the AP.

Perry's former chief of staff Mike Toomey is on the Merck payroll as a lobbyist.

Almost immediately following Perry's announcement, newspapers and TV stations began to report that it was "the law" that parents had to have their child vaccinated. This reflects a national and international hoax that is repeatedly being perpetrated shortly before school terms begin each year.

There is no law in America, aside from those applying to medical workers, that says you or your child has to take any vaccine whatsoever, no matter what any executive order, requirement, mandate or policy dictates, there is no situation where you can go to prison for refusing a government vaccine under the U.S. constitution and the law of the land.

As in the case of all other vaccines, Perry's executive order merely states that the vaccine is "recommended," yet the mass media drumbeat constantly conditions people to believe that if they don't take their shots they will be kicked out of school, arrested and thrown in jail. This trick will continue to hoodwink Americans into taking all manner of dangerous and untested vaccines, the number of which rises every year, until they realize that there is no law that forces them to take any vaccine.

This issue is of vital importance not just to Texans but to everyone across the country, because all fifty states have been the target of Merck Pharmaceutical's biggest lobbying effort ever to get this vaccine mandated throughout the nation, by paying off Governors and other officials to curry favor. Merck were unable to sell the "benefits" of the vaccine to make enough profit out of it, so instead they turned to state legislature to force eleven year old girls (and in other states children as young as eight) who aren't even sexually active to take the shot.

A lot of states have rejected Merck's advances outright but Texas could provoke a chain reaction that would influence other areas to submit to big pharma's agenda.

What is actually in the vaccine? Live genetically engineered cancer virus. As the vaccine spreads in use, reports of horrible side effects are already starting to proliferate.

"Negative side effects of Gardasil, a new Merck vaccine to prevent the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, are being reported in the District of Columbia and 20 states, including Virginia. The reactions range from loss of consciousness to seizures," reports the Washington Times.

"Young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision and some girls have lost consciousness during what appear to be seizures," said Vicky Debold, health policy analyst for the National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog organization that was created in the early 1980s to prevent vaccine injuries."

The report quotes physicians who debunk the claim that the HPV vaccine even prevents cervical cancer, as is claimed by Merck and the FDA.

"There is no proof Gardasil will stop cervical cancer," said Clayton Young, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Texas, "They haven't been studying it long enough to make that claim."

Merck makes 360 dollars per shot, equaling billions of dollars in fat profits from bullying or paying off legislatures to mandate the vaccine.

Media spin has succeeded in turning the debate into a partisan issue, putting liberals to sleep, aided by deluded conservatives who are only against the executive order because it seemingly encourages teenagers to have pre-marital sex.

The core of the issue has nothing to with partisan bickering about abstinence, it's about the fundamental human right to not have your body meddled with on the order of a government mandate which isn't even a law. Liberals will whine all day about their right to kill babies in the womb, arguing that the government shouldn't interfere with what a woman chooses to do with her body, but when it comes to mandatory vaccines, they're all for it!

As an example, check out this commentary from the liberal Crooks and Liars website.

"Seriously, this is such a no-brainer that I'm surprised other states haven't jumped on the bandwagon. The whole wingnut argument that this encourages girls to have sex is a bit bizarre to me. As a mom, I truly hope that my daughter will have a fulfilling sex life when she's an adult. I don't see how a shot in the sixth grade will make her more likely to have sex at a younger age. But if I can do something to prevent her from getting cancer in her 40s, what's the problem with that?"

The problem is that men in black uniforms holding your child down and sticking a needle in their arm by executive order whether you like it or not is un-American. Liberals will cry Roe vs. Wade all day long when it comes to aborting babies but when it comes to the "choice" of letting the government inject their child with whatever they like by force, the pro-choicers are eager to comply.

Vaccines and drugs that are not stringently tested and are instead foisted upon populations for the purposes of making obscene profits have a clear history of deadly consequences.

Consider the case of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, who deliberately dumped a vaccine that was known to be contaminated with AIDS virus on the European and Latin American market after it killed people in America. Thousands died from an action that the U.S. government allowed to happen through the FDA.

Peruse the plethora of examples where vaccines containing mercury, live HIV virus, live cancer and other horrors have wrought misery after victims were bullied into taking them by government mandates that they were deluded into thinking was the law.

The history alone, a legacy that led former director of the National Institute of Health Dr. James R. Shannon to state, "The only safe vaccine is one that is never used," implores us to stand up and fight Perry's collusion with Merck and ensure that similar executive orders are not passed elsewhere in the country as a result of cynical greed driven lobbying and corporate crony payoffs.

Parents across the country should rally to denounce this development, which sets the pretext for the state to dictate the health of their children, as well as moving us closer to legislation which would allow Americans to be forcibly vaccinated at gunpoint against their will during a time of manufactured crisis, such as in the case of a human to human bird flu pandemic.

Importantly, though, and you would not learn this easily from the mainstream media that seems to only want to emphasis the word “mandatory,” Texas parents may “opt out” their daughters from this vaccination requirement.  Of course, the program should have been – if anything – an “opt-in” program instead of an “opt-out” program.  How many Texans will realize, or be informed, that they may opt out of the “mandatory” vaccination when the mainstream media is constantly bombarding us with the mantra that these vaccines are “mandatory”?

Virginia Follows Suit

Similarly, near the end of February 2007, the Virginia State General Assembly recently passed bills that would also require all girls entering the sixth grade in Virginia State schools to receive the same anti-HPV vaccine, beginning October 1, 2008.  The new legislation does provide for an opt-out right, although a previous version of the law had not permitted such an exemption.  Virginia is the first State to pass such legislation, which must still be signed into law by Governor Tim Kaine.  A Democrat, Kaine supports access to this vaccine and has already budgeted $1.4 million for expanded access to HPV vaccines though health departments.  He is expected to sign the bill.

As in Texas, Merck’s lobbying connections with politicians abound.  According to the Virginia Public Access Project (which tracks Virginia campaign finances), two sponsors of the Virginia bill received mentionable campaign contributions from Merck.  Del. Phillip Hamilton, a Republican and the House bill’s sponsor, received $10,000 from Merck during the last ten years, while the Virginia Senate sponsor, Sen. Janet Howell, a Democrat, received slightly more than $4,000 from Merck since 1998.

Dangerous Injections

As in Texas, the vaccine that would accomplish this task is none other than Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine.  The vaccine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Summer, contains a live, genetically-engineered cancer virus.  And its reported side-effects are not pleasant according to such reputable sources as the Washington Times and the National Vaccine Information Center (a nonprofit organization that provides important information on vaccines).  Some of the young girls receiving these injections experience loss of consciousness, seizures, severe headaches, dizziness, and a temporary loss of vision.

At the same time, the whole reason for being vaccinated – that is, to be protected against cervical cancer – has not been substantiated, according to some doctors.  The tests were not conducted over a long enough time period to demonstrate a sufficient correlation between vaccination and protection.  The connection between HPV infection and cervical cancer is one that requires decades to manifest itself, and the studies with Gardasil were not decades-long studies.  In fact, Merck’s claims that the vaccine’s effectiveness is 100% appears to be much overstated since there were no cases of cervical cancer in either the vaccinated or the unvaccinated groups.  In my book, and in those of many others, that means zero-percent effectiveness.

Worse, besides the vaccine itself, there are 225 micrograms of aluminum (as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate) in each injection; and since the protocol calls for a total of three shots, that makes 675 micrograms injected into each schoolgirl!  The FDA considers this amount to be within acceptable safety levels and aluminum is used in vaccines to increase the body’s production of antibodies.  However, in doing so, it also places a toxic load upon the body since no known living systems use aluminum as part of any biochemical process.  Even the American Academy of Pediatrics admits that aluminum has been implicated as negatively interacting with a number of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system.

Just as alarmingly, Dr. James Howenstine has recently reported that, “A new disease called macrophagic myofasciitis causes pain in muscles, bones and joints.  All persons with this disease have received aluminum containing vaccines.  Deposits of aluminum are able to remain as an irritant in tissues and disturb the immune and nervous system for a lifetime.”  Aluminum is a known neurotoxin and considered to be a trigger for Alzheimer’s Disease.

As if that were not enough, Gardasil contains Polysorbate 80, which has been linked to infertility in mice.  (See Gajdova et al. - "Delayed effects of neonatal exposure to Tween 80 on female reproductive organs in rats." Food Chem Toxicol 31(3):183-90 (1993), Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Limbova, Bratislava.)  So here we are giving injections of a possible reproductive toxin directly into young girls who will be growing up and bearing the next generation!

And when you consider that the Virginia State legislature rejected an amendment to its HPV-vaccination law that would have waived State immunity (i.e., injured parties could have sued the State for any injuries arising from these forced immunizations), then you have to think that those legislators also have something to fear from the vaccine.

The Merck Lobbying Machine

Pharmaceutical companies together spend some $6 million per day in lobbying legislators throughout the United States.  Merck & Co. is no exception to this general rule; and, according to the Washington Post, has or had provided an undisclosed amount of money to pursue its own HPV-vaccine lobbying efforts at the State level.  If it succeeds, then the payback could be enormous since each series of injections would cost anywhere from $300 to $600.  Multiply that amount times millions of girls and you will have a clearer idea of the amount of money at stake here for the company.

As you have read above, Merck’s efforts have already begun to pay off.  Texas and Virginia have an order and a law on the books, respectively, that would intimidate parents into vaccinating their daughters with this questionable vaccine.  At least 18 other States are on the slippery slope of following suit with the enactment of their own versions of this legislation.

Arizona is looking at allocating $8.2 million for the HPV-vaccination program during the first year, while California would vaccinate all girls entering sixth grade.  Colorado's plan mimics the others except that this State would quite generously require parents to pay for the series of vaccinations.  Other States jumping on this bandwagon include Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island.  At one point, Texas had a proposed bill but that was made moot by Governor Perry's executive decision.

Intertwined with all of this is the “Women In Government” nonprofit organization composed of State women legislators.  These drug-loving women politicians have been instrumental in pushing the Merck agenda to get mandatory vaccine laws in place.  Their plans call for the vaccination of young girls against HPV with the additional requirement that insurance and/or the taxpayers pay for the vaccination program.

Most recently, though, and under growing public pressure, Merck announced that it was halting its lobbying efforts to get States to pass HPV-vaccination laws.  Many parents, physicians, and consumer advocates such as the NHF have been opposing mandatory-vaccination efforts.  So while Merck's aggressive lobbying campaign was intended to boost sales of its vaccine, it may have just garnered it more public ire than the company had counted upon.

Things to Remember

It is very important to remember that – despite what the media is telling us – none of the laws on the book actually mandate the vaccination of schoolgirls.  So-called “opt out” provisions will allow parents to decline such vaccinations for their daughters.  In Texas especially, there is a philosophical exemption that has been built into the law, so that parents need not base their “opt out” decision upon religion alone, or upon a doctor’s excuse.  In short, parents can say “no.”

Also, these laws, and the proposed ones as well, would only apply to those schoolgirls attending government schools (euphemistically called “public” schools).  Private-school or home-schooled students would not be obligated to be vaccinated in any way.  Here, then, is yet another reason to avoid sending your children to those mind-numbing, conformity machines that masquerade as institutions of “learning.”  Institutions of indoctrination is closer to the correct term.

The NHF is opposing these laws and we expect many of them to fail at the State-legislative level.  In the meantime, however, know your rights and do not hesitate to exercise them by saying “no” to these drugs.