Freedom With Permission

Challenge to Public Debate: CA Bill 2109

AB2109: End of Vaccine Exemptions in California? – New!

Dawn Winkler on AB2109 – 3 May 2012

Linderman Unleashed interview with Dr T
Eyewitness Account – AB2109 Assembly Meeting
19 Apr 2012

Dr T AB2109 Radio interview – New!

Billy D and Dr T interview Alan Phillips on AB2109 – New!

Challenge to Public Debate: CA Bill 2109

All,

It is in the utmost digust and frustration that I write this email to all of you tonight. Most of you probably already know the news, AB2109 passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee today with all Republicans against and all Democrats in support.

Here is a link to the joke fiscal analysis written by Lisa Murawski who can be reached at 916-319-2081 or lisa.murawski@asm.ca.gov Be sure and let her know what you think about it.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2101-2150/ab_2109_cfa_20120501_150815_asm_comm.html

Attached [below] is my fiscal analysis which was provided well in advance. A more detailed analysis was provided by NVIC as well. There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for Ms. Murawski to have done such a woefully inadequate job of preparing this fiscal analysis other than that our legislative system here in California is corrupt and not one shred of truth is allowed to reach the surface. Had the true cost been reflected, the bill would have gone into the suspense file and likely died.

Once again, I was cut off in testimony, not that any of it would have mattered. No one was going to allow any truthful, thoughtful dialogue to take place today. I was not allowed to answer questions and in trying to do so, I was told by the chair and co-author Felipe Fuentes, that the question was not directed at me but rather at Dr. Pan. I cannot count the OUT AND OUT LIES that were told and repeated over and over again by those in support and the sponsor, Dr. Pan. It is infuriating.

We also provided a claim that has been submitted by Twin Pines School District over the TDaP booster mandate which has cost that school district alone $25,000 and it is estimated to have cost the state $6 million. AB2109 won’t be any different but no one at the legisature cares.

Folks, I’m at a loss for what to say other than we are going to need every man, woman and child who can possibly show up to be there for the next hearing on the Senate side. We of course have no details as of yet. We need MORE MD’S in opposition. We need 50 times the amount of people we have had to contact their Senators. We need parents who have vaccine injured children to show up in their Senator’s offices (even district offices if that’s all you can do) with their stories and before and after pictures of their children. We have got to pull out ALL THE STOPS. This is WAR. And a war cannot be won by one person, a few people, a few dozen people, or a few hundred people.

If thousands of Californians do not stand up and DEMAND MEDICAL FREEDOM RIGHT NOW, this is over. And forget the vaccine issue. You’ll need permission to opt out of whatever money making status quo procedure du jour the California Medical Association decides that you uneducated, inept people need to have.

Looks like Anonymous has an interest. Please don’t bash it. I’m open and up for anything. Doing things within the rules and playing nice is getting us absolutely nowhere fast.

Below is a link to the petition against AB2109 which currently has about 1800 signatures. We need 100 times that. If you haven’t signed it, sign it. Get at least 10 others to do so.
http://www.change.org/petitions/concerned-americans-for-vaccine-exemptions-oppose-ca-ab2109

If you have not joined the Facebook page,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/393039350720224/ please do it now.

If you have not contacted anyone at the legislature, start with your Senator. This bill will be out of the Assembly any day and over to the Senate. www.nvicadvocacy.org is the best way to stay up to date and find your Senator’s contact information. We need media. Radio, internet based, anything. Please use whatever contacts you have.

These people NEED TO HEAR the truth about vaccine injury. They all think they are saving the world with their warm and fuzzy do-gooder “we know better than you idiot parents” mentality. They do not believe vaccines cause harm so they have no problem taking your rights away.

Most importantly, when this is over, these tyrannical, arrogant, braindead legislators who vote for this stuff all day long need to be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE. I won’t go into a political tirade about Democrats and Republicans here because I loathe both of them, but it is very apparent at this point which party is just fine with trampling your rights at least when it comes to this issue and it’s not the Republicans.

All for now. Will get information out as soon as we have details about where we need to focus in the Senate, but it is safe to say that you need to contact your own Senator now and I wouldn’t hesitate to start contacting Governor Brown at this point either. If nothing else, he needs to hear about what an incredible failure of a legislative system he presides over. What has taken place in both Assembly Health and Appropriations should make anyone involved at the Capitol hang their heads in utter shame. We pay these peoples salaries. What a disgrace.

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In Utter Disgust,

Dawn Winkler
Executive Director
Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
www.hapihealth.com
hapi.vaxinfo[ @ ]gmail.com
530-283-1018
970-209-3919 cell

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AB2109 Fiscal Impact to the State of California
For consideration by the Assembly Appropriations Committee
May 2, 2012
Dawn Winkler
CA State Co-Director, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
Executive Director, Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
530-283-1018 or 970-209-3919 cell
hapi.vaxinfo[ @ ]gmail.com

AB2109 will have a fiscal impact to the state of California far in excess of $150,000 and should therefore be placed into the suspense file.

The two main costs to the state will be production and distribution of a new form and the cost of multiple visits to a healthcare practitioner to obtain a signature for a personal beliefs exemption on this new form. Current law allows for a personal beliefs exemption from vaccination and there is a place for the parent or guardian to sign on the back of the blue immunization form required by all schools. AB2109 requires a new signature on a new form and someone has to pay the healthcare practitioner to sign the form. There is no guarantee that a signature will be obtained simply because one pays for an appointment.

The assumption that obtaining a signature from a health care practitioner in ONE VISIT is FALSE.

There are published studies showing the percentage of pediatricians that would dismiss patients who refuse vaccines.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21812165 – this one says 30% have dismissed families for vaccine refusal. Another,
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/159/10/929#relation_type_111, indicates that 39% of pediatricians would dismiss a family for total vaccine refusal, and 28% would dismiss a family for partial refusal. This is without the pediatrician being asked to sign an exemption form stating they have educated the parent. The percentage of those who dismiss patients for refusing a vaccine will increase under AB2109 forcing parents into multiple visits to obtain a signature. In reality, some parents may not find anyone willing to sign the form.

According to
http://paa2012.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=122921 there were over 11,000 personal beliefs exemptions amongst California Kindergarteners alone in the Fall of 2010. This means well over 100,000 personal beliefs exemptions in California from daycare age through high school. This does not mean all 100,000 plus have had no vaccines as many may have opted out of only one vaccine such as Hepatitis B or chickenpox. As the vaccination schedule has increased from 8 or less vaccinations in the 1950’s to more than 50 by Kindergarten today, it is no wonder parents decide to opt out of some vaccinations.

There are over 6 million children enrolled in public school in California. Given that number and the number of exemptions, the number of new forms that will have to be produced and distributed alone will cost the state over $150,000.

Reimbursement rates for a well-visit from MediCal and Healthy Families range from $12 – $60. Using the most conservative estimate of only 30% of pediatricians dismissing a family for opting out of a vaccine and the low end of the reimbursement rates at $12, the absolute best case scenario of only 30% of parents requiring only two visits to obtain the signature results in an additional cost of $360,000 to the state of California. (.30 x 100,000 x $12) Adding in the cost of producing and distributing the new form, AB2109 costs the state of California well over $500,000 at best. If indeed the number of pediatricians who dismiss families opting out of some or all vaccines increases because of the new requirement of a signature and we use the higher end of the spectrum, 39% and a more realistic cost for a second visit of even $40, the result is a more than $1.5 million cost to the state of California without even considering the cost of producing and distributing the new form. (.39 x 100,000 x $40) These costs are of course only the tip of the iceberg and don’t include the cost to schools for extra time that staff has to take to verify forms or parents who have to pay out of their own pocket or use private insurance to cover these extra visits. The true total cost of AB2109 will be in the millions.

Other questions to ask:

Who will be expected to produce and distribute the new form?

What happens to parents who have already been to their annual exam for their child? Will another visit even be paid for? If not, this severely discriminates against the poor as many will not have the means to pay out of pocket for another provider to sign the form. This could result in parents resorting to making “sick” appointments that will be paid for in an attempt to find someone to sign off adding even more cost to the state as “sick” visits have a higher reimbursement rate.

AB2109: WHITE COATS, PRICE TAGS, AND BAD THEATRE

What Really Happened In that Room In Sacramento That We Should Never Forget:

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Let’s pick up where we left off with Freedom With Permission, and assume that the reader has a basic understanding of both the provisions and the implications of AB2109.

At this point in time we have endured the first onslaught of AB2109′s passage by the obedient politicians who style themselves the AB2109 Assembly Committee.

To add depth to the two radio interviews of April 16 and April 19, certain observations must be here recorded, so that they do not fade from public memory. With the virtual blackout of coverage in American media regarding this most significant and innovative attack against the rights of parents to control their own children’s health choices, the disconnected ramblings of Facebook pages should not be the only documentation of AB2109, which if passed will be a pivotal departure not only in California legal history, but that of the entire country.

A few unforgettable points about the Assembly Meeting itself: 16 Apr 2012.

1. THE ASSEMBLY DIDN’T REALLY ASSEMBLE

When the meeting was brought to order, some time after 2:30 pm, there were only 4 out of 16 Assembly Committee members in the room. They would wander in and out constantly – mostly out. At some brief moment when many of them were present, the Chairman – Wm Monning quickly declared a quorum, after which several of them left again. It was as though what was going on in that room didn’t really interest them because they already knew how they would vote, as if they had the price tags still hanging from their noses at the outset. This impression persisted till the end of the day.

It would seem proper that being in such an elected position, surrounded by money and favors, the assembly committee would at least all be present for the pro and con of it all, since that’s what they are paid to do. Apparently this is not the way things are done in Sacramento. They obviously have other fish to fry.

2. TESTIMONY IN FAVOR

Richard Pan, the bill’s sponsor, a non-practicing pediatrician, got up and read a document stating the supposed necessity for AB2109, how it would work, how it was not a radical change, and then his endless repetition of assurances that the pediatricians would ‘happily’ sign the exemption forms for any parent who wished it. His plea was without passion or conviction. He seemed more intent about rebutting arguments which had not even been made than about just presenting the simple provisions of the Bill. He had an annoying, chattering voice and was not well received by either side.

One couldn’t help but thinking that if Pan was really just a frontman for organized medicine’s Big Push to get rid of vaccine exemptions once and for all, they certainly could have found somebody better. Anywhere. Upon later reflection, it became clear that it didn’t matter. As we will see, nothing that was said in that room mattered one scintilla. AB2109′s passage was assured long before anyone set foot in that room.

After his opening statement, Pan then called his 2 supporting witnesses, each of whom spoke for 3 minutes. The first one actually sounded educated and somewhat articulate, as he delivered the requisite age-old doctrine of vaccines for the Greater Good, etc. Which of course had nothing to do with the bill. This was not the arena to discuss the pros and cons of vaccines. No, rather this was the arena to put an end to the discussion of vaccines.

After the second witness, the Chairman called for supporting witnesses who would be limited to saying their name and a simple statement of position. The first 30 of these witnesses had already lined up along one side aisle of the amphitheatre, behind a single microphone on a stand. At Monning’s signal, one by one they began to recite their lines: name, I strongly support, I will be very happy to sign the form, etc. After the first 10 it became painfully clear that they had all been schooled with the same assigned script, because they all said exactly the same thing in exactly the same words.

As soon as the first group of them began to wind down, the back doors of the room were opened to let another 30 of them into the queue. More of the second group began to sport long white lab jackets. They all recited the same script, and then the doors opened again when the line got short, and here comes a third group. So the line never ended, and the back door kept opening and opening.

As the number of white coats among the witnesses increased, an odd thought struck me: Wait a minute! I’m on the 4th floor of the state Capitol building. Is there an operating room outside this door that I didn’t see? Did we suddenly get teleported through time and space onto a set of ER? Was there a Baskin Robbins convention outside? What doctor would wear a white lab coat in a public courtroom?

At this point I figured there was something rotten in Denmark. How could all these pediatricians from all over California suddenly be in this room for just 10 seconds, recite their lines and then leave? How did that happen?

So I got up and walked to the back of the room and went out into the hallway. What a scene greeted me there! And endless gaggle of players lining up, pediatricians and medical students, talking and laughing out loud, having a riotous good time. I walked around the corner to where a TV monitor was mounted on one wall. It was showing the microphone where each actor was reciting his lines, and all the friends would laugh uproariously and point, and it was a great time all around! Who knew that becoming an MD would be this much fun?

Then the ones coming out would take off their white lab jackets and hand it to others still in line.

Getting the picture then, I re-entered the room and went back to my seat near the front. It was at that moment that someone passed me a note that was circulating around the room – by coincidence there was a huge Pediatrics convention in the hotel across the street. That’s who these players were – mercenary robots, engaged for 10 seconds apiece to recite a script, who are going to expense away the entire weekend at Sacramento’s best hotels.

Those who were seated next to the queue told me afterwards that they heard many of them turn around and say to the doctor behind them “Don’t forget to say that you will happily sign the exemption form.” A few did anyway, probably from stage fright. But the vast majority got their lines right. After all when it comes to rote memorization without understanding, this demographic is certainly without peer.

Now we must remember that all the seats in the room as well as those in the balcony were taken, almost entirely by parents with children and by others who were opposed to the Bill. So this Masquerade Charade of the 150 or so paid witnesses – these people never took part in the proceedings, never listened to any testimony pro or con, or participated in any way except for their 10 seconds of testimony. They had no interest in it. Bad Theatre of the first order.

The Chairman waited patiently until all 150 or so had come and gone. There was a cameraman with a professional set-up filming each one of the doctor/actors.

3. TESTIMONY OPPOSING

Now it was time for the opposition. Two main witnesses were allowed 3 minutes each to make opposing arguments. That’s it. The entire state of California opposition limited to 6 minutes. Pan had no limit at all to defend his bill. But substantive argument to oppose was limited to 2 witnesses of 3 minutes each.

At the very start of the opposition testimony, the professional cameraman tore down his equipment and left the room, never to return.

Dr Bob Sears was the first witness to oppose. He showed evidence that at least 40% of pediatricians would not sign the form, from a study that appeared in TIME Magazine, because many pediatricians dismiss patients who choose not to vaccinate. Sears was OK, but not really very convincing. The members were less than attentive. Dawn Winkler was the next witness, who talked about vaccine injury and how vaccines had never been proven safe and how the new bill would put an end to a parent’s choice.

After that, the most dramatic and authentic display of public sentiment began to unfold, as everyone in the room who was opposed to the bill was allowed to line up and make a short statement into the microphone. A few times Monning showed that he was off his feed or off his Premarin and started railing hysterically at the people who talked more than he wanted, threatening to end the entire opposition testimony. It was like a scene from a bad Nazi movie or something. Oftentimes pompous clowns really think they are authority figures who have the right and the power to impose their will on the lowly serfs. What a travesty of democracy they display.

But the most astounding part of the day was when these poor mothers who had been forced to sit in this crowded auditorium hour after hour, with babies and very small children to take care of, and endure all those lies and condescension and all that malevolent energy raining down upon them from a 300 watt sound system, these mothers and doctors and regular people, most with great dignity and composure stood up and eloquently voiced their opposition.

These were not the fake paid witnesses put up in plush hotels – these were the real people, the American people who had endured much expense and personal hardship to be there in that room and voice their opposition to this outrageous new proposal. Many were so emotionally charged and focused that even Monning in all his puffery dared not interrupt them. There were mothers of vaccine damaged children, autistic children, children killed by vaccines, and parent after parent who had been dismissed from several pediatricians just for presenting the exemption form.

This was the authentic vestige of grassroots democracy being played out here, exactly like the founding fathers set it up. All of Pan’s Bad Theatre, all of Monning’s prissy bad manners and the whole way the cards were stacked against the opposition, none of this could hold back the tide and outpouring of outraged citizenry, insulted that an elected government should have the effrontery to propose something as Un-American and unconstitutional as this bill – that would take away the most fundamental right of a US citizen: to make vital health decisions for their own child.

It almost restored one’s faith in the democratic process.

Almost. But let’s not get carried away here.

At length, Monning actually did halt the testimony of the opposition witnesses, although by that time the majority of them had been heard.

4. ASSEMBLY QUESTIONS

Next came an intriguing part of the hearing that no one was prepared for. The veil of condescension and lordly bearing was lifted for just a moment, when several of the Republicans – the party who was permitted to oppose the bill – many of them began asking Pan very pointed questions. Like, wasn’t the bill redundant, since we already have an exemption form in place that has been working just fine for decades. Or, one asked, what would happen to a parent who could not get the form signed?

Pan acquitted himself most miserably in this crossfire, and showed how weak were his resolve and conviction, as well as his level of education. He kept re-cycling the same tired phrases in an annoying nasal repetition that exasperated these Assembly guys who were just trying to get a straight answer. Pan would not admit that it was even possible for someone not to be able to get the form signed, and he used as his evidence the trumped up testimony of the white jacketed witnesses who had just spoken up. It was ridiculous — the Assembly guy asked the question 3 times and it was finally Dawn Winkler who spoke up and said that in that case, without the form the child couldn’t go to school. Which is true.

Another member was so put off by Pan’s insipid and fawning behavior that he actually stated that he had been in favor of the bill before that meeting but that now that he saw what it was, he was against it.

THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

But alas, it was all for show, all for show. There was no real debate in that room, no real exchange of pertinent ideas. The only thing this line of questioning made abundantly clear was that all the months and weeks of the opposition’s organized efforts at faxing, emailing, and phoning in documentation showing all the violations the bill would be engendering — all this effort was wasted. It was patently obvious to any observer that none of the Assembly members ever considered the issues and implications of the Bill before they walked into that room. They were voting the way they were told, right down the line.

And the realization dawned on us that this was the way that all matters in the California legislature likely were handled. Not by the merits and faults of the individual issue, but rather by political expediency, side deals, quid pro quo, foregone conclusions. The end of naïveté for anyone who just saw all of this for the first time, first hand.

5. THE VOTE

This happened fast: 10 to 4 in favor of the bill. Later amended as the absentees got to vote. But AB2109 was passed onto the next phase.

WHY THE DESPERATELY BAD THEATRE?

Looking at studies like the recent TIME Magazine article showing that 39% of MDs would not sign a vaccine exemption, and listening to scores of parents testifying to the same fact in real life, why was medicine, fronted by Pan, so over the top in trying to misrepresent that reality?

A large proportion of Pan’s original statement dwelled on assuring people that the signing of the form would be routine and MDs would gladly do it. Even though no objection had yet been raised, he did protest too much. And that was the purpose of the whole Magical Mystery Tour of white coated witnesses, which took an enormous amount of planning to orchestrate – a desperate attempt to offset any accurate representation of the real state of affairs: that the vast majority of MDs simply will not sign.

And since that is true, it follows that all the worst fears of the opposition are poised to come to pass in California if the bill is passed. A new precedent will be set. Medicine as Government, Government as Medicine, in a neat progression:

1. AB499, now a law, says that 12 years olds may be vaccinated in school without the parents’ knowledge or permission

2. AB2109 effectively ends the personal beliefs exemption

3. Virtually any medical recommendation might now be substituted in place of vaccines, and people might be coerced into any medical procedure by this trick of forcing them to get an unobtainable medical signature

The slipperiest of slopes. Why do people not see that? These players are so inept, so unskilled, so unconvincing. And so authoritarian, omniscient, condescending, and eminently for sale. Who elects them? How are these extravagant laws so easily passed?

BREAK THE BOND

In an agenda that is the antithesis of both the letter and intent of the Constitution, their program calls for a slow and gradual insertion of the government between the parent and the child – to sever that ancient and most sacrosanct bond. The citizen no longer has children without the permission of the government, every step of the way. Now it’s a 3 way partnership. By law.

This is not conspiracy paranoia, hysterical exaggeration or anything else besides empirical observation of events from an unaffiliated point of view. It is unfolding right in front of us, despite all their Bad Theatre. Why else would they go to all that trouble?

Despite $12 billion annually in advertising of drugs and vaccines, organized medicine has been gradually losing the vaccine debate. Even uneducated people are learning about the dangers of vaccines and opting out for their children, more and more every year. The figures Pan presented about the increasing numbers of unvaccinated were actually correct. Recognizing now that they can never win the debate on vaccine safety, medicine’s new agenda now is to legislate away the whole right to rational discourse about the subject. Don’t Debate, Legislate. And Pan, Monning, and the rest are eagerly for sale to make it happen.

WHAT TO DO

This is getting tedious. There should have been 20,000 people in Sacramento last week, not 200. Who controls media?

But AB2109 is not a law yet.

The best course of action open to us now is to contribute to efforts documenting how the Bill will cost the state more than $50K, or $150K, depending. That’s not counting the millions in vaccine injury payouts and lifetime care service, etc.

You can write and fax your senators, but I don’t see that working. At least not in the sense of showing them the arguments about vaccine dangers or constitutionality. Legislators don’t read. They don’t seem to care about the effects of issues, with one exception: how a Bill directly influences their personal career – their chance of re-election. So if you write them, that would be the only thing to say. I’ll do everything I can to expose what a terrible job you’re doing because you voted for this, this, and this. Something like that.

For example, the same people who voted AB2109 through also voted AB499 into law. And the hypocrisy was that they said that we need AB2109 so as to better inform parents, when AB499 was passed specifically so that parents need not be informed!

That kind of thing. Make them accountable. Get them out.

Remember this newsletter of 1 May 2012.

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This is the brand new 2012 Second Edition of the book, a complete re-write, not just a reprint of the old book. 

The most reliable book for parents who want to end the confusion once and for all on whether they should vaccinate or not.

If you’ve read an old version of this text, it’s out of date. So much has happened in this field this past year which has not been in media. Quick look:

The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: how vaccines have been found as the proven cause of over 1 million children hypersensitive to peanuts, now the #1 cause of child anaphylaxis 

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The new Shaken Baby industry, which can be a cover-up for vaccine injury 

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The ongoing Autism Epidemic, affecting between 2 -4 million children today and NIH’s refusal to look for the cause

This research is effectively banned from mainstream media. As always though, each fact, each statistic is meticulously documented from the best sources available. The solid references make this information bulletproof.

The vaccine industry today is in a panic. It can no longer keep these secrets hidden. More and more people are learning about the actual physical brain effects on their children, and they’re opting out, signing the exemptions. That’s what all the hysterical new law enforcement of school vaccines is really about. 


With all the effort it takes to opt out, it’s not the lazy or the uninformed folks deciding not to vaccinate.

Do you even know what Prevnar or Human Papilloma Virus, or MCV4 or DPT – do you even know what these vaccines are?

And even if you do, wouldn’t you like to know what the scientists who make the vaccines have said about them, down through the decades? Or are you going to get all your information from the clinic that makes its living selling vaccines, just roll over, and vaccinate your kid?

Takes a little reading but it’s not that difficult to learn the story here. You can read this book in a day or so.

We are shocked to find that many medical doctors know the information in this book and do not vaccinate their own children. But they’ll vaccinate yours. The majority of the endorsements on the back cover of the book are from medical doctors. Here’s one of the most recent:

“It is impossible to estimate the true value of Dr O’Shea’s work. His review of the history of the vaccination industry is vastly more thorough than that taught in medical schools and decisively more balanced. 

”… O’Shea has once again blessed us with a resource that will allow parents to make an informed choice, and for medical professionals to take pause at what they had been indoctrinated to believe was valid science and good medicine.”

- David Ayoub, MD, Clinical Radiologist

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The definitive book on vaccines today. Vaccination Is Not Immunization, 2nd Edition 2012

4. Three Radio Interviews on AB2109 by Dr Tim O’Shea

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Linderman Unleashed – 19 Apr 2012

Dr Tom Lamar at Spinal Column Radio – 21 Apr 2012

Optimal Health KXRA Monterey – 1 May 2012

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Let’s pick up where we left off with Freedom With Permission, and assume that the reader has a basic understanding of both the provisions and the implications of AB2109.

At this point in time we have endured the first onslaught of AB2109′s passage by the obedient politicians who style themselves the AB2109 Assembly Committee.

To add depth to the two radio interviews of April 16 and April 19, certain observations must be here recorded, so that they do not fade from public memory. With the virtual blackout of coverage in American media regarding this most significant and innovative attack against the rights of parents to control their own children’s health choices, the disconnected ramblings of Facebook pages should not be the only documentation of AB2109, which if passed will be a pivotal departure not only in California legal history, but that of the entire country.

A few unforgettable points about the Assembly Meeting itself: 16 Apr 2012.

1. THE ASSEMBLY DIDN’T REALLY ASSEMBLE

When the meeting was brought to order, some time after 2:30 pm, there were only 4 out of 16 Assembly Committee members in the room. They would wander in and out constantly – mostly out. At some brief moment when many of them were present, the Chairman – Wm Monning quickly declared a quorum, after which several of them left again. It was as though what was going on in that room didn’t really interest them because they already knew how they would vote, as if they had the price tags still hanging from their noses at the outset. This impression persisted till the end of the day.

It would seem proper that being in such an elected position, surrounded by money and favors, the assembly committee would at least all be present for the pro and con of it all, since that’s what they are paid to do. Apparently this is not the way things are done in Sacramento. They obviously have other fish to fry.

2. TESTIMONY IN FAVOR

Richard Pan, the bill’s sponsor, a non-practicing pediatrician, got up and read a document stating the supposed necessity for AB2109, how it would work, how it was not a radical change, and then his endless repetition of assurances that the pediatricians would ‘happily’ sign the exemption forms for any parent who wished it. His plea was without passion or conviction. He seemed more intent about rebutting arguments which had not even been made than about just presenting the simple provisions of the Bill. He had an annoying, chattering voice and was not well received by either side.

One couldn’t help but thinking that if Pan was really just a frontman for organized medicine’s Big Push to get rid of vaccine exemptions once and for all, they certainly could have found somebody better. Anywhere. Upon later reflection, it became clear that it didn’t matter. As we will see, nothing that was said in that room mattered one scintilla. AB2109′s passage was assured long before anyone set foot in that room.

After his opening statement, Pan then called his 2 supporting witnesses, each of whom spoke for 3 minutes. The first one actually sounded educated and somewhat articulate, as he delivered the requisite age-old doctrine of vaccines for the Greater Good, etc. Which of course had nothing to do with the bill. This was not the arena to discuss the pros and cons of vaccines. No, rather this was the arena to put an end to the discussion of vaccines.

After the second witness, the Chairman called for supporting witnesses who would be limited to saying their name and a simple statement of position. The first 30 of these witnesses had already lined up along one side aisle of the amphitheatre, behind a single microphone on a stand. At Monning’s signal, one by one they began to recite their lines: name, I strongly support, I will be very happy to sign the form, etc. After the first 10 it became painfully clear that they had all been schooled with the same assigned script, because they all said exactly the same thing in exactly the same words.

As soon as the first group of them began to wind down, the back doors of the room were opened to let another 30 of them into the queue. More of the second group began to sport long white lab jackets. They all recited the same script, and then the doors opened again when the line got short, and here comes a third group. So the line never ended, and the back door kept opening and opening.

As the number of white coats among the witnesses increased, an odd thought struck me: Wait a minute! I’m on the 4th floor of the state Capitol building. Is there an operating room outside this door that I didn’t see? Did we suddenly get teleported through time and space onto a set of ER? Was there a Baskin Robbins convention outside? What doctor would wear a white lab coat in a public courtroom?

At this point I figured there was something rotten in Denmark. How could all these pediatricians from all over California suddenly be in this room for just 10 seconds, recite their lines and then leave? How did that happen?

So I got up and walked to the back of the room and went out into the hallway. What a scene greeted me there! And endless gaggle of players lining up, pediatricians and medical students, talking and laughing out loud, having a riotous good time. I walked around the corner to where a TV monitor was mounted on one wall. It was showing the microphone inside where each actor was reciting his lines, and all the friends would laugh uproariously and point, and it was a great time all around! Who knew that becoming an MD would be this much fun?

Then the ones coming out would take off their white lab jackets and hand it to others still in line.

Getting the picture then, I re-entered the room and went back to my seat near the front. It was at that moment that someone passed me a note that was circulating around the room – by coincidence there was a huge Pediatrics convention in the hotel across the street. That’s who these players were – mercenary robots, engaged for 10 seconds apiece to recite a script, who are going to expense away the entire weekend at Sacramento’s best hotels.

Those who were seated next to the queue told me afterwards that they heard many of them turn around and say to the doctor behind them “Don’t forget to say that you will happily sign the exemption form.” A few did anyway, probably from stage fright. But the vast majority got their lines right. After all when it comes to rote memorization without understanding, this demographic is certainly without peer.

Now we must remember that all the seats in the room as well as those in the balcony were taken, almost entirely by parents with children and by others who were opposed to the Bill. So this Masquerade Charade of the 150 or so paid witnesses – these people never took part in the proceedings, never listened to any testimony pro or con, or participated in any way except for their 10 seconds of testimony. They had no interest in it. Bad Theatre of the first order.

The Chairman waited patiently until all 150 or so had come and gone. There was a cameraman with a professional set-up filming each one of the doctor/actors.

3. TESTIMONY OPPOSING

Now it was time for the opposition. Two main witnesses were allowed 3 minutes each to make opposing arguments. That’s it. The entire state of California opposition limited to 6 minutes. Pan had no limit at all to defend his bill. But substantive argument to oppose was limited to 2 witnesses of 3 minutes each.

At the very start of the opposition testimony, the professional cameraman tore down his equipment and left the room, never to return.

Dr Bob Sears was the first witness to oppose. He showed evidence that at least 40% of pediatricians would not sign the form, from a study that appeared in TIME Magazine, because many pediatricians dismiss patients who choose not to vaccinate. Sears was OK, but not really very convincing. The members were less than attentive. Dawn Winkler was the next witness, who talked about vaccine injury and how vaccines had never been proven safe and how the new bill would put an end to a parent’s choice.

After that, the most dramatic and authentic display of public sentiment began to unfold, as everyone in the room who was opposed to the bill was allowed to line up and make a short statement into the microphone. A few times Monning showed that he was off his feed or off his Premarin and started railing hysterically at the people who talked more than he wanted, threatening to end the entire opposition testimony. It was like a scene from a bad Nazi movie or something. Oftentimes pompous clowns really think they are authority figures who have the right and the power to impose their will on the lowly serfs. What a travesty of democracy they display.

But the most astounding part of the day was when these poor mothers who had been forced to sit in this crowded auditorium hour after hour, with babies and very small children to take care of, and endure all those lies and condescension and all that malevolent energy raining down upon them from a 300 watt sound system, these mothers and doctors and regular people, most with great dignity and composure stood up and eloquently voiced their opposition.

These were not the fake paid witnesses put up in plush hotels – these were the real people, the American people who had endured much expense and personal hardship to be there in that room and voice their opposition to this outrageous new proposal. Many were so emotionally charged and focused that even Monning in all his puffery dared not interrupt them. There were mothers of vaccine damaged children, autistic children, children killed by vaccines, and parent after parent who had been dismissed from several pediatricians just for presenting the exemption form.

This was the authentic vestige of grassroots democracy being played out here, exactly like the founding fathers set it up. All of Pan’s Bad Theatre, all of Monning’s prissy bad manners and the whole way the cards were stacked against the opposition, none of this could hold back the tide and outpouring of outraged citizenry, insulted that an elected government should have the effrontery to propose something as Un-American and unconstitutional as this bill – that would take away the most fundamental right of a US citizen: to make vital health decisions for their own child.

It almost restored one’s faith in the democratic process.

Almost. But let’s not get carried away here.

At length, Monning actually did halt the testimony of the opposition witnesses, although by that time the majority of them had been heard.

4. ASSEMBLY QUESTIONS

Next came an intriguing part of the hearing that no one was prepared for. The veil of condescension and lordly bearing was lifted for just a moment, when several of the Republicans – the party who was permitted to oppose the bill – many of them began asking Pan very pointed questions. Like, wasn’t the bill redundant, since we already have an exemption form in place that has been working just fine for decades. Or, one asked, what would happen to a parent who could not get the form signed?

Pan acquitted himself most miserably in this crossfire, and showed how weak were his resolve and conviction, as well as his level of education. He kept re-cycling the same tired phrases in an annoying nasal repetition that exasperated these Assembly guys who were just trying to get a straight answer. Pan would not admit that it was even possible for someone not to be able to get the form signed, and he used as his evidence the trumped up testimony of the white jacketed witnesses who had just spoken up. It was ridiculous — the Assembly guy asked the question 3 times and it was finally Dawn Winkler who spoke up and said that in that case, without the form the child couldn’t go to school. Which is true.

Another member was so put off by Pan’s insipid and fawning behavior that he actually stated that he had been in favor of the bill before that meeting but that now that he saw what it was, he was against it.

THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

But alas, it was all for show, all for show. There was no real debate in that room, no real exchange of pertinent ideas. The only thing this line of questioning made abundantly clear was that all the months and weeks of the opposition’s organized efforts at faxing, emailing, and phoning in documentation showing all the violations the bill would be engendering — all this effort was wasted. It was patently obvious to any observer that none of the Assembly members ever considered the issues and implications of the Bill before they walked into that room. They were voting the way they were told, right down the line.

And the realization dawned on us that this was the way that all matters in the California legislature likely were handled. Not by the merits and faults of the individual issue, but rather by political expediency, side deals, quid pro quo, foregone conclusions. The end of naïveté for anyone who just saw all of this for the first time, first hand.

5. THE VOTE

This happened fast: 10 to 4 in favor of the bill. Later amended as the absentees got to vote. But AB2109 was passed onto the next phase.

WHY THE DESPERATELY BAD THEATRE?

Looking at studies like the recent TIME Magazine article showing that 39% of MDs would not sign a vaccine exemption, and listening to scores of parents testifying to the same fact in real life, why was medicine, fronted by Pan, so over the top in trying to misrepresent that reality?

A large proportion of Pan’s original statement dwelled on assuring people that the signing of the form would be routine and MDs would gladly do it. Even though no objection had yet been raised, he did protest too much. And that was the purpose of the whole Magical Mystery Tour of white coated witnesses, which took an enormous amount of planning to orchestrate – a desperate attempt to offset any accurate representation of the real state of affairs: that the vast majority of MDs simply will not sign.

And since that is true, it follows that all the worst fears of the opposition are poised to come to pass in California if the bill is passed. A new precedent will be set. Medicine as Government, Government as Medicine, in a neat progression:

1. AB499, now a law, says that 12 years olds may be vaccinated in school without the parents’ knowledge or permission

2. AB2109 effectively ends the personal beliefs exemption

3. Virtually any medical recommendation might now be substituted in place of vaccines, and people might be coerced into any medical procedure by this trick of forcing them to get an unobtainable medical signature

The slipperiest of slopes. Why do people not see that? These players are so inept, so unskilled, so unconvincing. And so authoritarian, omniscient, condescending, and eminently for sale. Who elects them? How are these extravagant laws so easily passed?

BREAK THE BOND

In an agenda that is the antithesis of both the letter and intent of the Constitution, their program calls for a slow and gradual insertion of the government between the parent and the child – to sever that ancient and most sacrosanct bond. The citizen no longer has children without the permission of the government, every step of the way. Now it’s a 3 way partnership. By law.

This is not conspiracy paranoia, hysterical exaggeration or anything else besides empirical observation of events from an unaffiliated point of view. It is unfolding right in front of us, despite all their Bad Theatre. Why else would they go to all that trouble?

Despite $12 billion annually in advertising of drugs and vaccines, organized medicine has been gradually losing the vaccine debate. Even uneducated people are learning about the dangers of vaccines and opting out for their children, more and more every year. The figures Pan presented about the increasing numbers of unvaccinated were actually correct. Recognizing now that they can never win the debate on vaccine safety, medicine’s new agenda now is to legislate away the whole right to rational discourse about the subject. Don’t Debate, Legislate. And Pan, Monning, and the rest are eagerly for sale to make it happen.

WHAT TO DO

This is getting tedious. There should have been 20,000 people in Sacramento last week, not 200. Who controls media?

But AB2109 is not a law yet.

The best course of action open to us now is to contribute to efforts documenting how the Bill will cost the state more than $50K, or $150K, depending. That’s not counting the millions in vaccine injury payouts and lifetime care service, etc.

You can write and fax your senators, but I don’t see that working. At least not in the sense of showing them the arguments about vaccine dangers or constitutionality. Legislators don’t read. They don’t seem to care about the effects of issues, with one exception: how a Bill directly influences their personal career – their chance of re-election. So if you write them, that would be the only thing to say. I’ll do everything I can to expose what a terrible job you’re doing because you voted for this, this, and this. Something like that.

For example, the same people who voted AB2109 through also voted AB499 into law. And the hypocrisy was that they said that we need AB2109 so as to better inform parents, when AB499 was passed specifically so that parents need not be informed!

That kind of thing. Make them accountable. Get them out.

Remember this newsletter of 1 May 2012.

AB2109: Down To The Wire

- Tim O’Shea

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It is shocking that the public furor surrounding the upcoming AB2109 in Sacramento next week has been conspicuously absent from virtually all mainstream media. We have seen nothing at all on this unprecedented legal proposal in the Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, from James Morrison or Jim Sanders, etc.

If this Bill is passed requiring a medical signature on a Personal Beliefs Exemption, the parent must get permission not to vaccinate. This may well serve as a precedent for other incursions into the sacrosanct right of parents to protect their children by choosing any health care they see fit.

Why is this not newsworthy? Look at some of the fluff that has appeared in these media in the past 2 weeks. Life threatening storms in the midwest? That’s more newsworthy?

How about this for a lead: Medicine as Government, Government as Medicine?

Or perhaps: Freedom With Permission? Those are solid hooks. I’d read that.

It’s not like media is unaware of the social turmoil surrounding AB2109. They have been sent copies of all statements, reports, memoranda, notices of meetings, position papers, etc from the groups opposing the bill. The offices of members of the AB2109 Assembly Committee have been flooded with emails, faxes, and phone calls from the general public, even those outside California for the past 3 weeks. Why is the lid being kept on like this?

So in an 11th hour attempt to awaken the media to this vital issue, here are some sources that will summarize the opposition to next week’s AB2109.

Freedom With Permission

Interview with Attorney Alan Phillips : The Unconstitutionality of AB2109

AB2109 and The Constitution
- Alan Phillips

Spinal Column Radio Interview 13 April 2012

Facebook: Californians Against AB2109

Community Meeting for AB2109:

Freedom With Permission?

On Monday night, 16 April
Thrive Church
3109 Dwight Rd (at Laguna)
Elk Grove, CA
6:30 – 9:30 PM

This meeting will cover all the issues inherent in AB2109: unconstitutionality, burden on parents, misrepresentation of fact, but most importantly the precedent this bill will set for medical choice in the future. Never before in California has there been such a dangerous suggestion as AB2109.

Speakers will be Dawn Winkler, Dr Mark Cymerint, Dr Tim O’Shea.

Free of charge.

Get all the facts and be ready for April 17!
Bring Lawyers and friends!

UPCOMING SEMINARS

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This is the brand new 2012 Second Edition of the book, a complete re-write, not just a reprint of the old book. 

The most reliable book for parents who want to end the confusion once and for all on whether they should vaccinate or not.

If you’ve read an old version of this text, it’s out of date. So much has happened in this field this past year which has not been in media. Quick look:

The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: how vaccines have been found as the proven cause of over 1 million children hypersensitive to peanuts, now the #1 cause of child anaphylaxis 

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The new Shaken Baby industry, which can be a cover-up for vaccine injury 

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The ongoing Autism Epidemic, affecting between 2 -4 million children today and NIH’s refusal to look for the cause

This research is effectively banned from mainstream media. As always though, each fact, each statistic is meticulously documented from the best sources available. The solid references make this information bulletproof.

The vaccine industry today is in a panic. It can no longer keep these secrets hidden. More and more people are learning about the actual physical brain effects on their children, and they’re opting out, signing the exemptions. That’s what all the hysterical new law enforcement of school vaccines is really about. 


With all the effort it takes to opt out, it’s not the lazy or the uninformed folks deciding not to vaccinate.

Do you even know what Prevnar or Human Papilloma Virus, or MCV4 or DPT – do you even know what these vaccines are?

And even if you do, wouldn’t you like to know what the scientists who make the vaccines have said about them, down through the decades? Or are you going to get all your information from the clinic that makes its living selling vaccines, just roll over, and vaccinate your kid?

Takes a little reading but it’s not that difficult to learn the story here. You can read this book in a day or so.

We are shocked to find that many medical doctors know the information in this book and do not vaccinate their own children. But they’ll vaccinate yours. The majority of the endorsements on the back cover of the book are from medical doctors. Here’s one of the most recent:

“It is impossible to estimate the true value of Dr O’Shea’s work. His review of the history of the vaccination industry is vastly more thorough than that taught in medical schools and decisively more balanced…. O’Shea has once again blessed us with a resource that will allow parents to make an informed choice, and for medical professionals to take pause at what they had been indoctrinated to believe was valid science and good medicine.”

- David Ayoub, MD, Clinical Radiologist

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The definitive book on vaccines today. Vaccination Is Not Immunization, 2nd Edition 2012

1. Freedom With Permission -
The End of Debate

- Tim O’Shea

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CA Bill 2109

In case you’ve been living in an underground grotto, the proposed Bill would require parents to get an MD’s signature to allow parents to sign the vaccine Exemption form, a form which has been in use for the past century in California. Does that sound bizarre? The MD signature is required before the citizens can sign their own name.

The new bill is masquerading as a vaccine safety issue.
Understand that it is not.

Rather, this is a constitutional issue – de facto negation of Bill of Rights concerns, whereby parents are being forced to get PERMISSION to opt out of a voluntary medical procedure. –

Asking the doctor if it’s OK if we don’t choose a controversial medical procedure like vaccines, which the manufacturers themselves admit is dangerous.

This is the new freedom: Freedom with Permission.

Puts an Orwellian twist on the Personal Beliefs Exemption: you now need permission to exercise your personal belief in choosing a controversial procedure for your own child.

Let’s take the blinders off the horse here. Having realized in the past 2 years that they are losing the debate on vaccine safety, organized medicine has taken a completely different tack: outlaw the debate itself. Don’t debate: Legislate.

THE NEW BLITZKRIEG FOR VACCINES

Dr Blaylock succinctly frames the issue in his recent interview

[Russell Blaylock interview

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbCuZy2Xt4

- after the abysmal failure and professional embarrassment of the H1N1 fiasco in 2010, it would have seemed logical for the vaccine industry to back off vaccines for awhile. Despite millions of dollars and 2 years of global marketing and hysteria, the American people just didn't buy the whole idea of H1N1 as a real disease. They rejected the vaccine, en masse. Remember?

But instead, medicine has done the opposite. They have redoubled their efforts, with several new policies since then, which are unprecedented in forcing vaccines on people, while still maintaining the pretense that shots are voluntary. This CA Bill 2109 is just one example.

Just a few months ago, it became a law in California - CA Bill 499 - that 7th graders may be vaccinated in school with the controversial HPV vaccine without the parents' knowledge or permission. Did we happen to notice that?

What opposition did we register? That was not primarily a vaccine safety issue either, but a question of parents' rights. The assertion and insertion of government authority over parents' rights to choose health care for their children - that is a primary right which the people of California have just lost. With scarcely a whimper.

Medicine as government, government as medicine.

A CHIROPRACTIC ISSUE?

Why were chiropractors specifically excluded as signers of the Forms?

Because they don't have the needle, obviously.

To the chiropractic organizations that say they will take no action because this isn't a chiropractic issue, they're missing the mark twice over:

1. We are specifically excluded in favor of those who are not even primary care doctors. This is a an insult, both professionally and academically, as though we are not well enough educated to inform patients about fundamental health issues.

2. Who is more informed to counsel the large proportion of California patients who seek a course of natural health that follows the holistic, vitalistic model? This has always been a matter of personal choice. Who else but DCs [and perhaps NDs] represent natural health care?

A bit of back channel politics occurred recently where a naive group of DCs considered withdrawing their “opposition” in exchange for an empty promise to allow DCs to sign the exemptions.

What opposition?

Astounding that anyone would really think the proponents would actually remove the exclusion of DCs from the bill. Never happen. No matter what they promise. Even if they did, it would almost be guaranteed to be tacked back on in the midnight hour. Why? Because we don’t have the needle.

The only people allowed to sign the Forms are waiting there with the needle, waiting there to disabuse these irresponsible parents about their dangerous ideas about exemption.

Anyone paying attention can see the real agenda, the intent behind CA Bill 2109: to end vaccine exemptions. Despite all their vehement protestations to the contrary.

Bottom line, CA2109 is not a chiropractic issue. Whether or not chiropractors are allowed to sign philosophical exemptions is not the radical departure in American jurisprudence that is crystallizing not only in California, but all across the country.

THEY’LL NEVER SIGN

Know this: just because an MD or nurse makes an appointment to see the parent is no guarantee they’ll sign. Parents might have to go to several doctors before finding one who will sign. If indeed any will sign. There’s nothing binding them to sign.

Those hustling this Bill through Sacramento are well aware that most Forms will go unsigned. But Pan’s office is effusively assuring people: Don’t worry, the doctors will sign, no problem. we’re not taking the exemption away, don’t worry….

Hollow promises, the oldest currency of politics. Sounds like the Warsaw ghetto.

Here are 3 reasons why doctors won’t sign the exemption:

1. They won’t meet their quota of vaccinated children in order to get their bonuses

2. They will get reduced reimbursement rates from insurance companies because of the vaccination requirements

3. They will be afraid of liability in case the unvaccinated child they signed for gets a disease from the vaccinated.

Shows how much confidence they have in the vaccines they’re mandating, doesn’t it?

Anyway, these are the main reasons why parents will pay for appointments and usually go home empty handed, if this bill passes.

THE LONG GREEN

If anyone thinks this issue is about anything besides money, it isn’t. Pan’s office is awash in money supporting this vaccine. Here is a link that shows just some of the funds that are disclosed, a mere $175k:
http://www.thevaccinemachine.com/2012/03/pan-for-sale.html

Vaccines are the foundation of the pediatric industry. Without vaccines, not only do they lose millions in office visits, upselling drugs and procedures – pediatricians lose the opportunity to inculcate the idea of a lifetime of dependency on organized medicine. Childhood is the only time for such indoctrination.

That is the fundamental reason that vaccines are such a charged issue, and why they will exert any effort necessary to legislate away the debate on vaccine safety. Medicine knows they cannot win the debate, and this is their alternative.

WHAT TO DO

The only real power any groups or citizens have is to oppose the entire Bill. Now. Show up in Sacramento on April 17. Attend the debate. Flood Richard Pan’s office with phone calls 916-319-2005, Fax: 916-452-5525. Today. It actually works. Make an impression. Do something besides these insipid threats of doing something.

Failing that, no one is taking us seriously at all. We’re just not in the game. By us, I mean the citizens of California. Safe politics means do nothing and see which way the wind blows. That is a virtual guarantee that the bill will sail through, just like it did in Washington state.

If this passes in California, many other states are poised to follow, in domino fashion. When they see how easy all that was, what’s next? Permission not to euthanize? Permission not to get chemotherapy? Permission not to get bypass surgery? Without exaggeration or hysteria, this Bill represents the floodgates to a whole new era of government as medicine, medicine as government.

Freedom with permission. Last chance to object!

2. Upcoming Events

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Course Description:

An 8 hour online video course in some fundamental issues of basic science regarding the development of the immune system from the fetal state onward into adulthood. Elements of the formative immune system.

A look at classical biologicals beginning with the historical development of vaccines since the time of Edward Jenner.

We will discuss the history of vaccines and their effects on disease rates in this country during the past century. The original science behind the current Immunization Schedule, along with a discussion of ingredients and adjuvants.

Here are the topics of the 8 one-hour Sections:

The Immune System

Adjuvants, Attenuation, Excipients; Peanut Anaphylaxis

Human Papilloma Virus: The First Cancer Vaccine

Polio and DPT vaccines

Shaken Baby Syndrome 2012

Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine since 1978

Hemophilus Influenzae Vaccine, Rotateq Vaccine

Thimerosal and Neuroimmunology

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Registration: 408 298 1800 or doc[ @ ]thedoctorwithin.com

3. Challenge to Public Debate

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Sponsor of CA Bill 2109, Richard Pan, challenged to public debate

Dr. Tim O’Shea has challenged Assembly Member Richard Pan to debate his bill’s impact on the constitutional rights of parents to make medical choices for their children. Dr. O’Shea is a chiropractor and well known advocate for parental rights regarding immunology and natural health care. Dr. Pan is a pediatrician and sponsor of Bill 2109, which would force parents to have a medical doctor co-sign their Personal Beliefs Exemption Form. If doctors refuse, it would effectively put an end to the parents right to exempt their child, which has been a parent’s right for the past century in California. Date and location of the Sacramento evening debate soon to be announced.

4. Chiropractic and the Myth of Adhesive Capsulitis

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One of the most common rationales for NSAIDS as the only possible treatment of chronically restricted knees, shoulders and elbows is the myth of Adhesive Capsulitis. Not saying that it doesn’t exist at all – just suggesting it is a snap diagnosis that is often substituted for proper analysis and treatment of a dysfunctional joint. Don’t have time to look at it in the 5 minute visit, so we’ll call it Adhesive Capsulitis.

As the routine prescription for PT and Motrin winds into its second or third year with no appreciable results, the patient becomes despondent, having resigned himself to a lower quality of life for the foreseeable future. And worse thereafter.

The true Adhesive Capsulitis occurs more commonly after a severe direct trauma to the joint in question: motorcycles, equine, snowboard, automobiles may be involved. Inflammation gives way to the fibrosis of repair.

In the absence of treatment, or ill-advised immobilizing treatment, the familiar cross-fiber matrix becomes laid down to patch up the damaged area. Joint capsule, ligaments, tendons, bursae become infiltrated with scar tissue, which then becomes hyper-innervated with pain neurons. Antalgic loss of full motion.

After a few months the pattern is irrevocably set for a lifetime of stiffness, restriction, loss of strength, pain, and disuse.

Now even this situation can be improved by a skilled chiropractor, who’s willing to do the work.

But that’s not what we’re talking about here. We are now discussing the misdiagnosed case of Adhesive Capsulitis wherein the label has been wrongly applied to a sudden onset situation with no trauma, but which shows the same signs and symptoms.

So it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, hurts like a duck but it’s really— what?

Neurological. Tonal. Energetic. Dural.

Just lost half the readers – maybe the new docs. But many of you already know what we’re talking about.

So you want me to describe the indescribable here. Limit the illimitable. OK, I’ll take a shot.

When chronically frozen joints are suddenly released 50-90% by one adjustment, how could that possibly involve fibrotic scar tissue? It didn’t. It was misdiagnosed. But now some very skilled chiropractor who was trained in advanced techniques, or is a master of a traditional technique, has made the precise adjustment that unlocks and dismantles the whole defective afferent/efferent pathway and replaces it with correct neuro/energetic information from the periphery. The cortex is remodeled, the correct commands are sent via the corticospinal, and voila! – virtually normal range of motion, almost instantaneously.

Like somebody flipped the Reset switch.

How does this happen? Theories abound. 80% of human physiology is still unknown. Just by acknowledging the possibility of such treatment, we’re already closer than the Kaiser geniuses, because all they know is drugs and surgery. They will explain a cure like this as a case where the patient stopped malingering, or some vague psychosomatic babble. They have no idea. Which is why they can’t cure it.

Two possible roads to such a cure include metabolic and chiropractic.

Metabolic would be served by something like the 60 Day Program, taking away the daily inflammatory foods, clearing the tract and blood and taking in only enzyme-rich nutrients, minerals, EFAs, and hydrolyzed collagen. One of the many examples of short term megadosing on hydrolyzed collagen – dramatic results at 1 lb per week. See chapter.

But the tonal reset, the neurological rebalancing is most dramatically observed with chiropractic. Gonstead or diversified technique may do the trick, although often it seems these may have been tried for weeks with limited results.

In my experience, the dramatic cures of misdiagnosed Adhesive Capsulitis result after a masterful adjustment using dural techniques, including Boyd’s Biocranial, Crane Condyle Lift, Alpha Priority, Jose Palomar’s P-PRT, and other advanced AK voodoo tricks, to name just a few.

If more than 50% range of motion is restored in one adjustment, what does that mean? Again, not a case of fibrosis. Not even chiropractic is that good. No, this is something different. Next best guess: the interference was neurological. Tonal. Nerve interference – homeostatic imbalance, corrected neuroplasticity, restoration of energetic tone – something along those lines.

Give us a million dollar kickback and maybe we’ll prove it in a peer reviewed journal. Without disclosing the financial connection, of course. Failing that, you have to pick up the Big Idea somewhere along the line.

All this quacking about proof – what’s the point? What about the patient? What about the thousands of patients every year who never heard this discussion, and are living out the rest of their days in abject resignation that there is no hope, no cure. I have a bad shoulder, they say. Just like I have a 1995 Supra Twin Turbo. I own it.

They don’t have to keep it. That’s all I’m saying. They just have to find one of us who knows why not.

Let’s stop hiding such an enormous secret, shall we? Let them in!

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This is the brand new 2012 Second Edition of the book, a complete re-write, not just a reprint of the old book. 

The most reliable book for parents who want to end the confusion once and for all on whether they should vaccinate or not.

If you’ve read an old version of this text, it’s out of date. So much has happened in this field this past year which has not been in media. Quick look:

The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: how vaccines have been found as the proven cause of over 1 million children hypersensitive to peanuts, now the #1 cause of child anaphylaxis 

-

The new Shaken Baby industry, which can be a cover-up for vaccine injury 

-

The ongoing Autism Epidemic, affecting between 2 -4 million children today and NIH’s refusal to look for the cause

This research is effectively banned from mainstream media. As always though, each fact, each statistic is meticulously documented from the best sources available. The solid references make this information bulletproof.

The vaccine industry today is in a panic. It can no longer keep these secrets hidden. More and more people are learning about the actual physical brain effects on their children, and they’re opting out, signing the exemptions. That’s what all the hysterical new law enforcement of school vaccines is really about. 


With all the effort it takes to opt out, it’s not the lazy or the uninformed folks deciding not to vaccinate.

Do you even know what Prevnar or Human Papilloma Virus, or MCV4 or DPT – do you even know what these vaccines are?

And even if you do, wouldn’t you like to know what the scientists who make the vaccines have said about them, down through the decades? Or are you going to get all your information from the clinic that makes its living selling vaccines, just roll over, and vaccinate your kid?

Takes a little reading but it’s not that difficult to learn the story here. You can read this book in a day or so.

We are shocked to find that many medical doctors know the information in this book and do not vaccinate their own children. But they’ll vaccinate yours. The majority of the endorsements on the back cover of the book are from medical doctors. Here’s one of the most recent:

“It is impossible to estimate the true value of Dr O’Shea’s work. His review of the history of the vaccination industry is vastly more thorough than that taught in medical schools and decisively more balanced. 

”… O’Shea has once again blessed us with a resource that will allow parents to make an informed choice, and for medical professionals to take pause at what they had been indoctrinated to believe was valid science and good medicine.”

- David Ayoub, MD, Clinical Radiologist

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The definitive book on vaccines today. Vaccination Is Not Immunization, 2nd Edition 2012

This course will focus on the following topics:

The Toxic Load: Bioaccumulation of Xenobiotics
Processed Food Vs. Nutritive Food
Center of the Immune System: The Physiology of the Colon
Collagen: All the Tissues of the Body
Free Radicals, Antioxidants and DNA
The Religion of GM Corn and Soy
The Pre-eminence of GM Foods Today
Essential facts on Essential Fats
Hydration Dehydration and Longevity

Course Objective:

To summarize and review some core curriculum principles of cellular nutrition for the practicing chiropractor, providing a background for a better understanding of the roles of diet and lifestyle in the patient’s overall clinical picture. The seminar will provide the practicing chiropractor with the tools for a complete patient nutrition program.

Classes of poisons in the air, food, water, and medicine.
Solubility in the tract and systemic circulation; uptake at the cellular level.
Excretion or storage.
Definition of bioaccumulation.
Dermal exudation, pneumatic volatilization of toxic load.
Tilden’s principle of Vicarious Elimination.
Toxic load reduction through enzymatic detox, colon detox, and chelation.

How supermarket choices determine health and disease.
Statistics of epidemiology.
Uptake at the cellular level.
Systemic oxygenation and erythrocyte rouleaux.
Clearing the tract and the blood.
Cleanse or clog – The Classical Diet.
Organic vs. Non-Sprayed.
Components of Detox. Basic hydraulics.
Functional anatomy.
Normal vs. abnormal.
Water and electrolytes.
Review of Leaky Gut Syndrome as Hyperpermeability.
Introduction to Florabiotics.
Immunity and its dependence on Probiotic perfusion.
Diseases, diagnosed and misdiagnosed.

Largest and most abundant protein in the body.
Production rates: physical development, integrity and breakdown of organs and structures.
Muscles, bones, skin, ligaments, organs, blood vessels.
Hydrolyzed collagen and bioavailability at less than 3000 daltons.
Collagen’s association with longevity.

Definition and incidence.
Normal vs. abnormal numbers: the avoidable and the unavoidable.
Cell membrane oxidation and repair.
DNA alteration, autoimmunity and metaplasia.
Stress at the cellular level defined.
Relation of free radicals to stress, relation of antioxidants to neutralizing foods.
Free radicals and detox.

Genetic modification of crops defined; history, rise, market penetration.
Soy: the first GM crop ­ 1996.
Monsanto¹s new global industry.
Rate of global saturation with soy bean oil.
Types of foods affected.
Hydrogenation defined.
Liberty Corn and its role in human and bovine nutrition.
Pathology of unmetabolized GM corn and soy accumulation in human tissues.

Obsessed or oblivious: the pathology of fat consciousness.
EPA, DHA and the pop overemphasis on the 3-6-9 paradigm.
Integrity of cell membranes, myelin, and hyaline cartilage and the reliance on available EFAs.
EFAs for the fetus and newborn.
Best sources in the everyday diet.

Dehydration as epidemic.
The classical work of Batmanghelidj in the therapeutics of water.
Chlorination.
Introduction to fluoridation.
Review of total body pH and the effect on metabolic and digestive enzymes.
Alkaline foods; alkaline water.
Molecular size.
Water as an antioxidant.
Indispensability of hydration in detox.

1. Curing the Frozen Shoulder

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Frozen Shoulder Syndrome is a very common condition, all the more vexing because of the high rate of misdiagnosis. It is mysterious because onset can be either traumatic or nontraumatic, with a variety of contributory causes, any of which may be primary.

Frozen Shoulder Syndrome is the sudden loss of range of motion of one shoulder joint, often occurring in just a few days, with no apparent inciting event necessary. There is severe pain that limits motion. Sudden moves because one forgets the condition may result in blinding pain that can bring the patient to his knees.

Pain may keep the patient awake at night. Taking sweaters and jackets off and on suddenly has become a monumental undertaking. Being forced to switch which arm goes into a jacket first is an unfavorable sign.

Following a rapid onset, Frozen Shoulder may persist for weeks, months, or years.

Left untreated or incorrectly treated, the condition can be debilitating and even permanent.

Symptoms include:

Loss of abduction – raising arm to the side
Loss of internal rotation; can’t touch opposite scapula behind the back
Loss of extension
Loss of lateral reach
Loss of flexion: raising the arm fully overhead
Severe guarding spasms of the trapezius, rhomboids, and rotator cuff muscles
Sharp paralyzing pain if full range is suddenly attempted
Radiating severe neuromuscular pain from acromion to distal biceps, occasionally to wrist in advanced cases
Pain may be temporarily incapacitating, taking one’s breath away
Pain is relieved by limitation of motion – hence the name

This article very likely has already gone far beyond the depth of the average medical visit, which will have the patient out the door in 10 minutes or less with a prescription for Motrin, and if persistent, cortisone. We all know the drill. X-rays will be normal, in the off chance they are taken. Medicine doesn’t have time for these conditions which don’t warrant high expenditures of testing and the possibility for serious interventional procedures. Dead end.

In a small number of cases, cortisone injection may actually be effective in the short run, despite the fact that continued use is most certainly destroying most of the tissues involved: bursa, rotator cuff ligaments and other shoulder muscles and tendons. But in general, steroids have little effect on Frozen Shoulder because the underlying cause is not addressed.

Therapeutic techniques for Frozen Shoulder abound, and even the most primitive will likely show some improvement. But for anyone who requires full use of both arms, some improvement will not do. A cure is required.

Fortunately there are some excellent techniques available which can bring full resolution.

There are many components of the Syndrome, which is actually good news: all the more avenues in to a cure. [READ MORE]

2. Upcoming Events

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The Chiropractic Seminar

See website for course descriptions and details.

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FOUR NEW SEMINARS FOR 2012

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Two live and two online. All CE accredited.

Live:

Online:

First time in San Jose for this one day event, the focus is to take an unflinching look at what is really happening with our profession today.

This provocative nuts and bolts seminar will give the doctor a useful and defensible understanding of chiropractic not readily available to the profession today, with a focus on the communication of these ideas to those who have failed to be cured by other doctors.

We say what everyone is thinking.

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The biology of the adjustment

Explaining why patients should care

Discussing neural summation

The adjustment and somatovisceral effects

Explaining altered sensory-motor neurology

Explaining altered biomechanics and disease

Spinal lesions alter brain neurology

Neuroplasticity, genetics, epigenetics

Aberrant afferents and disease

Mastering a technique: the art of change

How today’s best neuroscience validates the original ideas of DD and BJ

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“Exactly what this profession needs – truth and clarity. Concise and useful.” – Dr M Casey, W. Hollywood

“The energy is fabulous and uplifting.” – C. Siga, DC, Denver

“Inspiring seminar! Glad I brought my staff. Glad to see authenticity return to chiropractic.” – Barcelona doctor

“All fired up – ready to save more lives!” – Dr D Johnson, Denver

“Filled with great data and cautionary tales — strong motivation to read — I feel I’ll get a little crazier!” – Dr TW, Seattle

“The diversity of information gathered in one seminar, organized in such an understandable way was fantastic!”

“The profession is in great need of this — should be required for all graduates.” – Dr T. Schroeder, Thousand Oaks

“Quite painless… actually informative!” – Dr K Sera, Long Beach

“Refreshing to hear an instructor not afraid to speak the truth…most people validating chiropractic seem very insecure about it — not this doc.” – Dr DC, Fair Oaks

Back by popular demand – the only full day seminar in the profession that takes an unbiased, fully referenced look at vaccine policy and science. A half day simply wasn’t enough.

This subject has become so complicated and so full of misinterpretation, yet at the same time never more vital an issue than it is now. For parents, what is at stake is the developing immune system of the newborn. This seminar will provide the information necessary to make the most important decision in the life of the child.

A few topics:

The Emergent Immune System

Adjuvants, Attenuation, Excipients

Polio and DPT vaccines

Hemophilus Influenzae Vaccine; Rotateq.

Thimerosal and Neuroimmunology

Measles Mumps Rubella vaccine since 1978. Influenza vaccines.

Shaken Baby Syndrome

Gardasil: Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine

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Course Description:

An 8 hour online video course in some very fundamental issues in the therapeutics of lifestyle alteration and cell nutrition. We discuss the necessity for detoxification in today’s world, the Food Enzyme concept, reflux, and a traditional evaluation of today’s diet choices.

We will relate common diet patterns to pathology, and also discuss the specific pathways of the healing diet, de-mythologizing many common misperceptions. The need for specific chelating of plaque and heavy metals is emphasized.

Genetically Modified foods are present today in 80% of packaged foods in supermarkets. We will define what GM really means. And what the agenda is behind this global experiment in world agriculture and food production.

Here are the topics of the 8 one-hour Sections:

Section 1 – The Need for Detoxification

Section 2 – The Food Enzyme Concept

Section 3 – Enzyme Bioavailability

Section 4 – The Traditional Diet: Classic Simplicity Vs. Popular Misconceptions

Section 5 – Oral Chelation and Chelated Minerals

Section 6 – Introduction to GM Foods: The Biotech Industry

Section 7 – New Practices in Food Production

Section 8 – Corporate Control of Genetically Modified foods

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Course Description:

An 8 hour online video course in some fundamental issues of basic science regarding the development of the immune system from the fetal state onward into adulthood. Elements of the formative immune system.

A look at classical biologicals beginning with the historical development of vaccines since the time of Edward Jenner.

We will discuss the history of vaccines and their effects on disease rates in this country during the past century. The original science behind the current Immunization Schedule, along with a discussion of ingredients and adjuvants.

Here are the topics of the 8 one-hour Sections:

The Immune System

Thimerosal and Neuroimmunology

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Registration: 408 298 1800 or doc[ @ ]thedoctorwithin.com
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3. AB2109: END OF VACCINE EXEMPTIONS IN CALIFORNIA?

- Dr Tim O’Shea

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Didn’t take much of a fortune teller to predict the attack on the philosophical vaccine exemption in California, which I did in the April 2011 Newsletter. But it’s here, right now in California. A week ago Bill AB2109 was proposed:

“AB2109 was introduced on February 23, 2012 by Assembly Member Richard Pan, a Democrat physician.

“This bill, if passed, would require parents to obtain the signature of a “health care practitioner” for a personal beliefs/religious exemption. MDs, nurse practitioners, and physician’s assistants can sign. Naturopaths and chiropractors cannot. The signature will need to be obtained on a separate form provided by the Department of Public Health, which states that the health care practitioner has provided risk and benefit information to the parent.”

Wow. Do I see a compliment in there, hidden behind the academic insult? They knew better than to include us DCs.

Let’s see what actions are taken by any chiropractic organizations for this slight.

Gonna save you a lot of time here, as far as what it all means and what’s going to happen. I went through all of this last year with the good people of Washington State and Dawn Winkler, who organized opposition to the exact same bill up there. Read my April 2011 Newsletter for details of that fiasco.

As predicted, Washington was the guinea pig state. Running roughshod over the small amount of opposition, the bill became law in just a few short months. In a flash of “why didn’t we think of this before?” since it was a virtually painless shoo-in, several other states have introduced similar bills, chaired by the usual mouthpieces for Big Pharma in their respective states. Campaign coffers runneth over.

If California falls, the rest of the domino states are certain to fall in the next 2 years. Remember – you read it here.

Once the informed minority of California parents who don’t vaccinate get over the initial outrage of “how could they?” and “who do they think they are?”, etc., there will be some amount of grassroots petitions outside Whole Foods and facebook lists and emails lists, etc., registering opposition. Which I will certainly be a part of. And it might even get to the physical level of a small group assembling at some point at the committee meeting in Sacramento whose job it will be to ram this bill through.

But if that opposition is defused, deceived, and rudely ignored, the bill will pass.

I will certainly participate in any opposition with every available resource. But I know how this game is played. Wish I didn’t.

Such a bill probably will have a much easier time being passed in California than in Washington State. Washington has a much higher percentage of informed parents who don’t vaccinate than California, which means a more informed public, and greater likelihood of opposition. But all that is irrelevant.

Grassroots democracy is all but gone in California. Just ask the people of Watsonville how effective their recent referendum against fluoridation was. Or any of a hundred other such stories exemplifying the force of corporate quid pro quo’s upon legislative decisions, which have significant economic consequences for vested interests. Political outcomes guaranteed by corporate stocking-stuffers…

Think you get the picture here without going all Alex Jones on you. It’s as old as Julius Caesar.

Let’s remove the word vaccination from the whole discussion for a minute here. Let’s pretend this whole issue isn’t about vaccines at all, but rather about any other medical procedure. Got that picture?

OK so then tell me, what kind of political system, or medical system anywhere on earth would presume to make it a law for you to obtain permission to opt out of any medical procedure, which decisions are completely your choice in the first place? Permission not to get medicine? See what I’m getting at here?

What’s next – permission not to be euthanized?

The lines begin to blur, as more and more we see government as medicine and medicine as government.

Let us be very clear here. This new law is not about trying to inform parents about the value of vaccines. That’s the cover story – the front, the mask they’re using. No, it’s really about one thing and one thing only: making vaccine exemptions all but impossible in California.

So much for the internal dialogue and connecting the dots. See how much time I saved you? But what does it really mean to the young parent who has just finished Vaccination Is Not Immunization or some other well documented literature, and who has decided that no vaccine will pollute the sacrosanct environment of their newborn’s blood?

Now it’s going to cost them money and time to make an appointment with a nurse “practitioner,” P.A., or MD to get permission to protect their child. The health care practitioners are going to take this opportunity to educate this poor deluded individual, who is so recklessly putting the child at risk, etc. And those with weak resolve will fall back, roll over, go with the flow, and inject the hapless child.

It may well be that the above named ‘health care’ professionals have no intention of signing anything. If they can’t convince the parent to vaccinate, the parent will leave with an unsigned document, having just wasted their time and money. This is already happening in Washington state.

The bill may well be passed in the next few months. To follow the progress of the opposition and learn how to voice your opinion, your best resource is certainly Dawn Winkler’s site: hapihealth.org/

So here are some practical suggestions on how to protect your child’s emerging immune system from this newest and most invidious of legal/corporate machinations, should it pass:

1. Ask friends for an enlightened MD who signs the original medical exemptions. Rare, but they’re out there. These exemptions are still valid. This is real one-stop shopping – end of story.

2. For the philosophical exemption, don’t make an appointment with someone where you don’t know the outcome. If you do, likely there will be no outcome. Except the needle. They’re waiting there with the needle. Which is why DCs or NDs can’t sign.

3. Under no circumstances take the child to the appointment.

4. Be impatient. Don’t sit there politely and allow them to spew forth endless mantras. They are insulting you by your very presence. To them you are a reckless idiot, who is now required by law to listen to their uninformed uneducated rambling. Any parent who is ready to sign a vaccine exemption is manifestly more educated than one of these marionettes at the very outset.

5. The information contained in Vaccination Is Not Immunization may be helpful. They will say – oh that was only written by a chiropractor. Irrelevant – it might have been written by a shepherd. All the references in the book are mainstream medical. All the endorsements are from MDs. Even so, don’t go into a debate that lasts longer than 5 minutes. As soon as it seems that further discussion will be fruitless, you stand up and say:

“I didn’t come here for your opinion. I came here for your signature, and I paid the fee to get it. So please sign this and I’ll be on my way.”

Then shut up and hand them the paper.

In fact, it might save time to open with that. Don’t lose your sense of constitutional outrage here.

In retrospect, the only thing that will ultimately matter here is this: was the child left unmolested? Did you protect that emerging immune system?

All else is smoke and mirrors, and the Science of Lying. And one further incursion of government into areas where it has no business – morally, legally, or constitutionally.

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This is the brand new 2012 Second Edition of the book, a complete re-write, not just a reprint of the old book. 

The most reliable book for parents who want to end the confusion once and for all on whether they should vaccinate or not.

If you’ve read an old version of this text, it’s out of date. So much has happened in this field this past year which has not been in media. Quick look:

The Pourcyrous Study: the peer reviewed medical study proving exactly how vaccines cause brain hemorrhages, apnea, and heart damage in infants. 



The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: how vaccines have been found as the proven cause of over 1 million children hypersensitive to peanuts, now the #1 cause of child anaphylaxis 

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The new Shaken Baby industry, which can be a cover-up for vaccine injury 

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The ongoing Autism Epidemic, affecting between 2 -4 million children today and NIH’s refusal to look for the cause

This research is effectively banned from mainstream media. As always though, each fact, each statistic is meticulously documented from the best sources available. The solid references make this information bulletproof.

The vaccine industry today is in a panic. It can no longer keep these secrets hidden. More and more people are learning about the actual physical brain effects on their children, and they’re opting out, signing the exemptions. That’s what all the hysterical new law enforcement of school vaccines is really about. 


With all the effort it takes to opt out, it’s not the lazy or the uninformed folks deciding not to vaccinate.

Do you even know what Prevnar or Human Papilloma Virus, or MCV4 or DPT – do you even know what these vaccines are? And even if you do, wouldn’t you like to know what the scientists who make the vaccines have said about them, down through the decades? Or are you going to get all your information from the clinic that makes its living selling vaccines, just roll over, and vaccinate your kid?

Takes a little reading but it’s not that difficult to learn the story here. You can read this book in a day or so.

We are shocked to find that many medical doctors know the information in this book and do not vaccinate their own children. But they’ll vaccinate yours. The majority of the endorsements on the back cover of the book are from medical doctors. Here’s one of the most recent:

“It is impossible to estimate the true value of Dr O’Shea’s work. His review of the history of the vaccination industry is vastly more thorough than that taught in medical schools and decisively more balanced. 

”… O’Shea has once again blessed us with a resource that will allow parents to make an informed choice, and for medical professionals to take pause at what they had been indoctrinated to believe was valid science and good medicine.”

- David Ayoub, MD, Clinical Radiologist

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The definitive book on vaccines today. Vaccination Is Not Immunization, 2nd Edition 2012

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Didn’t take much of a fortune teller to predict the attack on the philosophical vaccine exemption in California, which we saw in the April 2011 Newsletter. But it’s here, right now in California. A week ago Bill AB2109 was proposed:

“AB2109 was introduced on February 23, 2012 by Assembly Member Richard Pan, a Democrat physician.

“This bill, if passed, would require parents to obtain the signature of a “health care practitioner” for a personal beliefs/religious exemption. MDs, nurse practitioners, and physician’s assistants can sign. Naturopaths and chiropractors cannot. The signature will need to be obtained on a separate form provided by the Department of Public Health, which states that the health care practitioner has provided risk and benefit information to the parent.”

Wow. Do I see a compliment in there, hidden behind the academic insult? They knew better than to include us DCs.

Let’s see what actions are taken by any chiropractic organizations for this slight.

Gonna save you a lot of time here, as far as what it all means and what’s going to happen. I went through all of this last year with the good people of Washington State and Dawn Winkler, who organized opposition to the exact same bill up there. Read my April 2011 Newsletter for details of that fiasco.

As predicted, Washington was the guinea pig state. Running roughshod over the small amount of opposition, the bill became law in just a few short months. In a flash of “why didn’t we think of this before?” since it was a virtually painless shoo-in, several other states have introduced similar bills – AZ, VT, CA – chaired by the usual mouthpieces for Big Pharma in their respective states. Campaign coffers runneth over.

If California falls, the rest of the domino states are certain to fall in the next 2 years. Remember – you read it here. In Feb 2012.

Once the informed minority of California parents who don’t vaccinate get over the initial outrage of “how could they?” and “who do they think they are?”, etc., there will be some amount of grassroots petitions outside Whole Foods and facebook lists and emails lists, etc., registering opposition. Which I will certainly be a part of. And it might even get to the physical level of a small group assembling at some point at the committee meeting in Sacramento whose job it will be to ram this bill through.

But if that opposition is defused, deceived, and rudely ignored, the bill will pass.

Such a bill probably will have a much easier time being passed in California than in Washington State. Washington has a much higher percentage of informed parents who don’t vaccinate than California, which means a more informed public, and greater likelihood of opposition. But all that is irrelevant.

Grassroots democracy is all but gone in California. Just ask the people of Watsonville how effective their recent referendum against fluoridation was. Or any of a hundred other such stories exemplifying the force of corporate quid pro quo’s upon legislative decisions, which have significant economic consequences for vested interests. Political outcomes guaranteed by corporate stocking-stuffers…

Think you get the picture here without going all Alex Jones on you. It’s as old as Julius Caesar.

Now let’s remove the word vaccination from the whole discussion for a minute here. Let’s pretend this whole issue isn’t about vaccines at all, but rather about any other medical procedure.

OK so then tell me, what kind of political system, or medical system anywhere on earth would presume to make it a law that you must obtain permission to opt out of any medical procedure, which decisions are completely your choice in the first place? Permission not to get medicine? See what I’m getting at here?

What’s next – permission not to be euthanized? Or how about permission not to get chemotherapy?

The lines begin to blur, as more and more we see government as medicine and medicine as government.

Let us be very clear here. This new law is not about trying to inform parents about the value of vaccines. That’s the cover story – the front, the mask they’re using. No, it’s really about one thing and one thing only: making vaccine exemptions all but impossible in California.

So much for the internal dialogue and connecting the dots. But what does it really mean to the young parent who has just finished Vaccination Is Not Immunization or some other well documented literature, and who has decided that no vaccine will pollute the sacrosanct environment of their newborn’s blood?

Now it’s going to cost them money and time to make an appointment with a nurse “practitioner,” P.A., or MD to get ‘permission’ to protect their child. The health care practitioners are going to take this opportunity to educate this poor deluded individual, who is so recklessly putting the child at risk, etc. And those with weak resolve will fall back, roll over, go with the flow, and inject the hapless child.

It may well be that the above named ‘health care’ professionals have no intention of signing anything. If they can’t convince the parent to vaccinate, the parent may leave with an unsigned document, having just wasted their time and money. This is already happening in Washington state.

The CA bill may certainly be passed in the next few months. To follow the progress of the opposition and learn how to voice your opinion, your best resource is certainly Dawn Winkler’s site: hapihealth.org/

A CHIROPRACTIC ISSUE?

To the organizations that say they will take no action because this isn’t a chiropractic issue, they’re missing the mark twice over:

1. We are specifically excluded in the proposed Bill, in favor of those who are not even primary portal doctors. This is a brazen insult, both professionally and academically, as though we are not well enough educated to inform patients about fundamental health issues. Why was our basic science course load identical to that of medical students, by state and national regulation?

2. Who is more informed to counsel patients on a course of natural health that follows the holistic, vitalistic model? This has always been a matter of personal choice. Is that model now to be sidelined, gradually to be made illegal? Who else but DCs [and perhaps NDs] will step up here and speak for natural health care?

WHAT YOU CAN DO

So here are some practical suggestions on how to protect your child’s emerging immune system from this newest and most invidious of legal/corporate machinations, should it pass:

1. Call the sponsor and co-authors and tell them to withdraw their support of the bill:
Sponsor Assembly Member Richard Pan 916-319-2005
Co-Author Assembly Member Felipe Fuentes – 916-319-2039
Co-Author Senator Lois Wolk – 916-651-4005 senator.wolk@senate.ca.gov

2. Ask friends for an enlightened MD who signs the original medical exemptions. Rare, but they’re out there. These exemptions are still valid. This is real one-stop shopping – end of story.

3. For the philosophical exemption, don’t make an appointment with someone where you don’t know the outcome. If you do, likely there will be no outcome. Except the needle. They’re waiting there with the needle. Which is why DCs or NDs can’t sign.

4. Under no circumstances take the child to the appointment.

5. Be impatient. Don’t sit there politely and allow them to spew forth endless mantras. They are insulting you by your very presence. To them you are reckless and irresponsible, someone who is now required by law to listen to their formulaic recitation. Any parent who is ready to sign a vaccine exemption is very likely far more educated than someone who has never seriously taken a look at the vast medical literature that discusses problems with vaccines, no matter what the credentials.

6. The information contained in Vaccination Is Not Immunization may be helpful. They will say – oh that was only written by a chiropractor. Irrelevant – it might have been written by a shepherd. All the references in the book are mainstream medical. All the endorsements are from MDs. Even so, don’t go into a debate that lasts longer than 5 minutes. As soon as it seems that further discussion will be fruitless, you stand up and say:

“I didn’t come here for your opinion. I came here for your signature, and I paid the fee to get it. So please sign this and I’ll be on my way.”

Then stop talking and hand them the paper.

In fact, it might save time to open with that. Don’t lose your sense of constitutional outrage here.

In retrospect, the only thing that will ultimately matter is this: was the child left unmolested? Did you protect that emerging immune system?

All else is smoke and mirrors, and the Science of Lying. And one further incursion of government into areas where it has no business – morally, legally, or constitutionally.

- Dr Tim O’Shea

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Frozen Shoulder Syndrome is a very common condition, all the more vexing because of the high rate of misdiagnosis. It is mysterious because onset can be either traumatic or nontraumatic, with a variety of contributory causes, any of which may be primary.

Frozen Shoulder Syndrome is the sudden loss of range of motion of one shoulder joint, often occurring in just a few days, with no apparent inciting event necessary. There is severe pain that limits motion. Sudden moves because one forgets the condition may result in blinding pain that can bring the patient to his knees.

Pain may keep the patient awake at night. Taking sweaters and jackets off and on suddenly has become a monumental undertaking. Being forced to switch which arm goes into a jacket first is an unfavorable sign.

Following a rapid onset, Frozen Shoulder may persist for weeks, months, or years.

Left untreated or incorrectly treated, the condition can be debilitating and even permanent.

Symptoms include:

Loss of abduction – raising arm to the side
Loss of internal rotation; can’t touch opposite scapula behind the back
Loss of extension
Loss of lateral reach
Loss of flexion: raising the arm fully overhead
Severe guarding spasms of the trapezius, rhomboids, and rotator cuff muscles
Sharp paralyzing pain if full range is suddenly attempted
Radiating severe neuromuscular pain from acromion to distal biceps, occasionally to wrist in advanced cases
Pain may be temporarily incapacitating, taking one’s breath away
Pain is relieved by limitation of motion – hence the name

This article very likely has already gone far beyond the depth of the average medical visit, which will have the patient out the door in 10 minutes or less with a prescription for Motrin, and if persistent, cortisone. We all know the drill. X-rays will be normal, in the off chance they are taken. Medicine doesn’t have time for these conditions which don’t warrant high expenditures of testing and the possibility for serious interventional procedures. Dead end.

In a small number of cases, cortisone injection may actually be effective in the short run, despite the fact that continued use is most certainly destroying most of the tissues involved: bursa, rotator cuff ligaments and other shoulder muscles and tendons. But in general, steroids have little effect on Frozen Shoulder because the underlying cause is not addressed.

Therapeutic techniques for Frozen Shoulder abound, and even the most primitive will likely show some improvement. But for anyone who requires full use of both arms, some improvement will not do. A cure is required.

Fortunately there are some excellent techniques available which can bring full resolution.

There are many components of the Syndrome, which is actually good news: all the more avenues in to a cure.

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As with most neuromusculoskeletal disorders, there is usually a metabolic component.

First, diet. To avoid antagonizing the localized inflammation, acidifying, allergenic foods obviously should be suspended. Something resembling the New West Diet should be undertaken, at the very least. All that caffeine, all that HFCS, all that pasteurized dairy, hydrogenated oils, refined CHOs – probably contributed to onset, and are certainly not going to promote a cure.

So that’s the first part of the IQ test: how badly does the patient want to be cured?

Second, detoxing the accumulated systemic allergens, which may be aggravating the condition. Clear the blood. Enzymes, oral chelation, Florabiotics, colon cleanse.

Third, hydration. Two litres – you know what to do.

Fourth, Hydrolyzed Collagen. This works best with a major loading dose: 3 heaping tablespoons blended in fruit juice, twice a day. That’s it. Not just when you remember, or when you feel like it, or you’ll ‘try,’ but every single morning and every single night. This will be about a pound per week, but just continue until the damage is repaired. Most people notice ancillary benefits in other areas – skin improves, hair growth, weight loss, lean muscle gain, other chronic arthritic areas resolve. Nice bonus, but that’s not our focus here. We are out to cure the Frozen Shoulder – completely. This step right here can be 80% of the cure.

Fifth, fish oil. Back to the old fashioned ways. They worked because they were enormously successful as antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. Try 3 capsules per day. Nordic Naturals, MOR, or other high end versions, some available at Whole Foods. Miss days if you want to keep the Syndrome.

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Now for the chiropractic techniques.

1. Clear the brachial plexus from any possible subluxation via vertebral adjustment. If you don’t know what that means, woe unto your patients. We know what schools you went to. Time for some education. Neurology courses, basic chiropractic courses – not the yammering insipid ones. The legit ones. This obstruction can be the sole and only cause of these conditions, and you can balance meridians, rub neurolymphatics, do core exercises till the cows come home and nothing may have any effect whatsoever until the simple subluxation is reduced.

2. Neuromuscular re-balancing. There are many versions of this approach, varying from completely senseless to truly miraculous. The usual variables apply, as with any form of physical medicine:

Technical competence and experience of the doctor
Intent and focus of the doctor
Willingness of the patient to be well
Compliance with treatment program
Limitations of matter: amount of actual tissue destruction

One mechanism which can bring sudden onset of Frozen Shoulder is an unusual reaching or twisting act, as when the patient is off balance, or contorted somehow. The lockup can be caused by the failure of an agonist/antagonist muscle pairing. Flexors vs extensors, internal vs. external rotators, etc. If one half of a pair of muscles does not fire for some reason, or if both muscles in the pair fire simultaneously because one has failed to relax, and then both remain switched on, Frozen Shoulder Syndrome may be the result.

Full shoulder motion involves the smooth, unrestricted, and instantaneous coordination among many muscle groups. If one member of the team has shut down – for whatever reason – the entire group of efferents sending down all those coordinated messages from the corticospinal tract may rebel. Lock-up. Refusal. Another of the body’s instinctive mechanisms to protect nerve structures.

There are several formal and informal chiropractic techniques which come at Frozen Shoulder from this perspective.

3. Proprioceptive PRT technique. Powerful new technique developed by Dr Jose Palomar of Guadalajara. Esoteric, complicated, advanced AK technique, but remarkably effective, often showing dramatic immediate results in one day or less. Practitioners are as rare as an honest man in Congress. Dr Dale Mortensen of San Francisco and Dr Brian Garrett of San Diego are two of the best.

4. Muscle strengthening. If opposing muscles are incapable of parallel response, it may be simply due to a loss of tone and strength. Start with pushups. If one a day is all you can do, then that’s your starting point. In most cases doing pushups does not aggravate the Frozen Shoulder and may actually relieve pain. Lats, deltoids, triceps, biceps, etc. — strengthen the area. Deep massage may be necessary to unlock the joint before strengthening exercises will be beneficial.

5. Stretching. Get one of those new pull-up bars at Sports Authority or wherever that go into a doorway without any screwing of anything. If you have to stand on a stool to start reaching it, then you do. Figure out how to reach the bar. Twenty seconds is the absolute minimum valuable stretch, of course. More is better. Mild discomfort is OK. But this step cannot be omitted if you’re looking for the cure. Without missing a day. It’s the criterion for improvement.

6. K-laser. Now I’m not getting any kickbacks for saying this (like some we know), but it has come to my attention that laser technology has leapt far forward in the years since my articles about equine leg problems and the Microlight. So many arthritic problems persist because the body just can never get past the amount of inflammation that is chronically limiting the phagocytosis and carrying off of the dead cells and debris. That’s just one part of the physiology involved that can respond overnight to a few well placed treatments with this most modern of healing devices. Find one and try it.

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There it is. How many of these will you have to do to get cured? How would I know? The answer is as many as it takes until you’re normal again. But what choice do you really have? The geniuses have nothing for you. The hands-on approach is your only option here.

Unless you’re ready to get put out to pasture, that is. As a gimp, whining about a Frozen Shoulder.