Subject: U.S. Gov't Admits Thimerisol Causes Autism

The report, released by the House Committee on Government Reform, is over three years old. Released in May of 2003, the report stated, "Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal and the sharper eyes of infant exposure to this known neuro-toxin. The public health agencies' failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry." This information was presented in an article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. last year and was met with expected dismissiveness by the pharmaceutical industry, a particularly heavy contributor to Washington politicians, especially Republicans. The effects of thimerisol could have been reduced by packaging and shipping vaccines in single-dose quantities. The phamaceutical industry, however, wanted to maximize its profit potential in the form of outrageous CEO compensation, so it opted to use multi-dose vials while fully aware of the dangers of thimerisol, a mercury-based preservative.

Currently, autism affects 1 in 166 children. Twenty years ago, 1 in 10,000 were affected. Vaccinations in infants have increased dramatically in the last two decades. Volumes of scientific data support the connection. Scientists funded by Merck, the largest manufacturer of childhood vaccines, strongly contend that the connection cannot be proven. Go figure. They can't explain the case involving Amish children. The Amish do not vaccine their children according to their religious beliefs. A perfect scientific control group, autism was nonexistent among Amish populations. Zero cases. A few children of a fringe member of the Amish community were vaccinated, and they developed autism. One of the cases was traced to mercury exposure on a farm, and the others were traced to the vaccine. When the Centers For Disease Control urged Merck to discontinue use of vaccines in the U.S., they were sold to other countries, where autism bloomed in every case where it had previously been a rarity.

The Federal Government, under the incompetent direction of the Bush administration and Republican, corporate-abetting colluders with miscreants like Merck, has repeatedly violated the public trust in order to line their own pockets in an orchestrated effort to demolish the middle class. The greatest transfer of wealth in American history from the working class to the wealthiest families has occurred with Bush and Republicans at the helm. This is legislated theft, a rip off of unimaginable proportions involving trillions of dollars. Even worse is the assault on our children's lives by Big Pharma, sociopathically dumping mercury, a known and deadly toxin, on the minor population. Government is duty-bound to protect those in society who are defenseless- children, the sick and the elderly. They are the same people that Jesus taught deserve protection.

Republicans counter with the 'personal responsibility' mantra, that we must fend for ourselves. It is our own fault if we get sick from food poisoning, not the FDA's problem. It is our own fault if a defective product kills or maims one of our loved ones, so Republicans ram through 'tort reform' to rid themselves of those pesky lawsuits. After all, their responsibility is only to their wealthy shareholders, not some insignificant individual who is just a money-grubbing opportunist anyway. It is our own fault if our kids develop leukemia from carcinogens in the water, soil and in the air in particulate form as volatile organic compounds, not the fault of the unregulated oil refinery or chemical factory or mountaintop coal removal.

We, as a people, have been abandoned by the elected trustees who are supposed to protect us from being stepped on and crushed under the boots of megalomaniacal leviathans, the juggernauts of industry. Raw greed has contaminated our elected representatives, who have morphed into hideous, predatorial blobs, leaving their slime trails all over the nation's capitol. Maybe you'll think twice before ridiculing the Amish again. At least they aren't playing Russian Roulette with their children's lives.

The content herein pursuant to thimerisol was primarily obtained from an article by Evelyn Pringle, an investigative journalist and columnist for OpEd News. The link to her full article can be found at lookingglassnews.org.

Additional information was gleaned from the thimerisol article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is currently pursuing a qui tam lawsuit against electronic voting machine manufacturers. His website can be found at www.robertfkennedyjr.com/

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[BuzzFlash Note: The CDC notes: "The weight of currently available scientific evidence does not support the hypothesis that vaccines cause autism. We recognize there is considerable public interest in this issue, and therefore support additional research regarding this hypothesis."]