BARTON PROTEST

[Guest guest]

If you attended the ACIP meeting last week & have comments about it,

please send them to me so I can share them. Thanks.

Here is a link to a video clip of a parent denied access to Rep.

Barton's office: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa2-bFlASpo

Apparently, other parents made threatening calls since Rep. Joe

Barton deadlocked the Combating Autism Act in a House Committee, so

we're all being labeled as violent. That really doesn't help. Please

show respect for his position, even you don't respect him. Foul

language & threats only slow our progress toward safer vaccines.

Parents and their autistic children will be gathered at 11am in front

of the Renaissance Hotel in , Texas, on Monday, Oct. 30,

2006. Families will call on Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), and U.S.

Rep.Joe Barton, (R-TX) to stop holding their children hostage to

politics and let the House vote on the Combating Autism Act (passed

as Senate Bill 843). Bill info at:.http://www.thomas.gov/

cgi-bin/query/D?c109:4:./temp/~c1090XwihN::

[Guest guest]

Well, it appears that the same NPO zealots who knowingly and willingly forsook

thimerosal and vaccine research in exchange for ONE BILLION DOLLAR'S worth of

" whatever " are now into smearing an honest ally of our children.

Let's make this crystal-clear, my family has spoken to Rep. Barton's staff

personally and they are 1000% behind any legitimate effort to help our families.

Rep. Barton fully understands what CAA is all about and we are grateful that he

is, so far, willing to be attacked by these so called advocates making all these

unfounded claims. Rep. Barton is being completely reasonable and we parents of

vaccine-injured children should be 100% behind his efforts to stick up for our

children.

If you work the investigative angles you will find the ones supporting CAA will

be the ones with direct political ties to the " preservative " republicans that

have worked after midnight many times in the past to create bills designed to

defeat us families, or they simply are ignorantly doing whatever their drug

company minders are telling them to do.

For the record in the CAA bill passed by the U.S. Senate there is absolutely NO

MENTION of thimerosal or vaccine research. Not even anything remotely suggestive

of thimerosal and vaccine research in the pending CAA legislation. In fact, the

only hope we parents had for thimerosal and vaccine research was a CAA draft by

groups including the anti-mercury ones called the revised consensus verison.

This version was NEVER considered by the U.S. Senate because several powerful

Senators and drug/vaccine manufacturer-run charities failed to support it.

When it was clear the CAA would not represent the interests of us parents

advocating for our children every self-respecting advocacy group representing

our vaccine-injured children dropped support for CAA. The rest seem to be

looking at CAA as a form of pay-off for all the past work they claim to have

done on behalf of our children.

The miss-guided groups that failed to walk away from CAA and put agressive

pressure on to make sure the wrong version of CAA was Senate-ratified are

attempting to save face with you, the parent of a vaccine-injured child, by

pointing out that thimerosal and vaccine research is covered in CAA under a

vague " enviromental " term tucked in the Frist-approved version. What they won't

tell you is this version passed the empty Senate at mid-night under

" adminstrative " conditions, and came complete with a strong-worded colloquy that

clearly states the intentions of the Senate are that no thimerosal and vaccine

research be conducted with CAA money and CDC is no longer required to do any

epidemiological research on the autism epidemic from now on.

In other words if the CAA passes it will take extremely distasteful legal action

to counteract the Senate's version of CAA. This means years and years of legal

battling by whoever can raise lots of money for the vaccine and thimerosal

research legal battle sure to insue with the passage of this dangerous and most

inappropriately represented bill.