ESSENTIAL OILS ONLINE #036

It's amazing what happens when you support the body to be
healthy instead of filling the body with things that "fight"
disease. The human body is a magnificent creation fully capable
of staving off disease, given half a chance to do so.

However, state and federal governments are using "Public health"
as a rationale to dismiss the body's superior healing system,
by mandating mass, multiple vaccinations. The target is our
children. Children must receive nine or more questionable
vaccinations before they begin public education. The results
are not always good.

Eight year old Anna cannot sit without support or cannot walk
without braces and a walker. Most of the time she sits in her
wheelchair. Anna was left paralyzed after she was injected with
MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine at 15 months of age.

Richie was a thriving two month old baby boy, the second son born
to a family in upstate New York when he got his first DPT shot in
the winter of 1983. Richie died in his mother's arms as his
father and six year old brother watched. It had been 33 hours
since a doctor had injected him with his first DPT shot.

Terry, a seven year old, stays alive with the help of a
respirator and 24-hour nursing care. He can move his eyes and
mouth but he can't move his head. Terry was left paralyzed after
swallowing live oral polio vaccine at nine weeks of age.

You can see photo's of Anna, Richie and Terry, and read how their
parents were victimized by the medical system and the laws that
were supposed to help them at: http://www.909shot.com/

This issue of EOO is devoted to exposing the amoral medical and
governmental system that has forsaken our children at the expense
of profits.

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Number 036 Summer Issue, 2000
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IN THIS ISSUE:

1. Editorial:
- Whose Child Is He, Anyway?

2. Feature Article:
- Shots in the Dark - Hepatitis B Vaccine

3. Fight Back:
- How to Write a Letter for a "Personal" Religious
Exemption From Immunizations

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least 6,000 years. You decide!

PHARMACEUTICAL dispensed drugs are toxic failures not fit
for human consumption. According to JAMA (Journal of the
American Medical Association), Prescribed drug-caused
deaths rank 4th on the mortality table list. 1994 statistics
show 106,000 people died from unintended drug side-effects.
This would be considered criminal by any other civilized
standard.

Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., Medical Editor for "Health and
Healing," estimates 18 million more people have survived toxic
side effects from these same drugs prescribed by their
doctors...Over 2 million of them were bad enough to be
hospitalized in 1994 alone. Chemical Drugs and the so-called
"health" system that promotes using them are part of the
problem, not the solution.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for your own health, not the AMA,
FDA or your physician. If your physician prescribes a drug for
"treatment," ask him or her what known side-effects exist. If he
or she downplays any risk, ask yourself this question... Is
playing Russian roulette with drugs worth risking your life?
It can and does happen...106,000 deaths every year!!

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1. Guest Editorial:

WHOSE CHILD IS HE, ANYWAY?
Contributed by Pat Aspray

A New York Family Court judge has told the parents of a seven
year old boy to give their child Ritalin or they may be placing
themselves at risk of losing the child to Child Protective
Services.

While technically the Albany County judge's instructions stop
short of an actual court order, the parents of Kyle Carroll are
still under pressure from the court to medicate their child. Such
judicial involvement in a Ritalin related case is without legal
precedent. Furthermore, because the case was adjourned in
contemplation of dismissal, there will be no review of the case
by a higher court. The case is essentially resolved unless the
parents persist in their refusal to treat their child with
Ritalin.

The case has created concern among parent and children's rights
groups. "The investigation," according to Richard Wexler,
Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection
Reform (CPS), "is more harmful than being put on Ritalin or not
being put on Ritalin."

Wexler told ADD.About.com that "the only people with enough of a
vested interest in the child to make these decisions are the
parents of the child." Wexler acknowledges that, like Ritalin,
CPS does have a legitimate role in the effort to protect
children. He simply feels that schools are too quick to report
possible cases of abuse and that CPS is too quick to blame the
parents and remove the child from the home.

Should the parents be forced to medicate their child?

Tell us what you think.

Wexler is also concerned that cases such as the Carroll's place
an undue burden on resources that are already spread too thin.
"When Child Protective Services spends time and money on these
types of cases, that means that they are spending time and money
that could otherwise be spent to help children who are at risk."

Dr. Peter Jensen, Director of the Center for the Advancement of
Children's Mental Health at Columbia University, disagrees. In an
editorial published in USA Today, Jensen writes that "Certainly,
child-protection laws and the courts are not the best way for us
as a society to see that our children receive appropriate care."

Jensen continues: "But when a given child's well-being is at
stake, we cannot default on our responsibilities to ensure that
he or she gets the necessary help."

Dr. Jensen discussed the safety and efficacy of Ritalin and other
medications in a presentation about ADHD medications given during
the National Institute of Mental Health ADHD Consensus Conference
in November, 1998. His research supports the fact that for most
children with ADHD, these medications are both safe and
effective. Certainly, Ritalin is among the most studied of all
childhood medications currently in use.

While ADD.About.com would never disagree with Dr. Jensen on
issues of science or medicine, there is some question as to what
exactly constitutes "necessary help" for a child who may have
ADHD. There is compelling evidence that untreated ADHD can lead
to increased substance abuse, academic failure and other
problems. However, no child has ever died because he or she
didn't get a dose of Ritalin. In the case of Kyle Carroll, the
parents had given their child the prescribed medication but
discontinued use when they began to be concerned about side
effects that they saw in their son. Specifics about Kyle's
reaction to the medication have not been reported in the press;
however, side effects of Ritalin can include a rapid heart rate
and increased blood pressure.

As with any medication, one must weigh the risk of treatment
against risks associated with the condition.

Schoolyard - or Gulag?

Reports of schools over-stepping their authority and ordering
parents to medicate their children continue to surface. A U.S.
House of Representatives Subcommittee expressed similar concerns
during hearings on Ritalin that were held in May.

The spector of children lining up for the school nurse to give
court ordered medications has forged an unlikely coalition
between those who oppose medication use and members of the
ADD/ADHD Community who feel that the right to medicate includes
the right not to medicate or to explore other non-medication
alternatives.

In the words of the spokesperson of one anti-medication group,
"this is scary as Hell." In this case, we are inclined to agree.

Contributed by Pat Aspray

Resources:

Doping Our Kids:
http://www.1minute4health.com/doping.html

A connection between the drugs and
an epidemic of school shootings:
http://www.1minute4health.com/shootings.html

Hepatitis B: The Disease & The Vaccine
http://www.909shot.com/hepatitisb.htm

Essays, articles, and other information pertaining to the fraud
of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--Compiled by
Dr. Fred Baughman: http://www.adhdfraud.org/

Vital Information About Ritalin, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity
Disorder and the Politics Behind the ADHD/Ritalin Movement:
http://geocities.com/HotSprings/8568/talking_back_to_ritalin.html

DISPELLING VACCINATION MYTHS
http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf/myths/dvm1.htm

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2. Feature Article:

Shots in the Dark - Hepatitis B Vaccine
From The American Spectator
By Tom Bethell

"Lyla Rose Belkin was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I
last held her in my arms," said her father, Michael Belkin, a
financial analyst in New York City. "Little did I imagine as she
gazed into my eyes that she would die that night. At her final
feeding she was agitated and feisty -- then fell asleep and
didn't wake up. The autopsy ruled out choking. A swollen brain
was the only abnormal finding. Most doctors I spoke to said it
must have been Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a catch-all
diagnosis for unexplained death." This happened last September.

For weeks, Belkin and his wife agonized over what they might have
done differently. What he couldn't get out of his mind was that a
few hours before Lyla's death, she had been inoculated with the
Hepatitis B vaccine. Most doctors he spoke to scoffed at the
idea. The vaccine is safe, they said. But he began his own
investigation, and he became disturbed by what he found.

He spoke to Bonnie Dunbar, a molecular biologist at Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston. Five years earlier, her brother
had experienced multiple sclerosis-like symptoms following
vaccination. "His problems have been attributed to the Hepatitis
B vaccine by over a dozen different specialists of unquestionable
medical expertise," she testified before the Texas Public Health
Board. "He has now been rated permanently and totally impaired.
His health care has cost the state of Texas around half a million
dollars to date." Then disaster struck again. A student in her
lab, who was required to take the vaccine, "went partially blind
following her first booster injection, a medical condition that
was exacerbated by her second booster which resulted in long-term
hospitalization."

Only a few years ago, Dr. Dunbar was honored by the National
Institutes of Health for her vaccine work. Nonetheless, she began
her testimony with this eye-opener: "I am not here today as an
official representative of Baylor College of Medicine but as a
concerned citizen of Texas and the United States. In fact, I am
sure that some of my colleagues would not approve of my
appearance. Especially those that are benefiting handsomely from
pharmaceutical company income as consultants and expert witnesses
while carrying out vaccine clinical trials."

Merck & Co. derives $900 million per annum from vaccine sales.
It's Hepatitis B vaccine is the first in the country to use
(insert ') recombinant DNA technology. Since 1991, Hepatitis B
inoculations have been given routinely to infants in the US, and
36 states now require that a series of three shots be given to
infants as a condition of attending school. Although many are now
getting the vaccine, hardly anyone in the general population is
at risk for the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta says that in 1996 a total of 10,637 cases
of the disease were reported in the US, of whom 279 were below
age 14. In 90 percent of cases, antibodies are naturally produced
and after a flu-like illness the patient recovers and is immune
for life.

To drum up a Hepatitis B scare, and justify the massive
vaccination program, the CDC has arbitrarily multiplied the
number of reported cases by 20, using the argument that most go
undiagnosed. The general population is not at risk for Hepatitis
B. The profile of those who are is similar to those at risk for
AIDS. CDC identifies the hepatitis risk groups as: drug addicts,
homosexuals and heterosexuals with multiple partners, children of
immigrants from certain areas, health-care workers, and infants
born to infected mothers. So how come everyone is urged to get
the vaccination, including newborns, and why are state health
departments playing along, agreeing that children can't go to
school if they don't get their shots?

The CDC explains that it has "generally not been feasible" to
identify people "engaged in high-risk behaviors." Instead, the
agency recommended "making hepatitis B vaccine a part of routine
vaccination schedules for infants." In other words, the risk of
adverse events must be borne by innocent infants, who can be
singled out on the maternity wards, because the sex and drug
addicts can't be expected to identify themselves. Jane Orient,
executive director of the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons, and a practicing physician, commented: "It's outrageous
to be forcing this upon children, the great majority of whom are
not at risk. But all are at risk of adverse reactions to the
vaccine." She doesn't recommend the shots for those not in risk
groups.

"I am horrified by what I am seeing on this issue," said Baylor's
Dr. Dunbar. "I can't believe this is happening in this country."
"Public health" is being used as a rationale to undermine
individual responsibility and to legitimize intrusion on family
autonomy. Several times I phoned Sidney Wolfe of the Naderite
Health Research Group, not normally one to sit still for
drug-company profiteering. But there was no call back from him on
this issue.

The Food and Drug Administration set up a system for reporting
adverse reactions to the vaccine, and by October 1998 almost
25,000 vaccine-related adverse-events had been reported, many of
them life-threatening. The FDA has also said that as many as 90
percent of such reactions are never reported at all, so we should
multiply these totals by ten. Michael Belkin estimates that, in
addition to his own daughter, at least 1,400 people have died
throughout the country from an adverse reaction to Hepatitis B
immunization.

Many such cases involve what is called auto-immunity. It is
believed that the genetically engineered vaccine sometimes
confuses the body's immune system into attacking itself. Many of
the responses resemble multiple sclerosis. The bad effects may
unfold over weeks. One scandalous feature of this vaccine is that
the drug companies used safety studies that monitored children
only for four or five days after vaccination. Now, a long-term
study of the effects on nurses (who must get the shots) is
underway.

Shouldn't legislatures at least wait for the results before they
make shots compulsory? The problem is that most legislators, like
most journalists, are cowed by assertions of medical expertise,
and by threats that any delay will jeopardize the nation's
health. The New York Times in particular has acted as an
uncritical conveyer-belt from the CDC to the general public. One
politician who has stood firm is New Jersey's Christie Todd
Whitman. She refused to sign into law a mandate rushed to her
desk by gullible legislators. In France, a similar mandate was
rescinded last October because doctors saw what was happening and
sued.

Having studied FDA's reports of adverse reactions in infants, CDC
concluded that there were "no unexpected events." A leaked
internal CDC memo suggests otherwise. A meeting at the agency in
1997 discussed "possible association" between the vaccine and MS
and recommended a "case control study" with 60 days as a
"reasonable time limit to use for the onset of MS
post-vaccination." (Five days were enough to get the vaccine
approved.)

Another CDC claim, that "studies show that these side effects are
reported no more frequently among those vaccinated than among
persons not receiving vaccine," cited only references dated ten
years before the vaccine was available. Thus is science put at
the disposal of politics. An Institute of Medicine report refutes
CDC's claim. At least 100 published reports by physicians have
attributed serious adverse effects to the vaccine. The truth is
that CDC is a political agency which has become accustomed to
disseminating public-health scares as a way of protecting and
expanding its budget. Not for nothing was "Prevention" added to
its title.

State health departments have a budgetary interest in mandating
shots. According to Barbara Fisher of the National Vaccine
Information Center in Vienna, Virginia, amendments to the
Childhood Immunization Act of 1993 gave states financial
incentives to set up tracking registries, and a
"performance-based grant program," offered up to $100 a head
depending on the number of shots delivered. "A bounty is put on
children's heads," Fisher said. "Our children now get 33 doses of
ten different vaccines by kindergarten; our grandparents got only
one -- smallpox. The CDC hasn't yet done the studies showing
whether all these shots are safe." Marian Wright Edelman, where
are you now that we need you?

Recently, John F. Modlin, professor of pediatrics and medicine at
Dartmouth and chairman of the CDC's Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices, debated the issue at the University of
New Hampshire with Burton A. Waisbren, an immunologist from
Milwaukee. Michael Belkin took along a chart showing that, in New
Hampshire alone, the 48 reported adverse reactions to the vaccine
in children aged 0 to 10 in recent years were 16 times greater
than the number of cases of disease. There were four times as
many child deaths (11) as there were cases of disease. Those
shocking figures show how out of control the vaccination program
has become.

Modlin said the critics were "uninformed," and flippantly
suggested that attributing deaths to the vaccine was like blaming
automobile accidents on the Cheerios antecedently consumed.
"Whatever you do," he said, "don't let somebody try to tell you
that Hepatitis B is uncommon because only 11,000 cases were
reported in this country." In fact, he added, "I don't care" how
many reported cases there are. "What's probably more accurate is
extrapolated data." By which he means "hypothetical." It's as
unscientific to deny causation, without investigation, as it is
to assert it. Meanwhile, Modlin should disclose the financial
relationship between the drug companies benefiting from his
indulgence and the ongoing research at Dartmouth Medical School.
In response to a question, he allowed that there was such a
connection. "Scientists are increasingly supported by for-profit
companies," the Wall Street Journal recently reported, "but a new
study shows that critical fact is seldom revealed in published
research." This is especially true in the medical field.

In his response, Burton A. Waisbren said that "the first thing
that should be done is we should stop universal Hepatitis B
vaccination." He added that "doctors, hospitals and scientists
who [support this vaccination program] should be held responsible
legally. If all else fails, I think there is going to be a
congressional investigation." Without quite reaching his
question, he asked: "How could an executive in a pharmaceutical
company that made a billion dollars out of this experiment, and
the director of a government agency impose an experiment -- they
talk about a strategy -- this is an experiment. Because," he
added, "they don't know if this is going to help the situation."

The forum organizer, Gerhard Bedding, is circulating a petition
to rescind the mandate in New Hampshire. He describes the modern
medical attitude as: "Here comes this poor unprotected baby. We
need to get at it immediately to give it the benefit of our
protection." It reminds him of the "Kill all the bugs!" outcry of
the 1950's. When he sees today's CDC officers in their military
uniforms, he is reminded of nothing so much as his childhood in
occupied Holland, during World War II. ABC's "20/20" aired a
good program in January. Articles have appeared in Science (July
31, 1998) Insight, Washington Post, Toledo Blade, Indianapolis
Star, and elsewhere. In Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, efforts are
underway to rescind the mandate or expand exemptions. Grassroots
opposition is growing.

Source:
The American Spectator, May 1999
http://www.spectator.org
Shots in the Dark The American Spectator May 1999

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3. Fight Back:

How to Write a Letter for a "Personal" Religious
Exemption From Immunizations

Religious exemptions are acceptable in most U.S. states, but
specific vaccination laws vary from state to state. Be sure to
check with the state dept. of epidemiology, vaccinations,
immunizations, or whatever it is called in your state, to find
out the laws for your state. Some require that you file for an
exemption certificate, others require only a properly written
letter. In any case, the following URL may help you with this
process: http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf/rlxmpt.htm

Your child was created to withstand any disease onslaught. Our
body comes equipped with a built-in healing system far superior
to any known medical modality, or government mandated prevention
program.

Nature provides goodness in the food intended to maintain your
child's vibrancy of health. Nature also provides a medicine chest
perfectly suited to prevent and heal when the body is slighted of
receiving proper nutrition. This is the first and foremost reason
for the existence of therapeutic grade, natural, essential oils.

Do not forsake the health of your family to others more
interested in profits than the welfare of your children.
Exercise your unalienable Right to Life and Liberty
guaranteed to you by the Declaration of Independence.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/declaration/declaration.html

Use it or lose it.
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This concludes Essential Oils Online for August 2000

Jim
LynnGroup Int'l
Publisher EOO