Phone-a-thon Bush Refused to Remove Mercury

[Claire]

From the enzyme board...shocking to me, they still have mercury in some childhood vaccines!! I guess the manufacturers are lingering in removing them...

 

I made the phone call to 202-456-6798 and just said: "Please tell President Bush that I would like him to ensure that thimerisol is immediately removed from children's vaccines".

 

They took my name and state--it took less than one minute.

 

Claire

 

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Subject: Phone-a-thon Bush Refused to Remove Mercury

 

Today is the day to ring the phones off the hooks in Washington! Lets

make a statement about what has happen to our children. They can not

deny if we come together as one!

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Lynn

 

Forward attachment follows below.

 

Bush Refuses to Protect Pregnant Mothers & Children from Mercury-based

Vaccines

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April 27, 2005

 

In September of 2004, President George W. Bush stated while on the

campaign trail that he would "support the removal of thimerosal from

vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule."

 

Today, April 27, 2005, in several conversations with White House

Counsel on Health Policy, Unlocking Autism got more clarification on

what that means.

 

The semantics mean that The White House stated that President Bush

thinks that mercury should absolutely be removed from vaccines,

inherently indicating that his administration does find it to be a

harmful substance, and while he has the full authority to remove it

from the shelves today, he refuses to act. He wants to continue to

allow the pharmaceutical companies the opportunity to continue to

voluntarily phase it out of vaccines. The White House counsel further

suggested that we be patient and give the pharmaceutical companies the

time to accomplish this on their own.

 

So how long does that take? How long exactly did it take for Firestone

to recall their tires? How long did it take for Tylenol to pull their

products off the shelves and present safer packaging? Six years...at a

minimum that the government has known of the mercury problem...and it

is still out there being "voluntarily" injected into kids because not

all of it has been "voluntarily" removed.

 

In February of 2005, Unlocking Autism addressed a letter to President

Bush requesting that he issue an Executive Order banning the use of

mercury in vaccines for all children under the age of 18 and pregnant

women. The only shots with more than a trace amount of mercury in

them are some of the Flu vaccines and a version of the DT vaccine but

both of those contain 25 mcg of mercury, which far exceed EPA safety

limits for small children.

 

Based on several conversations with White House legal counsel today,

the President does have the authority to issue such a ban and

immediately recall the mercury based vaccines on the shelves and in

production, but he refuses to do so. The White House counsel also

stated that while Bush supports the removal of mercury from vaccines

in the childhood national vaccine schedule, he does not think that any

immediate action is necessary even though it may take 3 to 4 more

years to phase mercury out of those shots remaining on the schedule

today. Nor does the President find it necessary to ban the use of

mercury based vaccines for pregnant women because, after all, they are

adults, not children and therefore, fall outside of his statement that

he supports the removal of mercury from the childhood vaccine schedule.

 

The White House asked us to consider all that they have accomplished

in reducing mercury in vaccines (yes...they said this.) They referred

me to the following three documents as proof of what they have done

thus far for those of you concerned about this issue:

 

NIH - http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t041005d.html

 

CDC - http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t041005c.html

 

FDA - http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t041005e.html

 

I told them that credit doesn't go to anyone who sits by and allows

bolus doses of mercury to be knowingly injected into children until

the pharmaceutical companies "voluntarily" take it out.

 

Credit goes to the person with the intestinal fortitude to put a stop

to it.

 

It was made clear to us that the removal of mercury from flu vaccine

and the DT vaccine would cause undue hardships on the pharmaceutical

companies who do not have the facilities in place to manufacture

mercury free vaccines. It takes 3-4 years to build these new

facilities. (Who is doing math with us here? 1999+4=2003? Is

this..oh..it is...2005?) They would have to really step up the process

(even though they haven't even started manufacturing flu vaccine for

this flu season.)

 

Undue Hardships? That is an interesting choice of words to tell the

mother of a vaccine injured child.

 

I asked for the White House counsel to put in writing that President

Bush does not support the immediate removal of mercury from childhood

vaccines and that while they realize that millions of children will be

needlessly exposed to it over the next several years, they are willing

to allow that to happen. They said that they would not put it in

writing. Without a ban, it is our opinion that President Bush is

passively making that statement regardless of whether or not he

officially puts it in writing.

 

We asked that President Bush publicly support legislation proposed by

Congressman Dave Weldon and make a statement to that effect on the

House floor to encourage the expediency of the bill. This request is

under review and we did not receive a final answer on their position

today.

 

The White House did indicate that President Bush may reconsider the

immediate removal of mercury from all vaccines in the future. We were

told that it was not his final answer but that those concerned with

the removal of mercury should just be patient and wait.

 

We don't really feel like sitting and being patient. We don't think

that you should either. If you feel strongly about this and think

maybe President Bush should reconsider, we recommend that you not only

call the White House comment line, but that you contact Chief of Staff

Andrew Card's office directly at 202-456-6798. We think that you

should call on Thursday, April 28th and every day after that if you

feel like it.

 

Or better yet, call, then fax President Bush via Andrew Card's office

at 202-456-1907.

 

Regardless of the plausibility of an autism/mercury connection, we

believe knowingly and purposefully exposing children, and fetuses, to

mercury is stupid. There really isn't another word. It is stupid.

Mercury is toxic in every other capacity on the face of the earth and

yet, the US Government would have you believe that as soon as it slips

beyond the epidermis of a child, it becomes harmless.

 

We told them at 3pm today to start hiring temps to help answer the

phones.

 

Lynn Notgrass sounded the alarm, gave all of us a time and a date and

inadvertently gave them a deadline. We think she is right.

 

Pick up the phone. Write that fax and show the White House what

millions of people can do when their patience runs out after six years.

 

Shelley H. Reynolds

President, Unlocking Autism

 

www.unlockingautism.org

 

P.S. If you are a George Bush fan or a staunch republican and think

that this letter has intonations of a "liberal, left wing" slant, let

me clear this up for you before you send me an email. My personal

party preference has no bearing on the way this notice was written. If

a democrat was in the White House and the same thing had happened as

happened today, I would have sent the exact same letter with someone

else's name. The only reason it is directed at George Bush is

because, well, he is wearing the shoes of the Executive Office at this

point in time.

 

Neither party is in the clear. The Clinton Administration was, to use

their own terminology, "asleep at the switch." The Bush

Administration was on notice before they set foot in the White House

and they have been awake and driving the bus. I don't personally know

which legacy is worse.

[mmazz]

Claire:

 

I called and was treated like the village idiot...but I did call and expressed my opinion, idiot or not Mercury within all vaccines should be eliminated.

 

Marie

[kim]

Marie,

 

You gave me my chuckle for the day. I too have been treated like the village idiot so much lately, I have to make this call just to get my quota in for the week.

 

Kim

 

Truly, I do think this is a great thing for as many as possible to do.

[Claire]

Marie,

 

What did they say? For me they just asked my name and state.

 

Someone on the enzyme board said the person who answered tried to manipulate her statement against thimerisol into one that was 'for more vaccines'. Too weird, too weird...politics at its finest!

 

Claire

[Claire]

Just posted on the enzyme board:

 

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The calls to the White House were successful but now we need everyone

to stop!!!!

 

Things are moving in a much more positive direction now. We will keep

you all updated. Please hold your calls and faxes to the White House

(especially to Andrew Card's office). Please do not call or fax

Andrew Card's office.

 

If you are particularly motivated and want to put those dialing

fingers to work, we suggest that you spend this week calling your

Congressman and Senators and telling them what you think about

Congressman Dave Weldon's bill and Senator Bill Frist's bill.

 

Thank you to everyone in the community who participated in the call in

on Thursday and Friday. Your help was amazing! Each one of you made

an incredible impact! The Power of 1.5 is out there and when targeted

and focused, it makes a difference, just like light...you can diffuse

it and fill up an entire room, or focus it into a laser beam and cut

through steel.

 

If everything starts heading south, we will let you know to open those

phone lines again.

 

Have a great weekend!

Shelley Reynolds

President, Unlocking Autism