With the exponential growth in autism cases since the epidemic took off in the early 90’s, it was inevitable that one case would occur that would represent a perfect storm for the federal government, vaccine manufacturers, and the parents of children who developed autism shortly after receiving a barrage of vaccines in one doctor’s visit. In 2000, 19-month old Hannah Poling deteriorated into autism immediately after receiving 5 vaccinations in one visit. Her case was unique in the fact that her father was a neurologist, her mother an attorney, and brought a sustained and devastating campaign, both in the media and at “vaccine court”, where it was ruled that, due to an underlying mitochondrial disease, the multiple vaccines tipped her into autism. Despite the unique advantage in having parents who were professionals in law and neurology, it still took 7 years of fighting the Justice Department for a ruling in her favor, while obtaining an admission that vaccines did contribute substantially to her resulting autism diagnosis.

Here is an interesting 2008 interview with Hannah’s father:

Recently, Meghan McCain, whose only claim to fame is being the daughter of the Senate’s premier warmonger, the late John McCain, unleashed a vile attack on “anti-vaxxers”, an ignorant slur for people who’ve looked at the facts surrounding vaccines, and have understandably become hesitant to inject themselves or their children. Over at Twitter, prime real estate for such ignorant bile, McCain tweeted, “Dear anti-vaxers, your stupidity and arrogance are putting the lives of children in danger! It is nothing short of abominable.”  To paraphrase the great Malcolm Reynolds, I’d say that McCain isn’t burdened with an overabundance of brains. It’s hard to learn, to retain facts, and to think critically. Much easier to just let whoever happens to be in authority fill your mind with the preferred propaganda, and let one’s own emotions do the talking, and tweeting. Which is what appears to be the case with McCain. If even a minuscule amount of research were possible for her, she’d discover that vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability, that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists and has paid out $4 billion to the families of the vaccine-injured or vaccine-killed, that the FDA regularly manipulates the media in favor of Big Pharma, that vaccine manufacturers have a sordid history of committing fraud by manipulating research for a new product. The few vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies that exist show that there may be something catastrophically wrong with U.S. vaccine policy. Peter Aaby’s 2017 comprehensive study of health outcomes of children in Guinea-Bissau found that children vaccinated with DTP had a mortality rate far higher than unvaccinated children.

Invincibly and comfortably ignorant, Meghan McCain won’t even begin to develop thoughts or ideas of her own. Thinking is hard, and can cause much discomfort, much easier to settle into an easy mental torpidity, and launch attacks at people who prefer to use their minds.

The almost exclusive attention given to ‘RussiaGate’ has been a pathetic display, magnified not only by the fact that it turned out to be untrue, but also by the fact that many of Trump’s actual crimes have been completely overlooked in the pursuit of phony Russian “collusion”. Case in point: Trump just vetoed a congressional resolution to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s slaughter of thousands of Yemen’s poorest civilians with the help of U.S.-made weapons and U.S. military strategy.

The U.S., being the world’s largest weapons dealer, and Saudi Arabia the world’s top buyer of First World weapons, creates massively lopsided wars, with one side almost exclusively bearing the brunt of the casualties.

It’s just one of many examples of barbarians from the Third World equipping themselves with weapons purchased from barbarians of the First, and unleashing a campaign of mass murder against the civilian population of their enemy.

Trump, in defiance of Congress, supports this. And the media ignores it.

Liberty On Tap OKC, a wonderful pro-liberty meeting of minds that holds their monthly gathering at Pelican’s restaurant in Oklahoma City, held it’s most recent meeting last night on the topic of vaccines. Organizer Craig Dawkins set the stage for the meeting by reading alternating views on the topic by two fairly prominent libertarian writers, confirming that this debate is alive and well within the pro-liberty community as well.

Speaker Carlos Ledesma, certified hematologist and program director for a medical lab technology and phlebotomy program at Rose State College, presented the pro-vaccine side of the argument, but in a very reasonable manner. While he advocated vaccines as necessary for the overall health of society, he did acknowledge that their were risks involved. Additionally, growing up in the Philippines gave him first-hand experience in the dangers of vaccines, specifically the Dengvaxia scandal that erupted in his home country two years ago. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur manufactured the vaccine, designed as an inoculation against Dengue fever, and struck a deal with the government for a mass vaccination program. The vaccine ended up being given to over 700,000 Philippine students, many without parental consent. The vaccine ended up actually inducing a severe form of Dengue infection in children who received the vaccine but had had no prior Dengue infection, and causing an unknown number of deaths.

Ledesma’s presentation was very reasonable, and he didn’t appear to advocate mandatory vaccination at all. I couldn’t help but wonder, though, how his arguments would be handled by mainstream press, who seem to automatically catalogue anyone with any questions about vaccines at all into the “antivaxx” camp. The “vaccines are safe and effective” mantra probably wouldn’t have gone over so well in his home country after the Dengvaxia affair.

After Ledesma finished speaking, the conversation among attendees shifted to the more philosophical aspects of the vaccine debate, specifically whether its a violation of another’s right to expose them to disease.

I believe that most people involved in this debate are less concerned with the philosophical aspects than they are with the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry, the blanket legal immunity those entities enjoy, the almost invisible epidemic of autoimmune disease and chronic illness in children, an epidemic that appeared seemingly out of nowhere sometime around 1990, the $4 billion in vaccine injury payouts given to families by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, the ballooning vaccine schedule, as well as the many scandals that have erupted surrounding vaccines, including Dengvaxia.

What sets off alarms bells for some, particularly those critical of the ‘War on Terror’ era propaganda campaign, is how much the current push for mandatory vaccination mirrors that effort, with mandatory vax bills essentially the Big Pharma equivalent of the Patriot Act. The “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” attitude pushed by the major media outlets, with any view even mildly critical of vaccines enough to incite an ad hominem avalanche, and the effort to censor vaccine critics online has been highly disturbing to people who do have serious questions regarding the “safe and effective” mantra.

My own two cents: Aside from the question of whether vaccines are “safe and effective” or not, or from the question of whether many of these previously-normal childhood illnesses might actually be beneficial to our immune system over the long term, advocates of liberty should approach disease prevention in the same way that it does every other societal issue that it confronts. To understand the libertarian solution, you must first understand what libertarians are for. What we support is a system where voluntary interaction is expanded as far and wide as possible. We are for a system of rules that enforce voluntary interaction, and prohibit coercion as much as possible. This system is ends-independent, we libertarians have no idea of the direction society will evolve, but we support any direction that is arrived at via voluntary means. We support this system of rules because we trust that, even though we can’t know how or in what direction society will change, we do know that the outcomes will be far better for everyone involved than if top-down planning attempted to force an outcome.

Allowing people to plan their own lives and make their own decisions, shielding them only from coercion, produces a market order that provides thousands of benefits that no program of top-down coercion could ever hope to produce. Allowing people to plan their own lives has resulted in massive increases in standards of living, quality of life, and large leaps in health and sanitation.

So the solution to the vaccine question should be simply to remove monopoly power from vaccine manufacturers, restore liability, and either modify or abolish altogether the various public agencies(CDC, FDA, etc.) that have shown to be highly susceptible to influence by the industries they ostensibly regulate. The power of choice, highly underestimated, will force industry to also evolve, and create a better product.

Despite the behavior of the host, I’m surprised CNN even gave Robert Krakow airtime. Yet, she repeats the “vaccines are safe and effective” mantra as if it’s an invocation designed to ward off evil spirits, which in this case are Krakow’s arguments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=468&v=VEFjrnY_uEg

This is the media stoking fear in the exact same way it stoked fear of “terrorists” abroad in order to drum up support for another war and liberty-steamrolling legislation. This poor guy is trying to explain that measles isn’t Ebola or the Plague, but it’s falling on deaf ears. It’s no different than the media talking heads refusing to listen to anti-war arguments just before a bombing campaign that ends up killing hundreds of civilians. It’s propaganda, only this time it’s funded by Pharma rather than the weapons industry.

Your fear is being weaponized against you. You are being manipulated.

The amount of abuse, insults, slander, and death threats hurled at Ilhan Omar in recent weeks has been a sight to behold. The vulgarity of this mob is on full display, with their ignorant, unhealthy attachment to a foreign power compelling them to constantly police the opinions of any political leader who displays independence of thought when it comes to the topic of Israel. Yet in the face of the insults, attacks, and myriad death threats, Omar continues to stand firm, refusing to apologize and slink away, which is unforgivable to the Political Class. They aren’t used to dealing with vertebrates among elected leaders, and their only reaction is unbounded rage. But among people who admire principle, intransigence, and fearlessness in the face of bullies, Ilhan is a hero, an all-too-rare exception to the standard, mealy-mouthed politicians who flaunt the low price-tag attached to their integrity.

Chad Loder recently catalogued hundreds of death threats directed at Omar, only for Twitter to erase his list while allowing the threatening tweets themselves to remain online.

Trump has even piled on the parade of hate against Omar, saying that, “she’s got a way about her that’s very bad for this country”.  Her plain observation that Israel’s influence on our government is bad for this country is somehow…bad for this country. It’s dangerous talk coming from a President, because it’s the same rhetoric used to prepare the soil for real violence against “enemies of the State”. She may be bad for the interests of the Political Class, for Israel’s stranglehold on their lapdogs in Congress, but she is very good for this country. The ability to stand against the entirety of the Israel Lobby without blinking betrays a degree of fortitude unheard of within the Washington D.C. swamp.

There is a bizarre irony in flag-worshipping nationalists becoming so upset over criticism of a foreign country. These are people who know nothing of history, or liberty, or the role they are playing in the destruction of their own country. These are people who have never read George Washington’s prophetic Farewell Address, and, having not read it, don’t understand that they are the betrayers that he warned about when he said this:

“So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.”

Our country needs politicians who can’t be bought. The lynch mob reaction to one of the few that do exist is a fairly accurate indicator of the extent of the decay of character not only within our governing class, but within the culture itself.

If we have learned anything from the War on Terror, it is this: don’t legislate when in the grip of a national hysteria. But yet here we are, in the grip of measles hysteria, and the legislative pens are flying. Recently, NYC mayor Bill De Blasio declared a state of emergency, ordered forced vaccinations, and sent “disease detectives” into communities thought to be more resistant than usual to Pharma propaganda concerning one of its own products.

Now Colorado is considering mandatory vaccination, with a bill that would mandate the full CDC schedule passing out of the Colorado Legislature House Health and Insurance Committee.

This, however, pales in comparison to the ostracism of anyone who has any questions about the safety of vaccines. Blind rage at “anti-vaxxers” rages on social media. Indeed, “anti-vaxxers” are the Big Pharma equivalent to Muslims during the peak hysteria of the War on Terror. “Anti-vaxxers” are being branded a threat to the safety and security of civilization itself, and can therefore be safely dehumanized. Which is what is happening. The masses are buying the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Just as they did regarding terrorism and the necessity for endless war and the relinquishment of liberty. And people that know better are either staying silent, or deliberately stoking the passions of the seething mob.

Never let a crisis go to waste, as Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel so nakedly framed the technique of the Political Class for coaxing our liberty out of our hands. Merely create a mob, then give it what it wants.

He humiliated the Political Class.

Obligatory funny-because-it’s-true Jimmy quote: “You don’t need to go to college to be a journalist…there are people who go to school for journalism. Those people are known as chumps.”

Tulsi is an amazing candidate for many reasons, but primarily for the simple fact of her stance on the topic of war and peace. A person whose integrity has a price tag won’t say “I will end the regime-change wars” right out of the gate like she did. They won’t defend Julian Assange on principle. People who can be bought always hedge their opinions, they say “maybe”, and “I’m not sure”, etc. They are morally and philosophically amorphous, which means they’re perfect blank slates for the various industries that will surely purchase and then write their will on them.

So here is Jimmy Dore’s segment on Tulsi, who defends Assange against a pro-war, pro-establishment echo chamber posing as a CNN journalist:

Though you wouldn’t know it from watching the nightly news, there is a mumps outbreak currently underway throughout the U.S., one that is 20 times larger than the measles “outbreak” currently causing so much opportunistic hand-wringing and fear-mongering among the government officials and their stenographers in the mainstream media. It’s spreading like a wildfire through the vaccinated student body of several universities, stupefying health officials, who can only recommend getting an MMR “booster” in lieu of actual advice.

Something else you probably haven’t heard about is the Navy ship entering its third month of quarantine on the high seas, literally sailing in circles as it struggles to regain control of a “mumps-like illness” currently infecting a portion of the fully-vaccinated sailors aboard.

Why aren’t these stories given the same airtime as the measles “outbreak”? One reason might be due to the fact that Merck has, for the past seven years, been embroiled in a lawsuit over the efficacy of the mumps component of the Measles/Mumps/Rubella vaccine. The lawsuit was filed by two former Merck scientists who claimed that Merck engaged in fraud by concealing the poor efficacy of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine. Stephen A. Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, virologists who had worked in Merck’s vaccine laboratory from 1999 to 2002, allege that they were forced to participate in “Protocol 007”, the official name for the effort to falsify research to make the vaccine appear far more effective in inducing immunity to mumps than it actually did.

The reason for the lack of coverage is more than likely due to the fact that Pharma pays the salaries of the major media outlets, $3.7 billion in 2018 alone. They also own your Congressman, your family doctor, and probably your priest.  The narrative is on the auction block, and Merck can outbid everyone else, including the families of teenage daughters now crippled from an aluminum adjuvant in their murderous Gardasil vaccine, or formerly pregnant women who suffered a miscarriage, mysteriously, immediately after receiving a flu vaccine.

Vaccines are not sacrosanct, they are a pharmaceutical product produced powerful, corrupt corporations with no incentive to test for safety. But questioning vaccines draws the same ire as questioning the troops did at the height of the war on terrorism hysteria. “I support vaccines” is the new “I support the troops”. It’s an empty incantation, blind support that deserves criticism, ridicule, and debate. Supporting the troops has been equated with blindly supporting their deliverance into whatever new theater of death our Political Class deems appropriate to their interests.

I oppose war because I truly do support the troops. Their lives should hold more value to the ones with power over them. Accountability should be brought to the pharmaceutical industry in the same way that it should be brought to the weapons industry, the complex of interests that gains from endless war. Powerful industries that receive protection from the Political Class deserve criticism. What they do not deserve is a captive nation of customers, who are forced to inject their untested product into their bodies.