Affidavit of     Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Honorary U.S. Autism Ambassador, State of Idaho President/Publisher, Tetrahedron Publishing Group   Before the   Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable Dan Burton, Chairman       April 18, 2002           Socio-Economic and Political Correlates and Antecedents to Epidemic Autism: Public Health and National Security Concerns Regarding Vaccination as a Possible Weapon of Mass Destruction By Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Honorary U.S. Autism Ambassador, State of Idaho     Prepared for Members of the U.S. Congress, Committee on Government Reform Hearing on Vaccines as a Risk Factor for Autism, April 18, 2002, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.   The tragedies of September 11, 2001 have placed you, our leaders in Congress, on special alert. Commissioned as you are to defend Americans and U.S. national security against all foreign and domestic threats, you have much to consider. This day you assemble to discuss the great and grave likelihood that disease prevention through vaccinations is violently backfiring—dramatically increasing mortality and morbidity especially among America’s youngest citizens. As you focus these hearings on our nation’s most established, generally accepted, public health practice of vaccination, and its links to skyrocketing rates of autism and brain damage in children, this submission and petition raises the spectre that such devastating impacts on our nation’s youth, is not simply the result of pharmaceutical company and regulatory agency oversights. Nor can gross negligence fully explain what you are about to consider. Rather, for the sake of families across this great nation, I would hope these hearings might diagnose, that is, see through to the root cause of what is, far more than a medical/scientific dilemma, a socio-political imposition.   Let me explain what I mean by autism, and other vaccine induced injuries, being socio- political impositions, by drawing on the fundamental medical tenant that effective treatment must be directed by accurate diagnosis of, ideally, the root cause of the disorder. As the scientific evidence accumulates revealing more definitive links between a broad array of neurological and/or brain injuries, that other witnesses before this esteemed committee have so adequately testified, these facts reveal a more insidious likelihood as a root cause of autism—one that delivers the gravest warning, and without exaggerating, the most urgent threat to U.S. national security that our nation has ever seen. What threatens is the possibility that pharmaceutical industry originated afflictions, such as autism, produced as a result of “prevention” in medicine, are symptomatic of a deeper degeneracy within the industry itself. This thesis, advanced for your focused attention and remediation, attributes the root cause of this epidemic to a multi-national corporate pathology that transcends common iatrogenesis (i.e., physician induced illness) to effectively express the ideology of what might be best termed “iatrogenocide.” This term, genocide, is not used here as a sensational adjective for shock value. Given the evidence before this committee, this term most suitably describes this epidemic’s etiology. Genocide is simply defined as the mass killing of people, human resources, including children, for economic, political and/or ideological reasons.   Obviously, in diagnosing and effectively treating the root cause(s) of vaccine-induced “iatrogenocide,” relevant historic and scientific facts must be brought to bear on the problem, including the socio-political and economic correlates and antecedents of the vaccine injuries such as autism. When one does this, that is, holistically examines the evolution, number, and extent of catastrophic vaccine-linked epidemics, a conspiracy by drug makers becomes very apparent to anyone with eyes to see documents evidencing such larger truths.   In my capacity as an Honorary U.S. Autism Ambassador from the State of Idaho, a public health professional by training, and veteran independent investigator with expertise in medical sociology and infectious disease research, I have unfortunately, over the past two decades, grown accustomed to instances of poor decision-making, gross negligence, and downright cover-ups in safety oversight and pharmaceutical industry control in the vaccine arena. Many of these I have submitted to this committee upon the request of Chairman Dan Burton’s office in the form of my national bestselling textbook, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola—Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 1998; 1-888-508-4787) that is summarized in the attached peer reviewed article published in the journal of Medical Hypothesis last May (2001;56;5:677-686) detailing largely ignored links between the polio and hepatitis B vaccine programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and the AIDS and hepatitis epidemics devastating global populations today. Additionally reviewed in these publications are studies linking various cancer and autoimmune disease epidemics, to the institutionalized, and increasingly legislated, practice of vaccination.   Vaccine ingredients, I might emphasize, including the toxic metals mercury and aluminum— linked to further brain damage in Alzheimer’s disease, and common vaccine preservatives including corpse-conditioning formaldehyde and formalin, biological agents of mass destruction, such as viruses and bacteria, and foreign species of DNA, RNA, and proteins, that might be considered potential, if not actual, “biological weapons” due to their molecular and genetic proximity to deadly infectious agents known to every advanced biological weapons arsenal throughout the world.   In essence, I leave for your accounting displeasure, the likelihood that our most trusted public health preventative practice—vaccinating every American against infectious diseases—offers the greatest potential for harm, if not direct sabotage, in delivering a wide array of biological and chemical threats to this nation’s people. Given our collective concerns regarding chemo-toxic environments, current threats posed by biological and chemical warfare, and terrorists prone to wield such weapons of mass destruction, it is especially ironic that the immunization method that has gained such widespread acceptance and scientific respect presents one of the greatest threats to public health, and even national security, that our country has ever seen.   I urge you to consider autism, during this hearing, in this larger diagnostic light, as merely a symptom of a deeper disorder, one that might also explain the difficulties this committee has repeatedly experienced impacting an industry whose practices underlie (that is, undermine or assure) the health and safety of all Americans. This deeper industry-wide derangement involves both economics and ideology reflected on every U.S. dollar bill adjacent the words “Nuvus Ordo Seclorum”—a phrase that relays the concept that a new order of things, including global economies, can best evolve from well-managed chaos, like that emanating from disease induction precipitated by vaccination followed by pharmaceutical prescribed control. In this context, autism might be seen, along with myriad vaccine induced injuries, as the signs and symptoms of what military–medical industrialists, in communion with defense department officials, consider an outstanding option for increased social, political, and population control. This is called “non-lethal warfare,” though it can be highly lethal with increasing exposures and accumulating toxicity over time, just as mercury has been found to be in relation to childhood vaccinations and autism.   Let me further explain by providing some cogent examples of this pharmaceutical industry- wide menace, that apparently operates above the law, and beyond even your legislative control, as evidence by this committee’s earlier hearings:   Last December, for instance, your Committee on Government Reform considered the inadequacies of “The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.” You determined that, indeed, much progress was required to effectively respond to the rapidly growing legions of vaccine injured persons and their families. Yet, today, little changes appear to have been implemented on behalf of hundred of thousands of rejected victims whose cases, and calls for compensation, continue to be simply denied and coldly dismissed.   In July of 2000, this congressional committee considered mercury-related vaccine toxicity. You were instrumental in prompting national recognition of such risks, and the elimination of this neurodegerative ingredient (i.e., thimerosal) from vaccines in production. Yet, despite these advances, reputable sources indicate stockpiled vaccines containing mercury are still being distributed in the United States, and increasingly, from the United States to underdeveloped nations. This notion of exporting biologically and chemically induced ailments to the rest of the world is especially troubling for its future implications on foreign relations; particularly in the wake of America’s ongoing non-compliance with the United Nations sponsored biological and chemical weapons treaty intended to reduce such threats, and our current “War on Terrorism,” which has increasingly isolated this mighty militarized nation from the rest of the civilized world.     A final compelling example comes from your inconsequential rebuke of the U.S. Department of Defense concerning the manufacture and sale of inadequately tested, highly risky, and largely ineffective anthrax vaccines manufactured by BioPort Corporation of Lansing, Michigan following your two October, 2000 hearings. Bioport’s Chief Operating Officer and Director, Robert C. Myers, DVM, you may recall, addressed the joint meeting of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee that included the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education and Related Agencies, on March 16, 1999 on behalf of the Defense Department’s Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (JVAP) administered by the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) in Ohio. During his testimony, Mr. Myers urged appropriations be set aside for his company’s program, and two separate stockpiles of anthrax and smallpox vaccines for national defense.   You may not know that in April, 1998, OraVax (currently a Hoechst/Acambis) Corporation Vice President, Dr. Thomas Monath met with President Clinton, New York's Emergency Management Director, Jerry Hauer, Rockefeller University president emeritus and American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) curator, Dr. Joshua Lederberg, CIA Director John Deutsch, and government biological weapons expert William C. Patrick, III, to negotiate the first of several multimillion dollar anthrax, smallpox, and West Nile virus vaccine contracts. William C. Patrick, III, America’s leading military anthrax expert, was implicated in recent months as a chief suspect in the mysterious anthrax mailings.   According to New York Times reporters William Broad and Judith Miller, seven scientists endorsed stockpiling these vaccines. These included "two men who stood to gain financially from the decision. . . ." These men included Dr. Monath and Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of The Institute for Genomic Research near Washington working closely with BioPort and the BMI on anthrax genetics, and Baxter Corporation for smallpox vaccine. The Times reported that despite widespread descent in the scientific community regarding this investment, these privileged few individuals and organizations stood to financially gain most from these appropriations.   Curiously, a few months ago, in the wake of the anthrax mailings that targeted some of your own colleagues here on Capitol Hill, the New York Times and Washington Post announced that pharmaceutical companies were among the chief suspects in the FBI’s investigation, and that BMI, a chief supplier and administrator of Dugway Proving Grounds’ airborne biological weapons testing laboratories, illegally produced under a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contract called project “Clear Vision,” the specific Ames strain of hyper-concentrated, electro-magnetized, silica-weaponized anthrax that somehow found its way from these laboratories to your mail rooms. William Patrick, III was apparently contracted by both the CIA and BMI to compile a report on the ramifications of mailing such hyper-weaponized anthrax, months before the initial bioterrorist attacks. Soon after the mailings and bioterror, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson heralded an unprecedented half-billion dollars worth of anthrax and smallpox vaccine orders in keeping with Dr. Myers 1999 request.   Congressman, is there really any wonder why your opposition to military anthrax contracts, and vaccination cessation demands, were flippantly disregarded by Pentagon officials with certain ties to vaccine makers?   In essence, your positive efforts have done little, if anything, to curtail the threats posed by vaccine industrialists pursuing their lucrative contracts.   President Dwight Eisenhower summarized this threat best in 1961 during his Farewell Address to the Nation. Regarding the greatest risk to America and the free world, he cautioned, “beware of the military-industrial complex” and the councils of government wherein political and economic decisions are made and pressures are brought to bear on unwitting law makers and citizens.   Representing American grassroots anti-vaccination activists nationwide as I do, free from the influence or bias of pharmaceutical company grants and industry lobbyists, I appreciate this opportunity to deliver this uncensored challenge and subsequent message of hope.   Your challenge here in diagnosing and effectively treating this nation’s autism epidemic is compounded by a rapidly growing public cynicism regarding your legislative impotency. As recent national polls indicate, the fewest Americans today trust government, their governing officials, to intercede on their behalf as guardians against corporate negligence and, even worse, vaccine industry malfeasance. Thousands of Americans wish to know why you simply don’t rescind the “National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986”— legislation that effectively protects vaccine makers against injury claims, leaving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of devastated families to fend for themselves against a compensation program admittedly inadequate at best. Others wish to know (despite efforts in the last years to improve vaccine injury reporting), given the inadequacy of injury-reporting systems and data, and the resulting inability to perform required risk/benefit analysis for all vaccinations (i.e., the scientific yardstick upon which all public health practices must be measured to have the policy be considered safe), why are vaccines allowed to be administered at all?   With all due respect, to make this point resonate within these walls of Congress, I present to you two graphical depictions of the public’s perception of your legislative impotence in contrast to pressures placed upon you by special interests heavily invested in the vaccine industry. Published by the Whitney Museum with support from The Henry Luce Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others, this artwork depicts your ilk with right hands pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States of America with left hands engaged in mutual masturbation. Nude below the waist, this National Endowment for the Arts funded congressional representation shows law makers skirting vital issues of public concern and national security for payoffs from pork-barrel politics as usual.   The second exhibit, openly displayed at the residence of this artist’s leading benefactor, and German diplomatic associate of Dr. Henry Kissinger, Mr. Klaus Groenke, portrays sheep looking to their leaders who walk the plank to their demise on the hard rocks below. The people, or should we say “sheeple,” simply follow suit.   Indeed, these are difficult images to consider, especially reflecting on the more troublesome political reality about which they speak.   Again, I emphasize the apparent connections between those who have largely sponsored this “art” and those who heavily influence, if not generally control, the manufacture of vaccines and the current plagues of autism, autoimmune diseases, certain cancers, and more. We can thank, for instance, Nelson Rockefeller’s protégé, and leading Merck pharmaceutical company advisor, Dr. Kissinger, for principally spiriting the nuclear arms race of the Cold War, and the biological weapons race shortly thereafter. I wonder how many of you have read Dr. Kissinger’s 1972 treatise, National Secret Security Memorandum 200, that called for massive Third World depopulation?   In closing, I am pleased to offer hope in providing the following petition that I present on behalf of tens of thousands of Americans, and numerous allied organizations in the growing vaccination reconsideration movement—parties who still trust that collectively we can re-secure our lives, liberties and pursuits of education and labor without forced vaccinations, and with increasing access to alternatives in health care.   In summary, medical physicians learn to base their pharmaceutical prescriptions on accurate diagnosis. So must members of the U.S. Congress base legislative treatments on accurate diagnoses regarding the etiology of today’s most pressing problems. Such is the case with vaccine injuries like autism.   The “slash, burn and poison” approach dominating health care today should also be applied to direct legislative reforms of the vaccine industry. The attached petition requests that you slash government funding for projects dominated by the petrochemical– pharmaceutical cartel, closing their legal loopholes while directing support to more independent investigators, laboratories, organizations and companies; burn alliances between federal agents and agencies purported to be acting on the public’s behalf while obviously biased by allegiances to special pharmaceutical interests; and poison through your activism, the notion that magic pills and potions can be swallowed to cure every ill, when an ounce of life-style change for prevention, including choices for better nutrition and hygiene, has proven itself time after time to be worth far more than a pound of cure. This is also true in the realm of boosting natural immunity against the most common and dangerous infectious diseases. Typically those who succumb to “vaccine-preventable diseases” are inordinately those at higher risk of infection, mortality, and morbidity due to socio-economic impositions and life-style factors within control of the general population.   Submitted in the interest of public health and safety by:       Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Honorary U.S. Autism Ambassador, State of Idaho Past Chairman, Political Committee, National Health Federation, and President and Publisher, Tetrahedron Publishing Group Sandpoint, Idaho                     VACCINE SAFETY & INJURY PETITION FOR LEGISLATIVE REFORMS     Introduction and Background   Recently published U.S. Government documents show some of the largest military weapons contractors, in strategic alliances with pharmaceutical companies and vaccine industry interests, have secretly conducted medical experiments on military and civilian populations from World War II to virtually the present.       Despite official assurances to the contrary, research, developments, and stockpiling of biological weapons (BW), and vaccines purported to defend against them, has continued over the past sixty years in the United States. The international Geneva Accord, outlawing such activity, signed by Richard Nixon in 1971, and accompanied by his pledge to discontinue all American "offensive" BW experiments including the development, testing, and stockpiling of lethal biologicals, has been repeatedly violated.   Most recently, the Central Intelligence Agency was implicated in this regard during the recent anthrax mailings investigation. Documents revealed that a secret illegal project “Clear Vision” had been conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute—military director of the federal government’s Joint Vaccine Acquisition’s Program (JVAP)—in which the mysteriously mailed anthrax was prepared for testing at Dugway’s Proving Grounds, then was somehow removed from these labs and mailed. The outcomes, serial homicide advancing on American genocide, and the ensuing public’s fright, were obviously highly supportive to lucrative anthrax and smallpox vaccine purchases by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson.   Our first glimpse at the magnitude of these violations occurred during the 1975 Frank Church Congressional Investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) illegal storage and use of deadly biological agents, including anthrax, for "covert operations." Central Africa was the site of such expressed espionage and sabotage at that time. Today, this region is the heart of the African AIDS belt, and close to ground zero for the initial Ebola virus outbreaks—both illnesses have been linked in the scientific literature to biological weapons industry developments and vaccine risks as well.   In August 1997, it was learned that the U.S. Army, with hurried approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), conducted illegal AIDS vaccine experiments on uninformed and non-consenting military personnel en-route to the Gulf War. These risky, if not deadly, inoculations were conducted on behalf of pharmaceutical industry interests. As a result, published scientific evidence now shows that tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans were injured. Thousands carry an AIDS virus gene recombined with a common infectious vaccine contaminant known as Mycoplasma. Grossly overlooked by the medical and mainstream media, evidence indicates this Mycoplasma and Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) epidemic has spread to civilian populations across the U.S., and it is associated with newer, more lethal, forms of antibiotic resistant “flu-like” illnesses.   PETITION FOR VACCINE SAFETY AND SECURITY   Whereas the events of September 11, 2001, and ongoing Middle Eastern conflict, have increased the risk of biological attacks effecting world populations; that America’s purported threat Iraq received much of its biological weapons arsenal from the U.S.; that such chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction can be readily produced for low cost in any large kitchen regardless of periodic U.S. and U.N. weapons inspections; and that the growing plague of GWS caps a long history of U.S. military-medical experiments, including biological weapons tests of agents including E. coli, anthrax, botulism, AIDS, Ebola viruses and more, and   Whereas vaccines developed to prevent infectious diseases by stimulating the immune system have exposed military and civilian populations to risky, if not potentially deadly, biological and chemical agents, and that currently the FDA cannot, and does not, adequately assure the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and   Whereas a growing body of scientific evidence now links a variety of relatively new immune system related disorders including AIDS, several forms of malignant cancer, chronic fatigue immune dysfunction (CFIDS), fibromyalgia, Gulf War syndrome, lupus, multiple schlerosis (MS), some forms of rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, autism, sudden infant death (SIDS), asthma, hay fever, allergies, and other ailments, to vaccines and vaccine induced injuries, and   Whereas toxic heavy metals and chemicals are used to stabilize and sterilize vaccine formulas routinely inoculated into infants whose immune systems, brain, and nervous tissues are immature and rapidly developing, and often accumulate in excess of safety limits established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and   Whereas major military-medical industrialists, including the vaccine manufacturing company, and documented U.S. Army BW contractor, Merck and Company (currently Merck, Sharp & Dohme), manufactured polio and hepatitis vaccines during the early 1960s and 1970s respectively, that, according to peer reviewed published science, most likely initiated the AIDS pandemic—a thesis that has not only been published in the scientific literature, but under current investigation by the U.S. General Accounting Office following their request for this data in-so-far as the National Cancer Institute’s “Special Virus Cancer Program” is concerned and implicated in what amounts to global “iatrogenocide,” (i.e., the mass medical killing of populations for economic and ideological reasons) and   Whereas the National Library of Medicine holds testimony by a chief developer of these vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman—the 1997 recipient of the Sabin Gold Medal of Honor Award by President Clinton—in which he admits having imported the AIDS virus into North America in contaminated monkeys destined for use in Merck’s vaccine preparations, and   Whereas historic political and financial documents link Merck company directors, and the pharmaceutical industry at large, with influential members in congress and the councils of government, including the Rockefeller family, who through their heavily funded foundations and institutions greatly influence the military-medical industrial complex and vaccine industry, and Whereas approximately 10,000 American hemophiliacs developed AIDS as a result of tainted blood and blood products that were knowingly processed and shipped with the AIDS virus (HIV) by related corporations and organizations, including the New York City Blood Bank, Bayer and Baxter (American Home Products) companies that are cited in legal records as deriving largely from Rockefeller family financial efforts and partnerships, and   Whereas Rockefeller family members largely established the cancer industry during the 1920s, along with a virtual monopoly over American Public Health, and American medicine, by wielding their financial influence, including the fraudulent Flexner Study and Report to Congress that vilified traditional preventive and natural healing methods as opposed to more lucrative and far more risky drug-based methods of disease care, and   Whereas Laurance Rockefeller was Chairman of the Board of the memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a trustee of the Sloan Foundation, at the time materials used to manufacture viruses functionally identical to HIV, including leukemia, lymphoma and sarcoma hybids, flowed between Sloan virologists and National Cancer Institute (NCI) officials, including leading AIDS expert Dr. Robert Gallo and others in the cancer virus and vaccine industry, during the early 1970s under the “Special Virus Cancer Program,” and   Whereas the population reduction objectives for the United States have been determined and published in the March/April 1996 issue of Foreign Affairs—the esteemed politically influential publication of the David Rockefeller directed Council on Foreign Relations, a source that urges a 50 percent reduction of the United States population over the next twenty-five years as a realistic goal, and   Whereas the Rockefeller Foundation, Merck Fund, and Sloan Foundation are among the leading funding sources for world depopulation, and the earliest financial supporters of Planned Parenthood-World Population, New York, NY, and the Population Council of New York, the later of which was established principally by Rockefeller efforts, and   Whereas the Rockefeller family directed Population Council owns and licenses the birth control pill “RU-486” which by its very name—“Are you for ‘86’?”—presents an encoded inquiry as to whether or not we endorse killing life and aborting fetuses, and   Whereas the leading vaccine testing organization in America, Kaiser Permanente, that has been cited by mainstream media as conducting racially selective deadly vaccine experiments, some reminiscent of the Tuskegee experiment that ran from 1932 to 1972, bares the name of the Rockefeller family funded institute (i.e., Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Eugenics, Anthropology and Human Heredity in pre-Nazi Germany) that pioneered racial hygiene, currently renamed the Human Genome Project, and   Whereas this effort was initially called “eugenics,” and adopted by Hitler in collaboration with the economic engine of the Third Reich—I.G. Farben, the petrochemical cartel, fully partnered according the U.S. Congressional Record, with the Rockefeller family and Rockefeller Standard Oil Company during the holocaust, and broken up following World War II into the Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF companies intimately connected to the production of costly vaccines and drugs recently purchased by the federal government for biological warfare and bioterrorism preparedness, and   Whereas the most recent cancer rate projections by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Cancer Society, both heavily influenced by Rockefeller- funded organizations and institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences and its National Research Council, indicate that cancer will strike the same percentage of Americans targeted for depopulation, that is, one out of two people over the next twenty-five years.   PAINFULLY OBVIOUS is the fact that as more people become ill from biological and chemical toxins transmitted through generally accepted vaccinations, vast fortunes are being made by drug makers controlled by virtually the same military–medical–pharmaceutical– petrochemical industrialists that fund global depopulation programs. This is perhaps the grossest and deadliest conflict of interest in earth’s history!   Indeed, this suspicious "coincidence" of socio-political and medical economic outcomes, as well as the agents and agencies promoting and funding them, deserves urgent attention and immediate independent scientific, U.S. Justice Department, and Congressional scrutiny.   Therefore, on the basis of the above concerns—threats to public health, safety, and U.S. National Security, the frequent disregard for citizens' rights to abstain from vaccination without loss of civil rights, including the Constitutional Right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” the obligation to provide and obtain information to assure adequately informed consent before administering vaccinations or medical experimentations; given the current trend towards increased legislative demand for "mandatory," potentially deadly, vaccinations of Americans young and old,   WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES URGE THE FOLLOWING:   1. Government and vaccine industry accountability regarding vaccination risks and injuries that may be largely accomplished by:   a. Repealing the deplorable National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, while maintaining the compensation “superfund,” effectively freeing plaintiffs to make legal claims against drug companies, while providing more equitable compensation for families financially devastated by vaccine injuries, and   b. Eliminate loopholes in the Federal Advisory Committee Act assuring broader public access and representation at vaccine policy hearings, and   c. Eliminate conflict of interest waivers readily available under the current federal law (18 U.S.C. section 208) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). These waivers allow CDC and ACIP officials and members who maintain pharmaceutical company grants and industry interests, to direct vaccination policies risking the public’s health, and   d. Federally legislate the right to refuse vaccinations without persecution, or threatened access to schools and workplaces, and   e. Encourage states to follow the federal lead adopting “freedom to choose” vaccination (or not) legislation in each state.   Finally, we believe that sufficient evidence of illegal, unethical, and immoral behavior on the part of the vaccine industry exists, and that unwitting populations continue to be experimented upon in accepting vaccinations, to justify investigations by an independent scientific committee, the U.S. Congress, U.S. General Accounting Office, and U.S. Justice Department, regarding the aforementioned concerns, agents, and agencies.   We, therefore, respectfully petition you to initiate, expedite, and/or support these remedial activities in defense of the American people, including U.S. military personnel, against toxic biological and chemical threats posed by the military–medical–pharmaceutical–petrochemical complex under the guises of “public health,” “disease prevention,” “bioterrorism preparedness,” “homeland security,” and/or “national defense.”   Signatures:       _______________________________________________________________________   This petition has been advanced by Tetrahedron Publishing Group, a nonprofit educational corporation, in cooperation with the Idaho chapter of Vaccination Liberation.   To help, please contact:   Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz Post Office Box 2033 Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 1-800-336-9266 FAX: 208-265-2775 e-mail: tetra http://www.tetrahedron.org and http://www.americanreddoublecross.com   or   Ingri Cassel, President Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter P.O. Box 1444 Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816 (208)255-2307/ 765-8421 vaclib www.vaclib.org “The Right to Know, The Freedom to Abstain”   or   Michael Culbert, President International Council for Heath Freedom 4627 Ocean Boulevard #112 San Diego, CA  92109 (619) 581-6640 and http://www.ichf.net     Please contact us if you can provide financial support, or help organize educational programs and political action in your area. Call us if you know organizations, corporations, or individuals who will help circulate this appeal for the benefit of every American.