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Autism Epidemic: Dr. Horowitz�s Submission to Congress

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, LLC, 1998; 1-888-508-4787) that is summarized in theattached 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’s 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 prot�g�, 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, LLC
Sandpoint, Idaho

VACCINE SAFETY & INJURY PETITION
FOR LEGISLATIVE REFORMS

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