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   OUR VACCINATION CHOICE RALLY WAS A BIG HIT! From Louise Kuo Habakus  Over 400 people - organizers, supporters, speakers, media, students, interested debate attendees, and onlookers - gathered on the William Paterson University campus Friday, October 16, 2009 to listen to testimony in support of vaccination choice. With just a few day's notice, two dozen speakers canceled personal and work commitments, and some traveled a great distance to stand together, in Wayne, New Jersey, to make a statewide and national appeal for vaccination choice. I welcomed the group and set the stage for the rally which was held on the one-year anniversary of the nation's first "freedom of choice rally" in Trenton, October 16, 2008, when we asked New Jersey's politicians to work with us to pass the conscientious exemption to mandatory vaccination and create greater transparency regarding vaccination risks. One year later and it is painfully clear that our resounding demand for choice has been ignored. We are, today, a nation in recession, mired in unemployment, and faced with an underwhelming global swine flu pandemic. As we turn to our government, industry, doctors, public health officials, looking for solutions to our health care problems, we are met with one exuberant and unified response - the exhortation to vaccinate.  The message of the Wayne rally is that our gloves are off and it's now personal. Playing by the rules doesn't work, so we must change the rules. Parents and other interested stakeholders are connecting across the country, creating a national grassroots movement driven by the will of the people to force change. Because everything is at stake when it comes to the health of our children and the rights of parents to make fully informed choices.  The entire audience was riveted as parents shared personal stories of fear and anxiety, injury and recovery, betrayal of trust and hard-earned knowledge. There is rarely a forum for parents who paid the ultimate price for their trust in the system: the loss of their children after vaccination. How many parents are saying, "Who knew? No one ever told me this could happen. I thought I was doing the right thing." We heard from all these parents in Wayne, concerned and burned, grieving and devastated, pregnant and watchful. We heard from Emmy award-winning investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto who told the parents that he does not see fringe instigators and irresponsible anti-vaccinators. He instead sees among the most educated, informed, intelligent, responsible people he has ever met. People who are seeking to protect their children. People who are ultimately doing the work of true reporters; listening to the stories and working hard to tell the truth. Gary talked about the absence of informed consent for tens of thousands of soldiers at Fort Dix and dozens of disabled children at Willowbrook. If we will listen, history can teach us that we must be vigilant and protect our rights. Those in positions of power will sometimes make very different choices for us than the ones we would want made on our behalf.  The next set of speakers were lawyers and candidates, those who protect and defend the law, our Constitution, and participate in the political process to represent the people. We were bolstered by news shared by Mary Holland of the temporary restraining order issued that very morning in New York State to stop mandated flu shots for healthcare workers. We heard from patriots who love this country and are working within the system to protect our freedoms. There can be no doubt that we must participate in the political process, because we will always get the government that we deserve. Health practitioners talked by a system in desperate need of reform. We heard from two medical doctors, practicing physicians with over 35 years of experience each. Dr. Mayer Eisenstein flew in from Chicago just to address the rally. Dr. Michael Schachter and Gary Null, PhD testified at the public swine flu vaccine hearing in NYC before five New York State commissioners earlier in the week before turning around and heading to address the Wayne rally participants. Dr. Bret Hartman represented the chiropractic professions, staunch long-time defenders of vaccination choice. And Mary Coyle and Lisa Rudley represented the voice of so many parents who arrive on her doorstep with desperately ill children, after learning about a treatment modality for the vaccine-injured called homotoxicology.We closed with the voice of New Jersey's parent activists, leading members of the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice, tirelessly working to tell the truth and share information to empower parents to make active and informed choices.   It comes down to a single, incontrovertible truth. When the press asked me why I was in Wayne, I said it was to fight for my civil rights. Government says we have to vaccinate or else. I take a cue from my children: "Says who?" On what authority can government legitimately force me to vaccinate myself and my children? It is based neither in constitutional law nor in the ethical principles codified by a triumphant and indignant post-World War II power - America - eager to set a higher moral ground during the Nuremberg Trials. Today, it seems that my government is unwilling to engage with mutual respect, and unwilling to grant to its people, in return, the trust it so freely demands. I see that there are but two real choices: the language of the law and the voting box. See you in court... and at the polls.God bless Todd Beamer, the 9/11 patriot aboard Delta Airlines flight #1989. He knew what had to be done. Let's roll.       Media Healthcare Workers and Parents Rally Against Mandate Vaccines (RNN TV) 10/22/09 Rally Before Gov Debate Targeted At Vaccine Choice (North Jersey.com) 10/22/09 SPEAKERS - Video footage Louise Kuo Habakus, Melanie Dragone: Louise, rally organizer, founder, Life Health Choices, health practitioner, two vaccine-injured children; Melanie, mother of two, pregnant with third, demands vaccination choice Vicki & Craig Schwartz: parents of two young children, exercising vaccination choice Patty Difiglia, Ben Liu: Patty's four-month old daughter died after receiving seven vaccines, Ben's sixteeen-year old son died after receiving the meningococcal shot Frank Mitchell: (statement read by Louise Habakus) four vaccine-injured children, military family, father also injured by his vaccines Gary Matsumoto: investigative journalist, first to link squalene to Gulf War Syndrome Murray Sabrin: college professor, former candidate for U.S. senator and NJ governor, freedom fighter Kenneth Kaplan: Libertarian candidate for New Jersey governor Mary Holland: attorney, vaccine-injured child Claudine Liss: attorney, parent activist, vaccine-injured child Alan Bateman, Murray Sabrin: Alan candidate for Congress; Sabrin, college professor, former candidate for US senator, NJ governor Mayer Eisenstein: medical doctor, 35+ years in practice, does not vaccinate Gary Null: world-leading health activist Chanting for choice Event Details
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