Autism: " secret riders have been placed in homeland security bills"

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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/mailbag/207

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Subject: Article from bangornews.com

Thank you for your website. I read it almost every day but being a sp. ed. teacher and with family responsibilities this is difficult. I have been researching and living with the rise in autism on a daily basis. I have read thousands of pages and spoken with many people, but my main source of facts is my own life experience of this "epidemic."

Do not blow this off. If you think the pharmaceuticals have reason to lie about Vioxx, etc., they have more reason to lie about this but the link with the vaccines is NOT my main point. The huge rise in the autism rate is my focal point.

As Evelyn Pringle has written, it is going to be the worst "welfare" situation our nation has had to face. Thousands are focused on this, but BuzzFlash is not. Dan Olmstead, senior UPI editor, is. When The Bangor Daily News called to ask what I wanted for my by-line, I started talking about my master's in education. He said, "What does education have to do with autism?" That is perhaps where many are coming from, but our schools are being strangled and our social agencies are next. We will lose our right to call ourselves a civilized society because we do not care for the autistic citizens. This is a very, very political situation and is the reason that secret riders have been placed in homeland security bills.

Again, thank you for your wonderful website!

Halt Soaring Autism Rates (Bangor Daily News)

Sincerely,

Regina Creeley


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http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/viewpoints.aspx?articleid=139287&zoneid=35

link to article

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1. I'd do a search for these autism riders in Homeland Sec. if I was any

good at searching, but I'm going to give it a try.

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3. I believe that I read the other day

that one was placed in the latest installment of the Patriot Act. It dealt with making it illegal to sue vaccine manufacturers whose vaccines include thimerosal.

Hopefully that will help you start your search. If you find anything, please post it. I would be very curious to see what you find.

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2. here's one

http://onibasu.com/archives/am/63690.html

Regarding the Homeland Security Act - thimerosal litigation shield rider:

The US senate will be voting within the next 24 hours or so on the Homeland bill, which has a rider in it that would provide a thimerosal liability shield if the rider in the bill passes. Senators Dashle and Lieberman have proposed an amendment to strike it and other riders not related to bioterrorism.

In particular, we need help from people to call their US Senators in Maine and Rhode Island to urge support of the Lieberman/Daschle amendment.

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5. This is part of the reason the Republicans have been able to keep power

because they put crap like this in legislation, all so they can get decent people to vote against what sounds to the casual observer like good legislation.

"Senator _______ even voted against funding homeland security for our state, making us vulnerable to terrorists"


What the ad doesn't say, of course, is that the bill he voted against also may have made drug manufacturers free from prosecution even if their product is unsafe.


Remember how they nailed Kerry for the "voted for, before I voted against"?

Same shit.

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4. here is link to my search - 10 links turned up

http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac/search/web/autism%252Bin%252BHomeland%252BSecurity%252BRiders/1/-/1/-/-/-/1/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/1/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/417/top/-/-/-/1

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6. This thread from yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2061276

Has remarks from a DUer concerning the patriot act

...tacked onto the “Patriot Act” a provision was added making
it illegal for parents of autistic children to sue the
pharmaceutical company that makes the preservative
Thermisol...

How very odd.

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7. criminals protecting their behinds

prison is too good for them