The Canary Party is a movement created to stand up for the victims of medical injury, environmental toxins and industrial foods by restoring balance to our free and civil society and empowering consumers to make health and nutrition decisions that promote wellness.
“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson
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Dear Assemblyperson Pan,
I represent the California members of the Canary Party, a political action committee dedicated to health freedom and choice in medicine.
Our members vehemently oppose AB2109.
AB2109 would require parents who wish to exercise their philosophical exemption rights to first consult with a medical practitioner. This is an unnecessary intrusion into the rights of parents.
Parents currently have the option of the Philosophical Exemption Law (also referred to as the Personal Belief Exemption), which ensures they do not have to vaccinate their children if it is against "their personally held beliefs". Personally held beliefs include religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as conscientious and moral beliefs.
The state does not have the right to interfere with, question, add obstacles to, or regulate a closely held belief that is protected by law.
Furthermore, requiring parents to seek out and pay for a consultation with a medical practitioner is an unfair and unnecessary burden to families. Many families see alternative practitioners such as Naturopaths, Homeopaths, Chiropractors and Acupuncturists, who are not permitted to sign these forms under the rules of AB2109. Thus, these parents would be required to pay to see medical practitioners that they have already chosen not to use. This is an offensive and costly intrusion into their lives, and a violation of their right to make their own medical and healthcare decisions.
This law will create an unfair financial burden to families at a time when few can afford any additional expenses. Numerous resources exist regarding the risks and benefits of vaccines, and about infectious diseases, and are readably available in libraries and on the internet at no cost. Parents should not be forced to seek out additional and unnecessary medical coercion forced upon them by the state.
In closing, we believe this bill is a tactic being initiated by pharmaceutical and medical lobbyists, who have made substantial contributions to CA state legislators, to increase their profits without regard for the law, parental rights, parental beliefs, or the health and welfare of California’s children.
We respectfully request that you immediately withdraw AB2109.
Your donations are needed to further our work to protect the health and rights of Americans.
Just a few short months ago, a small group of people from all over the U.S. gathered for a weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the first ever Canary Party Convention.
Their goal was to unite several groups who all shared common stories of human injustice by the medical industrial complex. Some were whistleblowers who had endured being wrongfully terminated from their jobs after they spoke out about corruption in the field of medicine. Some were parents who watched their children die or suffer permanent brain damage after forced medical interventions. Some had lost loved ones to hastily-approved drugs that were pushed by doctors without regard for the individual patient’s welfare. Some were leaders in the fight for real food, food freedom and GMO labeling. And some were doctors who have lost faith in the current state of “health” care in the U.S. All were disgusted with the fact that, despite the astronomical costs allocated for health care in our country, we have the poorest health in the industrialized world.
These passionate and motivated individuals came together to outline and define the guiding principles of the Canary Party.
Since that initial convention, the Canary Party has taken flight! Thousands of citizens concerned about health freedom have signed up to support the cause. Three regional conferences have taken place in Boston, Dallas and
Congressman Kucinich has introduced similar bills several times
since 1999. At present there is no matching Senate bill. However, Senator
Barbara Boxer of California has previously introduced mandatory labeling
legislation and currently is building awareness and support for mandatory
labeling through a Dear
Colleague letter.
For more than two decades consumers have pushed back against food
industry attempts to place genetically modified foods in the family grocery
cart. Originally referred to as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO or GM), the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) often uses the term “bioengineered” and
legislators and others have adopted the term genetically engineered (GE). Throughout
this article, the various terms GE, GM, and GMO will all be referred to with
the acronym GE.
There are dozens of groups that are working in a loose coalition to
suspend the approval, commercialization, and release of any new genetically
engineered crops and animal species until or unless they are thoroughly tested
and found safe for human health and the environment. Additionally, these groups
support moves to require foods
that already contain genetically engineered ingredients to be clearly labeled.
Congressman Kucinich
has provided the following bullet points as an outline of the 3-piece framework
of legislation:
I. HR 3553: The Genetically Engineered
Food Right to Know Act:
Requires food companies to label all
foods that contain or are produced with genetically engineered (GE) material
and requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s co-author on controversial Lancet “MMR paper” completely exonerated of all charges of professional misconduct
World renowned pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. John Walker-Smith won his appeal today against the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council regulatory board that had ruled against both him and Andrew Wakefield for their roles in the 1998 Lancet MMR paper, which raised questions about a link to autism. The complete victory means that Walker-Smith has been returned to the status of a fully licensed physician in the UK, although he had already retired in 2001 — six years before the GMC trial even began.
Justice John Mitting ruled on the appeal by Walker-Smith, saying that the GMC “panel’s determination cannot stand. I therefore quash it.” He said that its conclusions were based on “inadequate and superficial reasoning and, in a number of instances, a wrong conclusion.” The verdict restores Walker-Smith’s name to the medical register and his reputation to the medical community. This conclusion is not surprising, as the GMC trial had no actual complainants, no harm came to the children who were studied, and parents supported Walker-Smith and Wakefield through the trial, reporting that their children had medically benefited from the treatment they received at the Royal Free Hospital.
While John Walker-Smith received funding to appeal the GMC decision from his insurance carrier, his co-author Andrew Wakefield did not — and was therefore unable to mount an appeal in the high court. This year, however, Dr. Wakefield, who now conducts his research in the US, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Brian Deer, Fiona Godlee and the British Medical Journal for falsely accusing him of “fraud.” The suit is currently underway in Texas, where Wakefield now lives. The ruling today bodes well for Dr. Wakefield’s suit against Deer, on whose reporting the entire GMC hearing was based.
In 1998 the Lancet published a case series on twelve children receiving treatment for bowel dysfunction at the Royal Free Hospital in London. The paper called for further study of a possible association between bowel disease and developmental delay, including cases of autism. It also noted that eight of the children’s gastrointestinal and autistic symptoms began shortly after they received the MMR vaccination. The verdict today raises questions about whether or not the Lancet should have retracted the paper after the GMC decision, as the reasons for its retraction have now been contradicted by the judge’s decision.
The thirteen original co-authors of the 1998 Lancet case series were members of the Royal Free’s Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group. In 2004, under pressure from the British medical establishment, ten of the co-authors signed a letter retracting an interpretation of the paper that it proved that vaccines caused autism, which the paper never actually claimed in the first place. John Walker-Smith, Andrew Wakefield and Dr. Simon Murch were subsequently brought up on misconduct charges before the GMC. The proceedings resulted in Walker-Smith and Wakefield being found guilty and being “struck off” the medical register, while Dr. Murch retained his status as a physician. Wakefield was then vilified by corporate media and by bloggers eager to repeat scandal and engage in industry protectionism, rather than investigate the complicated facts of the story.
Today, almost 14 years after the paper was published, the high court determined that John Walker-Smith was innocent of the wrongdoing alleged by the GMC. Judge Mitting reported that the GMC, “on the basis of sensible instructions, does not invite me to remit it to a fresh Fitness to Practice panel for redetermination. The end result is that the finding of serious professional misconduct and the sanction of erasure are both quashed.”
British parents from the group CryShame, which includes parents of the Lancet 12, issued a statement saying that they “welcome with immense relief the end of the eight year ordeal of Prof John Walker-Smith and the quashing of all substantive charges against him in the High Court, and wish him their heartfelt congratulations at finally clearing his name.”
“Though justice has finally prevailed for Prof. Walker-Smith, the damage done to him and his colleagues has been incalculable,” said Mark Blaxill, chairman of the Canary Party. “The UK government must investigate the corruption in theGMC, which has severely damaged the reputations of good, honest doctors. Most of all, it’s outrageous that Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been vilified by government officials, vaccine manufacturers and physician organizations, and that the media has accepted these unfounded accusations uncritically.”
“It’s time that we started treating responsible parents as reliable witnesses to serious adverse reactions to medical procedures such as vaccination,” said Jennifer Larson, president of the Canary Party. “The work that Walker-Smith and his colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital did with the Lancet 12 was medically necessary and above reproach. No patient complained, and the charges against the Royal Free team came only from a freelance journalist writing for a Rupert Murdoch newspaper. Meanwhile, the findings reported in the Lancet paper have been replicated in numerous scientific publications and reported by thousands of parents all over the world.”
“It is quite obvious to me that James Murdoch, Brian Deer and GlaxoSmithKline orchestrated the smear attack on Dr. Andrew Wakefield,” said Ginger Taylor, executive director of the Canary Party. “A judge has now ruled that the GMC hearings were a farce. Parents are waiting for journalists to find their spine and start some honest reporting on the character assassination of doctors that is blocking medical treatments for vaccine injured children, and the role that GSK and Merck may be playing to protect their profits on the MMR vaccine. The Canary Party honors and stands by doctors of integrity like Prof. Walker-Smith, who continue to fight and defend their hard-won reputations for going the extra mile to investigate and improve the chronic, difficult-to-treat cases that now permeate our society.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 A.M. EST, March 2, 2012
Parents, not children, must make health care decisions
Repeal California AB499
Long Beach, CA, March 2nd, 2012: Repealing California’s HPV vaccine law AB499 will restore rights, and remove corporate influence from families’ medical planning.
Vaccine safety advocates and parental rights groups are urgently working to undo the damage begun last October when the HPV vaccine bill AB499 was quietly passed in the legislature.
Right now in California, children as young as twelve can be injected with an unproven and costly HPV
vaccine linked to 24,000+ adverse events -without the knowledge or
permission of that child’s parents. Such a student is considered by
state legislators to be able to critically read and understand a 30-page
Gardasil medical product information sheet without parental guidance,
and yet may not even obtain an aspirin from the school nurse without the
express written consent of a parent.
The U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System lists injuries
associated with this vaccine. According to vaccine safety advocates
SaneVax Inc., an analysis of VAERS data on HPV
vaccines through January 15, 2012 shows that 24,832 total adverse
events have been reported, with almost 10,000 victims rushing to an
emergency room. 3,307 events were serious, 472 were life-threatening,
817 girls have been disabled, and there have been 108 reported deaths.
These injured HPV vaccine recipients have
suffered seizures, brain damage, and autoimmune disorders such as lupus,
thrombosis, paralysis, stroke, and death.
To make matters worse, California’s AB499 may violate federal law.
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 requires parents be given a CDC Vaccine
Information Sheet before a vaccine is administered,” said Ginger
Taylor, Executive Director of the Canary Party. “If parents don’t know
that the child is given the vaccine, and does not get the VIS beforehand, federal law is violated.”
The 1986 Childhood Vaccine Injury Act also removes the right to sue
after an injury. If a patient suffers health problems after vaccination,
it’s up to them to prove it to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program – where 80% of cases are thrown out. If parents do not know a
vaccine has been administered, then no such correlation can ever be
made, no medical investigation can be undertaken and no claim for
vaccine injury can even be filed.
“Parents’ rights have been bypassed in favor of profiteering,” said
Wayne Rhode of the Canary Party. “In California a child can go to school
in the morning, be coerced into getting vaccinated for a disease they
likely will never get, and come home disabled for life with a vaccine
injury that government and the manufacturer will simply deny.”
HPV vaccine makers Merck and
GlaxoSmithKline have made campaign donations to a number of California
legislators, including three members of the Judiciary Committee. Global
vaccine revenues are expected to grow from $30 billion in 2010 to $52
billion in 2016. This vaccine series is one of the most expensive on
the market, costing $360, all of which is paid for by taxpayers, as
neither parents nor insurance are billed for the shots.
The Canary Party calls on the state of California to repeal AB499, and requests further consumer safety testing be done on HPV vaccines, as current testing is inadequate.
The normal process for certification of a new vaccine, involving
data collection on the health of recipients for at least four years
post-vaccination, was reduced to 15 months.
. The “placebo” given to girls involved in the Gardasil testing was
not an inert substance known to pose no health risks, but contained
similar amounts of aluminum salts (proven to cause neurological and
autoimmune disorders) as found in the Gardasil vaccine.
. The current rate of reported deaths and serious injuries as a
consequence of Gardasil vaccination raises questions as to the safety of
this product.
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The Canary Party believes that the growing collaboration between
Pharma and Government is becoming increasingly problematic, and that the
use of our schools as a marketing arm for pharmaceutical products is a
prospect that should concern all of our citizens.
Our Executive Director, Ginger Taylor, will be interviewed on Autism One Radio today (2/28) by Wade Rankin of Injecting Sense at 1pm EST. They will be discussing The Canary Party, what it is and what is happening in the fight for the health of the American people.
