Similarly, today the minds and bodies of America’s youth are suffering poisonous assault by government-mandated vaccines laden with potentially lethal chemicals.

According to many well-researched documents, including “Deadly Immunity” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “Mercury, Vaccines and Medicines” by Mark A. Sircus and Evidence of Harm by David Kirby, the dangers of the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal have been well known by its original developer, Eli Lilly and Co., since the 1930s. But to date we’ve received no official word that the mercury in these vaccines could poison us. It’s a direct violation of the Nuremberg Code prohibiting forced medical treatment or participation in medical experiments without fully informed consent.

Nearly a decade ago, in 1998, Gannett News Service reported via information secured under the Freedom of Information Act that the federal government already had awarded $916 million to parents of vaccine-injured and dead children. Sircus and Kirby write of parents reporting how soon after their children received mercury-laced vaccines they developed a broad range of symptoms. Associated health issues included sudden onset of shyness, speech impediments or inability to speak, palette sensitivities or deformities, gastrointestinal distress, loss of motor function, allergies, tremors, autoimmune disturbances, learning disabilities, behavioral problems and autism, as well sudden death.

Kennedy reports that in 2000 officials from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) met in secret with vaccine manufacturers to discuss strategy when a disturbing new study “raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines...” It was the first known study since the skewed Eli Lilly study of 1929.

Kennedy then traces the ensuing medical, bureaucratic and pharmaceutical cover-up. Without admitting to any problems, the vaccine industry stated that it had reduced or phased out the use of mercury in many U.S. vaccines.

Yet in 1999 many vaccines still contained thimerosal, and joint statements by the American Academy of Pediatricians and the United States Public Health Services were recommending its removal from all vaccines. Meanwhile the WHO continues to allow manufacturers to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries. There, populations struggling with malnutrition and illness are even more susceptible to mercury poisoning. Thus generations of defenseless infants worldwide continue to be injected with vaccines containing mercury.

More recently, the House Government Reform Committee headed by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana concluded after a three-year investigation that “Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic….This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin.”

Kennedy writes that this committee also stated that “Our health agencies’ failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”

Sircus reports, for example, that officials at the CDC have authorized new flu vaccines that are “exceeding the FDA’s and EPA’s safe limit by a factor of 32.” And a 2007 National Autism Association report confirms that “Thimerosal remains in several vaccines, and with the addition of the influenza vaccine now being recommended for infants, children are exposed to more thimerosal today than ever before.”

Is the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV) for cervical cancer as poisonous as previous vaccines? The CDC and FDA say it is safe, but their track record attests otherwise. Asked if I would have my daughter receive the HPV vaccine, my answer is an unequivocal and resounding, “No!”