Just WHAT ARE these Children’s Rights that California Senator Richard Pan Speaks of?

Part 4 in the developing, “California State Senator Richard “The State Owns Your Child” Pan is At it Again…”

Opinion by Karri Lewis AWAKE California

While California Senator Richard Pan is frantically sending out feel-good media propaganda pieces in a desperate attempt to cover-up the fact that Senate Bill 18 gives the state complete control over ALL California children, word is spreading.

Senate Bill 18 allows "professionals" approved by the state to make these decisions and more for your child.
Senate Bill 18 allows “professionals” approved by the state to make these decisions and more for your child.

In John Rappoport’s excellent article, Bombshell: sacrificing children to the state of California: SB18,” the unraveling of WHO and WHY is behind Senate Bill 18 becomes clear.

Rappoport says:

“Catch the flavor of the wording. It emerges like swamp gas: “The Legislature finds and declares that all children and youth, regardless of gender, class, race, ethnicity, national origin, culture, religion, immigration status, sexual orientation, or ability, have inherent rights that entitle them to protection, special care, and assistance, including, but not limited to, the following: The right to parents, guardians, or caregivers who act in their best interest. The right to form healthy attachments with adults responsible for their care and well-being. The right to live in a safe and healthy environment. The right to social and emotional well-being. The right to opportunities to attain optimal cognitive, physical, and social development. The right to appropriate, quality education and life skills leading to self-sufficiency in adulthood. The right to appropriate, quality health care.”

As if all these outcomes could be delivered to children on a silver platter.

And the State would make it so?

This bill is basically setting up the population of California for state regulatory agencies to fill in the blanks later, to make specific controls out of the vague generalities in the bill. Get it?  “Medical care and nutrition and parenting and education are what we say they are. We define and enforce, you obey.”

Rappoport goes on to explain WHERE all of this is coming from:

 

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Communism, Common Sense, and What Senator Richard Pan Intends For California’s Children…

Part 3 in the developing, “California State Senator Richard “The State Owns Your Child” Pan is At it Again…”

Opinion By Karri Lewis AWAKE California  

According to the US Supreme Court in the 1979 Parham Versus J.R Case:

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California Senator Richard Pan’s attack on Californian’s Parental Rights has morphed into an all out assault on family and religious rights – in complete defiance of the US Constitution.

Senate Bill 18 is the culmination of all of a totalitarian socialist state’s hatred for liberty and freedom.

Called a “Spot Bill,” Senate Bill 18 is, according to the California legislative analyst, a bill that amends a code section in such an innocuous way as to be totally nonsubstantive. The bill has been introduced to assure that a germane vehicle will be available at a later date after the deadline has passed to introduce bills. At that future date, the bill can be amended with more substance included.

Senate Bill 18 is dangerous because it is made to look not harmful or offensive, so that it might pass easily.

Senate Bill 18 allows "professionals" approved by the state to make these decisions and more for your child.
Senate Bill 18 allows “professionals” approved by the state to make these decisions, and more, for your child.

This bill is the FOUNDATION for the rules and regulations that Senator Richard Pan will add at a later date; most likely under the radar and away from the prying eyes of the public.

Senator Pan currently sits on 17 different state committees, including the Children with Special Needs committee, which is ironic considering all of the additional vaccine injuries that his Senate Bill 277 has caused.

Senator Pan has a lot of influence in Sacramento and with the other California Senators.

Many believe that since Senator Pan has strong ties to Big Pharma that he intends to add MANY REQUIRED Medical Interventions for Children.

Continue reading Communism, Common Sense, and What Senator Richard Pan Intends For California’s Children…

Just WHO IS Sponsoring California State Senator Richard Pan’s Destruction of Parental Rights?

 Part 2  in the developing, “California State Senator Richard “The State Owns Your Child” Pan is At it Again…”

Opinion By Karri Lewis AWAKE California

As if hell bent on destroying the family unit; and enacting the state of California as guardian (sic) of ALL of the state’s children, Senator Richard Pan wasted no time in beginning another attack on parental rights.

Senate Bill 18 is a parent’s worst nightmare come true.

In a townhall event put on by Senator Richard Pan in June 2016, it was announced that James P. Steyer from Common Sense Media was co-hosting the, “Talk with Experts and Provide your Input on the Children’s Bill of Rights Legislation,” advertised event.

Jim Steyer Common Sense Media
Jim Steyer Common Sense Media

The flyer with that information can be found here.

This describes the non-profit, Common Sense Media’s mission statement according to Wikipedia:

“Common Sense Media reviews thousands of movies, TV shows, music, video games, apps, web sites and books. Based on developmental criteria, the reviews provide guidance regarding each title’s age appropriateness, as well as a “content grid” that rates particular aspects of the title including educational value, violence, sex, gender messages and role models, and more. For each title, Common Sense Media indicates the age for which a title is either appropriate or most relevant. An overall five-star quality rating is also included, as are discussion questions to help families talk about their entertainment. In addition to Common Sense Media’s traditional rating system, they also offer a set of learning based ratings, which are designed to determine complex educational values.[7][10]

Common Sense Media partners with a number of media companies that distribute the organization’s free content to more than 100 million homes in the United States. According to Common Sense Media’s website, the organization has content distribution contracts with Road Runner, TiVo, Yahoo!, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DIRECTV, Disney, NBC Universal, Netflix, Best Buy, Google, AOL/Huffington Post, Fandango, Trend Micro, Verizon Foundation, Nickelodeon, Bing, Cox Communications, Kaleidescape, AT&T, and NCM.[11] The organization’s current rating system differs from the system used by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Entertainment Software Rating Board. It has received positive support from parents, and was singled out by US President Barack Obama as a model for using technology to empower parents.[12][13] Common Sense Media began allowing studios to use their ratings and endorsements in order to promote family-friendly movies in 2014. The first film to use the endorsement was Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.[14]”

Why on earth would Common Sense Media, a supposedly family friendly company, support the stealing of parental rights by the state of California via Senator Richard Pan?

Back to that question in a second.

Continue reading Just WHO IS Sponsoring California State Senator Richard Pan’s Destruction of Parental Rights?

INOCULATED: The Nationwide RADICAL Radio Tour…

By Kent Heckenlively, J.D.

The first radio interview for my new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism was with Robert Scott Bell out of Florida.

Since then I’ve been on radio shows in Boston, MA (Frankie Boyer’s Holistic Talk Radio), Pittsburg, PA (Hank Baughman show), New York, NY (Dirty, Sexy Funny with Jenny McCarthy on Sirius XM radio), Phoenix, AZ (the fiery libertarian, Ernie Hancock), Palm Springs, CA (Law of Attraction Radio with Jewels Johnson), and even laid back, Santa Cruz, CA (Food Chain Radio with Michael Olson).

And more coming…

I’m currently scheduled for approximately forty-five radio shows with another twenty shows trying to figure out a time I’m available.

Why am I getting all this attention for a controversy, vaccines and autism, that’s supposed to be “settled science?”  Maybe it’s because in the summer of 2014 a senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, turned over more than ten thousand documents to the office of Congressman William Posey, alleging that in the early 2000s the CDC investigated claims of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine being linked to autism, and found that there was a link.

Continue reading INOCULATED: The Nationwide RADICAL Radio Tour…

California State Senator Richard “The State Owns Your Child” Pan is At It Again…

Opinion by Karri Lewis AWAKE California

Like a prize fighter intent on pleasing his sponsors, California State Senator and Medical Doctor, Richard Pan is back to his parental-rights-stealing-ways.

Talk about Deja-Vu!

14716268_10209567633421967_1641069469930967316_nAs if 2015’s Senate Bill 277; the stealing of parental rights for the right of pharmaceutical companies to forcibly inject poison into innocent school children (vaccinations), in exchange for Pharmaceutical Money and Vacations wasn’t enough; Senator Pan has set his sights on the State Ownership of ALL of California’s Children.
Anyone noticing a theme here?

Introduced by Senator Pan on December 5, 2016, this is where Senate Bill 18 comes into play.

While the title of the bill seems innocuous, “Bill of Rights for Children and Youth in California,” this bill expands the California Bureaucracy’s endless control over your child.

Continue reading California State Senator Richard “The State Owns Your Child” Pan is At It Again…

Trump Meets Dr. Wakefield

Even though you see the headline, and the photo, you don’t believe it, do you?

By Kent Heckenlively, J.D.

Could the new President-Elect of our country, Donald J. Trump, have really met with Dr. Andrew Wakefield?  You’ve probably heard the rumors, maybe you’ve even seen the video of Wakefield saying that Trump understands our concerns and will never allow mandatory vaccinations.  He goes onto say that he believes Trump will investigate the problems at the CDC, including the allegations of Dr. William Thompson.

It’s all true…

How do I know?

Because I interviewed two people who were at that meeting.  Do you want facts?  It took place on August 11, 2016 in Kissimmee, Florida and lasting a little under an hour from four to five in the afternoon.

And it’s all in my new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism, available right now on Amazon.  Here’s a little bit of a tease for you:

Continue reading Trump Meets Dr. Wakefield

INOCULATED – An Exclusive “Sneak Peek” for Readers of The Bolen Report…

By Kent Heckenlively, J.D.

I owe a genuine debt of gratitude to the readers of The Bolen Report.  It’s one thing to put a book together, but it’s quite another thing to figure out the best strategy to get that story out to the public. 

I’m probably not alone in being frustrated by the glacial pace of traditional publishing.  My agent had started pitching my new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism, back in February, and although there was some interest, nothing was on the table.  Even if some publisher bit in the summer, the book probably wouldn’t be available to the public until 2018.  That was too long for me.

My agent told me that her agency had its own publishing division and if I wanted, I could publish with them.  But I wouldn’t have the big marketing push of a traditional publisher.  That was fine with me, as I had always considered this something of a guerilla campaign.  We could get it out to the public very quickly.   But I wanted to know if that was the right way to go and so I put this question to the readers of The Bolen Report.

Your responses were informed, passionate, well-reasoned, and I listened.  I’ve always had this sense that the book should be published in November of 2016, either before or after the Presidential election, and right now the publishing date is Wednesday, November 9.  And hopefully by now Amazon has updated the listing so you see the picture of my beautiful cover and a summary of the book.  And I’ve hired a first-rate marketing team.  We’re going to knock this one out of the park.

But I felt I should do more to express my gratitude to the readers of The Bolen Report, so I’m giving you an exclusive “sneak peek” at the first few pages.  I want you to know I really do mean to start a rebellion.  I also want to express my personal appreciation to Tim Bolen for his suggestions about the book and publicity.  He is a man who knows how to think, strategize, and fight.

For those of you who want to know the inside story of CDC whistle-blower, Dr. William Thompson, the years of struggle of Dr. Brian Hooker to find out the truth about vaccines and autism, and the thirty-year disaster vaccines have become since the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, I give you the first few pages of INOCULATED:

Continue reading INOCULATED – An Exclusive “Sneak Peek” for Readers of The Bolen Report…

Wiki-Leaks, Autism, and the Hillary Clinton Campaign…

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The Hillary Clinton Campaign…

By Kent Heckenlively, JD

Don’t you often wonder what people say behind your back?  Especially the powerful politicians, to whom you bring your grievances like a medieval peasant, begging for justice from your king?

Well, thanks to Julian Assange and Wiki-Leaks, you can read what the Hillary Clinton campaign thinks about the vaccine issue.  It’s not pretty.  And it’s not that encouraging about the other side as well.

Continue reading Wiki-Leaks, Autism, and the Hillary Clinton Campaign…

Taking Back Health Freedom in California, One Candidate at a Time…

OK, in the interest that Tim Bolen doesn’t tell anymore “Trophy Wife” stories, even though that story was completely adorable and Jan has to put up with so much; I decided that I needed to write another article that is pertinent to defeating forced vaccination mandates.

Opinion by: Karri Lewis AWAKE California

 

In local California political races, there are two great candidates that need our support.

I first met Fullerton City Council candidate, Joe Imbriano, when we connected through the AWAKE California facebook page. In the very early stages of senate bill 277, we spoke on the phone a few times. Our discussions were about stopping this terrible infringement on parental rights and the horrible consequences of forced vaccinations.

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Cracking Down on Teething Tablets

by KP Stoller, MD  www.incurable-me.com

 “A poison in a small dose is a medicine.” – Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880) forensic toxicologist

The FDA, in their wisdom and duty to protect us from dangerous foods, devices and drugs, has issued a warning against Hyland’s Teething tablets because they contain Belladonna (0.00000000000000003% to be exact).

Not plutonium, not mercury, not cyanide but Belladonna.

What is Belladonna that the FDA felt it needed to issue a warning to parents? 

Belladonna has long been an herbal pain reliever, muscle relaxer, and anti-inflammatory.

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The Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants known as the nightshade or potato family are both edible and poisonous. The family includes the Datura or Jimson weed, eggplant, mandrake, deadly nightshade or belladonna, capsicum (paprika, chile pepper), potato, tobacco, tomato, and petunia.

The Solanaceae are known for possessing a diverse range of alkaloidal glucosides, (alkaloids), such as tropanes (atropine) and hyoscine (scopolamine), as well as nicotine and solanine. These toxins have anticholinergic properties so at high levels will produce symptoms such as dilated pupils, tachycardia, loss of balance, headaches, flushing, dry mouth, urinary retention, delirium and convulsions. Nicotine is an alkaloid as is caffeine and cocaine.

 

Belladonna, for the most part,  is a combination of these alkaloids:

  • Atropine
  • Hyoscyamine
  • Hyoscine

A homeopath would tell you a “Belladonna” patient, that is a patient who might benefit from homeopathic Belladonna, would be “dry as bone, red as beet and mad as a hatter.” Because in homeopathy you treat symptoms with a ultra micro dose of the very thing that would cause those symptoms if taken in a concentrated form. In homeopathy it is called the law of similars.

Continue reading Cracking Down on Teething Tablets

Vaccines, Bioethics and Human Rights…

by: KP Stoller, MD, FACHM  www.incurable-me.com

 

California Civil Code section 3510, “When the reason for a rule ceases, so should the rule itself.”

In 2005, the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, of which the US is a signatory, was created.logo_en

From the Declaration:
“Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information….The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.”

It is simply a violation for human rights under this decade old declaration to coerce an individual to obtain a medical procedure.

When it comes to vaccines, some think the goal of  “herd immunity,” is a public health emergency that overrides informed consent, but make note of the fact that hear immunity is just an EPIDEMIOLOGICAL construct and cannot be applied to vaccinated communities. The notion of herd immunity was built on the understanding that children developed immunity to a disease after experiencing it. Today, we are told that vaccines can achieve the same level of immunity, but only if we vaccinate the bulk of the herd.

However outbreaks of childhood illnesses are happening in highly vaccinated communities because vaccines don’t work as advertised. They are unavoidably unsafe (as per the Supreme Court) and their efficacy is often far less than stellar. Continue reading Vaccines, Bioethics and Human Rights…

Traumatic Brain Injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy…

K. Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM  www.incurable-me.com

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K. P. Stoller MD in front of a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber

Chief of Hyperbaric Medicine, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy  San Francisco  www.hbotsf.org

 

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Hyperbaric chambers come in all sizes

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) saturates the body’s tissues with oxygen using a pressure vessel.  HBOT is most often recognized as the treatment for De-Compression Sickness (DCS) or “the bends.”

DCS causes significant neurological injury and post initial injury. The dysfunctional changes are virtually identical to those caused by trauma.  Thus oxygen under pressure has been used to treat neurological injuries since 1937, almost eighty years.

No one has found a replacement or substitute treatment for the bends that works as well as oxygen.  HBOT results in a 95 percent acute treatment cure rate for DCS in all of the navies of the world.

Combining HBOT with other therapies that help brain-injured patients enhances the effect of those treatments and makes these other therapies less costly, while creating additional recovery in any given patient.

An increase of one-half atmosphere will raise the oxygen levels in plasma seven times to twelve times normal (700 percent to 1,200 percent). Under this increased pressure, oxygen acts like a drug- and DNA-signaling agent. This treatment’s mechanisms of action simply follow the general gas laws for saturating liquids with a gas, similar to the way Sodastream® saturates water with carbon dioxide.

No one yet has found a substitute for oxygen in human physiological processes, and any injury caused by a lack of oxygen can be expected to benefit from HBOT with the right oxygen dosage.  Saturating with oxygen is a safe procedure when all of the correct protocols are followed, and significant side effects are extremely rare.

The History of Hyperbaric Medicine…

The history of hyperbaric medicine reaches back to the year 1620 when Drebbel developed a one-atmosphere diving bell, and forty years later Boyle joined forces with Gay-Lussac to develop the general gas law.

Continue reading Traumatic Brain Injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy…

California…Keep your Children Vaccine Injury Free…Get a Medical Exemption

Opinion by Karri Lewis AWAKE California

While we are all anxiously awaiting for the preliminary federal court ruling for a Preliminary Injunction order against totalitarian and oppressive SB277, time marches on and the schools are back in session.

During this time period between the SB277 Injunction ruling and school enrollment, there are those that are willing and able to wait it out.

But for everyone else that cannot homeschool or has to return to the normal work schedule, a medical exemption to protect your children should be in the cards.

The expense of a medical exemption is WELL WORTH PROTECTING your CHILD.

Continue reading California…Keep your Children Vaccine Injury Free…Get a Medical Exemption

My America…

by Kent Heckenlively JD

Can fifty people in a bookstore on a Saturday night change a person’s opinion on the fate of our country?

I’ve been an autism advocate for fifteen years now, written more than 250 articles on various facets of the disease across many different web-sites about:

(1)  the refusal of our research community to do any meaningful science which would change people’s lives, and

(2)  the near-universal silence from the public on asking the vital question of why so many people are sick in the most highly-advanced society the world has ever known.

I even wrote a book with a twenty year government scientist, Dr. Judy Mikovits, who has published more than fifty peer-reviewed articles in the world’s top scientific journals and was head of the Anti-Viral Drug Mechanisms lab at the National Cancer Institute.

That book, PLAGUE: One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth About Human Retroviruses, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases, was published in November of 2014, nearly two years ago.

The response from the public has been wonderful. 

Continue reading My America…

I’m Not Asking You to Smoke Crystal Meth . . . I Just Want You to Watch a Documentary…

I think I’m going to have to get some new friends.  Seriously…

By Kent Heckenlively, JD

 

Have any of you felt the same way as you’ve tried to book a showing of VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe in your hometown or support a screening that somebody had already set up?

I think the most disappointing of the group was a friend who is a fellow attorney and not only did we go to high school, college, AND law school together, but this friend is such a bleeding heart that I don’t think there has been a single injustice over the past thirty-five years that he has not expressed an outrage about.  However, it seems that I am the exception.

I have been astounded by the response of some long-time friends who when I say, “Hey, there’s this documentary about a whistle-blower at the CDC and the cover-up of the link between vaccines and autism, do you want to come and see it?”  They act like I’m denying the existence of God.  No, scratch that.  If I asked them to come to a movie about an atheist, I’d get a better response.  In very poignant emails back to me they have said that they will not even put at risk their “fugitive and cloistered virtue” (to steal from the poet, John Milton) by exposing themselves to the possibility that the government is lying to them.

Arghhh…

Continue reading I’m Not Asking You to Smoke Crystal Meth . . . I Just Want You to Watch a Documentary…

Homeschooling is VERY MUCH LEGAL in California, Despite Internet Rumors…

California SB277 Education Refugees Victimized By Cruel Hoax…

Opinion By Karri Lewis – AWAKE California

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Just how BRAIN DEAD is the CANARY PARTY?

I began fielding questions about the legality of homeschooling in California early last week.

At first, I did not think much of it because it was just one high profile Canary Party vaccine activist from another state that had heard a rumor about homeschooling becoming illegal in California. Continue reading Homeschooling is VERY MUCH LEGAL in California, Despite Internet Rumors…

Bizarre PseudoScience Response from California to Pending Preliminary Injunction of SB277…

A supported opinion…

from KP Stoller, MD  www.incurable-me.com

Dr. Stoller’s new book Incurable Me , which comes out September 2016,  can be (pre) ordered from Amazon.  

Perhaps you have glanced at the response the State of California sent to Federal Court against the motion for an injunction against the law based on SB277:

“Moreover, an injunction against the enforcement of the statute3-x-5-California-Soft-Polyester-Flag-Banner in this case would immediately expose millions of California school children and other at-risk individuals to an increased threat of contracting potentially fatal communicable diseases.”

“The public health and welfare must not be allowed to be jeopardized by the subjective beliefs and unfounded conspiracy theories of a small minority of individuals who, against all recognized scientific and legal authority, stubbornly disregard the long-recognized safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and who fail to accept the public health threat that their unsupported opinions have on the lives of others around them.”

The above is just from the Introduction… it gets worse…

I am not a lawyer, but does it impress judges to go on some angry tirade about how screwed up the opposing party is?

Especially, when there are victims of vaccine injury… real victims, with real injuries and everyone knows there are vaccine injured children? Continue reading Bizarre PseudoScience Response from California to Pending Preliminary Injunction of SB277…

“Science” and the Causes of Autism…

Let’s talk about “science.”

By Kent Heckenlively, JD

 

You know what “science” is, don’t you?  It’s that magical, talismanic word that settles any bar bet with the same type of certainty that in the middle ages any priest could use by saying, “That’s not what it says in the Bible.”

However, any person who has spent even the slightest bit of time in Bible studies knows that there is a rich intellectual tradition and that the interpretation of the words of the Bible, considering cultural traditions at the time, as well as the different and imprecise translations of words and concepts, can take up a lifetime.  Just as any Talmudic scholar.

My point is that any person who wants to settle an argument by saying it’s science” or That’s not what it says in the Bible is probably a moron and you should probably find another place to sit in the bar. Continue reading “Science” and the Causes of Autism…

The Coming War and its Aftermath…

By Kent Heckenlively, JD  

I’ve been thinking a great deal about the fight against SB 277 and mandatory vaccinations in California as well as the fabulous documentary, VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, detailing the corruption in the CDC’s vaccine program and the revelations of senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson.

I find myself asking a simple question again and again: How do I become the most effective agent for change?

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Nelson Mandela

Recently I ran across a quote from one of my long-time idols, Nelson Mandela, and it spoke to what I’m feeling these days.  Mandela wrote: “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”

After fifteen years of advocacy, one would expect that those I love so deeply would have at least understood my position, but it appears not to be the case.  As I have attempted to gather an audience for a showing of the documentary film, VAXXED, I have been surprised by the response of two people from whom I had expected better. Continue reading The Coming War and its Aftermath…

A Few Things, California…

Gearing Up for a Coalition?

Opinion By Karri Lewis – AWAKE California

While the people of California have some challenging times ahead of them in the fight for health freedom, there are folks that are gathering and willing to work together with TRANSPARENCY and PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY.

Why is THIS so Important?

In Peter McCarthy’s recent blog post, “The Texas Health Freedom Coalition (THFC): “Who we are, why we work together in Texas, and how we came to do that….”, McCarthy explains the WHY and HOW the 55,000 member Texas Health Freedom Coalition became extremely successful:

The four areas of agreement…
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55.000 Member Texas Health Freedom Coalition Guides Texas State legislation and more…

(1)  The meeting was significant in a number of ways. First, the participants agreed to cooperate under the umbrella of the newly formed Texas Health Freedom Coalition (THFC).

The rationale was that a large umbrella organization acting cooperatively would be more influential, by virtue of their greater numbers, at the state legislature than a number of smaller groups, and simultaneously would be less vulnerable to attacks by the trade union organizations seeking to monopolize various segments of the health care field.

(2)  Second, since the THFC would be the actor of record, the credit for victories and advances would be shared among the groups as a coalition. Each group would play its own meaningful role, and it was agreed that no single group would claim primary credit. As Radhia so aptly stated, “united we stand, divided we fall.”

(3)  Third, our interactions among the groups would be transparent. While each group would, of course, continue to operate within their own governing structure, their THFC-related activities and decisions would be visible to all. No behind-the-scenes jockeying for advantage, no intramural squabbles, and no ego trips.

(4)  Fourth, the groups agreed to work together on issues of common interest, with no public criticism of another group’s individual organizational agendas. Those common interest items were two: advancing health freedom of choice legislation in Texas and opposing the Texas dietitians who, as it turned out, had betrayed the clinical nutritionists and were now pursuing exclusionary licensing legislation benefiting only themselves.

Additionally, every one of the Texas leaders attending that meeting did so in their collective capacity as volunteers. There were no professional state level organizational leaders, which meant that no one had an overriding personal (i.e., economic) agenda.

The final agenda item was the selection of the THFC chair. To my surprise, I was asked to fill that position. In hindsight, it made sense. The combination of my military/organizational background and the equally important fact that I represented no organization other than one advocating strictly for health freedom meant that I could assume the role of honest broker, should any intramural disputes arise.

Continue reading A Few Things, California…