Spokane County Public Health Building
In the surreally bizarre architecture of the Spokane County Pubic Health Building, form appropriately follows function. (I leave the meaning of this comment to your own powers of observation and conjecture!)
This is where we two health freedom activists from Seattle, Washington reported for the US Center for Disease Control's (CDC's) "Public Engagement Forum" in Spokane, Washington on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM.
Upon signing in and joining our assigned groups, it became apparent that the CDC was using the Delta Technique (read "Deltoid Technique" for mind muscling/muzzling!) a pseudemocratic group process developed in the Soviet Union during the latter part of the 20th century:
1) No one was allowed consistent access to the microphones except CDC "medical experts" and Keystone (Cops) Events coordination contractors;
2) There was virtually no time allowed for participants to confer with each other, even at lunch, which was spent working in small groups;
3) Dissenters were separated from the larger group and subjected to constant surveillance/lectures from CDC "medical experts"/Keystone Cops circulating between the small groups;
4) All questions were framed to conform to the CDC agenda of legitimizing their vaccine pogrom;
5) No cameras/tape recorders were allowed in the small group sessions where the real action occurred;
6) I was told at the outset that I would not be permitted to hand out my subversive literature to anyone at the conference because it would be violating "social etiquette" (?!).
It soon became evident that six out of eight members of my own small group were health freedom activists, and the other two women, one a nurse, were receptive to our ideas. We were called, synchronistically, Group No. 6, apparently in honor of the freedom-loving rebel "Prisoner No. 6" in Patrick McGoohan's classic BBC television series, The Prisoner!
When the CDC "medical experts" found this out, their Keystone Cops told us that we would be separated from the rest of the group during the small group sessions and banished to the chaotic, noisy outer lobby, where they obviously thought it would be harder for us to focus and carry on audible dissenting dialogue. They also assigned us a loud, voluble, control-oriented female facilitator seemingly hostile to our views.
The CDC began the event with a suitable dog-and-pony show that featured, among other nuggets of fools' gold, a half-hour propaganda video with a numbingly wooden female CDC physician from which we learned the following:
o That the WHO/CDC's latest designation for the H1N1 flu virus was
the "Novel H1N1 Influenze Virus"; this is appropriate, since much of what the WHO/CDC tells us about it is fiction;
o That they consider the "Novel H1N1 Virus" unparalleled in its ability to shapeshift; here the WHO/CDC is being unduly modest, as their ability to shapeshift their definition of pandemic also falls in this same world-class league;
o That they considered these "Public Engagement Forums" to be "kitchen table discussions". This was questionable, since the WHO/CDC leave so much off the table, while having so much going on underneath!
We were then gifted with a presentation by a CDC "communications specialist": a noticeably blonde young woman, who could not accurately read her cue cards, and a local female public health official/physician who told us that "the government intends take care of (us)", whereupon I broke into resounding laughter, pounded my fist on the table and exclaimed, "You sure as hell do!", occasioning further mirth in many of those assembled. This did not include, however, the CDC handlers or Keystone Cops, who looked visibly agitated.
The grand finale to the opening festivities also featured another CDC official/physician/older white male authority figure who informed us with a straight face that mercury has not been found to be toxic when added to vaccines as a preservative, to which I retorted, "That's a lie!", causing further murmuring throughout the audience of approximately one hundred participants.
As the small group sessions bagan, Group No. 6 moved was banished into the lobby's outer darkness, where there was soon weeping and gnashing of teeth. This did not, however, come from Group No. 6, but from the CDC "medical experts" and Keysone Cops assigned to constantly surveille/double-team us as we debated them during the small group session to put them repeatedly in rapid retreat.
I had memorized all of the pertinent facts, dates and names involved in the CDC's Simpsonwood Conference in Norcross, GA in June 2000, wherein 52 officials/representatives of the CDC, WHO, the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences (IOM/NAS) and pharmaceutical cartels conspired as to how they could most effectively suppress all of the numerous devastating reports implicating vaccines in epidemics of all kinds both in recent times and in the distant past, particularly autism in children.
I kept coolly pulling up fact after fact that they could neither refute nor respond to without inciminating themselves. Karen, the libertarian rancher, played dumb like a fox and kept acting like she was confused, asking the same unanswered questions over and over again with theme and variations, while Larry and Danny kept bringing up the evidence of criminal intent against Baxter from Jane Burgermeister's court case, which they continued to ignore at their imperiously impervious peril.
Meanwhile, the CDC's supposedly bright idea of isolating us in the lobby had badly backfired: everybody and their brother and sister was walking by to and from the restrooms and to lunch, lingering to listen as we cut apart our controllers in the ongoing debate that raged throughout the two-hour small group period!
They heard me clearly ask how, in a tax payer-financed public event taking place in a tax payer-financed public building, the CDC controllers and their Keystone Cops could justify violating my First Amendment right to distribute public information about vaccinations. They then also heard the CDC controllers quickly back off from this position, telling me I could distribute my subversive literature as long as I personally passed it out, rather than leaving it out on a table, which I immediately proceeded to do when we rejoined the larger group.
Moreover, it was becoming apparent that our initially hostile facilitator was beginning to take up our side in the way she was recording our opinions to report back during the plenary session later in the afternoon!
During the report-back portion of the final plenary, our facilitator did indeed do an excellent job sympathetically announcing our opposition to vaccines, as well as to the CDC's attempts to manipulate group process and the framing of questions at this forum!
This was followed by the CDC attempting to distract us their latest miniaturized computer toys: playing card-sized voting keypads, with which we were to answer their narrowly framed questions using a process of faux-populist run-off rather than binary type of voting on deliberately narrowly-framed questions.
During this vote, Group No. 6 laughed, cheered and high-fived with delight as we watched those holding the position of "no vaccines at all" mount from 20% to 26% to 29% to 32% to 36% -- all to the obvious dismay of our CDC/Keystone Cop controllers!
After this auspicious US government-sponsored event concluded, I was surrounded by approximately 20 healthcare freedom activists from this forum, who invited our two-person Seattle delegation out to coffee at a nearby Perkins Pancake House, where, after pushing four large tables together, we organized a EFV Network for Washington State during an impromptu two-hour meeting!
This was all the more remarkable, as the vast majority of those present were not independent green progressive esoteric Christians like our two-person Seattle delegation, but libertarian/traditionally conservative pentecostal Christians/"Ron Paul for President" supporters with whom we shared an overriding common belief in human freedom, thus tending to prove Jesus' little-understood or heeded maxim of principled pragmatism, "They who are not against us are with us."
Also remarkable was the fact that our waitress also requested some of our subversive literature before we all adjourned to go our separate ways early on that gloriously sunny Saturday evening!
The moral of this brief tale seems to be that positive, principled action coupled with a sense of humor to keep it in perspective, can have a powerful effect against the forces of evil in this world, for it taps the two things that evil cannot endure: exposure and ridicule.
All of us need to remember this as we face the turbulent times now upon us on this planet.
