PUBLIC SCHOOLS – VACCINATIONS – OBAMA SPEECH – MY PERSONAL BATTLE WITH THEM (Issue 254)

This is the third in a series of articles I’m currently writing about the school controversy. Months back I have written bits and pieces about the tax-supported school situation and my history battling them.

Because this past week’s news cycle brings attention to a lot of objection over Obama’s upcoming speech next week, it seemed the time is apropos for telling more about my personal story and the battles I fought with the system.

My disenchantment with the so-called “public education” actually began back in early sixties. Because I actually had two sets of children subjected to the compulsory attendance laws, and the subsequent abuse, I’m going to relate events with my last child. After removing my older children and home-schooling.

My last child became school age after my husband retired from the military and we moved to the country and I decided I was going to learn how to be self-sustaining, by living on a little farm, acquiring chickens, pigs, a pony, a garden and starting my own business with an antique shop in an old country store at the edge of my yard.

My son was 5 years old when I had a visit from a school truant officer, informing me my neighbors had reported me for having a schoolage child not in school. Asked me his age. To that I replied, go back to my neighbors minding my business and ask them, and you have ten seconds to get off my property. With that he ran to the car and handed me a copy of the state compulsory law, and threatened to arrest if I did not enroll.

I kept him home until he was seven and schooled him myself. Until the truant officer came again, and since he was now school age, I enrolled him in a private school. This was expensive and a distance to travel, so I enrolled him in the local public school to avoid arrest.

The first thing the principal wanted was a shot record. He had never had shots and I had no intention of allowing them. She informed me I must submit a statement from a recognized church, or it was against my religion to have immunizations or present a shot record. I did neither, and for the next 3 years, he kept being kept out of school, regular truant officer visits and every coupla months I would re-enroll and the same thing happened, a demand for a shot record or some religious exemption, which I never provided, until finally a letter from the school board arrived informing me I would be arrested.

I had plenty of experience dealing with schools from my older children and knew this day would come. Consequently I had prepared for it, by compiling an extensive file on the ill-effects and dangers of immunizations. Back then polio shots were required and the vaccine came from the pus of a rhesus monkey. Also smallpox vaccinations were required and I had documentation of 8 deaths attributed to the vaccine. Plus more documentation relative to the dangers of DPT and all the shots required.

I faced a dilemma; give him the shots or go to jail. With such an unacceptable choice, I wondered what I had been doing the previous 20 years supporting a military officer, who fought in 3 wars, including a year in Viet Nam and Korea, to fight for freedom in this country. The threat I faced, shots or jail, was a far cry from freedom of choice, therefore I decided to file suit against the state school and education system in federal court, over forced immunizations.

I called the best attorney I knew in Atlanta, spread out my documentation and the case I had compiled on a coffee table before him. He repeatedly told me he didn’t think I had much of a case, and I kept asking how much to file a case opposing forced immunizations as being unconstutional in federal court. Finally he said $500 as starters to file. I gave him the retainer and he filed the suit.

The day of filing I called all the news reporters I could contact to meet me at the courthouse for the filing of a land-mark case in the state.
Therefore I immediately got a lot of publicity, on tv, radio and newspapers. Reporters thought it news-worthy one lone woman, living out in the country was fighting the bureacracy in such an aggressive manner.

A panel of three judges were appointed to make a ruling. The first thing they did was re-instate my child back in school via a federal order. Then they ruled in my favor. Ruling forced immunizations were unconstitutional and ordered the law clerks to change the law in Georgia. It was passed and the Governor signed. During this time a lot more publicity because as one radio reporter said one person fighting the bureacray and winning was very news worthy.

I fought that battle totally alone and paid all the legal fees with one exception, a chiropractor in South Carolina sent me $125.00 toward legal fees. I had almost no support from anyone, neither agreement for my position and actions nor financially.

While the case was pending, front page news reports from top educators in Georgia said I was crazy. To that I said, I might be but my child is not having immunizations. To this day, as a grown healthy man, my child never had immunizations nor had any childhood diseases.

Since that time, many research results claim, the required shots cause autism, plus other adverse effects.

When asked back then, why I opposed immunizations, I said What I’m against is the force of them. Anyone who chooses can have their child immunized – it is their decision, not mine. I only stand up and fight for my beliefs and my child.

It was a long, expensive hard-fought battle relating to the coercion of the powerful government-owned and operated school system.
However I spent the time to prepare my case, outlined my course of action before I began, with a determination to win.

I can certainly understand and empathize with anyone who decides to oppose anything relative to the deeply-entrenched power of the school system. I daresay I can’t help but cringe over the requirements of all the shots imposed upon innocent children, particularly the recent onslaught of swine flu campaign.

At that time I would have gone to jail, before allowing the shots or divulging my religion to the state-operated school. As a matter of Principle, my religion is none of their business.

To anyone who decides to oppose anything of importance relative to the current schooling, one can expect to face a lot of opposition, criticism, name calling and being villified.

But one must ask, what is the alternative to the downward spiral into the totalitarism of socialism we now face in this country in many areas of our lives aside from the schools? It’s a case of bondage or freedom.

Despite all the news punditry to the contrary, the speech planned by Obama to the school children is all part of a well-oiled campaign to further the onslaught of socialism. Control of the schools is one of the planks in the communist manisfesto. As taking over the health care in this country is another.

My next article on the subject of schools will be a story about the troubles, trials and tribulations I encountered with my other children.

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