Those Who Remember History Are Privileged to Repeat It
On Saturday, we were all Berliners. Anne Dachel created a partial transcript from Robert Kennedy Jr.'s speech in Berlin on Saturday.
By Anne Dachel
Robert Kennedy, Jr: 'People in Authority Lie"
On Friday, August 28, Robert Kennedy, Jr. spoke at a press conference in Berlin, Germany announcing the expansion of Children's Health Defense to Europe. Kennedy's words made it clear these are truly desperate times and no one can just sit back and hope things get better on their own. Very powerful forces have an agenda and that agenda will affect the freedom of all of us. It's time to listen to Kennedy and to act.
I am Robert F. Kennedy, Jr….
Let me explain to you a little bit about the journey that brought me here.
I run the biggest water protection group in the world. It’s called Waterkeeper Alliance.
Back in the early 2000s I was suing big coal burning power plants in the United States for discharging mercury. At that time my only concern was the impact of mercury on fish and on the human health of the human beings who ate the fish.
Around that time it came to my attention that there was also large amounts of mercury in vaccines, much larger exposures to children than any child would ever get from eating fish.
I began to address that and we started an organization that was trying to have a very limited scope which was trying to remove the mercury from vaccines. Little by little I came to understand there were larger problems with vaccines.
The central one and the one we were most deeply concerned with was that vaccines in the United States were not safety tested. They have an exemption that is not available to any other medical product, and that exemption which most people cannot even believe, is an artifact of the CDC’s legacy as the public health service which was a quasi-military agency.
At the time the vaccine program was launched, the purpose was a national defense purpose, and they wanted to make sure that vaccines could be quickly formulated and deployed in order to derail attacks by foreign countries with biological substances.
So they removed the regulatory impediments including the necessity to safety test vaccines against placebos.
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