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Letters for the Week Of January 31
The Dangers Of Gardasil
To The Editor,
Thank you for printing this story! (“New Web Site Launched For Gardasil Victims,” The Bulletin, Jan. 24-30). My daughter was 14 when she received her first and only shot of the vaccine in June. She has vomited every day since then. She also was diagnosed with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), which is, ironically, a disease that is normally caused by a sexually transmitted disease. She is now in the high-risk category for sterilization and, if she does become pregnant, there is a strong likelihood that it will be a tubal pregnancy, which, most times, results in death.
Her life, like those of the other girls, has changed. She now goes into depressions that are scary and, just the other day, admitted that one night while at a friend’s house, after vomiting all day, went through their family’s medicine cabinet to see if there was something that she could overdose on. I took her to a counselor the next day. I am a single mom and this has cost me a job, made me have to move back to Texas where my family could help, and has basically put us in the poor house...another reason for her depression. Her name is Ashlee Smith and she is on the truthaboutgardasil.org site. This poison has to be taken off of the market! Thank you again for your story and helping us make others aware of the dangers that are covered up by the pharmaceutical industry.
Gratefully,
LAURIE DEAN-SMITH
Vidor, Texas
Bad Reaction To Gardasil
To The Editor,
Thank you for the Gardasil story (“New Web Site Launched For Gardasil Victims, The Bulletin, Jan. 24-30). My daughter has also suffered adverse reactions from her Gardasil vaccination. It is three years later and she is still suffering side effects. It is heartbreaking to witness as a parent.
MELINDA W.
Butte, N.D.
Congrats To People Of Mass.
To The Editor,
The 1,775 people of Massachusetts opened the door to America’s freedom we share today by sending a volley of shots, which came to be known as the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The commonwealth’s people of today, again, rose to the occasion to protect these liberties and way of life, the envy around the world, with today’s version of a political shock wave as the second “shot heard ‘round the world.”
We the people are not going to be ignored by our elitist arrogant politicians, and are making our voices heard loud and clear. Repeating Thomas Jefferson, “least government is best government,” also, “when the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Today’s Massachusetts citizens, as well as the majority of the rest of America, are crying out, “no business as usual.” We want our country back. We have no reservations putting unworthy politicians of both parties out on the unemployment line with the ten percent of unemployed Americans.
Martha Coakley showed her arrogance by referring to the open Massachusetts senate seat as “Senator Kennedy’s seat.” Scott Brown and the Massachusetts people straightened her out. “This is the people’s seat.”
Ms. Coakley’s ideology, unfortunately, is too commonplace with too many of our politicians today.
The Massachusetts election has also brought on the demise of the Kennedy dynasty. With all due respect to the late Senator Kennedy, his loyalty to the people of Massachusetts, whose loyalty to him for decades never wavered, has to be questioned. Senator Kennedy was a champion of a complete health-care takeover by the federal government. Since Massachusetts already has their own state health-care system, supported by Massachusetts’ taxpayers, it would have become a conflict of interest — also resulting in double taxation imposed on the Massachusetts people. The Massachusetts people saw this potential problem and spoke out loud and clear in the recent election. You cannot serve two masters at the same time.
Congratulations to the people of Massachusetts and to Mr. Brown. May Senator Brown serve the people of Massachusetts well, while bringing some integrity to Washington. God Bless America.
ROBERT DIMARCO
Bryn Mawr
No Coverage For ‘March’ For Life
To The Editor,
We find it very disconcerting that, with estimates of more than 300,000 pro-life marchers, attending the March For Life, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, when other lesser- attended events on liberal-oriented issues have been covered, The Philadelphia Inquirer chose to not cover it. This is not the only newspaper or media outlet that either did not cover or accurately report this peaceful pro-life event, that was attended not just by Catholics, but people of all faiths and racial and ethnic backgrounds with the overwhelming majority of the people attending in their teens and twenties. Also, with the current tie to the health-care debate, this coverage would have been newsworthy. In the future, with polls showing the majority of people in our country believing in God, we ask for your newspaper to restore a religion or faith section. We call for this once great paper and other outlets to start reporting “all” issues equally and fairly, about religion and our country, in order to restore the faith in your newspaper that many of us once had and have now lost. God bless and thank you.
JOHN AND GERALD DOUGHERTY
Huntingdon Valley
We’re Not Gonna Take It
To The Editor,
I read with interest your piece on Geert Wilders, “Why Geert Wilders is worth standing with” by Daniel Pipes (The Bulletin, Jan. 24-30).
I wish to concur with your first paragraph and, until recently, would have concurred with everything else you suggest, but your assertion that there is “cultural diffidence” in Western Europe is, in my view, flawed. Here in the U.K., the non-Muslim 96 percent of the country have decided of late to fight back against islamification and are, as we speak, organizing the repeal of legislation that has been cynically manipulated by some Muslims to gain unfair advantage. The current Labour government is tired, bankrupt of ideas and hostage to its Muslim vote — without which it could never have seized power in 1997. Reformed Conservative voices — when I say reformed I mean they have moved on from the old “left versus right” debates of 30 years ago — are now targeting the fear many Brits have of creeping islamifiation, and will win a huge and overpowering majority at the forthcoming general election.
The anti-E.U. patriotic party, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), will take votes away from disaffected Labour voters, completing Labour’s humiliation and the rout of parties who have pandered to Islamists’ demands.
Welfare systems which benefit families with large numbers of children which the households’ breadwinner cannot support — exploited very successfully by Muslims in the U.K. — will be disbanded as the sheer cost of continuing them is prohibitive in a country with such a colossal debt ... and there will be a vote to ban any building of minarets as was recently passed in Switzerland.
So, it’s not true to say we in Europe are rolling over to Islam, far from it. Mr. Wilders pointed out, quite rightly, that it was Winston Churchill who said, after the Second World War, that the greatest threat to face the West was Islam.
Sincerely,
ROD HOOKE
York, England
A Fix For Education
To The Editor,
I have a proposal which might help improve the educational success of the public school systems in the U.S.
It is an accepted fact that many municipalities have a requirement that for a person to be employed as a fireman, he or she must live within the city limits.
Our officials should pass a law which mandates that all public school teachers, members of teachers’ unions, teachers’ lobbyists, and all elected, appointed, or publicly hired employees (e.g., anyone whose salaries are paid for by taxes) must send their children to public schools. If the quality of our public school education is good enough for the masses, it should be good enough for the children of those people who provide it.
Think of the boost the Washington, D.C., public schools would have received if Mr. and Mrs. Obama sent their children to an area public school. At least that school would have better security for their students, and it is almost certain the school’s students would be challenged to show personal educational improvements.
KEITH SMITH
Wilmington, Del.
To The Editor,
Thank you for printing this story! (“New Web Site Launched For Gardasil Victims,” The Bulletin, Jan. 24-30). My daughter was 14 when she received her first and only shot of the vaccine in June. She has vomited every day since then. She also was diagnosed with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), which is, ironically, a disease that is normally caused by a sexually transmitted disease. She is now in the high-risk category for sterilization and, if she does become pregnant, there is a strong likelihood that it will be a tubal pregnancy, which, most times, results in death.
Her life, like those of the other girls, has changed. She now goes into depressions that are scary and, just the other day, admitted that one night while at a friend’s house, after vomiting all day, went through their family’s medicine cabinet to see if there was something that she could overdose on. I took her to a counselor the next day. I am a single mom and this has cost me a job, made me have to move back to Texas where my family could help, and has basically put us in the poor house...another reason for her depression. Her name is Ashlee Smith and she is on the truthaboutgardasil.org site. This poison has to be taken off of the market! Thank you again for your story and helping us make others aware of the dangers that are covered up by the pharmaceutical industry.
Gratefully,
LAURIE DEAN-SMITH
Vidor, Texas
Bad Reaction To Gardasil
To The Editor,
Thank you for the Gardasil story (“New Web Site Launched For Gardasil Victims, The Bulletin, Jan. 24-30). My daughter has also suffered adverse reactions from her Gardasil vaccination. It is three years later and she is still suffering side effects. It is heartbreaking to witness as a parent.
MELINDA W.
Butte, N.D.
Congrats To People Of Mass.
To The Editor,
The 1,775 people of Massachusetts opened the door to America’s freedom we share today by sending a volley of shots, which came to be known as the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The commonwealth’s people of today, again, rose to the occasion to protect these liberties and way of life, the envy around the world, with today’s version of a political shock wave as the second “shot heard ‘round the world.”
We the people are not going to be ignored by our elitist arrogant politicians, and are making our voices heard loud and clear. Repeating Thomas Jefferson, “least government is best government,” also, “when the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Today’s Massachusetts citizens, as well as the majority of the rest of America, are crying out, “no business as usual.” We want our country back. We have no reservations putting unworthy politicians of both parties out on the unemployment line with the ten percent of unemployed Americans.
Martha Coakley showed her arrogance by referring to the open Massachusetts senate seat as “Senator Kennedy’s seat.” Scott Brown and the Massachusetts people straightened her out. “This is the people’s seat.”
Ms. Coakley’s ideology, unfortunately, is too commonplace with too many of our politicians today.
The Massachusetts election has also brought on the demise of the Kennedy dynasty. With all due respect to the late Senator Kennedy, his loyalty to the people of Massachusetts, whose loyalty to him for decades never wavered, has to be questioned. Senator Kennedy was a champion of a complete health-care takeover by the federal government. Since Massachusetts already has their own state health-care system, supported by Massachusetts’ taxpayers, it would have become a conflict of interest — also resulting in double taxation imposed on the Massachusetts people. The Massachusetts people saw this potential problem and spoke out loud and clear in the recent election. You cannot serve two masters at the same time.
Congratulations to the people of Massachusetts and to Mr. Brown. May Senator Brown serve the people of Massachusetts well, while bringing some integrity to Washington. God Bless America.
ROBERT DIMARCO
Bryn Mawr
No Coverage For ‘March’ For Life
To The Editor,
We find it very disconcerting that, with estimates of more than 300,000 pro-life marchers, attending the March For Life, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, when other lesser- attended events on liberal-oriented issues have been covered, The Philadelphia Inquirer chose to not cover it. This is not the only newspaper or media outlet that either did not cover or accurately report this peaceful pro-life event, that was attended not just by Catholics, but people of all faiths and racial and ethnic backgrounds with the overwhelming majority of the people attending in their teens and twenties. Also, with the current tie to the health-care debate, this coverage would have been newsworthy. In the future, with polls showing the majority of people in our country believing in God, we ask for your newspaper to restore a religion or faith section. We call for this once great paper and other outlets to start reporting “all” issues equally and fairly, about religion and our country, in order to restore the faith in your newspaper that many of us once had and have now lost. God bless and thank you.
JOHN AND GERALD DOUGHERTY
Huntingdon Valley
We’re Not Gonna Take It
To The Editor,
I read with interest your piece on Geert Wilders, “Why Geert Wilders is worth standing with” by Daniel Pipes (The Bulletin, Jan. 24-30).
I wish to concur with your first paragraph and, until recently, would have concurred with everything else you suggest, but your assertion that there is “cultural diffidence” in Western Europe is, in my view, flawed. Here in the U.K., the non-Muslim 96 percent of the country have decided of late to fight back against islamification and are, as we speak, organizing the repeal of legislation that has been cynically manipulated by some Muslims to gain unfair advantage. The current Labour government is tired, bankrupt of ideas and hostage to its Muslim vote — without which it could never have seized power in 1997. Reformed Conservative voices — when I say reformed I mean they have moved on from the old “left versus right” debates of 30 years ago — are now targeting the fear many Brits have of creeping islamifiation, and will win a huge and overpowering majority at the forthcoming general election.
The anti-E.U. patriotic party, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), will take votes away from disaffected Labour voters, completing Labour’s humiliation and the rout of parties who have pandered to Islamists’ demands.
Welfare systems which benefit families with large numbers of children which the households’ breadwinner cannot support — exploited very successfully by Muslims in the U.K. — will be disbanded as the sheer cost of continuing them is prohibitive in a country with such a colossal debt ... and there will be a vote to ban any building of minarets as was recently passed in Switzerland.
So, it’s not true to say we in Europe are rolling over to Islam, far from it. Mr. Wilders pointed out, quite rightly, that it was Winston Churchill who said, after the Second World War, that the greatest threat to face the West was Islam.
Sincerely,
ROD HOOKE
York, England
A Fix For Education
To The Editor,
I have a proposal which might help improve the educational success of the public school systems in the U.S.
It is an accepted fact that many municipalities have a requirement that for a person to be employed as a fireman, he or she must live within the city limits.
Our officials should pass a law which mandates that all public school teachers, members of teachers’ unions, teachers’ lobbyists, and all elected, appointed, or publicly hired employees (e.g., anyone whose salaries are paid for by taxes) must send their children to public schools. If the quality of our public school education is good enough for the masses, it should be good enough for the children of those people who provide it.
Think of the boost the Washington, D.C., public schools would have received if Mr. and Mrs. Obama sent their children to an area public school. At least that school would have better security for their students, and it is almost certain the school’s students would be challenged to show personal educational improvements.
KEITH SMITH
Wilmington, Del.
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