In the middle of the night we Americans get an inside look at what the "rush hour major media" will not tell us about the ill effects of vaccinations on many children and adults. Mothers fear for themselves and their children, particularly those who have reacted badly in the past to something injected into their systems.

I am one who has survived two smallpox vaccinations, one at age 17 to enter UCLA and one at 32 required of all employees at a certain company. Both had horrible effects. Neither left a scar from the normal pustule because my system caused a lump on my left upper arm about the size of half an orange, filled with fever, discolored skin, and pain. Now, at 67, with active arthritis, a weakened immune system and various medications I need to keep walking, that type of reaction could be fatal. The suspicion is spreading rapidly among the public that a mass vaccination program of any type will "cull" the American population, that is, kill off the weaker among us, by government mandate.

That isn't the America I thought I grew up in, but I've since found out that this government has experimented on its own population since World War II. The evidence was just buried (or cremated). This doesn't leave me and many others with a great sense of confidence in our nation's leadership of either party. Of all things we wanted to believe about our nation, it was that this country was founded by people of integrity and would never stoop to experimenting on its own population with drugs or chemicals that would kill us.

Apparently the difference between us and other nations is that we've been able to hide American secret experiments for years, while pointing the finger at "rogue nations" that kill off their own people. We just never did ours as an act of war or quelling rebellion ... America lacked willing guinea pigs so it made us all unknowing guinea pigs at some time or another with vaccines, gases, virii, and chemicals. I will express my feelings about this: Damn!

We have a nation with some very fine people, but they never seem to get to positions of power. We have some brilliant people who are doing independent research, and the internet or talk radio are the outlets they must use to get their message across. The "free press" of which our politicians brag so much is a pet poodle of the elitists. This means most Americans never hear what the major media will not print or show on television. Only those who use their computers to seek information, or can listen to late night radio, will hear alternative views to what the major media publishes.

Vaccinations can be deadly. When I was injected with the smallpox vaccine it was regularly manufactured and regularly used, and still the reactions were frightening. Now, under a "hurry up" program backed by our government against some veiled threat of a smallpox bioterror attack, who knows what kinds of diluted vaccines will be injected into this nation's children and adults? It is known that the very young, the elderly, and those with auto-immune diseases such as the rheumatoids, those lumped in a heap called "arthritis" will likely die or be permanently impaired by a program of mass vaccinations.

More people are learning about the dangers of this program and want to protest. How do we protest? George Noory said he simply will refuse to take the vaccine. He is aware of the hazards from personal experience in his family, the same as one of his guests who is vehemently against this program. Vaccines are made with virii and attenuating agents that are themselves poisons.

I read Ed Henry's Goodbye column and I know how he feels. I wrote "farewell to politics" on July 10, my 67th birthday. The world, this nation, it's all globalist now and I saw no use in continuing any political writing. Maybe I am close to the classic three score and ten lifespan, but the average lifespan in America now is almost 78, and in my family folks die young in their 80's. It was my intention to focus only on the Final Babylon and other Bible topics. But when the news about proposed government programs that may cull our population by mass deaths of children, elderly and those with immune system deficiencies keeps popping up, then it's time to add one more voice to the rising mound of objections across the country.

The message is clear: Don't make this mandatory! If people want vaccinations, let them have the serum. If we don't want it, don't grab us, inject us and then bury us. That isn't American tradition.

We're doing a lot of secret things in our country and we would all love to believe that this nation represents integrity and the highest principles of protecting its own people. We cannot do that. As Americans, we have to believe that the people who are in the positions of leadership may not be people of integrity, they may be lying to us, and they may have plans that would cause an uprising in our nation. That uprising may yet come, around 2005, if certain prognosticators are correct.

All of us who are against mandatory vaccinations need to speak up, speak loudly and speak often. We need to write it and send it to our families, friends, and leaders (yes I know clerks read the mail and trash most of it). But perhaps we can write our newspapers. They can't really ignore an overwhelming mass of letters saying "We will not stand for mandatory vaccination."

Yes, there is a possibility of bioterrorism ... but biowarfare has the possibility of a boomerang. Chemical warfare or a massive strike of terrorism against objects like the Golden Gate, the Statue of Liberty, the major bridges, tunnels and landmarks all happening within a few minutes of each other could paralyze this nation. We don't even know how West Nile virus and malaria-carrying mosquitoes came into this nation. Maybe it was the enemy, maybe it was an experiment of our own gone awry. Whatever, we're living in a dangerous enough age without allowing mandatory executions of our people who simply cannot take vaccinations.

When I was a child, parents had a choice about vaccinations. So I have not had any vaccinations other than the smallpox vaccinations I elected to take to get into UCLA and to accept a certain job. That was enough.

If you approve of vaccinations, then by all means take them. If you do not fear for your children, let them be vaccinated. This should be a free country, and liberty is the right to choose.

Mandatory means no choice, no options. That is unacceptable in America. We need to let the government know that.

It's time to let the people lead, because when the people lead, the leaders must follow. We know what we want!