"Thots"

Recently in a hunting and fishing magazine, Field And Stream, Wayne Zwall, an outdoor writer related a story. It so happens that two young lads were bird hunting, the day before the opening day of deer season. They flushed a deer, a large buck, and one of the young lads could not resist the temptation, he shot and killed the animal.

This slowly destroyed the friendship between the lads as the incident continually bothered the young man who witnessed his friend shoot the buck illegally.

Finally he posed a hypothetical question on this incident to his mentor, his uncle. He asked him, "What should a person do in such a situation?" His uncle answered, "You'd have to sanction the shot or report the violation. It would force a decision."

Often in our lives we are faced with such moral dilemmas and how many of us opt for the personal decision of sanctioning the shot. It takes courage to make the other decision. In the case of the young lad he would have had to insist that his friend turn himself in, or turn him in himself. But he didn't do this and the moral obligation he felt made him suffer endless discomfort.

How often in life don't we too suffer the anguish of not doing what we feel is right. I can remember when my three daughters were teenagers, and being a parent some difficult decisions had to be made. Most parents know they must say no to some things young people want to do. I asked my mentor, Dr. E. L. (Bud) Crowder, this question, "Should you say no Bud, when you feel in your heart the child simply should not do what they so dearly (at the time) want to do?" He said, "Absolutely Fred, I have never regretted saying no in such circumstances, but I have regretted not saying no."

Today we have a difficult decision chiropractically: Should we stand up for our rights and say no to artificial immunization, or should we cave in to the medical fraternity (as the ACA did) and accept the false doctrine of the germ theory of disease and its dogma of vaccination? Certainly saying no will have its consequences. Asserting our stand against vaccination will not be popular, it will bring forth ridicule and scorn. We will be scoffed at and attacked for our "unscientific" stance. "Hush up, Dr. B.," some chiropractors will say, "most of us have our children vaccinated anyway." Be gone ye chiropractoids, "neither fish or fowl" as B. J. would say. And as I would say, "but smelling awfully fishy and acting awfully foul."

Yes, such actions are foul indeed, we must not truckle and acquiesce to the medical despots who would, through compulsion, conscript us to their brand of health care from the cradle to the grave. Do some of us want to be part of them so much that we would sacrifice our professional integrity to gain this end?

Remember it is compulsion! Regardless if you believe in immunization or not. There are many of us that do not wish to have the diseased juice of monkey kidneys injected into the clean blood streams of our children. At least ye who follow the medical paradigm, should stand up for chiropractic's traditional stance of freedom of choice of physician!

Yes, I know we want inclusion in today's health care plans, but at what sacrifice? Will we exchange long term significance for short term acceptance?

Now is the time to stand up for our principles of natural immunity and everyone's principles of freedom of choice.

"It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's." Mark Twain

Think of the points I have made when difficult decisions face you in life. When your conscience tells you it is wrong and you do not take action -- you simply then by inaction sanction that which you deem is in error. In so doing it is you who really suffers. In the case of vaccination in more ways than one, "Don't sanction the shot."

"Enuf said"

Fred H. Barge, DC, PhC(Hon), FICA, FPAC, SCS
La Crosse, Wisconsin