http://autism-news-beat.com/archives/808"Is the anti-vaccine movement looking to Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Nation for inspiration? It seems that way, given that Generation Rescue is calling its May 26 rally in Chicago’s Grant Park “An American Rally for Personal Rights”. In just two years, the movement has gone from Green Our Vaccines to “The Tree of Liberty Needs to Be Watered with the Chelated Blood of Vaccine Injured Children.” What’s up with that?
It’s been two years since McCarthy led her angry mob of 2,500 parents and children through Washington D.C., under the focus-group tested “Green Our Vaccines” banner. The slogan played on parental anxiety over their children’s diets, the quality of the natural environment, and all the unknowns that come with modernity. A Green Vaccine was supposedly a safe vaccine, something you might find in Whole Foods, wrapped in hemp fiber and chilling next to the organic arugula.
Unfortunately for McCarthy, Green Vaccines have a short shelf life. Mean scientists attacked her for alleging, among other things, that vaccines contain anti-freeze and ether. They don’t, and never have. Layer by layer her arguments peeled away, revealing a silly marketing slogan unrelated to the physical world. That is as it should be, since the question of vaccine safety is best left to science, and the science was never on McCarthy’s side to begin with.
So the angry mob that will converge on Grant Park in two weeks is switching to plan B – it’s about the constitution, stupid. Welcome to T-Cell Party Nation. All that’s missing are the tri-corner hats and sidearms.
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The Tea Party is its own parody, and so is the anti-vaccine "movement." Thus, this shouldn't come as a surprise, I suppose.
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