Woo-Hoo!! Dr. Len Horowitz' daughter kicked out of school for refusing vaccination. This outta be good...

K - I got this ,pasted below, from Horowitz' e-mail news that I get sent to me.
It describes his battle to not let his daugher get vaccinated. He has had to use "religious grounds" to get around it all, and is taking them to court [links below]

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Tetrahedron Publishing Group
Health Science Communications for People Around the World

September 6, 2006

Dear Friends and Colleagues in the News Media:

The following press release details a case in which my daughter, Alena N.
Horowitz, a 14-year-old model high school student and varsity athlete was forced to leave school on Friday morning, Sept. 1, 2006. Public health officials illegally directed her dismissal. In this age of bioterrorism, with tremendous power and responsibility given to public health officials, this experience demonstrates the dire need to re-examine those in whom we have placed our faith and trust.

This case calls to all freedom-loving Americans. It challenges people of all religions and spiritual persuasions. It especially concerns parents with children and students being forced to receive pharmaceuticals against their will in violation of traditional religious convictions and theological convictions.

As this unnerving, yet hopeful, story unfolds, and until it resolves, I pledge to chronicle this "David versus Golieth" quest as a responsible parent, public health professional, and ecclesiastical community leader.

Updates will be posted on my official website, http://www.DrLenHorowitz.com where you can currently find articles on this subject posted in the "press room,"
and "news and articles" sections. I also recommend http://www.vaclib.org/ established by Ingri Cassel-Harkins, a loving friend and perhaps the leading activist in American health politics today.

Between 1990 and 1993 I personally trained nearly 30,000 health professionals. For nearly a quarter-century I have consistently helped professionals and consumers implement optimal healthcare. Now my family and human community needs your help. Together we can turn all of our "lemons into lemonade."

Tuberculosis (TB) skin testing has gotten out of hand, to put it mildly.
Federal authorities have strongly discouraged what has taken place in Hawaii for nearly a decade. It is a bitter fact that over this period thousands of children were needlessly abused mentally as well as physically with untold consequences to the public's health and well-being.

I feel compelled to make Hawaii's Department of Health an offer it can't refuse. Providing they follow law 302A-1156 for the first time since they began TB testing, I will pledge to develop the world's first International Institute for Native and Natural Healing with support from leading members of the World Organization for Natural Medicine to effectively treat the Big Island's TB caseload free of charge as a model for the nation and world healing community.

Thank you very much for your support and collaboration.

Very sincerely,

Leonard G. Horowitz, Overseer, Mgr. Mem.
Tetrahedron, LLC


Tetrahedron Publishing Group
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NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. TB-08

Date Mailed: Sept 6, 2006
For Immediate Release

Contact: Matthew J. Sherrill-808/965-2112; matthew@lifefoodcuisine.com

Community Protests Health Officials' "Mistakes" in Forcing TB Skin-Tests Hilo, HI -A student was expelled from school last week due to a "mistake."
The administrative rules pertaining to religious wavers for TB skin-testing required by state and federal laws were unclear to the Department of Public Health official who ordered the illegal dismissal.

Alena Horowitz, a straight "A" high school freshman and "varsity" cross country runner, certified "TB free" by her medical doctor last spring, was forced from school by Director of Public Health, Judy Akamini last week.
According to the student's father, and local attorneys, Akamini broke state and federal laws by denying the student's religious exemption.

Akamini, who admits she doesn't really understand the confusing laws, has referred the matter to Attorney General Jill Nagamine, contracted by the Department of Health to rule on Alena's status.

On Friday, Akamini rejected appeals to keep Alena in school pending Nagamine's determination. Superintendent Valeri Takata and Hilo High's Principal, Robert Dircks, attempted to intervene on Alena's behalf. Akamini declined their appeals saying there were no religious exemptions for "TB clearance" contrary to the language of the religious exemption law. By state statute and strict definitions in Hawaii's Administrative Rules anyone with sincere religious convictions must be given a waiver.

"Medically-legally, the terms 'immunization' and 'TB clearance' are virtually the same," explained Alena's father, Leonard Horowitz, an award-winning expert in emerging diseases who holds two post-doctoral Master's degrees, one from Harvard School of Public Health. "State health officials need to study their rule book. 'TB clearance' and 'immunization'
are so closely defined they are paired in the same set of laws.
(§302A-1154-1157) Officials have been routinely neglecting this law. I discussed this with Ms. Akamini who was confused, and I clarified her mistake. Unfortunately, she and other state health officials have been unknowingly rejecting appeals illegally, harming those who sought religious exemptions. Worse than this, they have been conducting a program that federal CDC officials have downright discouraged. All of this has been ongoing for nearly a decade."

To get their children into Hawaiian schools, thousands of religious families were convinced by nurses, physicians, and school administrators that there was no way of getting around the skin tests. This required injecting the chemical toxins phenol and polysorbate 80, and germ proteins including genetic material into the skin with some getting into the blood. Scientific studies found antibodies circulating throughout the body, and system-wide white blood cell reactions, resulting from the skin test. Yet, state officials have claimed the tests are "harmless," even though CDC officials warned of dangers from this medical malpractice in low risk populations.

Never intending to undermine religious freedoms, state legislators unanimously voted to grant health officials absolute authority over the Department of Education trusting the doctors and nurses knew what they were doing.

"People are finally waking up to the fact that serious mistakes are being made. Parents have been falsely informed, school administrators fooled, religious freedoms violated, and many children unnecessarily harmed," Dr.
Horowitz said.

Ironically, the bill that gave Akamini the power to rule over education department chiefs was passed to "make the education laws easier to understand." The law was drafted in 1996 "to create a state education policy framework that is less compliance and regulatory oriented and more supportive to schools becoming student focused."

"What happened in my case?" Alena asked. "I had so much fun in school. I worked really hard to get straight 'A's, made so many new friends who I have grown to know and love. I ran nearly a hundred miles; up to 8 miles a day to make the Varsity Cross Country team as a freshman. I want to go back to school." It has been Alena's choice to abstain from vaccinations and Tb skin-testing. Her Christian and Jewish parents both respect Biblical laws.
Leviticus 19:19, for instance, prohibits genetic and chemical intoxications of the body, especially blood deemed spiritually precious.

"This is the reason religious exemptions from vaccinations and Tb skin-tests must be honored," insists Alena's mother, Jackie, a corporate executive and activist.

"If Akamini's belief that TB-skin testing supersedes religious convictions is accurate, you'd have to throw out the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and legislatively change the state's exemption code
§302A-1156 to reflect this breach of religious freedom," explained attorney Gary Zamber. "This problem is going to resolve by an examination of medical-legal definitions. TB skin testing is a type of immunization by the clear language of these statutes. Health officials' also have certain definitions of these words that support the previous legislation, as well as growing scientific evidence, but they haven't integrated this knowledge."

State Senator Russell Kokubun (D-Puna) advanced a related bill last session based on Horowitz's urging to end this confusion. The clarification was abandoned in health and education committees following health officials'
appeals. The health department convinced Kokubun to leave the status quo intact. Officials were concerned that if the religious exemption language was clarified, and these freedoms publicized, more people would refuse vaccinations as well as TB tests.

"This is Dark Ages medicine mentality," Dr. Horowitz said. "Not long ago doctors wrote prescriptions in Latin so their patients would remain ignorant."

"There is adequate scientific evidence to prove systemic antibody production in response to the local skin test," attorney Zamber said. "These findings support the clear wording in the current law that most lawyers can understand, yet health officials might easily misinterpret."

Hilo attorney Zamber was spearheading a state-wide campaign to clarify the religious exemption statute when Alena's illegal dismissal occurred.

"Alena is more than a model student," Zamber said. "In this case she is a community leader helping all of us clarify what's needed to do the right thing."

"I now have a lot of free time to spend on this," Alena said. "My friends and I are planning marches, demonstrations, petitions, letter-writing campaigns, and a website for people to get educated on personal health, religious freedoms, and civil rights."

For those who wish to get involved, join Alena and friends on Friday, September 8, at 1:30PM at the gates of Hilo High School, and at 3:00PM at the Department of Public Health on 75 Aupuni St. Several speakers and political candidates will be on hand to address this and other related issues.

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Note to journalists: For interviews on this topic, or copies of the petition, contact Alena and Dr. or Mrs. Horowitz at 808-965-2112. To contact Judy Akamini call 808-974-6025. Attorney Zambur's number is 808-962-0025.

Permission to circulate and reprint this article is granted by Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 206N. 4th Avenue, Suite 147, Sandpoint, ID 83864,

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LINKs:
Dr. Horowitz's letter to the editor about it:
http://www.drlenhorowitz.com/Press/press_releases/tuberculosis/release8_hawai...

Court document:
http://www.drlenhorowitz.com/news/tuberculosis_articles/2nd_tb_legal_complain...

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