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PRESS RELEASE
Tetrahedron, LLC
Health Science Communications for People Around the
World
NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. DITA-99; Date Mailed: Dec. 21, 2004
For Immediate Release
Contact: Elaine Zacky—208/265-2575; 800/336-9266
U.S. Attorney Exercises
Federal Employee Protection: Pulls USA from Liability in TB Case
Against Ministry
Hilo, HI —On behalf of the federal government,
a U.S. Assistant Attorney, Michael Burke, negotiated dismissal of
the nation, and a federal employee from the Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention (CDC), as defendants in a case brought
against the state by a Judeo-Christian ministry.
The Manifestation of Divine Will brought suit against the Hawaii
State Department of Health, Tuberculosis Control Program, two private
schools, and CDC program director Jessie Wing for damages said to
be caused by administrative fraud, public deception, negligence,
and uninformed/non-consenting human experimentation. The organization
is represented by a well known public health and infectious disease
expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, who claims attorney Burke relied on
a “legislative injustice” to exonerate the United States
of America, who federal attorneys substituted for defendant Wing
a few days earlier.
“The US attorney’s actions prove federal agents operate
above the law and cannot, and will not, be held accountable for
crimes against the American people,” Dr. Horowitz, a minister
in the church, criticized. “Their quasi-legal defense of substituting
the nation’s government for employee Wing, then threatening
to file for dismissal since the federal government wasn’t
responsible teaches us that federal employees, and our entrusted
government, cannot be trusted and routinely dishonor all religions.”
This landmark case pins religious practice rights against governmental
stewardship of people’s bodies in the public health practice
of vaccination and tuberculosis (TB) skin testing. The plaintiff
alleges Dr. Wing “overstepped her authority” by denying
Dr. Horowitz’s repeated appeals for TB skin testing exemptions
for his Judeo-Christian children to attend Waldorf and Christian
schools.
The case also raises scientific and political questions in public
health policy. According to the CDC’s 2000 TB Report mass
TB skin testing of low risk populations, such as the school children
living on the Big Island of Hawaii, is contraindicated and discouraged
due to serious health risks from high percentages of false positives
and the side effects from follow-up treatments including chest x-rays
(that may increase the risk of cancer) and long term antibiotic
usage. In defiance of this and state informed consent statutes,
Dr. Wing authorized the public to be told the test was “harmless.”
Religious exemptions for vaccinations are honored by public health
and school officials in Hawaii, but so are wavers for TB testing
in most other states. The omission of TB skin testing in the statute
covering required religious exemptions, according to Dr. Horowitz,
allows public health officials to overstep their authority and malpractice
tuberculosis control.
“TB officials took advantage of lawmakers’ and the
public’s ignorance when they mandated the skin testing of
low risk children,” Dr. Horowitz said. Our suit seeks to end
this malpractice.”
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS and OTHERS SEEKING
MORE DETAILS: For review copies of Dr. Horowitz’s
books, please call Jackie Lindenbach at 1-800-336-9266. Dr. Horowitz
is currently living in Hawaii, while directing development of the Steam Vent Inn & Health Retreat.
(See: www.steamventinn.com.)
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