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Our Time Will Come

Amor vincit omnia By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.




Our children suffer from immune disregulation, increased oxidative stress, heavy metal retention, mitochondrial insufficiency, expression of proinflammatory cytokines, inflammation of the gastro-intestinal tract, low natural killer cell functionality, and active microbial and viral co-infections.  I recently had the experience of taking many of these tests to the doctor under my insurance plan and presenting them, along with a proposed treatment plan.


I asked him first if he accepted the tests as being from reputable labs and the things they measured were agreed upon by the medical community as valid biological markers.  "Oh, yeah, those are serious problems," he agreed.

"So, you'll treat her?" I asked.

"This is a little beyond me," he said.

"But aren't you the infectious disease specialist?

"Yeah, but I think this is more approriate for an immunologist," he replied.  "I'll run it by her and get back to you next week."

That was over a month ago. 

Yes, I'll call him back, but I can't help but feel this is the beginning of another run-around from the medical community.  My daughter has some serious problems.  For example, her TNF-alpha should be somewhere under 27 pg/mL, but instead it's perched at 169.8, more than a six-fold elevation.  Elevated TNF-alpha is observed in conditions ranging from aggressive cancers to AIDS.

When I explain what this is all about to an open-minded person, noting facts such as the United States gives 36 vaccines to children under the age of 5 when the rest of the developed world averages 18 vaccines and that Denmark which mandates only 12 vaccines  has a rate of autism which is less than 7% of ours (that's a 93% reduction for those of you who are math-challenged), they invariably get a puzzled look on their faces. HERE "Well, why don't the pharmaceutical companies just slow down or space out the vaccine schedule?" they ask.

I then tell then about the special Vaccine Court which gives pharmaceutical companies complete immunity from liability and they start to get a horrified look on their faces.  So, let's imagine that I spread this news to a wide enough group of people and the pharmaceutical companies find themselves in a situation in which people are clamoring for a schedule more like Denmark.

The most profitable part of the pharmaceutical industry, the pediatric vaccine market, shrinks from 36 vaccines to 12 vaccines.  That represents a two-thirds contraction in the marketplace which is worth billions.  Imagine the company for whom you work shrinking to 1/3 of its present size.  That is a massive dislocation and one which any industry would fight.  The problem in this fight is that the casualties are our children.  First, when they are injured, and second, when promising areas of scientific inquiry are thwarted.

And yet it all has to end someday. 

There are too many injured children.  After all of the assaults, after having the Secretary of Health and Human Servies, Kathleen Sebelius say in an interview with Reader's Digest that she has asked the media not to give equal weight to the arguments of the vaccine-safety community, the simple fact remains they are failing.  When a recent study on the question of whether vaccines were related to autism, nearly half of those interviewed believed there was a connection or that they were unsure of the answer.  A bare majority, 52% believed there was no connection.

They have tried everything in their power to deny us a voice and still they only draw a bare majority.  It will only get worse for them.

When will we know when the end of the tyrants of the medical community has come?  When media interviewers ask hard question of them.  When the media turns their skepticism on those who have perpetuated this epidemic.  "Okay, Dr. ----, why is it that other countries give fewer vaccines and have less autism?"  Maybe Anderson Cooper can shout down some shill for the pharmaceutical company by complaining that, "No studies have shown that vaccinated kids have the same amount of autism as unvaccinated kids!!!  Why haven't you done those studies, sir???" 

Our time will come.

Kent Heckenlively is a Contributing Editor to Age of Autism



@ Zed and @ Willie - Thank you! We need you. Our numbers are growing. We outnumber the vaccine zealots. Politicians need to hear our voices.

@ Willie - "I want lawyers in this group as well I know a bunch of pissed off lawyers with kids who have autism. There is nothing like a well trained pissed off lawyer with some direction and a lot of motivation."

Great suggestion! Legal expertise would be a definite asset. Of course, medical and legal expertise would be a bigger asset. Medical, legal, and public health expertise would be better still. Medical, legal, public health expertise, with a conscience, would be nearly perfect qualifications. No one should bother apply, unless they have a conscience.

Why not also enlist the help of religious leaders from all religious persuasions from all over the world? Spirituality, humility, and compassion are God-given strengths. Medical freedom is a God-given right that we all share. There are those who seek to take that right from us.

We need to get organized. Our principled opposition to vaccine "madness" must be organized. We can not take a nuanced approach to this problem. Medical freedom is the issue that will unite us. Our use of the word "autism" is being used to marginalize us. It may be strategic to broaden the discourse. While autism is the quintessential vaccine-induced brain injury, it now limits our argument as to vaccine safety, in general. Vaccine-induced morbidity and mortality are multi-systemic.

We dare not ignore the risks to our health posed by Codex Alimentarius and the GMO giants. The likes of Billionaire Bill and J. Craig Venter should not lead the public discourse. Flying-syringes and vaccines with artificial life forms should be on our radar screen. These sociopaths, moral entrepeneurs, are not shy about implementing their plans. There must be a system of checks and balances to their excesses. Medical freedom should be a litmus test for election to public office. The public's God-given right to "just say no" to pharma's Social Darwinism, must be protected in law.



Maybe we should designate a day where every person in the US who has been impacted with autism stays home from work and does not spend any money. A peaceful protest to show the overwhelming impact of this disorder. Big Pharma and the talking heads are too powerful to care that about this issue in terms of human tragedy so maybe we need to highlight what it means in terms of economic impact. If every person impacted by autism choose Apple over MicroSoft, maybe Bill would become a little more educated on the issue.


I've signed on, too, Willie. Spread the word among your peers. It's time the public knows we're out there. I'm prepared for fallout, but I'll put my knowledge about vaccines up against any individual who blindly administers them...because if they truly UNDERSTOOD vaccines, they'd think twice. And they don't.




I emailed that group and told them to sign me up!!! just last night and I have not heard back from them yet but I am definitely going to join.


I was going to start my own group with doctors and lawyers but I will give this a try and see how it works out


Jade's Mom

Kent, go see an immunologist- a good one, at a teaching hospital. My daughter has CVID, this is one of over 150 various forms of primary immunodeficiency.

This condition "usually" occurs in the 3rd or fourth decade of life, and it is thought to be "triggered".

These are the symptoms from Wikipedia, (you can also find more info on primary immunodeficiency sites)

Signs and Symptoms of CVID include:
Hypogammaglobulinemia: low levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin A (IgA) and/or immunoglobulin M (IgM).
Poor titer response to vaccination with polysaccharide and protein antigens (e.g. pneumococci, tetanus, and diphtheria).
Recurring infections involving the ears, eyes, sinuses, nose, bronchi, lungs, skin, GI tract, joints, bones, CNS, paratoid glands, etc. These infections respond to antibiotics but recur upon discontinuation of the medications. Bronchiectasis can occur from severe and recurrent lung infections.
Viral infections that usually respond to antivirals.
Enlarged lymph nodes, Enlarged spleen.
Abdominal pain, Bloating, Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhea, Weight loss.
Helicobacter pylori, Giardiasis, Cryptosporidiosis, Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome, etc.
Atrophic gastritis with pernicious anemia and achlorhydria.
Nodular lymphoid hyperplasia of the GI tract.
Villous atrophy of the small intestine, which can resemble celiac disease.
Inflammatory bowel disease.
Aphthous stomatitis.
Increased intestinal permeability.
Polyarthritis, or joint pain, spread across most joints, but specifically fingers, wrists, elbows, toes, ankles and knees. In some cases, Mycoplasma can be the cause.
Children may show a "failure to thrive" - they may be underweight and underdeveloped compared with "normal" peers.

Sound familiar?

Primary immunodeficiencies are listed as a contraindicated condition for vaccinations to all live virus vaccines. Wonder why?


@ WILLIE - you said, "We have to adopt a bit more of an aggresive posture here at AOA."

I'm inclined to agree. Frankly, I believe that the International Medical Council on Vaccination (IMCV) has a more aggressive posture than here at AoA. I'd like to see every physician (MD, DO, DC, ND), PhD, MPH, RN, and NP, on this board consider joining and supporting the VaccineCouncil.Org.

Principles and Findings

* We are profoundly critical of the practice of vaccination. Vaccination is an unacceptable risk to every member of society, regardless of age.
* We have reviewed published studies in support of vaccines and have found them wanting in both substance and science.
* We have brought out into the open hundreds of peer-reviewed, published medical articles that document the damage and the diseases caused by vaccines.
* We find the premise of herd immunity to be a faulty theory.
* We encourage intelligent debate about vaccination.
* We expect individuals to take responsibility for their health and the health of their children by investigating the problems due to vaccination prior to subjecting their children, or themselves, to this medical procedure.
* We believe that refusing vaccination is a personal right that should be legislatively guaranteed.

Medical doctors(MD,DO, 4yr ND), Doctors of Chiropractic, health care workers who work in a conventional setting, and holistic practitioners wishing to participate in future versions of this document or who would like to join our group, please send an e‐mail to


"Our time will come" This is a motto I have lived with all of my life (well, it went more like, "my time will come") and it's the same motto I set forth for my two struggling boys. Their time will come. Our time will come.

kathy blanco
One only has to watch this to see the motive apperandi when a product is implicated in causing a devastation disorder called autism. I am so proud of Andy for his brilliance and his brave stance.



I do not mean blowing up buildings I mean law suits and a more aggresive platform, public speakers, a bit more aggressive discourse here at the blog etc.



Perhaps we are at a nexus, and rather than being divisive, we might consider the strengths of both conventional and alternative medical paradigms.

“Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier Supports Science of Homeopathy” by Dana Ullman, MPH on February 4, 2011.


“Why Homeopathy Works and Makes Sense”

“Integrative vs Conventional Medicine”

“respect the wisdom of the body”

“show me the science”

“Josephson went on to describe how “...many scientists today suffer from "pathological disbelief;" that is, they maintain an unscientific attitude that is embodied by the statement "even if it were true I wouldn't believe it."

“Even more recently, Josephson wryly responded to the chronic ignorance of homeopathy by its skeptics saying, "The idea that water can have a memory can be readily refuted by any one of a number of easily understood, invalid arguments."

“In the new interview in Science, Montagnier also expressed real concern about the unscientific atmosphere that presently exists on certain unconventional subjects such as homeopathy, "I am told that some people have reproduced Benveniste's results, but they are afraid to publish it because of the intellectual terror from people who don't understand it."

Montagnier concluded the interview when asked if he is concerned that he is drifting into pseudoscience, he replied adamantly: "No, because it's not pseudoscience. It's not quackery. These are real phenomena which deserve further study."

Alison MacNeil

I've also been glued to the tv watching coverage of the Egypt uprising and I have to admit I'm jealous!I'm jealous of those critical of Mubarak who have dropped everything in their lives, taken to the streets and continue, many with bleeding, bandaged heads to stand up for the change they are committed to.

When I put together what had happened to my son, about a year into his diagnosis of ASD I wanted to open the window and scream. I remember walking around the next day in a fog of rage thinking we don't have time to do anything but stop this madness. There is no time for brushing teeth, for going about our day to day. It was a feeling of needing take immediate, forceful action.

I feel as strongly today as I did three years ago in my enraged fog, and I'd like to be marching in the streets, screaming for change, arm in arm with the thousands of you that feel the same way. So I'm jealous of Egypt and I am living vicariously through their bravery and fortitude. I hope to God one day we will have will to mount a similar campaign. I don't think the kind of change we need will come any other way.


Thanks, Kent. So many good points.

Cynthia Cournoyer

Parents could adopt the European schedule if they wanted to. We are still free to choose or not to choose vaccines in this country, for the most part. WE could shrink their profits to 1/3 the present size. All without violence.


I see Dr. Nancy was reporting from Egypt for some unknown reason, probaly saving children in some manner.

I would assume she is miles from any real danger, but still was wearing a dr. moslem outfit... perhaps she wears a birka in the USA to hide from Americans.


36 vaccines by 5...Actually it is 36 by 18 months

Good common sense. Thank you Kent.

I do agree with David Burd. In the past few weeks I've heard several, including J.B., quote 36 vaccines by the age 5. Clearly looking at the schedule it is 36 by 18 months if the cild receives just one flu vaccine in the first 18 months.

36 obviously seems like the correct number by 18 months and is a much more shocking statement than 36 by age 5. I think it is critical that we all get on the same page on this. My experience mirrors Burd's when I tell people, especially Grand Parents, that children now receive 36 vaccines by 18 months they are utterly shocked and usually horrified. And I love when I often get the question from grand parents, "Why, it's not like kids were dropping dead in the 70's and 80's." and they often follow that comment with "by the way, I didn't know children who were dropping dead when I was a child and we actually go all those diseases."

C. Hicks

"Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher."

- George Bernard Shaw



that's the shady part of this.. while it may seem desirable to eliminate disease from the human population, in order to collect mtDNA defects, the first step is to identify those disease causing defects that are secretly encoded in our mtDNA. Disease causing mtDNA defects normally remain hidden and are passed on generation to generation.

This means binging those diseases to the surface.

How? Push vaccines and push them hard!

Are vaccines the means to that end. Are the elite using immune boosting vaccines to provoke the expression of hidden mtDNA defects that cause diseases? very sinister if that is the case.

C. Hicks

"A man believes what his paycheck tells him to believe."

- G.K. Chesterton

(This applies to women, too! Are you listening Madames Gerberding, Shuschat?)

david burd

Julie, The Kaiser Family Health Foundation puts Pharma sales of prescription drugs to the American public at $300 Billon dollars for year 2010 just over.

Academic studies and industry sources estimate 25% of these prescription drug revenues are then plowed back into Direct To Consumer (DTC) advertising. That comes to $75 Billion for 2010 going to all the major media outlets and magazines, TV, radio, etc.

So you are absolutely right: This $75 Billion puts Mainstream Media totally in the tank with the Drug Industry and the CDC/NIH Empire.


Kent - "I expect any medical professional who honestly searches for the cause of autism to run the risk of an attack on his or her professional reputation."

Yes, I agree. Yet, despite the risks, it is time to overcome our fear and stand up for what is right. Global vaccine policy is undeniably responsible for an iatrogenic epidemic of diseases. There is no end in sight.



“Are MMR vaccines dangerous for children? Dr Suzanne Humphries urges parents to get informed” by Mike Adams on February 2, 2011.

“Sherri Tenpenny warns parents about safety of vaccines in NaturalNews interview” by Mike Adams on February 3, 2011.

Free thinker

I took my son to an immunologist. He recommended a DPT shot to test his immune system. Ha! When I refused he tried to sell me a DPT shot. When I ran out of his office, I almost knocked over a sign advertising an asthma medication.

I think Sarah's comment is interesting but I think the agenda is more like what Bertrand Russell said "Diet, injections, & injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, & any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."


Where to turn to for help?

Yeah, I would like to know too, and we have benn trying now to close to 30 years.

Immunologist = allergist

Truth be told our immunologist (former refuge from Vietnam) did us pretty good. HE gave us allergy shots. I cannot believe after all was said and done with vaccines that I let someone shoot up something else in them and me (allergy shots for five years). Well, it worked some, and some in our case was at least something! He was able to calm down a small part of a very active immune system. He also talked me into the viral pneumonia vaccine since my two kids had pneumonia twice a year and no end in sight. It worked too, they stopped getting pneumonia, and they did not get any reaction that I know of anyway. He explained to me that we had our backs to the walls and the vaccine got us into trouble, and only this viral pneumonia vaccine could help get us out of some of the trouble we were in. Now they were still sick and are still sick but it was something. If I needed further proof that he was good - my kid's pediatricians hated him. They said he gave too much antibiotics, and all his treatments were the same. Well he was no miracle worker but he helped us some, and he did not hurt us.

Later we went to another immunologists in Louisville that the pediatricians did approve of and although he performed all kinds of medical test - one that meant we collected and stored pee in our refrig for two days - he did absolutly nothing to help. He helped us none.Waste of money.

Now that leaves the rhuematologist that you will probably be directed to some time in the future.

Never had one help us yet. We have been to a great number of them over the years.

The latest two (within the last three years) one for my husband and one for my duaghter; My husband was Tested to see if he had Sorjearns but as usually my husband comes close to all these vasculitis immune disasess but never really has them. The rhuemologist shrug their shoulders as they collect 100s of dollars off of us and our health insurance company. So she was a waste of time, and money. The answer to the health care problem in the United States (doctors only get paid when they actually do something to earn it).

My duaghter's rheumy: said she had inflammation, and named the disease as unspecified inflammation disorder (this was a good year before she finally had her mania bipolar episode leading to her psychosis episode). The doctor told her to continue her Ibuprophen, and tramadol that she was already doing - that is it. We both left very angry that day as once again the doctor collected lots of unearned money.

Both of their legs kills them, the neurologists has turned my husband over to the pain clinic. That means my husband gets a little of some type of product from the drippings off of those pretty, red poppy pods, and they did give him a cortisone shot in his back three weeks ago.

Cortisone, or steroids and IVIGs those dangerous double edge sword treatments are - maybe the best treatment our kids will never receive.

david burd

Kent, I am 100% with you but would like pin down a critical fact you mention that to me is THE most compelling and shocking aspect of our fight. You say: "the United States give 36 vaccines to children under the age of 5."

The U.S. Immunization Schedule actually recommends 41 vaccine doses by 18 months when 3 flu shots (2 shots at 6 and 7 month, a 3rd at 18 months), the 2nd MMR, and the 4th DTaP are noted as permissible if after 28 days of their 3rd shots (see Notes on this U.S. Schedule):

I'm afraid this is of utmost significance: 36 to 41 vaccine doses by 18 months staggers anybody I show and explain the brightly colored U.S. Chart to.

And this includes 32 doses at 12 months or before, which is even more shocking (it that's possible). The late Dr. Gerhard Buchwald wrote and lectured and testified the last three decades of his life that probably EVERY vaccine shot given at infant-age incrementally damaged (if not catastrophically) the infant's intellectual capacity, and their physical wellness.

Hope you don't mind my elaboration of your Post, thanks so much for all you do.


The media will never, repeat never question Pharma as long as the advetising billions keep flowing. Our mainstream media is about as independent as Pravda under Brezhnev. They are hopeless. People are learning through bad experiences and word of mouth. The truth is coming out, but so slowly


I think our kids are part of a much bigger scientific agenda. That is to rid humanity of diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries.

Our kid are in cross-fire of conflicting scientific ideologies between those in the medical community who, like Dr. Wakefield, want to treat and those who are trying to rid the human population of chronic disease by eliminating genetic defects.

Look at the huge emphasis on genetic research...what is the Autism genome project, Mito-map project and Human Genome project laying the groundwork for? Why are researchers collecting and inventorying the mtDNA of people who suffer from chronic diseases? What is the end goal?

There are elite circles in the scientific community like those at the Wellcome Trust Genetics Centre who want to eliminate genetic defects that pre-dispose us to disease.


These scientists know full well that disease including autism are, in part, the result of mtDNA defects. They know that the ratio of mtDNA defects in a cell dictates the severity of those diseases. They have studied mitochondrial DNA and the relationship to disease thoroughly.

Instead of treating those disease, they are looking to biotechnologies like pre-implantation genetic diagnostics (PDG), ooplasma donation, nuclear transfer to eliminate the human population of mtDNA defects. That is their goal is, not to treat the individual, but to eliminate their defects from the population.

I don't think they are at all interested in treating our children. They know this is an autism crisis..they would have stepped up to the plate by now. There is no incentive to help children with autism because our kids help further their agenda.

In fact, children who grow up seeing these chronic disease like autism will demand these technologies. Fear sells. Watch how the demand for these biotechnologies like PGD grow. Watch the biotech trends.

This plan has been in the works for a long time. We are nothing but a thorn on their side. They have the money and power to carry out this agenda. They will continue to ignore us and attack any scientists who threaten their plan.

Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Diseases and Ways to Prevent Them

The Human Genome project

The Wellcom Trust Genetic Centre

Designer Babies - Comments by Princeton professor Lee Silver

C. Hicks

Here's the link to the Gardasil India deaths:

Also, the LOWER infant mortality in countries that vaccinate LESS, is top priority in any debate with the vaccine nazis.

C. Hicks

Just realize that the U.S. medical establishment considers ANYTHING outside the U.S. to be medical hinterlands.

Thus, a good way to catch them off-guard is to ask, pointedly, for example:

"If Gardasil is so safe, then can you tell me more about why India suspended it after a rash of deaths?"

Expect a deer-caught-in-the-headlights look.

The LOWER rates of autism in countries that vaccinate LESS is GREAT MONEY in a debate where the authorities insist on their "life-saving vaccines" propaganda.


Patrick is exactly right- Big Pharma is looking at going out of business. No wonder they are terrifyingly agressive at shouting us down. Kent is right also, they can't shout us all down-- there are WAY too many of us.


Dr Tenpenny makes an excellent observation in her discussion with Mike Adams, saying that vaccines are the backbone of the pharmaceutical industry. Although they are not the biggest money-makers in this industry, they pave the way for the need for many more drug interventions to treat the co-morbidities from vaccine damage. Calculate that into dollars, and it's clear why Phrma is feeling so desparate to convince the public regarding their safety and efficacy. Who wouldn't want the profits derived in a liability-free cash cow?


Kent, I hope you are right that our time will come. It can't come soon enough. On GMA this week it was announced that two more vaccines were added to the schedule for teens. One is pertussis booster between ages 14-16 and the other is HPV for boys. The medical correspondent was espousing how important it is to immunize boys as well with the HPV blah, blah, blah. When George Snuffalupugus asked the correspondent if he will be giving the HPV to his own son he replied, "No. There are no studies showing that it protects against genital warts in boys." But for sure you should be vaccinating your girls. What a hypocrite.

A friend of mine has a teenage daughter that suffers from sarcoidosis. She was fully vaccinated. The daughter recently said she was considering getting the HPV vaccines. My friend pleaded with her not to. She is already immune compromised. She asked if I could please forward some websites to her daughter about the negative affects of HPV.

My brother knows the vaccines sleighed two of my children. He is choosing to vaccinate his 1 and 4 year old boys. The one year old already now has asthma.

When are people going to start thinking for themselves? I am so tired of the pharmaceutical lulling the masses into ill health. It's so sad.

Our day will come. When? How many more people have to be injured or die? How many?


Wonderful article Kent.
Do we have the estimate of the impact to our nation as a whole to support vaccine injured children & their families - school funds, state funds, adverse impact to productivity & competitiveness of the nation, increase in medical care cost - for both childrens & parents. It will not be pretty - it will drown the public health benefits, if any, that the conflicted decision makers in this area profess. I think it is time to get this in the open for people to judge for themselves & influence policy. By no means an easy task for children who do not have high paid lobbyist that Big Pharma can afford but the will & love of the parents is not to be underestimated - just like the will of the people in some parts of the world

anne tucker

Thank you for the excellent article. I will be sure to pass it on. Could you send this to Anderson Cooper? Warmest Regards, Anne

Leslie Phillips

We won't go away. There's a boy sleeping uptairs. He's not going anywhere, so where would I go? As much as they have at stake, we have more. At least 110 American children will be diagnosed today, roughly one every 12 minutes. Yesterday, the CDC posted a survey including this question: "Why do you think it is important to understand what is contributing to the trends of autism spectrum disorders?" Their desperation is evident.


Thank you for another great article Kent.

Unfortunately, the army of the “vaccine injured” is growing each day. I too believe one day our time will come. Hasn’t anyone in the government or pharma industry read the “Art of War.” How can you possibly win a protracted conflict with opponent whose size is getting larger and larger by each day?


You mention if we reduce the schedule from 36 vaccinations to only 12 like Denmark then the profits coming from the U.S. would fall two-thirds. In reality the damage would be much worse. People would stop vaccinating all together. If we realize that our natural immune system is more safe and effective than our manufactured immune system pharmaceutical companies etc... will go out of business.

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