Forced Immunization - one step away from MallCity says Saunders

A recent action by Circuit Court Judge C. Philip Nichols to force parent of school age children in Maryland to prove that their children have been vaccinated or risk up to 10 days in jail - has spawned some very heated debate from many people. One of our resident social critics, writer and psychologist Shaun A. Saunders has aptly pointed out that, right or wrong, this is a move well into his MallCity universe where civil liberties, personal freedom and privacy are things of the past. He has cited several recent news articles that describe in detail, just what is going on in Maryland.

Shaun writes

The weblink below tells of forced vaccination of schoolchildren in Maryland, USA, where kids were literally herded up into a courthouse and illegally and forcibly vaccinated without their or their parents' consent. Is this a democracy? Or another example of government and state acting as paid agents of big industry?

I've said more than once in recent radio interviews about my books Mallcity 14 and Navigating in the New World that the current reality of corporate Australia and its big brother the US of A is every bit as scary as my fiction...democracy? LOL - just forced consumption...

regards,

Shaun


Here are his links.


The official marketing spiel
http://baltimore.about.com/od/healthfitness/a/vaccinations.htm

A one-sided news article before the event
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5309438.html

and another:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flashots1118sbnov18,0,6491912.story

dissension from physicians:
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/181107Vaccine.htm

Link to Shaun Saunders new story Equal Opportunity

As you all know, writer Shaun A. Saunders has been with Beam Me Up almost from its' inception. I really enjoy his fiction and feel that we will be seeing great things from him in the very near future. He is a frequent submitter to Antipodean, a blog / magazine centered around "flash" fiction. His recent submission to antisf.com is now available - I read it, and it's good. Have a look


http://www.antisf.com/stories/story05.htm


(ed note Shaun's upcoming anthology is "Navigating the New World" due out shortly......pac)

Of Mice and ... print version doing well on antipodean Science Fiction

As our listeners know, Shaun A. Saunder has written many excellent short stories and novels. Plus contributing heavily to the science portion of the podcast with submission to this blog. In Beam Me Up episode 46 we ran an original piece of fiction from Shaun called Of Mice and...which is a story of the future and more the implications of combining the human genome withanimal DNA. If you would like to read the original story (and more of Shaun's writing) log onto this month's Antipodean Magazine. This month's Antipodean's url is http://www.antisf.com/stordex.htm