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Assuming you are opposed to giving your child a chicken pox vaccination (and I myself am one of those parents), and you live in Maryland, this is your situation:
1. Government mandates that my child attend the local public school.
2. School mandates that my child get a chicken pox vaccine, or be expelled.
3. I'm too poor to move out of state or to pay private school tuition.
4. School expels my child.
5. Government jails me on truancy charges.
That my friends is a systematic, subtle, yet undeniable tyranny over the poor.
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it's all fraud/color of law stuff. all the parents need to do is get a waiver for religious/personal/health reasons. but the school/state won't tell them that becuase of the adversarial relationship. basically the parents are too ignorant to work the system, so the system is grinding them down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqUgno6iN4
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What if you want to be honest and make decisions for your child?
This argument reminds of military drafts. If I wanted to get out of a draft I could author the most beautifully written philosophical argument against fighting ever written and hope that the draft board accepted it. If my grandfather was a Quaker I'd probably have a much better chance.