editorial: DCSF should not be praised rignt now

[Guest guest]

Re: http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01262004/utah/utah.asp

 

Salt Lake Tribune Editor, Owner, Publisher

Cc: Utah and surrounding media; Utah government officials (some will be through

website forms)

Bcc: A few friends

 

 

We were beyond disappointment Monday [today] with the Tribune's choice of

featuring DCFS on the front page. The story they should have featured on the

front page is the Thaxton family whose child was taken from them by the DCFS

over charges of malnutrition by way of their 100% vegetarian/vegan diet.

 

After Matthew was taken away, researcher and investigator Tom Rodgers, a former

dairy man now turned vegan (no meat or dairy food products, parve), discovered

the true smoking gun for this family's problem to be carbon monoxide poisoning.

The furnace exhaust on the Thaxton home exited just 12 inches from the fresh air

intake port into the home, in violation of HVAC code, which municipal, utility

and state inspectors should have identified before clearing the home for

purchase by the Thaxtons.

 

The Thaxton's lost their first son, Dan Thaxton Jr., to this subtle carbon

monoxide poisoning the year prior, and then Matthew Thaxton, who was in utero

when Dan Jr. died, began to sicken the following winter as the furnace season

commenced.

 

In retrospect the culprit is now more than obvious; yet the State, and Primary

Children's Medical Center as part of Intermountain Health Care, and DCFS

continue to ignore the facts, and choose instead to continue to persecute and

violate the Thaxton family for what is a flagrantly bogus claim that they have

malnourished their children by their vegan diet.

 

The truth is, PCMC failed to run a simple, inexpensive carboxyhemoglobin test

that would have immediately identified the now most obvious and reasonable

cause. This is now backed up by national medical and HVAC experts who have

viewed this case.

 

There are hundreds of healthy vegetarian/vegan families in Utah, including our

own. How do you think this ignored breach of justice and error of medicine

makes all of us feel?

 

The prosecution should be going the other way. The stonewalling must end.

 

Governor Walker said, " I don't want to see any DCFS bills come across my desk. "

She used to work for DCFS.

 

Now, during this time of heated controversy in the legislature, the Tribune does

a feature story blessing DCFS, implying exoneration, when indictment should be

the call. The Tribune profits substantially from Primary Children's Medical

Center and IHC advertising.

 

We smell cronyism.

 

Our friends in Hollywood, all forms of media, and athletics; many of whom are

vegan or vegetarian; are not amused. You can count on national and world

attention from documentaries already in process, and a possible full-feature

film coming out on this story; and it will not make the State of Utah, or the

Governor, or the Legislature, or the IHC Medical Alliance, or the Utah Media

cabal look good.

 

As of the time of this writing, 600 people from accross the world have signed an

online petition, most of whom say they are willing to support a class action

suit against the DCFS and/or Children's Primary Medical Center for abuse.

http://www.petitiononline.com/thaxton/petition.html

 

Please get the story right.

 

" DCFS is about to be taken to the cleaners. "

 

Sincerely,

 

Sterling D. Allan

PatriotSaints.com/MyChildMyChoice

666 S. 60 E., Ephraim, UT 84627; 435-283-6340

 

Thomas L. Rodgers

FamilyvsState.org

LifeSave, PO Box 304, Bountiful Utah 84011-0304 Phone: 801-298-9095