An Old Friend of Ours Speaks Out
This week, actor/autism Dad Robert De Niro spoke out on behalf of President Joe Biden in a campaign event that took place in front the the New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is standing trial. That's democracy and freedom of speech. Eight+ years ago, De Niro included VAXXED in his prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. Until, some Godphather made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and he pulled the movie, so much for freedom. See the letter Lou Conte wrote to De Niro below:
We've written several posts about De Niro over the years, when he was actively involved in World Mercury Project and a friend to Robert Kennedy, Jr. While married to Grace Hightower, the mother of his severely autistic son, De Niro was vocal about his son's plight. Hightower joined Mary Holland, Kevin Barry, Jim Carrey and many of us at the UN to a discussion pediatric health. They divorced in 2018. And De Niro recently became a father again, at age 79. Golly gee whillikers, those late nights of crying and feeding must be taking a toll. De Niro is now campaigning for President Biden (as is his right) who is running against Trump for certain, and Kennedy too, at least in the polls for now. As they say, "The plot thickens."
An Open Letter to Bob De Niro, Age of Autism March 29, 2016
Robert De Niro, March 26, 2016
By Louis Conte
Grace and I have a child with autism and we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined. In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming. However this is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening VAXXED. I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue.”
Robert De Niro, March 25, 2016
“My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family. But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca Film Festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.
The Festival doesn't seek to avoid or shy away from controversy. However, we have concerns with certain things in this film that we feel prevent us from presenting it in the Festival program. We have decided to remove it from our schedule.”
Dear Mr. De Niro:
It occurred to me that I should write you a note about your decision to not screen Andrew Wakefield’s documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24th.
The media feeding frenzy you endured was typical for anyone with a certain degree of fame who ventures into questioning – or in your case – providing a venue for discussion of vaccine safety. What you experienced in the two days leading up to your decision to accept the censorship of Vaxxed is something that we in the autism community have seen and experienced for years.
Censorship and suppression of our rights to speak out about what happened to our children has been going on for a while now.
As the father of two sons with autism, I want you to know that I’ve never accepted it because I want my sons, who struggle with language, to know that you have to speak out even when finding the words isn’t easy.
Even when the words bring you criticism.
That those who oppose our views exerted enormous pressure on you and the Tribeca Film Festival team to pull Vaxxed from your line up is not shocking. That you brought in “others from the scientific community” to help you accept censorship is profoundly disturbing. Read more here.
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Really though, don't you think that this hate biz toward Trump, for De Niro is an act. He does play anger as an actor very well?
Hard to know motives and such behind famous people.
Posted by: Benedetta | June 01, 2024 at 10:58 PM
I was disappointed when I heard that DeNiro spoke hatefully about President Trump. I haven't heard it myself. What with our son's challenges, I haven't the heart for it. What is happening to President Trump is unprecedented. The left is going after him because he is running for President. One case after another and right before an election. Gee, what a coincidence! The judges and prosecutors have had no credibility in my view. They've had a vendetta. A few years ago, Stormy Daniels said it was consensual. Now it's not? I can't believe a word she says. I was listening to the radio the other day and I missed it but someone involved in the Biden Administration was involved in the prosecution of this case? Since when is it okay in America to go after your political opponents? If a person wears a suit instead of pajamas, is that trying to influence the election in their favor? Biden doesn't get held accountable for the treasonous things he's done but Trump gets "trumped" up charges. Biden needs help to find the restroom. Obama said a few years ago that he wants to sit in his basement in his sweatpants and speak into the ear of a president telling them what to say. Do we have Obama/Biden III? I think so.
Posted by: lorim | May 31, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Louis; You would know better than me, but when a criminal gets away with a crime, allowed to continue it escalates for some reason.
McCain when he got caught making bad deals even, pled for forgiveness , claimed being stupid, and would forever more spend his time to fight against such corruption. Instead he became even more corrupted, but so much more cautious not to get caught. We still do not know his row in Georgia or Ukraine. If we survive, it will eventually come out though.
Do criminals if they are never caught at least for a very long time just get really careless? I think of crazy criminals like Elizabeth Báthory the bloody countess of Hungary. She bathed in young virgin's blood. At first she tucked the bodies away to not be found, and then became so brazen that she had her staff just throw them in the woods around her castle.
I am terrible old to finally realize you just don't give evil people a break ever. Maybe there has just gotten to be too many criminals and we need another ark and flood.
I thank you for writing all of this and sending it to De Niro, but he has shown his character is not of good standing for the last few years.
Such a father might not mind if one kid has autism, he can just move on and make another, as long as he has a good career and all. So he must protect that career.
He plays the part of a criminal so well in many of his movies, but in the end he is just a man of not good character is all he is, and put into a position that such a man would then easily cave to criminals.
For the past few decades we all as a nation also have been put in this position as well. Public opinion has not cared if a child had a vaccine reaction. We all know the attitude, we were some times in a position that we had to just not speak of something just so not to aggravate those around us. Just to get along. Only it was our own experiences, not some theory of vaccines can hurt.
The thing is De Niro and those that we aggravated for speaking like an antivaxxer did not get it that criminals are in the highest positions and they are out to get us all.
Didn't we all think it was strange how they did not care if our children were hurt. We all thought that if we reported it, we would have people coming straight from the CDC, flying us in to Bethsaida for further test, asking questions, taking blood samples, putting our children in CAT Scans and MIR machines, and then coming back to us with solid answers. We might be lucky and they would tell us how to treat it, but more important to humanity they would understand who was going to get hurt and develop test to screen such children. Only folks it was everyone; it is just a matter of dose and time.
These past few years has been even more disturbing though. It all is on purpose.
We discover our government is making bioweapons, and have been released on us for sure. We hear on the news of biologicals weapons put in packages as a powder, and mailed out to news stations, leaders, killing and sickening others through the mail. All of which can be traced back to our own government labs. we then witness our young men going off to war having to take vaccines for these bioweapons, and becoming very sick and dying.
We learn of experiments in which scientist actually give people syphilis down in South America, and those same scientists are in charge of the Tuskegee experiments, on American citizens.
We have new tick borne diseases spreading out into the country, starting not far from biolabs that is known to work with ticks. We have researchers working on mosquitos claiming it is about delivering vaccines without consent, but what we see are beagle dogs tortured to death from mosquito bites.
There are wild rumors that later turn out to be true that parts of the most dangerous viruses like HIV have been stitched onto a common cold virus, a bat virus, something . That it was from nature, no, it was from a lab (they are caught) but no one mentions that maybe it was really released upon us. We see our rights being taken away, cash not being accepted, and a very tainted election. Then we find more stuff out about the vaccine for that virus that it contains parts of a dangerous cancer virus SV-40, along with other things to dampen our immune system so we can't fight cancer, and it still causes high inflammation, damaging blood vessels and hearts, and the vaccine don't work.
We gave a mumps vaccine that delays mumps till the most damaging time; the teen years.
We have a vaccine for whooping cough that just dampens the immune response, but we can expect to continue to get whooping cough over and over again instead of just the one time. This makes hard for us to know when to stay away from new born babies. On top of that it is a dangerous vaccine that has lots of aluminum in it (at one time mercury and aluminum), even the toxin of the whooping cough that is in the vaccine is dangerous. Now we need to take it forever in our short lives.
All of this is reaching crisis point as we race toward the final outcome of 1 out of 2 kids with autism
And the cherry on top of all of this? There is a cherry. I think it started 25 plus years ago when my father -in - law could no long buy quinine bark for his leg pains, from his health store. And then suddenly we have this whole criminal debacle of not being allowed lifesaving quinine/methylene blue derivative drug. Drug companies making it are closed in Virginia, supplies all gone. Peter Navvaro that managed to get American citizens 26 million doses has been put in a federal prison in Miami for a whole year now.
This is not an accident, stupidity, just how the marbles fell in a capitalistic society of greedy humans, it is so much more. It is a diabolical, evil plan of criminals. I pray that for once a congressional hearing matter, makes a difference or the western world is not going to survive.
And if it doesn't? Will we continue to all be like De Niro? For now, pray each day that Congress will do their job, that the Justice Department will change hands and do their jobs. God help us all.
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Posted by: Benedetta | May 30, 2024 at 11:03 AM