chiropractic on this this topic as well, because as a group, we’re here to support other things that we align ourselves with. This is one of the issues, and I personally and as ChiroSecure, are helping donate to the cause in California. I want to just introduce the past president of the California Chiropractic Association, another good friend of mine, Brian Stenzler, a fellow original New Yorker that transplanted himself elsewhere, but nothing but a great guy, great energy, to watch the things that he’s done. He’s part of one chiropractic, but he’s also, as I said, the past president of the CCA. Watching his presidency and what he’s been able to accomplish in California is mind blowing, nothing but kudos and respect for Brian. Brian, I really want to ask you, the California Chiropractic Association is the one that initiated an actual lawsuit against the state. Can you tell us how and why the association did this? Okay. Thank you for that great introduction. Thank you for everybody being on this conference here. I would love for the California Chiropractic Association to take full credit for initiating the lawsuit. We didn’t actually initiate it, but we did help fund the very beginning stages of it with the research. We knew that if this did not make it through, if we weren’t able to get the opposition through and this bill passed, we knew that legal action was going to be the next thing. We worked very closely with our allies in the legal world, and they started to put together a team. We knew who this team was. Later, our good friend Jim Turner joined in, which we were so thrilled about, but we knew that this was not going to be won, unfortunately, in the legislature at the time, and it was going to have to go to the courts. What was interesting is there were 3 hearings in the senate and then it went to the assembly. I testified at the very first hearing for the Senate Health Committee, and the first thing I said is that the California Chiropractic Association has no position on vaccines. However, we do have a position on informed consent, and that was what our whole movement was about. Obviously chiropractors have their feelings about vaccines based on the philosophical principals that Dr. Riekeman so eloquently spoke about. DD Palmer, he said that compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of people in a land of freedom. Those were D. D Palmer’s words. He didn’t say it about vaccines. He said it about compulsory vaccines, and so when people seek chiropractic care, they do that because they want another option towards the religion of medicine. When we’re offering that opportunity for them, and now that’s taken away from them as if that the medical model is the only model, of inoculation is the only way of building immunity, is insane. We talk about the facets of health and facets of wellness, and what positive nerve integrity, how that impacts somebody’s overall health and well-being. The California Chiropractic Association could not just sit down and just let this happen. Many of our chiropractic members are affected by this with their families, and the
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