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America: Are Vaccinations a Real Necessity?

The question has often been asked: Is there a need for vaccinations? Mankind has had many diseases that have plagued this earth. Most of them have caused grave havoc through sickness and even death. As adults, parents, and guardians we are responsible for our health, and our children's health. Therefore, the real issue has become, is there a necessity to inoculate the citizens of America with vaccines?

In order to explain properly this story of vaccinations in America, first you must become aware of who Sir. Jeffery Amherst was, and his contribution on this subject. He was not an American by birth, he was British, yet he was involved in a major act of barbaric proportions when his military forces issued blankets of smallpox to exterminate native people along the east coast of the United States. In a letter written July 7, 1763, he stated, "Could it not be contrived to send smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians" (Gill)? This act of genocide created a need for a vaccination. There was not at this time a cure for this disease, but the vaccine for smallpox was approximately thirty years away, and would be created in England. There have been numerous reasons in America to give shots to her citizens.
Secondly, the epidemic in Boston of 1901 caused 1600 cases of smallpox. The Board of Health issued an order for the citizens to be inoculated or face a fine or jail time. Approximately a half million people did take this shot. Four years later, some of those Bostonians took a case [Jacobson v. Massachusetts], before the Supreme Court because they felt violated of the right to say they did not want this vaccine. They lost their case, and 100 years of health law was enforced upon the American people (Sanghavi).
In 1931, America was creating a manmade disease that would eventually terrify the earth's population. It was experimented on African Americans, and sheep to eventually exterminate the minority population on the earth (Graves). In 1985, the world would know of this new disease because of the actor Rock Hudson's contamination; this new disease was Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It was created to control the worlds growing numbers, and genocide of the black race. Yet, even after the first cure was announced to the world (James), it was ignored because the numbers of those that needed to be eradicated were not met.
In addition to the "Aids" issue, there was also the Tuskegee experimentation (1932) administered

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