A letter to the CEO of Teletubbies

The Teletubbies have taken an experimental Covid vaccine. 

Not really of course, they are children's characters. But the company that owns them, Wildbrain Media, which is listed on the Toronto stock exchange, though it would be a good idea to tell very young children that even Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa, and Po have been genetically modified. 

So the Children's Union thought it would be a good idea to ask the company's executive leadership to account for its behaviour. A copy of the letter, sent by email, is below.

Members will be informed of any response.  


FAO: Eric Ellenbogen
CEO, Wildbrain

Sunday, 11 July, 2021

Hi Eric,

So, the Teletubbies have had their Covid vaccinations. Our members are really interested in hearing why your company decided to tell children that. Specifically, our members would like to know:

- why you think it is appropriate for an entertainment company to encourage very young children to take specific drugs.

- whether you think it is an abuse of your position and our trust, to encourage very young children to do something that many medical bodies, including the WHO, do not advocate?

- if you have any information, not available to children's doctors, that prompted you to go around those doctors and the children's parents.

- will your cartoon characters continue to encourage our children to make complex, radical and adult decisions?

We see you also own Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder and Inspector Gadget - have they had their shots too? I assume Snoopy and Sonic the Hedgehog haven't (there have been no animal trials).

You chose to speak directly to our children. Now please have the courage to speak directly to their adults and explain your behaviour at your earliest convenience. 

If you would prefer to discuss this, please don't hesitate to call me. 

Yours sincerely,

Ross Butler
The Children's Union
www.childrensunion.org

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Policies that directly impact on their welfare have treated them as expendable. In national politics, they have become less than an after-thought; their welfare wilfully sacrificed, time and again – increasingly without the slightest pretence of consideration or concern.

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An advanced and wealthy nation such as the UK should be a wonderful place for a child to grow up. Instead, our children face a daily diet of unchecked corporate predation, ideological instruction, uncontextualized totalitarian rule-making, along with an actual diet of ultra-processed, addictive foods. We are deploying the full force and ingenuity of our scientifically advanced age against our children.

The nature of these threats are unlike any that parents have faced before, or that any parent is equipped to tackle alone. They pervade every aspect of a child’s life and are highly technological, ubiquitous (often without a realistic substitute), top-down and, increasingly, mandated. No adult or guardian has a chance of defending children against this onslaught, this amoral, technocratic construct designed to exploit them.

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Neil Oliver has broken ranks with the world’s broadcast media and delivered a stark warning against programmes to vaccinate children, in the EU and elsewhere. 

“There’s talk,” he says, “serious talk of vaccinating children against covid-19.”

He observes that covid-19 represents almost no threat at all to children and that if they do catch it, the disease will manifest itself in almost every case in symptoms indistinguishable from the common cold. 

“Never before in medical history has there been a proposal to vaccinate children against a disease that poses them no measurable harm.”

In disturbing and powerful language, he asks “Are the adults of this country truly supporting the notion of standing behind a wall of safety, built of our children and infants?”

“Any society that contemplates putting children in the front line of saving adults… is not a society worth saving.”

“Speaking for myself, from my heart, I say this is a fork in the road for our society. We will be judged, and we should be judged as human beings by what we do next.”

The broadcaster who is best known for conservationist and historical documentaries, and is now a GB News presenter concluded that whether adults take covid-19 vaccines is a private and personal choice “in an erstwhile free society.” 

“But,” he says, “leave the children alone. Leave the children alone.”

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Child sacrifice on the altar of scientism

I once heard two philosophers debating. One an atheist, one a man of faith. (This isn’t a joke.) 

Sam Harris (for he was the atheist) mocked the believer by pointing out that the Bible contains the barbarous act of child-sacrifice. Jordan B Peterson (for he was the believer) responded by wondering how often, in those brutish and archaic times, it might have been necessary to make that terrible sacrifice for the survival of the tribe or some other good. 

I remember listening and being very thankful that we live in a time when such terrible moral dilemmas are never presented to us. We exist in a world so luxurious that child-sacrifice could only ever be considered an act of utter evil. No modern problem could necessitate such a dreadful and disturbing strategy. 

That was 2019. 

We now live in a world where child sacrifice has become so normal that anyone even questioning it is deemed to be callous and anti-social.

No child-sacrifice is too great in order to protect us all from a virus – a virus that would be extremely difficult to detect were it not for modern medical apparatus and a Western population that enjoys longevity far greater than anything since those long-lived ancients of the Old Testament. 

For the sake of today’s ancient ones, and a small proportion of already vulnerable souls (many of whom are obese adults), we lock all our children inside – for weeks and month on end. We stop them from hugging their relatives. We stop them from playing with their friends. We stop them from developing socially, and understanding what it is to be part of a supportive community. In all but the narrow medical sense, we stop them from living. We have sacrificed the childhood of millions of children. That’s how caring a society we are. 

And while it seemed unnatural to every parent, they complied, because they were told to do it – not by God, but by “the Science.”

This was not Science as in the “scientific method” – that objective process that has brought wealth, health and prosperity to the world, to such an extent as to make moral dilemmas virtually obsolete. This is Science as a cult, with leaders and heretics, with mystical beliefs in simplistic computerised models, and followers and fanatics that will excuse any evil in pursuit of the greater good. It is not, in fact, science at all, but a kind of naïve rationalism that has been termed scientism. It is to science what dogma is to religion: the veneration of form over substance. 

But this is no mere metaphor.

Our leaders, led by Scientism, seek to pierce the flesh, and inoculate our children against something that poses them no threat if they catch it today, but may pose them a threat if they don’t build natural immunity in the long-run. Meanwhile, the experimental treatments themselves (colloquial called ‘vaccines’) have proven extremely harmful to a small proportion of children, and risk compromising their immune systems over time.

While there is no advantage and only downside for the child, the surprising thing is that there is no clear advantage for anyone. Like religious sacrifices, the rationale for this particular child sacrifice is not tangible or earthly (since the vaccines are not designed to prevent transmission, and may very well do the reverse.) It is a symbol, a sign of commitment to the cause. Through their sacrifice, we will be socially cleansed.  

I will not cite here the numbers of injuriescasualties or deaths in children that have arisen already as a result of these experiments. Either you are willing to sacrifice children, or you are not. And if you are, then no statistic is likely to stay your hand. No account of tragedy, however thin or thick the volume may be, will be heard or believed by the fanatics of Scientism. 

But it is not just a matter of opinion – it just seems that way when viewed in the abstract. Unlike science, which seeks universal truths, moral decisions are always context-specific. So look at your own life. Would you sacrifice your own child to save their grandparent, or anyone else’s aged or vulnerable relative, from Covid-19? More than that, would you sacrifice them just to show you care about the issue, regardless of whether it will actually make a difference?

If the answer is no, then help us expose this deluded cult of Scientism for what it is – a threat to children, to hope and to the future.  

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