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Defeat the Mandates
There was a well-attended rally on the Washington DC mall against the vaccine mandates this weekend. It featured a nice lineup of speakers, including Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology, with the wonderful comedian JP Sears as MC for the event.
Of course, the scant media coverage is desperately trying to call it simply “anti-vax,” which is disappointing but not surprising. A feature for many speakers was the need for freedom in the face of risk, transparency, honest debate, and a commitment to truth, tolerance, and love for people.
I wonder – will we ever again see a press or an online world open to fair debate, honest reporting and dedicated to discerning truth?
The Center for Disease Creation.
https://youtu.be/ZPrh-1Tu-gE
I think conservatives need to be very careful around some of their new friends. All I can think is how true it is that politics makes strange bedfellows. Indeed it does. RFJ Jr. is on the climate change bandwagon and has been very vocal against Trump’s excellent energy policies.
Some of the measures Biden has taken to go along with the climate hysterics will, in one way or another and over the course of the next decade, hurt many millions of people. Until Biden came along, we were holding the line on adopting the draconian steps and sacrifices being promoted by the looney left.
Opposing the vaccine mandate should be quick and easy politically. One sentence that we all agree on: Every human being has the right to refuse medical treatment without harm coming to him or her for that refusal.
If Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Marco Rubio could just stick one sentence instead of making a speech, we would win in a quick vote.
He’ll come around. He opposes 5G and argues its to create a 24 hour surveillance grid and climate change will be the excuse to push forward with it.
If “we” in that sentence is liberty-loving, leave-me-alone conservatives, you are probably correct. But a majority of the Democrat and statist folks completely disagree, when it is to their perceived benefit to do so. (And they have no need for philosophical or intellectual consistency on this or any other issue.) But support for mandates and forced/coercive methods is widely supported on the Left.
As was Donald Trump.
I know it is. This is what we need to defeat.
Good point except that vaccine mandates are not a federal issue. At present, we have locally elected officials sitting as the board of health deciding whether to bar the unvaccinated from public life. As I understand, the supreme court’s 6-3 decision may well have shielded employees of large private employers from federal mandates, but the power of the mandators at the state level is completely unchecked!
This is why Republicans in every state need to campaign on the need to institute reforms of their governors’ emergency powers.
Emergency powers were created to respond to hurricanes for a week or two, not destroy or circumvent our constitutional rights for years.
The legislatures should rewrite the authorizations to reflect that. It won’t be easy because, for example, our governor in Michigan has been vetoing such legislation. It needs to become a campaign issue.