An ongoing legal battle over whether the U.S. military can force troops to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has left the navy with a warship its says it can’t deploy because it is commanded by an officer it cannot fire. Navy Times has the story.
It’s a standoff the brass are calling a “manifest national security concern,” according to recent federal court filings.
The issues stem from a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida late last year alleging servicemembers’ rights are being infringed upon by the Covid vaccine mandate because their religious beliefs prevent them from taking the vaccine.
Judge Steven D. Merryday issue an order last month banning the Navy and Marine Corps from taking any disciplinary action against the unnamed Navy warship Commander and a Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel for refusing the vaccine.
In the process, the case has raised questions about the lines between military good order and discipline, and the legal rights of servicemembers as American citizens.
Merryday’s injunction is “an extraordinary intrusion upon the inner workings of the military” and has essentially left the Navy short a warship, according to a February 28th filing by the Government.
“With respect to Navy Commander, the Navy has lost confidence in his ability to lead and will not deploy the warship with him in command,” the filing states.
The Navy has 68 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the surface fleet, 24 of which are based in Norfolk.
But while the Government’s filing framed the judge’s order and the commander’s vaccine refusal as impacting the core of American military might, plaintiffs’ attorneys contend the case is ultimately about the rights afforded the plaintiffs under the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. That act bans the Government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion.
Not deploying a warship because the Commanding Officer won’t get vaccinated? I think they might have their priorities wrong somehow. But don’t worry, it’s not as though there’s a war on…
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The West is going to be over very soon because of this nonsense. We’re not taken seriously any more and for good reason.
Poe’s law says that’s wrong (until it isn’t because there’s no more west).
The saving grace may be that, over two years on, China is still terrified and is battering its economy by shutting down cities of ten-million over seven ‘cases.’
Given that a lot of our production has been given over to China, and given that inflation is a product of demand outstripping supply, I think we’ll probably suffer from China’s woes as much as anyone as the supply-side contracts.
I think the ‘military-grade psy-ops’ were a bit overdone …
“Zombie World” ( see last series pf the Game of Thrones for details!) Problem: no “Heroes” on white horses the way.
So you are told….by totally discredited “lying is now our only stock in trade” western Media.
Seen any on the ground, uncensored reports or vox pops from China? …thought not .
But what version of the bio-engineered virus is China actually terrified of?
The one they’re making for 2025.
We haven’t been taken seriously since Suez which Mcarthur (?) later acknowledged was his most serious foreign affairs mistake.
Dulles and Eisenhower screwed us …and we went back for more!
‘Burke-class’ – says it all really.
The key wording there is ‘we’ – count me out. I didn’t validate the regime with my vote – and most Americans didn’t vote in Brandon. I’ve not consented to anything that has happened over the last 2 years and I utterly reject the UK’s involvement in this manufactured war.
Haven’t they got a vaxxed transgender gay refugee that can take his/her/they place?
No but they have thousands of unvaccinated Ukrainian Nazis…..
They won’t be trans though, or green faced Romanies, too busy sending them back to fight or strapping them to lampposts.
Nazi freedom fighters.
“Freedom is Slavery” George Orwell
“Work Frees ” ( Concentration camp motto)
30,000 on the way t Ireland apparently – that should be fun!
That’s just under the number of British troops used to manage the Troubles in the North.
Ireland has pledged to take 200,000 Ukrainian refugees, according to one news report I saw!
Perhaps Ireland should change its name to ‘Western Ukraine’.
My nephew has to find new London accomodation because the flat he was renting for £2500 pm 1 yr contract runs out in April, they’re not renewing the contract because they’re housing 8 “refugees” in it from April for £350 each.
A friend had her annual rent for a house in London returned by the Ukrainian landlord, and they were told to leave immediately so he could house refugees.
Literally, her and her husband, and three young children kicked out a house with no notice.
Oh, you know they do. Admiral Rachel Levine – it could be a reward for killing off loads of the elderly while Pennsylvania state secretary of
deathhealth.Having said that, I have no idea if they are gay.
Levine was announced man of the year by the Babalon Bee, they had their Twitter account closed for that.
Everyone should close their Twitter Account and their Instagram and their Facebook Account – imagine the new paradise of life without Social Media poison! .
How ever did the world go around before their darkness was inflicted on us?
Done, some years ago.
Surely the new idea is that nobody knows what gender they really are as they could be one of two hundred?
A Biden chosen woman ( is that OK?) questioned on her suitability to be appointed to the US Supreme Court tells the panel that she doesn’t know what defines a woman because she is not a doctor.
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find ‘Rachel’ leaning over you…
They sure have. But as they’ve been barred from taking disciplinary action against the officer in question, they’re using the usual escape route of taking administrative action instead and of personally smearing him.
Trusting these people with national security is a grievous error as they don’t care about that at all. To them, the armed forces are just another bunch of public sector employees they can order around as they see fit in order to implement policies which are actually dear to them. Such as spend truckloads of money on Corona vaccines. Anything else is – at best – a secondary concern.
They are busy building one now on the Hammer “Bride of Frankenstein” set!
How about sending Rachel to Ukraine? That should scare the Russians away!
Have they made sure any shells fired cannot spread the coof?
You wouldn’t want to infect someone you’re trying to kill!
They certainly might cause offence – another reason not to fire any.
In the same vein, I’m sure that we are all safe from nuclear war. A fusion warhead detonation would cause covie fallout that would endanger the entire planet. There wouldn’t be enough Chinese masks for us all.
If you fire the shells at yourself that should protect the “other” from being hit – just like the masks!
Official US government advice in the event of a Nuclear attack:
“Hand sanitizer does not protect against fall out.”
“Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household.”
“If you are able to, set aside items like soap, hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol, disinfecting wipes, and general household cleaning supplies that you can use to disinfect surfaces you touch regularly.”
“….if you have, or think you might have, COVID-19. If you can, put on a mask before help arrives.”
“Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress.” (No shit Sherlock!)
https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
don’t know if you’ve seen this – pretty classy spoof
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1506776616164278282
Class emoting.
‘nuclear war would be worth it if it saved just one life’
lol
The trouble with politicians is that they find it very difficult to state that they were wrong.
As it stands the vaccines offer no protection against infection.
When the rule was created it was thought that it would protect against infection, so it sort-of made sense (except the whole moral issue).
But the science now says that this was incorrect, and that the vaccines don’t help in this regard. But the people in charge just cannot bring themselves to state that they were wrong and you end up with this sort of ludicrous situation.
They offer as much protection as an open parachute does against being blown about in the wind!
Or the classic – an ejector seat in a helicopter.
Often overlooked: because there is literally nothing to vaccinate for.
Really ? Gates has a “plan”!
“When the rule was created it was thought that it would protect against infection, so it sort-of made sense (except the whole moral issue).”
yes, the vaccines were supposed to stop covid spread. yes, the “experts” told us so.
My grown son accused me of being mentally ill because I didn’t get ‘vaccinated’.
Yesterday he contracted covid.
I don’t need to say anything to him, he knows I’m laughing my socks off.
Ultimately the fault of the public for believing the media saying ‘one mistake and a politician is finished!’
The media is useless and needs overthrowing.
The public needs to learn to be adults.
It’s no good forgetting the depths the MSM plunged to last year during the Vaxx roll out – even Toby was terrified of speaking out against Big Pharma’s Boris backed Gatesian vaxx agenda.
As a reminder here’s an edited excerpt – my underlined emphasis and (bold comment in brackets) from a rant by the Independent’s Sean O’Grady (18th May 2021).
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antivaxxers-vaccine-coronavirus-nhs-b1849437.html
The article is still there – go have a look. Let the turgid video play too (labelled ‘Brought to You by People who are Smarter than We Are’) featuring various wonderful medics and experts laughing at, chiding, and even putting fingers up to us sceptical ‘unqualified’ plebs still holding out against the wall to wall Big Pharma BS that had taken over 10 months ago.
PS: Spring 2021 was the point where the vaxx was being cleared to be rolled out into the schools, despite the available (but ignored) damning evidence that should have stopped it.
The public were “adults” until the Media and the ‘occupied’ Education System set about systematically infantilising them.
In this case it’s not that politicians find it difficult to admit they were wrong. They are acutely aware that if they admit they got it so fatally wrong, there will be no safe space (and I mean a real safe space, not the airy-fairy stuff universities set up when Trump became president) for them to hide – they know some angry parent will get them, some person dying of a vaxx-induced cancer who has nothing left to lose.
The trouble with politicians is that they find it very difficult to state that they were wrong.
As it stands the vaccines offer no protection against infection.
When the rule was created it was thought that it would protect against infection, so it sort-of made sense (except the whole moral issue).
It was asserted that these vaccines would stop people from becoming cases of PCR-positivits despite this was always impossible, as PCR tests detect RNA fragments which will remain present long after an active infection existed (for at least three months if UK government testing guidelines are correct on this). But that was just a vaccine sales fib aka bullshit.
IMO, it’s always prudent to assume that people want to achieve what they’re actually achieving. In this case, this would be mass sales of a pretty shoddy medical product using whatever rethorical and statistical tricks may help with that. Before real numbers became available, this was the claim that these vaccines would prevent transmisson. As this didn’t turn out to be true, they’ve switched to other justification, among them the tried and trusted This must be done to prevent health system collapse and It’s cheaper to vaccinate people than to treat them in hospital.
The latter is a seriously poor lie as that’s certainly true for the individual case: Vaccinating someone is cheaper than treating a case of serious COVID in hospital. But as it’s not about vaccinating individuals, the cumulative cost of the whole vaccination campaign, starting with the vaccine development cost, has to be compared with the cumulative cost of treating a much smaller number of people in hospital. It seems pretty certain that no cost savings favour real-world COVID vaccination when looking at it in this way.
And when it comes to treating there’s always Ivermectin.
They weren’t “wrong”…they just lied.
Mandating vaccines is rational (if also immoral) when they stop infection.
They make no sense if all they do is protect the jabbed person against infection.
The prospectuses of the jabs never ever claimed to stop infection. Ever.
And public officials knew it. You could tell because the establishment didn’t really manage to get their story straight. They tried to push the barefaced lie that jabs stopped infections, hut every so often someone would just be open and fess up that the mandates were just to coerce people into getting the jabs.
So it never made sense. Except from a purely tyrannical stand point.
It’s almost like the Manchurian candidate in the WH *wants* the US military to turn into a damp squib. Just as it’s almost like Brandon (well, his handlers, obvs, seeing as Brandon doesn’t know whether his name really is Brandon or Joe) wants to destroy the US economy, wants to erase the US Constitution, wants to foment a civil war.
All the idiots in Europe who cheered when Biden was ‘elected’, do they realise how much he has hollowed out the country that is still relied upon to ensure Europe’s security? Probably not, they’re too busy cutting their noses to spite Putin’s face, making sure Europe has no energy, thanks to politicians sanctifying the hysterical screeches of a socially malfunctioning Swedish teenager.
It’s only a matter of time before he refers to himself as Brandon on live TV.
Seriously though, Manchurian candidate is spot on. US politicians (not just Biden) now actively engaged in the destruction of the US economy and way of life. An extraordinary thing to see. I’m sure they’ve all got their bunkers / Australian beach properties ready for when the project comes to fruition.
I’m just waiting for him to join in with a crowd of people chanting ‘Let’s go Brandon’ 🙂
Oh please don’t encourage them to come here – we have more than enough stupid politicians of our own. They should know that our sharks can swim right out of the water and sun themselves on the beaches, just for the heck of it. Biden might go for that.
Time for criminal charges against the Head of the US Navy, Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden, the Pentagon Chief and Jake Sullivan.
Very simple charges: wilful committing of crimes against humanity, forcibly injecting human beings with dangerous, improperly tested vaccines.
This seems absolutely inevitable doesn’t it? All it will take is one breakthrough story and the whole thing will collapse in an avalanche of lawsuits. Poof! The West will sue itself out of existence 💥
All Law suits will be thrown out by the Higher Courts in the hands of the Deep Date.
Just like in the UK then. Anything to do with a ‘pandemic’ is too hot to handle apparently.
Find a court to take the Case …and the US Supreme Court has gone down since under Roberts’ direction, it refused to examine the mountain of prima facia evidence of the stolen 2020 Election.
UK Met Police Hammersmith have WPBd the massive compilation of evidence ( still coming in) of vaccine damage, malfeasance in public office, malpractice, dereliction of duty, and neglect of ‘duty of care’ and criminal behaviour in the UK Vaccine campaign.
No police , no courts ….the people are on their own.
I think TPTB have made a great mistake. The idea of checks and balances is important. We might not respect our politicians or CEOs, but we expect that the legal system offers us some protection against the worst of their behaviour.
What happens when people, on a larger scale than we have known for a very long time, decide that it does not?
From the article:
This is vitiated by disanalogy, and it is absurd on its face. The former comes down to bodily autonomy and medical ethics, and is arguably an unlawful order regardless of the legalities, while the latter comes down to the bread and butter of the plaintiff’s job.
Moreover, Caudle begs the question since whether or not it is a lawful order with regard to the plaintiff and the case in question is the very thing in dispute.
(My bold)
With all due respect to the judge, surely this begs the question in favour of inoculation ‘[maximising] the health and safety of servicemembers’. Many studies would suggest otherwise, and regardless, the fact that this novel and experimental technology has zero long-term safety data renders the government’s contention highly disputable.
Does the judge not just mean that the safety & efficacy is not being disputed in the case (Ie it’s not the basis for the chap’s exemption: that is a religious one)
Safety & efficacy is not in dispute in my mind, for sure. Just not in the same way as the US military top brass think about it.
i.e. It’s not safe and it’s not effective?
You might be right. The way it is framed suggests not, as instead of
‘is not in dispute’
it would read something like
‘is not what is in dispute in this court‘
However, the judge himself says,
So you may well be right, and perhaps I’m being pedantic here.
What am I thinking! The answer lies in the very part I quoted. I took for granted the initial part I put in bold meant what I thought it meant, so I didn’t feel the need to look more closely at/highlight the judge’s comments further down, and here’s the whole section again with the pertinent parts in bold:
So yes, while the part I previously highlighted is somewhat ambiguous (and I appreciate you pointing that out and making me think again), the judge does assert that
‘[T]he obvious…[is] that vaccination is best for ‘the force…’
and is indeed begging the question in this instance.
” (10,000) Sanctions failing to curb Putins ‘Special Military Operations.
Solution = More sanctions.
Sky News, 25/3/22. 11am
Whatever happened to the old maxim “keep for friends close, and your enemies even closer”?
Is it now de rigeur that anti-Russian leaders don’t have a functional brain cell between them? At least Boris won’t feel inadequate among current company.
Obviously, covid compliance trumps national security with Grandpa Joe in the hot seat.
Just a sideshow.
The real issue de nos jours is what is going to happen to the Western European NATO members’ resolve now that Putin has found a legitimate way to cut off gas supplies.
Is POTUS Biden going to raid Hunter’s piggy bank for the necessary rubles to put in Germany’s gas meter?
The real issue de nos jours is what is going to happen to the Western European NATO members’ resolve now that Putin has found a legitimate way to cut off gas supplies.
The more interesting issue is What happens to Putin in this case? A natural gas reservoir is not something like a water tap which can be turned on or off. For as long as it comes out, it must be transported somewhere or otherwise gotten rid off, eg, by burning/ flaring. Which would imply that, instead of making money from transporting it to users, the Russians would need to spend money to get rid of the gas. That’s extremely unlikely to have a positive effect on expensive operations (like wars) which need loads and loads of material other than natural gas.
Probably sell it to China?
The Chinese don’t need it. They have enough natural gas themselves.
India, then?
Same difference. The long and short of this is: Putin has nothing to gain but very much something to lose by doing that. So-called resource rich countries export resources because they need the money. That’s not a charitable operation. Further, pipeline networks used for long distance transport of natural gas aren’t mobile and take a long time to build (eg, the NordStream 2 project has been ongoing since before Angela Merkel became German chancellor).
More generally, despite persistent rumours to the contrary which have been ongoing since the 1920s, terrorizing civilian populations is an otherwise largely effect-free money sink.
Off topic. If you haven’t seen the letter the CEO of Blackrock, Fink, sent t his shareholders please do so. Remember this guy heads up the largest fund in the world, over $10trillion, he controls more funds than the US Fed.
In the letter he clearly states that the Ukraine war will speed up green energy investment, Central Bank Digital currencies and State oversight. Indeed he follows the WEF mantra to the letter. But its only a conspiracy theory, don’t you know…
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-chairmans-letter
They tell us the truth and we say its a “conspiracy theory” – we have made it all so easy for them!
Still no vax for stupid!
Can you now see why Putin feels emboldened to invade the Ukraine… He knows the West has gone mad.
And the Western MSM have the gall to call Putin a madman!
The entire Western MSM is now a sick comedy turn (and not even funny).
And a ‘woke’ comedy at that. Keeping up Appearances gets flagged up with trigger warnings.
Never mind, give it five years the two of them will be running the whole shebang.
Every month gets dafter than the previous month.
I enjoyed Monty Python but I never expected to be living in it.
It is being re-run on Freeview – what a treat!
We had real country and real people in those days!
But if they wear masks, implement one-way systems and tape off every other urinal, surely that’s got to keep everyone safe. No?
If all the other sailors are jabbed, then surely they have nothing to worry about?
Only the blood clots, heart attacks myocarditis, strokes, blood disorders ADE and VAIDS – so no – nothing at all!
It is as serious question to ask whether the current Covid derangement syndrome gripping the US in particular ( and of course sad Europe) is the result if thirty years of ‘normalisation’ of recreational hard-drug taking at all levels of the society – especially cocaine in Financial and Political circles?
It seems that the manifest derangement of the entire operative democrat political class and the absence of of any attempt to apply the rule of law, scientific method, rationality or any concern for human life and Human Rights at all levels of Health Care, Government, Deep State and Security Agency activity must have some explanation .
So could we perhaps have a study comparing the evidenced behaviours of politicians and ruling elites and celebrities with the expected effects of a universal long-term Cocaine habit?
How is it possible that the massive damage now documented as being caused every day by the vaccines across the world – viz regular sports personality deaths, child myocarditis deaths, huge evidence from Pfizer of the vast scale of vaccine damage, VAIDA, spontaneous abortion levels mortality rate increases among the vaccinated (but continued unquestioned efforts by the Authorities to now force the vax onto babes in arms- has made no impact whatever on the attempt by the Davos Elites and their followers to force vaccinate the planet?
How long will the duped populations put up with it?
Refusing to follow an irrational and immoral order = inability to lead.
I do not think that word means what they think that it means.
It’s customary in the armed forces to fire ammunition, not officers.
But not in the new, woke ‘armed forces’
Bad News, everyone.
I remember watching this lawyer testify to Reiner Fuellmich’s Coronavirus Committee.
She has been arrested
One of the attorneys assisting Reiner Fuelmich in proving world leaders have committed crimes against humanity in the name of Covid-19, has been arrested in France on suspicion of terrorism and treason.
Virginie de Araujo Recchia, a French attorney living in France who is participating in the work of the Citizen Jury with Reiner Fuellmich, was arrested in her home at dawn on March 22nd in front of her children. The arrest comes three weeks before ahead of the French presidential elections.
Fuellmich’s team have allegedly been informed the charges involve counterterrorism and possibly treason
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/24/fuelmich-lawyer-arrested-treason-for-exposing-covid-fraud/
https://www.conspiracywatch.info/virginie-de-araujo-recchia
https://archive.ph/Ed8es
This lot would impose more lockdowns like a shot
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I believe the farce is even worse; As I read somewhere the Naval Officer in question also already has natural immunity from recovery after a bout of Covid!
Will someone please tell me why the USA still persist in refusing entry for unvaccinated people?
For the same reason they imposed ridiculous security requirements on the world for flights after 9/11; totally ignoring the reason why the 9/11 attacks could take place was their prior lack of any pre-flight security checks (unlike the rest of the world).
And in-flight as well, in the past. Years ago, I can remember travelling within the US on flights, where it was common practice to leave the internal pilot cabin door wide open on certain flights. Not considered to be a risk in those days.
If all “manifest national security concerns,” were as easily solved by just forgetting whether someone is vaxxed or not the world would be a simpler place. Pathetic, obsessive behaviour!
But not allowing the ship to be deployed IS taking disciplinary action against its commander contrary to the order of the court surely?
Any attack will mean he is allowed out. This is just posturing because any defeat will be a major crimp in their attack on humanity.
How completely unethical. Surely everyone with any sense knows this is utter, unmitigated TRIPE by now?
Then again, our own Mystery of Defence is well known for the same kind of wrong-headedness.
I don’t recall the global tyrants indicating that the ‘clot shots’ made anyone into a superior military tactician. Looks as though ‘Mad Vlad’ has had them as he’s completely bonkers.