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Does look like the “vaccine” mandates in the US are starting to backfire badly on the Democrat coronapanickers:
“A judge tonight issued a restraining order against Frat Order of Police Pres John Catanzara to prohibit him from posting on social media or making any statements telling officers to refuse to get the vaccine. Chicago also filed a lawsuit against him for endangering public safety.“
“ENTIRE MAINE COUNTIES WILL BE WITHOUT PARAMEDICS“
Democrat coronaplotters.
That’s fine, they don’t want the plebs flying anyway. As long as private jet owners are unaffected then it’s nothing to worry about.
Here’s best wishes to anybody and everybody who stands up to this thuggish tyranny.
Thank you.
Joe Biden’s “mandate” isn’t mandatory. There’s no Executive Order or legislation to back up what he’s ordered. It’s unconstitutional, not legal, and probably unenforceable if enough people refuse to go along with it. I hope plenty of people refuse and make it unworkable.
I think at this point Biden knows he has become a despot and given the political environment in the US is literally risking his life in this autocratic gamble. It kind of reminds me of how Gadaffi has behaved before his fall.
Seems unlikely this is “Biden”. Presidencies are usually a team effort to varying extents, but in Biden’s case he’s actually senile, as well as corrupt and incompetent. This is definitely a despotism by a political clique, not by one man.
I was just going to say something similar. I genuinely think Biden does not know whether he is Biden or Brandon these days.
That makes it worse than Gadaffi, Sadam Hussein et al. We knew who they were and that they knew what they were doing.
Who is pulling Biden’s strings? It isn’t just one person and it isn’t the WH staff, they just help the strings to get pulled. Maybe the Manchurian Candidate wasn’t just a movie after all.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) promised to stand up to Biden’s vaccine mandate if it ends up actually existing.
DeSantis isn’t the only Governor who is threatening legal action against Biden.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt(R) said he is “ready to take Biden to court” over his vaccine mandate:
100percentfedup reported:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/governors-ready-sue-biden-vaccine-mandate-mandate-doesnt-yet-exist/
That’s why Biden isn’t publishing it, because the moment he signs it into law the lawsuits against him can start. He is hoping to achieve the effect of an executive order (looks like plenty of people have indeed fallen for the deception that there is an EO) without issuing one, thereby denying the possibility of any legal pushback for as long as possible.
Our government has been operating from the same playbook, threatening things just to frighten people into complying. For example, they have pointed out that closure of schools during lockdown was not based on any legal mandate. It was all voluntary compliance, apparently.
They pulled the same trick many times from the outset; working from home, wearing masks, social distancing, rule of 6 and now vaccination which is why, I believe, there is still yet to be a successful prosecution under so-called Coronovirus legislation.
Nothing is changing.
Same tactical deception used to stimulate compliance when it was announced the FDA approved the Pfizer “vaccine” that isn’t yet available.
I’ve just watched a 20 minute YouTube vid about the worldwide elimination of smallpox (achieved mid 1970’s).
Seems the UK did make smallpox vaccination mandatory, 1930s, but the US were in the same predicament as now.
Central Government wanted to mandate it nationally but had to defer to States Rights. Some Governors refused and even passed the decision to local Health Authorities (Counties?).
But that was before the likes of the Nuremberg code, Unesco & Human right legislation etc. Some argue they aren’t legally binding, but the intention was there.
Anyway I think the penalty for non-compliance of smallpox vaccines was a small fine, the US has mandated vaccines before, it’s all part of the liberal ideology, in any as we know these only have emergency use authorization supposedly because there are no alternative treatments.
In any case the legal situation is going to get interesting over the next year.
Frances Hoare that said that English common law gives us an inherent right to bodily autonomy.
I think human rights law in general is a career with a bright future …
Man made laws are a nice civilized concept, I don’t know much about Frances Hoare, but I always say nobody can give you rights, they can only take them away.
But all that means is that they can’t physically pin you down and force the stuff into you.
Yet as the recent ruling in NSW has shown, as regards any so-called rights (to work, to travel, to exercise, to have your hair cut, to spend money, to go to church, to meet with friends etc), the state can suspend all those because they are not infringing your bodily autonomy (only your personal autonomy).
After all, that’s what the state has done to us all in lockdown – suspend all our rights – and the courts have gone along with it.
The judge ruled that the state can’t take away your rights because of race, sex or political opinion, but they can take away just about everything for refusing the vaccine since objecting to vaccination is not a protected characteristic in Australia.
The judge ruled that it was the very purpose of the public health law to deprive people of their rights as deemed necessary by a minister of state, and it was not his business to question the decision and impementation of a minister of state, nor to have regard to the fairness of the measures. And to top it all he pointed out that Australia doesn’t have a bill of rights, so don’t expect any.
The judge was looking for favour so that he can get a promotion, and has duly given the NSW government exactly what they wanted.
And thus Australians are now well on the way to totalitarianism.
ditto Italy and France.
Probably the mandates were entirely redundant. Smallpox captures the imagination in a way that covid never, ever will.
Nope. See comment above.
Smallpox disfigures, kills, and causes hideous suffering. Covid gives you a cough.
https://navigator.health.org.uk/theme/united-kingdom-vaccination-act-1853
It was made mandatory in 1853 but this was repealed around 1895 after a lot of pressure from people in general, as well as sections of the scientific and medical communities. There was a widely held belief that smallpox vaccination campaigns were followed by outbreaks of teburculosis; and also accompanied by “serum sickness”.
Smallpox vaccination was detested by many people and there is little doubt that it provoked serious disease and illness in some of those who were subjected to it.
There were many protests against the compulsion of smallpox vaccination. A major protest happened in the town (now a city) of Leicester in 1885 after which compulsory vaccination was effectively abandoned in the borough. Leicester had its own procedures for smallpox which centred around hospitalising the sick, while quarantining and supporting their family members, until they were shown to be clear. The policy was a success and Leicester was for the most part smallpox free thereafter.
In his later years, the great Alfred Russel Wallace campaigned tirelessly against compulsory vaccination.
An admirable man in every way.
I think Y.tube might be wrong, surprise surprise … well actually, nothing surprises me any more.
My understanding is that there was a 1853 UK mandate, requiring all children born to be jabbed, but the disease had a 70% fatality rate in children .. struth. The mandate was later abandoned.
I think since then the UK has been conspicuous in protecting our civil liberties fairly well. The USA has had some mandates of the type ‘no jab, no education for your children’.
If anyone knows better, do correct me. However, if we abandoned the last mandate in the 19th.C, that’s a fairly good precedent for not having another one … especially given the post-World War 2 human rights conventions and legislation. These were brought in specifically to stop the atrocities happening again.
YouTube are merely the host. This guy usually gets his facts right but it’s a subject worth investigating as seen in the comments above, including yours.
Sorry, I don’t know how to post links from Android
And this is the man in charge!
All due to Putin – as Tucker Carlson helpfully explains : Let’s Go, Brandon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX2FOHrreDU
https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/covid-regime-is-driving-americans-to-a-healthy-noncompliance/
This is ‘Irish democracy’.
Bring -more of- it on!
“Irish Democracy is when the populace simply doesn’t cooperate with the agenda.”
Not something that you get in Ireland, then.
The old, real Irish, suppressed by the English.
Not the EUropeanized wussies of today.
The ‘Native Americans’ of today have nothing in common with their heroic ancestors either.
“The ‘Native Americans’ of today have nothing in common with their heroic ancestors either.”
Nor in fact do the English of today have anything in common with their ancestors who brought modernity to the world and built a world empire from a tiny island.
Brilliant. All tyrants over reach. Lets hope that we’re nearing that point.
American Airlines and Amtrak join SouthWest Airlines in Freedom walkouts against mandatory vaccines …
Oops – it looks like Sleep Joe’s vaccine mandates are most unpopular – other than with GOP voters – with many essential government workers, ethnic minorities and the poor, most of whom normally vote Dem. Maybe they should change the phrase from ‘Let’s go, Branden’ (ahem) to ‘just GO, Joe’.
Don’t forget that anyone in the vicinity of the COP26 when Sleepy Joe is around – please remember to loudly chant ‘F Joe Biden’.
Rules for thee …
Inc Capitol Police, FBI, Congress, USPS …
Let us destroy society and create contingency plans to deal with the destruction we caused. -Joe Biden, 2021
Why is there a constant revolving door of failed politicians, economists and advisers. How can this miserable and dangerous cycle be broken? Until we get decent, intelligent and honourable men and women to stand for Parliament and employ decent expertise in field where expertise is needed, I think we should stand down all Governments and their advisers. We should close ALL international bodies like UN WHO etc and create small effective national Sheriffs who put their own country first and are willing to help others when needed.