One can speak liberty and freedom but it is only till you see it in action does one truly sees you are more than words. A limited number of the people’s representatives showed up today. Each was given the opportunity to speak to the people who packed the house galley and watched on live streaming video.
Here are the live streams from today: MISTE KARLFELDT, Health Freedom Idaho
Our Liberty Minded Representatives
You do not represent the Governor, the agencies, or any other executive branch member. You represent the people who you seek to gain our votes each election. You want our vote then get out there and REPRESENT US!
Dist 2 Rep. Vito Barbieri(R) Dist 9 Rep. Judy Boyle(R) Dist 32 Rep. Chad Christensen(R) Dist 13 Rep. Brent Crane(R) Dist 8 Rep. Terry Gestrin Dist 7 Priscilla Giddings(R) Dist 6 Rep. Mike Kingsley(R) Dist 3 Rep. Ron Mendive(R) Dist 8 Rep. Dorothy Moon Dist. 11 Rep. Tammy Nichols Dist 2 Rep. Tim Remington Dist 1 Rep. Heather Scott Dist 7 Rep. Paul Shepherd Dist 3 Rep. Tony Wisniewski(R) Dist 23 Rep Christy Zito(R)
We the People of Idaho THANK YOU for doing the job we sent you there to do. #StandOnTruth #StandStrong
As we begin an unprecedented week in Idaho history, I feel that I should remind all that we have certain unalienable, God-given human rights and certain Constitutional protections. One of those is the right to a representative Republic form of government. God, please be with the people of Idaho this week as we attempt to restore ourselves to that condition and return to the respect for liberty.
– Sarah Clendenon, Health Freedom Idaho
Convening in a special session
Unconstitutional Action or Legislative Duty?
Several legal opinions have been written on the matter of the Legislature ‘calling itself into session’ to do the work of the people. Many Senators have responded to citizen’s requests claiming that they have to await the Governor’s request in order to convene which is traditionally in January. What if our Governor, doesn’t call the legislators back into session in January? Under this ‘perpetual’ state of emergency, he could very well say we have to wait until sometime later next year.
There is a serious issue as of RIGHT NOW our state is not operating as a representative government as guaranteed by our United State Constitution.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Article IV Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence
“If ever the time should come, when vain & aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.” -Sam Adams Letter to James Warren October 24, 1780
We the People have called for the Legislature to convene to call for an end of the ’emergency’ that allows Governor Little unilateral power over our state.
Join us at the People’s rally as we support our legislators.
*The Governor illegally seized the power of the legislative branch by suspending and amending sections of the code and Allocating funds. *The legislature must convene to fulfill its constitutional obligations regarding code and allocating funds. *The legislature has the duty to ensure the continuity of state and local government pursuant to article 3 section 27 of the Idaho Constitution. JUNE 23, 2020 Our Legislature needs to reconvene! We demand that they TERMINATE the state of emergency pursuant to I.C. 46-1008.
Our state has been placed under a ‘state of emergency’ going on 90 days June 23, 2020. The people of Idaho have requested that our Legislators convene a special session to handle the situation representing their constituents whose rights and freedoms have been violated numerous times by our Governor. There are three obvious reasons why legislators could convene at the Idaho Capitol on June 23, 2020.
1. ONLY THE LEGISLATURE CAN APPROPRIATE MONEY
The US Treasury has deposited $1.25 billion into the Idaho treasury pursuant to H.R. 748, known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act. Article VII, Section 13 of the Idaho State Constitution says “MONEY –HOW DRAWN FROM TREASURY. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in pursuance of appropriations made by law.”
The Governor’s use of a financial advisory committee to distribute the CARES funds violates the intent of the Idaho Constitution. The Governor usurps legislative authority by appropriating this sum of money — over $1 billion — and treating it as if it is “non-cognizable funds.” Typically, treating money as non-cognizable funds is the statutory provision for spending small sums of federal grant money made available after a legislative session.
2. THE LEGISLATURE IS NOT INFERIOR TO THE GOVERNOR – AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION BY THE GOVERNOR CAN’T BE USED TO CREATE AN INDEFINITE SHIFT IN THE BALANCE OF POWER IN FAVOR OF THE GOVERNOR
On March 13, 2020, Governor Little issued a proclamation, citing Idaho Code 46-1008, declaring a disaster emergency. The code section that describes the length of the emergency reads as follows: “the governor shall terminate the state of disaster emergency by executive order or proclamation; provided, however, that no state of disaster emergency may continue for longer than thirty (30) days unless the governor finds that it should be continued for another thirty (30) days or any part thereof. The Legislature by concurrent resolution may terminate a state of disaster emergency at any time. Thereupon, the governor shall issue an executive order or proclamation ending the state of disaster emergency.”
The Governor has maintained this disaster emergency (which ran concurrently with the Extreme Emergency declaration, which began on March 25 and ended on June 11) since March 13, and on June 11 issued another proclamation maintaining the disaster emergency. Therefore, the Governor has signaled he is not bound to the 60 day limit and may continue to govern Idaho by executive action without input from the Legislative branch.
It is unconstitutional to claim that the Governor can operate the state under a disaster emergency indefinitely, yet maintain that the Legislature must be in session to “terminate a state of emergency at any time.” The words “at any time” are clear. Acceding that the Governor can usurp full power, to change laws and appropriate money, without any power on the part of the Legislature to act as check is to accept the notion that the Executive and Legislative branches are not equal branches of government. Was the Idaho Constitution written to make the Legislature the inferior branch, by allowing only the governor to call a special session? This allows the same governor to effectively serve as two branches of government, and to prevent a Legislative check on this action, except for the period of roughly January through March?
3. EXECUTIVE ACTIONS BY THE GOVERNOR HAVE BEEN ARBITRARY AND IN CONTRAVENTION TO AMERICA’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
Much has been made of the decision by the Governor to allow state liquor stores to remain open, for which there is no constitutional protection, but to restrict constitutionally-protected religious worship.
Similarly, the notion that one person can arbitrarily determine which businesses are “essential” and can operate and which businesses are “non-essential” and can’t operate flies in the face of the very notion (contained in the Declaration of Independence) that all … “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
*Thank you Fred Birnbaum Vice President of Idaho Freedom Foundation and Idaho Freedom Action for sharing these points.
Convening in a special session
Unconstitutional Action or Legislative Duty?
Several legal opinions have been written on the matter of the Legislature ‘calling itself into session’ to do the work of the people. Many Senators have responded to citizen’s requests claiming that they have to await the Governor’s request in order to convene which is traditionally in January. What if our Governor, doesn’t call the legislators back into session in January? Under this ‘perpetual’ state of emergency, he could very well say we have to wait until sometime later next year.
There is a serious issue as of RIGHT NOW our state is not operating as a representative government.
In this video lawyer, Colton Boyles discusses with Miste Karlfeldt and Sarah Clendenon of Health Freedom Idaho the opposing legal opinions.
Alert! Rights suspended! Money allocated without legislative input! All power lies solely in the hands of Governor Little! Emergency declarations have time limits of 30 days with the option to extend it for another 30 should the situation warrant. In order to get around those expiration dates the Governor keeps rescinding emergencies and replacing them, restarting the expiration clock. The June 11 update Governor Little rescinded the extreme emergency to replace it with a new emergency order that will have a 30 day/60 day time limit UNLESS the legislature terminates it by resolution AT ANY TIME. (46-1008.) Notice that does allow him to suspend rules but of course NOT laws (also referred to Idaho code). Article II of the Idaho Constitution is very clear about the separation of powers. Even the extreme emergency code does NOT allow him to write/suspend the law. In the June 11emergency order, the Governor has suspended 4 laws. Governor Little has AGAIN violated the Constitution thus violating his duty as Governor.
We demand all our elected REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORSdo the job WE THE PEOPLEhired them to do.
The Governor illegally seized the power of the legislative branch by suspending and amending sections of the code and Allocating funds.
The legislature must convene to fulfill its constitutional obligations regarding code and allocating funds.
The legislature has the duty to ensure the continuity of state and local government pursuant to article 3 section 27 of the Idaho Constitution.
We demand that they TERMINATE the state of emergency pursuant to I.C. 46-1008.
Governor acts as King
Rather than call the legislature back into session and work with our representatives to speak on behalf of the people, Governor Little moves forward with a plan to invade privacy, remove parental rights, and remove the elderly’s rights, all for an illness that has caused 82 deaths in Idaho and causes no symptoms in 80% of people. Idaho has only 97% of the deaths that would have been normally expected between February 1, 2020 and May 29th, 2020.
What can YOU DO?Contact your legislator and tell them you expect them to represent you on June 23rd! Why the 23rd? Watch the Video below!
Why did Brad Little use martial law powers to suspend multiple line items in the Idaho Administrative Code related to parents’ rights when their children are in state custody?
The COVID-19 EMERGENCY DECLARATION Timeline:
➡️ MARCH 13 Declared ‘State of Emergency’ Brad Little puts Idaho in a state of emergency on March 13 using Idaho Code 46-1008(5)(a) to justify suspending line items from IDAPA Administrative Rules.
➡️ MARCH 23By Proclamation Governor Suspends 125+ Rules Hundreds of rules are suspended, but the most concerning are parents’ rights when children are taken into state custody. No visitation, no notice of transfer of children, changes to facility requirements where children are housed when in state custody (numbers of bathrooms, etc).
CDC’s own data released May 23rdshows that the risk to those under 60 is less than or equal to the flu. We also know that those who test positive but don’t have symptoms are actually NOT sick and can’t infect others, 1/3 to 1/2 of those who died were in nursing homes where they are fed nutrient deficient food and given flu vaccines which increase the risk of respiratory infections such as coronavirus, the actual number of deaths is about 1/20th the original extreme estimates Still, the Governor to move forward with mass testing.
➡️ APRIL 17 / APRIL 20 Idaho receives $1.25 Billion from the Federal Government from the CARES Act with more on the way. Governor Brad Little allocates as he sees fit because he refuses to convene the Legislature to do so.
Little has allocated $7 million of a possible $55 million to ‘contact tracing’ and hiring 255 individuals to track people down.
Plan mass testing of 150,000 COVID-19 molecular tests a week.
Governor Little plans on conducting primarily molecular (genetic) tests, not serology (antibody) tests – because serology tests detect antibodies and would prove most have been exposed, had the disease, and recovered. With molecular tests, government and media can continue to frighten people with the now old trope “You’re asymptomatic but test positive so you must be quarantined as you’re a danger to others.” even though FDA admits, “The detection of viral RNA by RT-PCR does not necessarily equate with an infectious virus.”
Got that, FDA admits a positive test does not mean you have an infectious virus! But a positive test will be followed by, “If you have no one to care for your children then we must ‘provide out of home care’ through social services/CPS.” Little and his team can continue to push the lie that those who test positive without symptoms can infect others despite the fact science has clearly disproven this.
Each time he issues a new emergency order the clock starts over giving him unlimited power and control under the 30/60 day extensions until the Legislature convenes and terminates the “emergency”.
Representative Tammy Nichols shares summary of Governor’s call with legislators
➡️ June 3 Governor Little Tells Legislators that he reinstated the regulations suspended. There was no proof provided.
Summary: He rescinded the extreme emergency. This is a new emergency order with the 30 day/60 day time limit UNLESS the legislature terminates it by resolution AT ANY TIME. 46-1008. Notice that does allow him to suspend rules but of course NOT laws (also referred to Idaho code). Article II of the Idaho Constitution is very clear about the separation of powers. Even the extreme emergency code does NOT allow him to write/suspend the law. NOTE: In this new emergency order he had suspended 4 laws. Governor Little has AGAIN violated the Constitution thus violating his duty as Governor.
Other Authoritarian Acts:
➡️ Federal Bill HR 6666 – This is a Federal bill that intends to provide Federal money to HHS to conduct mass forced COVID testing, including at people’s homes ➡️ Washington State Governor Inslee has hired people to supervise children in state Emergency Quarantine Centers. Will Idaho do the same? ➡️ Idaho is increasing the number of Contact Tracers from 23 to 255 ➡️ The federal government gives states billions of $$$ if states declare an “emergency” and even more for declaring an “extreme emergency”
Constitutional Republic form of government in Idaho completely gone, all power is held by Governor.
➡️Legislature discusses convening, acknowledges authority to, but sees no legal ‘mechanism’ to do so. TITLE 67 STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE AFFAIRS CHAPTER 4 LEGISLATURE 67-422. CONVENING OF LEGISLATURE IN EVENT OF ATTACK. In the event of an attack, the governor shall call the legislature into session as soon as practicable, and in any case within ninety (90) days following the inception of the attack. If the governor fails to issue such a call, the legislature shall, on the ninetieth day from the date of inception of the attack, automatically convene at the place where the governor then has his office. Each legislator and each emergency interim successor, unless he is certain that the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed or any emergency interim successor higher in order of succession will not be available [unavailable], shall proceed to the place of session as expeditiously as practicable. At such session or at any session in operation at the inception of the attack, and at subsequent sessions, limitations on the length of session and on the subjects which may be acted upon shall be suspended.
➡️67-422 Idaho Code demands that Legislature shall convene no later than 90 days following an ‘attack’ whether the Governor calls them back or not.
➡️Attack is defined in 67-415 Idaho Code. By the definition given and by the comments of the POTUS, Covid is certainly an attack as defined by law.
We are asking our legislators to do the following:
The legislature must convene pursuant to 67-422 Idaho Code and Idaho Constitution Article III Section 27 and must end the emergency declaration pursuant to 46-1008 (2).
The legislature must properly reallocate the funds granted by the Federal government.
The legislature must reinstate all suspended sections of the Idaho Code and all suspended sections of IDAPA Administrative Rules.
This is the only way we return to our Republic form of government.
The Idaho Legislature enacts statute/code and delegates to the Executive Branch’s State Agencies the ability to write rules to implement the statute/code.
Rights Removed including daycare, children in CPS custody, guardianship, foster care, assisted living care for elderly and vulnerable adults…
06.02.01 Dept of Corrections – Response matrix (scroll to the end)
16.03.19.200.06.a-d Family members of a resident in a home-centered care facility usually have a right to see the resident (as do medical professionals and visitors), but those rights are suspended here.
06. Access to Resident. Each provider and individuals living in the home must permit immediate access to any resident by any representative of the Department, by the state ombudsman for the elderly or their designee, by an adult protection investigator or by the resident’s personal health care professional. Each home must also permit the following: (3-20-20)T a. Immediate access to a resident by their relatives, subject to the resident’s right to deny or withdraw consent at any time; (3-20-20)T b. Immediate access to a resident by others who are visiting with the consent of the resident, subject to reasonable restrictions and the resident’s right to deny or withdraw consent at any time; (3-20-20)T c. Reasonable access to a resident by any entity or individual that provides health, social, legal, or other services to the resident, subject to the resident’s right to deny or withdraw consent at any time; and (3-20-20)T d. Reasonable access to the resident’s records, medications and treatments by the resident’s health care professional subject to the resident’s permission.
Because the suspended part references a-d, residents are still required to see representatives from the department of health and other government officials, which is explained in the section before a.
16.03.19.200.08. The same residents have the following rights suspended:
Health Services. The resident has the right to control their health-related services, including: (3-20-20)T a. The right to retain the services of their own personal physician and dentist; (3-20-20)T b. The right to select the pharmacy or pharmacist of their choice; (3-20-20)T c. The right to confidentiality and privacy concerning their medical or dental condition and treatment; (3-20-20)T d. The right to participate in the formulation of their plan of service; (3-20-20)T e. The right to decline treatment for any medical condition; and (3-20-20)T f. When the resident is unable to give medical consent, the provider will give the name and contact information of the person holding guardianship or power of attorney for health care to any health care provider upon request.
16.03.22.550.17 Residents in a traditional facility have the same rights suspended as those above, and this additional one.
17. Access by Advocates and Representatives. A residential assisted living facility must permit advocates and representatives of community legal services programs, whose purposes include rendering assistance without charge to residents, to have access to the facility at reasonable times in order to: (3-20-20)T a. Visit, talk with, and make personal, social, and legal services available to all residents; (3-20-20)T b. Inform residents of their rights and entitlements, and their corresponding obligations, under state, federal, and local laws by distribution of educational materials and discussion in groups and with individuals; (3-20-20)T c. Assist residents in asserting their legal rights regarding claims for public assistance, medical assistance, and social security benefits, and in all other matters in which residents are aggrieved, that may be provided individually, or in a group basis, and may include organizational activity, counseling, and litigation; (3-20-20)T d. Engage in all other methods of assisting, advising, and representing residents so as to extend to them the full enjoyment of their rights; (3-20-20)T e. Communicate privately and without restrictions with any resident who consents to the communication; and (3-20-20)T f. Observe all common areas of the facility. Residential Assisted Living Facilities Link
16.06.01.50.06, .07 , and 09 (.07 may be a typo, on the governor’s list is says .07 but then lists the title for .08) – Suspended parents/legal guardians rights
06. Visitation for Child’s Parent(s) or Legal Guardian(s). Visitation arrangements must be provided to the child’s parent(s) or legal guardian(s) unless visitation is contrary to the child’s safety.
07. Notification of Change in Placement. Written notification must be made within seven (7) days of a change of placement of the foster child if a child is relocated to another foster care setting. Notification must be sent to the child’s parent(s) or legal guardian(s). When the child is an Indian child, written notification must also be sent to the child’s Indian custodian(s), if applicable, and to the child’s tribe.
09. Notification of Right to Participate and Appeal. Written notification to the child’s parent(s) or legal guardian(s) must be made regarding their right to discuss any changes and the opportunity to appeal if they disagree with changes in placement or visitation. Child and Family Services Link
WHY ARE THESE SUSPENDED?
Suspension/seems unrelated to health concerns:
16.03.14.150.02(b)
b. When a hospital is leased by the owner to a second party for the operation of the facility, a copy of the lease agreement showing clearly in its context the responsibilities of both parties shall be filed with the application for a license. Hospitals Link
16.06.02.729
729. BATHROOM FACILITIES. A building used to house children must have adequate, clean, and easily accessible bathroom facilities. The number of toilets is one (1) per eight (8) females and one (1) per ten (10) males; bathtubs or showers is one (1) for each ten (10) individuals; washstands is one (1) for every five (5) individuals according to the International Building Code applicable for the type of building and its use. There must be separate use of bathroom facilities for boys and girls over six (6) years of age. There must be separate bathroom facilities for staff. Child Care Licensing Link
Send this to your legislators – your Senator and both Representatives. Demand that your legislators follow the Constitution and convene the legislature on June 23.
Tell your legislators that you expect them to do the following:
The legislature must convene pursuant to 67-422 Idaho Code and Idaho Constitution Article III Section 27 and must end the emergency declaration pursuant to 46-1008 (2).
The legislature must properly reallocate the Federal funds.
The legislature must reinstate all suspended sections of the Idaho Code and all suspended sections of IDAPA Administrative Rules.
This is the only way we return to our Republic form of government.
RESPONSES TO COMMON OBJECTIONS
Your legislators will come up with all types of excuses to try and shirk their responsibilities. Don’t let them. Here are some responses for you to use:
Excuse: Our lawyers have said that we can’t have this special session.
Response: Who said that? What are their names and phone numbers. Let’s have a three way call and address this issue together because the law is clear. If you won’t follow the law and simply want to hide behind the flawed interpretations of unelected lawyers, then tell me, what purpose do you serve? Why should I ever vote for you?
Excuse: This was not an “attack,” so the protocols don’t apply.
Response:President Trump said it was an attack. Do you agree with him? Yes or no? The Governor used the statute that specifically mentions attack. And the definition in Idaho State Law plainly states that an attack is defined as “any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state whether through sabotage…bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or methods.” (video of Trump stating its an attack)
So do you believe that the coronavirus brought damage or injury to persons or property here in Idaho through bacteriological or biological means? Yes or no? If Governor Little wants to try to legally reject the clear definition in Idaho State Law, then he must make that case publically and he must also make a public declaration stating that the Governor of Idaho disagrees with President Trump and does not recognize President Trump’s statement calling the coronavirus crisis an “attack.” Until that happens, our legislature must meet on June 23rd.
Excuse: Only the Governor can call a special session.
Response: No, you are required by law to convene automatically on the 90th day after the definition of the attack. June 23rd would be the latest day justifiable for that. Have you even read the law (Idaho State Code 67-422)? Do you know what it says? Furthermore, Idaho State Code 46-1008 which the Governor also cited to justify his Executive Orders and which only allows for 60 days in total for emergency powers, plainly states, “The legislature by concurrent resolution may terminate a state of disaster emergency at any time.” What does “at any time” mean to you? It didn’t say, only during a special session called by the Governor. Any time means any time.
Excuse: I can’t go all the way to Boise.
Response: First of all, the Republican State Convention is going to be in Nampa 2 days later, so you’re already going to be in town. Second of all, it doesn’t matter since this is required by law, and if you can’t go, the law stipulates in section 67-422 that you are supposed to send your “interim emergency successor.” So, if you’re not going to come, then send your interim emergency successor. This is the law.
Objection: Your children will never be taken away from you because of the coronavirus.
Response: Then what is the reason for the suspension of parental rights by executive order? If you don’t know, then do your job and go the special session and find out. Then undo it. Furthermore, if there is no purpose to have these rules suspended, then there should be no reason for you NOT to vote to undo it.
Objection: Relax, the Governor cannot spend the $1.25 billion dollars however he wants. He is going to have input and oversight from the legislature.
Response: How and when? This money is going to be disbursed immediately. The Governor is not going to wait until January 2021 to start spending this money. So how and when are you, as a legislator, going to have a chance to review this spending? This is why you must be at the special session, which is required by law, on June 23rd.
This post has been edited to clarify the powers assumed by the Governor are under the “Martial Law and Active Duty” Chapter of Idaho Code.
Join us at the Capitol Steps for the People’s Rally June 23rd.
There are some Idaho legislators coming to the Capitol on June 23, 2020. (This date is 90 days after the extreme emergency declaration by the Governor.) No longer should the executive branch go unchecked while our legislators wring their hands claiming they can not represent us without permission of the Governor.Our legislators are convening at the request of the people. The question we ask is “Why aren’t ALL our legislators eager to do the job we hired them to do? We the People want our representative government back. No longer should the executive branch modify Idaho law, as happened in the Idaho primary elections. No longer should the executive branch appropriate funds, as that is a clearly defined task of our elected representatives.
Representative Vito Barbieri shares why he will be at the Capitol ready to represent the people who hired him for the task of representing them, especially in times like these.
“Since the Magna Carta, through the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, to today’s Idaho Constitution, the purpose of each was to secure, under the law and with the assent of the people, the mutual well being of that people.
To suggest that the Idaho Constitution contemplates requiring permission from the executive branch for the legislature to convene is to deny the fundamental premise upon which our Republic stands: Each branch equal, independent, and separate from the other.
The executive branch asks not of the legislature permission when to act; the judicial branch asks not when it may convene; how then does the Idaho Constitution purport to require the legislative branch to appeal to a ‘higher power’ than itself? Certainly, the staunchest democrat, and even Idaho senators, recognize the inherent peril of failing to reoccupy the vacuum, failing to exercise our responsibilities, failing, even, to attempt a check on centralized power, because some opinions from some (high priced) attorneys say ‘you aren’t allowed’.
Where in that document is such a restriction specifically addressed? There is no restriction because the fundamental premise of a Republic was taken for granted by the drafters: No individual, no governor, no court, no extra-constitutional body was ever envisioned by them to control the voice, the representatives, of the people.
The power to convene, when to convene, and for what purpose to convene, fundamentally rests with the legislature, alone.
If it were otherwise, that is, that the Idaho Constitution specifically requires the people’s representatives to seek permission to convene, would not the citizens of the state rightly conclude that they have been duped into believing that Idaho government was of them, by them, and for them? (And “Was it all a lie, to keep the pitchforks at bay, as the institutions gradually but steadily encroached?”)
The Idaho Constitution is created by the people of the state to limit the power of government over its citizens. To argue that it limits the ability of the representatives of the people to convene only upon permission from the governor is to argue that Idaho has a King and that the people’s representatives must first be blessed with Imperial Grant. Such an argument, in yesterday’s America, would be absurd.
OPEN IDAHO RALLY DRAWS 1000’s
Idaho citizens are clamoring for a voice in the decisions being made by an executive branch that appears to have no check against its power. Decisions that have thrust people into unemployment after determining arbitrarily that their financial security is ‘not essential’, which in turn, evidences a gross disregard by the government of their personal wellbeing.
Decisions banning freedom to associate, freedom of religion, freedom to travel, and more, come from institutions brazenly disregarding personal liberty, the essential element of America’s founding, in the name of an ‘emergency’ that is not evidenced by the facts.
Seeing that the draconian actions were not founded upon fact, nor upon science, but upon imperfect and shifting data, rash action, and defective ‘models’,
Idaho citizens suspect that the legislature is complicit with the governor’s power grab. (The messaging, the continued farcical warnings and cautions spewing from official sources evidence to the people an inability, or likely a deliberate failure, to reexamine the facts, to admit a mistake, and to alter course.)
If not complicit, then surely, given the facts ‘on the ground’, the legislature is disenfranchised, marginalized, gutted, powerless. Such suspicions will be well-founded if the legislature shrinks now from its representative obligations.
If the legislature fails to convene prior to the January 2021 Session, it fails to exercise its responsibilities to the very people to whom the members ultimately owe their place in office: the voters, the citizens, the taxpayers. Each legislator must ask whether their loyalties lie with an Imperial Governor or with the people from whom that legislator derives his (or her) authority.
It is axiomatic that only from the people of the state is the power of a legislature to act. Not from the governor or the judiciary. It is therefore anathema to a representative government, not less to liberty and justice, for the people’s representatives to request permission, from anyone, to convene.
How can anyone argue otherwise, of a sovereign state, in America? To seek counsel, request opinions, and otherwise deflect the responsibilities inherent in elected office, is to reject the privilege granted by the franchise and to abdicate the power of the citizenry to a king or a black-robed oligarchy, or both.
This I cannot do. I will be sitting in my chair on the floor of the House of Representatives at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 to participate in and promote the legislative responsibilities granted me by the voters of District 2. I urge every other Idaho legislator to do the same. It’s time to convene for an extraordinary session.”
GREAT NEWS! If you don’t feel sick then you won’t spread this sickness to others. IF we listen to our bodies symptoms will tell us when to ‘self-quarantine’. That’s right we don’t need a Governor’s executive order to tell us to stay home and shut down our businesses.
“Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections.”
So with this World Health Organization report that asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus “rarely” spread the virus to others, we just shut down the nation and drove our economy into a recession for nothing.
Our Governor’s phased openings, offering bribes for people to return to work and fines for those businesses opening out of necessity are all clear indications that there is a NEED for our Representatives and Senators to return to their jobs at the Capitol and REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
Are YOUR Legislators going to show up to Represent You?
After concerns from 100 doctors and scientists about data integrity, two elite medical journals, the influential New England Medical Journal and the Lancet have retracted controversial papers on COVID-19 treatments. This study led several governments to ban the use of the drug for coronavirus patients due to safety concerns. Hydroxychloroquine is an inexpensive generic drug that has been used safely since 1944. Its effectiveness will cause a considerable loss of potential income for pharmaceutical companies who have already spent millions of dollars lobbying to get their ‘wonder-drug’ approved for emergency use.
Researchers claimed to have conducted an observational study using the medical records of nearly 100,000 patients who took hydroxychloroquine or the closely related chloroquine. The four researchers said their analysis showed a higher mortality rate in COVID-19 patients who took the drug when compared with those who didn’t. The fraudulent study shook the scientific world, prompting World Health Organization (WHO) and French authorities to suspend clinical trials testing hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19, the new disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. (source)
After publication, a 100 medical professionals raised 10 major issues with the study, culminating with the retraction a few days after The Lancet, which published the paper, said there were “serious concerns” with the data. The retractions followed stories about Surgisphere in the Guardian and the Scientist. The company only appeared to have a handful of employees and raised serious questions about the legitimacy of its data sources.
Below is an editorial below was written by Jim Wilson regarding the bogus study the need of Americans to move forward with courage and unswerving pursuit of truth, the only legitimate purpose of authentic science.
A TIME FOR COURAGE, PURPOSE, AND VISION
Great Britain’s The Lancet is one of the premiere medical journals in the world; if you read it in The Lancet you can take it to the bank. The New England Journal of Medicine is in the same top row. These journals published the largest study yet – more than 96,000 participants in 671 hospitals on six continents – on treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine May 22. The study not only failed to confirm any medical benefits from use of HCQ, it “documented” increased risk of fatalities and heart arrhythmias. The journal corrected itself one week later but the study authors claim no need to change conclusions.
Anomalies in the study were first reported in The Epoch Times – without claiming misconduct in so many words – but now The Guardian has thoroughly debunked the study and its authors. Why? Researchers published fraudulent results. They faked it.
When more than one hundred physicians and scientists questioned the peer-reviewed study – that’s right, peer-reviewed – the authors at first refused to supply documentation. This prompted editorial concern in these prestigious journals. Among other things, skeptical scientists noted there was no ethics review and hospitals and countries in question were not identified. Code and statistical data were hidden, but study authors did admit patients were given much higher doses of HCQ than is considered safe by the FDA; heart issues have long been associated with unnecessarily heavy doses.
The study claimed seventy-three deaths in five participating Australian hospitals, yet there were only sixty-seven deaths throughout Australia by the date – April 21 – cited in the study.
The Guardian uncovered far more damning material and was less genteel in its conclusions. They found the company behind the study – Surgisphere – claiming an authoritative database of some twelve hundred hospitals. This tiny American company boasts a mere six employees, including a science fiction writer and a porn actress. When The Guardian inquired of the five Australian hospitals in Melbourne and two in Sydney cited in the study all replied they had never heard of such a study, or of Surgisphere.
The study and its authors are clearly bogus, but the question remains, why would a company go to such lengths to make a promising treatment for COVID-19 look bad? Why are so many other supposedly authoritative persons and organizations doing the same thing? The answer appears to be a combination of money and power.
The Lancet study rattled scientists testing hydroxychloroquine in clinical trials because the now-retracted study suggested the drug dramatically increased the death rate of COVID-19 patients.
The American Family Association reports the National Institutes of Health tested Hydroxychloroquine on the SARS Virus – a close cousin to COVID-19 – back in 2005 with the cooperation of Dr. Anthony Fauci. All parties confirmed it was both effective and completely safe when used as directed.
HCQ has been in use – safely and effectively – against Malaria, Lupus, and several other conditions since 1944.
Although double blind testing continues on the drug, reality is HCQ has been used on literally thousands of patients since the COVID-19 outbreak began. It has been administered both early and late in the disease progression. Its real results greatly surpass the predicted results for – say – remdesivir, which is just beginning testing and has not been formally approved as a treatment anywhere in the world. It far out performs vaccines – such as for flu – which demonstrate 40-60% efficacy; a vaccine for C-19 is still months away and carries frightful risks for users considering the rush to develop and produce it with an extremely short testing cycle.
Did I say money and power?
Hydroxychloroquine is a generic drug; it is plentiful, costs less than fifteen dollars for a sixty-day supply, and can be dispensed in any pharmacy – wherever the government has not forbidden it.
Remdesivir – to use our same example – can only be obtained by IV infusion in a hospital, has already revealed side effects including liver failure, but will make millions for Gilead Sciences and lots of professional glory for the docs – including Fauci – who have a hand in its development.
Gilead has already spent two and a half million dollars lobbying Congress and the White House for its so-called wonder drug. The trial that undergirded the recent declaration by the FDA approving remdesivir for emergency use was conducted by Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In a population already wild with fear of COVID-19 there is tremendous power associated with being able to say “this and only this” is the authorized treatment.
In the case of rushed-to-production vaccines the money-power curve steepens as multiple state governors speak openly of forced vaccination for all, and the issuance of travel permitting documents for only those citizens who have the vaccination mark.
This is stuff right out of the Book of Revelation for those paying attention, and it has nothing to do with authentic science. But what ought we to do about it?
That too is not as complicated as we are led to believe. We can ask Almighty God – in the Person of His Son and the power of His Spirit – to refill Americans with courage for unswerving pursuit of truth, the only legitimate purpose of authentic science.
We can likewise re-commit our lives to the transcending vision of freedom – including free market freedom – that is the vision on which our nation was founded and in terms of which we have navigated every crisis we have ever encountered.
These three things need be acknowledged: It is time to renew courage, purpose, and vision. Political and medical manipulators and arrogant power mongers are unwelcome at a table meant for honest conversation. And we were born for such a time as this. This is all good news if we will have it so.
By James Wilson
James A. Wilson is the author of Living As Ambassadors of Relationships, The Holy Spirit and the End Times, Kingdom in Pursuit, and his first novel, Generation – available at Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, or at praynorthstate@gmail.com
feature image A pharmacy tech pours out pills of hydroxychloroquine at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 20, 2020. (George Frey/AFP via Getty Images)
Contact Tracing, Testing and ultimately forced Quarantine are the next big step, we are told, to opening up the economy. Governor Little placed the state of Idaho in a state of extreme emergency and implemented IC 46-601 placing the entire state under martial law. Data gathered since March 26, 2020, reflects that the COVID-19 illness accounts for the death of one person a day in Idaho. Using this current data, it’s hard to consider that Idaho is under an extreme emergency situation (other than the one created by Governor Little’s reaction to COVID-19).
However, Governor Little IGNORING the statistical data announced Idaho will invest $7 million from the federal CARES Act to expand its contact-tracing capabilities, with plans to employ 255 contact tracers statewide to test and trace citizens of Idaho.
The lack of privacy should be of great concern to every American. Parents are especially alarmed by the CDC comments that there would need to be ‘social services’ to wrap around to those who are contacted, tested, and confirmed positive.
Miste Karlfeldt, of Health Freedom Idaho, discusses these concerns with Attorney Colton Boyles of Boyles Law. Together they hope to empower parents by giving them the legal tools to make fundamental decisions for their families. They hope to inspire We The People to stand firm on their natural rights which are protected by the Constitution.
The CDC Contact tracing manual calls on state health departments to provide ‘social services’ support to families that might not have the resources to quarantine in a single room in the house. Single parents and those living in generational living situations are the targets of social service support which could include the removal of uninfected children from the home by social services. (page 37)
Contact Tracing and YOUR KIDS!
The COVID Tracing Manual for Idaho proposes creating five priority levels for testing. At the top of the pyramid is health care workers who have COVID symptoms and residents of nursing homes. At the next level are the inmates and employees of the state’s correctional facilities.
Governor Brad Little says the state needs to also step up its contact tracing abilities. He says Idaho is on its way to having 500 people as CONTACT TRACERS.
