Tag: liberty

  • END the Emergency Order and Restore Freedom in Idaho

     We have good news from the Idaho State Capitol. It is being reported that the House and Senate floors were fully open to the people. There was no social distancing, mask requirement, or taped off chairs. Good work! 🙌

    Please send a ‘thank you’ and ask that they continue to make the people’s house open to the public, as it should be.👏👏👏

    The senate promised you during the special session that they would END Brad Little’s the State Of Emergency.
    Here are the details of the Governor’s 300-day emergency orders.
    🗣NOW is the time to hold them accountable to that promise.🎯

    House Emails
    ✍️https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/2021-email-idaho-representatives/

    Senate Emails
    ✍️https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/2021-senate-email-list/ 

    30+ Legislators are working on protecting freedom, restoring liberty in our state. SUPPORT THEM! “Ask your legislator for a copy of the agenda. If your legislator says they don’t know what it is…tell them they ‘missed the boat and they need to be on it!” – Rep Ron NateWhat does this have to do with health freedom? See the third line from the bottom!!

    Hear the whole press conference

  • Vaccine Exemptions Are A Necessary Part of Religious Toleration

    Likely to be lost amid all the liberal preening about the mandatory vaccination bill signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week is the fact that, during the period covered by the so-called “epidemic,” not a single person has died from a confirmed case of measles in the state of New York. The sun and moon have not dropped from the sky and the red-splotched corpses of thousands of victims do not litter the streets of Brooklyn.

    Nor are they likely to do so. Everyone involved knows this. The new law is legislation of the very worst kind — passed in a fit of self-aggrandizing indignation and meant to affect a single group of people who are all but named. I am referring to the minority of Orthodox Jews in New York who have refused to vaccinate their children and whose objections were, until last week, granted specific legal protection. This is not a question of so-called “association” or “public accommodations.” No one is demanding the right to send unvaccinated children to public schools, nor are the post-faith bobos of today’s Williamsburg likely to send their own children, if they have any, to receive an Orthodox education. 

    The new law is about power and control for their own sake.

    Let me be clear at the outset. I am a father of three small children, all of whom have received measles and other vaccinations. I do not oppose the consensus such as it is about the necessity of all these shots, though I do find it absurd that in many of our hospitals they begin before a mother has so much as nursed her child for the first time. I could quibble by pointing out that when I was a child in the not-so-distant 1990s we got less than half the number of vaccinations said to be the sole bulwark against various public health emergencies today — what was so wrong with getting the chicken pox, I wonder? — or that my daughters who were both born in Virginia were required to receive many more shots than their brother has in Michigan. Could it be that we have defined “necessary” in this context down the way we have virtually everything else? But this is irrelevant to my real argument.

    I do not share or even quite understand the objections made by those Orthodox who refuse to have their children vaccinated against measles and other diseases. The content of these objections is of very little interest to me because I am not Jewish. 

    But I do believe in religious toleration — the rather antique notion that one can freely confess the falsehood of a sect or a doctrine while believing that its blameless adherents ought to be allowed to do as they wish.

    It is odd to me, too, that so few have discussed the way in which the coverage of measles cases in New York makes effortless use of tropes about Jews as somehow unclean or contaminated and thus requiring a mandatory purification by the authorities. 

    This is not the first time that black hats and long beards have become outward signifiers of an unspeakable interior pollution.

    These do not exhaust my concerns. There was a time when one could expect a certain degree of epistemic humility from good liberals who had read their Thomas Kuhn. No longer. Science has joined “the economy” as one of those first-order goods whose pursuit we are told cannot be questioned. The ease with which all moral and prudential questions are being subsumed into the rhetoric of “science,” “health,” and “safety” should worry all persons of humane views and skeptical temperament.

    As I write this, many of New York’s yeshivas have been closed until further notice. This will not end with vaccines. 

    Health is a remarkably fluid concept in the modern liberal imagination. A day will come when refusing to affirm the latest fashionable nonsense about gender theory will be considered a threat to “health” by the relevant medical authorities. Catholic schools will be shut down because they do not instruct children in the art of contraception. In British Columbia it is already considered child abuse for a parent to refuse to allow naïve adolescents to undergo elective hormonal therapy — or even to refer to one’s own children by their given names and the pronouns associated with persons of their sex. Only a fool would believe that this could never happen in this country, or that many of our progressives are not already in favor of it.

    My prayers, and those of every person of faith and good will, belong with New York’s Orthodox Jews, who have become the victims of a fideistic campaign of persecution.

    This article originally appeared at: https://theweek.com/articles/847598/vaccine-exemptions-are-necessary-part-religious-toleration.

    CDC table: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6817e1.htm

  • Which diseases should you fear?

    What diseases do you FEAR your child might contract? Measles? Mumps? Leprosy? Wondering how many parents walk around daily concerned about their child contracting leprosy? It still exists- by the thousands in various parts of the world. The United States has roughly 200 new cases every year with over 6,500 cases of Hansen’s disease/Leprosy. Did you know that? I didn’t until I just looked it up. (See the source)

    Don’t you think it’s weird that there was hysteria over 31 measles cases (where no one died or was permanently harmed) and you hear exactly ZERO about 200 cases of leprosy and its long term health impact?  

    Everyone knows when there is a measles or mumps outbreak. It’s all over the local news. Healthy (yet unvaccinated) children are denied school. Parents are pushed to get ‘updated’ on vaccines.

    How do we not hear about these cases of leprosy? Why aren’t you walking around concerned about leprosy every day? Why aren’t you concerned about someone from another country bringing leprosy into the US and somehow exposing all of our most vulnerable to this illness?

    I’ll tell you why…You are afraid of what we vaccinate for because these illnesses are hyped up all of the time. It’s propaganda. You are told what to fear, so they can then sell you their product for profit.

    Measles and others is a concern for you – because you are told that it should be. But you don’t walk around fearing leprosy. Your children haven’t contracted it either.

    Funny how that all works, isn’t it?

    The only diseases we fear are the ones that a vaccine has been developed and marketed for. We never feared measles and mumps in the early 20th century… Because the media didn’t tell us to.

    Yes, there are vaccines for bacterial and viral diseases. Of course they are working on vaccines for hundreds of diseases that we are not yet afraid of because we haven’t been to do to so. 

    Did you know the newest vaccine requirement for Idaho is for a disease that affects 3 individuals in the state with a population of 1.6 million. A disease that is so exceedingly rare and already on a downward trend WITHOUT this extra vaccine requirement. It calls into question the motivation for the requirement. 

    Perhaps its because Idaho Legislators are Sold Out to Big Pharma?

    Learn More about the Meningitis Mandate

  • Michael Snyder Interview with Natural News About Liberty, Health Freedom and Smaller Government

    HFI’s Notes: Michael Snyder has been an advocate locally for health freedom and parental rights throughout Idaho. Michael was first on the scene in Boise, when Sara’s son was denied access to kindergarten after the school refused to accept her parental statement of vaccine exemption per Idaho code. (See the video here). He also took time to alert the public about the newborn removed from parents at the hospital after they refused the HepB vaccine for their son.

    Idaho congressional candidate Michael Snyder is founder of The Economic Collapse Blog, among other sites. In a recent interview with Mike Adams of Natural News, he shared his stances on liberty, health freedom and small government. Michael also shared why he is running for Congress: to ensure that current and future generations of Americans can live in freedom and prosperity.

    Excerpts from the Natural News interview and from a Health Freedom News article about the interview are below. 

    Snyder said that one of his biggest influences was then-Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican with very strict limited-government views (an early advocate for ‘draining the swamp’ before it became popularized by President Donald J. Trump).

    Once a D.C. lawyer, Snyder moved with his wife, Meranda, to Idaho six years ago, where he began focusing on writing. After rising to the top of the so-called “alternative media,” in which he focused exclusively on the promotion of individual liberty, health freedom and small government, he decided it was time to take his game to the next level — especially after Donald J. Trump shocked the GOP and Washington establishments to beat Hillary Clinton in November 2016.

    Though he supported Trump, “I didn’t think he’d win,” Snyder admits. That makes sense, given the force arrayed against him: A $1 billion Clinton war chest, the entire mainstream media, and the fact that — as we now know — there were unseen forces working behind the scenes to undermine his candidacy (and now his presidency).

    “[Trump] showed if we work together, if we fight, that literally, anything is possible,” Snyder said. “So I believe we have a window to potentially take our government back.”

    On his radar, if he makes it to D.C.: Fights against “the vaccine industry, GMOs, the Federal Reserve — all the things the liberty movement” supports.

    To the issue of vaccines and, in particular, the dangers they pose, the Health Ranger noted that during Trump’s candidacy, he spoke out regarding the safety of giving so many vaccines to children so quickly, which he intimated could be linked to the rising epidemic of autism. He even spoke to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about a commission to investigate “vaccine safety” shortly before being inaugurated.

    But, as Adams pointed out, both men — along with every other ‘vaccine safety advocate’ — has been savagely attacked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, physicians’ groups, the “mainstream” media and Big Pharma for their views, and he says Snyder should be ready for that.

    Asked how one lawmaker who would immediately come under siege for his or her views can make a meaningful difference, Snyder said it is possible for anyone to educate the public and raise awareness about vaccine dangers or any issue, given the national platform of Congress.

    Besides, Snyder says, he’s trying to be realistic about how he’d be viewed in D.C. should he win.

    “I’m very rapidly going to become the most hated member of the House of Representatives by the mainstream media, I understand that in advance,” said Snyder. “It’s going to be [like] going into a war zone,” politically speaking.

    He’s right about that. Trump has been under constant assault by the Deep State and the D.C. Swamp creatures featuring the media in a starring role since he had the bad taste to actually beat the most corrupt presidential nominee ever. And he’s the president.

    That reality doesn’t phase Snyder.

    “We’re not going to Washington to be part of ‘the club,’ we’re not going to be accepted or make friends with anyone else,” he said. “We’re going there to fight for the things that we believe in.” And, presumably, that would be the things voters want him to fight for.

    “In order to ultimately get what we want, we’re going to have to get more like-minded people with us in Washington,” said Snyder.

    No truer words.

    But he’ll be in good company: Trump has already broken down the barrier, so now in the breach must charge good men and women of character and honor to fill in the ranks behind him.

    Like Michael Snyder.

    Check out his campaign website for more information, where you can also donate: www.MichaelSnyderForCongress.com.

  • “Liberty and Character” at Northwest Nazarene University

     Without qualities like strong moral character and respect for the property of others, a free and prosperous society is simply not possible. If you’re interested in exploring the connection between liberty, character, and prosperity, join FEE and the Northwest Liberty Academy at Northwest Nazarene University (Harter Lecture Hall) for a free event on Saturday, August 19th. Topics to ExploreLawrence W. Reed will share remarkable stories from individuals who exemplify extraordinary character and th… 

    “Liberty and Character” at Northwest Nazarene University

    Public Event
    Saturday, August 19, 2017 10:00 AM
    623 S University Blvd Nampa, ID 83686

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    Without qualities like strong moral character and respect for the property of others, a free and prosperous society is simply not possible. If you’re interested in exploring the connection between liberty, character, and prosperity, join FEE and the Northwest Liberty Academy at Northwest Nazarene University (Harter Lecture Hall) for a free event on Saturday, August 19th.

    Topics to Explore
    Lawrence W. Reed will share remarkable stories from individuals who exemplify extraordinary character and the entrepreneurial spirit through their words and actions. He will also challenge several of the progressive myths that are commonly perpetuated on campuses today. Professor Peter Crabb will explain the major obstacles that stand in the way of having a strong economy, and Jason Riddle will lead an interactive economic experiment with attendees. Don’t miss this unforgettable event!

    Registration Details
    This 1-day event is made possible thanks to the Ralph Smeed Memorial Foundation. It is offered to students and parents at no charge, and lunch will be provided to all participants. Attire is casual. Registration is required, so sign up today!

    Schedule

    10:00 AM – 10:10 AM
    Opening Remarks
    10:10 AM – 11:00 AM
    Liberty and Character (Lawrence W. Reed)
    11:10 AM – 12:00 PM
    Power and Politics vs. the Economy (Dr. Peter Crabb)
    12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
    Lunch
    01:00 PM – 01:50 PM
    Activity (Jason Riddle)
    02:00 PM – 02:50 PM
    Excuse Me, Professor: Busting Progressive Myths (Lawrence W. Reed)
    02:50 PM – 03:00 PM
    Closing Remarks

    • I’ve always been curious about economics, and the seminar provided me with new perspectives. -Ewa Swiechowska
    • FEE taught me that economics, rightly implemented and freed, can open the door to human flourishing. -Faith Coyne
    • The seminar was a unique opportunity to learn more about economics from experts, and the activities helped me a lot to be more prepared in my career. -Daniel Otzoy


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