In the above clip, Kennedy is describing a tyrannical arrangement, one in which the administrative state and its network of regulatory agencies permit powerful corporations to run roughshod over the public. The administrative state is a clear and present danger to the safety of the citizens of the American Republic. The government of this country, the federal government and the governments of several states, has become thoroughly corporatized and positively lethal. Not just to children. To all of us.
If you believe that (a) corporations that profit from manufacturing pharmaceuticals should be immune from civil liability or (b) governments should mandate vaccines, then, really, you must believe both in tandem. If you find (a) problematic, as any decent and rational person would, but still support (b), then you are failing to see how (b) is not only the justification for (a), but (a) is the reason (b) exists. Corporations count on governments mandating the uptake of pharmaceutical agents on behalf of entities that cannot directly compel the people at large (but can of course force their employees to do so), and in exchange for these mandates enjoy freedom from liability when these agents injure and kill people. It’s a truly strange arrangements for a government that proclaims its purpose if to represent a free people and to protect their safety. What would be the reason for (a) without (b)? It’s not the false rhetoric of public health.
The question every citizen needs to ask himself, and then ask his representatives in government, is why it’s the job of the government to drive business to pharmaceutical companies. It’s not just vaccines, either, that governments strive to enable paths to profits. Governments have and are changing laws to justify using hormones and performing surgeries on children in emotional and psychological stress. The Biden Administration, which has embraced gender ideology, has hung the Pride Progress flag at the White House, its light blue, pink, and white stripes promoting an ideology that teaches boys that, if they like dolls, then they are a girl. When they want be fixed, governments making sure that there are available medical treatments that fix that problem.
Of all the features of the New Fascism I have described on Freedom and Reason, the one most resembling the horrors of National Socialism is the medical-industrial complex, these horrors pushed in the public realm primarily by the Democratic Party. Those who cannot see this are in a weird space, one that’s hard for me to understand. To be sure, I was in dark about some of this several years ago. But now that I am standing in the light, there’s no way I am going to lie to myself.
My approach to the world asks two basic and interrelated questions about the claims people make or the things I see: Does this make sense morally? Does it make sense scientifically? If it doesn’t make sense scientifically, and I check to make sure that it doesn’t, then I reject it. If it does make sense, I accept it (provisionally for the science question). There are instances where, even if the science works out, it’s at odds with morality. Then it should not be allowed. Working this way puts me beyond the ideological standpoints in which most folks operate.
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