Friday, October 8, 2021

The illegality of mandated COVID-19 vaccinations/Andrew Napolitano

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/6/the-illegality-of-mandated-covid-19-vaccinations/

A brief history of the law of personal privacy and bodily integrity

As more governors issue so-called mandates requiring municipal and state employers, as well as private employers and public accommodations, to require their employees and patrons to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they are being challenged by arguments based on personal privacy and bodily integrity.

The former argues that personal medical decisions are protected by the right to privacy, a natural right that supersedes governmental needs. The latter argues that since we each own our bodies, we can decide what goes into them. Personal privacy and the bodily integrity arguments recognize that the government can only trump fundamental rights if it can prove fault at a jury trial.

Thus, a case where an infected and contagious person is intentionally infecting healthy folks can and should result in an arrest and prosecution for aggravated assault. The state would need to prove its case. If it did, the convicted defendant would be incarcerated and isolated for the duration of her sentence. But that does not animate the government today.

Today, the local, state, and federal governments are attempting to compel healthy people to be vaccinated against their will. All three levels of government are trying to do this by command, not by legislation.

The favorite U.S. Supreme Court case that the pro-mandate folks cite is the 116-year-old Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There, in the era before the court recognized personal privacy or bodily integrity as constitutionally protected, it upheld a Massachusetts statute requiring inoculation for smallpox.

The issue in the case was whether a state legislature could enact public health laws that authorize force to enforce them. The issue was not whether a governor could issue a command, call it a law and use the police to implement it. Moreover, the Jacobson case was decided in 1905, well before the personal privacy and bodily integrity cases came along.

The privacy doctrine began at the Supreme Court in 1928 with a dissent. In Olmstead v. the United States, the court upheld wiretapping telephone calls without a search warrant since it held there was no expectation of privacy in the calls.

Justice Louis Brandeis distilled the privacy doctrine in his famous dissent when he wrote that the framers of the Constitution “sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”

Mr. Brandeis’ iconic language would languish as a dissent until 1965 in a case called Griswold v. Connecticut. There, the Supreme Court recognized personal privacy as fundamental liberty — the highest category of liberty in the constitutional pantheon. In Griswold, the state of Connecticut had enacted legislation prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples.

Embracing the values ignored by the Jacobson case and rejected by the Olmstead case, the court invalidated the Connecticut statute. It ruled that the decision to use contraceptives is so integral to control over one’s body and is made in such a zone of privacy that the Constitution protects it from the government’s reach.

Eight years later, the Jacobson case would suffer a stake through its dead heart in Roe v. Wade. This case, which prohibited the states from banning pre-viability abortions, also upheld the privacy rights of all persons when deciding what medical procedures to undergo. Thus it protects from the government’s reach the zone in which those decisions are made. A portion of Roe is currently on its deathbed, but not the part that protects bodily integrity; instead, the infamous part that catastrophically fails to recognize the personhood of babies in the womb and permits killing them.

While the right to privacy was slowly being recognized and Mr. Brandeis’ Olmstead dissent gradually became the law at the federal level, a similar line of cases, upholding personal privacy and bodily integrity, was making its way through state courts. The pioneer of those cases is In re Quinlan, a decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1976. It upheld the right of the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan to deny their comatose daughter artificial life-sustaining procedures.

From and after the Quinlan case, all states recognized the fundamental right of sick people — directly or through their guardians — to reject medication and medical procedures.

The values underlying the Olmstead to Griswold to Roe migration of federal jurisprudence and the values underlying the post-Quinlan state jurisprudence and statutes are the same, and those values are preeminent today.

Today, the states and the federal courts recognize that competent persons can decide for themselves what medications to take or reject because the natural, moral, and constitutionally recognized decision-maker over one’s body is oneself, not the government. Moreover, when these decisions are made in consultation with a physician or an intimate mate, they are done within the zone of privacy and are none of the government’s business.

The folks who believe that the president can direct the Department of Labor to compel employers of more than 100 persons to require vaccines of the healthy and who also believe that a governor can do similarly for public and private employers in his state — and cite the 1905 Jacobson case to support their claims — are sadly ignorant of the 20th-century jurisprudence that stands firmly, convincingly and uniformly against them.

Moreover, these pro-vaccine mandate folks also confuse legislation with executive orders. Under the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution, only laws enacted by a state legislature, not gubernatorial commands, have the force of law. Under the separation of powers doctrine in the federal system, only Congress writes laws, not the president.

And under current Supreme Court rulings, we all can decide for ourselves what medications to take while the government takes a hike.

11 comments:

  1. You know, in Jacobson VS Massachusetts, the ruling was "Whoever, being over twenty-one years of age and not under guardianship, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement shall forfeit five dollars."

    There was nothing about losing your job, livelihood and everything associated with it if you chose not to comply with the "requirement". I'll forfeit a one time five dollars to not be injected with whatever that stuff is.

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  2. Breaking!
    'My Jaw DROPPED when I Tested Someone's Immune System After the 2nd Vax Jab'!

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/qqRZadV9TWDX/

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  3. Doctor reveals how the FDA and CDC are hiding the truth on Covid Vaccines…!

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/doctor-reveals-how-the-fda-and-cdc-are-hiding-the-truth-on-covid-vaccines/

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  4. "BREAKING'!
    PUT YOUR VERY BIG THINKING CAPS ON, WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE EXEMPT FROM VACCINE MANDATES?
    If they were great would they not be involved in the mandates?

    'THE MOST EXPLOSIVE COVID VAX BOMBSHELL OUT THERE!'
    People, it doesn’t get more damning than the following “Exemption List”. This list of groups, organizations and parties is officially EXEMPT from taking any COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ … as ordered by the extraordinarily compromised, corrupt and criminal Biden Administration. Truly, if there is one piece of circumstantial evidence which proves that the various Covid injections, shots and jabs are extremely dangerous and deadly, this “Exemption List” is it.
    Please send this shocking “Exemption List” to EVERYONE you know—ASAP!

    https://stateofthenation.co/?p=88299

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    1. Biden could only mandate vaccines for the Executive Branch. He can not mandate them for Legislative Branch of Government.

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  5. There are lots of good article today about the REAL reason for the COVID-19 hoax. Yes, there’s an eugenicist motive- but the main reason so many politicians are on board with this is financial. The US debt is now $28 trillion and is exponentially rising. Printing massive amounts of money has kept the economy afloat since 2008 but it’s finally tanking- which is why they’re trying to do the Great Reset (switch to central banking digital currency). Killing off lots of “useless eaters” with the vaccines is about reducing expenses! Mercola also had a good article that the entitlement programs will run out of money by 2028. Europe is in even worse shape!

    https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/08/the-fear-pandemic-and-the-crisis-of-capitalism/

    https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/08/melissa-ciummei-we-have-been-fooled-into-believing-that-currency-is-money-people-have-this-idea-that-thats-my-money-in-the-bank-its-not/

    https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/08/the-government-cannot-afford-to-satisfy-its-pension-obligations/

    https://tessa.substack.com/p/ernst-wolff-digital-financial-complex

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  6. 1.) Vaccine CO's own SEC Filings Gene Therapy shots?
    mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Fulfill None of the Criteria for a Vaccine?
    COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’ Are Gene Therapy?
    https://williambowles.info/2021/03/16/covid-19-vaccines-are-gene-therapy/

    2.) MODERNA: A COMPANY “IN NEED OF A HAIL MARY”
    https://williambowles.info/2021/10/08/moderna-a-company-in-need-of-a-hail-mary/

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  7. For people to GET to FIGHT against their destruction through Covid jabs they first need to have a proper grasp of the nature of the world they live in (ie, the need to "see the light" first) because if they do they will be MOTIVATED to fight.

    The most vital and urgent DEEP understanding everyone needs to gain is that a bunch of psychopaths are governing big businesses (eg official medicine), nations and the world and that the Covid Scamdemic is a VERY DESTRUCTIVE WAR AGAINST NON-RULING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE --- you and I. But that's only ONE part of the equation.

    The true, WHOLE, but "politically inconvenient" and “culturally forbidden” reality is more encompassing. Review “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective  & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” by Rolf Hefti at https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html

    Without a proper understanding, and full acknowledgment, of the true WHOLE problem and reality, no real constructive LASTING change is possible for humanity.

    "Finding individuals who can think for themselves now is like finding diamonds in a sewer." (Unknown)

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  8. 'BREAKING'

    IT's OFFICIAL?: THE VACCINE IS A KILLER - IF YOU GOT THE SHOT BRACE YOURSELF
    DR BYRAM BRIDEL SAYS: "WE MADE A BIG MISTAKE"!

    This would seem to vindicate what many have been saying about the spike proteins being a big source of the problem as stated in the Salk Insitute study and the Jananese study. The spike protein was never intended to enter the blood stream but its getting in there anyway and causing problems with the spleen, adrenal glands lymph nodes, heart, bone marrow, and the brain. Dr, Byram Bridel goes over it all.

    https://seed306.bitchute.com/qsqOliWyhidn/N5UAQT3s31TY.mp4

    Ivermectin vs. Molnupiravir ? Ivermectin: Better!
    https://austinpublishinggroup.com/pharmacology-therapeutics/fulltext/ajpt-v9-id1149.pdf

    VID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKa3EZqofNo

    Tmax (the time it takes to get to maximum plasma concentrations)
    Molnupiravir : 1-1.75 hours
    Ivermectin : 4-6 hours

    Half life
    Molnupiravir : 7 hours
    Ivermectin : 81-91 hours (less than this according to some other researches, but still far better than Molnupiravir. Besides Ivermectin has the ability to accumulate in the lungs, which is very important for treating Sars-Cov-2 infection)

    Inhibation of cytokine production and inflammation
    Molnupiravir : Not known yet
    Ivermectin : Effective

    Total Cost/Price per treatment
    Molnupiravir : 700 USD
    Ivermectin : 0.53 USD

    Safety/Adverse events
    Molnupiravir : Unknown yet
    Ivermectin : Very low number of adverse events (3.7 billion doses have been given to humans so far and only 5693 AE records retrieved. For comparison the number for ibuprofen is 165.479

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  9. Which Cruise Lines Require COVID-19 Vaccinations? | TravelAge West
    https://www.travelagewest.com/Travel/Cruise/Cruise-Lines-COVID-Vaccinations-Requirement

    Which Cruise Lines Require COVID-19 Vaccines to Sail?
    https://www.travelmarketreport.com/articles/Which-Cruise-Lines-Require-COVID-19-Vaccines-to-Sail

    Will I need a COVID-19 vaccine to cruise? A line-by-line guide to requirements
    https://thepointsguy.com/guide/cruise-line-covid-vaccine-policy/

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  10. Any Help From Native Tribes?

    Might find something interesting??

    Lands of the Sami – Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
    https://sacredland.org/lands-of-the-sami-finland-norway-russia-sweden/

    The Fire in Dorbo Meadow 
    https://sacredland.org/the-fire-in-dorbo-meadow/

    The Spring at Panther Meadows Unrecognized Native Tribe In Mt Shasta Area 
    Their Tribal Mother Earth Spring dries up for first time ever known in Tribal History 
    https://sacredland.org/the-spring-at-panther-meadows/

    Cancers lymphomas organ cancers leukemia from living near oil tar sands 
    Reports no other explanations high cancers Dr. John O’Connor & Cancer in the Tar Sands 
    https://sacredland.org/dr-john-oconnor-and-cancer-in-the-tar-sands/

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