Posted on 06/20/2021 6:47:09 AM PDT by RandFan
Who do Americans have to thank for the United States government not subjecting them to a national vaccine passport like those being imposed by national governments in Europe? Megan Redshaw wrote in a Wednesday article at Children’s Health Defense that the credit goes to Ron Paul who, while serving as a member of the US House of Representatives, led the effort to bar the US government from creating for each American a “unique health identifier” number.
Redshaw wrote:
So far, the Biden administration has resisted the idea of a “vaccine passport” for the U.S. On May 28, U.S. Director of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas said the U.S. was taking a “very close look” at vaccine passports for international travel. Later that day, the DHS clarified there will be no “federal mandate” for vaccine passports in the U.S.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. does not have a national database for immunization records that could act as the source of vaccination data for use in digital passes. That’s because a national system to create a unique identification number to link the health records of every American has been banned since 1998, spearheaded by then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who said such a system would be an unwarranted privacy intrusion.
An attempt to overturn the ban passed the U.S. House in 2019, but was rejected by the Senate.
Paul left the US House in January of 2013.
Paul’s son Rand Paul has been a key person working in the US Senate to keep in place the prohibition on a unique health identifier. A September of 2019 press release from Rand Paul’s Senate office recounts the following:
Dr. Paul’s father, former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), introduced language to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill in 1998 to restrict the use of federal funds to develop the identifier, and such a ban has been continually renewed in each Labor-HHS appropriations bill since.
This June, however, an amendment stripped this critical protection for Americans out of the version of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill ultimately passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Enacting the bill into law with this amendment or a similar provision would open the floodgates for a government-issued ID to be linked with the private medical history of every man, woman, and child in America.
Prior to introducing standalone legislation to repeal the original authority created under HIPAA, Dr. Paul successfully advocated this month for keeping language banning federal funding for the unique health identifier in the proposed Senate version of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill.
You don't hear much about this kind of thing that goes on quietly and behind the scenes.
So, could just be me but, if companies decide to impose certification of vaccination requirements, the admin can simply (wink, wink) maintain THEY aren’t requiring anyone to do it but private companies (apparently) can do as they deem safe for their customers. (ahem, ahem!) So, no gas for you. No groceries for you. No lumber for you. It’s for the greater good “friends”. Pretty sure a lot of us know how the game is played. And who has the financial means to sue? “They” will just keep it going until you’re bankrupt. Using our tax dollars to do it too.
The Pauls are national treasures.
C210N wrote: “The vax would have been mandatory, if not for Warp Speed and Trump creating *early* an “experimental drug”. Only a fully-approved drug could be legally made mandatory.”
Two points:
1. if not for Warp Speed, we’d have no vaccines and a few hundred thousand more would have died.
2. the vaccines will be fully approved before the end of the year. Pfizer has already submitted the paperwork. Moderna soon to follow.
Spreaders versus crosser........ and the beat goes on.
Funny thing about the Pauls. Even when they are chastised for doing what folks think is wrong at the time they end up being right in the long run. It has happened over and over. Now that we know this, benefit of the doubt should be given up front. Because even though it might not look like it at the time, they very well could be ahead of the game and we just do not know it yet. We haven’t seen the cards they are holding yet.
If companies create databases, that applies only to the individual company; there won’t be a central database.
Of course there won’t be a central database. 😱🙌
That’s correct.
No doubt at the time people thought it was nutty/bizarre/unlikely.
Amazing really.
I urge you to review reply #3.
The message from the books applies to Fauci, Birx, Gates.
You are right - but I’ve always respected the Pauls’ side of things - even when Rand occasionally seemed to part ways with President Trump over foreign policy, various executive orders, etc..
The Constitution assigns the three branches co-equal power, which sets up a healthy but adversarial relationship between them.
Thus, in order to assert their constitutional roles, good conservative legislators like the Pauls must at times have healthy disagreements with Presidents, even good conservative ones like Reagan or Trump.
See link to caulifourneuh article:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3969433/posts
See, the cali government is merely providing data to companies that decide you need to prove to them you’ve been jabbed in order to receive their goods or services. Sky’s the limit.
The big one was the “End the wars and bring them all home to protect our borders”. Ron was slammed hard by the MIC and most conservatives for being a crazy dumb “non-interventionist”.
Now look... These very same are all in for that very concept. He was ahead of the game as a visionary. And Rand is right behind him with the same forethought. :)
Funny though, The open border Libertarians who claim to support Ron have tried their best to hide and deny that Ron ever said that. But he did, and took a huge hit for it from all sides.
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Absolutely... The thing that is consistent with both is that they are first and foremost tightwad misers when it comes to spending. It is a set in stone prerequisite for everything they do. and that is a good thing, even if it was to fight against spending for the patriot act which was seen as “giving the country away to terrorists” at the time.
Yet... Now it is being used against U.S. citizens as domestic terrorists. They were absolutely right and we should have listened rather than allow the fear propaganda overtake our emotions. They saw the bigger issue with this power in the long run and now here we are. It was not just the money, it was the constitutional rights that would be abused at some point.
How did Rand Paul vote on 2021 elector certification?
Right, and I think their votes against spending were not just about being stingy.
Often the only way to block a bad policy is by using the “power of the purse”.
Kind of like a parent cutting a teenager’s allowance or taking away the car keys. It’s not just about the money. :-)
Because the feral government never issues unconstitutional edicts.
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