Jehovah's Witnesses may train and assist Oregon National Guard in door to door vaccine push.

As a further addendum to todays announcement by Oregon health officials, Jason Davis, Public Information Officer with Lane County Public Health further stated Oregon is looking at the possibility of hiring Jehovah's Witnesses to train, assist and accompany Oregon National Guardsmen going door to door so the guardsmen can learn the subtle techniques of persuasion.

"I don't think anyone in American can deny the Jehovah's Witnesses are relentless in their pursuit and once you open your door to them it's almost impossible to get rid of them".

"We feel by giving classroom and on the job training to our guardsmen, they'll be better equipped to not take no for an answer when someone refuses the vaccine."

"Witnesses will make initial contact, and backed by armed, masked guardsmen who are watching and learning, the lesson will be after hours of being told no, with unyielding persuasion, the individual will relent and get the shot."

"Should the individual still not get the shot, the guard may take over. We will get to 100% vaccination one way or the other. We still advise that even after the shot, masks and social distancing will still be required."

When asked by a reporter how this action jibes with the American concept of "My body, My choice", the response was, "This isn't America. This is Oregon".

My wife and I moved into our current house twenty years ago in the boonies. Our only neighbor is her Mom who lives about one hundred yards from us. We moved in on a Friday and went to bed at midnight exhausted knowing a full day and week ahead of us unpacking and settling in.

My wife got up at 7:00am and had eaten breakfast and showered and was already cleaning and scrubbing. I was upstairs painting a closet. She was mopping our foyer and had a bucket of dirty mop water she needed to toss and opened the screen door, took a step and let fly toward the front yard missing two Jehovah’s Witness by a few inches as they jumped aside. They looked at each other startled each other a second or two and they started their pitch. She listened long enough to figure out who they were and then interrupted them and asked, did you see that sign at the bottom of this road? Yes they replied. What did it say? No trespassing they said. She said you do understand what that means and that you are now in violation of trespassing laws of this state? Thank you have a good day and they started towards her Moms and she hollered at them and said she put the No Trespassing sign up, don’t bother her, get off our ridge and property and don’t come back. They walked down the road to their vehicle and never returned.

As for armed guardsman I hope they are not serious because that is going to get nasty real quick for the civilians and the guard, there will be blood...

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