Posted on 08/26/2026 6:43:12 PM PDT by Libloather
New York’s Amish community is issuing an ultimatum to state bureaucrats: leave us alone or we’re packing up our buggies for greener pastures.
The threat has been sparked by a vaccine mandate fight that the 25,000 strong religious community is taking all the way to the Supreme Court.
It takes place as state Health Department officials continue to slap thousands in fines on tiny, one-room parochial Amish schools which have refused to comply with a Cuomo-era vaccine decree.
“Have we gotten to a place where we aren’t going to make room for the Amish anymore?” Hiram Sasser, an attorney representing six plaintiffs in the case, Miller v. McDonald, asked.
“When you think of Americana—apple pie, fireworks—the Amish are on that list. They’re part of the American fabric. They’re a good litmus test of our religious liberty and our tolerance,” Sasser claimed to The Post.
In 2019, following a measles outbreak in an Orthodox Jewish community, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo rescinded religious exemptions for school vaccine mandates—making it the second state to ever do so, behind California.
Post-COVID, two other states, Maine and Connecticut, removed religious exemptions while West Virginia never had them.
New York state law requires kids to receive between 24 and 27 jabs to attend K through 12 schools, according to the DOH vaccine schedule.
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The mandate is unconstitutional anyway but exempting illegal aliens but not the Amish, makes the mandate outright null and void.
Next, the NY Rats will require the Amish to pay for licenses for their horse drawn buggies to put them in a data base.
Those pesky Amish. Always causing trouble. Wear a mask. Get the 43 boosters. This shouldn’t be hard.</s>
“Have we gotten to a place where we aren’t going to make room for the Amish anymore?”
How about everyone else who don’t want democrat shit?
Amish gangs ravishing New York?
Oh Lord.
The Amish will never leave their land. It’s theirs for nigh 200 years.
Will Hochul deploy the National Guard and State Police to confiscate it after a court order?
Who wants to see Amish with rakes and spades facing off against armed ninjas from the State Police? Anyone?
Where has this happened before?
“Don’t worry comrade kulak, your livestock and grain will be distributed among the people. You will be allowed to continue working for the collective. Your daughters will be well treated.”
Sic Janet Reno on those bothersome Amish. She’ll take care of the situation permanently. And bring Lon Horiuchi out of retirement to fire the first shot.
Amish pack and leave historically. They will leave for frinlier pastures. Perhaps South America? There is a large population of them iirc in Paraguay?
Meanwhile a similar Amish persecution situation in Canada...(Amish fined for not using a smartphone app after visiting the USA or other countries):
Without licenses, how are the cameras going to track them since they do not carry phones?
I have seen Amish in Belize selling watermelons.
But the highest populations are in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. They probably would move there.
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