Posted on 09/10/2021 8:27:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
About six months ago, I wrote an article here explaining that state preemptions of local government are a bad thing—even when Ron DeSantis does it. I vehemently stand by these principles. However, it is now time for Ron DeSantis to take that principle of decentralized control and run with it—against the Biden administration. Just as it is acceptable to see local governments passing laws in defiance of their state, it is now time for the states to pass laws in defiance of the federal government. This is because on September 9, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that all employers with one hundred–plus employees will be required to mandate vaccines or weekly negative covid tests.
Never in my lifetime has something occurred that was so egregiously opposed to Misesian concepts of liberalism and freedom. In fact, this is directly in line with perhaps the most opposite ideology to liberalism: fascism. Benito Mussolini said himself that “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” In today’s political discourse, people abuse the word fascism and sometimes even cite this definition of corporatism while stretching it somewhat from the truth. However, the state requiring that businesses require the vaccine from one of three large corporations that were propped up by the state is undoubtedly the merger of state and corporate power that Mussolini dreamed of.
In my earlier-mentioned piece criticizing DeSantis’s intervention remitting fines passed by local governments in regard to local covid regulations, I had two main issues with the order. First, was a preference for localism, citing the president of the Mises Institute, Jeff Deist, who claimed that “Insisting on universal political arrangements is a huge tactical mistake for libertarians.” This concern is even more true as it relates to Biden’s newest announcement, as this is simply another universal political arrangement, now expanding to the national level. My other concern was that the a sweeping universal political arrangement like this—even in the best-case scenario, when the decision is hypothetically good for everyone with no cost—sets a precedent that the central state now has authority over that issue.
Right now, take a moment to think of the issue that is by and far most important to you. We all have one. Then think of the politician that threatens that more than anything. Do you want that individual to have this precedent to rely on when he or she takes power one day?
Luckily, the solution to this was described by the great Tom Woods:
Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.
Many businesses across the country will act in civil noncompliance, but that is simply not enough. If one wants to see this end, states across the country will have to undoubtedly reject this. I am not here to make any criticisms of the vaccine. I still stand by my initial piece that these bans on mom-and-pop shops wanting not to run the risk of interacting with unvaccinated individuals is a dangerous threat to liberty. However, I’d argue that any act of nullification at this point has little or nothing to do with the vaccine or the pandemic. We are now facing one simple question: Will we accept or reject a precedent for the merger of state and corporate power? If we choose to reject it, then the governors of the free state of Florida as well as New York, the governors of Texas as well as California, all these governors alike must stand firm against this tragedy.
Never comply with an unlawful order.
It once or so to thousand times it is in very learned opinion and I will state it once again here
The vaccine industry is pure evil and fraudulent
The Democratic fascist party acting as a full on Gestapo for the big Pharma vaccine industry is actually nothing new
They’ve been destroying the lives of children since the first national act was forced through in 1962
Just like they don’t care about babies and will murder them in the womb they will murder children out of the womb as well
Not satisfied it just murdering and ruining the lives of children now they’ve moved on to adults with this fake Covid scam Demic communist plot great reset nonsense
And it is not just the Democrats in America it is a worldwide fascist movement look at Australia look at Canada look at Europe
Vaccines are stupid they don’t work and mostly they caused the disease that they’re trying to eradicate
If your going to alliterate, go big. 😉
A business model where you get to force your customers to purchase your product.
What could possibly go wrong?
Never use one word when ten will do. - H.P. Lovecraft.........................
I think the worst is over. CDC data says 60% of US population is vaccinated and 20% have had the virus and therefore have natural immunity. 80%, by CDC definition is herd immunity. Time to remove all restriction and go back to normal.
I haven’t seen this story published in the American media. Purposely??
They are forcing people to pay for what they don’t want JUST so they can make a profit, our welfare be damned.
‘Right now, take a moment to think of the issue that is by and far most important to you. We all have one. Then think of the politician that threatens that more than anything. Do you want that individual to have this precedent to rely on when he or she takes power one day?’
“Do you want one person making decisions for you????” Missouri Governor Mike Parson said this recently at a function I attended.
Think about what Cuomo did last year when reading the thoughts above.
“Never in my lifetime has something occurred that was so egregiously opposed to Misesian concepts of liberalism and freedom. In fact, this is directly in line with perhaps the most opposite ideology to liberalism: fascism”.
You nailed it.
“Liberals” of today are not liberal. They are totalitarians/fascists. And they don’t understand what they’ve become.
The unvaccinated is the modern day Jew. They are finished talking they’re coming for us. Biden fired the first shot. They’re done it’s over....the NAZI Brownshirts are coming for us! Do or die time is at hand.
‘Right now, take a moment to think of the issue that is by and far most important to you. We all have one. Then think of the politician that threatens that more than anything. Do you want that individual to have this precedent to rely on when he or she takes power one day?’
“Do you want one person making decisions for you????”
I work for a small employee-owned company and I don’t want people whom I consider my friends to make that decision for me, let alone any politician.
One of my favorite books, and Professor de la Paz is one of my favorite characters.
“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
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