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‘Very Sad’: Ben Carson Criticizes Federal Vaccine Surveillance Expansion Bill
The Federalist ^ | 12/15/2021 | Joy Pullmann

Posted on 12/19/2021 10:10:47 AM PST by bitt

Former Trump Cabinet member Dr. Ben Carson registered concern and disappointment about 80 House Republicans voting with all House Democrats to expand federal vaccine surveillance by connecting and expanding state databases.

“It will secondarily be used for other things as well. We have got to be smart enough to recognize these signs when we see them and stop them, to nip them in the bud before it becomes too late,” the former Republican presidential candidate said to Fox host Maria Bartiromo. “It doesn’t take long to change a nation.”

Carson’s remarks came in response to Bartiromo’s question about H.R. 550, which The Federalist reported on here. The bill received no hearing in the House and is now under consideration in the Senate. It would enable the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to connect state vaccine databases and use them to track Americans’ private health decisions in “real time.”

Republicans who voted for the bill told constituents this is a routine program for which they slimmed funding from a $500 million expansion to a $400 million expansion, which did little to allay concerns about politicized and unelected bureaucrats manipulating private information for political purposes. Western nations including U.S. neighbor Canada are using people’s medical decisions to deny them health care and access to grocery stores, spawning black markets in Europe.

“Governments have a tendency to grow, to infiltrate, and to control,” Carson noted. “Those are governments that are controlled by Democrats or Republicans, or independents or anybody, that’s what governments do.”

Republicans also claimed the data this program collects would be anonymized to protect individual privacy, but data privacy experts have long noted that computerized data is very difficult to actually keep private. Private data including private medical information is only rarely actually secured despite record keepers’ claims to the

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1 posted on 12/19/2021 10:10:47 AM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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2 posted on 12/19/2021 10:10:59 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

“Very Sad”?

Dr. Ben Carson is a master of understatements.


3 posted on 12/19/2021 10:11:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: bitt

bttt


4 posted on 12/19/2021 10:13:06 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: bitt
Republicans who voted for the bill told constituents this is a routine program for which they slimmed funding from a $500 million expansion to a $400 million expansion

See, see! This is why we gotta keep voting Republican! Do you purists really wanted the $500 million? Now, lets all have drinks at CPAC and rave about how freakin' AWESOME the GOP is!

< /S >

5 posted on 12/19/2021 10:13:36 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: bitt

Israel Update - Mandates are Collapsing, Gov Caught Lying on Numbers

https://www.brighteon.com/1df39df6-2ce5-4a5b-afcc-5dd9b4239da7

” ... update on how the mandates are falling apart in Israel. The majority of the public no longer has a valid green pass now & only 10% of eligible children have been vaccinated. Also the gov was caught lying about the number of unvaccinated (much like what just came out in the UK

(https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/12/17/23-million-not-vaccinated-in-england/)). The powers-that-be want you demoralized. Don’t give in. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

https://www.brighteon.com/1df39df6-2ce5-4a5b-afcc-5dd9b4239da7


6 posted on 12/19/2021 10:16:03 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: bitt

80 House Republicans voting with all House Democrats to expand federal vaccine surveillance
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We MUST stop re-electing Assistant Democrats.


7 posted on 12/19/2021 10:19:49 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

I can understand ignorant Godless heathen voting for Antichrist, but Republicans should at least have a friend of a friend among their staff who can point out how this is helping Big Brother to enslave all people.


8 posted on 12/19/2021 10:20:56 AM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: bitt

Carson knows that absolute power corrupts absolutely.


9 posted on 12/19/2021 10:22:32 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: bitt

“Very sad” - Crispus Attucks.

No wait, I got that wrong. He attacked and was killed.


10 posted on 12/19/2021 10:25:46 AM PST by Celerity
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To: bitt

I guess my body my choice only pertains to certain things


11 posted on 12/19/2021 10:30:23 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: bitt
He as credibility to spare...a top surgeon at Hopkins. You don't get much more credible than that.
12 posted on 12/19/2021 10:44:05 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: bitt

Unlike Trump, Carson speaks out against the vaccine voodoo.


13 posted on 12/19/2021 10:51:22 AM PST by Revel
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To: bitt

Here is the list of Republican YEA votes.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021388

Bacon Republican Nebraska Yea
Baird Republican Indiana Yea
Banks Republican Indiana Yea
Barr Republican Kentucky Yea
Bilirakis Republican Florida Yea
Bucshon Republican Indiana Yea
Burgess Republican Texas Yea
Carl Republican Alabama Yea
Carter (GA) Republican Georgia Yea
Carter (TX) Republican Texas Yea
Cheney Republican Wyoming Yea
Cole Republican Oklahoma Yea
Comer Republican Kentucky Yea
Crenshaw Republican Texas Yea
Curtis Republican Utah Yea
Davis, Rodney Republican Illinois Yea
Diaz-Balart Republican Florida Yea
Dunn Republican Florida Yea
Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania Yea
Fleischmann Republican Tennessee Yea
Fortenberry Republican Nebraska Yea
Gimenez Republican Florida Yea
Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas Yea
Gonzalez (OH) Republican Ohio Yea
Graves (MO) Republican Missouri Yea
Guthrie Republican Kentucky Yea
Herrera Beutler Republican Washington Yea
Hill Republican Arkansas Yea
Hinson Republican Iowa Yea
Hudson Republican North Carolina Yea
Huizenga Republican Michigan Yea
Jacobs (NY) Republican New York Yea
Johnson (OH) Republican Ohio Yea
Joyce (OH) Republican Ohio Yea
Joyce (PA) Republican Pennsylvania Yea
Katko Republican New York Yea
Keller Republican Pennsylvania Yea
Kim (CA) Republican California Yea
Kinzinger Republican Illinois Yea
Kustoff Republican Tennessee Yea
LaHood Republican Illinois Yea
Lesko Republican Arizona Yea
Letlow Republican Louisiana Yea
Long Republican Missouri Yea
Lucas Republican Oklahoma Yea
Luetkemeyer Republican Missouri Yea
McCarthy Republican California Yea
McCaul Republican Texas Yea
McClain Republican Michigan Yea
McHenry Republican North Carolina Yea
McKinley Republican West Virginia Yea
Meijer Republican Michigan Yea
Miller-Meeks Republican Iowa Yea
Moore (UT) Republican Utah Yea
Murphy (NC) Republican North Carolina Yea
Newhouse Republican Washington Yea
Owens Republican Utah Yea
Palazzo Republican Mississippi Yea
Palmer Republican Alabama Yea
Pence Republican Indiana Yea
Reed Republican New York Yea
Reschenthaler Republican Pennsylvania Yea
Rodgers (WA) Republican Washington Yea
Rogers (AL) Republican Alabama Yea
Rogers (KY) Republican Kentucky Yea
Salazar Republican Florida Yea
Schweikert Republican Arizona Yea
Smith (NJ) Republican New Jersey Yea
Smucker Republican Pennsylvania Yea
Stauber Republican Minnesota Yea
Stewart Republican Utah Yea
Thompson (PA) Republican Pennsylvania Yea
Turner Republican Ohio Yea
Upton Republican Michigan Yea
Wagner Republican Missouri Yea
Wenstrup Republican Ohio Yea
Westerman Republican Arkansas Yea
Wilson (SC) Republican South Carolina Yea
Womack Republican Arkansas Yea
Young Republican Alaska Yea


14 posted on 12/19/2021 10:58:19 AM PST by matthew fuller (Resist this coercion like it’s slavery. It is. Kevin Homer, MD)
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To: matthew fuller

What’s with Crenshaw and McCaul? Very sad.


15 posted on 12/19/2021 11:03:16 AM PST by matthew fuller (Resist this coercion like it’s slavery. It is. Kevin Homer, MD)
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To: matthew fuller

Crenshaw is one of the “upcoming leaders”, according to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

In other words, he is NOT to be trusted. He’s also believes the 2020 election was not stolen.


16 posted on 12/19/2021 11:21:38 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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17 posted on 12/19/2021 11:26:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bitt; All
Trumps' red tsunami of patriot supporters need to start diplomatically pointing out to lawmakers that the feds don't have the express constitutional power to do whatever election year legislative stunt they are promising, even if feds do have the constitutionally enumerated power to do it.

In fact, the article referenced by the following thread (thanks RandFan) "overlooks" that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific powers to regulate either INTRAstate health issues or agriculture, federal vaccine database unconstitutional imo.

Congress to take up marijuana reform this spring (12.18.21)

But if an incumbent or candidate lawmaker then surprises patriots by likewise diplomatically mentioning a reasonable clause that patriots knew about anyway, all that patriots need to do is volunteer Hillary / Harris-like cackles and say "just kidding."

But also be prepared for womanly indignation (thanks Ann Coulter), or a “don't recall” concerning the Constitution that they swear to protect and defend, in response to clause question.

Also, patriots need to start referring to Election Day and constitutionally undefined primaries as deep state Democratic and RINO culling days, “culling day” for brevity.

Insights welcome.

The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing, Democratic Party-pirated federal and state governments manufacturing crises to oppress everybody under their boots...

Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.

Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.

Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17A).

In fact, I challenge the states to ram the repeal amendment for 16&17A through the ratification process faster than Nancy Pelosi irresponsibly rammed unconstitutional Obamacare through the House. /semi-sarc

Again, insights welcome.

18 posted on 12/19/2021 11:34:27 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: bitt

The good news in the article is about the growing underground economy in Canada.

Go Galt!!


19 posted on 12/19/2021 12:06:04 PM PST by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" - B Mussoli)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That will never happen. If anything, more of the sorry sons of bitches we be elected.


20 posted on 12/19/2021 12:17:54 PM PST by sport
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