Whatever faults America’s founding fathers may have had, most of them were men of fine character, highly intelligent, and keen students of history. They knew that the republic they were creating was fragile, because most governments eventually descend into tyranny. Some of them believed, too optimistically, that the Constitution would protect citizens from the kind of gangsters who so often end up grasping the levers of power. Thomas Paine, one of the founders and author of the famous pamphlet Common Sense, put it succinctly: “The trade of governing has always been a monopoly of the most ignorant and the most vicious of mankind.”
Ignorant and vicious. I can’t think of two better words to describe the politicians we’re stuck with here in New York, who, when they decide to show up for “work,” pass laws that millions of ordinary New Yorkers detest. I must say that I’ve never heard of most of them, and living alone in a rural county, with very few racial minorities and very little crime, what goes down in Albany does not affect me — not yet, anyway. In passing, I’ll note that there are 213 wastrels on the state payroll — 143 Democrats and 70 Republicans. Without the New York City vote, there’s no way so many Democrats would be in office. This is not to imply that I have any use for the Republican establishment in New York or anywhere else, but I will concede that, on the whole, Republicans are more normal and more sane, at least on domestic issues. The three pieces of shit I will focus on below are all Democrats.
To shift gears, as an anti-vaxxer who is active online, I somehow ended up on email address lists of various organizations and news outlets in the movement, one of them being Life Site News. Life Site is a Catholic-oriented outfit that publishes articles containing information that never appears in the mainstream media. I don’t like their religious slant, but I do find their material useful. On August 28 they ran an article entitled “Amish fight New York vaccine mandate for children: ‘Left with no choice’.” While considerably more Amish live in neighboring Pennsylvania, where they are a tourist attraction in the farming communities around Lancaster, there are a fair number here in New York, mainly in the western and northern parts of the state. Parenthetically, they are also settled in Ohio and Indiana. Everywhere they live, they keep to themselves, they’re self-reliant, they bother no one, and their quaint, simple lifestyle, of which we’re reminded when we pass their horses and buggies on the road, brings a smile to many faces. Everyone seems to have a place in their hearts for the Amish.
Several times in my research, I came across the vaccine issue in connection with the Amish, but I never read anything definitive. There’s quite a bit of conflicting information on the subject, and there’s the fact that the Amish are not prone to share details of their personal lives with outsiders. Some maintain that they do not vaccinate their children, period, while others dispute that. Some claim that their rates of autism are about the same as the rest of the American population, while others say that autism simply does not exist in Amish children. Reading between the lines, I believe that vaccination is a personal decision among Amish parents, that a small percentage do have their children inoculated (though how many times and for what diseases, real or imagined, is anyone’s guess), and that there are autistic Amish children, but only a tiny fraction compared to the general population. Our public health agencies, whether at the federal, state, or county level, have never showed any willingness to get to the truth of the matter. Does that surprise you?
Despite the lack of hard data, no one whom I know of, not even the most fanatical vaccine pusher, has ever suggested that the Amish, because of their avoidance of most or all vaccines, have ever posed a health threat to society. After all, they live miles away from everybody else. Why, then, are they being persecuted?
Enter POS number one: the governor, who, incidentally, along with most state legislators, is up for re-election in November, and is being opposed by a Republican POS, Bruce Blakeman, whom I may write about another time. If the mentality of politicians interests you, you should read my previous article about Kathy Hochul on this site, if you haven’t already — the one entitled “What is This Thing?” Let me reproduce a statement from that article that she made to a Christian group in Brooklyn in 2021 during the relentless drive to inject everyone with the toxic Covid-19 vaccine:
All of you, yes, I know you’re vaccinated. You’re the smart ones, but you know there’s people out there who aren’t listening to God and what God wants. I need you to be my apostles.… Jesus taught us to love one another, and how do you show that love but to care about each other enough to say, “Please get the vaccine because I love you and I want you to live.”
If you look around, you’ll find equally crazy assertions among the vaccine-pushing crowd, not only politicians but vaccine inventors as well, several of which I quote on this site and in my book. My favorite is the sinister vaccine developer and profiteer Paul Offit, the media’s favorite vaccine high priest, having appeared on television news programs countless times, and who on page 42 of his co-authored book Vaccines and Your Child states that theoretically, babies could get 100,000 vaccines given at one time: “Of course, we’re not saying that babies should get a hundred thousand vaccines at once. We’re only saying that they could handle it.” He has made many other insane statements, but that one takes the cake.
The Life Site article does not quote Hochul, but it does offer this: “Governor Kathy Hochul has continued to insist that Amish children attending school in one-room schoolhouses — which receive no state or federal funding — must submit to her state’s tyrannical vaccine mandate or incur massive fines.… So far, three state-targeted Amish schools have racked up a total of $118,000 in civil penalties.” The writer tells us that these folks cannot pay this sum, and the case has now gone to the US Supreme Court. If the Amish lose, the state will likely seize their land, and they will have nowhere to live.
I ask you: What is wrong with this woman? Why does she torment a harmless people who don’t pose the slightest threat to anyone and just want to be left alone? There really is something innately defective about most people who go into politics, something I’ve never been able to figure out. Kathy Hochul is a reptile, a mannequin, a zombie, take your pick. Whatever she is, she isn’t human.
Senator James Skoufis is another one. The name, Greek in origin, was unfamiliar to me so I looked into him and learned that his district covers nearly all of Orange County, a one-hour drive north of Manhattan, with overlapping values and issues, though much more livable. Reading about this hustler, who describes himself as “center-left,” gave me a sinking feeling as to the IQs of the 73,420 who voted for him in the last election. Here’s what he said, according to Life Site: “The religious exemption in New York state is made up. It’s fake. Because there is no religion that objects to vaccines.” That is a disingenuous statement because every major world religion was established centuries before vaccines came along, and for those who believe in the Bible, as the Amish do (I don’t), there are several verses that allude to the sanctity of the human body. Since vaccines introduce foreign matter into the body there’s plenty of room for interpretation here, which is why 46 states allow religious exemptions, and most of them philosophical exemptions as well, for those who don’t follow any religion. But not New York. Skoufis probably doesn’t even know this, and he obviously doesn’t care about parental concerns. I’d love to confront this son of a bitch with a few hard questions, just to make him realize that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
The third turd is assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, a former administrative judge and the most vicious of the three. I say that because he was the scumbag who wrote the bill to revoke vaccine exemptions on religious grounds, signed into law in 2019 by odious former governor Andrew Cuomo. As a result, today New York is one of only four states that does not allow any non-medical exemptions. Quite an accomplishment there, Dinowitz. I’ll bet you’re proud of yourself. You’re only a year younger than me, you grew up only twenty miles away, so even if you’re dumb enough to believe that all these new vaccines forced on children these days are “safe and effective,” as the catchphrase goes, you surely know that we all survived and thrived without them. Dinowitz called the Amish position on vaccine freedom “utter garbage.” There has been at least one vaccine-related demonstration that took place outside his Bronx office, apparently by his own constituents, and by his own admission he has been the target of hate mail and death threats. This is good, because he is a hateful person himself who deserves to be hated, and he is also a threat — I would even call him a death threat — to vulnerable children, but since the media don’t report on these events, few New Yorkers know what’s going on.
I considered writing Dinowitz a letter asking him if he would be willing to take a lie detector test, wherein he would be asked if his four grandchildren are fully vaccinated, and also if he, being a proud Jew, has ever cracked down on the numerous yeshivas across town in Brooklyn where vaccination rates are highly questionable. Yeshivas are schools for the children of Orthodox Jews, who unlike the law-abiding Amish have a track record of defrauding the government for welfare benefits and rarely being punished for it. But like the Amish, they have a reputation for keeping the needle away from their children and don’t like outsiders prying into their affairs. There’s also my $30,000 offer that I could run by him. But after mailing hundreds of letters to vaccine true believers, as detailed on my $30,000 page, and getting just a few weak replies, not to mention the lack of response from the unknown number worldwide who have read about it on this site, it’s a sure bet that Dinowitz or one of his staff would just glance at my letter then throw it in the wastebasket. I think I’ve proven my point by sending out all those letters for nearly five years, my point being that people who believe in vaccines don’t have a leg to stand on.
In the end, I have to nod in agreement with Thomas Paine. Tyrants will always be part of the human condition. The rodents that prowl the Albany state legislature are essentially the same, I’m sure, as the apparatchiks of the former Soviet Union, those dull, ignorant office holders who were paid a handsome salary with excellent benefits to keep their boots on the necks of hardworking, ordinary Russians, all the while living the lie of communism.
Even if the Republicans make a clean sweep in November, which is highly unlikely, nothing substantial will change. They may cut the Amish some slack, but Big Pharma will continue to buy off our uniparty public servants. I can’t picture any politician, especially in New York, rocking the boat by telling the truth about vaccines. In the meantime, I wish the Amish well in their legal battle. And for everyone else with children, it behooves you to take them out of the public school system, where poisoning their bodies is a prerequisite for poisoning their minds. That goes for most private schools as well. Educate them at home, or at community centers with other like-minded parents. Nothing, nothing is more important.