State Leader Meeting
Daniel is planning to talk to all the state leaders the week after Christmas to talk about things we should push during the state legislative sessions. If you’ve been listening to his show, you know he already has a long list of things we wants to tackle:
- Refuse green subsidies
- Nullification bill
- State immigration enforcement
- Medical freedom constitutional amendment
- Audit of everything on the child vaccination schedule
- Sheriff’s posse idea
- Sanctuary from federal tyranny
- A prohibition on government tracking, monitoring, or controlling a human being without his consent when there is no probable cause a crime was committed. With cause of action against individual bureaucracy or private contract vendor – basically a digital privacy bill of rights
- Cap property taxes
- Campus carry
- Expand stand your ground to include property
- Ban windfarms
If you have anything to add on any of these topics or think of another topic that needs to be addressed, please let me know before Christmas so I can bring it up to Daniel at our meeting.
Medical Freedom Bills
So far we only have one volunteer watching the state legislature and her focus is on medical freedom. Here are a couple bills you should be aware of.
SB636. Exemptions from Immunization Requirements
Creates new statute (381.029. Limited exemption from required immunizations) that provides requirements for FDA-approved vaccines to be mandated. If a vax doesn’t meet all the requirements, Anyone can claim a vax exemption for any reason. The most important requirement is that the “vaccine’s manufacturer assumes liability, including for design defect claims, for any death or injury caused by the vaccine.”
Also important: “An employer, a school district, the department, or any other state agency, board, or commission may not require a person to meet any other condition to claim the exemption”
Problem: like most of the bills from the 2023 session, there is no private cause of action for people whose exemptions are ignored. There needs to be a stated penalty for companies, school districts, and government agencies that violate this law.
SB680. Protection of Medical Freedom
Updates Statute 381.003 (Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control): “The department may not require enrollment in the immunization registry or otherwise require persons to submit to any form of immunization tracking.”
Updates Statute 381.00316 (Discrimination by governmental and business entities based on health care choices; prohibition) to remove COVID 19 and expand it to all communicable diseases and all vaccines, so can’t require a vax, test, or proof of recovery from disease for hiring, entry, service, etc.
Creates new statute (448.077. Employment discrimination on the basis of vaccination or immunity status prohibited) to add teeth to 381.003:
“An individual who is refused employment or is discriminated against on the basis of vaccination or immunity status in violation of this section may file a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction for relief as set forth in subsection (4).
(4) In any action brought pursuant to subsection (3), the court may order any of the following forms of relief, as applicable:
(a) An injunction preventing the continued violation of this section.
(b) Employment or reinstatement of the employee to the same position applied for or held, as applicable, before the violation occurred or to an equivalent position.
(c) Compensation for lost wages, benefits, and other remuneration.
(d) Reasonable attorney fees.
(e) Any other relief the court deems appropriate.
Creates new statutes that prevent insurance companies from requiring proof of vax or immunity status. They can’t refuse to issue or renew policies, impose higher premiums, or discriminate in coverage solely on the basis of vax or immunity status. The new statutes all have the same title (Discrimination on the basis of vaccination or immunity status prohibited” and are:
626.9708… life insurance
627.6441… health insurance
627.6614… group, blanket, or franchise health insurance
641.31078… health maintenance organizations
Problem: unlike 448.077, none of these provide a private cause of action or any specified penalties for companies that violate the law.
Adds vax or immunity status to protected categories under civil rights law.
Updates Statute 1003.22 (District school board operation and control of public K-12 education within the school district) to specify that “any immunization approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration only for emergency use may not be required.”
FL DOH v FDA (please!)
You may have heard that Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo asked the FDA for data on the risks of DNA contaminants in the COVID-19 vaccines. Of course, FDA didn’t respond and all the people who said we couldn’t question state authorities want to ignore Ladapo because he was appointed by DeSantis. Here’s an interview with Ladapo about his letter (which also links to the letter itself).
Nothing happened yet, but we suspect there will soon be a Florida DOH recommendation against the COVID-19 vaccines for everyone, not just those under 65. We’re hoping for an outright ban or maybe a suit to claim damages from the FDA for any vax injuries paid by the state. We can dream.
Grooming in Schools… Backed by the Media
While DeSantis was debating Newsome and claimed Gender Queer is not in Florida schools, some anonymous employee of Alachua County Public Schools put the book back on the shelf after the Library Advisory Council voted to remove the book. Rather than report on the story, our PBS- and NPR- affiliated UF news network (WUFT) attacked the parent that challenged the book in a brazen attempt to silence any future challenges from parents. That reporter also outed another parent, a UF employee, as a Republican so that parent’s career is pretty much over in that “tolerant” work environment. We’re witnessing a Maoist cultural revolution.