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This is a person who has spent an entire career working for the national security apparatus. She is someone who thrives on “crisis”, genuine or otherwise. She knows no paradigm other than that of government action, so it should come as no surprise that the only way she knows how to deal with her fellow human beings is through violent force.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/05/bretigne-shaffer/real-life-fascist-advocates-medical-fascism-in-real-life/

By Bretigne Shaffer

I don’t like to throw inflammatory epithets around casually. Words like “fascist” are overused to the point that they have become almost meaningless. But sometimes, the word is simply an accurate description of a policy or a person. This is one of those cases.

This week, the Washington Post ran an off-the-rails opinion piece titled “Anti-vaxxers are dangerous. Make them face isolation, fines, arrests.” It would be easy to mistake this piece for an attempt at satire, but I’m pretty sure it’s not. And it’s not the first time that calls for state violence against those who choose not to vaccinate–or even to adhere completely to the CDC vaccine schedule–have been made in a major publication.

I could go into a lengthy rebuttal of all of the factual errors and omissions contained in this piece, of the over-the-top scaremongering over an illness that only a few decades ago was seen as a benign rite of passage, and which, at the time the vaccine was being developed, even the CDC admitted there was no compelling reason to target with a vaccine…

Instead, I will just ask that readers look beyond the ignorance and scare-mongering in this piece, and notice something about the person who wrote it. The author of the op-ed, Juliette Kayyem, starts out by saying:

“I am quite confident in this fact: I love their children much more than they love mine. These anti-vaxxer parents — call them free-riders or even pro-plague — are putting my children and our communities at risk to cater to their erroneous belief that vaccinations would harm their children rather than contribute to the elimination of childhood diseases.”

She finishes her piece with this:

“Yes, this language is harsh, the language of a homeland security expert, not a pediatrician. Maybe the threat of greater penalties will get these parents to be less self-centered. But, sometimes a crisis requires a change in orientation if only to scare the free-riders into loving my children as much as I love theirs.”

It’s hard to believe that anyone writing about those who oppose vaccines in the year 2019 can fail to be aware that the vast majority of these parents did once vaccinate their children, suffered horrible results, and only then became “anti-vaxxers.” (Kayyem chooses instead to blame–yes–Russia!) But if you can wade through the phenomenal ignorance–and arrogance–here, look at what the writer calls herself: a “homeland security expert.”

A glance at her website tells us that she was “Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security” under Obama; that she was the homeland security advisor to the governor of Massachusetts; and that she was a legal advisor to Attorney General Janet Reno.

So now it all makes sense. This is a person who has spent an entire career working for the national security apparatus. She is someone who thrives on “crisis”, genuine or otherwise. She knows no paradigm other than that of government action, so it should come as no surprise that the only way she knows how to deal with her fellow human beings is through violent force…

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