Confederate General, After Civil War, Elected Governor of South Carolina

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Gen. Wade Hampton, CSA–and governor of South Carolina

According to the Colorado Democrat Supreme Court, voting 4-3,  President Donald Trump can’t be  on the ballot as a presidential candidate because of the so-called “insurrection” of Jan. 6: a shabby interpretation of the 14th Amendment disqualifying anyone who’d fought for the Confederate States.

But General Wade Hampton was elected governor of South Carolina in 1876, served a four-year term, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served till 1891.

Huh? What about his role in the Civil War? Well, a general amnesty granted in the 1870s took care of that.

Another Confederate general, William Cox, a secessionist from way back, was elected to and served in the House of Representatives.

But now Donald Trump can’t be on the Colorado ballot because of some overstated, tempest-in-a-teapot “insurrection”? When these two men, who led armies against the United States for several years, appeared on their states’ ballots and were elected, and served? Did the amnesty only apply to Democrats? And by the way, did Trump lead any armies?

As usual, Democrats–and the political stooges on the Colorado court–have erected a tower of hypocrisy. And they fully expect to get away with it.

May the LORD Himself confound them.

 

Yanks, Mets to Demand ‘Vaccine Passports’

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Toldja this would happen! Toldja, toldja! Can I call ’em, or what? I was on this weeks ago, and now the rest of the commentariate is catching up to me. No nod to me, though, for being the first to see it coming.

The New York Yankees and the New York Mets have announced that if you want to come into the stadium and watch a game this season–20% capacity allowed–you have to show a “vaccine passport”–either prove that you’ve had the vaccine, or prove you’ve been tested negative for King COVID (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-baseball-mlb-nyy-nym/fans-allowed-at-mets-yankees-games-with-proof-of-vaccine-or-negative-covid-test-idUSKBN2BA2X1). At Yankee Stadium they will “require” you to take a test.

And it’s all just as I said. Rather than pass flagrantly unconstitutional laws that’ll get smacked down in court, the government can step aside and let the private sector make a shambles of the 14th Amendment (equal protection of the laws). “We don’t have to create two classes of citizens with different rights! We can let the Mets and Yankees do it!”

Although why anyone with even a smatch of self-respect would ever attend a “Major League Baseball” game is a mystery to me…Not after they signed a sweetheart deal with Communist China and attacked Georgia’s desperately-needed election reforms. A plague upon their house.

Let’s see… You can’t refuse to serve someone in your restaurant because he’s a Democrat, or a trannie… but you can refuse service if he doesn’t have a vaccine passport? Honk if that surprises you.

But as soon as Science can guarantee a germ-free environment, they’ll give us back our rights.

Can They Force You to Get Vaccinated?

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We seem to have entered a grey area–a kind of limbo where our liberties can magically be whisked away before we know it.

Can they force you to receive a COVID vaccine?

Oh, the answer’s simple. It’s either “No, they can’t” or “Yes, they can,” depending on whom you talk to. I’m glad I was able to clear that up for you.

By “force you,” I don’t necessarily mean an edict from the government, a ukase from the czar. They’ll be just as happy, as they always are, to let their puppets in the private sector do their dirty work. So maybe your boss, your airline, your local supermarket, or your condo association can force you to get a shot: if not, you’re fired, or you can’t travel, you can’t shop, or you get kicked out of your nice gated community. They’ve got more tricks than a barrel of monkeys.

The only reason the picture’s complicated–see https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/11/30/covid-vaccine-eua-mandate-business/–is because the COVID medicines have not yet received full FDA approval, and are therefor considered experimental drugs. An emergency has to exist before they can be used at all.

The Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, Section iii under (A) Required Conditions, protects an individual’s right to refuse any drug that has not been FDA-approved. Furthermore, the government must inform you of that right.

But it does not say what happens if the private sector forces you to receive the drug as a condition of your employment, etc.

Then there’s the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, the law of the land, ha ha, which declares, “No State shall abridge the privileges or immunities of any citizens of the United States…” That would appear to clinch it; but again, what if it’s someone in the private sector abridging your privileges or immunities? Historically, at least in recent history, it hasn’t been allowed: you can’t, for instance, have a restaurant that refuses to serve persons under six feet tall. But it didn’t stop government or anyone else from handing out special privileges and favors labeled “affirmative action.”

It seems that our laws in this respect are so loose and imprecise as to leave us totally in suspense as to what we can expect. Will they force us, or won’t they? And if an experimental drug has hideous long-term side effects that don’t show up until ten years later… well, who you gonna call? Gee, sorry about that.

I’d feel better about all this if I wasn’t increasingly suspicious that it’s part of a clever plan to bury our liberties under a world government–all for our own good, of course–run by perverts and cannibals.