I was just thinking this morning about my son I took to his well-baby visit when he was two months old. I wasn't much older, honestly. They had me read "information" about the shots (DPT, polio and maybe one other) they were giving him. I remember thinking "Wow, I feel sorry for those parents whose children have a reaction" but the odds seemed so small, almost incalculable really. Until I woke up next to him, dead, less than 72 hours later.
To prove that the shots killed him, I had to endure the vaccine courts for nearly eight years. My son's shot came from what used to be termed a "hot lot," meaning many of the recipients of vaccines from that lot had reactions. My son's death was never reported in VAERS, btw. But the courts determined that the use of the term "hot lot" was prejudicial and so lots that kill and maim children are no longer labeled "hot lots." I won my case. The taxpayer paid my attorney fees and awarded me a quarter of a million dollars that they graciously declined to tax.
When I think about the fact that my government has developed poison, mandated that we inject it into our most precious resources when they know the vaccines are "necessarily unsafe," made me jump through hoops while they whitewashed their actions, and then threw a measly $250,000 at me to "compensate" me for what they had done.... when I think about that, I get so f*cking angry I can't hardly stand it.
I've had a lot of time to think about it. A lot of time to be angry. I hate welcoming you to the party, but welcome to the party. It isn't right that our government abuses and maims us and then are not held to account. I'm tired of it. I'm sick of injustice - real injustice, not this ginned up, systemic-whatever garbage that's all the rage today. I would love to see people brought to account. Where do I sign up?
There's a class action being put together in Australia at the moment that will explicitly go after the state premiers and chief health officers for their covid crimes. I really hope it gets off the ground. It's so galling watching them retire into the cushy lobbyist sunset.
Qualified immunity serves a purpose, such as where a police officer performs an arrest or a search under unusual circumstances where the courts have not yet defined clearly the permissibility or impermissibility of the actor's conduct. Eliminating qualified immunity opens the door to frivolous lawsuits. Lawyers perform an important function in reining in abuses, but they are nothing if not opportunists and will over-correct in a heartbeat if allowed to.
There is no need to eliminate qualified immunity over government censorship efforts, as it is clearly established by reams of precedent that what the government has done to censor is blatantly unconstitutional. There is not the slightest bit of nuance to it.
The immunity granted over the clot shots via the PREP act is not qualified immunity but is statutorily conferred and must be eliminated.
There are 900,000 employees who work for,the USA secret service (fbi, cia, deep state and god knows who else). We are no different than China, no Korea, Russia. Americans wake up, we are currently living in a police state.
Qualified immunity is a mess, but it seems to me that it is intertwined with the idea that the government can declare a state of emergency for any reason without fear of being sued or imprisoned. I am still baffled that something like the government’s response to Covid can occur and nobody is imprisoned. The entire purpose of the constitution and bill of rights would seem to have been to prevent what has been happening. Maybe I’m just older and noticing that the constitution is toothless, but it seems that society can’t hold up long term when nobody understands the rules.
If a private citizen broke the law as an employee of a corporation doing something such as committing bribery, that person would be arrested and prosecuted. Government officials and employees should not have protections that private citizens do not have.
Seems to me these people only have immunity because our justice system currently is as corrupted as our congressmen. Lack of blind justice and political favoritism is the problem.
So how do you fight a corrupt judges and DA ‘s seems to be the question we face at the moment.
I believe there's a question about a very job-specific form of immunity before the Supreme Court right now. Whatever decision is made in that case could have far-teaching implications for this topic.
Meanwhile, sign me up for anything that scares/irritates politicians and bureaucrats in general, regardless of party.
Sounds great but you would have to close down at least HALF of the law schools and then the half that were remaining would have to be closed down, too. We're just too damn litigious, you'd have to take aim at that as well. When can you sue the government? Can you personally sue the cop who gives you a speeding ticket if it gets thrown out of court? Can you personally sue the cop if the speeding ticket does not get thrown out of court but got you fired from your job for being late? This can go on and on and on and it's aimed at the big stuff and I get that, but it will slide down the old slippery slope and the mailman will get sued if a letter ends up in the wrong box. It's great to have government service like police, fire, ambulance, water, sewage, street, and mail - but once people start getting sued you won't find people to take the jobs. Look at the cop shortage. The only folks getting rich off this will be lawyers. One more idea might be thrown in - the government should NOT be allowed to settle on any suit brought against it but should go through the full course of appeals. Too many settlements are political, politicians playing loose with taxpayer money to get votes. There should also be a limit on damages.
Corporate overlords or political, they are both equally immune to the law and to the costs of their actions.
Why not extend the following:
"those who purport to serve we the people must be accountable to we the people"
to corporations such as Vanguard or Blackrock? Their actions often have by far a greater impact on the daily lives of people than any politicians, yet their power is somehow seen as different just becaise of a little semantic magic in the phrase "private property".
Why should "private property" give you the right to destroy the livelyhoods and lives of uncountable millions? If I use my "private property" to destroy my neighbour's yard, am I not then prosecuted?
But if I'm a corporation causing an oil spill, a gas leak, a derailed train poisoning the aquifer, censoring information and communcation or any of thousands upon thousands of crimes committed by private corporations against the people?
Suddenly, it's different from when a politician and a state does it, despite the actions and the results being the same.
As to over litigious lawyers, this is another case where they don’t have skin in the game should they lose. Shift to the Common Law system where loser pays the winner’s legal bills and you’d see a lot fewer frivolous or vexatious law suits. And the same thing applies to government lawyers.
And whistleblowers should not go to jail
The greatest trick ever played has been to change the meaning of transparency into traitor.
The American public loves the government so much now The Truth would be one part shocking and one part unsettling ....so much so; it would be ignored.
I was just thinking this morning about my son I took to his well-baby visit when he was two months old. I wasn't much older, honestly. They had me read "information" about the shots (DPT, polio and maybe one other) they were giving him. I remember thinking "Wow, I feel sorry for those parents whose children have a reaction" but the odds seemed so small, almost incalculable really. Until I woke up next to him, dead, less than 72 hours later.
To prove that the shots killed him, I had to endure the vaccine courts for nearly eight years. My son's shot came from what used to be termed a "hot lot," meaning many of the recipients of vaccines from that lot had reactions. My son's death was never reported in VAERS, btw. But the courts determined that the use of the term "hot lot" was prejudicial and so lots that kill and maim children are no longer labeled "hot lots." I won my case. The taxpayer paid my attorney fees and awarded me a quarter of a million dollars that they graciously declined to tax.
When I think about the fact that my government has developed poison, mandated that we inject it into our most precious resources when they know the vaccines are "necessarily unsafe," made me jump through hoops while they whitewashed their actions, and then threw a measly $250,000 at me to "compensate" me for what they had done.... when I think about that, I get so f*cking angry I can't hardly stand it.
I've had a lot of time to think about it. A lot of time to be angry. I hate welcoming you to the party, but welcome to the party. It isn't right that our government abuses and maims us and then are not held to account. I'm tired of it. I'm sick of injustice - real injustice, not this ginned up, systemic-whatever garbage that's all the rage today. I would love to see people brought to account. Where do I sign up?
There's a class action being put together in Australia at the moment that will explicitly go after the state premiers and chief health officers for their covid crimes. I really hope it gets off the ground. It's so galling watching them retire into the cushy lobbyist sunset.
https://julesonthebeach.substack.com/p/the-covid-lawsuit-australia-has-to
Qualified immunity serves a purpose, such as where a police officer performs an arrest or a search under unusual circumstances where the courts have not yet defined clearly the permissibility or impermissibility of the actor's conduct. Eliminating qualified immunity opens the door to frivolous lawsuits. Lawyers perform an important function in reining in abuses, but they are nothing if not opportunists and will over-correct in a heartbeat if allowed to.
There is no need to eliminate qualified immunity over government censorship efforts, as it is clearly established by reams of precedent that what the government has done to censor is blatantly unconstitutional. There is not the slightest bit of nuance to it.
The immunity granted over the clot shots via the PREP act is not qualified immunity but is statutorily conferred and must be eliminated.
There are 900,000 employees who work for,the USA secret service (fbi, cia, deep state and god knows who else). We are no different than China, no Korea, Russia. Americans wake up, we are currently living in a police state.
Qualified immunity is a mess, but it seems to me that it is intertwined with the idea that the government can declare a state of emergency for any reason without fear of being sued or imprisoned. I am still baffled that something like the government’s response to Covid can occur and nobody is imprisoned. The entire purpose of the constitution and bill of rights would seem to have been to prevent what has been happening. Maybe I’m just older and noticing that the constitution is toothless, but it seems that society can’t hold up long term when nobody understands the rules.
Milei the Kitty has my vote!
If a private citizen broke the law as an employee of a corporation doing something such as committing bribery, that person would be arrested and prosecuted. Government officials and employees should not have protections that private citizens do not have.
"perches of power should be precarious, not privileged"
Love me some alliteration.
Seems to me these people only have immunity because our justice system currently is as corrupted as our congressmen. Lack of blind justice and political favoritism is the problem.
So how do you fight a corrupt judges and DA ‘s seems to be the question we face at the moment.
I believe there's a question about a very job-specific form of immunity before the Supreme Court right now. Whatever decision is made in that case could have far-teaching implications for this topic.
Meanwhile, sign me up for anything that scares/irritates politicians and bureaucrats in general, regardless of party.
Sounds great but you would have to close down at least HALF of the law schools and then the half that were remaining would have to be closed down, too. We're just too damn litigious, you'd have to take aim at that as well. When can you sue the government? Can you personally sue the cop who gives you a speeding ticket if it gets thrown out of court? Can you personally sue the cop if the speeding ticket does not get thrown out of court but got you fired from your job for being late? This can go on and on and on and it's aimed at the big stuff and I get that, but it will slide down the old slippery slope and the mailman will get sued if a letter ends up in the wrong box. It's great to have government service like police, fire, ambulance, water, sewage, street, and mail - but once people start getting sued you won't find people to take the jobs. Look at the cop shortage. The only folks getting rich off this will be lawyers. One more idea might be thrown in - the government should NOT be allowed to settle on any suit brought against it but should go through the full course of appeals. Too many settlements are political, politicians playing loose with taxpayer money to get votes. There should also be a limit on damages.
Corporate overlords or political, they are both equally immune to the law and to the costs of their actions.
Why not extend the following:
"those who purport to serve we the people must be accountable to we the people"
to corporations such as Vanguard or Blackrock? Their actions often have by far a greater impact on the daily lives of people than any politicians, yet their power is somehow seen as different just becaise of a little semantic magic in the phrase "private property".
Why should "private property" give you the right to destroy the livelyhoods and lives of uncountable millions? If I use my "private property" to destroy my neighbour's yard, am I not then prosecuted?
But if I'm a corporation causing an oil spill, a gas leak, a derailed train poisoning the aquifer, censoring information and communcation or any of thousands upon thousands of crimes committed by private corporations against the people?
Suddenly, it's different from when a politician and a state does it, despite the actions and the results being the same.
Great article.
As to over litigious lawyers, this is another case where they don’t have skin in the game should they lose. Shift to the Common Law system where loser pays the winner’s legal bills and you’d see a lot fewer frivolous or vexatious law suits. And the same thing applies to government lawyers.