Republicans betray their voters, again



Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill called H. R. 550 that would facilitate the creation of a federal vaccination database. The purpose would be to track the vaccination status of all US citizens. 

To call this bill a danger to the personal freedoms of every citizen is an understatement.

The bill states that $400 million of taxpayer money will be used to “direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take actions to improve data sharing and other aspects of immunization information systems. These are confidential, population-based databases that maintain a record of vaccine administrations.”

Specifically, HHS must

  • develop a strategy and plan to improve these systems, including systems supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);
  • designate data and technology standards for use in these systems; and
  • award grants to health departments and other government agencies to improve their systems.

To sum it up, the bill provides sweeping powers to CDC and compels public and private health care providers at both state and local levels to share information with the central government.

Supporters of the bill have claimed that the information in the vaccine database will be used to send reminders to patients when they are due for a recommended vaccine.

However, there are many other actions that this information can facilitate, let’s consider some hypothetical but plausible scenarios

·      Perhaps the vaccine information can be shared with employers, urging them to stop payment for the unvaccinated?

·      Perhaps the vaccine information will be shared with airlines, railway, and taxi services to prevent the unvaccinated from traveling within one's locality or the country?

·      Perhaps the information will be shared with passport authorities to prevent travel overseas?

·      Perhaps the information will be shared with law enforcement agencies to declare the unvaccinated as criminals, i.e. the unvaccinated are carriers of the virus and can infect other causing death, so the unvaccinated are almost the equivalent of murderers. 

·      Perhaps the unvaccinated are fined in the form of taxes?

·      Perhaps the children of the unvaccinated won’t be allowed in schools?

·      Perhaps they cancel your internet or phone or any other essential services if you are unvaccinated?

To sum it up this is a tool that can and indeed force the vaccine upon citizens.

The clause of confidentiality, in this case, suggests that information may be restricted from public access. 

But what about access to other government bodies such as the IRS, Department of Defense, etc.? 

Can you trust the government to protect your information from leaks and hacks?

The hypothetical scenarios may seem like they emanated from an overworked paranoid mind. 

But if someone in 2018 had told you that you will be confined to your homes for months and masks and vaccines will be mandated you would laugh it off, but today that is a reality. 

It has to be remembered, information once in the possession of the authorities will never be deleted or abandoned.

If recent history has taught us anything, it isn’t a matter of if but when this information will be misused and eventually weaponized to hurt the citizen. 

Powers such as these are what authoritarians always dream of, hence each and every Democrat voted in support of the bill.

A bill such as this should have been ridiculed, opposed, and kicked out of the House by Republicans.

Alas, nothing of a kind happened.

Not one, or two or ten or even twenty but EIGHTY Republicans voted for this bill, this includes Kevin Owen McCarthy who is the House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives.

With leaders such as these, the Republicans do not need enemies.

We are living in a viciously partisan atmosphere.

Once upon a time, the goal of the well-being of the nation was identical across parties, the partisan divide occurred only in the method in which the goal could be accomplished.

Those days are over.

We now have a party that seeks authoritarianism and is marching towards it every day. They call opponents domestic terrorists, they propagate hoaxes when they lose elections and they use crises such as the pandemic to encroach over personal freedoms while they are doing all this they also facilitate the enrichment of their relatives and allies.

They are the Democrat Washington Establishment.

Due to the vicious partisan bickering, it is often a tendency to focus solely on one’s opponent, hence neglecting the behavior of your own side.

In current times most Republicans are either bystanders or allies of the Democrats.

A helpless or a treacherous ally is infinitely worse than an avowed adversary.

The adversary is doing what is expected, he is against you, he wants to destroy you, you are aware of it hence you are cautious.  

But when the partner who has promised to fight all your battles, to serve and protect you becomes indifferent or sides with your adversary, it is an emergency.

These frauds may be very adept wordsmiths, they probably promise the world on the campaign trail, they have angry exchanges with Democrats during public hearings on the Hill and go ballistic on Fox News.

But when it is all done, they vote against the interests of their people and servilely return to the feet of their masters i.e. the Democrat Washington establishment.

As voters, it is time to judge Republicans solely by their actions and not by their empty words.  

Each and every betrayer has to be replaced with brave, confident, and ideologically committed candidates.

Voting the same people back in will cause no change.  The Republicans may win the House and the Senate, but the Democrat Washington establishment will continue to be the masters. 

The following is a list of Republicans who stabbed you in the back and voted for the Vaccine Database Bill.

Do look for your representative and make sure to vote them out!

REPRESENTATIVE

STATE

Bacon

Nebraska

Baird

Indiana

Banks

Indiana

Barr

Kentucky

Bilirakis

Florida

Bucshon

Indiana

Burgess

Texas

Carl

Alabama

Carter (GA)

Georgia

Carter (TX)

Texas

Cheney

Wyoming

Cole

Oklahoma

Comer

Kentucky

Crenshaw

Texas

Curtis

Utah

Davis, Rodney

Illinois

Diaz-Balart

Florida

Dunn

Florida

Fitzpatrick

Pennsylvania

Fleischmann

Tennessee

Fortenberry

Nebraska

Gimenez

Florida

Gonzales, Tony

Texas

Gonzalez (OH)

Ohio

Graves (MO)

Missouri

Guthrie

Kentucky

Herrera Beutler

Washington

Hill

Arkansas

Hinson

Iowa

Hudson

North Carolina

Huizenga

Michigan

Jacobs (NY)

New York

Johnson (OH)

Ohio

Joyce (OH)

Ohio

Joyce (PA)

Pennsylvania

Katko

New York

Keller

Pennsylvania

Kim (CA)

California

Kinzinger

Illinois

Kustoff

Tennessee

LaHood

Illinois

Lesko

Arizona

Letlow

Louisiana

Long

Missouri

Lucas

Oklahoma

Luetkemeyer

Missouri

McCarthy

California

McCaul

Texas

McClain

Michigan

McHenry

North Carolina

McKinley

West Virginia

Meijer

Michigan

Miller-Meeks

Iowa

Moore (UT)

Utah

Murphy (NC)

North Carolina

Newhouse

Washington

Owens

Utah

Palazzo

Mississippi

Palmer

Alabama

Pence

Indiana

Reed

New York

Reschenthaler

Pennsylvania

Rodgers (WA)

Washington

Rogers (AL)

Alabama

Rogers (KY)

Kentucky

Salazar

Florida

Schweikert

Arizona

Smith (NJ)

New Jersey

Smucker

Pennsylvania

Stauber

Minnesota

Stewart

Utah

Thompson (PA)

Pennsylvania

Turner

Ohio

Upton

Michigan

Wagner

Missouri

Wenstrup

Ohio

Westerman

Arkansas

Wilson (SC)

South Carolina

Womack

Arkansas

Young

Alaska



This article also appears on www.AmericanThinker.com

Comments