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Rand Paul in 2009 Interview with InfoWars: Vaccines the First Step Towards "Martial Law"I think we can safely say that he is his father's son. A lot of this is pretty defensible, I think -- including his observation that "mandates" for innocculations are a first step towards "martial law." That kind of rhetoric used to bother me. It sounded paranoid to me. But it doesn't sound that way anymore. I'm not saying this makes me right, but these worries of the paranoid fringe don't seem entirely paranoid to me any longer. Under Obama's misrule, I have become far more suspicious of the competency and motives (personal motives and, even more crucially, unexamined and even unknown class/cadre motives and imperatives) and am far less likely to sneer at a claim that any power granted to those with the legal license to kill you could result in tyranny. That said, he's speaking here to InfoWars. And it is necessary to know the background of why he's talking about the Swine Flu Vaccine. In short, it's because the Swine Flu Vaccine debacle ignited a public backlash that shades into conspiracy theories. In fact, the 2009 swine flu outbreak has also prompted Conspiracy Theorist Without Portfolio Alex Jones to hop on the bandwagon and start churning out conspiracy theories. (Note: the conspiracy theories are largely caused by paranoia owing to the government's warning about a far greater outbreak than actually happens; rather than concluding we dodged a bullet or the scientists overestimated the threat, the conspirators suggest that the threat was deliberately overstated to condition the populace to accept government control, and to accept Government Vaccinations.) Some of this isn't exactly foreign to me. The head of the CDC lied about the transmission pathways of ebola to downplay the risks; I have no question that public officials routinely overstate or understate risks in order to manipulate public behavior towards a specific mode they've decided is "for the greater good." But there's paranoia and then there's paranoia. The paranoia about the Clerisy's vested class interests is of a different character than paranoia that the government is conditioning people to accept vaccinations so that they can begin shaping our behavior through "vaccines" which are really designed to calm us and anesthetize us.
Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) said during a 2009 interview with Alex Jones' InfoWars that mandatory vaccines for illnesses such as the swine flu could be an early step toward "martial law," and said the procedures have a long history of lethal side effects. That's mostly true (I just checked). 25 people died after having received the swine flu vaccination in 1976; I doubt it's true that each of those deaths can be traced directly to the vaccine, but Paul here is on fairly firm ground in at least repeating something that the Common Wisdom holds to be true. Very few people died after the first registered case of swine flu itself.
Eh, I agree with that too. I guess I'm just bothered at the Pauls' relentless courting of the paranoid right/left, the fringey cadre of people who drift easily from being LaRouchian Democrats to being John Birch Society Republicans. It's a group for which the dominant political position is a belief in dark conspiracies of all sorts. | Recent Comments
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