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The real threat from civil liberties now comes from championing civil liberties. Having turned civil liberties on its head, the ACLU now argues that, “The real threat to civil liberties comes from states banning vaccine and mask mandates.”Īnd, indeed, the ACLU is suing states who ban schools from forcing children to wear masks.
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Moreover, it included provisions to make all public health personnel, and those acting under their orders, immune from liability for any injury-even if forced vaccination or other mandated treatments killed the patient.” Who would have thought?Īfter a long history of opposing forced treatment and coercive medical measures, including mandatory swine flu vaccines for health care workers in New York, and flu shots and HPV vaccines for children in Rhode Island, the ACLU is completely on board with vaccine mandates. It applied its penalties to people who did not have any contagious disease and to people who would never expose anyone else to disease. The pamphlet further warned that “the CDC’s plan would have set us back even further. The ACLU had even produced an entire Pandemic Preparedness pamphlet which warned against a public health model that “assumes that we must trade liberty for security” resulting in “pandemic prevention” that takes “aggressive, coercive actions against those who are sick.” "Smallpox vaccine has risks and getting vaccinated is not a choice to be made lightly - but in America, it should certainly be a choice," the ACLU's Technology and Liberty director had argued. It further warned that employees who refuse to be vaccinated should be protected from retaliation. In 2002, the ACLU had opposed mandatory smallpox vaccinations of first responders during a pandemic. The ACLU wants to protect black people by taking away their civil rights.īut the ACLU isn’t just turning civil liberties on its head, it’s contradicting its own positions. The ACLU tries to disguise its radical shift by wrapping it in identity politics and contending that forcing people to get vaccinated protects "the most vulnerable among us, including people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated and communities of color hit hard by the disease."īut young black men, the group that the ACLU had claimed to be advocating for last year, are the most likely to be fired or segregated due to vaccine mandates. It’s just the argument that the ACLU spent its entire history militantly opposing. In a New York Times op-ed, the ACLU's national legal director and the director of its religious freedom program falsely claim that, "far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties".Īrguing that taking away some people’s civil liberties protects everyone’s rights isn’t a new argument. The civil rights groups also questioned the idea that the state has a "compelling interest" in requiring vaccinations.Īmerica has changed since and so has the ACLU. Six years ago, the ACLU challenged a school vaccine mandate bill in California.ĬOVID-19 was only a gleam in the eye of some Wuhan University of Virology lab workers, if even that, and the vaccines in question were the more ordinary kind most children have.Įven so, the ACLU argued that children have a right to a public education and can't be barred from school based on whether they're vaccinated or not.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.