Vaccination tyranny continued.

[natedogg]

Ok kids, try not to degenerate into insults so that my thread doesn't get locked. Sheesh.

Many of you tried to point out that vaccinations were *important* dammit! And how can I be opposed to vaccinations?

Of course I'm not opposed to vaccinations. I don't vaccinate for stupid crap like the flue and chicken pox but I vaccinated my kids for everything serious

Now, many of you missed the point of my critique of the totally unfit Judge Nichols.

First and foremost, your government should not have the power to force any medical treatments upon you. The danger inherent in that power is borderline self-evident. (hint: have any accepted medical treatments ever turned out to be detrimental? Or deemed immoral by later generations?) The slippery slope involved in that power is also self-evident.

It's bad enough that they can throw you in jail for seeking certain medical treatments they have banned, but letting them impose the ones they like on you.. (hint: think of lobbyists and what they do for a living).

Anyway, to put not to fine a point on it, you are a complete fool if you think this is a power the govt should have. I'm sorry, there's no other way to put it.

I had expected vehement defense of the public schools requiring vaccinations and even perhaps misguided defense of the entire system that makes a criminal out of a poor parent who can't aford private school, but I hadn't expected such a vehement support of pure tyranny.

Back to the situation at hand.

Assuming you are opposed to giving your child a chicken pox vaccination (and I myself am one of those parents), and you live in Maryland, this is your situation:

1. Government mandates that my child attend the local public school.
2. School mandates that my child get a chicken pox vaccine, or be expelled.
3. I'm too poor to move out of state or to pay private school tuition.
4. School expels my child.
5. Government jails me on truancy charges.

That my friends is a systematic, subtle, yet undeniable tyranny over the poor.

natedogg

PS: Iron for the love of god learn how to do your job. If someone is ruining a thread by acting like an ass you should give them a temporary ban and let the rest of us grownups continue to discuss the issue. I'm assuming the previous thread was not locked due to the topic or the OP content. If so, then my mind if truly boggled.