(Medical) FREEDOM RESOLUTION
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“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” —George Washington
FREEDOM RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” defines freedom as “a responsibility and a means to live within the Truth”; (1)
WHEREAS, freedom is the passion of every North Carolina Republican and citizen who opposed lockdowns, stay at home orders, shuttering of businesses, educational institutions, and religious institutions, social distancing edicts, mask mandates, essential and non-essential class subdivisions, limitations on access to public and private property, occupancy restrictions, mask and face-covering requirements, tracking and tracing requirements, and COVID-19 vaccine mandates;
WHEREAS, freedom is the chief concern of all who courageously spoke out against what had become an openly tyrannical government and a private sector that functioned willingly as the enforcement arm of the Police State;
WHEREAS, during the last four years, fundamental freedoms and inalienable rights granted by our Creator, and enshrined in our founding documents and the North Carolina Constitution, were denied, refused, controlled, interfered with, and conditioned upon requirements to wear a mask, to be tracked and traced, and to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, positive immunity/antibody test, or negative COVID-19 test, which include:
to make health care decisions for ourselves and our children, and to govern own body and the bodies of our children;
to parent, care for, and guard our children against any act that would cause harm or interfere with the blessings of liberty endowed to them by the Creator;
to keep and bear arms;
to assemble;
to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences;
to speak;
to petition the government for redress of grievances, and participate in and access the judicial system;
to travel within the borders of our state and country;
be free from unreasonable searches by government;
to participate in elections;
to enjoy the fruits of our own labor;
to exercise the right to the privilege of education; and
to access courts, have a remedy by due course of law, and for justice to be administered without favor, denial, or delay;
WHEREAS, medical freedom is the principal freedom upon which all others are pillared;
WHEREAS, without the right to govern our own bodies and determine for ourselves what goes in them or on them without fear of reprisal, discrimination, or disparate treatment, all other fundamental freedoms and inalienable rights are lost, and we are nothing more than slaves who live under the illusion of freedom;
WHEREAS, our decades-long efforts to abolish abortion in North Carolina are in direct opposition to mandates of abortion-derived vaccines—all COVID-19 vaccines (2) and the vast majority of mandatory childhood vaccines (3) as a condition of freedom, citizenship, employment, and education;
WHEREAS, any pro-life North Carolinian who voluntarily or involuntarily received an abortion-derived vaccine participated in the greatest hypocrisy of our time;
WHEREAS, in the words of United States Court Associate Justice Gorsuch on May 18, 2023:
Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.
Federal executive officials entered the act too. Not just with emergency immigration decrees. They deployed a public-health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide. They used a workplace-safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans. They threatened to fire noncompliant employees, and warned that service members who refused to vaccinate might face dishonorable discharge and confinement. Along the way, it seems federal officials may have pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagreed.
While executive officials issued new emergency decrees at a furious pace, state legislatures and Congress—the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws—too often fell silent. Courts bound to protect our liberties addressed a few—but hardly all—of the intrusions upon them. In some cases, like this one, courts even allowed themselves to be used to perpetuate emergency public-health decrees for collateral purposes, itself a form of emergency-lawmaking by-litigation. (4)
WHEREAS, quoting from the 1934 United States Supreme Court decision in Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaiddell:
Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency. What power was thus granted and what limitations were thus imposed are questions which have always been, and always will be, the subject of close examination under our constitutional system.
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Not only is the constitutional provision qualified by the measure of control which the state retains over remedial processes, but the state also continues to possess authority to safeguard the vital interests of its people. (5)
WHEREAS, the essential issue of our day is freedom; therefore, be it:
RESOLVED, the NCGOP hereby proclaims that the blessings of freedom bestowed on every North Carolina citizen, born and unborn, by our Creator, and enshrined by our founding documents and the North Carolina Constitution, do not exist separately and apart from our medical freedom.
RESOLVED, the NCGOP hereby proclaims that never again will North Carolina citizens, born and unborn, be subject to the loss of cherished civil liberties in the face of fear and the pursuit of safety.
RESOLVED, the NCGOP hereby proclaims that never again will the concentration of power in the hands of only a very few surpass vigorous debate with and among North Carolina citizens.
RESOLVED, the NCGOP hereby proclaims that never again will the executive, legislative, and judicial intrusions upon fundamental freedoms and inalienable rights occur without careful consideration with and among North Carolina citizens, to include medical freedom summits with individuals and experts from various backgrounds and across medical, research, legal, and bioethics professions to discuss the current state of knowledge and determine together how to best protect all of our freedoms.
(1) https://www.christianbook.com/not-by-lies-manual-christian dissidents/roddreher/9780593087398/pd/087392
(2) https://cogforlife.org/guidance/
(3) https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Abortion-Tainted-Vaccines.pdf
(4) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-592_5hd5.pdf
(5) https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/290/398
💯, well done.