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hack89

(39,171 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:48 AM Jun 2014

Texas GOP goes all in anti-vax

From the Texas GOP party platform:

All adult citizens should have the legal right to conscientiously choose which vaccines are administered to themselves, or their minor children, without penalty for refusing a vaccine. We oppose any effort by any authority to mandate such vaccines or any medical database that would contain personal records of citizens without their consent.


For a full appreciation of what the tea baggers want to turn America into, read more at:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1182339/temporary-platform-committee-report.pdf
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. I'm guessing they consider it a 'penalty' not to be allowed
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:49 AM
Jun 2014

to let their little plague-carriers gambol through the hallways of public schools, infecting other kids?

randys1

(16,286 posts)
5. Since Fox news and Karl Rove and Koch Bros launched a physical war on the american people
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:55 AM
Jun 2014

When we realize this is a physical war, whether that be climate change or infections from untreated kids with moronic parents, when we finally get it thru our fucking heads, and we react ACCORDINGLY, something might happen

for now the most we can do is

VOTE VOTE VOTE

https://twitter.com/DidTheyLetUVote

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. Amazing. Fucking amazing!
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:54 AM
Jun 2014

The anti-vax mainstream scream about BigPharma. One would think that the GOP would support BigPharma. But the GOP has to be against science just like they have to be against education and that black, Muslim guy in the White House. Plus, there's the epiphenomenum of supporting ignorance.

Sheesh!

Maybe they will all get polio.

justhanginon

(3,287 posts)
7. Remind me not to eat at any restaurants
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 12:07 PM
Jun 2014

especially fast food joints when in Texas. Just would not be worth the gamble. Maybe concerned restaurants could post a notice on the door that their employees have had all appropriate vaccinations for your protection. couple this with lousy healthcare and it sounds to me like a disaster waiting to happen

wandy

(3,539 posts)
11. My favorite is still 1-4, repeal the 17 amendment. It would be so much more cost efficient........
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:04 PM
Jun 2014
The rich and well connected could just buy their senators directly!
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