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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 12:47 PM Feb 2015

Faux "news" regular falls off the deep end on vaccines...

"Unorthodox scientific cures?" No...bloody...way.
Pure quackery.

Fox Host: Vaccine Mandates Will Destroy The Constitution, Declaration Of Independence

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 2/5/2015 11:30 am

Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano defended Sen. Rand Paul’s recent remarks on vaccinations in his WorldNetDaily column today, writing that proponents of vaccination mandates want the government to “own our bodies” and create a society much “like Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel ‘1984.’” “f the government owns our bodies, then the presumption of individual liberty guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution has been surreptitiously discarded, and there will be no limit to what the government can compel us to do or to what it can extract from us – in the name of science or any other of its modern-day gods,” he said, warning against giving power to “Big Government politicians” who seek to intervene in all realms of society.

"The science is overwhelming that vaccinations work for most children most of the time. Paul, who is a physician, said, however, he knew of instances in which poorly timed vaccinations had led to mental disorders. Yet, he was wise enough to make the pro-freedom case, and he made it stronger than Christie did. To Paul, the issue is not science. That’s because in a free society, we are free to reject scientific orthodoxy and seek unorthodox scientific cures. Of course, we do that at our peril if our rejection of truth and selection of alternatives results in harm to others."

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fox-host-vaccine-mandates-will-destroy-constitution-declaration-independence#sthash.46YlyDcH.dpuf

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Faux "news" regular falls off the deep end on vaccines... (Original Post) Archae Feb 2015 OP
Well, conservatives are completely on board Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #1
Well, for the Ayn Rand fans he has a point... TreasonousBastard Feb 2015 #2
Napolitano, unsurprisingly, is a big Snowden fan. nt stevenleser Feb 2015 #3
Says the man who feeds at the LAW trough. GeorgeGist Feb 2015 #4
if Obama had come out being anti-vaxer - I wonder what Fox's position would be? Douglas Carpenter Feb 2015 #5

TreasonousBastard

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2. Well, for the Ayn Rand fans he has a point...
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 12:56 PM
Feb 2015

personal freedom includes the right to make stupid choices.

Where this falls down is that we are not alone in our choices and we don't have the right to make these same stupid choices for others.

Parents don't have the right to destroy their kids' lives, and they certainly don't have the right to destroy the lives of their kids' school and playmates.

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