{"id":3541,"date":"2022-01-23T04:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2022-01-23T05:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T05:32:03","slug":"reggie-to-speak-at-the-defeat-the-mandates-march-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/reggie-to-speak-at-the-defeat-the-mandates-march-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie to Speak at the Defeat the Mandates March in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Washinngton-Monument-iStock-458535313-Credit-Diane39-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Washinngton-Monument-iStock-458535313-Credit-Diane39-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Washinngton-Monument-iStock-458535313-Credit-Diane39-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Washinngton-Monument-iStock-458535313-Credit-Diane39-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Washinngton-Monument-iStock-458535313-Credit-Diane39.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>iStock photo &#8211; credit: Diana39<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers and Co-Chair of the Stop Vaccine Passports Task Force (SVPTF), will speak at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/defeatthemandatesdc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defeat the Mandates D.C.<\/a>\u00a0March Sunday,\u00a0<strong>January 23, at 12:00 noon, in front of the World War II Memorial.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This March does not oppose the vaccines themselves, but rather vaccine mandates and passports.\u00a0\u00a0The plan for this peaceful, apolitical March encourages participants to pause in front of the war memorials along the route of the March \u201cto remember those who have sacrificed lives and loved ones that America might be free.\u201d  The following are her remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">STOP VACCINE PASSPORTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">REFLECTIONS FOR DEFEAT THE MANDATES MARCH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">REGGIE LITTLEJOHN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">JANUARY 23, 2022 &#8211; WASHINGTON DC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Today, as we march for freedom in the United States, we pause to reflect at this magnificent memorial to Americans who died in World War II.&nbsp; Hundreds of thousands of our military service members died to protect our freedom against totalitarianism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In World War II, the threat was obvious:&nbsp; the threat of Hitler and Nazism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The threat to our freedom of vaccine mandates is obvious.&nbsp; People should not be forced to submit to a medical treatment against their will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The&nbsp;threat to our freedom of vaccine <strong><em>passports,<\/em><\/strong> however, is much more subtle, even deceitful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">While others will be speaking about how vaccine mandates can be used to crush our freedom, I will be addressing the issue of how the endgame of the vaccine mandates is the vaccine passport \u2013 which can be used to crush vaccine resisters on ideological grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">First of all, why would anyone resist being vaccinated?&nbsp; Some may have medical reasons, such as a compromised immune system, or the fact that they have already had Covid 19 and have natural immunity.&nbsp; These are valid reasons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But of particular concern are people who resist vaccination because of a religious exemption.&nbsp;&nbsp; Because most of the Covid vaccines were developed or tested using aborted fetal cells, those who are pro-life Christians or of other religions may object to being vaccinated and obtain a religious exemption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The first question is, will these religious exemptions be accepted?&nbsp; Sometimes they are, and sometimes they are not.&nbsp; Just this month a federal judge in Texas ruled in favor of 35 Navy Seals who sued the Biden Administration over the vaccine mandate for people in the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The opinion stated: \u201cThere is no Covid-19 exception to the First Amendment.&nbsp; There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Unfortunately, this ruling applies only to the 35 plaintiffs, not the entire military \u2013 though we hope it will serve as a precedent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court, while ruling against Biden\u2019s private sector vaccine mandate, has rejected cases seeking to block vaccine mandates for health care workers, including those who cite religious exemptions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But let\u2019s say that you can get your religious exemption granted, and you are not required to be vaccinated.&nbsp; Are you free and clear?&nbsp;&nbsp; My answer is NO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The fact that you are unvaccinated because of a religious exemption might go into a national database.&nbsp; In the wrong hands, this database could be used to persecute vaccine resisters and people of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This raises the issue of vaccine passports \u2013 the digital app on your smartphone that is used to track your vaccination status.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cVaccine Passports\u201d are not merely the digital equivalent of the yellow vaccine cards long used in international travel. Few people are aware of the following fact: According to tech experts,&nbsp;<strong>the digital platform used by Vaccine Passports can provide the same totalitarian functionality as used by the Chinese \u201cSocial Credit System.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">China has instituted a \u201cSocial Credit System\u201d that gives it totalitarian control over every person in the nation. This platform tracks and integrates the following aspects of every individual: medical history, social media posts, bank accounts, credit cards, shopping history, internet search history, residence, place of employment, criminal history, facial and gait recognition, network of relationships, religious activities, participation (or the lack thereof) in the \u201cXi-Jinping thought\u201d app, and real-time physical location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All this information is fed into a central database and used to issue a \u201csocial credit score.\u201d Citizens are rewarded or punished, based on these scores. Those with a high score are able to participate freely in society. Those with a low score cannot travel, borrow money, may be fired from their jobs, and may be unable to get their children into school. Those with very low scores, such as political dissidents, can be cut off from credit card use, a big problem in China\u2019s increasingly cashless society. Dissidents can be found (and potentially disappeared) in minutes, along with their networks of relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here\u2019s one example of how vaccine passports are used to control people.&nbsp; In China, your freedom is contingent on your color-coded \u201chealth code\u201d smart phone app, connected to a national database.&nbsp; If you\u2019re vaccinated and healthy, the color is green.&nbsp;&nbsp; If your color is yellow or red, you are stopped.&nbsp; According to a Chinese human rights activist friend of mine, if you\u2019re a dissident in China, all the government has to do is turn your health pass to yellow or red, and you will not be able to go anywhere.&nbsp; This is how they control your movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Think this would be far-fetched in the United States?&nbsp; Think again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An Eye-opening poll taken by Rasmussen earlier this month shows 59% of Dem voters want unvaccinated people confined at home, 45% want them in &#8216;designated facilities,&#8217; 48% demand fines or imprisonment for anyone who questions efficacy of vaccines&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/partner_surveys\/jan_2022\/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated\">https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/partner_surveys\/jan_2022\/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here\u2019s a quote from an editorial in the Salt Lake City Tribune: &#8220;Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor\u2019s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2022\/01\/15\/utah-leaders-have\/\">https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2022\/01\/15\/utah-leaders-have\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A January 14, 2022 article appeared in \u201cThe Center Square,\u201d a conservative watchdog news website, entitled, \u201cFederal agency to begin tracking those [federal employees] who seek religious exemptions to Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate.\u201d&nbsp; Beginning February 10, these \u201crecords may include an employee\u2019s religious affiliation, date of birth, job title, home address, age, where they work, and copies of their accommodation request . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/federal-agency-to-begin-tracking-those-who-seek-religious-exemptions-to-biden-s-vaccine-mandate\/article_7a29c278-7568-11ec-b50e-1331e1769f11.html\">https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/federal-agency-to-begin-tracking-those-who-seek-religious-exemptions-to-biden-s-vaccine-mandate\/article_7a29c278-7568-11ec-b50e-1331e1769f11.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Why are they doing this \u2013 if not to set up a system to identify and discriminate against people whose beliefs have led them to resist vaccination?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This may just be the beginning.&nbsp; On January 6, 2022, JAMA \u2013 the Journal of the American Medical Association \u2013 published an article:&nbsp; \u201cA National Strategy for Covid-19 Medical Countermeasures:&nbsp; Vaccines and Therapeutics.\u201d&nbsp;<br>https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2787946<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The article states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The US needs a strategy for a \u201cnew Normal\u201d of living that includes Covid-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Achieving 90% population vaccination coverage will require mandates . . . For example, as New York City has done, such a requirement may need to be expanded to include all workplaces.&nbsp; Additional requirement for consideration may include vaccination for public transportation and indoor events, with proof of a recent negative SARS \u2013 CoV-2 test for those who are not vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>&#8220;In addition, to facilitate verification of vaccination status and to better track post-vaccination infections, there needs to be an electronic vaccine certificate platform. Relying on forgeable paper cards is unacceptable in the 21st century. Current state immunization information systems are incomplete, fragmented, and not interoperable, hindering national efforts to control the virus. A national electronic vaccine certificate platform is needed, such as the SMART Health Card, that ensures interoperability across states and countries, safeguards individual privacy, and is based on open-source technology publicly available for vetting to help satisfy any concerns over government surveillance. While controversial, this is not unprecedented. State and national databases are in use for other information, including for driver\u2019s licenses, Social Security, voter registration, and specific health purposes, such as organ donation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2787946\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2787946<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Even if we are able to get religious exemptions accepted, we must resist these vaccine passports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The vaccine passports, in the wrong hands, would give the U.S. government \u2013 or any government using them \u2013 the ability to identify unvaccinated people of strong faith \u2013 or anyone who chooses to stand up to the prevailing narrative &#8212; to isolate and persecute them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Such policies are simply un-American.&nbsp; Our grandparents \u2013 who sacrificed deeply to stop totalitarianism in Europe \u2013 would be horrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is just as crucial to oppose vaccine passports as vaccine mandates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As we stand at the memorial of those who died in World War II to preserve our freedom, let us resolve to continue the battle, so that they will not have given their lives in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Let us wake up and let us speak out!&nbsp; \u201cIf the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8212; George Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers and Co-Chair of the Stop Vaccine Passports Task Force (SVPTF), will speak at the\u00a0Defeat the Mandates D.C.\u00a0March Sunday,\u00a0January 23, at 12:00 noon, in front of the World War II Memorial.\u00a0\u00a0This March does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/reggie-to-speak-at-the-defeat-the-mandates-march-in-d-c\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,236,261],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china-social-credit-score","tag-reggie-littlejohn","tag-vaccine-passports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}