Video of an interview surfaced on Tuesday in which Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told the conspiracy theory website InfoWars.com in 2009 that mandatory vaccinations could lead to “martial law” in America.
“The first sort of thing you see with martial law is mandates, and they’re talking about making it mandatory,” Paul said of vaccinations on InfoWars’ channel “Prison Planet TV.”
The senator said some vaccines are worth taking, and threw in a good word for the polio and smallpox vaccines. But he wanted parents to be able to pick and choose, to prevent big government from achieving too much power.
“Am I going to take the swine flu vaccine? Unlikely, until I’m certain that it’s safe, and I’m not going to have my kids take it till I know it’s safe,” he told Infowars.
InfoWars is run by Alex Jones, perhaps best known for his adrenaline-fueled “debate” with then-CNN host Piers Morgan over gun rights in 2013. Jones is a prolific broadcaster with a conspiracy-minded worldview.
It wasn’t the only time Sen. Paul had spoken to Jones’s site about creeping totalitarianism: In 2010, Paul spoke to another InfoWars reporter about the dangers of “world government” and the Bilderberg conference, a frequent fixation of small-government conspiracy-mongers.
Asked what he knew about Bilderberg, Paul said, “only what I’ve learned from Alex Jones.”
Watch the video, courtesy of InfoWars:
h/t Free Beacon
O M G!
Was this Rand Paul or General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove?
General Jack D. Ripper: “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!”
This is so hard for them. As many have pointed out a good portion of the anti-vaxxers are rich, white, liberal women or hardcore granola types.
They are not their natural constituents nor are they likely to riot in the streets. You don’t really have to worry about them going all Clive Bundy.
…and his Presidential chances go POP POP POP
What Paul and his minions are working extremely hard at (the dismantling of the modern American Middle Class) is what is actually going to lead to “Martial Law”.
And when it actually does happen, I sincerely hope that Paul (alias “Wigwam”) is not in a sheltered TV studio or 0.001%-er gated community when it goes down.
I’m sorry, but as far as I can remember from history class, the only two things that have been used to justify martial law over the past century of American history are (a) plutocracy and putting down uppity laborers and (b) racism and putting down uppity browns and scary asians.
Am I wrong?
Moreover, if you think “let’s make sure everyone is healthy and preventable deadly and debilitating diseases don’t run amok” somehow easily gets morphed into martial law, then you are fucking paranoid fool. The ACTUAL pandemic outbreak of a disease might result in some form of martial law, curfews, widespread quarantines, etc…BUT MANDATORY VACCINES ACTUALLY HELP PREVENT THAT EXCUSE FROM OCCURRING.