Children's Education & Medical Freedom
A Special Event in Thousand Oaks, California on Wed., December 14
By John Leake
In his 1835 book, Democracy in America (a classic of political history and philosophy) the French author Alexis de Tocqueville observed that America’s genius at preserving freedom against tyranny was rooted in its culture of creating and maintaining free political associations. His chapter “On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life,” is as relevant today as ever.
In recent years, all over the country, we have seen free associations formed by MOTHERS for the purpose of defending us from assorted tyrants, oligarchs, and syndicates who have asserted their dominance over public affairs and official policy. Women who are deeply invested in their children’s futures seem far more alert than men are to threats posed by antagonistic parties and individuals. Perhaps this is because (generally speaking) men who succeed in their professional lives think of their prosperity as a barometer of our wellbeing as a society and country as a whole. As long as they are earning well, they tend to dismiss reports of social breakdown as exaggerated. Not so with mothers, who quickly recognize the predators among us.
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 arrived in March 2020, I sensed that the official pandemic response was going to do far more harm to the mental and physical health of schoolchildren than the virus ever could. Soon it became clear that COVID-19 was a heavily risk-stratified illness that posed little threat to kids. Thus, the school closures and mask mandates had little to do with protecting children. Why exactly public officials took these measures is a matter of investigation and debate, though it seems clear that Teachers Unions had a strong hand in it.
One year before SARS-CoV-2 arrived, a group of mothers joined together to fight California Senate Bill 276. Their objective was to protect their children’s right to medical freedom and their right to attend school. For those unfamiliar with this legislation, SB 276 (passed in 2015) eliminated all non-medical exemptions for immunizations required for school entry. This was, in effect, a legal precedent for the state to mandate vaccine passports for all kinds of educational, social, and commercial activity.
The mothers who protested SB 276 formed PERK (Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids)—a 501c3 non-profit organization for defending educational freedom and medical freedom. PERK is precisely the sort of institution that Tocqueville had in mind as a bastion against the encroachments of tyranny….. Read more