From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Andy Schlafly, Esq. –https://www.americaoutloud.news/doctors-and-patients-or-bureaucrats-whos-in-charge-of-our-medical-care/
We live in strange times. Police, physicians, and patients are treated like criminals while thieves are given the green light to steal at will. Some activists have even decided that looting is reparations. According to Newsweek magazine, a Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer stated, “I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats. That makes sure that that person has clothes. . . That’s reparations. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance. They’re going to get their money back. My people aren’t getting anything.”
Employees are forbidden from engaging thieves. The higher-ups do not want the liability—the possibility of injury or worse. But the message this sends to the thieves-in-waiting is “Come on in for your five-finger discount.” Of course, we all pay for lawlessness with higher prices and, more importantly, the loss of a sense of safety and civility.
Police risk their lives daily. Rather than merely on an Instagram post, we should be seeing on the network nightly news the numerous heroic acts of police, such as pulling people from cars engulfed in flames. (Georgia, Virginia, Ohio to name a few). Or showing the police connecting with the community, including having fun with children of color. Not a chance. The media prefer to relentlessly focus on a few incidents, mainly by bad apples. When all the facts come out—most times in the police’s favor—the story loses its luster.
Meanwhile, the thought police are in full force. The state of Michigan passed a bill (HB 4474) that could make using the wrong pronouns in a manner that makes a person feel threatened or frightened a felony “punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000.” How is a person to gauge how a person will feel?
Maybe there is hope: In the Colorado web designer case, 303 Creative LLC et al. v. Elenis et al., the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that the government cannot compel people to say things they do not believe in—even if they are “misguided or hurtful.”
Medical freedom for doctors and patients is becoming a distant memory. Physicians are afraid to go into pain management for fear of being labelled a pill pusher. They are bullied by medical boards with the specter of losing their licenses. Patients with chronic pain are resorting to getting heroin on the streets rather than be put in a government database.
Let’s make it our mission to tell anyone in power who will listen: Our bodies and minds belong to us, not to the government.
Attorney Andy Schlafly a wonderful friend of the show is here today to discuss some the recent cases challenging governmental authority over the practice of medicine and beyond.
Bio
Andy Schlafly is general counsel to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He received a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and certificate in engineering physics from Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, Mr. Schlafly briefly worked as a device physicist for Intel, then became a microelectronics engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He then attended Harvard Law School along with Barack Obama. For two years Mr. Schlafly was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Schlafly served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School and worked for a large law firm before beginning private practice. Mr. Schlafly created the wiki-based Conservapedia in November 2006 to counter the apparent liberal bias in Wikipedia.
