Whiskey and Car Keys
By Scott C. Tips
January 2008

Recent events have shown how strongly government agencies are out of touch with reality and the citizens for whom they work. As you may have heard by now, the State of Maryland has, through its Prince George’s County government attorney Glenn F. Ivey and an ignorant or malicious court system, decided to illegally vaccinate those of its public-school children who were – or were thought to be – unvaccinated.

Herded Like Cattle

In a scene reminiscent of the film Schindler's ListList, hundreds of children and parents gathered outside Prince George’s County courthouse a few weeks ago in the cold air on mid-November for hours as armed guards and police dogs surrounding them made sure they could not escape. The police then forced them to enter into the courthouse and give up their children for a forced medical procedure that would do them great harm.

While the children were not being gassed in showers, they were being forcibly injected with dangerous and unproven substances. The dangerous substances included our old nemesis thimerosal (a mercury variant that is neurotoxic), which by now we should all have enough commonsense to avoid. Certainly the parents of those children had enough sense to at least try to avoid inoculations that were neither necessary nor mandatory.

Yet, the State of Maryland, blithely ignoring its own laws, acted as if the vaccinations were mandatory. The parents had been sent notices that if they did not appear and if they did not have their children inoculated, then they would be subject to fines of $50.00 per day and jail time. Some of the parents evidently even had already had their children vaccinated, but because the school system had lost the records, the children were in for another round of injections anyway.

Completely and Utterly Illegal

Of course, the State of Maryland’s actions were and still are completely illegal. No Maryland State law exists that would fine and place in jail parents who had not vaccinated their children. The State’s actions against those parents are nothing but a big scam. Rather, the State authorities have used the threat of the child-truancy laws to charge parents, saying that because the school will not let unvaccinated children attend classes, and because the parents are not vaccinating their children, then the parents are subject to criminal sanctions.

Left unsaid by the authorities, though, is the parents’ right under Maryland law for them to claim an exemption for their child from “mandatory” vaccinations on either medical or religious grounds. An exemption for medical reasons requires a licensed physician’s signature, while the signature of a parent is a sufficient basis for asserting religious grounds. Beyond that, the State cannot inquire; and the child is thus able to legally avoid these forced injections.

A Real Money Machine

As some others have pointed out, during the last school year, the Prince George’s Public School system receives $11,325 per student annually. (See The National Center for Education Statistics for this school system at http://nces.ed.gov.) This amount is only paid, though, for perfect attendance; and each day of school missed, then, costs the school system the per-diem portion of that tidy, annual sum.

Imagine, then, the bean-counters in the school administration offices using their calculators to multiply all of those missing school days by hundreds of unvaccinated students and you can bet the phone lines were humming with some very unhappy calls to enforcement officials. The result: A cattle call, complete with branding, to get those unruly strays back into the money corral.

Title 42 To The Rescue

Fortunately, there is a Federal law under Title 42 that allows you to legally pursue any government official who deprives you, or conspires to deprive you, of your civil rights. In fact, the Federal Bureau of Investigation own website says:

“U.S. law enforcement officers and other officials like judges, prosecutors, and security guards have been given tremendous power by local, state, and federal government agencies—authority they must have to enforce the law and ensure justice in our country. These powers include the authority to detain and arrest suspects, to search and seize property, to bring criminal charges, to make rulings in court, and to use deadly force in certain situations. Preventing abuse of this authority, however, is equally necessary to the health of our nation’s democracy. That’s why it’s a federal crime for anyone acting under “color of law” willfully to deprive or conspire to deprive a person of a right protected by the Constitution or U.S. law. “Color of law” simply means that the person is using authority given to him or her by a local, state, or federal government agency. The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating color of law abuses, which include acts carried out by government officials operating both within and beyond the limits of their lawful authority.”
(http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/color.htm)

A Title 42 action is personally against the government actor and subjects him or her to personal liability. That is, you can go after their assets – houses, cars, boats, bank accounts, piggy banks, you name it. They cannot hide behind “government” money. Is this a great country or what?

Now, because the Prince George’s County schoolchildren were forcibly vaccinated under the direction of the Maryland State attorney, State Judges, and the Prince George’s School Board Director, all of whom illegally conspired and acted to threaten parents with fines and/or imprisonment if they did not have their children vaccinated and to withhold material information from the parents, they are all subject to liability.

So, when the state's attorney for Prince George's County, Glenn F. Ivey, uttered his menacing words "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it's got to get done" to the parents that mid-November day, I don’t think he realized that those words could someday soon be said to him. Personally, for the despicable acts that he perpetrated, I think it should be the hard way. Perhaps he could join his colleague Michael Nifong (the arrogant prosecutor of the Duke University Lacrosse team players falsely accused of rape) in serving jail time and losing his law license. All it might take is a determined parent or two willing to bring a Title 42 action and assert his or her natural-health rights.

Teenage Boys

The American humorist P.J. O’Rourke once said, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys.” How true.

I am constantly amazed at the number of people who think problems can be solved by giving people such as Glenn Ivey any money or power. Who do they think rises to the top in government? Boy scouts? No, the ones who rise to the top are those who seek power and think they know the answers. The exceptions are rare and to be treasured, but they are the exceptions.

We have all heard the refrain that the price of a free Republic is for us to be vigilant and active. But, do we act upon it? We should and we must, even if it’s in a distant State and on behalf of those we don’t even know.

Write Glenn Ivey at glenn@glennivey.com and tell him politely but firmly to obey the law and cease violating the civil rights of the citizens of Prince George’s County. Write and/or call the Prince George’s County School Board members (especially its Superintendent Dr. John E. Deasy at 1-301-952-6000) and the Judges as well with the same message. Flood them with complaints and challenges. Again, be polite and calm in stating your message, but be persistent.

These people have been given whiskey and car keys. It’s time someone took them back.