Health Freedom and the Fight Against Medical Mandates

On August 6, 2021, Kim Monson examines the growing threat of medical mandates with former Wall Street executive turned health freedom advocate Leslie Manookian, who traces the legal framework that enabled today’s vaccine coercion. Entrepreneur Hal Van Hercke connects the dots between big government and big corporations in what he calls an unholy alliance threatening individual liberty.

The Legal Foundation of Medical Tyranny

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Leslie Manookian, founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund and producer of the documentary “The Greater Good,” traces the erosion of medical freedom back two decades. Her personal health crisis, triggered by travel vaccinations before a trip to Southeast Asia, led her on a journey of discovery that culminated in 20 years of research into vaccine safety.

Manookian details the legislative steps that paved the way for today’s mandates: the PATRIOT Act’s warrantless surveillance, the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act granting extraordinary authority to unelected health officials, and the 2005 PREP Act that shields vaccine manufacturers from liability. She points to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, signed by Reagan, which gave pharmaceutical companies near-complete immunity from lawsuits, as the turning point that removed any incentive to prioritize safety.

The vaccine schedule explosion tells the story: children in the early 1980s received 11 doses of four vaccines in their first year of life. Today, following the CDC schedule means 26 doses of nine vaccines before age one, starting with hepatitis B within 12 hours of birth. Manookian challenges the necessity of vaccinating newborns against a disease primarily transmitted through sexual contact or IV drug use.

“If we don’t have the right to choose what we put into our bodies, then we are not free. That’s the bottom line.”

Leslie Manookian, Health Freedom Defense Fund Founder

The Corporate-Government Alliance

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Hal Van Hercke, owner of Castlegate Knife and Tool, identifies a dangerous pattern in how vaccine mandates and other restrictions are being implemented. Large corporations, from social media platforms to retail giants like Walmart and Amazon, are carrying water for government policy by implementing vaccine requirements and mask mandates for employees and customers.

Van Hercke calls this arrangement the textbook definition of corporatism, the signature element of fascism as practiced in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. In this model, government makes the dictates while corporations enforce the agenda, insulating officials from direct accountability. He urges small businesses to push back and encourages consumers to support those who resist government overreach.

“The biggest threat right now to force vaccinations or a vaccine passport or to any of our individual freedoms going forward is this really unholy alliance between big government and big corporations.”

Hal Van Hercke, Castlegate Knife and Tool Owner

Fighting Back Through Legal Action

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Health Freedom Defense Fund has already scored victories, forcing the Los Angeles Unified School District to back down from its vaccine mandate for employees. The organization filed federal lawsuits against the Biden administration’s travel mask mandate and is helping an Arizona teacher defend his right to teach without a mask.

Manookian notes the coordinated nature of mandates across countries and the suspicious deaths of five national leaders who refused vaccines for their populations, including the Tanzanian president who exposed the unreliability of COVID tests by having a papaya and a goat test positive. She questions why 10,000 reported deaths and 500,000 adverse reactions in the federal VAERS database have not triggered the same response as the 1976 swine flu vaccine, which was pulled after 25 to 50 deaths.

The fight ultimately comes down to individual resolve. With not enough lawyers to challenge every mandate, Manookian urges listeners to draw their own line in the sand. If employers can force injections, she asks, what comes next? Forced abortions? Mandatory antidepressants? With hundreds of new vaccines in development, the stakes could not be higher for bodily autonomy.