It established elaborate administrative mechanisms to identify and liquidate spies and informers, to manage concentration camps, to operate death vans, and to finance the whole movement. But Im going to be honest about it because I think its something that we all do. For the sake of ideology, hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths occurred, write Deisy Ventura and colleagues After almost six months of investigation, a Brazilian senate inquiry into covid-19 has ended its proceedings by recommending the indictment of federal authorities, government aides, and companies for numerous crimes committed during the pandemic.1 First on the list is Brazil's . Video & Audio Its more about the quality of my life right now. UN Talks on Crimes Against Humanity Treaty Make Progress, But Also Reveal Hurdles. Thus, the Nazi Party as a party was subsumed under the leader, whose iron discipline ensured no dissent: In discipline, structure, and method the Nazi Party was not adapted to the democratic process of persuasion. It moved rapidly to organized mass violence against them, physical isolation in ghettos, deportation, forced labor, mass starvation, and extermination.. He contacted some doctor friends to get the Ivermectin protocol. The FDA has approved use of the drug to treat head lice and some parasitic worms, but not COVID. Del Ponte made the horrifying and yet simple point about Milosevic: Many victims cannot come before you because they did not survive. Larsons job at the WHO is to develop strategies to increase public confidence in vaccines and combat vaccine hesitancy and antivaccine views. On December 15, Bigtrees Facebook page shared an episode in which he appears on the Daystar Television Network, an online evangelical Christian broadcast. Meanwhile, antivaxxers have joined COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in portraying contact tracing and quarantine as subjugation.. Jackson is implying that we must learn from Nazi criminals and those like them, that we should watch the work of the parties, that we must exercise eternal vigilance against the loss of freedoms and the work of spontaneous mobs and party cadres. Also read: An Indian Kristallnacht in the Making. I note that Bigtree just turned 50, so hes entering the age range of elevated risk. ; ICAN Sues NIH.Again! However, truth be told, it is also one that makes us, as science advocates, feel a bit smug and confident. Most importantly, I was thinking, How the heck am I going to know whether or not the blood Im getting that I need has been vaccinated? Bigtree recalled. Her neighbors counter-protested in her front yard and put up Dr. Bigtree decided to see a cardiologist, who did some blood tests as well as checked his heart. All hes being asked to do is to wear a facemask when in public around other people, to abide by social distancing guidelines, and to wash his hands and/or use hand sanitizer frequently. He had all the while been ignoring a private medical, seemingly minor problem of his own. What am I going to do? Bigtree said on the podcast. Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine. Andthe case Fuellmich describes isn't on the docket of any of the few international courtsthe U.S. recognizes, including theInternational Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. Its Not Enough to Say the Govt Has Failed. Moderna . You lived your life. Or could we live and let live? Philosophers such as Achille Mbembe argue that modern politics is often a necropolitics, a production of death. One medical tale to which Bigtree seems to use the truth as home base was the upshot of his own. Health. Lead by example! It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.. I mean, that is like what COVID is, right?. He would have had no problem taking blood from his wife, who we can presume is unvaccinated. And so I had a surgery to deal with that., He added, Im sitting on my doughnut right now, in all total candor.. Wearing masks and contact tracing, with targeted quarantines, are thought to be our best options to be able to emerge from lockdowns and revive the economy, and yet the unholy alliance of antivaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists feverishly resist these measures, too. Lets be honest about this and say something that might get me some trouble here, but lets be honest. It makes you feel that there is nowhere thats safe.. Grow up! In the case of Milosevic, all national ideals, notes Del Ponte, were made to serve one mans aspirations: An excellent tactician, a mediocre strategist, Milosevic did nothing but pursue his ambition at the price of unspeakable suffering inflicted on those who opposed him or who represented a threat to his personal strategy for power. Similarly, it never seems to trouble antivaxxers like Bigtree or COVID-19 deniers, the vast majority of whom are white and at least middle class if not affluent, that COVID-19 has exacted a much worse toll on African-Americans and other people of color, who are far more likely to suffer severe disease and die. His rant shows exactly why COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and antivaxxers have such an affinity for each other and have teamed up to That rhetoric is having terrifying consequences, too, as public health workers have come under attack, with harassment and threats, leading an alarming number of them to resign to protect themselves and their families or to be fired for standing up for public health: As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the pandemic with only five full-time employees for more than 11,000 residents. Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks. Even if that is true, he seems oblivious to the law of large numbers and unconcerned that, if one million people catch the disease, that means 2,600 dead and that if 100 million people catch the disease (as could happen) that means 260,000 dead. Early signs, if ignored, lead to increasingly violent actions against specific communities, as the Nazi record indicates. You cansubscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. So wrote The New American (TNA) on April 23, 2020 in the "pandemic's" early days. (Feb. 17), Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks, that hosts content that's banned on YouTube, No evidence of cancer spike linked to COVID-19 vaccines, Fact Check: 10,000 Medical Experts Did NOT Start Nuremberg 2 Trial Against World Leaders for Crimes Against Humanity, Attorney Profile:Reiner Fuellmich #165532, 'Nuremberg 2.0: Why COVID Conspiracy Theorists See This Lawyer As Their Saviour, BitChute welcomes the dangerous hate speech that YouTube bans. Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer, accessed Feb. 13. Eat all the Twinkies you want! The reason for this is that the blood of the vaccinated poses no added threat to recipients. He had started as a middling television producer and made a second career spinning dangerous delusions that left thousands of children needlessly prey to potentially devastating illnesses. Thank you for supporting our journalism. At least three anti-vax doctor speakers have referred to current Covid policies as "crimes against humanity", to chants of "lock them up". The mutual legal assistance initiative focuses on the creation of a modern and detailed framework for mutual legal assistance and extradition in . Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively with the men in whom those forces now precariously survive.. Brazilian senators have recommended President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with 10 crimes, including crimes against humanity, alleging his "reckless" mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis that led to . His wife came along, administering oxygen. "Now the world is watching the sausage being made," Bigtree said. When you were my age, you were most likely eating food and fast food and Doritos and drinking Coca-Cola, which youll never find in my home. This hostility towards public health interventions manifests itself with a refusal to take responsibility to do anything that decreases the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Amy Acton Fan Club yard signs. Or a way that I could get unvaccinated blood? Bigtree asked. When last we saw her elsewhere, she had put her foot in her mouth most spectacularly by ignorantly discounting how much education about immunology and vaccines a typical physician in training receives, which leads me to just what the heck Bigtree means by pharmaceutical dependent. If were really going to get into each others schiznit, thats what we could do. Hes contemptuously blaming people with chronic diseases for being chronically ill. They identified six consistent themes and compared them to the anti-vaccine movement. Antivaccine thought leader Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a pseudoscience- and misinformation-filled letter to the Samoan Prime Minister, while antivaccine activists doubled down promoting fear mongering about MMR. 03/03/23 8:10 PM EST, Video & Audio Bigtree returned on June 4. Conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kenney Jr. also joined the program. Bigtree reasoned that cancer surgeries would sometimes require blood transfusions. He also seems unconcerned that COVID-19 could well lead to more deaths from cancer, due to delays in treatment. She had previously clashed with them over data releases and control and had haggled over a variance regarding reopening businesses. Its a comforting thought. ICAN filed lawsuits against health agencies for vaccine misinformation and is demanding more meaningful drug trials. Its great, and theyre fun to hang out with. On December 17, Bigtree shared a Reddit post about a Tennessee nurse who fainted shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine as supposed evidence that the vaccine is not safe. As has been widely reported, the nurses reaction was caused by a health condition she experiences -- syncopal episodes -- where pain, no matter how minor, can cause her to faint. There are no similarcases on the dockets of any international courts recognized by the U.S. Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. COP27 Produces a Historic Result for Vulnerable Countries: A Loss and Damage Fund. While Fuellmich and Fischerare both licensedattorneys,there is no "World Criminal Court." Think about it, and I suspect youll come up with the same answer I did: An unrelenting hostility towards public health. The HighWire host, Del Bigtree, whose 7-year investigation into Vaccine Safety and Policy in America inspired the launch of ICAN (icandecide.org) and The HighWire, explains why 'it ain't Just the Covid Vax' that you should be worried about. Basically, COVID-19 has been a magnet for medical conspiracy theories, which is why antivaxxers have launched a pre-emptive disinformation campaign on a COVID-19 vaccine that does not yet exist. And now that youre pharmaceutically dependent, heres what you dont get to do. Today, I explain how the legal structure, scientific experimentation, surveillance and mandate state, and quest for genocide is even stronger than in 2020. Photo: US Government, Public Domain, The death of Covid patients just for non-supplying of oxygen to the hospitals is a criminal act and not less than a genocidehow can we let people die in this way?. The start of the prosecution of Herman Goering, Albert Speer and other Nazi officials on November 21, 1945 at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany and the commencement of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia the first head of state to be prosecuted in this fashion on February 11, 2002 at The Hague, Netherlands prepared a checklist for humanity: what to look out for in dictators or political parties, their mobilisation of hatred, the organisation of ethnic cleansing, the naturalisation of torture and discrimination, among others. That 0.26% are the most sick among us, and I have nothing against you. Im being sarcastic, of course. The effort turned particularly deadly for those of all ages during the pandemic. Theres drugs that allow you to eat the Philly cheesesteak even though your body knows it hates it, but, go ahead, take the Prilosec. I will admit that these are my observations, and that there isnt a lot of research, but perhaps I can provide some ideas for actual research and action. But the forms of production of death are innovative: let us not assume that all leaders set out to exterminate populations through the army. He received a total of five transfusions, he said. In a gut-wrenching op-ed in The Guardian and The Wire on April 29, 2021, Arundhati Roy used the term "crime against humanity" to describe immeasurable grief and human . We Are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity. He then goes into a despicable diatribe, which, in case Bigtree memory-holes his rant, I am transcribing extensively because it is a near-perfect distillation of antivaccine thinking and the screw the old and infirm attitude that many COVID-19 deniers express: What is the group that is really at risk? When you reach that point in your life where now your arteries are starting to clog up, your body is shutting down, and the alcohol is eating up your liver, and you have diabetes, or you have multiple COPD, you have asthma, you cant breathe, all the cigarette smoking has finally caught up with you, you have heart disease because of the way you decided to live your life in the moment, heres what you are now. by Lisa Benjamin. After all, you might think that no one is telling him he has to take a medication to protect others. The mob descended on her after she responded to a tweet from Elon Musk, with video of her injury. Everything everything, was an instrument in the service of his quest for power. You made your choice. Heres where its not exactly the greatest thing to have to share. After laying down an obvious lie in which he states that he does care about his pharmaceutical-dependent friends, and says that the only thing he can do for them (other than hoping for a vaccine unicorn) is to catch what is just a common cold. It's indeed a crime against humanity what's currently happening with the establishment (government-, science- and medical . The honourable court added that it finds it necessary to direct for immediate remedial measures to be taken by the government. The claim: A video shows a trial for COVID-19 'crimes against humanity' at the 'World Criminal Court'. Acton was given security detail, an unusual step for a cabinet member. In March 2020, anti-vaccine activists incorrectly alleged - by misrepresenting a study - that flu vaccines increase COVID-19 risks. At the trials, an attempt was made to distinguish between individual and collective guilt. On a July 28 episode of his Faith and Freedom podcast, cardiologist Peter McCullough claimed that the vaccines are causing a "staggering" number of deaths, more than the illness itself. How many times have I suggested this? Oliver O'Connell 23 January 2022 17:51 1642960830 The doctors sought to determine what was causing the problem in the first place. So why have antivaxxers aligned themselves with COVID-19 deniers and conspiracy theorists in the most emphatic way possible, with a number of COVID-19 lockdown protests being organized by antivaxxers? Thats not to say that there isnt a grain of truth in this idea, particularly for the vaccine-hesitant, but for hard-core antivaxxers, it has been a comforting myth. In reality, the percentage of cases of COVID-19 that remain asymptomatic is probably 30-50%, and these people with asymptomatic infection can still transmit the disease. Connect with . USA TODAY didn't find any evidence that an international "tribunal" or ad-hoc trial about COVID-19 measures is underway. Crimes always are committed only by persons. Some of Bigtrees dangerous claims on his Facebook page are documented below: Bigtrees Facebook page shared a video from a January 6 Washington, D.C., event called the Rally for Health Freedom. The event coincided with other rallies in Washington that day that culminated in a failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In the Ukraine during 1932-33, thanks to Josef Stalins policies in taking away all their grains and blockade of food movement into the region, 6 million died from starvation in the Holodomor (killing by starvation). We lament this needless loss of life on such a massive scale and commend the work of Brazilian senators for seeking to hold Bolsonaro and his administration accountable for Brazil's disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic by leading a six-month congressional investigation into the role of the government in the country's large COVID death . He also falsely claimed that COVID-19 can be cured by hydroxychloroquine. Rather than the perhaps emotional and subjective testimony of the survivors, Nurembergs Jackson unusually chose to trust the supposedly objective material record of Nazi planning and process. Del Bigtree, an anti-vaccination activist, speaks before a crowd of anti-vaxxers at a VIP event in Washington, D.C. Bigtree is a controversial documentarian and one of the movement's biggest . I could mention how antivaxxers reacted to the measles outbreaks among Somali immigrants in Minnesota, a reaction that involved denial of their culpability for fear mongering about MMR as a cause of autism and of the severity of measles. Whether Bigtree believes it or not, if he were actually foolish enough to take my sarcastic advice, Id actually feel terrible if he turned out to be one of the minority who develop disease severe enough to require hospitalization, even worse if he were among the smaller minority who end up needing mechanical ventilation, and worse still if he were one of the probably fewer than 1% who die of COVID-19. And in case thats enough, SFGate published a story recounting the damage done to young people who have survived severe COVID-19, including kidney failure requiring dialysis, shortness of breath that persists for many weeks, the need for chronic oxygen, multiple relapses, and other complications. During the last minute and a half or so of The Real Truthers version, there are shown a series of photographs of people who were young (or, at most, middle aged) and otherwise healthy who died of COVID-19, the youngest of whom was 22. It was not just the central office, but its minions, even private and semi-public associations down the hierarchy, that terrorized the country, carrying out the vision of the cult and its leader. On January 13, Bigtree shared a video from an Indiana woman who claimed that a COVID-19 vaccine caused her to start experiencing convulsions during all waking hours. If you can get to Cancun, we can get you transfusions with people that have not been vaccinated, the doctor said, by Bigtrees account. In November 2020, Facebook removed a page where Del Bigtree, a notorious anti-vaccine figure, broadcast his show -- The High Wire -- to a large online audience. Saying that he stood with supporters of Donald Trump who refuse to wear masks and commenting on the size of his crowd, Bigtree also bragged that he has been to more superspreader events than almost anyone I know before falsely claiming that there is no such thing as asymptomatic spread of COVID-19. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opens his defense case at the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, July 5, 2004. Also, there is a growing body of evidence showing that masks do decrease the rate of transmission of COVID-19 to other people, as I discussed a couple of weeks ago. The document, which obtained over 3,100 signatures around the world, blasts the "one size fits all" treatment recommendations . The State Bar of California, accessed Feb. 15. A video with tens of thousands of views falsely claims an international court is . The group has brokered ties with far-right Trump supporters in recent months. 18. Nor is it possible, in the proof of crimes on such a scale as involved in the indictment, to bring all the surviving witnesses to give evidence in court. I like smoking a cigarette once in a while. There is no "World Criminal Court." Fortunately, this is not an attitude shared by most Americans, although it is de facto policy in too many parts of the country. One wonders if he views nearly all cancer as preventable when it is not. Good on you! Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at the Milosevic trial, stated: No state organisation is on trial here today. Only unfounded fears to the contrary kept Bigtree from just getting a needed transfusion at the nearest facility. And no records are kept regarding what vaccines, if any, particular donors have received. Bigtree received the single unit, which gave him the same lift as safely as he would have received from the blood of a vaccinated person, without all the phone calls and drama. It was to be personal responsibility in each case. You probably were drinking a lot of alcoholic beverages and really liked to party and enjoyed your cigarettes and said to yourself, You know what? The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Gring (at the left edge on the first row of benches). Im sure one of your fans out there has COVID-19 right now and would be willing to hang out with their hero in a small, enclosed room for hours and cough in your face as much as it takes for you to acquire SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. We need to learn how to support this process and stop fighting it.. Dr. Anthony Fauci must go. One way of thinking about this is whether there are customary international criminal law rules on crimes against humanity that might be applicable to the United States. He in the meantime hit the road, taking his anti-vax message to Connecticut and Minnesota, placing others at risk of contracting the illness that now left him fearful even after a negative test. Jackson stated (Jacksons Remarks, Reports and other documents are collected in one volume, The Nrnberg Case, 1947): The idea that a state, any more than a corporation, commits crimes, is a fiction. I like good rich food. She and a colleague watched weekly episodes of The Highwire with Del Bigtree from Jan. 30, 2020, to April 2, 2020. Jackson underscored that the entire party apparatus built on a certain appeal: It also made a strong appeal to that sort of nationalism which in ourselves we call patriotism and in our rivals chauvinism. It seems so obvious, so rational, to think that the return of deadly diseases would knock some sense into antivaxxers heads. Think about it. These crimes include the most egregious violations of human dignity, especially those directed towards civilian populations. The indictments do not accuse an entire people of being collectively guilty of the crimes It may be tempting to generalise when dealing with the conduct of leaders at the highest level. 03/03/23 10:09 PM EST, Video & Audio I want to enjoy my life right now. Come on! The doctor in Mexico called back within an hour. 13/May/2021. But she reasoned that standing up for public health principles was worth it, even if she risked losing the job that allowed her to live close to her hometown and help her parents with their farm. Jackson concluded his comments on the partys role: The Government, the Party formations indicted before you as criminal organizations, the Secret State Police, the Army, private and semi-public associations, and spontaneous mobs that were carefully inspired from official sources, were all agencies that were concerned in this persecution.
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