Editor,
U.S. Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Mo.) says Democrats want to “knock down your door KGB-style to force people to get vaccinated.” (Washington Post, “Patience has worn thin,” July 23)
Editor,
U.S. Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Mo.) says Democrats want to “knock down your door KGB-style to force people to get vaccinated.” (Washington Post, “Patience has worn thin,” July 23)
Rep. Smith apparently has little understanding of what “KGB-style” really means. It is not the same as advertising a vaccination program for smallpox, polio, measles or COVID-19, undertaken to save young people’s lives and hopes for the future.
Actually, America has taken the opposite of a KGB approach. Party leaders Biden and Trump are both refusing to criticize the unvaccinated. Both power brokers are on board with the post-World War II libertarian current in American life that says people should not be forced or shamed to change behavior.
Just one problem. This airy little bit of philosophy goes against the grain of our 245-year-old criminal justice system, whereby we absolutely do force people to clean up behavior, at pain of actual punishment.
Autocrats are happy to torpedo criminal and public health accountability because they want the American people to decline to hold them accountable when they themselves do wrong while in power. When they fail to follow the Constitution or the statutory law, they hope to be supported by the huge and growing underclass of unprosecuted and unvaccinated Americans they have treated so softly.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
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(2) comments
Kimball, you’re not equating unvaccinated Americans with criminals are you? After all, the unjabbed have not broken any laws. Unlike the existing powers-that-be who ignore enforcement of our existing immigration laws. In addition to refusing to prosecute those who have actually broken laws or refusing to enforce incarceration periods. Maybe if our government were actually accountable and seen to enforce existing law, then their recommendations may have some credibility in regards to an unapproved vaccine.
Hi, Kimball
So, if a state's penal code was changed to make failure to be vaccinated a crime... would you favor that crime being classified as a misdemeanor or felony?
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