With few exceptions, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has been on the side of liberty throughout her tenure. Her handling of the so-called pandemic has consistently put individual liberty above the desires of bureaucrats and calls for more constraint on natural rights.
As requiring vaccine passports rises in popularity, Gov. Noem has stepped in to protect her citizens from the latest fad in covid-related tyranny.
Related: This Amendment to SB155 Could Ban COVID-Passports in New Hampshire…
Noem joins Greg Abbot of Texas, Ron DeSantis of Florida, Greg Gianforte of Montana, Doug Ducey of Arizona, Brad Little of Idaho, and Spencer Cox of Utah — all Republicans — on the list of governors who have issued executive orders against such anti-freedom measures.
“Since the start of the COVID pandemic, we have provided the people of South Dakota with up to date science, facts and data and then trusted them to exercise their personal responsibility to make the best decisions for themselves and their loved ones,” Noem said. “We’ve resisted government mandates, and our state is stronger for it.”
The name of New Hampshire Governor Chicken Chris Sununu, who was eager to sign orders denying your first and fourth amendment rights, is (again) conspicuously absent. Good on guns and taxes but not much else in a world where need strong leaders because everything is encroaching on our natural rights.
Perhaps he can redeem himself.
A proposed amendment to NH Bill SB 155 would prohibit the state from spending or contracting with any entity that requires proof of vaccination as a condition of working for, attending, or engaging with a business or service.
He should support it, encourage it, and then sign it. Try leading when it comes to liberty instead of leading when it comes to denying it.
Back in South Dakota, they had a bill last year (HB1235) concerning immunization.
Every person has the inalienable right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion that the person accepts any medical intervention, including immunization. No 7 person may be discriminated against for refusal to accept an unwanted medical 8 intervention, including immunization.
Its focus was public school mandates, and it has not moved since Feb 2020, so I’m not yet clear on if it died, it being repurposed, or if other similar legislation in the process (I did not dig into that yet). But they’ve got the right idea.
While vaccinations have saved or improved millions of lives and the societies they form, the government cannot be in the business of telling people what medical procedures or chemistry they must introduce into their bodies.
If we allow it unchecked, that power will be misused and abused, and we must oppose this at every opportunity.
