This is What the Medical-Freedom Movement Looked Like in 2019

...it had nothing to do with Froot Loops

If American mainstream media had had any integrity at all back in the fall of 2019, this image would have been on the cover of the October issues of magazines like Time and Newsweek:

The photo is of the “Freedom Angels” — Denise Aguilar, Heidi Munoz Gleisner, and Tara Thonton — standing in protest of the California legislature’s plans to enact Senate Bill 276, which would (and has) for all practical purposes, remove all vaccine exemptions for children attending school in that state.

This is what the medical-freedom movement looked like on the eve of the Covid-19 “event.” It was a movement that had been brewing, and building, for many, many years, and in the fall of 2019, in the state of California, it reached a crescendo. As I wrote at the time:

“Something extraordinary happened in Sacramento last week. The people protesting California’s increasingly draconian vaccine-mandate legislation—most of them mothers of vaccine-injured children—stopped playing by the rules.

“On Monday, Senate Bill 714—the companion bill to SB276 which puts the determination of medical exemptions from any of the vaccines required for school into the hands of the state—was before the California State Assembly for a vote. Six women had already been arrested, including two nursing mothers and a grandmother, and the Assembly gallery was filled with protesters, waiting quietly.

“The moment the bill passed, women unfurled banners and the gallery erupted in chanting. Appeals for “quiet in the Chamber!” and cries of “we’re asking for decorum” were drowned out with “You have not represented California for all!” The demonstrators succeeded in shutting down both the Assembly and Senate chambers for more than an hour.

“Ultimately, the Senate did vote the bill through, and soon after, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed both SB276 and SB714 into law. But four days later the demonstrators were still there, and they have pledged to disrupt the lives and the work of those who passed this legislation for as long as it takes to reverse it.

“What these parents have learned is that playing by the rules will do nothing to protect their rights. For years, these women (and some men) had been lining up in an orderly fashion and calmly giving whatever limited testimony they were allowed, only to have it ignored. For years, they had listened to haughty legislators demand that they behave in a civil manner while slicing away at their most basic freedoms.”

There’s lots more to say about this, and I’ll be saying it. But for now, I just want to leave you with some images of that fight, as a reminder of what the medical-freedom movement was — and is — all about.

Hint: You won’t see any posters about the dangers of Froot Loops, or the need for better dietary guidance from the Federal Government. Nobody went to jail over pesticides on vegetables. The images here demonstrate in no uncertain terms what the movement was about then.

And still is.

Note: Most of these photos are used with explicit permission. Those for which I did not get permission were posted publicly, but I am happy to take any down if the creators wish.