Fresno Republican Compares Mandatory Vaccination for School Kids to Forced Internment Camps

Good old GOP anti-science fear-mongering
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Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno)

Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno)At a rally opposing a new California bill that would make vaccination mandatory for public school children, Fresno Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson compared this simple common-sense public health measure to forced internment camps, the Sacramento Bee reports.

And that wasn’t even the craziest thing said at this rally; another speaker compared it to the Bible story of the Pharaoh ordering the slaughter of first-born Hebrew infants, and to the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on African Americans.

As usual, when called upon to explain his exaggerated fear-mongering rhetoric, Assemblyman Patterson walked it back for the media — then repeated it in slightly less incendiary terms.

Asked after the rally to explain his comments, Patterson said it was a “bad choice of words” but reiterated that SB 277 is “excessively punitive.”

“I think the penalty that is in this bill, which is the isolation of these children - this is an expulsion from private and public school. That smacks of the kinds of things that are the beginnings of discrimination that can go very ugly places,” Patterson said.

(h/t: @davequast.)

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1 JadeHelmCurious  Jun 9, 2015 12:54:06pm

NaWB = Nazi Analogy Walk Back

3 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 12:55:14pm

It’s all about the votes!

4 Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2015 12:55:36pm

Preventing disease through vaccination = Forced internment !

The “mind” of a conservative is very scary place, my friends.

5 ComradeDread  Jun 9, 2015 12:56:03pm
Assemblyman Jim Patterson compared this simple common-sense public health measure to forced internment camps

Well, of course, he did.

I mean, having to take a shot to go to school and not endanger other children is just like having armed men kick in your door in the middle of the night, drag you and your parents out of bed, take you to a train station, shove you into a car like cattle so you can’t sit or lie down, and travel hundreds or thousands of miles to a prison camp where you’ll do bullshit work with little to eat, until you’re taken into a gas chamber and you choke on your bodily fluids filling your lungs as you claw desperately at the walls and doors trying to escape…

It’s the same thing, right?

6 Ace-o-aces  Jun 9, 2015 12:57:21pm

Yes, we all remember when the NAZIs forced Jews to get preventative medical treatment to help them avoid diseases and live longer healthier lives. The Horror!

7 withak  Jun 9, 2015 12:58:12pm

re: #4 Dr. Matt

Preventing disease through vaccination = Forced internment !

The “mind” of a conservative is very scary place, my friends.

Anti-vaxx lunacy cares not for political ideology. There’s plenty of derp on this topic all along the political spectrum, though it may be more concentrated on the right.

8 wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2015 12:59:03pm

1.) He knows nothing about medicine.

2.) He knows nothing about the Holocaust.

3.) He speaks about them anyway. This needs to stop.

9 Dr. Matt  Jun 9, 2015 1:00:05pm

re: #7 withak

Anti-vaxx lunacy cares not for political ideology. There’s plenty of derp on this topic all along the political spectrum, though it may be more concentrated on the right.

SMH at the both sides do it bullshit…..

—> Fresno Republican Compares Mandatory Vaccination for School Kids to Forced Internment Camps Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

10 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 1:00:32pm

re: #8 wrenchwench

Well, I suppose he could start talking about rape…

11 EmmaAnne  Jun 9, 2015 1:00:51pm

He calls it a “penalty”, but it’s not. It is a measure taken to protect the public.

12 Dr Lizardo  Jun 9, 2015 1:01:38pm

re: #10 freetoken

Well, I suppose he could start talking about rape…

1) Mandatory vaccinations

2) Rape

3) Anthropogenic Climate Change

The trifecta of twaddle.

13 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 1:01:40pm

re: #7 withak

Anti-vaxx lunacy cares not for political ideology. There’s plenty of derp on this topic all along the political spectrum, though it may be more concentrated on the right.

True, but it has now become a major GOP talking point, with no parallel in the Democratic Party.

14 lawhawk  Jun 9, 2015 1:02:12pm

Nazi analogies that have absolutely nothing to do with Nazis is abhorrent and demeans the actual, you know, victims of the Holocaust and what the Nazis did.

Public health requirements to have mandatory vaccinations, which save lives, and save limited public health resources, is not anywhere on the spectrum of Nazi activities, or even Nazi-like activities.

What this nitwit does is show he’s anti-science, and anti-social in that he’s more than willing to expose those who cannot get vaccinated to diseases that would otherwise be prevented.

If you’re immune compromised or an infant or toddler who can’t get a vaccine, or someone who is allergic to the ingredients that make up a vaccine (like egg allergies), then you have a medical reason to be exempt - but religious or social exemptions are bullshit, and if MS and WV can have only medical-necessity exemptions, then everyone else should have it - and it should be a national policy since it’s far too easy for people to cross state lines and infect others in the course of transit, vacations, business, and the like.

These people are imposing a needless cost on the overburdened health care system with their refusal to get vaccinated.

Each instance of an entirely preventable disease not only costs far more than the vaccination itself, but means lost wages, and a health care facility that can’t place a patient in that room (and if it’s a serious complication, it means that an ICU slot may be filled with a measles complication, and not someone who has a disease/injury requiring ICU care that would have to wait for the bed instead).

These people endanger everyone around them.

15 Snarknado!  Jun 9, 2015 1:02:56pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

True, but it has now become a major GOP talking point, with no parallel in the Democratic Party.

Which, considering that the proponents among the population tend to be dudebro types, is ironic.

16 Dr Lizardo  Jun 9, 2015 1:03:20pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

True, but it has now become a major GOP talking point, with no parallel in the Democratic Party.

To me it’s a bit surprising, because the anti-vaxxers I knew back in the day were sort of the granola, hippy-dippy vegetarian types.

Like I’ve said, if I returned back to the USA now, I’d probably suffer from culture shock.

17 Justanotherhuman  Jun 9, 2015 1:03:39pm

re: #2 FemNaziBitch

Oh, lovely! Giraffes are my favorite “wild” animal. : )

18 unproven innocence  Jun 9, 2015 1:05:54pm

I’m wondering if a few thousand picture postcards of FDR’s wheelchair would make difference to this guy. Oh. Politics. Nevermind.

19 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:06:49pm
20 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 1:07:45pm

re: #16 Dr Lizardo

To me it’s a bit surprising, because the anti-vaxxers I knew back in the day were sort of the granola, hippy-dippy vegetarian types.

Like I’ve said, if I returned back to the USA now, I’d probably suffer from culture shock.

News days like today make me want to pack my guitar and move to Germany or the Czech Republic. I could get a license for my hunting firearms and still live in a much more sane place…

But then I watch the forests and lakes go by on the way to work and know better. Still, an apartment in a small village less than a half hour by train from someplace like Munich? Jaeger schnitzel, pomfrittes & dunkel weiss… ?ah…

21 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 1:09:27pm

re: #16 Dr Lizardo

To me it’s a bit surprising, because the anti-vaxxers I knew back in the day were sort of the granola, hippy-dippy vegetarian types.

Like I’ve said, if I returned back to the USA now, I’d probably suffer from culture shock.

There are still those anti-vaxxers too - Marin County hasn’t become a hotbed of conservatism - but choice and keeping the government out of medical decisions apparently matters to the GOP when they feel like its their decisions being overruled.

22 De Kolta Chair  Jun 9, 2015 1:09:54pm

What Assemblyman Patterson is looking up at in the photo:

23 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:10:42pm

Good thing there’s no possibility that someone who is a measles carrier is roaming through that crowd:

24 Dr Lizardo  Jun 9, 2015 1:11:17pm

re: #22 De Kolta Chair

Akkk……..the chemtrails bullshit. Wouldn’t surprise me if he believed that; a lot of people seem to have bought into that particular conspiracy theory.

*sigh*

25 withak  Jun 9, 2015 1:11:39pm

re: #16 Dr Lizardo

To me it’s a bit surprising, because the anti-vaxxers I knew back in the day were sort of the granola, hippy-dippy vegetarian types.

Me, too; the only ones I’ve encountered IRL have been the new-age/alt-med/alt-nutrition types, like my SIL, and/or “Big Pharma” conspiracy theorists.

That the GOP has latched onto this as a wedge issue that potentially transcends some political boundaries is frightening.

26 Snarknado!  Jun 9, 2015 1:12:59pm

re: #21 klys (maker of Silmarils)

There are still those anti-vaxxers too - Marin County hasn’t become a hotbed of conservatism - but choice and keeping the government out of medical decisions apparently matters to the GOP when they feel like its their decisions being overruled.

I think they’re plain opportunists on this one.

27 sizzzzlerz  Jun 9, 2015 1:14:30pm

Any bets on whether this turd is an anti-choice fetus fanatic who believes its the government’s responsibility to prevent women from making their own, highly personal, medical decisions?

28 wrenchwench  Jun 9, 2015 1:15:05pm
Senate Bill 277 would make vaccination a condition of enrolling in private and public schools, which opponents have castigated for depriving children of an education.

Read more here: sacbee.com

Who deprived these opponents of their education?

29 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:15:20pm

Finally figured out who “Pan” is in that tweeted sign downstairs (Pull Pan Pol Pot).

It’s Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician, as well as a senator representing Sacramento. He’s one of the main proponents of #SB277.

30 Ace-o-aces  Jun 9, 2015 1:16:14pm
31 Justanotherhuman  Jun 9, 2015 1:16:34pm

re: #25 withak

Even then, it was part of the “natural life” philosophy, that whole “back to the land” movement, not a reaction because someone’s special snowflake couldn’t possibly be a disease carrier.

32 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:20:05pm

Court Upholds Texas Law Criticized as Blocking Access to Abortions

It’s like we are the victims of “the creeping dark ages” and no one takes it seriously.

33 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:20:22pm

Hey ggt!

34 Ace-o-aces  Jun 9, 2015 1:21:33pm

The Derp is strong with this one:

35 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:21:46pm

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

1) Mandatory vaccinations

2) Rape

3) Anthropogenic Climate Change

The trifecta of twaddle.

You forgot Evolution

36 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:21:58pm

re: #10 freetoken

Well, I suppose he could start talking about rape…

which kind?

*spit*

37 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:22:55pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hey ggt!

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awwwwwww!!!

38 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:24:15pm

That tweet downstairs about Toon’s wife being involved in the fight is probably wrong. She is apparently the one that was interviewed (her face never showed) saying the officer should get a medal.

39 b_sharp  Jun 9, 2015 1:25:11pm

re: #24 Dr Lizardo

Akkk……..the chemtrails bullshit. Wouldn’t surprise me if he believed that; a lot of people seem to have bought into that particular conspiracy theory.

*sigh*

I have proof chemtrails are true. Look at the horizontal trails that are evenly spaced out. No way clouds could be evenly spaced like that.

Real chemtrails

The chemtrail fairies measured the distances and placed the floaty smokey chemicals there. That’s the only explanation possible.

40 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 1:27:18pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

That tweet downstairs about Toon’s wife being involved in the fight is probably wrong. She is apparently the one that was interviewed (her face never showed) saying the officer should get a medal.

[Embedded content]

I flipped to Alex Wagner’s show at 4 PM and Joy Reid reported that the two women have not been identified. That was just a few minutes ago.

And one of here guests also made mention of the 1964 motel owner pouring the acid into the pool and how pools and black and whites fighting over them is an old racial issue.

41 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:28:26pm

re: #39 b_sharp

I have proof chemtrails are true. Look at the horizontal trails that are evenly spaced out. No way clouds could be evenly spaced like that.

[Embedded content]

The chemtrail fairies measured the distances and placed the floaty smokey chemicals there. That’s the only explanation possible.

I saw a chemtrail here that exploded!!!

42 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 1:28:59pm

re: #39 b_sharp

I have proof chemtrails are true. Look at the horizontal trails that are evenly spaced out. No way clouds could be evenly spaced like that.

[Embedded content]

The chemtrail fairies measured the distances and placed the floaty smokey chemicals there. That’s the only explanation possible.

And all this time I thought chem trails were caused by very powerful LSD.

/

43 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:29:20pm

Meanwhile in Xtianland:

44 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 1:29:28pm

Fucking asshole. I don’t want to hear ever again how anti-vaccinations is a left wing thing especially with Republican elected officials being some of the most crazy anti-vaxxers.

45 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:29:45pm

I’m going to make a big buy lead and encase my home in a big faraday cage. I just have to find a contractor … .

:0

46 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:30:21pm

re: #42 ObserverArt

And all this time I thought chem trails were caused by very powerful LSD.

/

hmmmmm … .

47 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:33:23pm

Wise shoppers always check the ingredients list on the label:

48 Snarknado!  Jun 9, 2015 1:34:15pm

re: #44 HappyWarrior

Fucking asshole. I don’t want to hear ever again how anti-vaccinations is a left wing thing especially with Republican elected officials being some of the most crazy anti-vaxxers.

But they are… a very far left thing. Wingnuts of both wings converge.

49 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:34:19pm

Shocked! I AM SHOCKED!!!!

50 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 9, 2015 1:34:55pm

re: #44 HappyWarrior

Fucking asshole. I don’t want to hear ever again how anti-vaccinations is a left wing thing especially with Republican elected officials being some of the most crazy anti-vaxxers.

The difference is that the Democratic party wants nothing to do with insane left-wing conspiracy nuts, but the Republican party is made up of insane right-wing conspiracy nuts. Republicans can’t distance themselves from the crazies without losing 95% of their voters.

51 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 9, 2015 1:35:12pm

Between the anti-western medicine, anti-big pharma moonbats and the anti-government, anti-science wingnuts, we have reached a level of derp that guarantees both camps herd immunity to facts and reasonable arguments.

The only option is to give them the choice of vaccinating or private schooling.

52 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 1:36:36pm

yep

53 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 1:37:05pm

I was hoping they would go for The Punisher and they didn’t let me down.

54 Justanotherhuman  Jun 9, 2015 1:37:22pm

Smiting.

55 Justanotherhuman  Jun 9, 2015 1:38:42pm

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

But they want to privatize all the schools.

56 FemNaziBitch  Jun 9, 2015 1:39:40pm

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

But they want to privatize all the schools.

they want to privatize EVERYTHING!!!!!

That way they can opt out of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in their dealings with other human beings.

57 Justanotherhuman  Jun 9, 2015 1:41:02pm

What isn’t one of the lawyers asking for a mistrial?

58 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 9, 2015 1:41:25pm

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

But they want to privatize all the schools.

Then make universal vaccination a precondition for receiving any sort of public funding.

Of course, they wanna cut all public funding for education and make parents who can’t afford tuition put their kids to work in the cotton mills at age six…

59 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 1:43:25pm

re: #48 Snarknado!

But they are… a very far left thing. Wingnuts of both wings converge.

True. I guess my point is that left wing anti-vaxxers aren’t represented in politics while right wing ones are.

60 Kryptik  Jun 9, 2015 1:43:34pm

re: #50 No Country For Old Haters

The difference is that the Democratic party wants nothing to do with insane left-wing conspiracy nuts, but the Republican party is made up of insane right-wing conspiracy nuts. Republicans can’t distance themselves from the crazies without losing 95% of their voters.

It’s rather telling how, after all the debunking of anti-vax crazy, it only became more acceptable after right-wingers started hitching their stars to it. Suddenly became a matter of principle for many GOPers.

And unfortunately it may end up becoming yet another thing we as a country start backsliding on again, because the right wing seems to fucking win always, and almost always on the basis of tempter tantrums enabled by media ‘both sides same thing’ bullshit .

61 plansbandc  Jun 9, 2015 2:23:15pm

It’s an absolute embarrassment that clam stupid politicians continue to be elected in this country.

Do we really have that many idiots voting, or are they so frightened of everything they just automatically vote for whatever moron the fear pandering Republicans throw out?

62 Romantic Heretic  Jun 9, 2015 2:35:01pm

re: #4 Dr. Matt

Preventing disease through vaccination = Forced internment !

The “mind” of a conservative is very scary place, my friends.

They’re born in fear and they die in fear. They would literally have no idea what to do if they weren’t afraid of something.

63 Eventual Carrion  Jun 9, 2015 2:36:45pm

re: #27 sizzzzlerz

Any bets on whether this turd is an anti-choice fetus fanatic who believes its the government’s responsibility to prevent women from making their own, highly personal, medical decisions?

You can let your kids (and other peoples kids possibly) die from a preventable disease, but you cannot abort a fetus even to save the life of the mother. Makes sense.

64 Romantic Heretic  Jun 9, 2015 2:38:40pm

re: #14 lawhawk

These people endanger everyone around them.

I believe it is an extension of their firm belief, “Kill them all and let God sort it out.”

65 Romantic Heretic  Jun 9, 2015 2:41:52pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

Finally figured out who “Pan” is in that tweeted sign downstairs (Pull Pan Pol Pot).

It’s Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician, as well as a senator representing Sacramento. He’s one of the main proponents of #SB277.

So he’s one of those people in thrall to Big Pharma! The bastard! No wonder he supports it. He’s being paid!

Ya know, sometimes being mentally ill is advantageous. It makes it easier for me to understand the ‘thinking processes’ behind this sort of derp.

66 ozharas  Jun 9, 2015 7:14:39pm

meanwhile…..

thelocal.es

The parents of a child who this week became the first recorded case of diphtheria in Spain for three decades have said they feel terrible about taking the decision not to vaccinate.


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