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Biden’s and Polis’ Mandates are Anti-Liberty, Wrong, and Unconstitutional!

 

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If you’re here wondering “what the heck was that all about?” – you’ve come to the right place.

Context: President Joe Biden is implementing an Executive Order (“EO”) requiring all businesses with a hundred employees or more to mandate that their employees get vaccinated—or else those companies will suffer significant financial penalties.  Governor Polis is re-implementing additional COVID-related mandates in Colorado.

We, the Libertarian Party of Colorado (LPCO), denounce this as a GROSS overreach of power and we oppose it on every level. We ask you to read why we oppose it (below) and to JOIN US in the fight against this Fascist regime that is poised to steal freedom away from Americans across our country—including here in Colorado.  

Our State Platform contains this statement:

Individuals have a presumption of health and should not have to prove they are healthy to avoid forced quarantine, isolation, or other restrictions of their rights and freedoms.

Freedom is sacrosanct.

Freedom is vital to our survival.

Freedom is the cornerstone of our lives and civilization.

Biden’s recent executive order – his mandate for businesses with greater than 100 employees to require vaccination – and the continual and additional mandates of Governor Polis fly in the face of this freedom. We find this infringement on liberty particularly heinous for four (4) primary reasons. They are as follows:

• Hubristic & Machiavellian. Biden has elected to exalt his will above individual choice—at any cost. Giving them every benefit of the doubt, Bidenand Polis must believe that because this cause is “virtuous” or “moral” it therefore transcends individual liberty. But that is not so! Just because a leader believes something is ‘correct’ does not give that leader the right to impose his or her will on others. The ends never justify the means and might does not make right!

• Unethical. In choosing to rule over others via fiat, these leaders are breaking their oath to the people that they will preserve the sanctity of choice and freedom in our country. Many of us in Colorado still cling to the belief that freedom is a fundamental cornerstone for our way of life. It is unethical to usurp individual will and the individual liberty of a free people.

• Fascist. Biden and Polis, in their hubris, have decided to go down the path so many failed leaders in world history have followed before him. It is a path of destruction, and it is fundamentally evil and wrong. Fascism is the use of power (typically by a dictator) in order to impose policy through methods involving blending the private and public sectors. Benito Mussolini said: “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” In this literal sense, Biden and Polis have turned himselves into a Fascist (without hyperbole) by demanding corporations hire/fire employees and/or conduct their businesses and direct their employees the way THEY decide. This is a dangerous precedent for our country, and this is undeniably unconstitutional meddling that’s being attempted; this Fascist maneuvering is reprehensible, against our principles, and morally outrageous!

• Unconstitutional. If previous reasons fail to convince certain people that Fascism is wrong, surely this final point will fail to convince them as well. But our country does, at least on paper, have a guiding document which is supposed to specify what uses of the central government power are acceptable and what are not: The United States Constitution. There is NO constitutional authority granted for a sitting US president to dictate, by fiat (executive order) how a private company should hire/maintain its workforce. Period. Biden’s edict is blatantly unconstitutional. If for no other reason, each individual state in the Union (includingColorado) should choose NOT to acknowledge or enforce this Executive Order on Constitutional grounds. Furthermore, if the Federal Government chooses to move forward, unconstitutionally, then it is clear the Supreme Court ought to reject the constitutionality of this Executive Order. It is so abysmally unconstitutional, Biden and his staff should be embarrassed to have even proposed it. However, politics in the US being what it is, few even care what the Constitution has to say about limits of government power.

So … what are next steps? How can we beat back this tyranny and Fascism here in Colorado?

Join Us. Fight Oppression!

It begins with you. It begins with all of US. Activism is the key! Please JOIN US and if you are not already registered in Colorado as a Libertarian, please consider doing so and sending a strong message of lack of support to politicians, one of the few messages they hear loud and clear.  You can do this online  HERE AT THE SECRETARY OF STATE’S WEBSITE.

Liberty in Colorado requires people of good conscience and character to STAND UP and fight this savage debasement of our liberties.

Colorado Libertarians are getting involved with fighting this (and other atrocities against our freedoms). We would like to involve you in our process! We wish to share with you the rallies we’re forming, the legislators we’re contacting, and the letters we’re writing. All of this is part of the process. One person cannot turn back the tide of tyranny single-handedly; but a wave of opposition can resist oppression! And we will! Please  JOIN US  and help us see a world set free in our lifetime.

The Libertarian Party is the only political party committed to a principled defense of your freedom, limited government, and the rule of law. 

 

 

 The Libertarian Party of Colorado thanks Sean Dempsey of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire for the authorship of the majority of this piece.