Libertarian Party Chair Steven Nekhaila issued the following statement in response to the recent Senate report revealing that Biden officials failed to warn the public about the side effects of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine and downplayed these risks to encourage vaccination:
The newly released Homeland Security Committee report confirms what many of us in the liberty movement have known, and warned about, from the beginning: the federal response to COVID-19 was driven not by science, but by political expediency and corporate influence. This is the tragic legacy of regulatory capture, where agencies like the FDA and CDC serve not the people but the interests of Big Pharma.
The Senate report states:
“Even though CDC and FDA officials were well aware of the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration opted to withhold issuing a formal warning to the public for months about the safety concerns, jeopardizing the health of young Americans.”
The vaccine was sold to the public as ‘safe and effective,’ while evidence was swept under the rug. Why? Because acknowledging the risks wasn’t politically convenient. There would be blood. So instead, dissenters were silenced, the injured ignored, and the public gaslit.
Dr. John Campbell and others have tirelessly documented the dangers of this top-down model, where scientific curiosity is replaced with dogma and accountability traded for control. When Congress finally held a hearing for the vaccine-injured, Fauci was absent. The system refused to listen.
The Biden Administration’s actions were only the latest iteration of a bipartisan pattern of abuse that dates back to the Patriot Act and thrives under the illusion of ‘public safety.’ The newly formed WHO agreement would have expanded this authoritarianism even further, with vague clauses about ‘disinformation’ that could be used to suppress political dissent globally, something the Libertarian National Committee condemned.
Governments should not prescribe risks, nor mandate them. Libertarians warned you. Now we’re living it.
This is why we must separate medicine and state, just as we must separate media and state, church and state, and commerce and state. Science needs freedom, not mandates, censorship, and centralized control.
The Libertarian Party rejects all forcible state medical procedures or experimentation. When the government forces a one-size-fits-all policy, inherently, people suffer.
For more on the Libertarian Party’s fight for medical freedom, please visit: https://lp.org/medical-freedom