NYC fired teachers who refused the COVID vaccine.

That, in itself, is an outrage. Those fired teachers are suing, unsurprisingly.

The firing, though, was just the first part of the punishment. In the process of fighting the lawsuit the lawyers for the fired NYC workers discovered that the teachers who refused vaccination had their files flagged and passed along to law enforcement, including the FBI and New York Criminal Justice Services. The story is from Michael Kane, the founder of TeachersforChoice.org

Along with their fingerprints. They were flagged as troublemakers and their information was forwarded to law enforcement, tagging these ordinary citizens as potential threats to the public. They will forever be in law enforcement databases as potential criminals.

On February 8, 2023, while arguing on behalf of fired NYC workers who declined covid vaccination, attorney John Bursch stated in open court that unvaccinated teachers in New York City were flagged with problem codes in their personnel files, and when that occurred “their fingerprints are sent with that flag to the FBI and the New York Criminal Justice Services.”

You can listen to Bursch make this statement at the 5:30 mark of the audio recording of the court proceeding.

I have taken a bit of heat from some critics for using the term “COVID fascists,” because it may sound a bit hyperbolic. And I freely admit to using hyperbole at times to get my points across.

But what else would you call this sort of behavior? Under what theory of democratic governance can it be justified? None of these people have broken any law; ironically, they have turned out to be right, as admitted by all those cities and states that have finally rescinded their vaccine requirements; they were dismissed, rightly or wrongly; so what makes them a threat to anybody?

In federal court on February 8th attorney Susan Paulson who was defending NYC stated that educators fired for declining covid vaccination were not removed for misconduct, but rather for not meeting a requirement for employment.

If there was no misconduct, why are unvaccinated educators fingerprints sent to the FBI?

I believe that unvaccinated NYC educators were being setup to be viewed as “right-wing extremists” or even “terrorists.” We know for many years Dr. Peter Hotez has been promoting an insane narrative that those who are “vaccine hesitant” are an extremely dangerous group, and that we need to look to Homeland Security and even NATO for suggestions of how to deal with such a “threat.” (watch Part 1 & 2 of Dan Cohen’s investigation into Dr. Peter Hotez)

During the pandemic, NYC also collected the DNA of its employees through its COVID testing program, and the company that collected the samples reserved the right to keep the data and use it as they saw fit. Law enforcement agencies have used these private DNA databases as a resource in their investigations, skirting the 4th Amendment.

Violations of educators (and students) rights to their biometric information by NYC is no surprise to me. The first time I sued the city was back in 2020 over in-school covid testing and the privacy rights to the DNA in the specimen provided. Turned out the covid testing company then-mayor Bill de Blasio contracted – FULGENT GENETICS – reserved the right to utilize DNA samples obtained from covid testing and catalogue it in proprietary libraries the company owned. Also turned out Fulgent had close ties to the Chinese Government.

This is a vast expansion of the government programs to track citizens suspected of no crimes, and aids in the ongoing efforts to weaponize government.

Jim Jordan’s committee should look into this largely unnoticed example of how the FBI is collaborating with other government agencies to keep track of and label ordinary citizens who dissent from the orthodoxy as potentially violent “extremists.”

What we are discovering is that perhaps the most important thing the Republicans can do over the next two years is to begin the process of dismantling this nascent fascist government within the government.