https://thelibertyloft.com/one-of-these-things-is-exactly-like-the-other/
New York, N.Y. — Last May, New Yorkers got COVID-19 vaccine cards and a nice bribe (a free one-week transit pass) in return for getting jabbed at Grand Central Station. But in a totally unforeseen set of circumstances, some Americans who don’t want the vaccines are buying fake “credentials.”
It’s almost like people think they are being forced into doing something against their rights.
Over 150 million Americans have been handed their papers with an official federal logo showing that they’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In a growing pattern that card is required to get into concerts, sporting events and workplaces, soon to be followed by transit, shopping, and probably watering one’s lawn.
But the cards can easily be fabricated by fraudsters and are being sold to people who need to show a record that they have been vaccinated but don’t want to get anywhere near the needle.
This unexpected black market in fake vaccine cards has alarmed law enforcement officials — and prompted some state legislators to act.
The measure will be sent to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo after the state Senate and Assembly passed a bill that makes it a crime to possess or forge phony COVID-19 vaccine cards or digital passports (see what they did there? ALL in the name of ‘Public Safety’).
“I can’t think of too many things more despicable than people not wanting to get vaccinated but wanting proof that they were,” said New York Democratic state Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, who sponsored the Assembly bill. “They’re potentially putting people who can’t get the vaccine in harm’s way, like those who are immunocompromised or children under 12. That’s a horrible thing to do.”
OK, granted it’s pretty shady-but so is forcing people to wear stars in order to buy food.
New Jersey is trying to play ‘catch-up’, as state lawmakers are considering similar legislation.
Since it’s already a federal crime to buy, use or sell fraudulent documents that bear a federal agency’s seal (violators face a fine and up to five years in prison). It’s no surprise that COVID-19 vaccination cards would fall under this definition as they have the logo of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The documents currently feature the recipient’s name, birth date, the vaccine maker, lot number, and date/place the shot(s) was/were given.
In short, the crime here is to use the Federal Governments good name in vain.
Pursuing those fraudsters mostly falls to state and local authorities, as state legislators say it’s unlikely that the FBI and federal prosecutors are going to go after people who commit smaller, individual violations. But I should point out that even if other states join New York in issuing digital vaccine passports, the federal law shouldn’t apply-because those documents are created by a state and don’t have a federal agency’s seal.
When asked whether the FBI has made any arrests related to fake vaccine cards, spokesperson Sofia Kettler wrote in an email that the agency “has no new information to provide regarding this topic.”
I am not comforted by this evasive answer to a simple ‘yes-or-no’ question.
Arrests for schemes related to vaccine cards appear to have been made at the state or local level. In California, a bar owner in San Joaquin County was arrested in May on charges of selling fake cards after undercover state alcoholic beverage control agents allegedly bought four at $20 apiece. While reprehensible, I wonder why is the ABC board involved with what essentially amounts to medical fraud?
In New York, Nassau County police arrested a drugstore clerk last month on suspicion of stealing 54 blank vaccine cards and eight other ones that were prefilled and missing only names. Police said he intended to sell them to students and share them with family and friends.
But some folks may also have political or ideological reasons for seeking fake vaccine cards. According to NBC News in April, some people on pro-Trump and anti-vaccine internet forums were sharing instructions on how to forge them. Because, of course, ONLY pro-Trump and other ‘deplorables’ would have any reason for getting paid to falsify documents.
New York Democratic state Sen. Anna Kaplan stated she sponsored the Senate bill because she wanted to “send a message” and “clearly spell out in state law that it’s a crime to falsify vaccine cards or possess them.” “We’re giving people a card showing they are vaccinated so they can travel, go to stadiums, go to college,” Kaplan said. “We want to make sure that everyone who is vaccinated can go in comfort and know that they are safe. Someone abusing these cards is putting themself (sic) and others in harm’s way. They will be held accountable.”
Why is it every time some political clod pushes a new set of rules we always hear about “being held accountable?” It’s like hearing “bullying will not be tolerated.”-pretty much every school kid knows that it is nothing but feel-good malarkey that is not going to be enforced.
Assemblymember Dinowitz said that while some could argue that New York state law already may address such conduct, he filed his bill because he wanted to make sure there’s no question it’s illegal.
“By passing the law, it underlines the importance of this issue,” he said. “I hope other states will follow suit.”
Dinowitz, who worries about this issue in part because his grandchildren are too young to get the vaccine and could be exposed to people who aren’t vaccinated, said he is particularly bothered by what he calls hypocrisy.
“If you refuse to get vaccinated, then don’t get a false card,” he said. “Why would you want to have proof that you got vaccinated?”
As a nonreligious person, even I’ll take a stab at that one:
Revelation 13:17, KJV: “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
People enjoy eating, shopping, and generally going out to do things. Whether this is the ‘Mark’ of anything is debatable; what is not up for discussion is whether or not it is going to function exactly the same way.
Some businesses are requiring proof of vaccination for employers, vendors and clients. Those who refuse to get a shot may be denied any form of personal interaction. The city of San Francisco announced last week it would require all 35,000 of its employees to show proof they were fully vaccinated once a vaccine receives full authorization from the federal Food and Drug Administration.
A growing number of colleges also will be requiring proof of vaccination this fall for entrance. Not sure how they are going to handle ‘online’ courses, but heavy money says this is going to be a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach and it’s becoming mandatory at some entertainment and sporting events.
Next: Part II: The Quickening
Since they’re so interested in forged government documents then they will probably looking all those forged ballots from last November as well. Right?
No, because doing so would blow the smokescreen behind the whole scam.
COVID is the linchpin behind the election steal, economic lockdowns, and corrupt bullying going on within our captured institutions.
if there is one thing good old yankee engineering is good at , its counterfitting.
“This unexpected black market?” REALLY??? I was thinking of how to gin one of those cards up as soon as people started getting them!
“I can’t think of too many things more despicable than people not wanting to get vaccinated but wanting proof that they were.” I can; YOU, for one, Jeffery Dimwitz!
“Unexpected” by journalists and Federal drones–room temperature IQs
Brought to you by the same fucking idiots who didn’t realize the increased crime behind defunding the police might actually be a threat, destabilizing their own political power.
Whoa, Nelly!
“… to show proof they were fully vaccinated once a vaccine receives full authorization from the federal Food and Drug Administration.”
That doesn’t seem like a throw away line.
Is that some kind of legal coveat that someone thought should be included?
If so, that would seem to open quite the can of worms for legal challenges.
Can you require a NON approved therapy?
TBP legal eagles?
No, you can’t. Nothing legal about any of this. Don’t get the idea that there is rule of law anymore. The only law is what the Laviathan says is the law. There us no can if worms if the courts are controlled and no attorney wanting to keep his license will touch any case with a ten foot pole. If they do it will be Kabuki theater only. I think this is the hardest thing to get through peoples skulls. Your gov has been overtaken and you are now under an ever increasing totalitarian rule. The election was STOLEN back in Nov and now people act like things are basically the same except for a few minor bumps. These monsters want you DEAD. IF NOT DEAD THEN TOTALLY CONTROLLED SERFS. This is not some little legal tiff with Uncle Sam. The cog dissonance is still overbearingly strong. A lot of people discuss this horrendous crap like they are on their neighbor’s patio with an adult beverage discussing the finer points of the latest sportsball game or political speech. Almost like its not quite real to them or it will all work out fine in the end.
Success is at hand then
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IF NOT DEAD THEN TOTALLY CONTROLLED SERFS.
i get the feeling this all will not end well.if the shooting does ever really start [and i pray it doesnt} it will be a slauter.
Auntie thinks all these “smart” Jewish people; politicians in this case i.e. Jeffrey Dinowitz and Anna Kaplan in New York, as well as all the Progtardist, Democrat, and Marxist-Trotskyite-Communist academics, physicians, scientists, media personalities, etc. who think that mandatory papers, segregations and State sponsored coercions, among other treatments, for a bullshit “sickness” are playing with BLOODY HELL FIRE.
I’ve said it before, and will say it again they’ve financed and created discord by creating BLM and actively co-opting institutions using their ideological, politicized SJW garbage at all levels of society.
It’s a Frankenstein that could create a counter-reaction they don’t expect that might escape their control.
A “pandemic” threat to general public safety is a “soft” alternative to a national emergency requiring martial law. The Plebes aren’t quite keen on a police state martial law so there’s a chance the Progs/socialists will overplay their hand.
How many options are available to resist?
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Canada has fined two travellers arriving from the US who, officials say, forged Covid-19 testing and vaccination documents.
Each was fined C$19,720 ($16,000, £11,500) after inspectors at the Toronto airport found their vaccine cards and proof of testing were fake.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-fines-travellers-fake-vaccination-175109810.html
Just a thought, what would Dinowitz and Kaplan’s family members have done had they been living in 1930’s Germany or other German occupied land during WWII and the chance to have “good papers” was available? Call me crazy but we are looking at Fourth Turning stuff here.
The bullets are real.
…and once they leave the barrel they don’t come back.
Pick your targets with a sure aim and good conscience should that be an alternative.
target rich enviornment indeed.
Hey … they’re not allowed to require US to show an ID to vote — arguably, one of the premier rights citizens have … so just how are they trying to justify having US show an ID that reveals our confidential — our ‘secret none more secret’ — health information?