I only wish citizens of today would be one one hundredth as passionate about their liberties and freedoms as the citizens were in the years following the revolution. Today we take so much for granted. It seems far to many today are interested more in what they will get than what their children will end up with in the future.
Our founders thought about future generations...and set up the Constitution and Bill of rights for Americans who would be born far ahead. Their work has lasted for well over 200 years...but in order to make sure it survives 'Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.' . Who ever said it. It is the truth!
I love your conclusion to this article. You are right! Not only should there never be mandates for medical care, but, if we are to have bodily autonomy, there must not be exemptions given by the government. Thank you for clarifying it.
Cannot say how much I agree with you about religious exemptions not being the solitary route to abstention. Have maintained forever now that the gov should not be able to mandate decision making.
Excellent work done in this historical period that many have no idea about, stretching into present times.Lessons like these should be the front page of any school curriculum. Government employees should be tested on this history before anyone hired for public sector work, including congressional candidates.
Thank you for this formidable and inspiring work. As always your writing is exceptional! The pictures are also a substantial contribution. Had I had books like this for history classes, I would have been FAR MORE receptive. You make the times and people come to life. A 'supplement' sorely needed by so many today. Will look forward to your book.
For me, it also brings out the sorry state of all too many parts of Virginia today. Not to infer the situation is more dire than in other blue and bleeding toward purple (and beyond) states today.
Again, thank you for your diligence and dedication. You/its greatly appreciated and worth far more than we alone can provide. May you be also otherwise justly rewarded!
I echo James sentiment for knowledge and passion for freedom. One of my grandfather's names was Orange Twiss. The English side of my family was here way early so this history is so interesting. I really enjoyed reading these pieces of history. Robert Jennison 16.. Watertown, Massachusetts. My maiden name was Jennison.
Love this essay! And we agree 100% that medical freedom should not need exemptions. Medical freedom must be defined — not merely tolerated — as a fundamental right that, like the second amendment, shall not be infringed. No government should have the right to dictate what its citizens put into their bodies, regardless of circumstances, emergencies, aliens from outer space, or the whim of politicians or bureaucrats.
The role of government, if it must be in the “public health” business, is to provide the best information to its constituents on personal and community well-being. Government has no place in mandating medical policy, or practice - just as the First Amendment prohibits its establishment of religion, it should also prohibit establishment of government-sanctioned medical treatments.
I've enjoyed watching his progress ( ever since Dr RWM pointed him out). He and Trump have made beneficial progress together. He's been an example for the rest of SA to reflect about. With T behind him, he's been a terror at the UN and beyond imo. May the successes continue to roll!
DAMN STRAIGHT! Those Virginians wrote it all while guzzling.. :) , 55 attendees drank a massive total of 164 bottles of alcohol plus seven large bowls of punch.The Bar Tab Breakdown60 bottles of claret (red wine)54 bottles of Madeira (fortified wine)22 bottles of porter (dark ale)12 bottles of beer8 bottles of whiskey8 bottles of hard cider7 large bowls of alcoholic punch
The dinner took place on September 14, 1787, at City Tavern as the Constitutional Convention concluded its work :) YEP. I got from the internet.. Memes showing the "founding fathers" drinking Hard Apple cider .. this is Apple picking time in VA. I have been to most of those places.. my son went to UVA.. amazing campus :) Jefferson deeply influenced John. Thomas Jefferson was really out of the box.. mind of his own thinker.. :) Ok going back to suck down Madeira wine. :) KIDDING .. I am going to read latest book on KIndle. My head is still wrapped up .. went ER and apparently the lump on my head.. maybe an ingrown hair which I scratched so hard it bleed.. have f/u Monday. :) The DSA .. you know I wonder if AOC even realizes that NEW YORK is one the 13 colonies.. was not John Quincy Adams OOPS I LOOKED him "BRAINTREE" Mass. I like him a lot.. and my favorite of course is PATRICK HENRY... people who were educated in VA.. KNOW THEIR STATE HISTORY .. like moi :)
I believe that this is the most important stories that you have ever written. I lived in Warrenton, just north of Culpeper for 30 years. I knew most of this story, but the way that you brought the pieces together was masterful. You made it easy for readers to see not only why religious liberty is an inalienable right, but how medical liberty is a similar yet equally important birthright.
Independent of religious beliefs, I never understood why many of those who fought to make an abortion a medical right thought that refusing a questionable vaccine was not a medical right. However, if anything, both issues are incredibly intertwined as the vaccines do include fetal cells.
And. although beings choose to procreate offspring, they cannot do it without already having the DNA to create life, the cellular wisdom to design healthy vessels, and the creative spark given to first life forms. Governments, corporations, man-made religions, and machines don't have these abilities either. Nothing on this planet has the omniscience or omnipotence to ethically countermand birthrights. They don't have enough unconditional love to be the Creator of All.
This may be a mite snarky, is a good way: the 1A may have been forged in Virginia but God provided the hammer and anvil.
Ya’know, I wish I could return to Virginia, western/SW VA was always good to and for me but until Virginia becomes a free state again and it is assured it would remain free, I’m resigned to living here.
I'm loving reading about Virginia, the state in which I was born (1946 in the Naval Hospital in Norfolk)—especially as I've never lived there. (In my infancy our family traveled through the Panama Canal to settle in San Diego.) Have visited only once in all these years, to see Monticello. It's a beautiful state!
It IS a beautiful state; and until NoVa came to dominate politics I had even thought about returning to SW Va - Highland Co south. Got my marine corps physical in Norfolk - bus ride from Blacksburg and back in one day (to this day do not recall why I didn’t drive there myself. Weird).
I think it’s why I enjoyed Washington state so much: in Va you can drive from the "mountains" in the west and be at the beach near noon, in Wa you can be in the mountains (no quotes needed), Cascades, skiing in the morning and dine on/near the beach for dinner.
One of My last Washington trips I gave meself a 60th b’day reward (yay, I made it) by climbing to Camp Muir one one day (Mount Rainier) and then drove to an Air Bnb on the Olympic peninsula that night. The next morning I was at the end/lighthouse on Dungeness Spit before noon; back in Ellensburg for dinner. What a couple days.
Don’t dare do that again - I think the CSZ knows I’m writing about it and it’s just waiting for meself to visit and then … BLAM-O, it’ll rupture. 😆
"Medical freedom is a civil liberty." How this is interpreted in modern times is subjective and (it seems to me) often unethical and inhumane. On the one hand, we have excessive vaccine mandates, surely a usurpation of civil liberties. On the other hand, we have people pushing for legalization of MAID ("medical assistance in dying") which I say is Medical Assistance in Dishonesty, because it is nothing other than assisted suicide and so open to the manipulation and victimization of living, individual humans. We are fond of the use of euphemisms for other types of "medical assistance" in these modern times. "Medical assistance." Words matter.
I only wish citizens of today would be one one hundredth as passionate about their liberties and freedoms as the citizens were in the years following the revolution. Today we take so much for granted. It seems far to many today are interested more in what they will get than what their children will end up with in the future.
Our founders thought about future generations...and set up the Constitution and Bill of rights for Americans who would be born far ahead. Their work has lasted for well over 200 years...but in order to make sure it survives 'Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.' . Who ever said it. It is the truth!
I love your conclusion to this article. You are right! Not only should there never be mandates for medical care, but, if we are to have bodily autonomy, there must not be exemptions given by the government. Thank you for clarifying it.
Wonderful. Sadly, our schools are not teaching Civics and American history well. Only dwelling on the negatives and not the positives.
“Medical freedom is a civil liberty.” I agree. Thank you, Drs. Malones, for these history lessons! I love it.
Cannot say how much I agree with you about religious exemptions not being the solitary route to abstention. Have maintained forever now that the gov should not be able to mandate decision making.
Excellent work done in this historical period that many have no idea about, stretching into present times.Lessons like these should be the front page of any school curriculum. Government employees should be tested on this history before anyone hired for public sector work, including congressional candidates.
Thank you for this formidable and inspiring work. As always your writing is exceptional! The pictures are also a substantial contribution. Had I had books like this for history classes, I would have been FAR MORE receptive. You make the times and people come to life. A 'supplement' sorely needed by so many today. Will look forward to your book.
For me, it also brings out the sorry state of all too many parts of Virginia today. Not to infer the situation is more dire than in other blue and bleeding toward purple (and beyond) states today.
Again, thank you for your diligence and dedication. You/its greatly appreciated and worth far more than we alone can provide. May you be also otherwise justly rewarded!
I echo James sentiment for knowledge and passion for freedom. One of my grandfather's names was Orange Twiss. The English side of my family was here way early so this history is so interesting. I really enjoyed reading these pieces of history. Robert Jennison 16.. Watertown, Massachusetts. My maiden name was Jennison.
Love this essay! And we agree 100% that medical freedom should not need exemptions. Medical freedom must be defined — not merely tolerated — as a fundamental right that, like the second amendment, shall not be infringed. No government should have the right to dictate what its citizens put into their bodies, regardless of circumstances, emergencies, aliens from outer space, or the whim of politicians or bureaucrats.
The role of government, if it must be in the “public health” business, is to provide the best information to its constituents on personal and community well-being. Government has no place in mandating medical policy, or practice - just as the First Amendment prohibits its establishment of religion, it should also prohibit establishment of government-sanctioned medical treatments.
Milei just spanked the UN...badly.
I've enjoyed watching his progress ( ever since Dr RWM pointed him out). He and Trump have made beneficial progress together. He's been an example for the rest of SA to reflect about. With T behind him, he's been a terror at the UN and beyond imo. May the successes continue to roll!
DAMN STRAIGHT! Those Virginians wrote it all while guzzling.. :) , 55 attendees drank a massive total of 164 bottles of alcohol plus seven large bowls of punch.The Bar Tab Breakdown60 bottles of claret (red wine)54 bottles of Madeira (fortified wine)22 bottles of porter (dark ale)12 bottles of beer8 bottles of whiskey8 bottles of hard cider7 large bowls of alcoholic punch
The dinner took place on September 14, 1787, at City Tavern as the Constitutional Convention concluded its work :) YEP. I got from the internet.. Memes showing the "founding fathers" drinking Hard Apple cider .. this is Apple picking time in VA. I have been to most of those places.. my son went to UVA.. amazing campus :) Jefferson deeply influenced John. Thomas Jefferson was really out of the box.. mind of his own thinker.. :) Ok going back to suck down Madeira wine. :) KIDDING .. I am going to read latest book on KIndle. My head is still wrapped up .. went ER and apparently the lump on my head.. maybe an ingrown hair which I scratched so hard it bleed.. have f/u Monday. :) The DSA .. you know I wonder if AOC even realizes that NEW YORK is one the 13 colonies.. was not John Quincy Adams OOPS I LOOKED him "BRAINTREE" Mass. I like him a lot.. and my favorite of course is PATRICK HENRY... people who were educated in VA.. KNOW THEIR STATE HISTORY .. like moi :)
Love that you took this to present day regarding our rights
I believe that this is the most important stories that you have ever written. I lived in Warrenton, just north of Culpeper for 30 years. I knew most of this story, but the way that you brought the pieces together was masterful. You made it easy for readers to see not only why religious liberty is an inalienable right, but how medical liberty is a similar yet equally important birthright.
Independent of religious beliefs, I never understood why many of those who fought to make an abortion a medical right thought that refusing a questionable vaccine was not a medical right. However, if anything, both issues are incredibly intertwined as the vaccines do include fetal cells.
And. although beings choose to procreate offspring, they cannot do it without already having the DNA to create life, the cellular wisdom to design healthy vessels, and the creative spark given to first life forms. Governments, corporations, man-made religions, and machines don't have these abilities either. Nothing on this planet has the omniscience or omnipotence to ethically countermand birthrights. They don't have enough unconditional love to be the Creator of All.
This may be a mite snarky, is a good way: the 1A may have been forged in Virginia but God provided the hammer and anvil.
Ya’know, I wish I could return to Virginia, western/SW VA was always good to and for me but until Virginia becomes a free state again and it is assured it would remain free, I’m resigned to living here.
I'm loving reading about Virginia, the state in which I was born (1946 in the Naval Hospital in Norfolk)—especially as I've never lived there. (In my infancy our family traveled through the Panama Canal to settle in San Diego.) Have visited only once in all these years, to see Monticello. It's a beautiful state!
It IS a beautiful state; and until NoVa came to dominate politics I had even thought about returning to SW Va - Highland Co south. Got my marine corps physical in Norfolk - bus ride from Blacksburg and back in one day (to this day do not recall why I didn’t drive there myself. Weird).
I think it’s why I enjoyed Washington state so much: in Va you can drive from the "mountains" in the west and be at the beach near noon, in Wa you can be in the mountains (no quotes needed), Cascades, skiing in the morning and dine on/near the beach for dinner.
One of My last Washington trips I gave meself a 60th b’day reward (yay, I made it) by climbing to Camp Muir one one day (Mount Rainier) and then drove to an Air Bnb on the Olympic peninsula that night. The next morning I was at the end/lighthouse on Dungeness Spit before noon; back in Ellensburg for dinner. What a couple days.
Don’t dare do that again - I think the CSZ knows I’m writing about it and it’s just waiting for meself to visit and then … BLAM-O, it’ll rupture. 😆
"Medical freedom is a civil liberty." How this is interpreted in modern times is subjective and (it seems to me) often unethical and inhumane. On the one hand, we have excessive vaccine mandates, surely a usurpation of civil liberties. On the other hand, we have people pushing for legalization of MAID ("medical assistance in dying") which I say is Medical Assistance in Dishonesty, because it is nothing other than assisted suicide and so open to the manipulation and victimization of living, individual humans. We are fond of the use of euphemisms for other types of "medical assistance" in these modern times. "Medical assistance." Words matter.
Yes words matter, particularly when you assume sole authority to determine what they mean.