The AMA, AAP, and Others Want People Who Disagree With Them to be Prosecuted
This post is a tough one to write. I am shocked, but not surprised, by this letter. We know now that Big Tech worked with the government to suppress what they called disinformation on the internet. FB and Twitter are legally allowed to do that but the government can’t be asking them to. That part is against the first amendment.
The letter above is scary. I am going to put aside the controversial issue of kids getting sex change operations under 18. Whether you are for or against that is not germane to this letter. What AMA and the AAP are complaining about is online groups (ex. Libs of TikTok and others) reposting videos and ads on Twitter, IG, and FB.
Reposting!!
You read that right. They are reposting stuff that hospitals and doctors put out there and pointing out inconsistencies.
Secondly, and I followed this, Boston Children’s Hospital and others CLAIMED they were NOT doing surgeries on people under age 18. They were called out by online groups with their OWN ads and videos and proven to be lying. This is a fact!
As far as I know, there was a threat to BCH but there was no bomb. No one was hurt. The supposed. online “hate” groups actually offered a reward to catch the assailant. But it is still irrelevant. Why? Because you are not responsible for others. There are crazy people everywhere and you are allowed to express your opinions and these online groups expressed theirs correctly by calling out BCH for lying.
Let’s put it another way. Does rap music provoke violence? I think we know how that story ended.
Once again, I am not debating here the morality of kids getting life-changing surgeries. I will keep my opinions to myself. What I have a problem with is the AMA and the AAP asking the government to prosecute others who disagree with them.
PROSECUTE!!!!
And let’s be clear here. The letter says talks about “coordinating” and “carrying out” threats but they don’t care about that. Those people will be prosecuted if found because it is illegal. No, the AMA and the AAP want those who they feel “provoke” disagreement with them to go to jail. And they are asking the Attorney General to do it.
Oh…my…god.
What has our country become? Should you be prosecuted because you believe that COVID came from a lab? That cloth masks do not work? That CV19 boosters for kids have no evidence for its benefit? What if you believe circumcision is wrong? Should you be prosecuted for that?
I know that many members of the AMA and the AAP do NOT feel doing sex change surgery on a child is appropriate. It is ok to disagree with this issue. It is not illegal. This is still a free country. So, when these organizations state they represent all their members’ opinions they are also lying.
What I do hope is that members of the AMA and AAP believe in freedom of speech and they realize this letter is so wrong that they quit. Because they may be next on the AMA/AAP hit list…or government hit list.
Here is the AMA’s press release on the matter:
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/health-care-organizations-urge-protection-physicians-and-patients
In the press release “…..The AAP and AMA collectively represent more than 270,000 physicians and medical students……”
Total number of physicians in USA, about one million. AMA represents barely a quarter of USA physician popuation. One can speculate how many of those 270,000 are medical students and residents paying little to nothing for AMA membership, and with not enough experience to have learned AMA membership is worthless.
Yup, I found out in the late 70’s I had a “student” membership to the AMA for nothing. No big deal to me as I could scan their magazine (before internet) that was free to me.
Once I got out, I started getting bills for $700.00+ to renew membership. Tossed them in the shredder. Shoot, I think I got bills for two to three years thereafter. What a useless bunch of $#it heads. I was in the AAFP for a bit longer but ditched them after awhile. Useless piece o’ $#it liberalist organization. Got bills for membership for 3 years thereafter too before they decided not to waste postage on me anymore. I was able to better use the money for my daughter’s college fund. (She did graduate in chemistry but stayed away from medicine. Good for her!) Kurt (used to M.D. and retired)
Doug, very well explained, and balanced. As some of us have warned on this site, this nation is becoming something frightening due in no small part to doctors who thought that a pandemic justified being told what to do, and telling others what to do; suspending civil liberties; deferring, or even deliberately contradicting one’s best medical judgment; lying to patients, and to the public; standing by, or even encouraging physical force against others. The AMA et al are a mirror this profession can hold up to itself, to ask whether this is the evil path down which we will continue, or if this ought to be a profession of free people seeking to help other free people.