Let’s hope this preliminary injunction holds up for the Special Warfare Personnel [Court Ruling HERE]
(Via AP) – The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas today issued a preliminary injunction, stopping the Department of Defense from punishing military service members who have religious objections to the vaccine mandate. First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit and motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of dozens of U.S. Navy SEALs and other Naval Special Warfare personnel against the Biden Administration and the Department of Defense for their refusal to grant religious accommodations to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America’s values,” said Mike Berry, General Counsel for First Liberty Institute. “Punishing SEALs for simply asking for a religious accommodation is purely vindictive and punitive. We’re pleased that the court has acted to protect our brave warriors before more damage is done to our national security.”
In his order, Judge Reed O’Connor said, “The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.”
The SEALs, who presently serve at various classified and confidential locations, collectively have more than 350 years of military service, and more than 100 combat deployments. When they inquired about seeking religious accommodation for the vaccine, the Navy informed many of the plaintiffs that they could face court-martial or involuntary separation if they don’t receive the vaccine.
Each of their religious accommodation denials appear to be identical, suggesting the Navy is not taking their requests seriously. The Navy also warned some of the plaintiffs that if they sought a religious exemption, the Navy would confiscate their Special Warfare devices—such as the famous SEAL “Trident”—that they proudly wear on their uniforms. (link)
To bad they chose the lawsuit route. They should have used the what they are trained to do route.
If only…..
Agreed!! I speak as the son of Captain Richard Hammell, USNR who was part of President Kennedy’s Brain Trust that Created the SEALS.
My dad was not a SEAL, he was one of their forerunners as an Officer in Argus Unit 1 which was a pre invasion landing Task Force specializing in Radar when it was a secret weapon.
He graduated #1 in his class at MIT Radar School when the Naval Reserve sent him there along with 399 other ROTC sailors who were in the tops of their University classes in Electrical Engineering. My dad was a child prodigy who built has first hand radio when he was 6 years old from Navy surplus scrap.
He joined the Naval Reserve at age 17 as a way to get a college education during the Great Depression.
President Roosevelt considered him to be a “secret weapon” according to the Admiral who gave him is orders to report to active duty.
The lightly armed, unescorted Liberty Ship that got him to Sydney from CA was ordered to go way down close to Antarctica in order to come into Sydney from an unexpected vector due to this because they couldn’t bring the risk of losing dad to a Jap torpedo.
In Sydney he was put aboard a sub with other cherry picked men who went ashore on moonless nights as sappers invading islands where the Japs had a strong military presence sometimes far ahead of the main body of an invasion ever hitting the beach.
They worked closely with the SeaBees who built airstrips in jungles all over the South Pacific. They were bombed heavily by Jap planes but weren’t all wiped out due to radar alerting them of bombing runs enabling them to take cover in foxholes.
When the war ended dad was hired by Bell Telephonw Labs as a Defense Contractor and during the Cuban Missile Crisis the main reason why the Russians obeyed Kennedy’s order to remove their nukes from Cuba was they realized we had technical superiority and didn’t want Moscow glowing in the dark….
Dad was the world’s foremost expert on the internal guidance systems of ICBMs and Shipboard anti missile systems when he was alive. I believe he helped prevent a world war at that time.
I am sure he started spinning in his grave long before Trump was robbed by the CCP & Deep State, and that this spinning no doubt increased significantly when the Pedophile with Senile Dementia currently illegally occupying the White House began coercing our military into taking these Transhumanist Death Jabs.
I am certain he is currently helping today’s SEALS from beyond the grave.
I am also certain that good already has won against evil when my Lord died on the Cross and I am certain that all of us are now living in some lead up to Armageddon.
Fear NOT!!
John Christopher Hammell,
President – International Advocates for Health Freedom http://www.iahf.com
[email protected]
Such important information about service to country, historical framework, family & one of many brave men & women that have contributed to our country. Thank you for sharing.
FJB, the Ho & our Communist military “leaders.”
that’s amazing. i’m not sure i’ve read a cooler post.
thank you for sharing.
Mitch Rapp wouldn’t have hired a lawyer.
This is great news!
Stand by our warriors.
they’ll just fish around until they find an obama appointed judge to overturn this decision.
I don’t know, it’s a temporary injunction and ONLY for those in the lawsuit. The military has denied all religious exemptions now in stating these emergency use non-approved rushed out “vaccines” are necessary for “military readiness”.
Tell me the reason for the EUA, undisclosed Experimental Drug use & lack of informed consents to take it, & the idiocy of the voluntary VAERS reporting, of which few lay people know its existence.
If this is remotely possible, then tell me how this fits in with the real, unreported data, vocal silencing, exclusion of the written Scientific Method, the unchecked health status at our open borders, hand-holding of China, & trivialization of deaths in our young post vaccinated.
I am a rather simple minded person, and I am NOT a lawyer, but I was thinking:
My line of thinking is this: Once a religious exception is offered, the government cannot question that person’s religious motive.
That’s the problem with any mandate & why they don’t work. And if everyone doesn’t fight these vaccine mandates, the next round of mandates terminating another freedom will get that much easier to enforce.
BTW, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Green is calling on anyone on Twitter to drop their account. I would say that about any social media platform cancelling conservatives. We can’t count on Congress to do squat with Big Tech. The lobbying money & other benefits are just too great.
Training a SEAL costs Americans over one million dollars each, and they are WORTH it!
If they ask for a religious exemption, GIVE it to them.
signed,
The American People
Bring Back those from ALL BRANCHES you Wrongfully Discharged you F’ing Bastards!
Bring Back those Civilian Citizens Wrongfully Terminated Also!
“We must hand together, gentlemen, else we most assuredly will hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin
Covid “Vaccines” are not vaccines.
They are Covid shots.
How many confirmed positive Covid tests do we require who have been “vaccinated” and “boosted” before we recognize the “vaccine” and “booster” do not stop Covid.
Let’s change the terminology.
Words convey thought.
Control the Lexicon
Control the Argument!
democrats crap all over the English language, and weak Republicans allow it.
example: ‘the affordable Care Act” that isn’t.
example ‘build back better’ REALLY ??? bwahaha
I read the entire order written by the Judge in this case. The Navy is trying to crush these sailors for asking for a religious exemption. The Judge cited in his order one example where one of the Navy SEAL plaintiffs was ordered not to attend any more of his regularly scheduled treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury suffered in combat. Retribution for not getting the jab. The judge also described the Navy’s religious exemption adjudication process. It has 35 steps. At around step 30, after the Admiral has already signed an order denying the exemption, the exemption request is actually read for the first time. Until then, every step assumes the request will be denied. They don’t even try to hide the fact they have no intention of EVER approving a request. What these sailors have lived through at the hands of their leadership is a crime. As a former Naval officer, I’m sick in the gut at what’s become of US Navy. It’s getting to the point that I’m almost embarrassed to have ever been associated with it.
I’m a Navy widow of one who served when commanders were respected.
I support the Seals & all Military enlistees who go above & beyond to serve this Country.
My prayer is those dishonorably commanding them are quickly removed, along with their political hacks. They disgust me.
As a VA RN for several years, my respect for our honest Military, runs deeply.
Every single person alive has a Free Choice Exemption given to them by their Creator.
Period.
Once these SEALS have been shot down by some Communist Obama appointed Judge, I pray that they will lead a revolution against the Pedophile who is currently illegally ensconced in the White House!