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SB 866 is wounded

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The dismal California legislature, following a well-established state tradition, slopped a giant bucket of sewage into the sausage-making pipeline this year. But two of the worst bills are slowly sinking in the lower house, in the face of considerable and well-deserved opposition, after passage in the state senate.

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Most importantly, the legislature has stalled Scott Wiener’s sick SB 866, an assault on parenting that would have allowed 12 year-olds to receive Covid-19 “vaccines” — that don’t prevent infection — without parental knowledge or consent. The bill was hurtling along, passing the 40 member senate with a bare 21 votes and eleven unforgivably cowardly absent / no votes, and had then squeaked through committee review in the lower house and onto the assembly floor; then, today, obviously responding to private warnings from other legislators, the author of the bill pulled it for amendment. In its new form, the bill would allow 15 year-olds to get the worthless-at-best shots without parental involvement. Twelve, they’ve discovered, is still young enough to need parents. So generous of them. So wise.

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The bill to let 12-year-olds get vaccinated without parental consent is being amended to make the age 15. The author was nowhere close to the needed votes.

Now, this still sucks, and if passed still establishes the principle that parents should have no role in deciding on the medical care their children receive. It’s still an assault on parents and families, and still threatens to open the door to the medical coercion of teenagers in places (like schools) where their parents can’t see the coercion. But they didn’t pass the bill, and the fight goes on. In California, a zero-values legislative wasteland with scumbag legislators who wouldn’t be allowed to walk the street in a functioning society, furious parents woke the legislature up enough to push back the worst of a horrible bill. And the amended bill will have to go back through the senate, so there are more chances to fight the horrible thing.

Lots of other Covid-hysteria-themed garbage died in the California legislature this year, including a bill that would have required all employers to guarantee the full vaccination of every employee. California is political garbage, but even here, horrible bills are being stopped by sustained opposition. You won’t find me claiming that this means the state is healthy, but we’re battling back the worst of the sickness. Imagine what you might be able to accomplish if you live in a state where the legislature doesn’t make you want to vomit.

The other astounding bill making its way through the California legislature this year is SB 1100, introduced on the premise that local elected officials in the state are being “bullied” by peasants who openly disagree with them.

The halfwit authors of that insane legislation got it through the senate by removing language that would have allowed local legislative bodies — city councils, school boards, county and special district boards — to declare the entire public disorderly, clearing meeting rooms and conducting “open” sessions without a public presence.

In its current form, which would only allow local legislative bodies to remove disruptive individuals who dare to criticize or disagree with them — the monsters! — the bill has been shipped off for committee review in the lower house. It has not emerged from committee, which is beginning to look like a good sign.

You can stop bad laws. All hope is not lost. Keep going.