September 6, 2021 –
Who could have predicted, just a year or two ago, how quickly our state government would descend into lawlessness and tyranny with Janet Mills in the Blaine House?
I served three terms in the Legislature during Janet Mills’ tenure as Attorney General, and I finished my fourth term as she was wrapping up her first two years in the Governor’s office. I was painfully aware that she’s an unreconstructed 1960s radical who’s been on the government payroll her entire adult life.
But I still wasn’t prepared for her brazen defiance of the Constitution and the law.
Mills is the embodiment of David Horowitz’s warning that inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.
It’s especially hard to witness Big Sister Janet’s contempt for the forgotten Mainers who work hard and play by the rules, and want more than anything else to be left alone by the Nanny State’s swarms of petty tyrants and busybodies.
The bad news is that Maine’s heroic healthcare professionals are in Big Sister’s crosshairs.
The good news is that Mills may have roused the slumbering giant.
Maine First Project and our supporters have been on the cutting edge of resistance to the swamp Queen’s tyranny from the earliest days of her lethal lockdown. We accurately predicted the lockdown would kill more Mainers than the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, and we exposed Dr. Nirav Shah as a dangerous, incompetent hack long before it was acceptable, even in conservative circles, to speak the truth about this Fauci clone.
Here’s a brief recap of where things stand as I write this late on Labor Day evening:
On August 12th of this year, Gov. Mills’ issued yet another executive order, this one mandating that all healthcare workers in Maine receive a COVID-19 injection before October 1, 2021, or be fired. Mills also threatened to revoke the licenses of any healthcare employer that fails to mandate that all their employees receive the experimental injection.
Two days later, on August 14, 2021, Dr. Shah Nah Nah “amended” the Maine CDC rules to remove the religious exemption. Under the prior version of the rule, a healthcare worker could be exempt from mandatory immunizations if “the employee states in writing an opposition to immunization because of a sincerely held religious belief.”
As we have noted previously, Shah has a history of weaponizing the CCP virus against churches and believers.
Remember last year when he blamed a wedding at a small church in East Millinocket for COVID-19 fatalities at a nursing home 120 miles away, where a nursing assistant who had a sore throat, a cough, and was so sick she was shaking, went on working for ten hours? Months later, Shah admitted there was no definitive linkage between the nursing home outbreak and the wedding.
Shifty Shah will have to explain his latest display of anti-Christian bigotry — denying healthcare workers a religious exemption from forced injections of an experimental drug — to a federal judge.
The healthcare workers’ lawsuit against Mills and Shah was filed on August 25, 2021, with more than 2,000 plaintiffs. On September 1, US District Court Judge Jon D. Levy expedited the lawsuit and will hold a hearing on the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction on Friday, September 10 — at the federal courthouse in Bangor, we understand.
Maine’s healthcare heroes are ably represented by the international nonprofit litigation firm Liberty Counsel.
Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Matt Staver explains:
“The Maine governor cannot override federal law and force health care workers to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs and submit to an experimental injection. All Maine healthcare workers have the legal right to request reasonable accommodation for their sincerely held religious beliefs. To force COVID shots without exemptions is unlawful.”
The 59-page complaint lays out a compelling case against Mills and Shah for violating religious liberties guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by federal civil-rights laws. Among the plaintiffs’ objections to the mandatory vax jab, there’s this:
“Plaintiffs all have sincerely held religious beliefs that preclude them from accepting or receiving any of the three available COVID-19 vaccines because of the connection between the various COVID-19 vaccines and the cell lines of aborted fetuses, whether in the vaccines’ origination, production, development, testing, or other inputs.”
Mills’ jab mandate was the last straw for three more nursing homes that announced they’re closing within days of Mills’ vax decree. These facilities — all in rural areas of the state — were already understaffed before Mills’ mandate drove even more employees out the door.
The association that represents the homes expects many more will be shuttered, imposing enormous financial and emotional hardships on the residents and their loved ones.
Where will these seniors go as long-term care facilities continue to close their doors?
Big Sister Janet and Dr. Shah Nah Nah don’t care about these forgotten Mainers. Their lives don’t matter to the “experts” who have lied to us every day for the past year and a half.
For how ever long it takes, Maine First Project will continue to advocate for the personal and professional rights of Maine’s heroic healthcare workers — and for the forgotten Mainers under their care.
Thank you so much for being in this fight with me. Together, we will make Maine great again for all the forgotten Mainers!
Sincerely,
Hon. Lawrence Lockman, R-Bradley
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
P.S.
A week ago, I told you about a Maine parent suing over mask mandates for children in schools.
Now, on behalf of more than 2,000 Maine healthcare workers, a nonprofit law firm is suing Gov. Janet Mills – and other state officials and agencies – over the vax jab mandate.
Maine First Project is excited to welcome more and more people to this fight for our freedom!