The Question of Vaccines: Senator Malcolm Byrne needs to Check his Privilege

A Fianna Fáil senator thinks people who ask questions about vaccines should be made to shut up.

This is no longer a free, free-thinking society. If it were, one would have expected a clamour of outrage to follow from the recent remarks of the Fianna Fáil senator, Malcolm Byrne, speaking in Seanad Éireann, about the allegedly imminent SARS-CovV-2 vaccine. Senator Byrne proposed that the State should enact measures to prevent members of the public from freely discussing their concerns about the vaccine, on public forums. ‘A worrying trend,' he did declare, 'has been the development on social media and in other sources of anti-vaxx fake news And while I’m not opposed to debate between medics about how a vaccinations should be rolled out, for unqualified people to be spreading anti-vaxx message is simply not acceptable. So I would ask that we would have a discussion in the House and, if necessary, legislation be brought forward to ensure that particularly the tech giants take responsibility to prevent the spread for anti-vaxx nonsense.’

Translated, this means that Senator Byrne, while calling for a ‘discussion’ about preventing discussion, wants to ensure that viewpoints concerning vaccines and vaccination that do not accord with his own, ought to be banned ‘if necessary’.

I have lived a long time in this country and have not heard anything as barefacedly fascistic as this from an elected public representative. Senator Byrne, in short, wishes to prevent parents from protecting their own children from a risk that — on recent experience — it is certain no one in the Oireachtas is going to canvass or ventilate.   

There is no ‘anti-vaxx’ sentiment in this country, or indeed anywhere else. I have never met or heard speak, nor read any contribution from anyone wishing to have a ban put on all vaccines. Every parent in Ireland has had their children vaccinated for all kinds of things. ‘Antivaxx nonsense’ is a figment of the tiny minds of such as Senator Byrne.

What we deal with here is not a conventional vaccine, tried and tested and found to be trustworthy as a result of rigorous procedure and long experience. In the normal course of events, a vaccine takes about a decade to bring to secure fruition. The vaccine currently being mooted has been at most ten months in preparation, and was not, as is normal, tested on animals. The first people to be vaccinated are inevitably acting as lab rats for Big Pharma.  Ireland, because it is infested by Big Pharma operations, will be made to ‘volunteer’ to carry out this dubious function on a mass scale. 

The AstraZeneca Pfizer vaccine currently on the table is not a conventional vaccine. In fact, it is not a ‘vaccine’ at all by any natural or ordinary meaning of the word. Hitherto, vaccines consisted of an isolated pathogen which helped the body produce antibodies and programmed the body to recognise and remember the code of the pathogen so that, if this pathogen attacked again in the future, the body would produce antibodies providing specific immunity to the pathogen. That is not what will happen with the Pfizer ‘vaccine’. 

Both the US Center for Disease Control and the UK Department of Health have recently conceded that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been isolated as a separate strain of coronavirus. And, since the pathogen has not been isolated, it is impossible to create a vaccine to inoculate against it. The Pfizer ‘vaccine’ is therefore nothing of the kind. Instead, it introduces to the human body an alien form of RNA, which will modify the recipient’s genetic code. This has never been done before.

I shall repeat that: This has never been done before.

I repeat also: the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ has not been tested on animals. Phase 3 clinical trials began in late July, with the enrolment of more than 43,000 study participants. Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech SE, claim that early analysis show their product is more than 90 percent effective. Pfizer also boasted that about a third of its study participants have ‘racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds’ but didn't reveal anything about their product's capacity to protect particularly vulnerable groups, like the very young, the very old, pregnant women, or highly immuno-compromised people. In short, unlike the vaccines we have grown up with, many of the consequences for human beings from receiving this inoculation cannot become known until after the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ has been, in Senator Byrne’s words, ‘rolled out’. 

‘RNA’ refers to Ribonucleic acid, a polymeric molecule essential to the coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA, like DNA, is a nucleic acid.

To mess with human RNA is to engage in genetic modification, which is to say eugenics. It is for this reason that the Pfizer RNA modifier does not fall into the legal definition of a vaccine. It is not a vaccine: it cannot be, since it does not contain an isolated quantity of the pathogen. Pfizer and its supporters have altered the meaning of the word ‘vaccine’ and Senator Malcolm Byrne is proposing inter alia that no one be permitted to say this in public.

Under the provisions of Oireachtas Privilege, TDs and Senators may not be sued for defamation because of anything they may say in either House. This privilege also extends to committee meetings. The media is free to report on statements made under Dail privilege, and any aggrieved person has no recourse in the event of being defamed.  

Senator Malcolm Byrne, having lost his Dáil seat in February last, was elected to the Seanad on  — Sweet Mother of Divine Mercy preserve us — the Cultural and Educational panel. When he spoke in Seanad Éireann, Senator Byrne was availing of absolute parliamentary privilege to attempt to prevent other people — including parents seeking to protect their own children — from an untested medical intervention, from speaking out or hearing, from sources uncontaminated by vested interest or political/ideological motivation, views or information concerning what is being foisted on them. This is beyond disgraceful: it is an abuse of the Oireachtas and a betrayal of the foundations of parliamentary democracy.

Those bearing responsibility for the presence of this dangerous imbecile in the Upper House of the Oireachtas should now step forward to make their position clear: Do they approve of Senator Byrne’s attempts to prevent the people of Ireland hearing and disseminating information relevant to protecting themselves and their children? If they do not, they must immediately explain why they thought having someone like this in our national parliament was a good idea, and what they propose to do to remedy this situation.