Tom’s Big Picture

As I’ve mentioned before, the late conservative columnist Sam Francis talked about the concept of anarcho-tyranny, the apparent contradiction between anarchy and tyranny in our government’s actions. While illegal alien child molesters are allowed to roam free, small business owners are harassed by the IRS for taking a home office deduction to ease their serfdom-level tax rates.

Francis’ breakthrough was identifying this contradiction as intentional, not as mere incompetence or decadence, as our government hates the founding people of the country and is diligently working to replace us with a different people more to their liking.

It is with this perspective that I view Rick Perry’s decision this week to force all Texas public school female students (and presumably, anyone wanting to attend a state university as well) to receive the vaccine for HPV. While parents can opt-out, it requires filing paperwork (instead of a less tyrannical opt-in policy). Of course, the usual reasons apply here for Perry’s latest betrayal of his conservative base:

Merck is bankrolling efforts to pass laws in state legislatures across the country mandating it Gardasil vaccine for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.

Perry has several ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, his former chief of staff. His current chief of staff’s mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.

Perry also received $6,000 from Merck’s political action committee during his re-election campaign.

The New Jersey-based drug company could generate billions in sales if Gardasil _ at $360 for the three-shot regimen _ were made mandatory across the country.

Let’s do the math here: there are about 320,000 5th grade students in Texas. Of the 160,000 females, let’s say 150,000 don’t bother to file paperwork to opt-out and receive the vaccine. That’s $54 million dollars a year in sales for Merck. Not a bad little annuity for a $6000 investment in Rick Perry. They used to say Louisiana politicians were the best money could buy, but I think that’s mistaken: a Louisiana politician would have bargained for WAY more than $6,000 on this deal (I’m thinking it’s worth at least $50,000 in campaign funds and a couple million in garbage bags stuffed with $100 bills). Texas politicians are downright bargains. I mean, really, Rick, you’re selling yourself short. You’re not less of a special-interest harlot just because you’re cheap!

Seriously, contrast this tyrannical executive order with Perry’s pro-anarchy view of the border. Is this idiocy or intentional?

The reality is that the historic residents of Texas (at its founding, 95% white and black Anglos, 5% Mexican, most of the latter upper class elites of mainly Spanish ancestry centered around San Antonio) are being displaced by a Third World population. And, as to be expected, they bring with them their Third World standards of morality. The notion that these folks have “family values” is false. They are quickly breeding a permanent underclass.

One of the consequences of an underclass is that the state will end up picking up the tab for their medical care, including cervical cancer treatment that is a direct result of HPV infection incurred by their moral habits. Thus, to save money for the state, the solution is to force everyone to get an HPV vaccine, regardless of the very little we know about its safety.

It all makes perfect sense in the Francis framework. Where it benefits the ruling elites to have anarchy, we have anarchy; where it benefits them to have tyranny, we have tyranny.

The irony is that I believe the vaccine will result in greater health care expense for the state. Let’s not forget that the average IQ of the folks that the HPV vaccine will ostensibly benefit is probably somewhere around 85-90, people whose native cultures believe in all sorts of silly superstitions, like Aztec goddesses appearing as the Virgin Mary and witch doctors making people bulletproof. It won’t take long before the urban tribal grapevine turns the HPV vaccine into a magical talisman representing immunity from all STD’s- or even worse, rumors promote it as a contraceptive. An eradication of HPV won’t compensate the state for the expenses it will incur by giving these people even an inkling of a “have sex for free” card.

And finally, the implication the state is making will erode the morality of all students. The governor is essentially saying, “We know you’re not going to abstain until marriage, because we know nobody does that, so we’re going to give you a shot to help mitigate the consequences of your behavior.”

Rick, here a tip: go talk to the people at Trojan condoms- when the 5th graders are getting their HPV vaccine, they can get a sampler pack of condoms at the same time; after all, if they’re going to get the message that it’s ok to mess around, they might as well be totally protected, as there’s no AIDS or genital warts vaccines yet. I’m sure the folks at Trojan would kick in at least another couple grand to your re-election campaign for that opportunity (bonus tip: talk to Trojan AND Durex- get them into a bidding war to be the “official Rick Perry-endorsed condom for Texas elementary schools”- you might get a match on the $6000, a two-fer to match Merck’s investment)!

Ok, I had way too much fun writing that last paragraph, so I’ll resist the urge to say more…

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