A Word from CLL Founder, Margaret Marchand

This week for me was a smack across the face that we ARE NOT FREE!!!!

Several things occurred and it is a lot to absorb.  I ask you to set aside a few minutes, read this newsletter and then SHARE it far and wide.  

On Friday June 3rd, a well known advocacy group released a dangerously misleading statement regarding the ending of the Legislative session. The announcement stated that the Legislative session ended “without a bill being passed that had the 'needle' in it”.  While technically true, it was heralded a victory...  

That was not a victory. 

That announcement misled the public in a time when confusion put forth by our government officials is the key to keeping the public in the dark.  The fact that the Legislative session ended without a 'needle' Bill leads People to think this issue has been killed.  

When in fact on June 2nd, just the day before the Legislative session ended, the NYSDOH and its Code Committee met and unanimously passed a permanent regulation regarding vaccine mandates for covered entities.  

PERMANENT REGULATIONS carry the full Weight of Law and this one NEVER passed through the Legislative branch.  

Non-elected Committee members, who are appointed by the Governor, made the decision to approve permanent regs -- NOT the people that We ELECT to represent us.  

Over the last two years we have been forced to do many things that go against the constitution and our rights.  All of those mandates or determinations never required one elected official to cast a vote, debate or discuss. It eliminated the process for our elected officials to standup and cast a vote.  This is circumventing the Legislature.

All of the violations of our freedoms have been perpetrated through fear, threats, illegal mandates, determinations, or recommendations being portrayed as law through emergency regulations.  

And the people complied.  

Let me be clear -- the Legislative session ending without a Bill being passed regarding a vaccine was not a victory.  

WE. WON. NOTHING.  

The simple fact that babies are still wearing masks in NYC PROVES once again that our leaders don’t need the Legislative branch to force illegal mandates upon the public.  

Did you know that athletes in NYC schools can attend school but not play a sport unless vaccinated???

WAIT!!! Thank goodness the Bill didn’t pass!!! We are safe from vaccine mandates.  Really!?? Our workers have lost their jobs and student athletes in college and the city cannot play without the vaccine.  

Why are teachers outside of the city still being forced to vax or test weekly? All of this is based in illegal procurement of an emergency regulation. 

Our state government has ignored the legal process to pass laws and have been using regulations to control us.  

Our institutions went along eagerly with the continued violation of people’s medical choice and rights.  

Not one law has made this happen.  

Circumventing the Legislative branch has been permitted by our elected officials who are either ignoring what is going on (on both sides of the aisle), or want to let it happen because it produces a desired result while providing them with political cover (by not having to vote on a controversial and unpopular Bill).

Their willingness to sweep aside the constitution, coupled with the general public’s passive role in understanding and participating in our governing process has led us here.  

Every “mandate” perpetrated by our state and city this past year has been: 

1. Illegal.  
2. Violation of our constitutional rights 
3. Circumvention of our constitutional process of having a separation of powers 
4. Circumvention of the Legislative branch
5. Executive branch abuse of power 

Parents... every day that you comply you breathe life into an illegal “mandate”

We need to educate each other and our children.  

Share this email far and wide!!!!!

Homework:

• Watch the documentary on About U, an organization fighting to save city student athletes who are being forced by mandates (link below). 
• Read this article about NYC masking their toddlers STILL!!! Despite two Supreme Court decisions and wins in NYS, the city has gone rogue and are defying the actual law and masking our youngest citizens. 
• Read the CLL press release below regarding the adoption of permanent regulations for covered entities.

About U is Stepping Up to Support Student Athletes

CLL is proud to support About U:

About U 501 (c)(3) embraces the academic, athletic and social development of a student athlete providing a path to the future "U" desire!!  

Children of all ages in NYC have been impacted the most from the day that lockdowns began until this very moment. 30% of NYC's student athletes have dropped out of athletics due to lockdowns and mandates, and sadly for many of them their only outlet is the street. 

For young people in NYC, sports are the conduit to college, a safe outlet, a constructive use of free time, and a way to build positive relationships -- but this has been lost for too many despite the fact that there is no law in place to require that student athletes have to be vaccinated to play.

How can City leadership ignore the impact on the children in their communities??

Please watch:  Video - About U Harlem Jets Lacrosse