Tejasinha Sivalingam: You have no need for 'rights' when you are with the majority

To The Daily Sun,

We are in a dangerous time in which there is a move to monopolize medicine, colonize people’s minds with germ theory warfare, and demonize all “detractors.” The alien affirmation that the individual must be sacrificed to the collective is a tortured attempt at circumventing bodily integrity under the guise of social responsibility and empathy.

Despite the propaganda to the contrary, our nation and state were founded on the principle idea of protecting the minority, while simultaneously letting the majority lead. The individual is the smallest minority, and that is why individual rights are so important. You have no need for rights when you are in the majority, because you have the protection of being accepted; it is when you are not in the majority that rights realize their importance. Rights protect our pluralistic humanity. Our rights do not succumb to the “general good;” rather the protection of rights is the “general good,” because at some time or another we will all likely be in the minority and will hope that our rights have preserved by others who have been persecuted.

We are on the precipice of our rights becoming subject to the “general good,” rather than the definition thereof. There is an increasing movement toward coerced vaccines. The soft roll out has been the masks, and related mask ordinances have not included religious exemptions, which demonstrates that the vaccine mandates will also dispense with religious exemptions. More broadly religious exemptions are a subset of informed consent, which is also not being offered. The problem here is that if we do not have the right to decide what goes on and in our bodies, we are chattel of the state, of the majority, and have no rights at all. If as individuals we have no jurisdiction over our bodies, we have no true personal autonomy.

It is time for a constitutional amendment to explicitly protect bodily integrity. I propose that it read: “[Article 4-a] Bodily Integrity is an unalienable Right of Conscience, and all natural persons shall have the right to explicit Informed Consent.” Informed Consent should be freely given, informed, specific, unambiguous, and explicit. Informed Consent cannot be an “opt-out” option, but must be an irrefutably clear affirmative statement or action, such as a signature.

We are at a point in history when some people would like us to think that if our rights threaten the collective perception of health and safety that those rights become wrongs. However, this is an inversion of reality and must be stopped firmly in its tracks. A constitutional amendment for bodily integrity will hopefully once again place upon the government the heavy burden of trespassing upon our bodies and souls.

Tejasinha Sivalingam, MA

Ashland