Issues
Care for Virginians
*No CRT, No Divisive Indoctrination in Schools *Restore Virginians’ Prosperity
*Advance Educational Excellence, No Tyranny of Low Expectations *Advance School Choice
*Support Our Veterans *Strong National Defense *Pro-Life *Defend 2A
*Keep Virginians Safe by Supporting Law Enforcement *Election Integrity with Voter ID
*Fiscal Responsibility–stop generational theft *Restore Representative Government
*Strong Economy–Jobs and Opportunities So Everyone Can Succeed *Pride in Our Founders and Constitution
*Strong Borders–High Walls, Wide Gates for Responsible, Legal Immigration
*Cybersecurity–Protect Our Nation’s Secrets & Infrastructure from Hacking
We’ll talk about these and other issues each week in more detail below. Check back often!
Topic of the Week: No Vaccine Mandates! Especially for the Military!
As a retired Navy Captain and former Commanding Officer, I know what we need to know to make decisions about throwing people out of the military. There are many questions that need to be answered. I pose them in this video.
Hi I am Andy Baan and I am running for Congress to ensure the people’s involvement in policy decisions for America, especially those involving our national security and Covid mandates.
If you are a service member who is being forced out of the military because of the vaccine mandate, keep your paperwork. Help is on the way!
For the rest of us, this is a national security issue!
As a former military Commanding Officer, I know what we should know before expelling people out of the military because of a vaccine mandate. A service member’s health relates directly to the military’s primary manpower concern: Readiness.
If we were to incorporate a service member’s Covid vaccination status into determining if he or she fits the military’s standards of Readiness we need to know much more and have a few questions answered….
1. We need to know the effect of Covid on the readiness of each age group within in the military. The age and fitness requirements for service members make the military population one of lower risk of death.
2. We need to know the possible short term and as of yet unknown long term and effects of the vaccine on service members. This can most certainly effect present and future standards of readiness for each age group in the military.
3. We need to know the percentage of military members who already have natural immunity. We need to know if their readiness is less, or more, compromised than non-naturally immune service members. We also need to know how military members became naturally immune and how strong natural immunity is.
4. We need to know the effect of resignations and involuntary discharges of service members due to their refusal of the vaccine on readiness. By imposing such a mandate, we could in turn compromise the very thing the military strives to be, that is ready. How can we have functional and reliable national defense if increasing numbers of service members are being discharged or restricted in their functionality?
5. We also need to know how this mandate affects recruitment efforts. Such a mandate already disqualifies a person before a recruiter can even have a chance to speak with them. Combined with the fact of increasing numbers of discharged service members and a possible risk of being unable to replace members with new recruits, it causes great concern.
We, the citizens, who are the source of our all-volunteer military, should know all of these factors in order to inform our legislative representatives of our opinions. They should know these factors to make the policy regarding vaccine mandates.
The legislators should also take into account the fact that the vaccine is still not permanently approved because we don’t know the long term effect of the vaccine.
The implementation of this mandate without much explanation leads one to believe that it is being imposed on our military because it is meant to punish those who don’t conform to a political narrative. There is no justifiable reason to force service members to refund bonuses or millions in training costs, or suffer the consequences of a bad discharge. The only reason to do so is purely for punishment, which in my opinion is reprehensible. Our men and women in the military deserve to be treated with respect. They are entitled to NOT be forced to compromise their personal beliefs in order to avoid ending their career or endure financial ruin. We need a lot of questions answered so all of us can make prudent decisions. We need Congress to be involved in this decision. It is time to replace any legislator who votes against the best and most efficient way to maintain our military readiness.
I’m Andy Baan, and that is why I am running for Congress. Our representative needs to be informed and should be involved in making the decision about mandates. These mandates will should not be done at all, and especially not by Executive Order.
Support Parents!
The role of parents in their children’s lives is under attack. Let’s support parents! They know their kids best, and know what’s best for their kids!
AFGHANISTAN
The image above captures the frightening danger that thousands of stranded Americans in Afghanistan are facing right now. The disastrous withdrawal decision has caused humiliation for America, as the Taliban mocks us in the picture, which will cause distrust of us by our friends and embolden our enemies world wide.
Now is not the time to be silent.
There should be no further delay in the rescue of our fellow Americans in Afghanistan. They need to be transparent because we should know what went into this decision, including all recommendations and who made them. We should also be told the results of an audit that tells us what equipment and weaponry was left behind for our enemies to seize.
Our men and women in uniform and the Americans who are currently hostages deserve to come home safely, and our entire country deserves to know the truth about what happened.
NO CRT!
NO CRT!
Critical Race Theory is dangerous. It is part of a movement to divide Americans and tear down the system of government and commerce of the best country in the world.
The United States was founded on the principle of equality. We weren’t there at the beginning, but we fought a Civil War over the unequal treatment of enslaved people for the purpose of ending the practice of slavery. We passed the Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th) to end slavery. We passed Civil Rights laws when that wasn’t enough, and even those are not enough. And since we are not perfect today, we continue to strive to be “a more perfect union” through constant striving for justice.
However, in addition to the efforts our country is taking to improve, we are faced with a Marxist movement that seeks to destroy, not improve, our American system. Why is this happening?
Communist revolutionaries e.g.in Russia and China, had based their efforts on class inequality. They realized though that the middle class in western countries would not revolt because the capitalist system works to improve lives and is the only system that complements the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that Declaration of Independence describes. Because of this, they moved their efforts from dividing class to dividing by race.
That’s what CRT does. How do we know this? The most famous proponent of CRT is Ibram X. Kendi, the author of “How To Be An Antiracist.” He describes the relationship between capitalism and racism this way: “In order to truly be antiracist,” Kendi has insisted, “you also have to truly be anti-capitalist.” So to end racism, we have to give up the system that has lifted the most people out of poverty ever, and turn to a system that rewards the few and impoverishes the many and eliminates freedom? That’s what he believes.
Can we just discount him? To my mind, we should. But Fairfax County schools just paid him “$44,000 for a one-hour presentation — which they have refused to release publicly — and a supply of his books, inevitably bound for distribution to teachers and staff to further their “equity-driven” professional development.” (Hat tip Bacon’s Rebellion). (Lesson—follow the money; people are getting rich dividing us!)
So to save our republic from those who want to destroy it, take control of all private property and re-distribute it according to race (redistribution of property caused the death of millions in Russia and China) we need to stand up against it.
It comes disguised as “culturally responsive teaching,” “social justice,” using terms such as equity (when defined as equal outcomes as opposed to equal treatment).
Virginia Beach School Board Member @Carolyn Weems has done an excellent job describing it in a resolution that reads:
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that
1. Any school, school-based program, activity or entity that is operated, controlled, paid for or under the jurisdiction of the School Board shall refrain from training, teaching, or promoting the following to students and employees:
A. That any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race.
B. That any individual by virtue of his or her race or skin color is inherently racist, privileged or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
C. That any individual, by virtue of his or her race or skin color bears responsibility for the actions committed by other members of his or her race, skin color or religion.
D. An individual’s moral character or worth is determined by his or her race or skin color.
E. That the United States is a fundamentally or systematically racist country while understanding that racism does still exist.
F. That capitalism is racist.
G. Critical Race Theory
That anyone objects to any part of that resolution — and believe it or not they do!! — shows that we must stand up for our country. And there are many doing so. I’ve spoken at the Virginia Beach School Board, and I flat out asked them to ban Critical Race Theory.
If I can do it, you can too! Let’s do it for our country, for our community, and for our children.