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Ron 's Stance Against Vaccine Mandates Featured on Huffington Post

Managing Editor's Note: Here is an excerpt from Ron : No To Mandatory Immunization by Freedman on Huffington Post.  Feel free to comment at HuffPo.

Ron 's libertarian ideology is dramatically revealed when you get him started on topics such as the War on Drugs, the FDA and forced immunization that draw on his background in medicine. , a ten-term member of Congress who's hoping to pick up the Republican nomination for president, feels strongly that the federal government, in most cases, shouldn't be telling Americans what they can and cannot put into their bodies.

" I don't think anything should be forced on us by the government, [and] immunization is one thing that we're pressured and forced into, " he said. " The other thing they're doing right now is the government's doing this mental health testing of everybody in school and they're putting a lot of pressure, in a way forcing kids to be put on psychotropic drugs, which I think are very, very dangerous. So anything medical that is forced on us I think is bad. "

What if a dangerous disease was spreading like wildfire? Would cave and require immunization in such a dire situation?

" No, I wouldn't do it, because the person who doesn't take the shot is the one at risk... " he said. " A responsible parent is going to say, 'Yeah, I want my child to have that,' [but] when the government makes a mistake, they make it for everybody. You know, that's what worries me. They don't always come up with the perfect answer sometimes... and people have had some very, very serious reactions from these immunizations. "

Just as wants to limit what Americans are forced to put in their bodies, he also wants to restrict the federal government's dictates of what Americans are allowed to consume.

" I want the [federal] government to stay out of it, " he said. " I don't think the federal government should be enforcing laws against the use of marijuana in states like California, where it's been legalized for medical use... I just think the states should regulate it. "   Read the full post Ron : No To Mandatory Immunization by Freedman on Huffington Post.