OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett doubled down on a put up evaluating vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
In a Fb video, Bennett speaks with a gun on his desk. He says vaccine mandates take away folks’s liberties.
“In the event that they ever achieve taking away our liberties, think about what they might do to us subsequent,” he stated.
On Friday, the State GOP posted a name to motion on Fb asking followers to name Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell for a particular legislative session addressing non-public employer vaccine mandates whereas Gov. Kevin Stitt is in a foreign country.
There is a image of the Star of David with the phrase “unvaccinated,” claiming these with the badge would have restricted entry to journey, work, and healthcare.
“Once they put that on the Jews they weren’t sending them on to the fuel chambers. They weren’t sending them on to the incineraries. This was main as much as that. They offer them a star to placed on them. They could not go to the grocery retailer. They could not exit in public. They could not do something with out having that star. Take away the star and add a vaccine passport,” Bennett stated.
The Jewish Federation of Higher Oklahoma Metropolis condemned the put up.
“To take (the yellow Star of David) because it was used within the Holocaust to persecute and kill Jews and use it due to a disagreement on public well being is so offensive,” Roberta Clark, government director of the Jewish Federation of Higher Oklahoma Metropolis, stated. “This isn’t like sending folks to the fuel chambers or to be burned alive.”
“It is not concerning the star. What it is about is a totalitarian authorities pushing a communist agenda on high of us and forcing folks towards their very own liberties to get this vaccine,” Bennett stated.
“It is unhappy and ironic that anybody would draw an analogy from one of many largest recorded genocide within the twentieth century with public well being makes an attempt to save lots of lives,” Clark stated.
In a mixed assertion Friday, Stitt, Pinnell, Senator Jim Inhofe, Senator James Lankford, Congressman Markwanye Mullin and Oklahoma Senate President Professional Tempore Greg Deal with stated, “It’s irresponsible and improper to check an efficient vaccine—developed by President Trump’s Operation Warp Velocity—to the horrors of the Holocaust. Folks ought to have the freedom to decide on in the event that they take the vaccine, however we must always by no means evaluate the unvaccinated to the victims of the Holocaust.”
KFOR reached out to Bennett and the State GOP, however haven’t heard again.
