Vaccine-injured plaintiffs sue Biden in first COVID vax lawsuit of its kind
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(American Greatness) ā Six people who were harmed by COVID-19 injections are suing a slew of top Biden administration officials in the firstĀ lawsuitĀ of its kind in the United States. In the complaint, filed on Monday, the plaintiffs allege the U.S. government colluded with social media companies to censor them when they posted factual information about their adverse reactions to the COVID vax, theĀ DefenderĀ reported. The group says the governmentās mass-censorship enterprise made it difficult for them to form support groups and find information about their injuries on social media.
Defendants include Joe Biden, along with other top-ranking White House officials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
TheĀ New Civil Liberties AllianceĀ (NCLA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Brianne Dressen, Shaun Barcavage, Kristi Dobbs, Nikki Holland, Suzanna Newell, and Ernest Ramirez. All suffered vaccine-related injuries except for Ramirez, whose 16-year-old son died from a cardiac arrest five days after receiving the Pfizer shot.
Newell, a former triathlete from St. Paul, Minnesota, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after receiving the mRNA injection and now has to rely on a walker or cane to get around.
Brianne Dressen, a preschool teacher from Saratoga Springs, Utah, suffered severe nerve damage after taking part in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 trial. Now Dressen is determined to be more than just ācollateral damage of the pandemic.ā On Monday, she tweeted: āI have never sued anyone in my life ⦠might as well start with POTUS, US Surgeon General, CDC, etc.ā
First lawsuit brought by US Covid vax injuredā¦
I have never sued anyone in my life⦠might as well start with POTUS, US Surgeon General, CDC, etc. https://t.co/6ttmmH3ZUU
Honored to join with @rgvrunner01 @ResearcherNP @NikkiAnne2016 @SuzannaNewell Kristi Dobbs
ā Brianne Dressen (@BrianneDressen) May 22, 2023
āWhat she said,ā tweeted Newell. āI have never sued anyone before either. Having my uncomfortable truth censored has been isolating and shocking. I am thankful for the community I have found despite efforts to keep us apart. #TeamHumanityĀ šwill win.ā
Dressen co-chairsĀ React19,Ā a āscience-based non-profit offering financial, physical, and emotional support for those suffering from long-term COVID-19 vaccine adverse events globally.ā
After receiving the AstraZeneca shot, Dressen says she experienced chronic adverse effects, including ādoubled and blurry vision, severe sensitivity to sound and light, heart and blood pressure fluctuations and intense brain fog that worsened over time.ā
Dressen told the Defender that she now experiences āpermanent disabilityā with āups and downs.ā She said when she tried to post about her injuries on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, GoFundMe, Reddit and Instagram, her content was removed.
She noted that her experiences of censorship āpale in comparison to the thousands of Americans we know who all have experienced the same thing.ā
āThere is nothing scarier than reaching out for help only to be silenced,ā Dressen said. āIt was as scary as the vaccine reaction itself.ā
āOur constitutional freedoms must be protected, regardless of whether or not we are in a national emergency,ā she added. Dressen told the Defender that she and the other plaintiffs are ānot fighting this fight for a select fewā but are fighting on behalf of the ātens of thousands who are experiencing the same kind of censorship.ā
In October of 2021, Dressen, Newell, and Ramirez participated in Sen. Ron Johnsonās panel discussion with doctors and medical researchers who had treated COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
Dressen said during the panel discussion and in interviews that after being gaslit and abandoned by the U.S. government,Ā many vaccine-injured victims were turning to suicide.
The complaint asserts that the plaintiffs experienced āheavy and ongoing censorshipā on social media platforms ā including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and GoFundMe ā when they attempted to share their personal experiences, exchange advice, medical research, and support with others who were medically harmed after getting COVID injections.
āFor posting about their personal experiences and trying to connect with others in the vaccine-injured community, Plaintiffsā speech has repeatedly been flagged as misinformation or removed entirely,ā NCLA noted. āTheir social media accounts are at constant risk of being frozen or disabled just for engaging with other users in private support groups open only to vaccine-injured individuals and sharing perspectives the government deems misinformation.ā
According to the complaint: āThis sprawling censorship enterprise has involved the efforts of myriad federal agencies and government actors (including within the White House itself) to direct, coerce, and, ultimately, work in concert with social media platforms to censor, muffle, and flag as āmisinformationā speech that conflicts with the governmentās preferred narrative ā including speech that the government explicitly acknowledges to be true.ā
The attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit in May 2022 against multiple high-ranking Biden administration officials for allegedly colluding with social media giants to suppress free speech under the pretense of combatting āmisinformation.ā
Former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is now a senator, alleged that the Biden regime led āthe largest speech censorship operation in recent historyā by working with Big Tech to suppress and censor information later acknowledged to be truthful.
Since then, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and other independent journalists have corroborated these findings in their Twitter Files reports.
Childrenās Health Defense (CHD) Chairman on Leave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CHD filed a class action lawsuit against Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other administration officials and federal agencies last March, alleging they āwaged a systematic, concerted campaignā to compel the three largest social media companies to censor constitutionally protected speech, including facts and opinions about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Kennedy himself wasĀ censoredĀ after Clarke Humphrey, the digital director for the COVID-19 Response Team at the White House, asked someone at Twitter to remove a tweet drawing attention āto a wave of suspicious deaths among the elderlyā following the administration of COVID shots.
Commenting on the new lawsuit, Peggy Little, senior litigation counsel for NCLA, said in a statement:
āAmericans injured by experimentally approved Covid vaccines are being deplatformed, silenced, suppressed, defamed and cancelled by their own government for reaching out to others simply to share and receive information critical to their physical and mental well-being.
Government actors have bullied, threatened and coerced social media companies to strip these plaintiffs of their First Amendment rights of association and speech. Suppression of speech critical of the government by the very government actors mandating the vaccine is frightening.
NCLAās lawsuit seeks to restore these plaintiffsā civil liberties and the free flow of information guaranteed by the First Amendment for all Americans. We must never again lose our constitutional bearings in a pandemic.ā
https://alphanews.org/vaccine-injured-plaintiffs-sue-biden-in-first-covid-vax-lawsuit-of-its-kind/