The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rightly put the brakes on President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccination mandate for businesses with more than 100 employees. Citing “grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate,” the Court ordered an immediate pause to what is clearly an attack on personal freedom of choice.
Not surprisingly, a defiant President Biden, speaking through his White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, said, “People should not wait. They should move forward and make sure they’re getting their workplace vaccinated.” Biden’s disregard for the rule of law should be of grave concern to freedom-loving Americans on both the left and right side of the political spectrum.
Meanwhile, mini-autocrats in the New York City public school system are pushing hard to vaccinate young students, ages 5 to 11, offering $100 bribes to incentivize reluctant parents. And, San Francisco is mandating proof of Covid-19 vaccination for kids as young as 5 to attend concerts, movies, and sporting events. Ditto to eat at restaurants. They join the over 12 crowd who are currently required by local law to show a vaccination card at those locations.
This draconian response by schools, government agencies, and leaders is disproportionately aggressive to the risks. The CDC reports that coronavirus infections among children ages 0-17 is just 0.01%. The CDC’s own data shows twice as many children die of pneumonia than of Covid-19.
Singer/songwriter Gary Chapman believes these mandates are a direct attack on our liberties and freedom. As the father of an 8-year-old, Chapman doesn’t want his “perfectly healthy, incredible kid who is autistic” to be put at further risk. Speaking from his studio in Nashville, Tennessee, Chapman said, “I believe there are millions of parents like me who want to exercise their freedom in dealing with Covid. Instead of being forced to take a vaccine, we want to put our trust in a loving, living, healing God.”
During the last 40 years, Chapman has written and worked with the likes of Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, collecting an impressive array of Grammy nominations and Dove Awards along the way, including his first No.1 hit song, “Fathers Eyes” as performed by Amy Grant.
Chapman says of his new song, “‘Take This JAB and Shove It!’ is a no-confidence vote of Dr. Fauci who changes his COVID guidelines about as often as people change their socks.” He hopes his humorous parody of Johnny Paycheck’s number 1 smash hit “Take This Job and Shove It” will serve as a “call for freedom, for Americans to resist the DC swamp-dwellers who love to control every aspect of our lives including mandating the vaccine or we lose our jobs.”
When asked why so many fellow Americans are so quick to surrender their freedoms, Chapman said, “There has been a creeping deception working its way into American culture for decades. Right now we are particularly vulnerable because we've got far too many lazy listeners who just accept whatever they hear from the press without questioning or doing their own research. And the media is complicit. They have scared the pants off of people with non-stop Covid-19 coverage, where people are walking around with two and three masks—even space suits on—when there's nobody around them. They're just afraid.”
As part of his parody, Chapman performs “Take This JAB and Shove It!” with a stage name and alter-ego, Johnny Bitcoin. “This may be a parody, but it’s maybe one of the most important songs I’ve written,” said Chapman, adding, “We are way down the slippery slope of losing our freedoms which ultimately come from God. You can either hold on to that fact or you can surrender. I chose to speak out.” As the chorus states . . .
Take this jab and shove it
We ain’t buying this no more
We ain’t woke but we’re wide awake
And know what freedom’s for
Joe and the swamp done poked the bear
So we’re showing them the door
Take this jab and shove it
We ain’t buying this no more
Chapman is encouraged to see the thousands of city workers who gathered in downtown Los Angeles protesting Covid vaccine mandates, the more than 10,000 aircraft company workers in Wichita, Kansas and the 9,000 New York City workers who would rather be fired than submit to Biden’s “illegal, immoral and impractical” mandate. “JAB isn’t about refusing to take the vaccine. If people want to do that, they should go for it,” says Chapman. “Whatever happened to ‘My body, my choice?”
His message is resonating worldwide with more than 15,000 YouTube views in just 5 days.
The single is available exclusively at iTunes. More information is available at TakeThisJab.com.