A video created by John Spiropoulos which was later banned by YouTube for violating its “medical misinformation policy.”
Orange County resident John Spiropoulos has had videos removed from YouTube that attempt to shine a light on the Board of Supervisors in the County and their efforts to implement a vaccine passport system.
“The story I did, about 700 people showed up in Santa Ana, CA, at the Board of Supervisors meeting there,” Spiropoulos told ITN yesterday about the video he shot on May 11. “They were considering a proposal to allow businesses to require a digital vaccine passport and so I did a couple of stories and [YouTube] banned one of them.”
“They banned the first story I did on it and they said it violated their medical information policy. And then a week later I did a story in Orange County, CA, at the school board where [parents] were protesting. They want the kids to go back to school with no masks…there’s very little risk for children. And they banned that too.”
“Basically this is the Ministry of Truth deciding what’s allowable,” he said.
Spiropoulos, who is now retired, is a three-time Emmy-Award-winning reporter and producer who spent years working as journalist in Washington, D.C. He decries the current state of the U.S. mainstream media.
“Even back in the 80s journalism had gotten so sensational. Basically I characterized it as this: in the old days people used to run away and join the circus. Now they run away and they join a newscast and they’re play acting on TV.”
Supervisor Foley opposed pause to digital record-keeping plan, noting that the county’s economy is highly dependent on tourism, theme parks, sporting events & concert venues…digital proof of vaccination could be key to ability to operate at capacity.https://t.co/kpHwhPkuil
— Katrina Foley (@KatrinaFoley) May 12, 2021
Orange County, CA, has become a ground-zero in the fight against digital vaccine passports in the U.S. Its residents see such systems as a massive invasion of privacy.
Earlier this year the Board of Supervisors there announced the implementation of a system that would require residents to show proof of vaccination against Covid19 on smartphone applications in order to access public areas and businesses.
After a fierce backlash the Board relented, saying it will use the multi-million dollar smartphone app developed for the system as a simple digital record keeping system instead. Residents however, point to actions by the Board over the last several months as proof it is not being responsive to their concerns and that the overarching plans for implementing such a system haven’t changed at all.
Spiropoulos, who now spends his time filmmaking, is currently developing videos aimed at bringing awareness about critical race theory – a controversial curriculum that holds race is the prism through which all other disciplines, from social interactions to mathematics, must be viewed – to parents all over the country.
“I talk to parents in my neighborhood and the parents are surprised about critical race theory. They kind of think it’s an abstract thing that academics talk about. No, no. It’s real in the classroom stuff,” he said.
“So what I’m doing is I’m working with this other reporter and we’re going to put together at least two dozen videos that are practical awareness videos for parents to see exactly what is getting done in that classroom. And we’re going to be distributing it free of charge to any parent group that wants to use it to raise awareness for their citizens in their area to lobby the school board. Because this stuff is unbelievable.”
“It is sad that we are even contemplating something like Critical Race Theory, where children will be separated by their skin color and deemed permanently oppressors or oppressed in 2021.” — Keisha King, mother of two, and member of @Moms4Liberty #StopCriticalRaceTheory pic.twitter.com/OFrfVJ13d7
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 11, 2021
There is a connection, Spiropoulos says, between CRT, the lockdowns brought about in response to Covid19 and the vaccine passport systems.
“The deceit and dishonesty that’s involved with all of this from [Covid19 response architect Dr. Anthony] Fauci to the Board of Supervisors. All around the country. Whether its vaccines or its critical race theory. The Board of Supervisors here in Orange County, they were discussing this digital vaccine passport and so people got up in arms about it. So they renamed the program,” Spiropoulos said.
“And this critical race theory, ‘Oh, we don’t do that.’ Well, they have all the programs from critical race theory in the schools all around the country, ‘but we don’t call it that.’ But look at the content. They just change the name.”
“When you have that happening you know they know they’re being dishonest. You know that they know they’re doing something the public does not want,” Spiropoulos said.