RFK Jr. slammed for invoking Anne Frank at anti-vax mandate rally
Robert F Kennedy Jr. said it was easier for Anne Frank to hide from Nazis than it is for Americans to escape vaccine mandates during a rally at the National Mall in Washington, DC Sunday afternoon.
The environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine advocate addressed thousands of people assembled at the Lincoln Memorial for the “Defeat the Mandate: An American Homecoming” event.
“Even in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” he said as he discussed his 1962 East Germany visit with his father, the former attorney general, where he met people that escaped the regime.
“Today the mechanisms are being put in place to make it so that none of us can run and none of us can hide,” Kennedy, 68, said, according to video of the speech tweeted by NBC reporter Ben Collins.
“They’re putting in 5G to harvest our data and control our behavior. Digital currency that will allow them to punish us from a distance and cut off our food supply.”
The comments were rebuked by the Auschwitz Memorial.
“Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany – including children like Anne Frank – in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral & intellectual decay,” the museum tweeted.
Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank went into hiding in a cramped Amsterdam attic with her parents, sister and four other Jews in 1942. After 25 months, they were discovered by the Gestapo and taken to Auschwitz. Frank eventually died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
It wasn’t the only time the Holocaust was referenced by a speaker at the event.
Del Bigtree, CEO of the anti-vaccination group Informed Consent Action Network, invoked the mass murder to threaten journalists and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, video showed.
“Unlike the Nuremberg Trials that only tried those doctors that destroyed the lives of those human beings, we’re going to come after the press,” he said.
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