Late last week, a short list of Florida platforms and random small outlets covered this terrific story. We begin with Street Insider, which reported, “Florida Attorney General sues Pfizer and CEO over COVID-19 vaccine claims.” Before taking another step, let’s pause to appreciate Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is on the ballot this November (and accepting campaign help here).
Here’s the short version: On Thursday, Florida sued Pfizer and its CEO Albert Bourla personally under the state’s deceptive and unfair trade practices act. Importantly, DUTPA claims exist in the elusive liminal spaces beyond the PREP Act’s iron liability shield. (Two other states have tried the same tactic; Texas’s was dismissed because of PREP, but Kansas’s has, so far, survived in its state court.)
Florida’s well-drafted, biting, at times sarcastic complaint carefully documents Pfizer’s relentless safety claims and manipulative marketing— even while well-known risks surfaced, despite every effort to submerge them, and even ones officials were willing to admit, like myocarditis.
The complaint is, dare I say, warmly encouraging. Go ahead and read the whole thing. (I don’t often suggest legal documents for entertainment reading.)
I won’t bother handicapping the complaint’s chances. We have learned (the hard way) that Pfizer’s legal defenses were arranged in an astonishing array of onion-like layers; after we meticulously peel a layer of liability protection back, thinking we’ve finally reached the core of accountability, what do you know? We just find a new, thicker, stinkier layer right below the last one, and we have to start all over again.
In no way am I suggesting the onion-peeling should stop. If anything, we need more prep chefs.
No, the point is that discovering all this obviously well-thought-out, pre-rollout liability protection has been very disconcerting for a product once called the “most well-studied vaccine in human history.” It’s almost like Pfizer knew beforehand that there would eventually be millions of us calling for it to be put on Nuremberg-like trial and hanged at dawn, or if not that, at least sued into subatomic particles.
For just a taste of its wonderful rhetoric, the complaint began —right in paragraph number one— with Pfizer’s reptile-like CEO Albert Bourla’s own words about any American citizen who dared question the safety of his so-called “vaccine” product. He said, as the complaint directly quoted: “Those people are criminals.”
He called us criminals! That’s some master-level projection. Haha, Albert, who’s being chased by State Attorneys General now? Not us.
💉 For encouragement, consider how far we have come. Here we are, trundling along in 2026 —nearly six years since the jabs’ debut— and new lawsuits are still being filed by states. This one, landing right before the election, suggests the AG is confident that suing Pfizer is a politically popular move.
Corporate media can ignore the story as much as it wants. But this ain’t over. It could be this great lawsuit, or maybe it will take ten more complaints, but sooner or later we’ll have the onion completely minced. Into teeny tiny pieces.
Get that, Bourla? We’re coming for you. You’re the onion.
Long-time readers know my answer to the question of when accountability will arrive: Who knows? These things take time. I point to the tobacco cases. It took years, decades, of strategic legal work to finally get big tobacco. (That litigation was especially ugly, with hundreds of lawsuits featuring wins and losses so dramatic they’ve even made movies about it.)
But this time, I don’t think it will take nearly as long to nail Big Pharma as it took to nail Big Tobacco. We’re much angrier this time. There are a lot more of us. The carnage isn’t comparable. And… Nobody ever mandated cigarettes.
Florida’s new lawsuit seeks a court order to stop the jabs, fines of $10,000 per violation, bumped up to $15,000 for injured seniors and disabled people, and the turnover of all profits.
We wish godspeed and good fortune to this latest terrific lawsuit. But there were even more breaking jab developments last week.
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