Posted on 08/11/2020 1:48:23 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is now saying she’s going to keep the COVID practices in place even after a vaccine is available. Grisham says, “These are good public health behaviors that will prevent the spread of influenza.”
New Mexicans are enlisting legislators to call for an extraordinary session. Here’s a post from NM Extraordinary Session Facebook page (posted August 8 at 2:31 pm): “This week, the Governor stated that she wants to continue all of her current restrictions whether we get a COVID vaccine or not.
Let’s be clear about what that means. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s orders have been made under the auspices of her executive emergency powers. The NM Supreme Court has upheld her orders because of that interpretation. Only in a crisis could an elected official get away with shutting down places of business, schools, churches, and declaring gatherings of 5 people or more a violation of the law.
That’s because under any ordinary circumstances, these orders violate the constitutional right to freedom of association. (Governor Grisham notably made exceptions to her own rule for mass protests this summer, but has made no such accommodation for public gatherings of groups she disagrees with. The fact is that it’s the constitutional right of any group of people to publicly gather and peacefully protest, and no elected official should be picking who is allowed to exercise their rights and who isn’t.)
So why would the Governor imply that she intends to suspend the right to freedom of association indefinitely? All this statement tells us for sure is that the Governor’s intentions are to not lift these restrictions, regardless of COVID case numbers.
A group of concerned citizens is calling for action. https://www.nmextraordinarysession.com/
>Hat Tip Kristina
Some things.
But restaurants and the like follow state rules.
And many of us predicted exactly that.
There are three things that keep NM afloat. Tourism, Oil and Gas, and FedGov. Take away one and it’s buh-bye. So far, two are essentially gone right now. Tourism and Oil and Gas.
Thanks for the update on the Res. lockdown. Last time I went to Alamogordo, I tried to go via the road past IMOG, and had had to turn around. and go back through town, and hoping that insanity hadn’t closed Highway 70 somehow too.
Just local ABC and CBS stations gave brief reports. Likely won’t make their local nightly news.
Dig this:
“Scientists Say Lithium Should Be Added to Drinking Water to Prevent Suicides”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3873499/posts
Yep, that is the situation.
She’s already killed tourism.
I’m in the mountains east of Albuquerque. We pretty much ignore the stupidity flowing out of Santa Fe. A majority of Sheriffs do too.
It appears that she wants it to stay dead.
Leftist Chief Justice Roberts has already revealed his opinion that ANY Constitutional rights may be suspended for a ‘public health emergency’.
Second Amendment rights have been declared a ‘public health emergency’ in a number of states.
Their would be no problem canceling the Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment or any of the others if , for example the UN or WHO declared ‘Climate Change’ a global health emergency.
For Roberts the U.S. Constitution is a suggestion.
” I was hoping to get down to Ruidoso and hit the casino in the next couple of weeks but it looks like EVERYTHING is shutdown. That town will be toast by winter. No ski, no bars, no restaurants, NOTHING.”
That would be a shame. We spent a week in Ruidosa last summer and loved it. We did so much we needed to rest when we got home.
We’re not for it but the tribal leaders are following the democratic line.
She has exposed the Left’s plan to keep their states captive.
That was really back in the day, but I remember.
This is insanity.
Are the good folks of NM going to fight this tyranny?
CoVid 19 no longer qualifies as a pandemic.
When is the last time you heard of anything other than a business—any other business—relocating to or opening up a location in NM?
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