FReegards!
Posted on 09/16/2020 11:36:51 AM PDT by Sioux-san
“You think you got the horses for that? Well, good luck and God bless, but I tell you this…the last place you want to see me is in court.” (attorney Arthur Edens, in the film, Michael Clayton, 2007)
Memo to lawyers: What are you waiting for? File big cases now.
by Jon Rappoport
September 16, 2020
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I’ve been covering the decision in the Pennsylvania COVID case and the court filing in Ohio. They give us the templates for potential victories in other states and countries.
(‘Lawsuit’ article archive here)
In Pennsylvania (ruling), a federal judge just ruled that Governor Wolf’s COVID containment measures are unconstitutional. The judge went further. NO emergency cancels the Constitution. There is a line that cannot be crossed. The right to assemble, to have freedom of movement, to earn a living—they can’t be wiped off the board by lockdowns for ANY reason.
This is, indeed, a heroic ruling. It affirms the unmistakable rays of light emanating from the basis of the American Republic.
In Tom Renz’s gigantic Ohio filing against Governor Mike DeWine, both the Constitution and issues of fact/science are asserted. Facts mean something. A declaration of emergency must undergo scrutiny, to determine whether a clear and present danger justifies the declaration.
Otherwise, a government can destroy the Constitution, the rule of law, and human rights by falsely claiming danger when there is none. We would be back in the time of Royal Edict, with the king’s army as the “rationale.”
(Attorney press release posted here; Attorney plaintiff document filed with court posted here.)
In 2020, lunatic cultural proclivities, media propaganda, political jockeying, pretensions of science, scare tactics, rigging of “facts,” and profit motives are in the mix. They produce amnesia about basic principles.
The law, when correctly applied, refreshes memory and sweeps away a blizzard of claims and counter-claims. The law comes to the point.
Using the law, one can say to governors and their public health advisors, “You’ve been going on for months now about the COVID spread and the emergency and the containment measures, but we want to reduce this to basics: do you have the Constitutional right to strip away our freedoms, and is there a factual reason to believe a state of emergency is necessary—so we’re going to court.”
Or, putting it another way: “Sir, you’re holding a gun to my head while you’re explaining at length why I can’t move. But you see, nothing has happened in court yet. Meet my lawyer. Are you going to shoot us both? Is that where you really want to go?”
In Ohio, attorney Tom Renz, on behalf of his clients, and against the governor, is asking for a jury trial. He wants citizens to hear the complex arguments about COVID SCIENCE. He wants citizens to understand the con and the game that is being played, in great detail. This is impressive. Renz believes The People deserve to know and they are capable of understanding.
From my nearly 40 years working as a reporter, experience tells me attorney Renz is correct. When the truth is laid out step by step, The People come to their senses. They cut through their own malaise. They cut through media indoctrination. As if they once took a voyage to an island called Logic, they suddenly remember that voyage.
After all, the COVID lockdowns and the economic destruction are being visited on the population at large, so let a dozen of their members (OUR members) hear the case and adjudicate it.
I’m not naïve about courts and judges and lawyers and juries. But I do know that, among the denizens of that system, there are keen minds and persons of good will. Persons who know that the Law, as it was once enshrined by the Founders, is a beacon and a breakthrough.
It is a culmination, after centuries of struggle, which places freedom at the head of the table.
Freedom—not edicts, not lockdowns.
What is COVID science? Has the virus actually been defined? Have case and death numbers been drastically inflated? Is there a pandemic? Why is a diagnostic test that has so many holes, that has never been properly validated, being deployed? How many obfuscations has the CDC planted to hide official secrets?
Let’s go to court and turn on the lights and explore the rabbit hole.
It should have been masks and no other restrictions from the start.
This needed to be identified as a blog.
Ray of hope indeed, as you said. I hope this does go to a jury. I hope that a jury gets to hear about the way doctors - practicing medicine for decades - have been shut down and forbidden to practice medicine. I wonder why this has not happened in Maryland, Virginia, and other states.
Everywhere I go in PA still requires masks.
We’ll see if it changes.
I don’t know, but there still should be some point where we can say that it’s over as an emergency.
I wouldn’t mind masks indoors if there wasn’t such a massive closure.
“In Pennsylvania (ruling), a federal judge just ruled that Governor Wolf’s COVID containment measures are unconstitutional. The judge went further. NO emergency cancels the Constitution. There is a line that cannot be crossed. The right to assemble, to have freedom of movement, to earn a living—they can’t be wiped off the board by lockdowns for ANY reason.”
How come this ruling doesn’t apply nationwide, like when a judge rules against Trump?
The idea that some two-bit Hitler governor or mayor can give himself absolute power by simply unilaterally declaring a state of emergency has to be the biggest con perpetrated on us.
This has to be eradicated.
I mind.
People aren’t treating each other like people anymore, just potential virus carriers.
Needless to say, dating is not going well...
No, it should have been no masks either. They do NOTHING to stop the spread of a virus.
90% of our cases and deaths came after our Arizona mask order.
The only thing you could argue for masks is that cases and deaths would have been higher without them. But then you would have to prove it.
Unfortunately it is going to fall on the luck of the draw and the political persuasion of the judge you draw.
I know someone who knows someone who taught the judge in the PA case as a student in high-school. Says he was very bright and came from a VERY conservative family.
Fortunately Trump has appointed over 300 judges to this point so your odds are getting better.
If you read the mask “order” it’s a paper tiger.
A very strong suggestion with no civil or criminal penalties.
That’s an indication they know it would not withstand a court challenge.
Unfortunately they put the heat on businesses to require them and they’ve been all too eager to comply. And frankly my beef is with Wolf and Fauci, not some $8 store clerk who’s been told to police this.
Just one more reason why I’m pleased as punch to have Pres. Trump in office instead of Madam President Jim Beam. :-)
The idea that some two-bit Hitler governor or mayor can give himself absolute power by simply unilaterally declaring a state of emergency has to be the biggest con perpetrated on us.
Would you prefer a top-down one-size-fits-all approach from the FedGov? IMO Trump is right to delegate this to states and cities.We can demand a federal response or we can follow the Tenth Amendment and leave it up to the governors and mayors to decide on a policy that best meets state and local needs. What we cannot do is assign responsibility for containing the virus to the governors and mayors and then complain when they do just that.
“Would you prefer a top-down one-size-fits-all approach from the FedGov?”
Is that the only other choice??
How about this instead.
A mayor, governor or president gets to unilaterally declare a state of emergency for a short period of time, say a week.
After that he has to get permission from the respective jurisdiction legislature to continue it for another agreed to period of time, which can be revisited by the legislature as things change.
The judiciary can also become involved as was done in this case.
I simply don’t like the idea of a single person solely on their own grabbing such unlimited powers.
That point should have been reached months ago when the whistleblower ICU doctors and nurses said it was the treatment killing their patients (high presssure ventilators with a 90+% death rate) and not the survivable “disease.” This same thing happened with the SARS outbreak in 2000-2003, and the doctors over in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, were incredulous at the high death rate doing the same ventilator protocol. The “SARS/Covid19’ symptoms are the same ones now that put people in the ICU. This is not the flu, it is pneumonia. This last go around, the Wuhan patients were given x-rays to confirm pneumonia - there is NO LAB TEST that confirms Covid19 or SARS back then or now. The horrible air pollution was enough to fry lungs in Wuhan.
Or how about when Neil Ferguson from Jolly Old Imperial College got outed for his “mistake” that Fauci ran to Trump with? That mathematical error that not 1% would die, but .1% - 94% of which were sick and/or old to begin with.
Bottomline: Shouldn’t matter at all whether this cootie came from a bat shishkabob or a CDC/WHO-sponsored Biolab in Wuhan. When people don’t learn anything from the past, they just might be your State-Sanctioned Executioners. But, let’s keep arguing whether the Titanic was intentionally sunk or it was just some bad luck. Teams are being drawn.
I simply don’t like the idea of a single person solely on their own grabbing such unlimited powers.
Me neither.
A mayor, governor or president gets to unilaterally declare a state of emergency for a short period of time, say a week.
After that he has to get permission from the respective jurisdiction legislature to continue it for another agreed to period of time, which can be revisited by the legislature as things change.
Realistically the virus isn't going to be contained within a week. Make it a month or two and I'd be on board too.
And then it’s hypothetical. What’s odd is someone screaming online about us potentially being worse per capita death rate than Sweden. Sweden has less mask wearing than the United States.
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