Governor Greg Abbott has a Pen, a Phone, and a Tank?

American Thinker.com ^ | May 9, 2020 | Monte Kuligowski

[Kaslin]

With the news of a Texas sheriff from Ector County using an armored military vehicle to SWAT-raid a peaceful, albeit armed, protest and arrest bar-owner Gabrielle Ellison, who dared to defy a business shutdown order, a public consensus on the use of executive orders is greatly needed.

What's in the Texas water?

Shelly Luther, a business-owner from Dallas, was recently sentenced to seven days in jail for opening her salon — and refusing to apologize to the court — in defiance of Governor Greg Abbott's executive shutdown order. At sentencing, Judge Eric Moyé accused Luther of being "selfish" even though the White House guidelines were followed at her workplace. Ms. Luther is quoted saying, "You have rights to feed your children and make income. And anyone that wants to take away those rights is wrong." Those words ring true.

In fairness to Gov. Abbott, he apparently didn't realize the manner in which violation of his executive orders would be enforced and punished. The governor immediately called for Luther's release and made statements condemning the judge for jailing Luther:

As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.

There are also less restrictive means to protect Texans from the virus than business shutdown orders.

Gov. Abbott's attorney general, Ken Paxton, was equally outraged. He sent a letter to the judge and reproved him for his "shameful abuse of judicial discretion."

[Elsie]

Easy. Start by NOT wearing masks. Baby steps.

One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...

[Dusty Road]

This is also the same county that had 7 killed and 22 others wounded by an idiot out of controll about a year ago. Odessa PD had 3 officers killed responding to a call about 10 years ago, they were ambushed. One of the officers hunted on my place when I did a LEO deer hunt about a year earlier, Abel Marquez.

[attiladhun2]

Yup. Koresh was constantly zooming around Waco in his Transam and could have been pulled over easily. But the ATF wanted to play army, and Weasley Wesley Clark commander at Ft. Hood wanted to plan the final assault using armored vehicles.
I think I first realized then that our government had crossed the Rubicon into tyranny.

[redfreedom]

“I think I first realized then that our government had crossed the Rubicon into tyranny.”

We all have our first realizations.

Betcha the South of the 1860’s figured the government crossed that line when they were not allowed to secede. In essence the South invoked the 2nd Amendment by organizing their militia and taking up arms.

A combination of having fought one civil war and the 2A is what keeps our rats of reasonable intellect from crossing too many lines. It’s the die hard extreme AOC grade lefties that actually want mass chaos and bloodshed.