Posted on 05/23/2022 10:36:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
Republican-sponsored legislation aiming to limit the authority of the governor's use of an emergency declaration to bypass normal lawmaking was vetoed by Gov. Laura Kelly (D-Kan) who declared that "some issues are too critical to be decided by the normal processes of a democratic style of government. Health is one of those issues. Legislators lack the expertise to determine which health policies and protocols are best for the the people of this state."
"If it had been up to the legislature we might never have implemented the lockdowns, vaccine mandate, and other measures that were needed to control covid," Kelly contended. "The governor's ability to declare an emergency and suspend representative government is essential for preserving the people's health and safety. This way, top medical and health experts can benevolently dictate life-saving policies and practices without the delay that typically impedes action when legislative approval is required."
"I will grant that many of the executive directives issued during the covid pandemic may not have been optimal, but we can't let one unhappy experience blind us to the inherent efficiency of one-person rule during an extraordinary threat to the public," Kelly added. "Fortunately, we didn't have to resort to extreme measures. No general imprisonment of the population like they had in New Zealand was required. Neither did we have to cull the herd like they did in China. But these options should remain available to all future governors of our state."
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Legislators aren’t smart enuff to determine policy - we need transgender women who are smart to tell us what to do?
This is utter BS. This Governor does NOT believe in liberty or freedom and wants to enslave us based on her religious beliefs.
She needs to resign or be forced out immediately.
Is this a real quote?!?!?!?!?
“some issues are too critical to be decided by the normal processes of a democratic style of government. Health is one of those issues. Legislators lack the expertise to determine which health policies and protocols are best for the the people of this state.”
[[”If it had been up to the legislature we might never have implemented the lockdowns, vaccine mandate, and other measures that were needed to control covid,” Kelly contended.]]
And yet they didn’t prevent covid- the majority of people have had one or another of the variants of it- and that despite being vaccinated and boosted, wearing masks, shutting down business, etc-
“No general imprisonment of the population “
Well there ya go, proof this bill was unnecessary. /s
Gov. Laura Kelly (D-Kan) who declared that “some issues are too critical to be decided by the normal processes of a democratic style of government.
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There it is
Democrat who rejects democracy
Can we call them Commies to their face NOW ?
to be decided by the normal processes of a democratic style
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So what style of government did you use ?
Communist ?
Socialist ?
Facist ?
Or just straight up ROGUE ?
Or maybe Cartel by Gun ?
That's called tyranny ... that's called totalitarianism which is completely incompatible with a constitutional/representative republic form of government.
we’re going to have to think about a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online - from freedom of speech, to be free from online violence. Or the right of data protection,
to the right of child dignity,”
whatever that last part means.
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It means the right of a child to consent to sex, imho.
The quote is implied by the action of vetoing legislative consent to the governor’s self-declared emergency dictatorial powers.
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