Posted on 04/19/2020 10:06:13 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
JACKSON-The Jackson Township Mayor and Council on Tuesday passed a resolution supporting a bill that is currently going through the legislative process in Trenton that will turn being outside in public during Governor Phil Murphy’s quarantine from a misdemeanor penalty to one that could cost you as much as $10,000.
That law states, “A person who willfully or knowingly violates any provision…declared by the Governor a penalty of not less than $5,000 and not more than $10,000.”
Currently, violations of Murphy’s Law constitutes a disorderly persons offense carrying a potential sentence of up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
Jackson Mayor Michael Reina and Councilman Barry Calogero, all declared Republicans joined a bi-partisan effort in Trenton to assist Democrat Governor Phil Murphy’s in enforcing his numerous executive orders directed upon the people of New Jersey.
The action comes when many Jackson residents are out of work and as over-enforcement of Murphy’s executive orders has been on the rise across New Jersey. People are now being ticketed for walking in parks, walking on the street without face protection and in Trenton on Friday, simply sitting in your parked car.
Those small infractions, if the council gets their way would allow Jackson police officers to issue citizens $10,000 fines, an expense nobody, not even the mayor with his full time patronage job at the county, given to him by former GOP Chairman George Gilmore could afford during these times.
Sales tax revenue is down. We need the money damnit.
So, the bill in effect says the Governor is the legislature going forward.
The only way the State of New Jersey can ensure proper social distancing is by stepping up the efforts at deterrence. Violators and those who would encourage them and otherwise speak against the social distancing measures being instituted for public safety must be made an example of.
Many solutions to this problem have been tried but with little success. Fines and penalties as well as the accompanying stigma of media shaming has produced some result. But this solution and other intermediate one’s have failed to achieve the desired effectiveness.
While arresting these violators may be appropriate in many instances, this virus has unfortunately created a challenge to this. The necessary closure of the jails and release of its occupants means that there is no place to incarcerate such violators.
What is needed therefore is to put a stop to intermediate measures and come up with a final solution to the question of what to do with social distancing violators and other miscreants who would stand in the way of dealing with this emergency.
The recent closure of county and state parks affords a ready answer on how to implement this solution. The governor should immediately commandeer these lands and erect temporary holding areas where those who are detained can be held in an appropriately socially spaced manner. Tents can be used until such time as the offenders can erect their temporary barracks.
As an added benefit and in order to fully bring the magnitude of their offenses to light perhaps those who wantonly disobeyed the governors order can earn their freedom more readily by working to overcome this virus. They can work building field hospitals, ventilators and a whole host of other necessary equipment for this war effort and defeat this virus.
And thus escalated the Siege of the State vs the Nonessentials ...
Formerly known as citizens....
What...for sitting in your car or walking in a park, you are sent to a worker gulag to make socially useful items?
Get on the train.
Work makes you free.
To be enforced by the Committee for State Security.
The only way to end this is to turn out a lot more people than the police can handle.
That’s why the Democrats are doing their best to keep everyone terrified. And people who follow Democrat sites are terrified. My wife has a liberal friend in Seattle who hasn’t gone outside her house in weeks, she’s petrified.
What is April 20-21st again?
Arbeit Macht Frei
Good but frightening satire in the vein of Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
Well done, poster Flip Wilson
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Hmmmmmmmm
Article is wrong. You don’t have to wear a mask outside in almost all of NJ.
Stores often require you to wear one but not outside.
Union City, NJ is the only town I’ve heard that requires it.
The other day I listened to an interview with Jon Taffer by Alex Marlowe on Breitbart Morning News. Taffer talked about how the restaurant industry would change post-lockdown.
The first caller after the interview was a bagel-maker from Brooklyn. He said that the things Taffer spoke of were unrealistic, because New Yorkers (and NJ commuters, I suppose) would not social distance at coffee shops for five minutes after having crammed into subways during rush hour, and waited for crowded elevators to the 35th floor.
In a big city, I can see his point. Why would social distancing for the few minutes one spends in line at Starbucks make any difference after spending 30 minutes on a crowded subway and 10 minutes in a crowded lobby waiting for the elevator?
-PJ
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Not surprising for that blog site-
Why is everyone so upset - The peons of Neuve jersye voted for these LEADERS - just like the Venezuelans voted for Chaves and then Maduro.
I say, let them eat cake
Maybe the NORKS can show then how it is to be done
The very idea of social distancing is all but impossible for the average person living and working in NYC.
Twice a day you take public transportation, five million do and then you fight through crowds to get to and from the street you need to get to and that’s without stopping at any store.
Any store you go to would not even be able to do social distancing short of bringing you items to the sidewalk.
Are we going to go to open insurrection to remove this oppressive government and their jackbooted enforcers?
*But parallels that may seem extreme to others can push their way unbidden into traumatized minds: The fear of hospitalization, akin to the idea of going to a camp from which you don’t come out, she said, or sheltering in place feeling like a “return of the horrific times when you had to hide from the world in order to survive.”
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