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....
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.
“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.
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.”
The words overbroad and underinclusive spring to mind in this case, too.
It is no longer the state of New Jersey, it is now the People’s Democratic Republic of New Jersey (PDRNJ).