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Defying Whitmer
American Thinker ^ | 2 Jan, 2020 | Bill Weckesser

Posted on 01/02/2021 4:56:46 AM PST by MtnClimber

Whitmer’s war against COVID has always been long on tyranny and short on facts.

There is a point at which typically reasonable, law abiding people come to realize that an unjust law is no law at all and decide to no longer comply.

For Amy Heikkinen and her brother Jake, restaurateurs in tiny Calumet, Michigan, that time has come. According to their Go Fund Me page, their coffee and pastry shop survived Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s first lockdown order, which Michigan’s Supreme Court struck down this past summer as executive overreach. In retaliation, Whitmer has essentially commandeered the administrative state, using Michigan’s Health Department to enforce her mid-November ban on indoor dining.

This time, however, Amy and Jake had reached their breaking point and have been ignoring the order. Incensed at the disobedience, Whitmer’s administrative brownshirts went to court for a restraining order. And, as the Detroit News reports, they won last week in Ingham County Circuit Court -- hundreds of miles south of Calumet.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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To: MtnClimber

What is interesting is that there are several restaurants that have defied the orders and the police are unwilling to lock their doors. The statutory laws in place don’t have the bite to shutter doors. MDHSS would lose in court. Her 2x loss in Oct really took the legal hammer out of her hands.


21 posted on 01/02/2021 3:10:34 PM PST by BigB60 (Whimer)
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To: MtnClimber

What is interesting is that there are several restaurants that have defied the orders and the police are unwilling to lock their doors. The statutory laws in place don’t have the bite to shutter doors. MDHHS would lose in court. Her 2x loss in Oct really took the legal hammer out of her hands.


22 posted on 01/02/2021 3:17:21 PM PST by BigB60 (Whimer)
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To: BigB60

They will all be open again in two weeks.


23 posted on 01/02/2021 3:20:33 PM PST by MarMema
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To: cyclotic

Where are you? Lansing? 😂😂😂😂


24 posted on 01/02/2021 3:21:19 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MtnClimber

The only way of defying a Tyrant is by removing the Tyrant from power by any means necessary.

It’s a four Box scenario.


25 posted on 01/02/2021 3:21:40 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: MarMema

Doubtful. She is delusional and letting go of any power is a non starter.


26 posted on 01/02/2021 7:40:43 PM PST by BigB60 (education)
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