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Virginia Falling To Tyranny: Governor Declares State Of Emergency
CD Media ^ | 01/16/2020 | CD Media

Posted on 01/16/2020 10:47:44 AM PST by MAGAlady

When Democrats took the majority in Virginia the last election, they quickly put on the table a package of radical laws that were set to limit Virginians’ Second Amendment rights, including closing down every shooting range not owned by the government, hindering their ability to form militias, severely limiting gun sale transfers, as well as fresh registration bills.

Within the first 48 hours of taking over the Virginia legislature in 2020, Democrats passed their first of many proposed gun laws and banned the carry of firearms on the property of the state capitol and other government offices.

The people of Virginia spoke up and declared it would be their last term in office. The government responded with a motion to eliminate voter ID laws.

Virginia decided then that they wouldn’t wait for another election. A petition to remove Governor Northam began circulating as well as other petitions to remove delegates from office. When the petition received almost a third of the signatures needed to recall the governor, a new bill was introduced to raise the amount of signatures needed from 10% of the prevailing vote, to 25%.

Oh, but it doesn’t stop there! Other bills in session in the 2020 legislature:

SJ 6 – Which changes the governor’s term from 4 to 8 years. SB 399 – Virginia’s electoral votes for president will go to the candidate who has won the national popular vote. It will no longer matter who many Virginians vote for in presidential races. SJ 9 and SJ 14 – Restores felons’ abilities to vote. SJ 29 – Changes how Governors, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General are elected. Previously, the candidate receiving the most votes statewide would be elected. Proposed: change to who wins the majority in Congressional districts. In case of a tie, the General Assembly...

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; clickbait; governornortham; gunrights; secondamendment; sentencestumps; virginia
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To: brownsfan

.....”The majority in VA want this”....

It would sppear the case. I wonder how many at the capital building voted?.... Looked like a strong turnout to me....


21 posted on 01/16/2020 11:20:15 AM PST by caww
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To: Hadean

Honestly, my first though, too. But even bigger because of so many more people being targeted


22 posted on 01/16/2020 11:20:32 AM PST by MAGAlady
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To: MAGAlady

“Honestly, my first though, too. But even bigger because of so many more people being targeted”

This time the targets will shoot back.


23 posted on 01/16/2020 11:24:48 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MAGAlady

“J.W Booth, Mr. J.W Booth, please pick up the white courtesy phone.”...STAT!


24 posted on 01/16/2020 11:27:42 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Ping.
I had no idea it was this bad...


25 posted on 01/16/2020 11:28:04 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Bob434

.........dont know........


26 posted on 01/16/2020 11:30:48 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: MAGAlady

l8r


27 posted on 01/16/2020 11:38:33 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Bob434

[[When the petition received almost a third of the signatures needed to recall the governor, a new bill was introduced to raise the amount of signatures needed from 10% of the prevailing vote, to 25%.]]

did that bill pass?
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With a radical trifecta controlling Richmond, what is there to stop them?


28 posted on 01/16/2020 11:47:29 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Liz
Liz :" SJ 6 – Which changes the governor’s term from 4 to 8 years."

Didn't Chavez do the same thing in Socialist Venezuela ?
Change the length of office ?
Virginia, becoming the new Venezuela in North America.
How do you want your democracy ?: Regular .. or extra crispy ?
Time for Virginia to get some backbone - RECALL !

29 posted on 01/16/2020 11:50:17 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: MAGAlady

Why do you cut it off in the middle of a sentence? That just makes it clickbait (and a sentence stump).

Just post the dang article instead of clickbait.

Here is the rest of the sentence stump.

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In case of a tie, the General Assembly will pick the winner.

The people of Virginia have had enough. A huge pro-gun rally was scheduled for January 20th outside of the state’s capitol building in Richmond. Of course Governor Northam wouldn’t be a proper despot if he just let the people exercise their First and Second Amendment rights so he declared a state of emergency.

Governor Northam declares a State of Emergency ahead of pro-gun rally/Youtube

His reasoning is absolutely mental. During a press conference on Wednesday, Governor Blackface declared that there was “online chatter” and “considered credible threats”, but refused to give details. He did say that it “mirrored” the online conversations that occurred shortly before the Charlottesville protests where disrupters showed up, and without a permit, blocked traffic, pounded on vehicles, and otherwise molested citizens and protesters alike. On orders, police stood down. As a result, one woman was killed when a panicked driver accelerated into a crowd.

I must have missed that part of the Constitution where is says, “shall not be infringed… Unless there is considerable online chatter.” And invoking the racially charged Charlottesville protest is a devious way of making people conjure up images of neo-Nazis with tiki torches, otherwise completely unrelated to a pro-gun rally. Is Governor Northam trying to create a fear of pro-gun activists and activate Antifa sleeper cells to confront Monday’s protestors? Probably. That’s what the Virginia Citizens Defense League believes, which they explained in the following alert:

“The Democrats are afraid of the voters and want to portray this peaceful assembly of law-abiding gun owners in the worst possible way. They would love for it to degenerate to ‘violence, rioting, and insurrection’ in order to smear gun owners. Has the Democrat leadership actually invited violent groups to attend for the purpose of disrupting our peaceful assembly?”

If a confrontation does occur, it will no doubt be reported as the pro-gun demonstrators’ predisposition for violence, reaffirming the left’s beliefs that all gun owners are evil.

Virginia is falling to tyranny. The government is acting imperiously, and interfering with the citizens’ avenues to keep them in check. The government is proposing laws to prevent themselves from being voted out or removed from office–a bright red flag–as well as banning the possession of guns and the use of militias as a last resort to force them out of office.

This is exactly why the Second Amendment was written and what our forefathers were trying to protect us from. What is even scarier is how rapidly Virginia has gone from more-or-less normal to near-complete tyranny.

This is the tyranny that our Founding Fathers foresaw, which they clearly and repeatedly warned us about it, and for which they made sure our inalienable rights were clearly stated in the Bill of Rights.

But those inalienable rights have been, and continue to be, infringed upon. And while the grossest example is currently happening in Virginia, we have allowed this happen since the first sweeping gun law was implemented – 1934’s National Firearms Act.

The representatives we elect, who are supposed to work for the citizens, have chosen to neglect us, as well as the Constitution they took an oath to uphold. They are autocrats.

This is a powder keg and the Democrats are scattering the matches, hoping for a spark. It’s a deliberate trap because they know that the people most likely to come out Monday in support of the Second Amendment are also distrusting of the government and their gun grabs. Sleazy Democrats can use the fallout for a political purpose. A single altercation, no matter how just and righteous it is, and they will depict any who oppose them with modern Nuremberg Laws, painting all gun owners as nutcases (or, as typical, racist somehow) and tie their own degradation of American rights to President Trump.

Without a doubt, this moment will be pivotal to the story of how the U.S. was destroyed, because if it happens in Virginia, it will happen everywhere else, too.


30 posted on 01/16/2020 11:55:28 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: carriage_hill

I had no idea it was this bad...
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At this point, the only way to stop tyrants is with the Constitution and the courts.


31 posted on 01/16/2020 11:56:31 AM PST by iontheball
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To: MAGAlady

Here is the donate link in case you’d like to donate cash instead of sentence stumps.

https://freerepublic.com/donate/


32 posted on 01/16/2020 11:58:21 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: MAGAlady

You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to fight your way out of it.


33 posted on 01/16/2020 12:04:16 PM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: Larry Lucido

FR wouldn’t let me post more than 300 words. Not sure why you feel so targeted.


34 posted on 01/16/2020 12:10:58 PM PST by MAGAlady
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To: MAGAlady

I had not read this timeline of events before.
I started to think it was a Babylon Bee parody.

This will not end well.


35 posted on 01/16/2020 12:12:34 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: Hadean

“There’s another Waco in the making here.....”

I’m afraid that this will make Waco look like a small backyard barbecue.


36 posted on 01/16/2020 12:20:51 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: MAGAlady

Emergency!

Assemble the militia!

oh my


37 posted on 01/16/2020 12:25:35 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: MAGAlady

Well,we will see what Virginians really do. My assumption is nothing and this will be the new normal.


38 posted on 01/16/2020 12:33:31 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: MAGAlady

I guess neither the governor nor the members of the legislature have taken Latin, so they don’t know the meaning of the Virginia state motto.


39 posted on 01/16/2020 12:33:51 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: MAGAlady

King Ralph the Tyrant


40 posted on 01/16/2020 12:41:24 PM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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