Posted on 03/29/2020 8:29:10 AM PDT by billorites
Some of these politicians have become way too intoxicated with this sudden power they’re brandishing like a club over the heads of their fellow citizens — I’m talking about you, Charlie Baker, and Gina Raimondo in Rhode Island makes two.
Check out the stories from around the country — two (Democrat) governors have taken to threatening physicians and pharmacists who dispense legal anti-malarial drugs to coronavirus victims.
In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen “Half” Whitmer is openly calling for “professional consequences” for any health care professionals who defy her edict, a directive the Detroit News said “deviates into open threats.”
Other Democrats are setting up snitch lines to report “non-essential” businesses.
On Friday night, the mayor of Los Angeles admitted to one of his comrades on CNN that they’re tracking cellphone data to keep tabs on the movements of citizens.
This Democrat has also threatened to cut off electricity and water to any businesses that won’t obey. All of this is going on in a jurisdiction where 1,700 prisoners have been cut loose … and the gun stores have been threatened with shut downs (as in Delaware, by yet another Democrat).
In Laguna Beach, where drones are outlawed for private use, law enforcement are using their drones to enforce “social distancing” on public beaches. In Lakewood, N.J., on Thursday, cops broke up a wedding — per orders of the governor, they claimed.
Closer to home, Tall Deval — or, if you prefer his newer nickname, Charlie Parker — wants to “ramp up” tracking those of us who will not obey his high-handed orders.
Yardbird now demands that everyone coming into the state “self-quarantine” for two weeks. Really? As one of my listeners asked Friday:
“I work in Massachusetts — you know, I pay taxes — and I live in New Hampshire. So do I have to ‘self-quarantine’ every morning for two weeks when I cross the border into Mass?”
Then there’s Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo.
“In a move without precedent in state history,” as the Providence Journal described it, she ordered that “anyone entering Rhode Island from New York state by any means of grounds transportation — passenger vehicle, bus or train — must provide personal information to authorities and self-quarantine for 14 days.”
So … being in an automobile with NY license plates is now considered “probable cause” for a police stop? I have a question: surely this doesn’t apply to illegal immigrants? I mean, after all, Rhode Island is for all intents and purposes a sanctuary state for criminal illegals.
According to the RI state police, New Yorkers who are stopped — citizens, anyway — will be asked their plans.
“If the response is ‘passing through,’ we will send them on their way.”
The paper continued, “Those responding that their destination is somewhere in Rhode Island will be asked for their information and will be ordered to self-quarantine.”
Asked for information? Sounds like something out of an old World War II movie, in which the Nazi guards were always demanding to see “your papers.”
The Rhode Island ACLU pointed out the existence of something called the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal search and seizure, even of taxpaying citizens.
If that’s not enough, let us turn to Article 4, Section 2 of the Constitution:
“The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.”
In other words, a New Yorker has as much right to be in Rhode Island as a Rhode Islander.
You may notice that the two New England governors who seem most eager to stomp on their fellow citizens’ rights are the same two who have been desperately trying to impose an unconstitutional gasoline tax on motorists under the guise of “climate change.”
Coincidence?
Down in Virginia, Gov. Ralph “Blackface” Northam is one of many who has banned gatherings of more than 10 people. In the Old Dominion, some deplorables are asking the obvious follow-up question: in addition to proscribing Christian services, will the newly woke Gov. Blackface also be breaking up religious gatherings at, say, mosques?
That’s about as likely, of course, as a Muslim baker being sued for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake.
Just a month ago, most of these same hacks were wringing their hands and calling President Trump a “fascist” or a “dictator.” Now the mayor of LA is organizing vigilante groups in the city’s neighborhoods, calling them, in his best Orwellian speak, “the Safer at Home Business Ambassadors Program.”
Meanwhile, not a single shiftless hack on the Massachusetts state payroll has been laid off, not even at UMass or Massport or at the deserted courthouses. That’s coming next, right, Tall Deval? We’re all in this together, aren’t we? Right? Right?
And anything that does not go just right (even idiotic decrees by governors) will blamed on Trump in about three months. And it will be shouted to the heavens until early November.
Problem is, the voters need to remember this in NOV and the MSM has been lying like there’s no tomorrow that it’s Trump’s fault and the brain dead with TDS are buying it hook, line, and sinker.
For my part, when this lets up some, I will be preparing as never before.
Karma for MI’s “Gestapo Gretchen” is gonna be a real biotch.
We’re gonna dig dig dig deep on every action she ever took, every word she ever uttered, every position she ever took, and share it widely. Goodbye Gretchen.
They will answer to God some day, something that we have lost sight of in our culture.
That said, I would love to see their reckoning come due here and now on this earth. I long to see justice done, but I fear that short of a miracle, we won’t be seeing that.
But I can know that God is just and will hold them to account for every action and word and they will have to answer to a much higher authority that President Trump. And they won’t be able to weasel or bride or blackmail their way out of it.
God is sovereign and still sits on the throne, in control, and knowing that this life is a flash in the pan to eternity, I try to keep my focus on that.
They may be able to ruin my life here and now, and even take it, but once I am done here, they can never touch me again. Forever.
‘One out of how many...’
well, just to get the ball rolling, Alaska, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina...
I got about halfway through the first paragraph and knew what name I’d see on the byline. Great piece. I’m waiting for the first one of these two-bit Gauleiters to bleat “Trump made me do it.” Because you know it’s going to happen.
Well said
‘When do they start using drones to monitor and shoot people who are out of line?’
be assured that the drones are operating even as we speak;as for shooting anyone over noncompliance, this would be a seminal event that would go down as a major blot in the history of mankind, the like we had better hope never happens...
Bttt.
5.56mm
The same one’s who supported the coup plotters attempt to unseat a duly elected President.
Are now in charge of restricting our freedoms ..for our own good.
Not sure why anyone would be suspicious at all?
roger that
I think Cuomo’s mad about New Yorkers fleeing New York. I wonder if he’ll ask for a plan of the Berlin Wall? You know, the one designed to keep people IN!
‘But I can know that God is just and will hold them to account for every action and word’
and what does God say when they reply ‘well, you created the pathogen, and then placed it among us...’?
Sorry, didn't use the proper title. Should have been, "I think Comrade Cuomo’s mad about New Yorkers fleeing New York.
BUMP
What if He did?
Even if He did, that does not excuse them from the wrong they have done.
The issue is their reaction and choices concerning it that they will be accountable for.
And when they are making decision about who will live or die, or withholding a treatment that has promise to cure this, then that will be held to account, or they are using this crisis to further their own personal gain and grab for power, that will called into account.
Our Constitution is going through a shredder. It is not by accident IMHO!!
That’s about as likely, of course, as a Muslim baker being sued for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake.
I won't hold my breath on Governor Klansman shutting down the mosques.
You can’t be more spot on than that.
I guess they're all essential. /sarcasm
Meanwhile, legitimate businesses are shuttered, some of which will not survive this crisis.
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