Posted on 04/17/2020 3:12:34 AM PDT by abb
A possible showdown is brewing in Sussex County over Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive orders ending public gatherings in New Jersey amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The president of the Skylands Tea Party, William J. Hayden, said the local police chief warned he would be arrested if he went ahead with a protest at the county-owned Newton Green on Saturday.
If Hayden moves forward anyway — he was noncommittal in an interview Thursday — it might be the first protest in New Jersey targeting the directives from Murphy, a Democrat. Protests against stay-at-home orders have taken place in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina and Utah, according to CNN.
Murphy has closed state and county parks and banned public gatherings in an attempt to the limit the spread of the coronavirus — which as of Thursday afternoon had claimed 3,518 lives in New Jersey, including 26 at a nursing home four miles from the Newton Green.
Hayden told NJ Advance Media that he had planned to gather with 10 to 20 others on the Newton Green, all standing at least 6 feet apart, while live-streaming a reading of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He said he opposes closing the parks, in addition to other restrictions imposed by Murphy.
“Where does it end?” Hayden asked.
Murphy was asked Thursday what he might say to any protesters in New Jersey. The governor said his administration is “making decisions as best we can based on fact, data, science.”
“Do we always get it right? I’m sure we don’t always get it right. We’re trying like heck," Murphy told reporters at his daily coronavirus briefing in Trenton. “This virus spreads when we let our guard down."
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It appears that the Tea Party has been re-awakened
L8r
Making decisions on “fact, data, science” that he couldn’t begin to explain to Tucker Carlson.
Those who aren’t familiar with the area might not be aware of the underlying problem New Jersey faces. The state is tiny and densely populated, and has been shut down to keep hundreds of thousands of mutants from New York City and Philadelphia from flooding the place to escape the lockdown orders in those places.
Using those words as modifiers to mask dopey decision making.
If he proceeds with this, the Trump administration — and every conservative legal aid group in America — need to support his first amendment right to ASSSEMBLE and protest grievances.
We need a new name though. Maybe the Make America Great Again Party or something.
The tea party does not have a leader, its an alliance of political outliers.
So whoever this pretentious organizer is, five will get you ten he is financed by the far left to create controlled opposition which will come into conflict with the police.
Good, I wish New York still had a tea party to protest Cuomo’s mansion in Albany NY - #openupstate
Did the Tea party get a Bruce Jenner Special on thier manhood? Pussys!
Let me know if there is an upstate NY protest which i will gladly join.
https://www.wwnytv.com/2020/04/18/saturday-protestors-drive-thru-downtown-circle-public-square/
Saturday: protesters drive thru’ downtown, circle Public Square - Watertown, NY
Thanks wish I knew about this sooner this is about a 4 hour drive from my location
Liberty Party or Sons of Liberty would be a good name—like those brave fellows who tossed the tea into Boston Harbor.Maybe we need to hang a few people in effigies —maybe a few Governors who are acting like Tin pot dictators?
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