Posted on 04/17/2020 10:43:44 AM PDT by abb
SAINT PAUL, Minn. Minnesota's Stay at Home order has been in effect since March 25, with businesses deemed non-essential shuttered since March 16. Across Minnesota and around the country, people are protesting laws requiring them to stay home.
Today, one of these protests is planned at the governor's mansion in St. Paul.
The Facebook event Liberate Minnesota has more than 550 RSVPs as of Friday morning. Planned to begin at noon on Friday, the event asks people to bring protest signs and to maintain a distance that you are comfortable with.
In a social post, the group says, "Minnesota citizens now is the time to demand Governor Walz and our state legislators end this lock down! Thousands of lives are being destroyed right now. It is not the governor's place to restrict free movement of Minnesota citizens! Gov. Walz you work for the citizens of this state!"
President Donald Trump appeared to support the protest Friday, tweeting "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" after announcing Thursday he would allow governors to decide when to re-open their states' economies. He wrote similar posts about Michigan and Virginia.
On Thursday afternoon, Live Free Minnesota held what organizers called a "respectful drive-by protest" at the governor's mansion.
Similar protests are being organized across the country and in neighboring Wisconsin.
These protests come as lawmakers are deciding who will make the final decision on when states can reopen.
Governor Walz has joined six other Midwest governors to form a pact, coordinating when Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky will reopen their economies in the future.
At a federal level, President Trump announced Thursday that states can set up their own reopening dates, as long as they follow a set of guidelines.
500? Need more more than that to make a dent me thinks!
https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-golf-courses-marinas-to-reopen-under-new-gov-walz-order
Minnesota golf courses, marinas to reopen under new Gov. Walz order
By Theo Keith
Published 1 hour ago
Coronavirus in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is allowing some outdoor recreation, including golf courses, to reopen Saturday morning as the state battles the coronavirus outbreak.
Fox reporting that the protest has already resulted in some progress. Governor agrees to reopen parks, golf courses, etc.
The weather is getting really nice here. No way you can keep the people cooped up now.
Minnesota is like Michigan and NY state — the non-urban and low-Lutheran areas are full of conservative patriots, and those Minnesnowtans are as pissed off with D’rats as patriot Michiganders and New Yawk staters are. You betcha!
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is allowing some outdoor recreation, including golf courses...”
How white of him.
“The weather is getting really nice here. No way you can keep the people cooped up now.”
Right! It’s not prudent to stand in the way of half-crazed Minnesotans trying to get out into the warmer weather after spending 6 months indoors.
Can people purify themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka again?
Cuomo said he can’t open upstate because then all the downstaters would rush to the upstate barbers..sheesh, what an imbecile.
Instead, we’re all going to Vermont and spend our money there - screw NY.
All the states that Trump tweeted today. LOL!
The MSM is now accusing Trump of “fomenting” these protests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-updates.html
Coronavirus Live Updates: As Governors Look to Reopen, Trump Foments Anti-Restriction Protests
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is allowing some outdoor recreation, including golf courses...”
“How white of him.”
Yeah. Big deal... /S
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foment
: to promote the growth or development of : rouse, incite
Nice that it took a Chicom virus to get people to defend liberty but the Somali and leftist virus is a much greater threat in the long run.
Walz has joined six other Midwest governors to form a pact.
We are not giving up power. The peasants are revolting!
Walz has joined six other Midwest governors to form a pact.
We are not giving up power. The peasants are revolting!
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Interesting, so they can join their state police and Guard armies together if needed.
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