Posted on 05/05/2020 5:42:47 PM PDT by conservative98
A Texas salon owner was given seven days in jail on Tuesday after she refused to apologize for defying coronavirus related restrictions by remaining open for business.
Dallas business owner Shelley Luther was given a choice: She could offer an apology for selfishness, pay a fine and shutdown until Friday, or serve jail time.
"I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I'm selfish because feeding my kids is not selfish," she told the judge. "I have hairstylists that are going hungry because they would rather feed their kids. So sir, if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision. But I am not going to shut the salon."
After her refusal to show contrition, bailiffs led her away to be booked. Her sentence reportedly symbolizes the seven-days she stayed open, despite county regulations.
Luther had been cited by city officials but chose to ignore the warnings. She must also now pay a $7,000 fine.
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If she don’t get infected by the Chinese red plague while in lockup. Jail rates are through the roof.
The judge should get a life sentence for violating 18 USC 242. Others should be jailed as well for conspiracy or aiding after the fact.
You may be right but Ive not heard of any great die off in a jail or prison. Just positive tests on asymptomatic people.
Down and out'ers, losers, criminals, drunks, the indigent, etc. I would surmise if there are not great, "die off's" in that environment in venues such as jails, then this whole thing or at least the numbers seemed ginned up.
Time for the governor to get some bigger balls and smash this city and its judicially corrupt judge/police.
26. Just asking. A sodomite and an Obamite asskisser? Half serious, half sarc. Just don’t which half is which.
I already like her....
First he was president for life, now hes judge for life? 👎🤪
Start a recall petition. This judge is a pawn in this soft coup to destroy our freedoms and “remake” our country.
“It is unconstitutional!”
How much of what is going on right now isn’t unconstitutional? If our rights under the constitution can be suspended by executive order, then our “rights” are granted not by God, but by men. Our (the country’s) acquiescing to these demands to wear mask, demands to limit gatherings to 10 or fewer, demands for this, demands for that have emboldened all would-be demagogues to push just a little further (witness Whitmer in Michigan) each passing day. “We need to do this for 15 days.” “Let’s make it 30 days.” “I think just 15 more days ought to do it.” Haven’t we heard some folks call for mid-August, early Fall before we should get back to “normal” (and, oh yeah, that new normal we are told will not be the same as we are used to — think about that.)
With each passing Lord’s day as I and my fellow “congregants” (hah! - joke’s on us!) as we gather around our little screens to “Remember Him until He comes” and to ingest that spiritual food so necessary for Godly living, I become more and more convinced that we should, like this brave woman in Texas, ignore these edicts about staying on lockdown and think about the “feeding” of our families that comes from the gathering together in His name. Consider for a moment the passage in Acts 5:
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Act 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Act 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things;
We are to obey authorities, yes, but a) our ultimate authority is from above and He bids us “not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is” and b) we are under no compunction to obey unjust laws - and it is becoming clearer and clearer that these laws are not designed for our protection, but for our control.
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