Posted on 05/21/2020 5:52:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Does the Wuhan virus, which arguably escaped from a Chinese virology lab, supersede the rights guaranteed to American citizens under the U.S. Constitution? The owners of a New Jersey gym think not. They want to earn a living and pursue their American dream, and like most business owners and their customers are not stupid, suicidal, or children. They are American citizens watching their unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness being ripped away by dime-store Napoleons who see this pandemic as a chance to pursue the liberal progressive dream of controlling every aspect of our lives.
Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey reopened on Monday morning in defiance of Governor Phil Murphy’s Coronavirus lockdown order.
“We think so far, this has been just a gross violation of constitutional rights,” said Atilis Gym co-owner Ian Smith in an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “The 14th Amendment states that no state shall pass any law that infringes upon our rights as citizens, and we’ve been forced into our homes. Enough is enough.”
As some states, mostly red states, open up and people begin to regain their lives and their liberty, it is clear this toothpaste is out of its tube. American citizens are as mad as hell and clearly aren’t going to take it anymore. Many, like the Texas salon owner who risked incarceration to feed her children, are not going to wait for an official green light from governors and mayors attempting to usurp their rights, politicians who insist imposing a police state is for our own good. The owners of the New Jersey gym have found out that the price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance -- and resistance to government tyranny:
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Fox and Friends reported earlier this morning that the Health Department from New Jersey ordered the Gym to close the doors, or they will be heavily punished.
If a disease epidemic can be used by the government to disregard the Constitution, we’ll have a new epidemic every few months from now on.
No Pandemic Exception to Constitution
I can’t even find health mentioned in the constitution.
We are so far from what was intended by the Constitutional framework that it is unrecognizable and has been for over 150 years.
I believe the Constitution is the law of the land, that it spells out the rights of the people & that they are not to be superseded. To attempt to do otherwise really screws things up. Doesn’t seem to bother the Democrats tho.
I agree.
Utter, total, unequivocal agreement here!
We’re going to have to reconcile these ‘public health emergency orders’ against the Constitution. There’s nothing to stop the same actions over the flu.
We need to decide what metrics should be considered and what thresholds for those metrics should be met prior to enabling such ‘orders’. That is if you believe that constitutional rights can ever be suspended over a virus.
When you’re at a point where individual governors are able to write “do’s and dont’s” lists, that arbitrarily pick and choose economic winners and losers based on zero ‘science’, then you’re probably in a bit of trouble respective to the Constitution.
IMO - the only thing governors should be doing is make ‘urgent public health *requests*’. We’re not their children and we’re not stupid. If something is going around that is ‘Ebola on steroids’ then we’ll heed the warning - but it CANNOT be criminal if ignored. We the people decide. This has turned into madness and they’ve shown they’ll turn full tyrant in a heartbeat.
It seems, without actually saying it, that the required goal is to now ‘rid ourselves of the virus’ - which is not possible. So now we have actual data and know it doesn’t impact everyone the same we should have policies that reflect that - and we don’t.
Simply, the old and those with health conditions should continue to stay away (at their own discretion) while the rest of us build herd immunity AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. This is the only way to make the virus diminish and make the world safe for older folks.
That we’re still living by policies enacted when we knew nothing about the virus is absurd. This whole thing should be a lesson for everyone about how tyranny takes ahold - give them an inch of our liberty and they take a mile...all for some temporary safety. I see Ben Franklin was spot on.
Provision was made for the detention of persons, and vessels, and for the disinfection of vessels and their cargoes and passengers arriving at the ports of Texas from any infected port. or district, and for rules and regulations in regard thereto, "the object of such rules and regulations being to provide safety for the public health of the State without unnecessary restriction upon commerce and travel."It is not charged that this statute is invalid nor could it be if tested by its terms. While it is true that the power vested in Congress to regulate commerce among the States is a power complete in itself, acknowledging no limitations other than those prescribed in the Constitution, and that where the action of the States in the exercise of their reserved powers comes into collision with it, the latter must give way, yet it is also true that quarantine laws belong to that class of state legislation which is valid until displaced by Congress, and that such legislation has been expressly recognized by the laws of the United States almost from the beginning of the Government.
The People did not give the police power to the Federal government. They reserved that power and have given it to the States.
No pandemic exception in the Constitution is what I write on my signs at reopen protests.
You are one hundred percent right but only recently have many Americans begun to recognize that fact. If every government action that is contrary to the constitution were to cease instantly everything would come to a halt. We are so far down the path that I cannot imagine how we could go BACK to the constitution. It has little more effect now than if it had never been written. I have been sickened for years by all the supreme court rulings upholding laws which no sane person could believe actually pass constitutional scrutiny.
Of course I am not an attorney or judge but our founders did not write a document which could only be UNDERSTOOD by legal scholars, they wrote a document which could only be MISREPRESENTED by legal scholars. To believe that many of the recent decisions make sense would require one to believe that the founders struggled for months to write the best constitution imaginable and then threw in a few odd clauses which mean in effect, “Oh, what the hell, we give up, just do whatever you feel like.”
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