Posted on 05/21/2020 9:52:12 AM PDT by george76
a Montana resident attempted to drive to Cooke City when he was pulled over and harassed by law-enforcement who – obeying the orders of Governor Steve Bullock – refused to allow passage to the small Montana town.
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Governor Steve Bullock, who seems intent on hurting Montana’s tourism economy – which amounts to 3.7 billion dollars a year and brings in more money than both agriculture and energy – has the state’s parks on lockdown.
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Whereas Yellowstone National Park has been opened up, only the entrances on the Wyoming side are open to travelers. Governor Bullock, insistent on protecting Montanan from economic recovery, has kept the entrances to the park on the Montana side shut.
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Tyler Vance – a concrete worker from Montana – attempted to make his way to Cooke City when he was immediately followed, pulled over, questioned, and harassed by law enforcement for traveling through the area. Vance kept his calm and spoke repeatedly to the officers of tyranny and questioned their resolve to obey the Constitution. His appeals to the law were largely ignored by the officers who were intent on inhibiting his travel.
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Somebody has got to do it. Somebody has got to stand up for our rights.
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As Vance pled with the officer on the grounds of the Constitution, the officer said, “I agree that certain things need to change, but I don’t make the rules.”
Vance said, “You have every right to refuse to enforce it,” and the officer replied, “No I don’t. Would you refuse something your boss ordered you?”
The constitutional right to travel is presumed under the fifth amendment according to a myriad of court rulings. Citizens may travel from place to place without having to show a permit allowing travel.
(Excerpt) Read more at montanadailygazette.com ...
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just watched the movie ‘no blade of grass’ last night- what an eery prophetic-like movie it was-
Well, I do view American police forces as being different, we aren’t Europeans with that heritage.
But we are in danger of that, especially in the last 10-20 years.
The governor can claim all he wants his lock down helped keep Wuhan Virus death rate down. But it was not the lock downs. It was the very low population density of the state.
From highest in population density (excluding D.C.) - New Jersey at 1,210/sq mile, to the lowest - Alaska at 1.3/sq mile, Montana ranks 48th at 7.0/sq mile.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_density
And like other states, regardless of population density, a large % of Wuhan Virus deaths - 37.5% in Montana (6 out of 16) occurred in eldercare facilities. That leaves all of 10 cases spread across the vast expanse of Montana. Certainly no cause to lock down the entire state.
Anyone who thinks jackboot thugs in costume won’t enforce the directives of their check writers is completely insane. They are ALL bad cops, and violate the Constitution regularly. That’s what happens when you give them the power they have.
Between Gov. Ballocks and Senator Teste Montana sure can pick ‘em.
Cat Owner wrote:
The left plays this game to win. The right, not so much. It’s why we’ve lost the country (we’re long past the point of “losing” it).
“Beartooth Pass is open?”
If you get out of your car on the Bear Tooth Pass this time of year you can expect to become lunch to a plague of mosquitoes.
Montana LEOs can be some of the biggest jerks you will ever run into. I know, I grew up there.
Lock arms, ammo, thoughts, best practices with brothers and sisters in cities, suburbs, countryside, other countries. It’s a BIG CLUB out here, and they are not in it. We have the template to re-build it. Thanks FF. Rights of INDIVIDUALS, yet no regulation, punishment, swift justice on SUPERCRIMINAL elitist overlords and their ground forces world-wide.
That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. - Declaration
“Beartooth Pass is open?”
Thanks. Memories...took that stretch from Red Lodge Montana to the NE corner of Yellowstone...with wife & 3 little ones on vacation many, many years ago. One of the prettiest stretches of highway in America.
Cat Owner is 1000% correct, Lucy.
Teaches these residents for voting democrat. Why put a democrat in charge of your state?
Sadly, it depends upon how much you've got to pay attorneys to point that out, and these assholes know it.
police officers in this situation are forgetting who they work for... the people, not the government.
Lori Vallow will have to find somewhere else to dump her murdered kids.
That horror story just keeps getting worse. Did you see the video of husband #4 (Vallow) when he was trying to get into his house with the police? He seemed extremely nice and more worried about the kids and his employees getting payroll than anything. Told the police she had been nuts for years and getting worse.
Did you notice that once they put this patriot in the car with handcuffs on, they did not seem to have a clue what to do with him next. Park rangers are not trained for this kind of government tyranny. I often wondered how ordinary German people were complicit in the murder of 6,000,000 Jews, but after watching this video and others similar to it, I now have no doubts at all. They were all cowards to the core.
I would not want these park rangers in a fox hole with me under enemy fire.
He should have immediately asked if any of those jackboots had a military background. They would know that enforcing an illegal order is just as bad as issuing an illegal order. I hope he gets rich suing everyone involved in his illegal arrest and/or detainment. Also, why are federal park police enforcing state edicts? They work for the Dept of the Interior and Congress has never passed any laws forbidding travel to Cook City, MT nor has the state legislature.
“The Beartooth Highway is currently CLOSED for the season.”
https://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/beartooth/
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