Posted on 09/16/2020 6:18:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Politicians shut down businesses because of COVID-19.
But the rules don't apply to everyone.
In San Francisco, gyms were forced to close, but government gyms stayed open.
In my new video, we see a Dallas woman being jailed for keeping her salon open and a New Jersey man getting arrested after working out indoors.
Ordinary people who break the rules get punished.
But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Politicians are special.
Now, politicians have allowed more businesses to open. Dallas relaxed its rules for most businesses a few months ago.
But not for Dale Davenport's car wash. Dallas won't allow Dale to reopen because, shortly before the epidemic, they decreed his car wash a "hub for drug sales and crime."
His car wash is indeed in the middle of a high-crime neighborhood, and many cities have laws that let them close a business if the owners conceal crime.
But Davenport didn't do that. When he saw crime, he called 911. Dallas politicians then used his 911 calls against him, saying his frantic phone calls were evidence his business was a "public nuisance."
"This is absolutely crazy," complains Davenport.
Still, Davenport "bent over backwards" to do almost everything the politicians asked him to do.
"They said (to reduce crime), build a six-foot fence. I built an eight-foot fence," he tells me. "Then they said, put up signs. I already had signs up, so I put up more signs. Then they told me to put up lights. I already had lights up, so I put up more lights."
Politicians shut down businesses because of COVID-19.
But the rules don't apply to everyone.
In San Francisco, gyms were forced to close, but government gyms stayed open.
In my new video, we see a Dallas woman being jailed for keeping her salon open and a New Jersey man getting arrested after working out indoors.
Ordinary people who break the rules get punished.
But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Politicians are special.
Now, politicians have allowed more businesses to open. Dallas relaxed its rules for most businesses a few months ago.
But not for Dale Davenport's car wash. Dallas won't allow Dale to reopen because, shortly before the epidemic, they decreed his car wash a "hub for drug sales and crime."
His car wash is indeed in the middle of a high-crime neighborhood, and many cities have laws that let them close a business if the owners conceal crime.
But Davenport didn't do that. When he saw crime, he called 911. Dallas politicians then used his 911 calls against him, saying his frantic phone calls were evidence his business was a "public nuisance."
"This is absolutely crazy," complains Davenport.
Still, Davenport "bent over backwards" to do almost everything the politicians asked him to do.
"They said (to reduce crime), build a six-foot fence. I built an eight-foot fence," he tells me. "Then they said, put up signs. I already had signs up, so I put up more signs. Then they told me to put up lights. I already had lights up, so I put up more lights."
Could it be that corrupt Dallas politicians want the money for themselves?
"This is extortion," says Davenport.
We contacted all 14 city council members. Not one agreed to an interview.
Dallas has a rich history of political corruption. The guard company Davenport says the city wanted him to hire was owned by former councilman James Fantroy. In 2008, Fantroy went to prison for stealing $20,000 from a college.
Former Dallas city council members Dwaine Caraway, Paul Fielding and Don Hill were all jailed after being convicted of bribery or extortion.
Instead of paying car wash employees, Davenport now spends his money on lawyers, hoping to fight city hall. "This is wrong," says Davenport. "This is tyranny."
It's bad enough when politicians kill businesses with COVID-19 shutdowns. It's worse if they kill a business because the owner won't give money to their friends.
Politicians on the take? Hush your dirty mouth. They go in thousandaires and come out multi-millionaires by magic.
It's the failure of the system to punish political offenders, from Hillary to Pelosi, that PO's all of us out here.
Typical case of statists harassing a successful business because they can’t control it and want all of its money.
“In San Francisco, gyms were forced to close, but government gyms stayed open.”
You see the government owned businesses are exempt from the policies they enact. Just like Gavin Newsome at one time shutting down all vineyards in Napa Valley because of Covid-19....except for his of course until public outrage forced him to close it.
In WA, pot shops were deemed essential and churches were forced closed.
They ALL have a price tag hanging on them. More like an auction... the top bidderS own them.
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