FL Court Sanely Rules Against Political Force With Masks

realclearmarkets.com ^ | 6/14/2021 | Jeffrey Tucker

[rktman]

We’ve all been there – or most of us have – during these last 16 months. We’ve wondered, “Am I the crazy one or has the world gone crazy?” We were subjected to astounding mandates among which were restrictions on movement, commerce, travel, even worship. Government officials shut down vast amounts of society and told us that it was necessary and really a normal thing to do because of the public-health emergency.

“I've been the object myself of a phenomenal amount of hostility,” Anthony Fauci told Chelsea Clinton on her podcast, “merely because I'm promoting what are really fundamental, simple public health principles.”

The opening is a satisfying blast of clarity:

“From May 2020 until around mid-May 2021, anyone residing in or visiting Alachua County has found himself under the yoke of a mask mandate, accomplished through a series of emergency orders from the chair of the board of county commissioners. Under these fiats, any person in the county had to wear a government-approved face-covering to patronize a restaurant, grocery store, or retail establishment; visit or work on a construction site; or use public transit. The diktats also required that a person cover his face in any location “where social distancing measures are not possible.” One consequence for being caught without a mask was a fine. Another consequence was being subjected to whispering informants, impelled by county-designed publicity like the following proposed signage encouraging citizens to inform on their disobedient neighbors…. The threat of government-sponsored shaming was not an idle one.”

[rktman]

If only.............. Surely some other states will follow. Please? As for fauxcheeze and shell-sea's podcast.......... Really you assclown? You twist in the wind like a friggin' hurricane is howling. "No masks" to "wear 3 masks". You have ZERO credibility any longer.

[AnAmericanMother]

This is a wonderful piece of judicial jiu-jitsu . . . applying the broad constitutional language urged by leftists in an abortion case to the regulations instituted by leftists.

Well played, judge, well played!

[Zathras]

Phoenix is now 95% open.
Any company that gives me grief now gets the same message.
“Get with the program and by the way I will never be back”

[rktman]

Take that mask and shove it,
I aint shoppin’ here no more.

That comes to mind. 😷😂🙌

[cuban leaf]

bkmk

[cuban leaf]

we still have our costco account, but they were mask nazis on this thing and we got a Sam’s club membership. They have the signs, but I never had to wear a mask there.

[livius]

The decision further suggests that the same thinking could also rule out other invasions such as mandatory testing and vaccination, plus quarantines, all of which impinged on individual rights. The decision ends by anticipating the thinking of the dissenting opinion: “There is this warning from William Pitt the Younger, roughly paraphrasing a similar sentiment in John Milton’s Paradise Lost: ‘Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.’”

Good article about an excellent decision. I think it was Madison who supposedly said, "Crisis is the cry of the tyrant."

[rktman]

We shall see if it gets moved to a higher court. Greater good 🐃💩

[livius]

Ah, yes … the old greater good trick…

[zeugma]

Major kudos to the author for linking directly to the decision itself

[HamiltonJay]

let me guess... the perps were a bunch of lily white WASPs or AMISH

[rktman]

Uh, wrong post? 😂🙌