Posted on 03/15/2023 5:52:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
Enforcers of the county’s rules reported the number of cars in the parking lot, whether or not masks were being worn, and even instances of hugging.
SAN JOSE, California (LifeSiteNews) — A Christian church in California’s Santa Clara County was hit with hefty fines and its members were surveilled via stakeouts, cell phone monitoring, and other measures “reminiscent of totalitarian regimes” after the church defied the county’s draconian COVID-19 lockdown rules in 2020, according to a March 5 report by independent journalist David Zweig.
San Jose’s Calvary Christian Fellowship, headed by pastor Mike McClure, openly defied the Silicon Valley county’s harsh lockdown rules in May 2020 after initially complying with them, Zweig reported.
“After two months of isolation, many congregants were teetering toward despair,” Zweig said, noting that the church’s decision to buck the county’s mandate to lock down provided congregants with much-needed “mental, spiritual, and physical” assistance.
The Christian community’s defiance of the COVID mandates soon made it a thorn in the county’s side.
Santa Clara reportedly began slamming the church with fine after fine for such violations as failure to social distance, to wear masks, and even failure to comply with the county’s rules against singing.
Zweig said the county ended up “levying more than $2 million in fines against Calvary” and implementing a “multi-faceted surveillance program of the church and its members,” a “spy operation” that “included stakeouts, forced in-person monitoring of prayer groups and other intimate activities, and tracking the cellular mobility data of churchgoers.”
According to Zweig, who published his report after viewing troves of legal filings, the operation was “breathtaking in scope and reminiscent of totalitarian regimes, rather than an American county health department.”
The church soon shut out officers with Santa Clara’s Business Compliance Unit after they began openly surveilling and reporting on........
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Every single person and government organization needs to be sued into oblivion.
Just the locals letting their inner totalitarianism show.
thank God for Calvary. they simply chose to do the right thing: to obey God instead of man. too bad the county persists in it’s evil against Calvary, even after the USSC ruled against it.
Greasy Newscum & CA Assembly RATs very own GESTAPO, ya think?
I’m sure they were just practicing.
I thought the 2000 Mules strategy didn’t work.
I support the death penalty for all of those who participated in any way with this intentional violation of their God given rights.
They knew what they were doing.
Nothing less will stop this BS from happening again.
Santa Clara County (Sheriff's Department) was the personal thuggery of recently Convicted, Woke Sheriff and 2A criminal Bribe Taking Lori Smith, now removed from office.
The Prog Marxism runs Deep in CA Government.
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