Posted on 04/05/2020 5:17:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk
There are few places in this nation safer from the coronavirus than seclusion in one’s vehicle. While driving, we are neither likely to contract the disease nor spread it to others. But in Pennsylvania, the spirit of caution has been replaced by authoritarianism and overt abuse of power as law enforcement officers have been ordered to ticket people simply for driving without an “essential” purpose.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) took great exception to news of this degree of enforcement.
politicians (and it seems to be only Dems doing this, eg Wolf in PA, DeBlasio in NYC, Cooper in NC), protect public safety, but WE DON’T LIVE IN A POLICE STATE. Resist authoritarianism & don’t abuse power. Driving a car alone is not a public health threat.
understandable considering the lockdowns. People do not like to feel as if they’re prisoners, even in our own homes. She was putting nobody at risk, including herself, yet she was pulled over and ticketed. That’s not the American way. At least it shouldn’t be.
Some would say we should wait until after the coronavirus crisis before we move forward. That would be a tremendous mistake for two reasons. First, trying to pry newfound power from authoritarian progressives is like trying to take a bone from a hungry rottweiler. Second, the longer the people are exposed to draconian policies, the more normalized it becomes. We cannot afford to wait to defend our rights.
There is a right way and wrong way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. While the left is quick to say we must “listen to doctors” and “follow the science,” they are very selective about which doctors and what science we’re supposed to follow. Anyone who calls for locking the entire nation down with an iron fist is popular
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wake up Ted....you live in a police state...
The horse is out of the barn, Ted
We do now.
Ted has contributed to the undermining of the Constitution by running for President while Canadian.
But he is right about this.
We should not just take it when they take it too far.
Then I guess I don’t know what one is because it sure seems like we do.
Some of us here are saying “I don’t want to live in a police state”.
And others here are saying “All you care about is your 401(k)!”
Some people are missing the point.
“Ted Cruz: ‘WE DON’T LIVE IN A POLICE STATE..”
Not in Texas but how about NY, NJ, CT, CA?
Thanks Ted. Way to be on top of the issues.
yes we do and this is just practice
well I’ve gone on drive arounds since this started...I don’t get out of the vehicle but I do go out and drive around. Breaks up the cabin fever.
even Florida. I was thrown off of a no drive beach yesterday where there wasn’t another person for miles. We are absolutely becoming a police state.
Um, I am currently under house arrest and I have not committed any crime nor have I been convicted. They say it is for protection, but the only threat I present is purely hypothetical, and based on wildly uncertain predictions. Please tell me about not living in a police state. Oh, drat, my neighbor is calling Garcetti on me again.
But Ted, we DO live in a police state to this extent and for this purpose. There’s a reason for these measures. They are not arbitrary or capricious. They were instated by representatives elected by voters .....people like you.
I go for my walk around town. No problems... yet.
VA too.
Are you kidding about Texas? most of my family lives in east Texas and they are taking a very heavy handed approach to the order to stay at home. I have even had a family member stopped and told to complete what he was doing and return home.
Nope, the one stopped lives in Lufkin.
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