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Ted Cruz: ‘WE DON’T LIVE IN A POLICE STATE
ACM ^ | April 5,2020 | JD Rucker

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 But in Pennsylvania, the spirit of caution has been replaced by authoritarianism and overt abuse of power as law enforcement officers have been ordered to ticket people simply for driving without an “essential” purpose.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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To: Lurkinanloomin

Several states and election boards filed lawsuits against Cruz over this question. They all lost. Believe what you want.


41 posted on 04/05/2020 6:07:50 PM PDT by BigB60
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Go wherever you wish. Just take along a shopping list with tampons on it and be prepared to tell the Gestapo that you’re identifying as a lassie today.

Should work particularly well in lib sh*tholes.


42 posted on 04/05/2020 6:12:09 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: servantboy777

Keep him as your Senator, please.

My states demise started during the W years as the invasion reached us.
The growth if Fedzilla and the wave of illegals added to the VA GOP being dominated by Bush League Republicans determined to keep us from stopping the illegal alien invasion has ruined the once great Commonwealth.
If Grahamnesty and the rest of the Amnesty Senators get their way Texas won’t be far behind.


43 posted on 04/05/2020 6:12:47 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Grampa Dave

LOL, that’s a great one.


44 posted on 04/05/2020 6:13:32 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Yogafist

I wonder what would happen if you told the gestapo to f&#k themselves?


45 posted on 04/05/2020 6:18:24 PM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: Carl Vehse

“Governors and mayors who act like little Mussolinis need to be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be publicly hanged.“

... I think it would make a more lasting impression if we cut to the chase and just hang these traitors.


46 posted on 04/05/2020 6:20:07 PM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
How does that work? If I am driving can they pull me over for no other reason except to ask what my essential purpose is? Can I exercise the 5th? Or is that suspended as well?

I guess if I was pulled over I would insist on being advised of what law I was violating, what the penalty was of violating that law, when the law (if any) was passed and by whom and have the officer write a ticket. Chances are as soon as I am allowed to go I would probably tear up the citation.

47 posted on 04/05/2020 6:20:54 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: semaj

Well, there was a paddle boarder out here who apparently tried that. I think he got arrested. On a side note, I live in LA county and I rode my bicycle for 3 twenty five mile rides last week and ran twice. I passed cops every trip and they never even looked at me. And the trail I ride had crowds similar to holidays.


48 posted on 04/05/2020 6:23:30 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Lurkinanloomin
I lived in Virginia for about a year back in 96...couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. They'd tax your breath if they could. One of the most regulated states I've ever been.

That whole NE part of the country is freakin messed up. Y'all keep voting yourselves into socialism.

Northam? Terry McAuliffe? Good grief!

Yea...we'll keep Cruz thank ya very much.

49 posted on 04/05/2020 6:25:26 PM PDT by servantboy777
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Bump


50 posted on 04/05/2020 6:31:50 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Grampa Dave

That is a true Texan.


51 posted on 04/05/2020 6:38:24 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: Hojczyk
"to prevent the spread of the coronavirus"

It's really only a spread speed control Ted.

52 posted on 04/05/2020 6:39:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ClearCase_guy

No 401k, no Peace.


53 posted on 04/05/2020 6:40:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Never, ever talk to the cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE


54 posted on 04/05/2020 6:43:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Hojczyk

I live in CT. On the local “open forum” FB group I have seen plenty of liberals, mostly Gen X and Female, talking about how upset they are when they see people simply outside. Anything from a couple who lives tougher walking their dog or a bunch a cars at a state park and whining about “MuY SOciAl dIstANcIng” and how they should start calling the police on hikers or a father and son playing catch.

Luckily, more and more people have been telling these people to go pound sand. Some are essentially bragging how long they have not even opened the front door and how good they are for following Comrade Lamont’s orders.


55 posted on 04/05/2020 7:15:47 PM PDT by matt04
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To: servantboy777
Can't believe people have a hard on for Cruz when he has done a great job for Texas

I recall the Chicago Trump rally that never happened as Trump had to cancel due to all violence and threats that were going on near the venue while he was in the air. Later Cruz told the leftist media what they wanted to hear, suggesting and implying all the violence was Trump's fault.

That leftist BS did it for me.

56 posted on 04/05/2020 7:28:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I will NEVER forgive him for claiming Grandparents deserved to be beaten for their choice of candidate. NEVER!


57 posted on 04/05/2020 7:30:19 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: servantboy777

I like Ted too. Always have. Wish he and Trump hadn’t gotten so tangled up during the election. I think they have put that behind them.


58 posted on 04/05/2020 7:32:29 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY)
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To: semaj

A trial and conviction sets a legal precedent that can be applied to the cornucopia of other traitorous Demonicrats.


59 posted on 04/05/2020 7:33:25 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Hojczyk; All

Just talked to a close friend in Australia.

$1,000 fine if they are stopped while driving, and they do not have an “essential” purpose.


60 posted on 04/05/2020 7:35:55 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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