Tucker grills NJ governor on extreme coronavirus crackdown

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Prattling on about “saving precious lives” while his abortion clinics are all open. What a hypocrite.

[ml/nj]

So if the governor (who is supposed to enforce the law, not make the law) can prohibit people from attending religious gatherings, can he also order the death and quick disposal of bodies of those known to be carrying the virus?

ML/NJ

[a little elbow grease]

Murphy is a vile, contemptible PoS.

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Ye, he's a scumbag.

He wants to think he's a tough guy, but he's just an ignorant punk .... maybe like his father, as he described as " a high-school dropout who took any job he could including and for-pay pallbearer.

Classy .....

;-)

[glennaro]

Thinking further about the current situation in our country, there is another way of looking at why some of the governors continue to impose even more draconian restrictions on our liberty even while the virus is shown to be no more a threat than the "regular flu" as it runs its course. That is, maybe some of these governors (I'm thinking of Witmer of Michigan in particular), just cannot face making the decision to reopen their state.

Think about it. No matter what they do, people will die. If the governor frees them from the onerous shackles of forced isolation some will no doubt catch the virus and a small percentage will likely die ... illness and death caused by the virus that possibly wouldn't have happened had the house arrest and unsocial distancing mandates remained in place. Alternatively, the physical pain and psychological damage to people as these restrictions continue and continue to intensify will also cause people to become sick and some will die. The only difference is that this alternative will cause our Republic to die as well. In either scenario, the governor will be blamed for the death and destruction "they have caused".

The governors face a decision of epic proportions and they are the ones who must make it. I can't help but think that some of these governors are either incapable of making such a decision or they just don't want to do it ... they simply cannot face the fact that they have a decision to make (and they realize that continuing on the nation-destroying path we're on is itself a decision), and that they are the ones who must make it. I truly believe that in Witmer's case she is looking for someone -- anyone -- to rescue her from having to make a decision ... either to do it for her or to just to move her out of the way and relieve her of her duty.

I don't think any of this is an exaggeration. Near the end of Tucker Carlson's interview with the New Jersey governor (who clearly has an enormous resposibility and the big problem he faces with such a dense population), where Tucker persists in asking how the governor is dealing with balancing "keeping people healthy and safe" with crushing their freedom by effectively suspending the Constitution with the continuing mandates and intrusions into citizens' private lives, it was clear the governor was, understandably, extremely uncomfortable with what he -- and he alone -- is doing to decent Americans, and that he is very unsure of how things will proceed from here. But also clear was his statement that the virus must to "controlled" before liberty can be restored in New Jersey. My sense is that Governor Phil Murphy is well aware of the damaging effects that action could mean to our Republic if in fact "control of the virus" must -- must! -- be accomplished before liberty and the U.S. Constitution can be restored in New Jersey.

Considering what has happened to our country in just one month's time, it's clear we are living through one of the most dangerous periods in American history. Please urge your friends and family to watch Carlson's interview with Governor Murphy, particularly the last five minutes or so to gain critical insight on what the leaders of our society -- of our Republic -- are thinking.

[chrisnj]

We should fire this POS for he is obviously not suitable to be a governor.
We couldn’t even contact him to express our 2-cents - must be too many New Jersey people trying to give him an earful?
It would be useless talking to this idiot, but we have to descend upon him en masse so he knows We the People are not going to take it any more!
Hopefully Pres Trump can put pressure on this idiot to open up NJ’s economy.
We won’t mind seeing the NJ ‘government’ suffer extreme poverty if it does not affect us.

[richardtavor]

Sure, what is the leap? Disregard the Constitution without declaring Marshal Law?

[richardtavor]

Your argument is well stated. However, should not Marshal Law be declared to suspend Constitutional rights? Or must citizens seek redress at the Department of Justice or the Supreme Court? I thought the only leg he could stand on would be with due process, and there seems to be none.

[KrisKrinkle]

“However, should not Marshal Law be declared to suspend Constitutional rights?”

To suspend them, yes. The question is whether a suspension of rights is what’s happening here or it’s a drawing of the line between conflicting rights, a decision as to under what circumstances one right ends and another begins, a decision made through appropriate processes.

I believe we have decided that “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins” except that’s not always true because we’ve also decided, I believe, that if you burst through my door and take a swing at me I have the right to swing my fist solidly into your nose. We’ve drawn a line, made a decision about the circumstances under which one right ends and another begins.

“Or must citizens seek redress at the Department of Justice or the Supreme Court? “

If rights have been wrongly suspended or if there is disagreement about where the line between rights is drawn, citizens should seek redress at the local and state level before going to the Federal level.