Posted on 05/19/2023 6:25:45 PM PDT by lightman
Justice Neil Gorsuch called government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic the “greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country” on Thursday...
“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale,” he said. “Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on.” ...
Gorsuch slammed deference to “experts” for decision-making during the pandemic and warned that doing so could lead to losing “many cherished civil liberties.”
“One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces,” he said. “They can lead to a clamor for action — almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties — the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes.”...
During a remote address to the Federalist Society in November 2020, Justice Samuel Alito similarly said that the pandemic “has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Benjamin Franklin warned:
"Those who abandon liberty out of a desire for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety"
Gorsuch is right.
Sorry, but that is Captain Obvious.
It taught the American people* to cower in obedience when told to do so for the first time in history. Now the Great Reset team can use that in the future at will.
* Not us.
Wow. The other lefties won’t like him admitting this.
Justice Neil Gorsuch called government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic the “greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country” on Thursday...
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Wartime also. Internment camps held 125,000 Japanese people in World War Two. I wonder how many MILLIONS OF AMERICANS were held in 2020?
The greatest sin of the Covid pandemic was not all those restrictions.
The greatest sin was that no debate was permitted. No debate! Every objection, every alternate view, was brutally suppressed. It was either Fauci’s way or the highway. So much for scientific freedom.
And we have learned nothing from this. Consider ‘Climate Change’. It’s Greta Thunberg’s way or the highway. Try to present an alternative view, and you will be shouted down. You might even be assaulted.
Again, so much for scientific freedom.
Voting procedures were installed that allowed election fraud to lead the overthrow of a President.
Fauci funded the creation of a virus that would kill millions and Americans gave up fundamental rights out of fear. Of course Fauci and his wife received millions and millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies for what he did. Now he will retire with millions in the bank after all those lies that he said. Justice would be for him to get a nasty updated virus and not survive.
“Voting procedures were installed that allowed election fraud to lead the overthrow of a President.”
Yup.
TO LATE! SHOULD HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN APRIL 2020!
Sorry, but that is Captain Obvious.
Agree.
We need something more profound, from these SCJs.
Yet the USSC upheld those violations of liberty many times.
Why? Orange Man Bad. They knew that that,along with voter fraud,was their only chance.
An example: The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in December 2019 was 2.8%. In July 2020,about four months after the Trump hating RINO Governor had completely shut down the state,it was 11.8%
And yet this very same Supreme Court voted 5-4 that mandating Covid vaccination for health care workers is A-okay.
Thank you Supreme Court for the obvious interpretation 2 years after the worse ended. The courts really need to gut and castrate the administrative agencies. Republicans need to pass a reestablishment and redirection law that agencies must be reaffirmed every 7-10 years and their responsibilities severely limited in scope. Most of them are runaway powers delegated by Congress. For the executive agencies, they need to be “enabled” in the same timeline.
But it didn't.
They also illegally changed elections but -— no standing. right judge?
Never forget that the federal gov’t passed the CARES Act which injected $2 trillion into the economy, making the shutdown less painful for the people and kicking off the inflation spike we are still living with today.
Trump — a man so powerful that the puny people had to create a worldwide disease just to stop him. And in the end they didn’t, really.
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