lockdown - Forum - Command Center2024-03-28T08:50:38Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/lockdownThe MSM Won't Show You - California is Standing Up to Newsomhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/the-msm-won-t-show-you-california-is-standing-up-to-newsom2020-05-25T13:55:39.000Z2020-05-25T13:55:39.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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<p>The Department of Justice today filed a statement of interest in an Illinois federal court in support of a lawsuit filed by Illinois state representative Darren Bailey challenging certain actions of Governor J.B. Pritzker in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>The Statement of Interest is part of <a class="doj-analytics-processed" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1271456/download">Attorney General William P. Barr’s April 27, 2020 initiative</a> directing Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, to review state and local policies to ensure that civil liberties are protected during the COVID-19 pandemic. </p>
<p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governor of Illinois has, over the past two months, sought to rely on authority under the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act to impose sweeping limitations on nearly all aspects of life for citizens of Illinois, significantly impairing in some instances their ability to maintain their economic livelihoods. According to the lawsuit, the Governor’s actions are not authorized by state law, as they extend beyond the 30-day time period imposed by the Illinois legislature for the Governor’s exercise of emergency powers granted under the Act. </p>
<p>Representative Bailey brought his case in Illinois state court and elected only to assert state law claims. On May 15, the presiding state court judge ordered Bailey to file his motion for summary judgment by May 18 and instructed the Governor to respond to it by May 21. A hearing on the motion for summary judgment was scheduled to take place in state court today. Yesterday, however, instead of responding to Bailey’s motion for summary judgment, the Governor removed the case to federal district court. </p>
<p>“The Governor of Illinois owes it to the people of Illinois to allow his state’s courts to adjudicate the question of whether Illinois law authorizes orders he issued to respond to COVID-19,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division. “The United States Constitution and state constitutions established a system of divided and limited governmental power, and they did so to secure the blessings of liberty to all people in our country. Under our system, all public officials, including governors, must comply with the law, especially during times of crisis. The Department of Justice remains committed to defending the rule of law and the American people at all times, especially during this difficult time as we deal with COVID-19 pandemic.”</p>
<p>“However well-intentioned they may be, the executive orders appear to reach far beyond the scope of the 30-day emergency authority granted to the Governor under Illinois law,” said Steven D. Weinhoeft, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. “Even during times of crisis, executive actions undertaken in the name of public safety must be lawful. And while the people of Illinois must be physically protected from the effects of this public health crisis, including by complying with CDC guidelines their constitutionally guaranteed rights and liberties must be safeguarded as well.” </p>
<p>In its statement of interest, the United States explains that this dispute belongs in Illinois state court, and that Representative Bailey has raised substantial questions as to whether the Governor’s current response to COVID-19 is lawful. Although the complaint does not raise any federal constitutional claims, the statement explains, “It is up to the Illinois courts to rule on Plaintiff’s claims, which, because of the sweeping nature of the Orders, may affect millions of lives and raise significant constitutional concerns in other litigation.” Even in the face of a pandemic, states must comply with their own laws in making these sensitive policy choices in a manner responsive to the people and, in doing so, both respect and serve the goals of our broader federal structure, including the guarantee of due process in the U.S. Constitution. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-statement-interest-challenging-legality-illinois-governors-sweeping">https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-statement-interest-challenging-legality-illinois-governors-sweeping</a></p>
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</div></div>California doctors say they've seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus since lockdownshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/california-doctors-say-they-ve-seen-more-deaths-from-suicide-than2020-05-22T20:49:59.000Z2020-05-22T20:49:59.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_1024x576&url=151Hi7_0P7jCRCc00" alt="Northern California MDs Report More Suicide Deaths During COVID-19 ..." /></p>
<p>Doctors in Northern California say they have seen more deaths from suicide than they’ve seen from the coronavirus during the pandemic.</p>
<div id="dyId65f061723e225fe1">“The numbers are unprecedented,” Dr. Michael deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, <a href="https://abc7news.com/suicide-covid-19-coronavirus-rates-during-pandemic-death-by/6201962/" target="_blank"><u>told ABC 7 News</u></a> about the increase of deaths by suicide, adding that he’s seen a “year’s worth of suicides” in the last four weeks alone.</div>
<p>DeBoisblanc said he believes it’s time for California officials to end the stay-at-home order and let people back out into their communities.</p>
<p>"Personally, I think it's time," he said. "I think, originally, this was put in place to flatten the curve and to make sure hospitals have the resources to take care of COVID patients. We have the current resources to do that, and our other community health is suffering."</p>
<p>Kacey Hansen, a trauma center nurse at John Muir Medical Center for more than 30 years, says she’s worried not only about the increased suicide attempts but also about the hospital’s ability to save as many patients as usual.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-doctors-say-theyve-seen-more-deaths-from-suicide-than-coronavirus-since-lockdowns">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-doctors-say-theyve-seen-more-deaths-from-suicide-than-coronavirus-since-lockdowns</a></p></div>'Mass casualty incident': Over 600 doctors sign letter warning Trump of dangers of continued lockdownshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/mass-casualty-incident-over-600-doctors-sign-letter-warning-trump2020-05-21T12:04:31.000Z2020-05-21T12:04:31.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB12LLkz.img?h=945&w=1685&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=t&l=f&f=jpg&x=2504&y=1088" alt="The rightwing groups behind wave of protests against Covid-19 ..." /></p>
<p>Over 600 doctors signed a letter urging President Trump to end the nationwide coronavirus shutdowns and referred to orders issued by states keeping businesses closed as a “mass casualty incident” with devastating consequences.</p>
<div id="dyId85f001723712f64c">The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/462319362/A-Doctor-a-Day-Letter-Signed" target="_blank"><u>letter</u></a> points out the negative consequences that doctors have observed since state governments started issuing their stay-at-home orders, including patients missing checkups with doctors, increases in substance abuse and alcohol abuse, and negative financial implications, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doctors-raise-alarm-about-health-effects-of-continued-coronavirus-shutdown" target="_blank"><u>according to Fox News</u></a>.</div>
<p>"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the letter said. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."</p>
<p>“In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident,” the letter continued. "The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse.”</p>
<p>One of the doctors named in the letter, Dr. Mark McDonald, told Fox News that the indirect effects of the shutdown outweigh the direct consequences that would follow if the shutdowns were lifted.</p>
<p>"The very initial argument ... which sounded reasonable three months ago, is that in order to limit the overwhelmed patient flux into hospitals that would prevent adequate care, we needed to spread out the infections and thus the deaths in specific locales that could become hot spots, particularly New York City ... It was a valid argument at the beginning based on the models that were given," McDonald said. "What we've seen now over the last three months is that no city — none, zero — outside of New York has even been significantly stressed."</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mass-casualty-incident-over-600-doctors-sign-letter-warning-trump-of-dangers-of-continued-lockdowns">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mass-casualty-incident-over-600-doctors-sign-letter-warning-trump-of-dangers-of-continued-lockdowns</a></p></div>#OperationHaircut-Michigan Patriot demands his God-given Constitutional liberties be restoredhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/operationhaircut-michigan-patriot-demands-his-god-given-constitut2020-05-20T22:01:51.000Z2020-05-20T22:01:51.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OperationHaircut?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OperationHaircut</a>-Michigan Patriot demands his God-given Constitutional liberties be restored:”I’ve been denied my livelihood by <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWhitmer</a>...this is not a police state; I REFUSE to live in a police state-I will NOT stand down!”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReOpenAmerica?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReOpenAmerica</a><a href="https://t.co/0VIQ5MlmTr">https://t.co/0VIQ5MlmTr</a></p>— DrConservaMom (@ConservaMomUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConservaMomUSA/status/1263178202647855109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Crowd Cheers After Police Refuse To Enforce New Jersey Lockdown Order At Gymhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/crowd-cheers-after-police-refuse-to-enforce-new-jersey-lockdown-o2020-05-18T22:13:06.000Z2020-05-18T22:13:06.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“HAVE A GOOD DAY”: Police in Camden County told the owners of a New Jersey gym that reopened this morning that they were “formally” in violation of the state’s shutdown order. “On that note, have a good day. Everybody be safe.”<br /><br />MORE: <a href="https://t.co/3Z7cCCYbKX">https://t.co/3Z7cCCYbKX</a> <a href="https://t.co/hdV14hb475">pic.twitter.com/hdV14hb475</a></p>
— FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) <a href="https://twitter.com/FOX29philly/status/1262401119449493505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Italian Politician Demands Bill Gates Arrest For Crimes Against Humanityhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/italian-politician-demands-bill-gates-arrest-for-crimes-against-h2020-05-18T15:00:52.000Z2020-05-18T15:00:52.000ZMarilyn Calkinshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MarilynCalkins<div><p>As the FDA shuts down a Bill Gates-funded COVID-testing program, an Italian politician has demanded the arrest of Bill Gates in the Italian parliament.</p><p>Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome denounced Bill Gates as a “vaccine criminal” and urged the Italian President to hand him over to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.</p><p>She also exposed Bill Gates’ agenda in India and Africa, along with the plans to chip the human race through the digital identification program ID2020.</p><p>As reported by GreatGameIndia earlier, in 2015 it were the Italians who exposed secret Chinese biological experiments with Coronavirus. The video, which was broadcast in November, 2015, showed how Chinese scientists were doing biological experiments on a SARS connected virus believed to be Coronavirus, derived from bats and mice, asking whether it was worth the risk in order to be able to modify the virus for compatibility with human organisms.</p><p>In an extraordinary seven-minute speech met with wide applause, Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome said that Italy had been subjected to a “Holy Inquisition of false science.”</p><p>She roundly criticized the unnecessary lockdown imposed on her fellow Italians in the service of a globalist agenda. She urged fellow political leaders to desist in any plans to compel citizens to surrender themselves to compulsory COVID-19 vaccination at the hands of the corrupt elite – whom she identified as the Deep State.</p><div class="section2"> </div><p>Below is the transcription of the full speech delivered to the Italian Parliament by Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome.</p><p> </p><p>ARTICLE & VIDEO CONTINUED: <a href="https://americantruthtoday.com/politics/2020/05/17/italian-politician-demands-bill-gates-arrest-for-crimes-against-humanity/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=americantriumph-iitalian-05_17-pm" target="_blank">https://americantruthtoday.com/politics/2020/05/17/italian-politician-demands-bill-gates-arrest-for-crimes-against-humanity/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=americantriumph-iitalian-05_17-pm</a></p></div>New York Protesters Chant Fake News Is Not Essentialhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/new-york-protesters-chant-fake-news-is-not-essential2020-05-15T00:27:25.000Z2020-05-15T00:27:25.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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— Karli Q - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@KarluskaP) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1261076330222882818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>WATCH: NY Mayor De Blasio Arrests Peaceful Reopen Patriots While Rolling out Red Carpet for Jihad Jew-Hating, Anti-Police Sarsour Protesthttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/watch-ny-mayor-de-blasio-arrests-peaceful-reopen-patriots-while-r2020-05-14T17:09:02.000Z2020-05-14T17:09:02.000ZMarilyn Calkinshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MarilynCalkins<div><p>The tyrannical NYC Mayor has imposed a ban on our first amendment right to protest. We have filed a lawsuit against the Mayor and NYPD Commision for this blatant violation of our first amednement rights.</p><p>Enforcement is selective.</p><p>This past weekend, De Blasio <a href="https://gellerreport.com/2020/05/de-blasion-arrests-nyers.html/">arrested peaceful patriots.</a><br />Nine protesters pushing for the Empire State to reopen from its coronavirus lockdown were busted Saturday afternoon outside City Hall, for not obeying social distancing guidelines, sources told <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/09/reopen-ny-protesters-busted-outside-new-york-city-hall/">The Post.</a></p><p>But when jihad spokesperson Jew hater and terror spox Linda Sarsour held a protest against a non existent stop and frisk policy. She was given the royal treatment.</p><p>We will be in court on Friday.</p><p> </p><p>ARTICLE & VIDEO CONTINUED: <a href="https://gellerreport.com/2020/05/de-blasios-nazi-protest-policies.html/" target="_blank">https://gellerreport.com/2020/05/de-blasios-nazi-protest-policies.html/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>MI Gov. Whitmer: Racist, Misogynistic Lockdown Protesters ‘Calling for Violence’https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/mi-gov-whitmer-racist-misogynistic-lockdown-protesters-calling-fo2020-05-14T10:47:47.000Z2020-05-14T10:47:47.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://www.bridgemi.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_image/public/hero_images/3lead.jpeg?itok=uv6EXA2F" alt="Meet the Trump-loving group behind protest of Michigan Gov ..." /></p>
<p>Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) declared the “racist and misogynistic” lockdown protesters opposing her order were “calling for violence.”</p>
<p>Whitmer said, “Well, I do think that the fact of the matter is these protests, you know, in a perverse way make it likelier that we’re going to have to stay in a stay-at-home posture. The whole point of them supposedly is they don’t want to be doing that, and that’s why I’m asking that everyone with a platform call on people to do the right thing. You know, these have been really political rallies where people come with Confederate flags and Nazi symbolism and calling for violence. This is not appropriate in a global pandemic, but it’s certainly not an exercise of democratic principles where we have free speech. This is calls to violence. This is racist and misogynistic, and I ask that everyone who has a platform uses it to call on people to observe the best practices by the CDC, and to stop encouraging this behavior because it only makes it that much more precarious for us to try to reengage our economy which is what everyone says they want us to be able to do.”</p>
<p>read more:<br /><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/13/mi-gov-whitmer-racist-misogynistic-lockdown-protesters-calling-for-violence/">https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/13/mi-gov-whitmer-racist-misogynistic-lockdown-protesters-calling-for-violence/</a></p></div>L.A. County ‘with all certainty’ to keep stay-at-home orders in place for next three monthshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/l-a-county-with-all-certainty-to-keep-stay-at-home-orders-in-plac2020-05-12T22:51:38.000Z2020-05-12T22:51:38.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://www.nbc4i.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/03/AP676933581033.jpg" alt="LIST: States that have issued stay-at-home orders during the ..." /></p>
<p>Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.</p>
<p>Although county health officer Dr. Muntu Davis has not issued an official extension, Ferrer said that timeline would shorten only if there was a “dramatic change to the virus and tools at hand.”</p>
<p>“Our hope is that by using the data, we’d be able to slowly lift restrictions over the next three months,” she said. But without widely available testing for the coronavirus or rapid home kits that would allow people to test themselves daily, it seems unlikely that the social distancing directives and stay-at-home orders would be completely eased.</p>
<p>Neither Ferrer nor county health officials were immediately available to directly offer additional details. However, the county has already started to ease some restrictions and reopen the local economy under a five-step plan.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavirus-beaches-reopen-los-angeles-county-move-toward-new-normal">https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavirus-beaches-reopen-los-angeles-county-move-toward-new-normal</a></p></div>Elon Musk defies coronavirus lockdown and reopens Tesla plant in Californiahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/elon-musk-defies-coronavirus-lockdown-and-reopens-tesla-plant-in-2020-05-11T22:17:41.000Z2020-05-11T22:17:41.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a9aff0a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/640x360+0+0/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediaassets.wtvr.com%2Ftribune-network%2Ftribwtvr-files-wordpress%2F2018%2F08%2F180530115138-elon-musk-tesla-investors-grumbling-photo-illo-640x360.jpg" alt="Federal judge sets April 4 hearing for Elon Musk contempt case" /></p>
<p>Employees were seen reporting to the Tesla facility in Fremont early Monday</p>
<p>Tesla filed a lawsuit against Alameda County on Saturday after the Fremont plant was shuttered amid the statewide lockdown on March 23</p>
<p>The suit claims county officials ignored Gov Gavin Newsom's allowances for '16 crucial infrastructure industries,' including transportation, to continue operating</p>
<p>Musk announced the legal action on Twitter, threatening to move the automaker's headquarters to another state Tesla said it implemented strict safety measures prior to reopening the plant Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19</p>
<p>Elon Musk appears to have reopened a Tesla plant in defiance of California's coronavirus lockdown restrictions two days after the automaker sued local authorities over the facility's closure.</p>
<p>Employees were seen reporting to the Tesla facility in Fremont before sunrise on Monday in footage from local media outlet KPIX.</p>
<p>Tesla filed a lawsuit against Alameda County on Saturday after the Fremont plant was shuttered amid the statewide lockdown on March 23.</p>
<p>The suit claims that county officials ignored Gov Gavin Newsom's allowances for '16 crucial infrastructure industries,' including transportation, to continue operating.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8308683/Elon-Musk-defies-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-Tesla-plant-California.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8308683/Elon-Musk-defies-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-Tesla-plant-California.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus</a></p></div>California Protests Sees Thousands Gather Against Gavin Newsom's Lockdown Ordershttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/california-protests-sees-thousands-gather-against-gavin-newsom-s-2020-05-09T22:57:22.000Z2020-05-09T22:57:22.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Thousands gather to protest <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> Stay-At-Home Order. It’s time to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndLockdownNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EndLockdownNow</a>!! AMERICA wants to WORK! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteRedToSaveCalifornia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VoteRedToSaveCalifornia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump2020NowMoreThanEver?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trump2020NowMoreThanEver</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteRedToSaveAmerica?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VoteRedToSaveAmerica</a> <a href="https://t.co/x4THyTdFW2">pic.twitter.com/x4THyTdFW2</a></p>
— Juliet.(@Julietknows1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julietknows1/status/1259254176099569672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Anti-Trump Mayor Taunts Lock-Down Protesters and Laid Off Workers While His Business Is Openhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/anti-trump-mayor-taunts-lock-down-protesters-and-laid-off-workers2020-05-09T21:21:35.000Z2020-05-09T21:21:35.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://blnnewsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/koos-taunts-2.jpg?w=756" alt="Chris Koos taunts protestors – BlnNews" /></p>
<p>The U.S. debate over restrictions for fighting the coronavirus intensified, as protesters labeled mandatory lockdowns as “tyranny,” while medical workers and health experts cautioned that lifting them too soon risked unleashing a greater disaster.</p>
<p>Liberals want a lockdown but only if that doesn’t hurt their business. From BLN News:</p>
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<p>In response to citizens peaceably protesting yesterday-</p>
<p>Normal Il mayor taunted “nonessential” struggling citizens and business owners while his business is OPEN. The banner proves he has NO compassion for his own community. He knew people were coming to protest, his message to those NOT ALLOWED to work: his middle finger! Worse – Koos told the police to fine or arrest nonessential citizens who dare to earn a living.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.rightjournalism.com/anti-trump-mayor-taunts-lock-down-protesters-and-laid-off-workers-while-his-business-is-open/">https://www.rightjournalism.com/anti-trump-mayor-taunts-lock-down-protesters-and-laid-off-workers-while-his-business-is-open/</a></p></div>Heil De Blasio! No protests allowed in NYChttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/heil-de-blasio-no-protests-allowed-in-nyc2020-05-06T22:08:22.000Z2020-05-06T22:08:22.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://www.rightcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/04/de-blasio-commie-600x400-1.jpg" alt="Commie Mayor de Blasio's Nazi-Style Snitch Line Ruined By Trolls ..." /></p>
<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea stated outright this week that people are not permitted to gather for protests in public due to the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>The city leaders pointed to the need to maintain social distancing in order to prevent greater spread of COVID-19, stating that this takes precedence over people's rights to exercise their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly.</p>
<p>"You're talking about some of the values we hold in the highest regard in this country and certainly in this city, the right for people to gather, the right to free speech and the right to protest," Shea said during a Monday press briefing. "But now comes the bad news, we're in a pandemic and executive orders have been issued, these are laws that have been passed down through executive order to keep people alive, while we greatly, greatly respect the right of people to protest, there should not be protests taking place in the middle of a pandemic by gathering outside and putting people at risk."</p>
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<p>read more:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-nypd-commish-no-protests-allowed-in-nyc">https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-nypd-commish-no-protests-allowed-in-nyc</a></p>
<p> </p></div>Wisconsin Supreme Court justice questions whether stay-at-home orders are 'definition of tyranny'https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-questions-whether-stay-at-home-or2020-05-06T13:11:32.000Z2020-05-06T13:11:32.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/11/71/43/19372240/31/920x920.jpg" alt="Conservative justices bash Wisconsin stay-at-home order - Laredo ..." /></p>
<p>A conservative justice on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is questioning whether Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s stay-at-home orders are the “definition of tyranny.”</p>
<p>Evers issued his first stay-at-home order on March 24 and then extended it on April 16. It is currently set to expire on May 26, but a case brought by Republican legislative leaders could scale it back immediately.</p>
<p>"My question for you is, where in the constitution did the people of Wisconsin confer authority on a single, unelected Cabinet secretary to compel almost 6 million people to stay at home and close their businesses and face imprisonment if they don't comply, with no input from the Legislature, without the consent of the people?" Justice Rebecca Bradley said during oral arguments heard via video conference, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.</p>
<p>"Isn't it the very definition of tyranny for one person to order people to be imprisoned for going to work, among other ordinarily lawful activities?" she added.</p>
<p>Bradley offered the remark after Assistant Attorney General Colin Roth of Wisconsin said “people will die” if the order is repealed with nothing to replace it.</p>
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<p><a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3842033/posts">http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3842033/posts</a></p></div>North Dallas Salon Owner Owner Shelley Luther sentenced to 7 days in jail by a judge for opening her businesshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/north-dallas-salon-owner-owner-shelley-luther-sentenced-to-7-days2020-05-05T21:09:28.000Z2020-05-05T21:09:28.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">THIS WOMAN IS MY NEW HERO! She has a spine of pure titanium. God bless her! <a href="https://t.co/PsktUvStVo">https://t.co/PsktUvStVo</a></p>— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1257808419505012736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">North Dallas Salon Owner Owner Shelley Luther just sentenced to 7 days in jail by a judge for opening her business according to <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS11Andrea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBS11Andrea</a> Lucia The salon owner was served with a temporary restraining order to close last week which she vowed to ignore <a href="https://t.co/akiZrUKCZz">pic.twitter.com/akiZrUKCZz</a></p>— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://twitter.com/jdmiles11/status/1257773724457197568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">BREAKING: Shelley Luther, a Dallas hair salon owner who opened in violation of the governor’s executive order, sentenced to 7 days in jail for civil / criminal contempt of court and fined $7,000. <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSDFW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSDFW</a></p>— Andrea Lucia (@CBS11Andrea) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS11Andrea/status/1257769797812736008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Texas: Ector County Sheriff’s SWAT team raids a peaceful protesthttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/texas-ector-county-sheriff-s-swat-team-raids-a-peaceful-protest2020-05-05T20:59:53.000Z2020-05-05T20:59:53.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Ector County Sheriff’s SWAT team raiding a peaceful protest at Big Daddy Zane’s in West Odessa. The bar opened this afternoon despite Abbott’s latest orders, saying “all businesses are essential.” <br /><br />Full coverage tonight on <a href="https://twitter.com/KPEJFOX24News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KPEJFOX24News</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/Big2News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Big2News</a> <a href="https://t.co/WHiwhmisgs">pic.twitter.com/WHiwhmisgs</a></p>
— JuYeon Kim (@JuYeonKimTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuYeonKimTV/status/1257473262881255425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">It’s happening, California. It’s happening. Even in Venice Beach. <a href="https://t.co/052DTA1o0N">https://t.co/052DTA1o0N</a></p>
— Buzz Patterson for Congress (CA-7) (@BuzzPatterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1257488923858632704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer described the protests this week in her state, calling it some of the worst racism she has ever seen! Whitmer of course brings up confederate flags and swastikas! This is CNN at its finest! <a href="https://t.co/euIonWqzl4">pic.twitter.com/euIonWqzl4</a></p>
— Shawnasaurus Rex (@ShawnG927) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShawnG927/status/1257001809765437441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Twitter Suspends Candace Owens for Telling Michigan to ‘Go to Work’https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/twitter-suspends-candace-owens-for-telling-michigan-to-go-to-work2020-05-02T22:56:52.000Z2020-05-02T22:56:52.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4667825659,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4667825659,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="499" height="374" alt="4667825659?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p class="subheading">Conservative firebrand and BLEXIT founder Candace Owens was suspended from Twitter on Saturday after tweeting that people in Michigan should open their businesses and “go to work” despite the draconian measures implemented by Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) in response to the Chinese virus.</p>
<p>“Apparently [Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer believes she is a duly elected dictator of a socialist country,” Owens had tweeted. “The people of Michigan need to stand up to her. Open your businesses. Go to work.”</p>
<p>“The police think she’s crazy too,” she added. “They are not going to arrest 10,000,000 people for going to work.”</p>
<p><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/05/Image-from-iOS-1.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-13304742" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/05/Image-from-iOS-1-473x1024.png" alt="Candace Owens Suspension" width="473" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p>On Saturday, Owens received a notification from Twitter informing her that her account was suspended over the aforementioned tweet.</p>
<p>“We determined this Tweet violated the Twitter Rules, specifically for:” read the notification, but did not further clarify which specific rules Owens had violated on the social media platform.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/02/twitter-suspends-candace-owens-for-telling-michigan-to-go-to-work/">https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/02/twitter-suspends-candace-owens-for-telling-michigan-to-go-to-work/</a></p></div>Fascism: Oregon Democrat Governor Extends Lockdown to July 6https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/fascism-oregon-democrat-governor-extends-lockdown-to-july-62020-05-02T21:50:50.000Z2020-05-02T21:50:50.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://patriotcrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/kate-brown-ore-soros-678x381.jpg" alt="Oregon Governor Accepts “Unprecedented” Soros Donation - Three ..." /></p>
<p>When I first saw this, I thought it must be a typo. But this is no mistake or joke: While more than half the states in the U.S. have now lifted stay-at-home orders, the people of Oregon will remain imprisoned within their homes for another two solid months, thanks to their stupid decision to elect Democrat Kate Brown as their governor. Gov. Brown announced on Friday that she was extending her order through … wait for it … July 6!</p>
<p>Here is the text of the order:</p>
<p>Office of the Governor State of Oregon</p>
<p>EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 20-24 EXTENDING THE COVID-19 DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 20-03) FOR AN ADDITIONAL 60 DAYS, THROUGH JULY 6, 2020 Executive Order 20-03, declaring a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Oregon, was issued on March 8, 2020, and declared a statewide emergency for 60 days, through May 7, 2020. Pursuant to ORS 401.165 and ORS 401.204, I find that the novel infectious coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to threaten public health and safety, and remains a statewide emergency under ORS 401.025. Accordingly, I am extending the state of emergency for an additional 60 days, through July 6, 2020. Executive Order 20-03 shall remain in effect through July 6, 2020, unless extended or terminated earlier by the Governor. Done at Salem, Oregon, this 1st day of May, 2020. ________________________________________________ Kate Brown GOVERNOR [End] Unreal.</p>
<p>The state of 4 million residents ranks 40th out of the 50 states in total number of cases diagnosed with just over 2,500, and has seen a total of 104 deaths from the Wuhan Virus, with 51 of those having taken place in more than 40 nursing homes around the state. Note that the number of cases diagnosed is about the same as South Dakota has seen, but the number of deaths is 5 times South Dakota’s total.</p>
<p>Obviously, Oregon’s main problem is poorly-run nursing homes housing elderly patients who are particularly vulnerable to this Chinese plague. But instead of attempting to intelligently address the heart of the problem in a strategic manner that protects the constitutional rights of the citizenry, this fascist Governor chooses to imprison her entire population for another two solid months.</p>
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<p><a href="http://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2020/05/02/fascism-oregon-democrat-governor-extends-lockdown-to-july-6/">http://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2020/05/02/fascism-oregon-democrat-governor-extends-lockdown-to-july-6/</a></p></div>Maine restaurant loses health and liquor licenses after defying state virus ordershttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/maine-restaurant-loses-health-and-liquor-licenses-after-defying-s2020-05-02T15:09:20.000Z2020-05-02T15:09:20.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://mainebrewersguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/beer-2534_40d05_hd.png" alt="Sunday River Brewing Company | Maine Brewers' Guild" /></p>
<p>The co-owner of Sunday River Brewing Co. in Newry who defied state orders by opening his doors to diners on Friday afternoon has lost his state health and liquor licenses, he said.</p>
<p>Restaurants must obtain state heath licenses to legally serve food.</p>
<p>More than 150 people came to Sunday River Brewing Co. in Newry on Friday afternoon after co-owner Rick Savage announced Thursday night that he would reopen in defiance of state orders meant to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.</p>
<p>After learning that he’d lost the licenses around 4:30 p.m., Savage initially said he planned to keep operating the restaurant and just pay the daily fines that he would face. However, later in the evening, Sunday River Brewing Co. posted a Facebook post stating that the restaurant would be closed until further notice.</p>
<p>Frustration with the state’s coronavirus-related business restrictions has been growing in some circles, but the restaurant’s deliberate act of disobedience appeared to be the clearest example yet of those tensions boiling over in Maine.</p>
<p>Although the restaurant initially said it would open at 4 p.m., it started serving food after people showed up around noon in defiance of a March order from Gov. Janet Mills that barred dine-in restaurant service.</p>
<p>By 4:30 p.m., the crowd of diners lined up around the building on Route 2 had grown to a peak of around 150. By 6 p.m., the restaurant had served roughly 250 people, according to an employee.</p>
<p>Savage, who announced the restaurant’s opening on Fox News on Thursday night while criticizing the Democratic governor and reading her cellphone number on the air, said that he was not worried some of the diners coming from areas with more documented coronavirus cases would spread it in his restaurant.</p>
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<p>read more:<br /><a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2020/05/01/business/more-than-100-show-up-to-dine-at-oxford-county-restaurant-defying-maine-virus-orders/">https://bangordailynews.com/2020/05/01/business/more-than-100-show-up-to-dine-at-oxford-county-restaurant-defying-maine-virus-orders/</a></p></div>He Might be Banned but Alex Jones Breaks Twitter: Promises To Eat His Neighborshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/he-might-be-banned-but-alex-jones-breaks-twitter-promises-to-eat-2020-05-01T21:07:11.000Z2020-05-01T21:07:11.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Me when it’s been three hours since my last snack:<br /><br /> <a href="https://t.co/CtflKIOa1L">pic.twitter.com/CtflKIOa1L</a></p>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1256263756767789057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>To grasp the urgency of lifting the ubiquitous economic shutdowns, visit New York City’s Central Park, ideally in the morning. At 5:45 am, it is occupied by maybe 100 runners and cyclists, spread over 843 acres. A large portion of these early-bird exercisers wear masks. Are they trying to protect anyone they might encounter from their own unsuspected coronavirus infection? Perhaps. But if you yourself run towards an oncoming runner on a vector that will keep you at least three yards away when you pass each other, he is likely to lunge sideways in terror if your face is not covered. The masked cyclists, who speed around the park’s inner road, apparently think that there are enough virus particles suspended in the billions of square feet of fresh air circulating across the park to enter their mucous membranes and to sicken them.</p>
<p>These are delusional beliefs, yet they demonstrate the degree of paranoia that has infected the population. Every day the lockdown continues, its implicit message that we are all going to die if we engage in normal life is reinforced. Polls show an increasing number of Americans opting to continue the economic quarantine indefinitely lest they be ‘unsafe’. The longer that belief is reinforced, the less likely it will be that consumers will patronize reopened restaurants or board airplanes in sufficient numbers to bring the economy back to life.</p>
<p>It is worth briefly reviewing the facts about outdoor viral transmission in order to assess the rationality of New York’s park users. The chance of getting infected across a wide open, windswept space is virtually nil, even if the imaginary carrier were not moving quickly past his potential victim. When it comes to viral infections, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opinion/coronavirus-viral-dose.html">dose matters</a>. Proximity to the carrier, prolonged exposure, and being in an enclosed space are the biggest risk factors. Even the <em>New York Times</em>, one of the most aggressive purveyors of virus hysteria, could not avoid acknowledging this commonsensical truth about outdoor transmission. The director of Australia’s International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health told the paper: ‘Outdoors is safe, and there is certainly no cloud of virus-laden droplets hanging around.’ Infectious droplets would be quickly diluted in outdoor air, director Lidia Morawska said, so their concentrations would quickly become insignificant. Bottom line: ‘It is safe to go for a walk and jog and not to worry about the virus in the air.’</p>
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<p><a href="https://spectator.us/paranoid-style-covid-19-central-park-safetyism/">https://spectator.us/paranoid-style-covid-19-central-park-safetyism/</a></p></div>Alito orders Pennsylvania to respond in case asking Supreme Court to halt enforcement of stay-at-home orderhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/alito-orders-pennsylvania-to-respond-in-case-asking-supreme-court2020-04-30T22:31:30.000Z2020-04-30T22:31:30.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/cHUuaFO7FaAPRTrT9K1aOz4W0yQ=/0x0:167x260/1200x800/filters:focal(70x117:96x143)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/64217231/630186385.0.jpg" alt="Judge Alito's Bold Justice' is hot seller at coffee shop - Deseret ..." /></p>
<p>Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus, because they say it is unconstitutional.</p>
<p>The Pennsylvanians behind the suit – called petitioners in Supreme Court parlance – are arguing that their rights under the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments have been violated through Wolf's order. The petition lays out a variety of grounds on which it says the order is unconstitutional.</p>
<p>"[T]he Order violated the Petitioners rights not to be deprived of their property without due process of law guaranteed by the [Fifth and 14th Amendments], the right not to have their property taken without just compensation guaranteed by the [Fifth Amendment], their right to judicial review guaranteed by the [5th and Fourteenth Amendments], their right to equal protection of the law guaranteed by the [14th Amendment], and their right to free speech and assembly guaranteed by the [First Amendment]," it says.</p>
<p>read more:<br /><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alito-orders-pennsylvania-to-respond-in-case-asking-supreme-court-to-halt-enforcement-of-stay-at-home-order">https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alito-orders-pennsylvania-to-respond-in-case-asking-supreme-court-to-halt-enforcement-of-stay-at-home-order</a></p></div>Wisconsin Gov. Evers Doesn't Care if 35% Of All Businesses May Close Because of his Lockdown Ordershttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/wisconsin-gov-evers-doesn-t-care-if-35-of-all-businesses-may-clos2020-04-27T21:31:07.000Z2020-04-27T21:31:07.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*455/MGN_1280x720_81107P00-ZKYTX.jpg" alt="Gov. Evers: More Wisconsin businesses to reopen under 'Safer-at ..." /></p>
<p>Press Release</p>
<p>MADISON – On Friday afternoon, Governor Tony Evers responded to a letter to Senator Van Wanggaard (R-Racine) and other State Senate Republicans seeking information into the decision-making process behind the Stay-at-Home extension. In his response to Republicans, Evers twice hints at extending Safer-At-Home through the summer. Evers answer also states that 35% of all Wisconsin employers may close forcing over 725,000 people to permanently lose their jobs.</p>
<p>After reviewing the response over the weekend, Wanggaard issued the following statement:</p>
<p>“I appreciate the Governor sharing his insights into his decision-making process. It is clear that he has put at least some thought into his decision-making. But Evers response, as far as it goes, shows the frightening results of his decisions.</p>
<p>“It appears that Evers’ is actively thinking about extending Safer at Home into and possibly through the summer at the cost of almost three-quarters of a million people losing their jobs. Given his admission that the length of “Safer-at-Home” has no impact on lessening a substantial peak overwhelming hospitals, substantially extending the “Safer-at-Home” order makes little sense.</p>
<p>“It’s disturbing to know that the Governor apparently realizes that his order is costing four times more jobs than the Great Recession, and that he is literally doubling down the Safer-at-Home order.</p>
<p>“And yet, despite nearly half of the state’s cases in the last week coming from one county, and mammoth areas of the state with little to no infections, the Governor had no response to questions about regionalization as President Trump’s plan allows. And Evers didn’t answer specific questions about why his Badger Bounce Back plan gating criteria has differences from Trump’s Opening America Plan. These differences appear slight in wording, but are substantially more difficult to obtain.</p>
<p>“We may all be in this together, but we don’t need to cripple all of us for the pandemic located in a few counties. If we continue with our current strategy much further, Wisconsin won’t be devastated by the virus, it will be utterly demolished by Governor Evers’ response to it.</p>
<p>“I urge, and beg,Governor Evers and Secretary-Designee Palm to engage in constructive planning with legislative leadership to start to find a way back to normal and soon. That means actually working with legislative leaders, and not dictating to them in staff meetings once a day.”</p>
<p><a href="http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/21/wanggaard/media/1276/evers-response-to-senate-republicans.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2_Y0JPG7OsrScXPXuA2OtwE9yLpr3DnZj2r8U4smRRR_kpuAWwJItfJaY://" target="_blank">http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/21/wanggaard/media/1276/evers-response-to-senate-republicans.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2_Y0JPG7OsrScXPXuA2OtwE9yLpr3DnZj2r8U4smRRR_kpuAWwJItfJaY</a></p></div>Where is the authority of a governor to suspend all civil rights indefinitely?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/where-is-the-authority-of-a-governor-to-suspend-all-civil-rights-2020-04-27T15:30:23.000Z2020-04-27T15:30:23.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4529659533,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4529659533,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4529659533?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
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<p>The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and various state declarations of rights don’t change. They are fixed forever under all circumstances and are of nobody’s private interpretation.</p>
<p>Over the weekend, we have seen a San Diego woman <a class="external" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8251125/San-Diego-woman-faces-90-days-jail-anti-lockdown-protest-plans-second-rally.html" target="_blank">subject to criminal misdemeanor charges</a> for organizing a rally protesting the California lockdown. We’ve witnessed residents of San Mateo County, California, <a class="external" href="https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-police-order-275-people-off-pacifica-beach-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-issue-650-warnings/" target="_blank">issued citations</a> for traveling more than five miles away from their homes. We all <a class="external" href="https://twitter.com/CBS8/status/1254126674662305796?s=20" target="_blank">watched horrified</a> as police (in brown shirts!) arrested a peaceful man for walking on a closed beach, <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-bombshell-study-finds-outbreaks-china-family-indoors-mass-transit/">defying the basic science of how viruses spread</a> as well as the Constitution.</p>
<p>It’s as if the faultier the science behind the lockdown, the more our governments continue doubling down on unconstitutional enforcement.</p>
<p>Through all the important questions about science, we are failing to ask the most salient public policy question: What authority does a governor or county official have to suspend all personal liberty and property rights of even healthy individuals and business owners indefinitely without due process? The answer is, of course, that absolutely no such authority exists.</p>
<p>There is no greater right than the ability to move freely without restriction. We’ve never experienced a time in our 400 years on this continent, even under King George, when the movement of the entire people of a state was restricted this severely for this long, especially without due process. While the people who form a society give up certain powers in order to empower a government to protect public safety, this core freedom has never been ceded.</p>
<p>John Locke explained the origin of this liberty as follows: “To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.”</p>
<p>That’s it. A government has no power to indefinitely restrict movement and our ability to earn a living beyond certain narrowly tailored regulations. These core liberties have never been ceded even during times of war or danger. In expressing one of the core tenets of natural law, my home state constitution of Maryland states: “That the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and of this State, apply, as well in time of war, as in time of peace; and any departure therefrom, or violation thereof, under the plea of necessity, or any other plea, is subversive of good Government, and tends to anarchy and despotism.” (Art. 44, <a class="external" href="https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/43const/html/00dec.html" target="_blank">Maryland Declaration of Rights</a>.)</p>
<p>Governor Larry “Lockdown” Hogan, who, as chairman of the National Governors Association, is <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-liberal-governors-publish-plan-reopen-society-never/">one of the national leaders promoting martial law</a>, would be well advised to read the 47 articles of this document, which contains the self-evident truths of natural law and just government understood by all of the governments of the original 13 colonies in 1776. There is no exception to life, liberty, and property rights. They must be preserved and cannot be infringed upon without due process. Some <a class="external" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-f-yourself-gretch-michigan-governor-grilled-over-wwii-comments" target="_blank">have made comparisons to wartime</a>, where there is an imperative to govern with a heavier hand, but those rights never go away even during wars.</p>
<p>One of those provisions in the Maryland Constitution (Art. 32) is that “no person except regular soldiers, marines, and mariners in the service of this State, or militia, when in actual service, ought, in any case, to be subject to, or punishable by Martial Law.” There is no public health crisis exception to the rule of martial law, as clearly expressed in Article 44 of the Declaration of Rights.</p>
<p>Justice Robert Jackson <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-liberal-governors-publish-plan-reopen-society-never/">observed</a> the same thing about the federal Constitution and that the Founders deliberately omitted emergency exceptions to fundamental rights because they “knew the pressures they engender for authoritative action, knew, too, how they afford a ready pretext for usurpation.”</p>
<p>Yes, the courts have ruled in the past that a state has quarantine powers, <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-quarantine-tyranny/">but they cannot </a>be used in an “arbitrary, unreasonable manner, or might go so far beyond what was reasonably required for the safety of the public” (<em><a class="external" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=197&invol=11" target="_blank">Jacobson v. Massachusetts</a></em> (1905)).</p>
<p>Moreover, fundamentally, what the governments are doing now is not quarantine, which is defined as isolating the sick from the general population. In this case, for the first time in history, they are confining the general population. As a <a class="external" href="https://www.aier.org/article/why-arent-americans-suing-their-way-out-of-lockdown/" target="_blank">New York court ruled</a> in <em>The People vs. Peter W. Roff, </em>a quarantine law can’t sentence<em> “</em>all persons, well or sick, whether exposed to infection or not, to an unlimited imprisonment.”</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-authority-governor-suspend-civil-rights-indefinitely/?fbclid=IwAR0h70oYwaAq-iq3WlGfYgdAvV1BGc-P5Q-CId_XmYwqCQEgSzyASQ1nZUU">https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-authority-governor-suspend-civil-rights-indefinitely/?fbclid=IwAR0h70oYwaAq-iq3WlGfYgdAvV1BGc-P5Q-CId_XmYwqCQEgSzyASQ1nZUU</a></p></div>Liberal governors publish plan to reopen society … neverhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/liberal-governors-publish-plan-to-reopen-society-never2020-04-26T08:29:31.000Z2020-04-26T08:29:31.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4518679663,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4518679663,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="566" height="343" alt="4518679663?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p>he plan to reopen our lives and economy posted earlier this week by a group of liberal governors creates enough unrealistic benchmarks that society will never reopen, which is clearly their plan. Taken in totality, it ignores <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-new-antibody-study-strong-evidence-lockdown-strategy-wrong-course/">all the recent evidence debunking</a> the premise of the lockdown, creates a massive, unconstitutional surveillance state, hires enormous numbers of government workers to do useless testing and tracing long after the virus already spread, and permanently makes us vassals to the state.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the National Governors Association, led by “Lockdown” Larry Hogan of Maryland and Andrew Cuomo of New York, released a <a class="external" href="https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NGA-Report.pdf">38-page</a>, 10-point “Roadmap to Recovery,” but it’s more of a roadmap to permanent lockdown and a police state.</p>
<p>When you cut through all the political-speak, this is essentially the punchline of the report: “Opening prematurely — or opening without the tools in place to rapidly identify and stop the spread of the virus — could send states back into crisis mode, push health systems past capacity, and force states back into strict social distancing measures. This scenario would repeat the negative economic consequences of pandemic response and reduce public confidence, further deepening a recession and protracting economic recovery.”</p>
<p>The central flaw of the report is that it ignores all the new information we have since March – that this had already spread to tens of millions for several months. As such, it makes no sense to build an entire surveillance state around contact tracing and hiring government workers to do that surveillance. Yes, some Asian countries did this successfully, but they did so early on when it was possible to stop the spread. Now that we know that at least 21.2 percent of New York City residents alone have the antibodies for the virus, the entire approach is unworkable and unnecessary.</p>
<p>Contact tracing on a respiratory virus, this late in the spread, with millions in the New York metro who already had it, is an approach that is unworthy of a first-grade math student. You can only stop a spread when it’s early, confinable, and small. At this point, the only approach must be herd immunity for those not at risk.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-liberal-governors-publish-plan-reopen-society-never/?fbclid=IwAR331pbJ-dj8H8Q_IsxgDzmzGqhToSlOyEzJCusC7L7MVtLCJgcT_hQ-V74">https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-liberal-governors-publish-plan-reopen-society-never/?fbclid=IwAR331pbJ-dj8H8Q_IsxgDzmzGqhToSlOyEzJCusC7L7MVtLCJgcT_hQ-V74</a></p>
<p> </p></div>AG Barr Says the DOJ May Take Legal Action against States if Lockdowns Are Deemed Excessivehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/ag-barr-says-the-doj-may-take-legal-action-against-states-if-lock2020-04-21T21:11:05.000Z2020-04-21T21:11:05.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://i1.wp.com/" alt="<a href=" />www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/william-barr-lights.jpg?fit=789%2C460&ssl=1" alt="The Smear Campaign Against Attorney General William Barr ..." /></p>
<p>Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said the Justice Department could take action against states whose coronavirus lockdowns are deemed too strict.</p>
<p>“We have to give businesses more freedom to operate in a way that’s reasonably safe,” Barr <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/barr-says-doj-may-act-against-governors-with-strict-virus-limits?sref=KgEBWdKh" target="_blank">said</a> in an interview on <em>The Hugh Hewitt Show</em>. “To the extent that governors don’t and impinge on either civil rights or on the national commerce–our common market that we have here–then we’ll have to address that.”</p>
<p>Barr said states should enforce lockdowns and business closures only until the spread of coronavirus has halted. Then, states should eventually reopen in line with the Trump administration’s guidelines, he said.</p>
<p>“These are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty, and we adopted them, we have to remember, for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread, that is bending the curve,” Barr went on. “We didn’t adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease….You can’t just keep on feeding the patient chemotherapy and say well, we’re killing the cancer, because we were getting to the point where we’re killing the patient.”</p>
<p>read more:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ag-barr-says-the-doj-may-take-legal-action-against-states-if-lockdowns-are-deemed-excessive/">https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ag-barr-says-the-doj-may-take-legal-action-against-states-if-lockdowns-are-deemed-excessive/</a></p></div>