![]() ![]() If you think you are sick, or have been exposed or that your family has been exposed, stay home. Make the choice to protect yourself, your family and your neighbors. ![]() That being said, by all means, if you feel like you must self-isolate, then stay home. House arrest, blanket business closures and unconstitutional bans on public gathering by executive fiat deny Americans’ due process as protected by the 1st, 5th and 14th Amendments. However, it doesn’t say anything about forcing American citizens to remain prisoners in their homes without public debate and consent.īut it does say, several times, that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. The Constitution of the United States says many things about how our government should function on the federal and state level. Without the law, there can be no freedom, and without justice, there can be no law. If civic leaders willingly violate the law, for whatever reason, then they cease to be governments and the rule of law means nothing. “We’re willing to risk legal action if it means lives will be saved.”Ĭriminal gangs behave this way, not municipalities. Some who have imposed curfews or closed businesses citywide have told the public they are doing so knowing their actions are illegal: “We’re going to err on the side of protecting lives if we can and we think it’s effective,” a Knoxville, Tenn., municipal staffer said. The government officials who are announcing bans on public gatherings, demanding the closure of businesses or limits to the number of people who can gather appear to be doing so under the guise of emergency powers but in violation of civil liberties. Have we truly learned nothing about government abuse over the last 20 years?Īfter panic-buying toilet paper are we panic-buying security? Doug Ducey force Americans in general and Arizonans specifically to surrender their rights of free assembly and free movement.Ĭonservatives, who normally champion individual self-reliance, liberty and federalism - aka state independence from central government overreach - seem perfectly content to permit the federal government to usurp their rights, restrict free movement regardless of local control or public comment. Bush’s USA PATRIOT Act and have copies of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” on their shelves are now demanding that Congress, President Donald Trump and Gov. Liberals, who condemned President George W. Likewise, the “war on terror” would only last until “the terrorists” were “defeated” and their leader killed.Ī whole generation of American children have grown up to fight and die in the Middle East nearly a decade after Osama bin Laden was shot, killed and buried at sea. Half a century later, the “war” never ended and drugs are as prevalent and potent as ever. We were sold the same lies when we were told the war on drugs would be short-lived and we had to consent to “probable cause” searches for contraband. “But it’s only temporary.” “It’s for the common good.” “These are extraordinary times.” “This will pass soon enough.” “It’ll be over soon.” “But it’s just a little freedom we’re giving up.” Such government tyranny invariably begins with popular support first to resisting a “crisis” and then the tacit or explicit surrender of our liberties and freedoms in the name of safety and security. “So this is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause,” she says as the din of the legislature swells following the chief executive declaring, “In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the republic will be reorganized … for a safe and secure society.” “Reply to the Governor” in the Pennsylvania Assembly, Nov. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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