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2020-04-13 Home Front: Culture Wars
The Coronavirus Is Exposing Little Tyrants All Over The Country
[Federalist] Some mayors and governors seem to think their authority is limitless in the face of the pandemic. They need a remedial lesson in the Constitution.
There’s nothing like a crisis to bring clarity. The response of some mayors and governors to the coronavirus pandemic in recent days has made it clear they think they have unlimited and arbitrary power over their fellow citizens, that they can order them to do or not do just about anything under the guise of protecting public health.

We’ve now witnessed local and state governments issue decrees about what people can and cannot buy in stores, arrest parents playing with their children in public parks, yank people off public buses at random, remove basketball rims along with private property, ticket churchgoers, and in one case try—and fail—to chase down a lone runner on an empty beach. All of this, we’re told, is for our own good.

SOME AUTHORITIES ARE TARGETING CHRISTIANS
The most egregious example of this outpouring of authoritarianism was an attempt by Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor Greg Fischer to ban drive-in church services on Easter. On Holy Thursday, one day before Christians were to begin their most important religious celebrations of the year, Fischer declared that drive-in Easter services would be illegal.

To remove all doubt about his seriousness, he also threatened arrest and criminal penalties for anyone who dared violate his order, and in an Orwellian twist, invited people to snitch on their fellow citizens. Fischer justified this by saying it was "to save lives."

Thankfully, a federal judge made short work of the mayor’s idiotic power-grab, issuing a temporary restraining order against the city of Louisville on Saturday, writing so as to remove all doubt, "The Mayor’s decision is stunning. And it is, ’beyond all reason,’ unconstitutional."

The mayor shouldn’t have needed a federal judge to tell him that. Anyone with a passing familiarity with the U.S. Constitution should know the government can’t single out religious worship for special regulations and prohibitions, which is precisely what the hapless Fischer did here. His order would have barred Christians from driving to their church parking lots and sitting in their vehicles for Easter services—all while maintaining proper social distancing—while imposing no such restrictions on drive-up and drive-through restaurants, liquor stores, grocery stores, or parking lots generally.

Mayors or governors—or even presidents—can no more single out Christians on Easter than they can single out Muslims during Ramadan or Jews on Yom Kippur. If you’re going to ban parking in parking lots, it has to apply to everyone everywhere.

But this didn’t just happen in Louisville. Two churches in Greenville, Mississippi, that were holding drive-in services for Holy Week said police showed up and ordered churchgoers to leave or face a $500 fine.

Related: After Outcry, Wisconsin Governor Reverses Ban On Outdoor Church Services
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-13 06:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Article 4 section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

A reckoning needs to come to the wannabe fascists. I don't recall any level of government declaring martial law.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-13 07:41||   2020-04-13 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Christian worshippers, homeschooling parents.... gun owners next? Known Trump supporters?
then R'burgers??
Posted by Lex 2020-04-13 08:25||   2020-04-13 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Wisconsin Governor

wait for it ...

(D)
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-13 10:23||   2020-04-13 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 The Mafia is handing out food to Italy’s needy in a bid to impose control over people’s lives as mobsters seek to capitalise on country’s coronavirus crisis
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-13 10:26||   2020-04-13 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 If you ever thought that certain Americans, given a little power, would not turn on their fellow Americans, here is the proof that they will. Imagine them having a little more power than a stay at home request... Our right to peacefully assemble, free speech, gun store closures, freedom of movement, curfews, closed churches, state closures, forced quarantines, etc... have all been infringed. Did I miss anything? All by Governors operating in fear. They pitched our constitution out with the trash, for what? Now we know, very clearly, what our states governments feel is within their rights when it comes to "our" constitutional rights. It is frightening. We stay well armed, not just for the enemy outside our nation, but the ones within...
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-04-13 10:49||   2020-04-13 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 Ditto Hizballah.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-13 11:02||   2020-04-13 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Plus the thousands limiting speech ruining the country in Washington in the media science community health the list is endless!
Posted by Knuckles Cluling4717 2020-04-13 12:21||   2020-04-13 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 the enemies inside are proving more lethal than the ones outside
Posted by 746 2020-04-13 14:06||   2020-04-13 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9  Consider the ones inside being supported and perhaps mentored unknowingly by those outside. This is what the 2nd amendment is really about, to give the people the means to deal with domestic despotism as well are foreign enemies.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-04-13 14:53||   2020-04-13 14:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Any mosques being closed?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-04-13 15:02||   2020-04-13 15:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Any mosques being closed?

Of course not! That would be !RACIST!
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-04-13 16:26||   2020-04-13 16:26|| Front Page Top

#12 I called it yesterday:this can be the Americanist version of “not letting a crisis go to waste.”
Posted by Ptah 2020-04-13 17:05||   2020-04-13 17:05|| Front Page Top

#13 The real problem is how many people welcome the removal of civil liberties. At least here in California Ive heard old friends praising the thing in charge of LA.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-04-13 23:47||   2020-04-13 23:47|| Front Page Top










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