Why are churches waiting for government permission? Show some gumption. If the concern is the coronavirus -- well, perhaps that's a failure of faith. For that, read Numbers, about Moses and the snake. But if the concern is the government, to include police -- well, perhaps that's a failure to put God first. That's a failure of fear.
If American workers have to be out of work, furloughed, stuck at home, all due to the coronavirus crisis -- then so, too, should members of Congress: That's the line of logic being pushed by the Tea Party Patriots. And it's good logic, too. Public servants shouldn't be allowed special rights, above and beyond those of their employers.
Sen. Rand Paul delivered a much-needed, long overdue reality check to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's COVID-19 whisperer, reminding the NIAID director that hey now, hey guy, you're just a guy, and your expertise on viruses shouldn't be taken as expertise on politics, government, economics, policy or the running of a nation.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state's stay-at-home orders, saying the heath secretary's use of the coronavirus to confine free citizens to their residences was "unlawful, invalid and unenforceable." Finally. A moment of sanity among the barrage of insane unconstitutional acts that have swept this nation.
Enough of Dr. Anthony Fauci. In widely reported remarks, Fauci, in an email to The New York Times that he was going to tell senators, in his upcoming hearing on the coronavirus that, basically: If America doesn't listen to me, people will die. Fauci, the prophet scientist?
A House resolution from Illinois Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush that would put Big Government in charge of tracking citizens' movements as they relate to COVID-19 mitigation efforts -- even sending health bureaucrats to "individuals' residences," "as necessary," as the legislation states -- has a most apt number: 6666.
A pastor in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been fined $300, has been issued a criminal complaint by city officials and has been put on notice that he may very well serve time behind bars -- all for the "crime" of defying the governor's 10-person limit order and holding normal Sunday worship services. You go, pastor.
The governor of Illinois -- the Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker -- made an astonishing announcement just recently that went like this: Due to Covid-19, churches may have to remain closed for a year. A year. Dear Churches of America: This is why you don't cave to government -- ever. Give an inch, government takes a mile.
A sheriff in Southern California, Chad Bianco of Riverside County, told local supervisors earlier this week that he wouldn't enforce stay-at-home orders because, get this, he thinks citizens can think for themselves. Move over, doctors. Step aside, nurses. Bianco is much more a real hero -- not just someone doing his job
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in recent televised press conference that the majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state came from the stay-at-home set, not the out-and-about set -- meaning, once again, the government's projections, predictions, forecasts and conclusions on the coronavirus were, gasp, wrong.
The most damaging and lasting effects of COVID-19 on America won't be so much ones of physical or medical as they will be mental. Where Americans once thought for themselves, the government has taken control. Where Americans once decided on their own, bureaucrats have seized the reins.
The standard in America is not and will not be this "new normal." The standard in America is freedom, erring on the side of individual rights not government dictates. Fight the "new normal." The "new normal" that's being pitched is not America.
If what's going on in Kansas City right now won't get you off the couch, into the streets to protest, onto the phone to demand government accountability -- well then, nothing will.
COVID-19 has shined some important light on the tendency of government to do as Founding Fathers warned -- stretch and reach and overreach, and tread into places it doesn't belong. And as the executive orders come fast and furious from governors' mansions around the nation, it's high time for a reminder: Orders are not laws.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened citizens and city-goers with arrest, imprisonment and fines if they dared step foot into the streets, in violation of her COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Wow. Talk about cracking the government whip. Can you say Constitution, anyone? How about 'Bite me, you blowhard, Lori" -- can you say that?
The Department of Justice just issued a statement suggesting Virginia acted above and beyond its rightful call of COVID-19 government duty by closing churches to more than 10 people while allowing some private businesses to host untold numbers of shoppers. Quite right.
Major U.S. airlines have announced that as a condition of riding their friendly skies, passengers must all put on a face mask. Let the muzzling of America commence. Let the -- hopefully! -- lawsuits against the mask nazis begin, as well.
Who knew Elon Musk, of Tesla CEO fame, would emerge such a freedom-loving hero from this COVID-19 disaster called Government Overreach -- but he has. In an epic earnings telephone rant, Musk called out the "fascist" social distancing measures ordered by government.
California's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is poised to order all beaches in the state closed because citizens dared to defy his social distancing order by flocking to the seashore, COVID-19 be danged. And this should be the collective Californian response: Storm the beaches anyway.
The few Americans who weren't worried about the fate of America's Constitution and freedoms and system of limited government, post-COVID-19, sure as heck are now. Nothing like some good old fashioned censorship amid a constitutional crisis to raise the red flags on authoritarianism.
