Posted on 02/08/2013 12:55:43 PM PST by 444Flyer
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has declared a state of emergency for blizzard that could bring near 3 feet of snow.
Patrick signed an executive order banning all vehicles from roadways starting at 4 p.m. today. Ban applies to all roadways, including highways and secondary roads. Any one caught driving after 4 p.m. faces up to one year in jail and $500 fine.
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See post #21
“medical-emergency, utility, media, first responders are excepted”
Officer: Sir, show me your license. Do you know its against the law to be driving now, except for authorized vehicles?
Driver: I’m a member of Free Republic.
State Roads closed at 4:00 PM
Public transit shut off at 3:30
What could possibly go wrong?
At least the Governor won’t have to sleep on the streets tonight.
How are they going to enforce it if EVERYONE ignores it?
They just going to pick and choose who to arrest?
God help the out-of-staters.
Buffalo gets all the bad publicity. Try lining in the snow belt.
I’ve seen it come down 5 inches an hour in Oswego County and it never made the national news.
I, Deval L. Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pursuant to the power provided by Chapter 639 of the Acts of 1950 do hereby issue the following order:
There shall be a ban on motor vehicle travel beginning at 4:00 PM today and continuing until further notice. This travel ban shall not apply to the following: public safety vehicles and public safety workers, including contract personnel, public works vehicles and public works workers, including contract personnel; government officials conducting official business, utility company vehicles and utility workers; healthcare workers who must travel to and from work in order to provide essential health services; news media, travel necessary to maintain and deliver critical private sector services such as energy, fuel supplies and delivery, financial systems and the delivery of critical commodities, travel to support business operations that provide critical services to the public, including gasoline stations, food stores and hardware stores. Given this 8th day of February in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen at 12:15PM.
DEVAL L. PATRICK, GOVERNOR
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
How are people supposed to get to the gas station, grocery store or hardware store if they are not allowed to be on the road.
Yup, I am with you. This is a dry run for the USURPER.
Great point!! What the hell is up with liberals and their power trips anyway?
..had a GREAT time driving around beantown late at night in blizzard of ‘78 with my buddy and his snowplow equipped truck (bulldozer bade, no shit)...
no-one on the road, no damn cops or emergency workers even, just plows and road graders..every intersection we blasted through the snow banks they left behind...
...awesum fun..dems sure can ruin life, you know?..
..had a GREAT time driving around beantown late at night in blizzard of ‘78 with my buddy and his snowplow equipped truck (bulldozer bade, no shit)...
no-one on the road, no damn cops or emergency workers even, just plows and road graders..every intersection we blasted through the snow banks they left behind...
...awesum fun..dems sure can ruin life, you know?..
Good for you.
Their way of seeing the world (humanism) puts certain people (themselves) in an elevated position, who are then justified in substituting their [superior] decisions for the decisions that individuals would otherwise make.
Check out the traffic cams on the highways - people are heeding the “law of the land”
http://www1.eot.state.ma.us/boswebcammulview.aspx
Heck, even if you do go out - there’s no where to go - everything’s closed because everyone needs to be off the roads.
We have all become ‘non-essential state employees’
The more horrendously awful the Governor of Massachusetts can portray the coming storm to be, the more horrendously extravagant can his requests for FEMA funds be.
You obviously didn't get the memo from the governor.
The constitution has been postponed on account of darkness.
Will the next Dictator please stand up now!
Give that boy a uniform and some medals on his chest!
I would suggest a review of powers for this Simpleton that thinks he is the Giant!
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