Posted on 03/27/2020 6:40:13 PM PDT by Enlightened1
A county judge says Texas National Guard troops will go door-to-door in Dallas neighborhoods to ask about coronavirus, as residents are under shelter-in-place orders to stay home during the outbreak.
According to NBC affiliate KXAN, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins claimed the troops would merely be conducting a “medical mission,” and not enforcing quarantine restrictions.
“Uh, it’s pretty serious when you know the national guard, the Texas National Guard that they’re heading out to neighborhoods in the Dallas area,” reported KXAN’s Sally Hernandez.
Judge Jenkins “said Texas National Guard troops would be on a ‘medical mission,’ and not there for law enforcement reasons. They would check in with people to see who may have come in contact with coronavirus patients,” KXAN reported Friday.
Jenkins, an anti-Trump Democrat, later tried to tamp down “conspiracy theories” on Twitter, saying National Guard nurses, who would be wearing military uniforms, would only be “doing tracing interviews.”
“Tap the brakes conspiracy theorist. National Guard nurses wear military uniforms but are still nurses. They are doing tracing interviews and have no authority to quarantine people. Only @DCHHS can quarantine and only a person who is COVID19 /non-compliant and refuses to stay in,” Judge Jenkins tweeted Friday.
Judge Jenkins signed the “Stay Home Stay Safe” order last Monday through April 3, which prohibits residents from leaving their homes, except for “essential activities,” or driving to or from “essential businesses.”
Democrat-run strongholds are wasting no time using the coronavirus pandemic as a smokescreen for an authoritarian power grab.
On Thursday Infowars reported on neighboring Tarrant County passing a measure suspending private property rights and allowing the county to “commandeer of use any private property.”
Over 300 people had tested positive for coronavirus in Dallas County, with seven deaths reported
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They are perfectly within their right to come to your door to ask questions. Just as you are perfectly within your right to close the door and refuse to talk.
Interesting.
I do not see the name of the Governor of Texas anywhere in that article.
I wonder what Gov. Abbott might have to say to good `ol Clay “perv face” Jenkins about City of Dallas taking over the Texas National Guard?
Something along the lines of STFU Clay, I would imagine.
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A Texas County Judge is the presiding authority on the County commissioners court, which serves as the governing body of the county.
It’s a Texas thing.
No, you have the right to NOT answer your door.
That too.
Thanks Jane - we open our door ONLY for expected deliveries that we need to sign for, which is very rare. If the guard and/or pigs show up without a warrant, I’ll give them my phone number and talk that way...at best.
Clay Jenkins is full of shit. Governor Abbott was on the news tonight and when asked about this said that the head of the Guard in Texas is the Governor, not some county judge. He was pissed.
No one in the military takes an oath to follow the orders of some dingbat judge.
The problem is that Tarrant County is the last red urban county in the state.
Abbott’s “weak sister” attitude is what empowered these ‘rats. Don’t expect anything from him.
Yes. Democrats rule Dallas area.
We have had Ds in the Dallas County gov caught red handed in theft and nothing happens.
It’s like a private pool for corruption.
If you want to stop it this is actually how you do it... test everyone and require isolation/quarantine for 2 weeks of the infected, everyone else go about your life.
Test 350 million people simultaneously? Let’s see the logistics plan for that.
They ass/u/me that people will be honest.
News flash: People LIE!
This bullshit is out of control
Almost like prison.
This has become the "normal" in nearly every densely packed seat of state government in our country. While the sparser hard-working counties in a state veer to common sense the highly populated municipalities are chock full of willing liberal zombies dependent on government handouts and devoid of any other idea of living.
NOT IN FAVOR of this
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