Mississippi Cop to Church Pastor: “Your Rights Are Suspended.”

LifeZette ^ | 4/16/20 | Steve Pomper

[marshmallow]

The churchgoers presented zero public safety risk.

I’ve often wondered about formerly civil nations that descend into vicious totalitarianism. The only way this happens is if the despotic government can wrest control of the military and law enforcement from the non-authoritarian government. The most obvious being a country of culture, manufacturing, science, and civil society that succumbed to the National Socialist German Worker’s (NAZI) Party.

Having some German ancestry, I’ve wondered if a federal, state, or local government in the United States could ever get Americans to violate other American’s rights just “because a political leader says so” regardless of what the U.S. or state constitutions say. An incident in Greenville, Mississippi last week brought back this curiosity. And, sadly, may be providing an answer to my question.

As a cop who wrote frequently in our union newspaper, The Guardian, I made it clear that I would never obey an order that violated an American’s Second Amendment rights. Various mayors during my career attempted to impose clearly unconstitutional anti-gun rights edicts in the city. Fortunately, they were all slapped down in the courts.

Even more fortunately, I never felt I had to make the same assertion about the First or any other amendments enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Officers, during this current CCP virus hysterical overreach, are having to deal with their chiefs, sheriffs, and mayors ordering them to violate people’s constitutional rights.

And many cops are rightly confused, as this situation is unprecedented in most American’s lifetimes. I mean, what do “emergency powers” include? Can the federal and state constitutions actually be suspended? But making rank and file cops the bad guys to achieve their ideological goals is just what some leaders do.

I’ll provide one seemingly innocuous prohibition handed down by one state governor that betrays the.......

[itsahoot]

Abuse of power under the color of law is a crime

Have you told AG Barr this?

[vigilante2]

I think he’s busy blowing his pipes

[MayflowerMadam]

“Have you told AG Barr this?”

He’s as useless as Sessions was, and maybe more dangerous, as his BFFs are decades-long fellow swamp creatures, e.g., Robert Mueller. I know that WuFlu is about 95% of the news now, but after hearing Fitton on Dobbs last night about info still being found about the Russia Investigation I was livid at Barr and his minions.

[JLLH]

They’ve already been slapped down by Barr: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-issues-statement-religious-practice-and-social-distancing-0

[JLLH]

Barr already addressed this: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-issues-statement-religious-practice-and-social-distancing-0 and also https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-mississippi-church

[JLLH]

Already addressed the issue last week: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-mississippi-church

[JLLH]

Barr’s Official Statement of Interest: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1268651/download