Posted on 04/21/2020 1:08:45 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
In the beloved film, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy learns that she never needed a phony wizard to help her go home. She had the power all along.
Asked why she didn’t tell Dorothy this in the first place, the Witch of the North explains that Dorothy had to find that out for herself.
Under the guise of the changing facts of coronavirus, false and misleading statistics, inflated projections and even more inflated egos, elected officials and un-elected bureaucrats have robbed healthy, law-abiding citizens of their liberties.
After compliance, patience, and reasonable concern about the unknown effects of the virus, a growing number of Americans have discovered that they don’t have to beg bureaucrats for their freedoms. They had the power to reclaim them all along, but they had to find it out for themselves.
Numerous Constitutional Law experts have said that even a state of emergency does not entitle a Governor to suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They have the responsibility to impose the least possible restrictions on our fundamental freedoms. According to Rob Natelson of the Independence Institute, this has been tested in two cases, and governors’ orders have lost both.
Democrat Governors, in particular, have done just the opposite. By the time a case like this would ever reach the Supreme Court, bankruptcies abound and businesses would be long gone.
Is it any wonder that Democrats have been going for broke to overthrow Donald Trump in part, so we will have a Supreme Court of activist Justices rather than originalists?
The landmark “Gridlock Event” that began in Michigan spurred similar events around the country. They have flummoxed Democrat Governors, many of whom have continued to tighten restrictions on citizens despite any new or changing information.
Some, like Colorado Governor, Jared Polis responded to the Gridlock Denver event the next day and announced that he was lifting most Stay-at-Home orders on April 27th. But he included a long list of demands and recommendations along with it and continued to suggest that saying at home was safer. He must not have read the latest information that sunshine kills the virus.
Among the numerous groups that have cropped up from the rallies is one called MaydayUSA.com which isn’t letting up. They are encouraging businesses to open on or before May 1 with or without the government’s permission. They encourage precautions but respect the rights of business owners to make those decisions for themselves.
The significance of the 1st day of May carries with it a long and varied history. “Mayday” is an internationally known call of distress. “May Day” has also been a celebration of spring, and Socialists and Communists chose the day to commemorate the Haymarket Affair on May 4, 1886.
MaydayUSA endeavors to add a new meaning to May Day. It was the day in 2020, when free markets, individual freedom capitalism won out over socialism, government control and tyranny.
Communism vs. Freedom. Liberty vs. Tyranny. That is destined to be the overriding issue in the re-election campaign of Donald Trump on November 3.
Does anyone remember that? I don’t think the Democrats have ever forgotten.
Learn more at: www.MaydayUSA.org.
Karen Kataline is a commentator, columnist & talk show host. She holds a Master’s Degree from Columbia University and is a frequent guest host on AM Talk Radio.
That is all.
Well Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn’t already have...
“America” had such a mellow sound; great hippie poetry, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LggAoHMKmo
Great tune!! Man that brings back some good memories. Thanks.
My pleasure and mems, too!
I would think that every business and every family damaged by the guilty governors would have a legal case against the governors personally.
I am not a lawyer, but I think that no one in or out of government has protection from prosecution if the reason for prosecution is the result of a criminal act.
In other words, I imagine that governors lose their protection from prosecution if the prosecution is the result of a criminal act.
It is a criminal act to deprive anyone of their constitutional rights.
I’ve been thinking that Trump holds the card in his hands.
Yes, the governors do have extraordinary powers during times of emergency... but Donald has the Bill for that.
All he needs do is announce that every person who is a United States Citizen has the right to Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Assemble peacefully and Freedom to Petition government.
Nuff said. Game over.
I went to maydayusa.org and maydayusa.com and neither URL is in use.
I went there and got a certification warning the people could steal credit info etc. if I proceeded. I was offered a “Back to saftey” button.
“chose the day to commemorate the Haymarket Affair on May 4, 1886.”
I am quite proud of the fact that I took a big wizz all over the memorial to that event in downtown Chicago last June.
In broad daylight.
It was a Wednesday.
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