Posted on 05/08/2020 6:37:00 PM PDT by kathsua
The Founding Fathers wisely added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to explicitly prohibit Government from doing things it isn't authorized to do.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the most important provisions: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The Constitution doesn't authorize using a pandemic to prohibit the free exercise of religion or to abridge "the right of the people peaceably to assemble." Government officials who take either action are breaking the law.
Government officials should treat COVID-19 measures as suggested guidelines rather than rigid rules which must be obeyed. We should accept that there will always be a few who don't want to go along with the program.
We Americans aren't like the "good Germans" in Nazi Germany who obeyed orders.
We Americans don't like to be told what to do. In 1773 American Patriots destroyed an entire shipment of tea at the Boston Tea Party to protest the tea tax. In the eighties many of us used our CB radios to avoid tickets when we exceeded the 55 mph speed limit.
Well, I never found it amusing, but liberals are always laughing theirs asses off at it.
“There are many here among us,
Who feel that life is but a joke.”
RINO’s too, Larry Hogan.
He’s Chairman of the National Governors Association you know. He sure reminds us every time he’s on MSDNC, Concast, Fake News CNN and the View.
His proclamations are given as if he expects us to kiss his ring and say Thank you Sir, May I have Another?
He and one of the tinpot dictator Mayors actually sent police to block the entrance to a rally point where we were heading to “redress our grievances with the Government” and hear from our lone conservative in the US Congress.
Being Americans, there was a backup locations and we still got to redress our grievances.
Looking forward to another rally next Friday.
I think Democrats another see the bill of rights as regards to Congress, not sates. So therefore the states can restrict religion, restrict speech, restrictive gun’s, etc.
The 14th amendment took care of that through the due process clause. That doesn't seem to faze them in their quest to ignore anything in the constitution they don't like, which is pretty much all of it.
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