An essential principle of the United States is that it is a free country, with individual liberties guaranteed, and government power limited. That concept is now being tested. A deadly worldwide pandemic has led to draconian lockdowns, forced closings of businesses, and even mandatory “stay at home” orders, some with Orwellian, friendly sounding names like “Safer at Home” or “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” – but still mandatory and enforced by police. The unprecedented, far-reaching orders have been issued by unelected county health officers as well as by governors of states.
Are these orders legal? Do state governors have the legal and Constitutional authority to forcibly close all “non-essential” businesses? To confine the entire population in their homes indefinitely without a trial? Who gets to decide which businesses are non-essential? In California, churches, synagogues and mosques have been deemed “non-essential” and ordered closed, but liquor and hardware stores are still open and doing a bustling business.
President Trump proclaimed a national state of emergency under the National Emergencies Act on March 13, 2020. However, nothing in that proclamation closed any businesses, confined anyone in their homes or infringed on any other constitutional rights or liberties. That, and other actions by the federal government merely cleared away certain regulatory roadblocks that could interfere with the government’s response to the pandemic.........To Read More.....
My Take - Once again, the Ten Amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, are the law of the land, they're not the Ten Recommendations. And these governors are violating the Constitution beyond belief, without hardly a whimper from the press, or the public. They're not even consulting with their state legislatures as far as I can tell. It's "rule by decree", and there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution or any state Constitution that gives them that authority. Violation of Constitutional guarantees is illegal making those actions criminal. Could that crime be considered treason? I think so.
We've lost our minds.
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