Tag: government gone wild

Achtung! You Must Walk Your Dog! Twice a Day!

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Boy, authoritarianism is bustin’ out all over–although it doesn’t take much to wake it up in Germany. They’ve got a taste for it.

Their newest diktat is the Hundernordnung–has a ring to it, doesn’t it?–“the Dogs Act,” which will require dog owners–yes, require–to walk their dogs twice a day for at least an hour each time (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/germans-must-walk-their-dogs-twice-a-day-new-law-will-say/ar-BB1896Z4).

“Science” says so! And the orders of Science must be obeyed!

We do not deny that dogs need exercise and stimulation. But is everything the business of the government? Is there no point at which you can stop it and declare, “You can’t go that far”? Is no door shut to government?

They want to put leashes on us.

 

‘Our Immoral and Unrighteous Government’ (2014)

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When I wrote this in 2014, America had yet to learn how rotten with corruption the Obama administration was; and although out of power now, it continues to pump its poisons into us.

Our Immoral and Unrighteous Government

They literally don’t care what happens to the country as long as they come out on top.

Forbid it, almighty God. These people are profoundly evil.

Did He Say ‘Insubordinate’?

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announces run for 3rd term

“Government’s the only thing we all belong to.”  –DNC video, 2012

Democrat governors throughout America seem to be taking this motto literally.

Once upon a time we had “public servants.” Remember those? Now we’ve got masters.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has publicly complained about “insubordinate” citizens in his state (https://www.wethegoverned.com/they-cant-arrest-us-all-so-they-will-bankrupt-us-inslees-plan-to-suppress-insubordination/). They’re supposed to be subordinate to him. For Upstairs, Downstairs fans, this would be like Mr. Hudson the butler ordering Lady Margery to take out the garbage.

Inslee’s mightily cheesed off at the Snohomish County sheriff for not carrying out his plethora of lockdown mandates and wants him recalled from office. There’s no room for properly legislated laws in Mandateistan. And because he can’t count on the sheriffs lately, he has ordered his state Dept. of Labor and Industry to enforce his mandates, threatening small businesses with $10,000-a-day fines for noncompliance. He ordered this radical change in L&I’s function without any debate or public hearings. Louis XIV couldn’t have done it better.

Another one of his bureaucracies, not too long ago, got snookered for “hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars” by a Nigerian fraud ring. You’d think anybody, by now, wouldn’t fall for one of those scams. Gov. Inslee is angry because this resulted in some of his insubordinate citizens making jokes about him. Ah, well, easy come, easy go.

What strange new mutated kind of America have we become, when governors can rule like 18th-century despots and not only get away with it, but be applauded for it by more than a few of their drunk-on-socialism citizens? Who more resemble subjects than citizens.

Again, shame on us.

‘Seattle Will Inspect Your Garbage’ (2014)

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I wonder how much money they’ve spent on this so far–inspecting people’s garbage.

Seattle Will Inspect Your Garbage

I don’t know about Seattle, but here our unionized trash collectors would demand time-and-a-half, or even double-time, for picking through everybody’s yicky garbage so they can tell the mayor who’s been naughty and who’s been nice.

We are privileged to be living, this year, in an ongoing demonstration of the insatiable lust to control other people. Once they get warmed up, don’t expect them to stop just because the pandemic is over. They’ll be declaring all boys are girls and all girls are boys before they even think of stopping.

‘Centaur Escapes from Government Raptor Facility’ (2014)

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Remember what a scandal this was? Remember how upset the IRS was, when it came out that the budget for their raptor-breeding facility as only about half the size of Harvard University’s?

Centaur Escapes from Government Raptor Facility

They never did catch the centaur who got away. He melted effortlessly into the general population. As for the raptor farm, so far all efforts to shut it down have been overturned by a federal judge appointed by President *Batteries Not Included.

Every now and then one escapes and eats people.

 

‘Power Has Driven Him Mad’

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Governors’ over-the-top executive orders may be a new thing in America, but the rest of the world, I am sorry to say, is used to it. Here’s a sample from 1971, from the comedy, Bananas. The new El Presidente is New Jersey’s own Jacopo Morales.

See? Just like Blue State governors today! “From now on underwear must be changed every half-hour…”

Tell me they’re not thinking along those lines.

Judge: You Can Be Arrested on ‘Suspicion’ of Having Virus

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You’d better not look sick!

(Thanks to Phoebe for the nooze tip. She asks, “Since when did illness become a felony?” That question needs an answer.)

The coronavirus panic has moved a Michigan judge to rule that individuals can be arrested and held–without medication!–for up to 72 hours if police or “health officials” suspect him or her of being infected with the virus (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/michigan-judge-authorizes-arresting-people-on-suspicion-of-covid-19-illness).

The “suspect”–is this crazy, or what?–may be “held for at least three days to confirm he or she is without a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit for at least 72 consecutive hours (without the use of fever-reducing medication)…”

Probable cause? We don’t need no stinking probable cause.

So they not only arrest you and “forcibly isolate” you for three days because some pipsqueak “suspects” you of having the virus; but if you really are sick, they’re not going to give you any medicine!

What’s with Michigan? The governor has been slapped with two federal lawsuits (so far!) for her heavy-handed “orders” imposed upon the populace. And there’s a recall petition against her with a couple hundred thousand signatures already.

Are our state and local governments becoming a more serious threat to our country than any disease? Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has become the poster gal for Mussolini wannabes. When they start forbidding you to plant your garden, as Whitmer has done, you know they’ve gone overboard.

Can Americans’ liberties really be lost so swiftly? Is it really that easy for a mayor or a governor to become a dictator?

They need taking down a peg, but good.

Liberalism at Work: Banning Church Services

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Mendocino County, California–Soviet life, American-style–has banned  churches from “singing while recording online worship services, unless the individuals sang from home” (https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-california-church-online-order-county-worship-limit). The… “order”… was issued on Good Friday.

(Of course they could always use pre-recorded hymns for the service. But that’s not the point.)

Do you remember voting for any little tinhorn tyrant to give us “orders”? I don’t. I do remember “public servants” before they became the public’s masters. Whose idea was that, anyway?

Leftids always want to silence churches, and now the Chinese Wuhan Communist Death Virus From China has given them the excuse they’ve been looking for. Churchgoers in Mississippi were fined $500 each for attending outdoor worship, in their cars, with the service on the radio. In Louisville a federal judge had to prohibit the city’s church ban.

To me it looks like we now have more to fear from our own governments, especially at the state and local level, than we have from any disease.

Look for Democrats to spin the crisis out for as long as they can, and try to hold the nation hostage until they get mail-in voting or some other vast concession that will murder our republic.

Bill of Rights? What Bill of Rights?

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy

New Jersey Gov. Phillip Murphy–who calls recreational pot-smoking “the civil rights issue of our time,” who’s hot to trot for assisted suicide–told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that a basic consideration of the Bill of Rights is “above my pay grade” (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/above-my-pay-grade-new-jersey-governor-claims-bill-of-rights-did-not-factor-into-his-coronavirus-executive-orders).

Carlson was asking him about one of his executive orders that resulted in the arrest of 15 worshipers at a synagogue–exercising their First Amendment right of free exercise of religion–and Murphy answered “[I] wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this.”

Even if you believe these executive orders are absolutely necessary to cope with a medical emergency, does it follow that the Bill of Rights is just… a luxury? Well, yeah, freedoms are okay, but it’s not like we need ’em or anything.

I mean, he could have said, “Well, of course I thought of the Bill of Rights and I didn’t take this step lightly: I was responding to an emergency. I felt I had to do it.”

We are talking elementary civics here–the kind of thing everybody used to learn in junior high school. It was not above a governor’s pay grade. The Bill of Rights is foundational to our country’s entire legal system. To ignore it, to trample on it, is to weaken all the laws. As Mr. Pot-Head Governor is duty-bound to know!

Are we going to have to go through this quarantine rigmarole every time there’s a disease on the loose, from now on? Well, that would be always, because there’s always some germ or other looking to infect us.

So that’s another thing this experience has taught us: We need to tighten up and make much more specific the rules defining what powers governors or mayors may invoke and exercise to deal with an emergency. As we have seen in several states, we just can’t trust them to make it up as they go along.

Government Gone Wild: Michigan Gov’s ‘Order’ Bans Homeschooling

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[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip]

(As I start writing this, our electricity suddenly begins to flutter. Please, Lord, not that.)

The coronavirus panic–I’ve been calling it a “scare,” but it looks like devolving into panic–has given Blue State governors a tantalizing taste of the kind of power they would have if only America would sink down into socialism.

In her haste to shut down the public schools for the rest of the school year, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order that seems to ban homeschooling, too (https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/governors-coronavirus-order-bans-homeschooling/?fbclid=IwAR0ZPnNmsKzHoQk_B2O36tKxi3_5chFltY9cVB83QOANCgF9qhOaTP8PVz0).

What the “order” says is “in-person instruction for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12… is suspended for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year” and that the order also applies to “all non-public schools in the state.” Michigan law defines homeschooling as “non-public schooling.”

The Great Lakes Justice Center is attributing the governor’s ban on homeschooling to “faulty drafting” of the executive order and calling on her to rewrite it. Otherwise it would, of course, be a mammoth overreach of the governor’s authority.

We’ll have to see if she rewrites it. Meanwhile, consider: Homeschooling was legal in Michigan before the coronavirus panic. What suddenly makes it illegal? And what exactly constitutes “in-person instruction” that must be banned? If I tell my great-grandson about the career and personality of Hannibal, would that land me in jail? (No, it would not be an eyewitness account!)

For the moment we’re not going with the speculation that the teachers’ union asked the governor very nicely to prohibit homeschooling. But I’m putting it on a low shelf, within easy reach should it be needed.

UPDATE: Gov. Whitmer has “clarified” her order to make it clear that her suspension of “in-person instruction” does NOT apply to homeschooling.

But it’s still a good idea to recall any Democrat governor.