The Illinois Supreme Court declined to preemptively jump into a court battle over Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) executive authority Monday, despite the state attorney general’s request.
Good. Correct decision.
Everyone in America should have defied this illegal act by every politician who advocated house arrest of everyone. None of them had the legal authority under any present legal statute to enforce their dictatorship. I have not followed any such b.s. and have actively been trying to get infected since I know I’ll never exhibit any symptoms anyhow. I’ll never wear one of these horrible muzzles either. I’m 72, perfect health and never had the flu so far this lifetime. Nor will I. I live in Cortez, CO.
You would be wrong about everything you just said, and you’re a prime example of the selfishness that is right wing America today. If you want to get infected, go volunteer in an ICU like my sister, maybe you’ll have your chance to take the virus on and see how great it is, or watch the misery of all the other people who are dying from it, and consider what it would be like to have your friends and family do so. But no, you just want your selfish little world not to change, and don’t care at all for any of the Americans around you, even their ability to live. Sad to see so many Americans who don’t actually understand the Constitution and why the nation was founded.
A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means. Thomas Jefferson, 1803
Or as Roman jurists used to say …
Salus Populi, Suprema Lex Esto.
Except vaccination and quarantine orders have long been held both legal and constitutional. The sole reason for this temper tantrum is protecting Trumps campaign and if the shoe was on the other foot, the GOP would be kicking everyone with it to protect their power and their own reelections by preventing the pandemic from spreading. The rallying cries about alleged tyranny are nothing but partisan nonsense.
As noted above, everything you wrote here was incorrect, including the supposed “illegal” nature of of the act or the ridiculous drama queen hyperbole of “dictatorship.”
But I wanted to call out one thing more: that only a selfish sociopath would refuse to wear a mask. It is not to protect you: it is to protect others from you. You are deliberately endangering others around you, an action that no reasonable human being would do.
Now that’s a real garden spot of the globe. Needless to say, I’m never going near Cortez in this or any other lifetime.
Unless this whole post is perfectly executed snark. In case it’s not, the cowboy is going to be blocked henceforth.
I don’t.
You wouldn’t mind staying there for now, would you?