04-17-2020, 03:16 AM
(04-17-2020, 01:38 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Republicans love The Bill Of Rights and The Constitution except when it gets in the way of their agenda. Then it is conveniently forgotten, like in an impeachment trial with no witnesses. So NOW you want everything to go by procedure. Good thing you and Rush are looking out for the New Jersians and the economy.
It's especially odd when the president left the handling of the crisis largely to governors from jump. The governors in turn used the powers granted to them in states of emergency as written in their individual states. If you bother to read through the powers that governors have in states of emergency (I did), I think you'd find it pretty hard to argue that anything overly illegal took place. Hell, Kentucky grants the ability to seize property (other than guns and ammo) and production facilities if deemed necessary.
Similarly, as I already pointed out, rights have limitations. Not all speech falls into the category of protected speech. Assemblies that present a danger to public health or threaten lives aren't either. You're seeing the corona deniers come out of the woodwork to minimize the disease now that the curve seems to be flattening. My money is on it flattening because of the measures taken meant to do exactly that. Is this the case? We'll find out soon enough when things loosen up and we start getting out again.
I for one sincerely hope that these people are correct and that it was all a big freakout over nothing. It would be great to just get back to work and get things crawling back to normal. I wouldn't bet any significant amount of money on that being the case. I'm definitely not taking the word of a bunch of right wing radical extremists who have a hunch that everyhthing's going to be hunky dory if we all try to pretend that epidemiologists a just a bunch of meanies conspiring with Gates and Soros to require mandatory abortions and turn us into gay lizard people because they hate Trump.