Govt flexes muscle to show citizens / Constitution / Founding Fathers who's 'Boss'....
One Arrested as Raleigh, NC Police Suspend First Amendment; Declare Coronavirus Lockdown Protest “Non-Essential Activity”
'Raleigh, North Carolina police suspended the First Amendment Tuesday, dispersing a protest against the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus lockdown and arresting one protester for failing to disperse. The police issued a statement declaring “Protesting is a non-essential activity” that was in violation of an executive order by Governor Roy Cooper (D) prohibiting mass gatherings.'
What is considered 'non-essential activity' by the government is a right protected by the Constitution from a government who seeks to quell all peaceful assemblies...
Add this one to the list of Constitutional Rights - like exercise of religious freedom - being trampled in the name of
'preventing the spread of CPVID-19'.
Raleigh, North Carolina police suspended the First Amendment Tuesday, dispersing a protest against the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus lockdown and arresting one protester for failing to disperse. The police issued a statement declaring “Protesting is a non-essential activity” that was in violation...
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Here's what y'all infectophiles keep missing.
-- What's the adverb before the word "assemble"? "Peacefully".
Therefore an assembly of, say, a lynch mob would be an assembly but not a "peaceful" one, agreed?
Whelp, same for a congregation that huddles together despite a known contagious infection going around. One uses a rope, the other uses a virus.
Think about it.
I thought about it...and it's stupid.
I did not ignore the word 'peacefully' at all.
You are trying to compare a racist lynch mob with Americans being forced to stay at home, denied their rights to exercise their freedom of religion, and denied their right to peacefully assemble.
Yeah, I am pretty sure Pogo knows what a false equivalency is, he is just being retarded to push a political agenda.
Intellectual sloth. My favourite thing.
Read post 11 and try to refute it.
I don't have to "try."
It was already addressed by Thoreau and James Corbett in Post #3, before you made a fool and a petty tyrant of yourself.
If you had bothered to watch the video, you could have more specifically answered the question HE posed to you at the end of his video now, couldn't ya?
I am beginning to think you aren't an American at all, but an agent of the Crown, this is becoming clear.
I
wasn't responding to your post downthread; I responded directly to the OP. Which isn't even yours.
THAT''S KIND OF WHY IT'S QUOTED IN THE POST, isn't it. DAMN, fulla yourself much??
Having now burned eight minutes and fourteen seconds I'll never get back of your hair-on-fire tinfoil conspiracy cry-the-blooze-and-hey-looka-me Chicken Little egomaniac video it's irrelevant to my point.
And it's bullshitting a strawman too --- nobody is "locked in their own homes", so even if it were relevant to the point it would be fallaciously tilted. "Corbett Report", holy shit what an ego.
I give you St. Louis and Philadelphia in the 1918 pandemic. One isolated, one didn't. And the latter paid a hefty price. One had more personal freedoms, and also WAY more dead. Essplain to the class what personal freedoms are enjoyed by the dead.