Downstate judge blasts Pritzker’s stay-at-home-order: ‘Americans don’t get ruled’

JustAGuy1 · May 28, 2020

MAINER VS. PRITZKER.
2020-CH-10.
JUDGE'S RULING ONLY.
5/22/2020

THE COURT: All right. This court has reviewed the
plaintiff's complaint, including attachments, prior to
today's hearing. The court has had an opportunity to
review the response submitted by the defendant and
attachments and case law.

Before I rule, I'm advising everybody in this
room, no public outbursts or displays. The court is
still in session until you are told otherwise.
Since the inception of this insanity, the
following regulations, rules or consequences have
occurred: I won't get COVID if I get an abortion but I
will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy. Selling pot is

essential but selling goods and services at a family-
owned business is not. Pot wasn't even legal and pot
dispensaries didn't even exist in this state until five
months ago and, in that five months, they have become
essential but a family-owned business in existence for

five generations is not.

A family of six can pile in their car and drive
to Carlyle Lake without contracting COVID but, if they
all get in the same boat, they will. We are told that
kids rarely contract the virus and sunlight kills it,
but summer youth programs, sports programs are
cancelled. Four people can drive to the golf course and
not get COVID but, if they play in a foursome, they
will. If I go to Walmart, I won't get COVID but, if I
go to church, I will. Murderers are released from
custody while small business owners are threatened with
arrest if they have the audacity to attempt to feed
their families.

These are just a few of examples of rules,
regulations and consequences that are arbitrary,
capricious, and completely devoid of anything even
remotely approaching common sense.

State's attorneys in this state, county

sheriffs, mayors, city councils and county boards have
openly and publicly defied these orders followed by
threats to withhold funding and revocation of necessary
licenses and certifications unless you obey.

Our economy is shut down because of a flu virus
with a 98 percent plus survival rate. Doctors and
experts say different things weekly. The defendant

cites models in his opposition. The only thing experts
will agree on is that all models are wrong and some are
useful. The Centers for Disease Control now says the
virus is not easily spread on surfaces.

The defendant in this case orders you to stay
home and pronounces that, if you leave the state, you
are putting people in danger, but his family members
traveled to Florida and Wisconsin because he deems such
travel essential. One initial rationale why the rules
don't apply to him is that his family farm had animals
that needed fed. Try selling that argument to farmers
who have had to slaughter their herds because of
disruption in the supply chain.

When laws do not apply to those who make them,
people are not being governed, they are being ruled.
Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws.
They are royal decrees. Illinois citizens are not being
governed, they are being ruled. The last time I checked
Illinois citizens are also Americans and Americans don't
get ruled. The last time a monarch tried to rule
Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the
world. That day led to the birth of a nation
consensually governed based upon a document which
ensures that on this day in this, any American courtroom
tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty,

freedom and the constitution will always win.

That said, plaintiff, your request for a TRO
with respect to Count I is denied. Your request for the
TRO on behalf of similarly situated individuals is
denied. If you develop some other case law or ability
to convince me that that appellate court opinion you
cite trumps current civil practice rules, I'll be glad
to consider it later.