“ … the power of law to force a human being to wear a mask at the federal or state level simply does not exist in the United States.” ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano
Americans are facing one bit of tyranny heaped upon another at a breathtaking rate, a rate that we never would have expected to see in our country at this advanced stage of our history, and to a large degree the current “Covid Crisis” is the mechanism of its advancement.
The push for the continued enforcement of illegal, unconstitutional mask mandates by small-minded petty bureaucrats and government workers everywhere is a large part of this anti-freedom and anti-liberty agenda advocated by the worst elements of local, state, and federal governments, raising the blood pressure and the ire of many Americans from all walks of life, who recognize this as the tyrants’ demands for our submission in the face of their erroneous science and lies.
Not one single individual, not the first executive of any branch of government, not any governor and not the President of the United States and certainly not any mayor of any city or county, has any legal or legitimate authority to mandate that the entire healthy population don masks, under the pretense that these masks stop the spread of any disease, when the CDC’s own information and numerous recent studies state the contrary.
They only have the authority to enhance and facilitate the implementation of existing legislation passed by a sitting legislative body, and there isn’t one single law on the books that gives them the power they have taken for themselves under this Covid imbroglio; and, never in our entire history, not even during the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, have we ever penalized the entire population.
On April 16th, between one and two o’clock p.m., my first born daughter had a misadventure at the Department of Motor Vehicles, in Sumner County, Tennessee, simply because she sought to get her tags without first donning a mask, even though numerous other people were already sitting in the waiting area without masks. The lady at the counter told her that she couldn’t even talk to her without a mask, to which my daughter quickly countered by noting that another woman was receiving her tags without a mask and a police officer had just been nearby without a mask. Needless to say, my daughter was furious, and rightly so.
How does one get past this sort of coercion, when a government office withholds service of something like one’s tags, unless one complies with an illegal, unconstitutional, illegitimate mandate?
Make them get their supervisor and ask for a confirmation in writing that they are being refused service even though no legislation requires them to wear a mask. Accept the ticket one will surely later receive, for driving without tags, and then go to court to fight it under the grounds that government malfeasance and incompetence is to blame; and, if necessary, refuse to pay any ticket or tickets received, and then stand with the other mistreated citizens of one’s community under a lawyer’s guidance to sue the county for its infringement on their constitutional rights.
This process may lead to a list of other problems, such as suspended licenses and arrests and jail, which are too much for many to stand and bear, especially when they have children in school and families depending on them to get back and forth to work. And this is what the tyrants know and count on, as they have no compunction over making one or all dissenters into criminals for the simple act of standing up for what is right.
As one can readily see, a person might avoid any grief from the mask mandates for a long time, just as I have avoided any problems or confrontations, until something like this arises. Eventually, tyranny allowed to go unanswered touches us all.
Some suggest that states do have the legal right to pass such legislation, and perhaps they do. However, under the incorporated “due process clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment, the states cannot “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law”. States might technically have such a right, but in that mask mandates deprive us of our liberty and individual sovereignty, they are virtually unenforceable in many respects, and so, any dissent and legal challenge against any mask mandate is on firm legal ground.
And, I would also retort that if I am healthy and representing no risk to others, any such “law” or mandate represents an illegitimate government intrusion and a massive government overreach; and if anyone thinks others “may be sick” and just not symptomatic, then you can wear a damn mask, but you cannot force me and all America to don one due to your own irrational fear of a virus that has a damn near 99 percent survival rate.
Don’t people recognize, if states actually believed this to be the existential threat that the Leftists of America are screaming it is, they would have already passed legislation to move in this direction?
Instead, here in Tennessee, legislators have proposed bills to ensure that businesses and government offices cannot discriminate and refuse service to anyone not wearing a mask or who has rejected the Covid vaccine [see SB320/SB187/HB13/HB0794], and several other states are doing much the same.
These mask mandates in too many instances serve only as a burden on the public peace, health and the safety of all Americans, for a litany of sound medical reasons that I have hashed and rehashed in a dozen other articles. And, once one sees the theatrics of Dr Anthony Fauci and his admitted lies to mislead the American people, as he flip-flops all over the place on the necessity of wearing a mask — one day saying they are a must, the next saying to abandon them — it is not clear what, if any, scientific and clinical basis for wearing facemasks as a protective strategy might be, especially knowing for a fact that facemasks restrict breathing, cause hypoxemia and hypercapnia and increase the risk for respiratory complications, self-contamination and the exacerbation of chronic conditions.
And then there are the cowards who would tell us, “It’s just a facemask”. Only a coward so readily takes refuge in such a poor excuse to give up even the slightest portion of one’s individual liberty, as their words illuminate the fact that they were simply searching for the right reason to acquiesce to the unwise, such as Fauci and those adhering to Fauci’s willful ignorance. The words of cowards hold no value to me and it shouldn’t have any for anybody else, either, since they take comfort in cowering before the tyrants and huddled alongside their own ilk.
Sadly, once the power that came with these mask mandates and lockdowns and such was discovered, government bureaucrats and their lower-level agency workers have steadily and constantly facilitated the coercion and bribery of businesses to act on their orders, in essence to restrict the opportunity for free people to engage in commerce based upon wearing masks and medical procedures they may or may not have received. The mask mandates are simply the beginning, and now that we see government offices using them as an arbitrary tyrannical means of control, it’s readily apparent that many in our society want to use them to exert total control over how Americans will be allowed to simply live and interact in public spaces.
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, although public safety and health falls under the Tenth Amendment and to the general oversight of the states, even they have limits on their authority in this regard. Speaking on Fox News one day, Napolitano stated that the states could not legitimately mandate people must wear masks, stating:
“If a person is known to be contagious, the state could require that person to be quarantined or wear a mask, but anything short of that, the state cannot interfere with that person’s freedom of movement or freedom to wear or not to wear a mask, so the government’s authority is really limited here no matter how aggressive the pandemic may become.”
However, Napolitano did clarify that states could require people to wear masks inside property they own, which cannot be right, in that the state supposedly represents all the people, even those who refuse to comply with mask mandates. Therefore, it must be left to each person as a free individual to decide for themselves whether or not they wish to wear a mask or not.
One father, a soccer coach in Kentucky, made his stand against Kentucky’s mask mandate, refusing to make his daughter wear one, and lost a good job, because he refused to comply, or sit down and remain silent in the face of this tyranny. And due to the courage he exhibited, he is also the father of the only soccer player in his city who plays without a mask; this is the sort of courage all of America’s parents, and everybody else too, need to find, if they expect to hold onto any semblance of freedom and liberty in days ahead.
Any American failing to act decisively at this important juncture in our history, to ensure liberty and freedom for future generations, is sorely lacking in the principles and virtues that America was founded upon. It is unconscionable to let this government overreach to continue at any level of government, and what we do now as a people and a society will determine the fate of freedom and humanity in our country for the rest of the century.
If one chooses the coward’s path, at least be honest with those depending on you to let them know you will not be there for them. At least that way, they will not be surprised or unprepared, when looking for ways to defend themselves and people who will stand alongside them, or in front of them in the coming battles.
As H.L. Menken noted in 1922:
“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: It’s one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him … One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.”
The forced mask mandate upon Americans anywhere — the imposition of these Chinese face burkas — is impermissible and insufferable for anyone with any backbone, integrity, and virtue since they go against the very principles that America was founded upon and the idea of limited government, and they must not be allowed to serve the tyrannical ends for which they are now employed. If the petty tyrants among us can mandate that we all wear a mask for through their own devious and arbitrary “logic” and mechanisms outside constitutional law, then they can mandate anything at all in our lives, even up to and including that we must lick their boots every Friday.
Americans must not let these petty tyrants succeed in facilitating government rule-making for the sake of government rule-making, just to show that they command and we are to obey. Resist and refuse to comply at every turn in the road, and fight this regime and any other government entity like all manner of hell is descending upon you and yours, like your life depends on it, in order to prevent the deep entrenchment of a government that demands our total obedience, with the ability to enforce it. Our liberty, our lives and our futures depend on what we all do from this day forward.
Be brave. Be courageous. Don’t bend the knee. Spit in the face of these unconstitutional and illegitimate power grabs and fight like hell to ensure that America’s future generations will be living free for many centuries.
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a poem for my granddaughter (who, by the way, loved it):
BREATHE FREE
When breath is slight and life is fading, mask is oxygen giving life
But breath abated, masked for fear, is days long, months long, years long strife
Though smiles are hidden, spirits yet rise
Though whiskers are smothered, the weathered are still wise
Fear overwhelms and invades like a virus, as all think the same
While truth rebounds meekly, yet insistent, though it won’t say its name
And the world spirals down, the cradle does fall
Yet the mask hides the truth, for most but not all
So the few of the many who can, and will lead the way
Speak of reality, and wait for the day
When the mask of hysteria, fear and lies
Gives way to the truth, and they open their eyes
“Americans are facing one bit of tyranny heaped upon another at a breathtaking rate, a rate that we never would have expected to see in our country at this advanced stage of our history…”
As crucial as it is to never submit to the authority of another against one’s own conscience, it is even more important to be aware of one’s surroundings in the physical world. Just as you wouldn’t run to the shelter of the biggest tree in an open field in the middle of a thunderstorm in the hopes that it might not be struck, you cannot operate in the current social climate without recognizing it’s state.
Tyranny being heaped upon us at a breathtaking rate is exactly what you expect at this advanced stage of our history. It is, in fact, the hallmark of a society in its decline. On a macro level this is the rage against the dying of the light.
An exhausted and senescent culture always behaves thusly. Act accordingly.
I very much like the fact that nobody’s calling for SCOTUS to step in here because the smart people recognize that SCOTUS is done and it lost any trust it had. It’s a good thing because the, very American, reliance on the authorities and the system in general needs to end if we have a chance in Hell of getting out of this.
Are you saying that if masks worked, the tyrants would have the authority to enforce mask wearing? I don’t think so.
Given the title of the piece and its overall premise, there isn’t anyway anyone can logically leap to your conclusion or draw such an inference from the piece, given the context of the clause focused on the CDC that served as a qualifier to the previous clause: … “the pretense that these masks stop the spread of any disease”.
The clause from which you draw your conclusion only pointed to the fact that the CDC is all over the place on the efficiency and efficacy of masks in the effort to stop Covid. Nothing in that clause, or paragraph, or the entire article would suggest that anyone should look to Big Government and tyrants for answers to their own safety. As a matter of fact, this article is replete with examples to the contrary.
Allow me to reiterate:
“Not one single individual, not the first executive of any branch of government, not any governor and not the President of the United States and certainly not any mayor of any city or county, has any legal or legitimate authority to mandate that the entire healthy population don masks, under the pretense that these masks stop the spread of any disease …”.
Not to nitpick (well, a little maybe), but Gen Z Conservative stated : ” my first born daughter had a misadventure at the Department of Motor Vehicles”. As I understand it, Gen Z is made up of folks born no earlier than the mid-90s, yet the writer has a daughter old enough to drive. Hunh? If he were born in ’95, then a driving-age dtr, say 16, was born when he was ten, ¿no? There seems to be a jogger in the lumber somewhere here.
Forget it, Jake: it’s Chinatown.
Gen Z Conservative is a website run by a GenZ Conservative college student. The article was posted by someone obviously not the operator of the site who is something like 20 years old. Apparently the site does not discriminate against us old fookers.
GenZ copies or barely attributes whatever will get him hits or money. He posts shit from literal boomers under his name all the time.
Admin is trolling us I by linking so often, I assume.
More than anything else, GenZ strikes me as straight up propaganda, not just some grifter.
This guy has done some good research along with references: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242205
Warning. This opens a rabbit-hole for whose who are a bit on the “geeky” side. 🙂
Just Sayin’
If KY wants to become iron-handed and refuse services, I will change my primary address to TN, and no state income tax to boot. Who loses in that stand off?? There is more than one way to get around the cartel.
The Mad Masked Covidians appear to be unaware that we have a basic right to breathe freely.
Freedom’s Wasteland
A dispatch from Freedom’s Wasteland
Where once Lady Liberty stood tall
Filled with the music of summer Gazebo bands
Before the leaves of Autumn did fall.
Twas a time so fine, that few remember
While the little children scampered to and fro
As we welcomed the onset of fair September
Before the chill winds of winter did blow.
And then time stood still
As a phantom virus swept the land
Spreading fear beyond every windowsill
While the ‘Masking Crowd’ made their self-righteous stand.
At the market down on the corner
My neighbors run quickly away
As freedom’s once proud sojourners
Share sad tales of our lost yesterdays.
Liberty’s foundry is no more
Where once were thrown overboard freedom’s castings
As masked ghosts wander among shuttered stores
Dooming democracy everlasting.
Our world a shadow of its former self
Where now madness rules with impunity
And heaven doffs its hat to hell
With those hovering needles of immunity.
The twilight of the gods is upon us
As the world continues to turn
Battered by a phantom microbial Anschluss
As the city streets wretch and burn.
Good and evil locked in mortal duel
As a fugue of despair fills the air
And life turns cold and cruel
Infected with a divisiveness beyond compare.
Neighbor against neighbor
Sister against brother, son against son
Without each other’s company to savor
Our day is finally done.
And as we celebrate civilization’s benediction
In a world that is no more
The captains of restriction
Grovel before the altar of Babylon’s whore.
Why cry for what is no more
What is done is done
And what once was mankind’s majestic lore
Now follows the setting sun.
Goodbye my friends
I enjoyed getting to know you
As we did our precious Freedom defend
Before this world turned blue.
Rip off those masks of obedience
And be free at last
Whatever the consequences
Let us conjure up the ghosts of our noble past.
Carpe diem!
A great future lies before us
Oh tortured human being
Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust.