Monday, April 20, 2020

Police In North Carolina Arrest Peaceful Protestors, Declare Protesting A ‘Non-Essential Activity’

A group of peaceful protesters gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday to call for the re-opening of the state. They stood outside and observed social distancing guidelines. More importantly, they observed the guidelines of the First Amendment, which, plain as day, protects “the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” They were assembled. They were peaceful. And they were petitioning their government for a specific and reasonable thing, namely the right to go back to work and feed their families.

But the protestors forgot that our Founding Fathers, when codifying our inherent human rights into the legal document known as the Bill of Rights, included the important caveat that all rights immediately evaporate whenever there’s a virus and people are scared. You can’t see it because it’s written in invisible ink. That appears to be the legal theory of the governor of North Carolina and his law enforcement agents, anyway, as Raleigh police descended upon the peaceful assembly and instructed it to disperse. At least one of the protestors was arrested.

When asked to justify their actions, the Raleigh Police Department explained on Twitter that — and this is a direct quote — “protesting is a non-essential activity.” I expect that the bootlickers who support the government’s right to arrest people for going to church will find this reasoning totally acceptable. But Americans who value freedom will recognize it as Orwellian insanity. If a politician can unilaterally abolish our fundamental liberties simply by declaring them non-essential, then we have no fundamental liberties.

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3 comments:

ScienceABC123 said...

Like so many other Democrat run state and local governments - "We don't support your 1st Amendment right to peaceably to assemble, nor to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Anonymous said...


It's not just the Democrats but they are more prevalent among the two bit tyrants who are using the virus as an excuse to exercise the powers they want to claim.

And they are appearing at all levels of government, from the local to the national.

Bird of Paradise said...

Will they allow for Antifa to riot through the Street's and will the Cops be given ordered not to arrest the Democrats SS Goons? by the Dirty Dirty Democrat?