If you’re like me, you thrill every time another tyrant tumbles, every time another local legislature reins in the despots declaring some of us “non-essential” (if that wasn’t the pot calling the kettle black, I’m Barack Obummer), bankrupting businesses, separating families, and ruining lives and liberty. Here’s hoping every governor and “public health” bureaucrat winds up jailed—or worse—for their crimes against humanity and that all their “mandates” are rescinded.
That said, how much better if we ourselves were to rise in defiance! We should wrest our freedom from these thieves instead of relying on their fellow politicians to do so. Legislators lie and deceive; they pass laws that purport to solve a problem but actually aggravate it; they crave control of us and aim their bills towards that end—whatever their pretences and promises.
Case in point: Rethuglicans in Ohio who supposedly curtailed the “emergency powers” of another Rethuglican, Governor Mike DeWine, with passage of SB 22 (nor do I mean to detract from those Patriots who worked for and cheered this bill as a start towards curbing DeWack’s megalomania and authoritarianism).
First comes this warning from Jim:
One problem with what’s going on in Ohio: We did the same here in Kentucky, and the dictator, er, governor, won a temporary injunction in court. It’s still being fought. I wish them luck, but I’m not very hopeful.
Can’t you picture Bluegrass legislators exchanging a wink with Gov. Andy “Cuomo” Beshear as they bought off the serfs with that flawed and ineffective bill?
Meanwhile, Mark Higdon of Ohio “immediately suspected” that SB 22 “is toothless.” Mark based his opinion in part on
expert and anti-tyranny fighter[,]… State Rep. Nino Vitale (who voted NO):
“I swore an oath to uphold the Ohio Constitution. The Ohio Constitution does not allow for a resolution to override a law. The rank order is the Ohio Constitution is the highest law of the state, then Ohio Law. Resolutions are low level and non-binding. While I agree with the premise of the bill, I cannot vote for something that is both unconstitutional and frankly does nothing. The legislature has had 12 months to restrict the governor powers. It has collectively chosen not to.”
Just like the sheeple over which these charlatans rule! They, too, could have disobeyed any of DeWack’s anti-constitutional “mandates” but collectively chose not to.
“SB22 does nothing we cannot already do. It should have had a 15 or 30-day clause termination,” Vitale wrote in a statement.
Mark adds,
No wonder Ohio’s majority-Republican general assembly passed it. They will be exposed sooner or later for this latest COVID-related hoax.
Vitale’s … grounds … are correct, IMO. Which would make it easy for DesWine or any other governor to successfully challenge the law in court.
Therefore, there is no irony at all in the fact that DesWine also publicly dismissed the bill as unconstitutional, which will be the justification for his veto.
The spineless Republican general assembly is trying to have it both ways. They can say they tried to clip the governor’s wings, but he vetoed their effort. The fact is that they drafted unconstitutional remedies to DesWine’s tyranny. Thus, their “effort” was predestined–intentionally–to fail.
Bottom line: SB22–even if the veto is overridden–will change nothing. DesWine will successfully take to court all attempts to implement it.
What’s the solution, then? Mark
continue[s] to place my hopes on Tom Renz’s lawsuit challenging the continued, unending executive declaration of a statewide health emergency.
But the fatal flaw there is the reliance on corrupt courts and judges—both of which consistently uphold Leviathan and even expand the beast’s powers.
Really, the only answer is for Americans themselves to jealously guard and defend their freedoms from “government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Revolution foments; we haven’t reached the critical mass yet necessary, but the Demonrats are doing their level best to stir the cauldron. Our job as we wait is to inform and persuade those around us of liberty’s principles.
10:27 am on March 12, 2021
