Kentucky State Troopers Spent Their Easter Sunday Taking Down License Plate Numbers Of Congregants Who Attended Worship Services
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 7 months ago
HILLVIEW, Ky. (WDRB) — The pastor of a Bullitt County church says he won’t comply with an order to self-quarantine while he and his attorney discuss their next steps.
Troopers with Kentucky State Police arrived at Maryville Baptist Church on Easter Sunday morning to record license plate information of churchgoers who attended a mass gathering during the coronarivus pandemic.
Pastor Jack Roberts and his allies have argued they have a constitutional right to continue in-person church services, and Sunday, dozens of families attended the Easter service at the Bullitt County church despite an executive order from Gov. Andy Beshear that prohibits mass gatherings in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. Beshear said Friday that anyone who participates in mass gatherings of any type during Easter weekend will be required to self-quarantine for two weeks.
The troopers placed notices under cars’ windshield wipers that say, in part, “This vehicle’s presence at this location indicates that its occupants are present at a mass gathering prohibited by Orders of the Governor and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. As a result, this vehicle’s occupants, and anyone they come into contact with, are at risk of contracting COVID-19, a respiratory illness that can be severe and lead to death, particularly for older adults and those with underlying heart, lung, kidney and immunity issues.”
According to Beshear, the license plate information will be forwarded to local health departments, which will then present orders to self-quarantine for 14 days at the car owners’ homes. Failure to comply could result in further enforcement, the notices say.
They did this in spite of a federal court order against it. AG Barr has made noises of coming to the assistance of congregants like this.
“During this sacred week for many Americans, AG Barr is monitoring govt regulation of religious services,” Kupec tweeted. “While social distancing policies are appropriate during this emergency, they must be applied evenhandedly & not single out religious orgs. Expect action from DOJ next week!”
This statement means nothing. “Evenhandedly.” “Not single out religious orgs.” There is nothing in that statement explaining that the constitution cannot be suspended by orders of anyone.
These are very troubling signs, all of the indicators of opportunistic totalitarianism. But useful nonetheless.
Take a look at the cops in the picture. You’ve heard it a thousand times. “We LEOs believe in the second amendment, and we would never obey orders to confiscate firearms.”
And now you know. If the Kentucky state police will suspend the right to free association and public worship, they will collect firearms from peaceable men. Because orders. Good men in Kentucky should remember this, forever. Those troopers are not good men.
The Kentucky State Police Commissioner is Rodney Brewer.
On April 13, 2020 at 7:30 am, JoeFour said:
There will always be men, especially those who wear a uniform, who will do what they are told to do.
On April 13, 2020 at 8:52 am, X said:
Why didn’t the cops do that at a Jewish synagogue? Because the Jews would have freaked out and accused them of being Nazis trying put them into camps and the cops would have lost their jobs. Why didn’t the cops do it at a mosque? Because Muslims would have killed them for it, that’s why. Why didn’t the cops do that at a black church with a black pastor? Because the blacks would have accused them of being slavemasters and Klansmen and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be marching in front of police HQ with five thousand screaming blacks and cops would have been fired.
They chose a white pastor and a white congregation because they knew it was an easy mark and in post-Christian, post-white Amerika NOBODY would fight back against cops targeting Christians…
On April 13, 2020 at 12:55 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Let this be a lesson (along with the Cocoa Beach, Florida BS) to those that think the magic blue costumed ones will be on anyone’s side other than the government’s.