Raleigh Police: “Protesting Is A Non-Essential Activity”
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 8 months ago
Our Founding Fathers never once said that the rights given to us by our Creator go out the door in the case of a viral pandemic.
In other words, the Constitution still exists and it still protects us from tyrants.
The Raleigh Police Department had the nerve to tell someone on Twitter that protesting is a non-essential activity.
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Do you know why the Founding Fathers added the freedom of assembly into the amendment? The tyrannical English monarchy also did not find protesting or freedom to assemble an essential activity. Quaker William Penn faced charges for simply preaching in public in 1670. The jury found him innocent, but it made the citizens realize that they have a right to assemble.
Then right before the Revolutionary War, the monarchy made the British forces use their power to restrict protests after Parliament passed stupid taxes.
The British forces did just that. In 1770 these forces committed the Boston Massacre. The British army quickly ended protests in New York and *gasp* North Carolina.
It’s precisely in times like this that the bill of rights DOES apply. It’s easy to acquiesce to God-given rights when times are easy. When the .gox Ox gets gored is precisely the time those rights matter.
If those rights are dishonored when the .gov decides that it’s inconvenient, then the rights are dishonored all of the time.
And as I’ve said before, the circumstances in which we find ourselves has turned the lights on and instead of the cock roaches scattering, they’re fighting. They self-identified, and hopefully, Americans will remember.
And just a reminder that if the Raleigh cops will dishonor the right of peaceable assembly, and the cops in Kentucky will ticket peaceable men and women for attending worship, they will follow orders to confiscate firearms under the pretext of “public safety.”
You can bet on it. As regular readers know since we’ve discussed this many times before, you’re never in more danger than when the police are around. If you don’t get shot by one of them intentionally, you’re in danger of a trigger-happy boob sending a round down range by an ND or because he’s a scared little boy, or in this instance, you’re in danger of being arrested or ticketed for exercising your rights.
On April 15, 2020 at 11:32 am, Adam Baum said:
There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of police.
On April 15, 2020 at 11:47 am, Herschel Smith said:
@Adam,
You know that I claim ownership of all comments?
That quote it mine. Forever. I’ll use it again, and again, and again. But I’ll cite you just to be nice.
On April 15, 2020 at 11:58 am, GM said:
@Herschel,
Just saw another, tenuously related (admittedly ) one that you may like to use: Covid 19-84
On April 15, 2020 at 12:02 pm, Frank Clarke said:
Since they obviously don’t know what’s in the Constitution, they perjured themselves when they took their oath of office and swore to uphold it. The alternative is that they DO know what’s in the Constitution and don’t care, meaning: they perjured themselves when they took their oath of office and swore to uphold it.
On April 15, 2020 at 12:09 pm, Fred said:
When government declares a right non-essential it becomes an imperative.
On April 15, 2020 at 12:49 pm, Fred said:
Protest in TN at Nashville Saturday and Knoxville Sunday
#ReopenTN and/or #ReopenTennessee on the twitter
On April 15, 2020 at 1:01 pm, Ned2 said:
What’s everyone buying with their $1,200?
On April 15, 2020 at 3:41 pm, I R A Darth Aggie said:
“There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of police.”
Yeah, because who else is going to suffer a negligent discharge?
On April 15, 2020 at 5:16 pm, X said:
For decades, dystopian sci-fi writers and political dissidents wrote fiction about how the U.S. would become a dictatorship and a police state.
It’s actually happening now. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
You’re watching your country go down the drain in real time, live on TV, kids.
On April 15, 2020 at 6:23 pm, Adam Baum said:
Mr. H. Smith, the quote did not originate from me. I don’t remember where I first read it and I don’t know who first said it, but please spread it far and wide. Just attribute it to “Anonymous”. Sorry about the double post.
On April 15, 2020 at 7:41 pm, George1 said:
The elites today have never even read the Constitution. They were never taught it in their elite schools. They were only taught that the Constitution is racist and patriarchal. In addition all of the people they respect in the legal profession tell them the Constitution is outdated and not worth considering.
This is only the beginning. AOC, Omar and the squad are the future of this republic. The demographics are destiny and the math is irrefutable.
On April 15, 2020 at 9:29 pm, Ron said:
Ever wonder why police are now called law enforcement officers instead of Peace officers like they used to be called?
It’s because their sole purpose is enforcement of the rules that the state imposes on the rest of us.
They are the enforcement arm of the government.
And they don’t care about your rights because the government gives them qualified immunity so they can violate your rights without repercussion.
On April 16, 2020 at 4:09 am, Chris said:
Masthead at WRSA.
We’re all Branch Covidians now.
On April 18, 2020 at 1:59 pm, Sanders said:
Just wait until they start rounding folks up who refuse the new and untested “vaccine”, for public safety, of course.
Never mind that there are still folks who remember the swine flu epidemic and that their rushed “cure” killed more people than the actual disease.
On April 19, 2020 at 10:29 am, TRX said:
> Since they obviously don’t know what’s in the Constitution, they perjured themselves when they took their oath of office and swore to uphold it.
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Might not fly; they already got a pass from the Supreme Court, who ruled that police don’t have to know the law, and are free to arrest people even if they have no idea if a law has been broken.
And nowadays, with “parallel construction” and lying under oath in Congressional investigations, perjury isn’t something the State thinks applies to themselves.