Thursday, May 7, 2020

RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF CHAD BIANCO SAYS HE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY POLICE STATE

“I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table,” Attorney General Paxton said in a written statement on Wednesday. “The trial judge did not need to lock up Shelley Luther. His order is a shameful abuse of judicial discretion, which seems like another political stunt in Dallas. He should release Ms. Luther immediately.”


Texas Supreme Court Orders Release of Jailed Hair Salon Owner

Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, salon owner Shelley Luther, left, holds the door open a Dallas police officer to leave the business after city officials cited her for reopening her Salon A la Mode in Dallas, Friday, April 24, 2020. Hair salons have not been cleared for reopening …
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The Supreme Court of Texas ordered the release of Salon Á la Mode owner Shelley Luther Thursday morning. A Texas district court judge ordered her jailed for seven days earlier this week after declaring her to be in contempt of court regarding a Dallas County stay at home order that closed non-essential businesses.
Dallas Attorney Warren Norred filed a writ of habeas corpus on Luther’s behalf with the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday. On Thursday, he announced on Twitter that the Supreme Court of Texas had ordered Shelley Luther to be released from the jail without bond pending the outcome of future proceedings.
The release comes after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the jailing of the Dallas hair salon owner by District Court Judge Eric Moyé a misguided “abuse” of power, Breitbart Texas reported Wednesday.
“I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table,” Attorney General Paxton said in a written statement on Wednesday. “The trial judge did not need to lock up Shelley Luther. His order is a shameful abuse of judicial discretion, which seems like another political stunt in Dallas. He should release Ms. Luther immediately.”
Governor Greg Abbott followed up saying “surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal (enforcement of stay home order) other than jailing a Texas mother.”
Judge Moyé said Luther must see the errors of her ways and “understand that the society cannot function where one’s own belief in a concept of liberty permits you to flaunt your disdain for the rulings of duly elected officials.”
“That you owe an apology to the elected officials who you disrespected by flagrantly ignoring, and in one case defiling, their orders you now know obviously apply to you,” Moyé lectured. “That you understand that the proper way in which an ordered society to engage concerns that you might have had is to hire a lawyer and advocate for change an exception or an amendment to laws that you find offensive.”
When she refused to apologize for working to feed her children in her statement, the judge ordered her incarcerated for seven days and fined her $500 per day.
The Texas Supreme Court ordered the Dallas County Sheriff to immediately release Luther on a personal recognizance bond.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.


California Sheriff: ‘I Refuse to Make Criminals Out of Business Owners’

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco
Riverside County Sheriff's Department
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco reaffirmed his stance on not enforcing stringent stay-at-home orders, telling the Riverside County Board of Supervisors this week that he refuses to “make criminals out of business owners, single moms, and otherwise healthy individuals for exercising their constitutional rights.”
Eight weeks ago, officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “participated in something never done before in our nation’s history,” Bianco began.
Government “ordered residents into their homes, closed their businesses, made them wear masks, forbid them from going to church, and eliminated constitutional freedoms put in place over 200 years ago,” he explained.
“In the name of a public health crisis, our civil liberties and constitutional protections were placed on hold,” he continued.
Officials, Bianco said, have asked a lot of residents over the last two months as part of a greater effort to flatten the curve and prevent hospitals from being completely overwhelmed by coronavirus patients.
“It worked,” he said, listing a series of statistics:
What isn’t being emphasized is that 2,000 of the 4,300 people who have tested positive have already recovered and returned to work. What that means is that out of two and a half million people in Riverside County, we have only 2,300 residents positive with this virus. Statistically, that is less than a tenth of one percent.
Forthcoming decisions from officials should be based on “facts and data, not protections and fear,” he continued, stressing that residents do not need to live in fear and noting that the risk remains low for people without serious medical conditions. However, he urged at-risk residents to remain at home.
Bianco said he did not enforce the stay-at-home order from the beginning, partly because he “trusted our residents’ ability to do the right thing without fear of being arrested” and emphasized that he continues to hold that position:
I knew they could be trusted to act as responsible adults, and I was correct. As we continue, I will reinforce my position. Not only do we not have the resources to enforce unreasonable orders, I refuse to make criminals out of business owners, single moms, and otherwise healthy individuals for exercising their constitutional rights. I believe Riverside County residents are responsible enough to proceed cautiously.
The original projections and fears that caused orders to be put into place in the first place, he added, have been “proven wrong.”
“There cannot be a new normal,” he warned, citing the country’s “fundamental freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Any new normal is a direct attack on the basic rights, which set us apart and make us the greatest country in the world,” he added.
On Tuesday, Gov. Newsom warned that, despite the state gradually entering into the next phase of economic recovery, California will not return to normal until a vaccine is developed and available.
“We’re not going back to normal. It’s a new normal with adaptations and modifications, until we get to immunity and a vaccine,” he said during Tuesday’s press briefing — something some experts caution may never come to fruition.



The Castration of a Nation

When the state pays your wages - and the sun is shining - what’s the rush to get back to "normal"?
 
Katie Hopkins
Sometimes I think I need to read this in black and white to actually believe it might be true.
A quarter of the British workforce is sitting at home in its pajamas receiving 80% of its pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 ($3,000) a month, guaranteed by the government until the end of June.
A similar scheme has been put in place for the self-employed.
The prime minister's official spokesman said: "Since the launch, 800,000 employers have used the Job Retention Scheme to furlough 6.3 million jobs. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimated that the scheme would cost the Treasury a total £39bn."
This incredibly over-generous scheme by the British government was grasped at hungrily by big business eager to retain labor without any of the costs.
Even small- and medium-sized business owners, usually reluctant to turn to the state for support and with resilience built into their models, caved to the scheme. It was simply too generous to refuse. The state now holds their employees in its warm embrace, just as with all the rest.
As for the employees, most have been delighted, and with good reason. In their minds, government money is free money, the invisible golden goose in the sky is laying golden eggs to pay for them to stay-cation with their family.
Prohibited from working under the furlough scheme, the need to do any work at all, or to feel any kind of guilt about taking money for doing nothing, has been completely absent from these sedentary fools.
They fail to see that what they are actually gobbling up, along with their takeaways and Netflix box sets, is almost as much cash as it costs to fund our NHS (National Health Service) on a monthly basis.
Talk to any head teacher or NHS manager and they will tell you the same woeful story of "key-workers," fearful of being asked to work through the lockdown while others sit at home, self-isolating on day one due to "a vulnerable adult at home" showing "symptoms." Give many the opportunity to do nothing without penalty, and that is exactly what they will do.
As one furloughed gentleman said as he sat in the sun in his garden, and I quote: "I retire in twelve months; if they want to pay me to sit here and sunbathe for the rest of that time, I couldn’t give a sh*t."
This scheme needs to end. And fast. Until the government puts a stop to the furlough scheme and gives people an incentive to work again, many of those in the public sector will not.
Of course, the unions have come out swinging, threatening walkouts and strikes if the government tries to make people come back to work before it is "safe to do so," quoting from their union handbooks to rabble-rouse the idle.
The GMB, which has more than 600,000 members, said the back-to-work guidance being issued "does not adequately protect workers from Covid-19 exposure and as a result many may refuse to work to avoid putting themselves and their families at risk."
The Acting Secretary added: "For weeks the government has warned people this virus is dangerous and they must maintain social distancing and abide by the lockdown. They cannot just flick a switch, say it’s safe to work within two meters of other people without PPE and expect them to head merrily off to work."
And here’s the catch: the government has used fear in the UK as a mechanism of control. People are so terrified of COVID that rates of self-referral to the ER have dropped by 70%. People are too afraid of COVID to get the emergency help they need for their health. 60% say they will not send their children back to school at this stage. Fear is not easy to undo. The unions will manipulate it for the full benefit of public-sector workers.
Our private sector faces far harder truths. In reality, furloughed staff are unemployed.
The demand for most goods and services simply is not going to be there when the lockdown ends and China shows why: rides on the metro and flights are down by a third, discretionary spending on things like restaurants is down by 40% and hotel stays are down by two-thirds. Fear is hard to undo.
The furlough scheme in the UK is postponing inevitable redundancies at the cost of the taxpayer. There is going to be a cull. Some of us are not sheep; we can smell the slaughterhouse ahead of us. The only kindness is to make it as painless as possible.
By the end of May 2020 six million Brits may be unemployed, equivalent to 20% of the workforce and directly comparable to the USA. Americans are already hungry and hunting for work. British capital and labor is trapped in zombie businesses unaware, paralyzing all.
There are no easy ways out of this, and no answer to many of the biggest questions, such as "Why would you collapse an economy for a virus with a mortality rate that looks like flu? Why force out all private ambition creating a nation of dependents? How could this happen on Boris Johnson’s watch?"
Watching state control at work has been an illuminating, if not deeply sinister experience. I have moved from feeling upset and then angry about it to watching with gory intrigue, like a student doctor gawking at a corpse.
The British government has successfully:
  • driven fear into the heart of the British people, such that cancer patients dare not seek treatment, and asked neighbors to snitch on each other as a mechanism of control;
  • grabbed power, locking down a nation with police enforcing rules that are neither written nor mandated;
  • manipulated people’s emotions, persuading them to sign up to a volunteer army – "all in this together" –  but never giving them a single practical task, encouraging them to clap at the sky in support of the NHS on command at 8pm on Thursdays, and permitting a puritanical mob to out individuals for non-compliance;
  • wielded fiscal and monetary levers to create a furlough scheme that ensures calm, controlled compliance
As this diagram shows, furloughing is a temporary measure allowing the government to achieve calm compliance from its citizens, yet leading inevitably to mass redundancies demand for goods and services after lockdown is no longer there.
I wonder if those who have been so willingly controlled by the state will ever question what happened to them. Whether they will look back at footage of themselves clapping at the sky on command ‘in support of the NHS’ and feel foolish, or wonder why massive emergency hospitals opened to great fanfare are now mothballed without ever serving a single patient. Will they see they were built on a lie?
I fear not.
Britain is entering a lost decade. Lockdown may lift but the economic damage will be profound; the economy may well reopen, but as China, Denmark and Sweden have shown, it will operate at less than half its usual demand.
In Europe’s five largest economies 30 million workers, a fifth of the workforce, are on special schemes where the state pays their wages. Preserving these firms is only delaying the inevitable. America had the decency to make its cull a swift one, its President and citizens fighting back for freedom from day one.
No longer propped up by government money, British businesses will go to the wall. China endured half a million business bankruptcies in the first quarter of 2020. Even those that remain in operation will be shadows of their former selves. Boeing warned that air travel will not reach 2019 levels for two or three years.
In Britain we are heading into a decade where our kids will not find work, the lowest-paid struggle to find casual work, and the rationing of healthcare will be even more extreme. Scarred by fear, people will look to the state for their every need. This recession we are accelerating into will make the Great Depression look like a bad Monday in Michigan.
Oblivious to this, compliant Brits have been reduced to a set of nodding dogs in the window, waiting to be fed their next paycheck, listening for their next instruction, looking to the hand that now feeds them to tell them what to do.

America the Wuss - From Rugged Pioneers to Cowering Sheep

What happened to the American spirit?
 
Don Feder
On the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, the paramount question becomes: What happened to the American people?
Is this the nation whose soldiers braved withering fire wading ashore on Omaha Beach, that produced the Battling Bastards of Bastogne -- whose Marines raised the flag over Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima after a month of brutal fighting?
What happened to the American spirit? We’ve gone from the nation of rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit to shutdowns, social distancing, and face masks. Citizens who are treated like children meekly obey.
The battle cry of America the Wuss (“People are dying”) has drowned out “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Where totalitarians have failed, a triumvirate of the political left, fake news and medical bureaucrats have succeeded in subjugating the American people and ruining the U.S. economy.
Many Americans want to live in a bubble, avoiding contact with anything that might threaten their comfortable existence. Their fear makes them easy to stampede.
In reality, safety is an illusion. Step out your front door and you risk your life. As of May 3, 67,595 had died from the coronavirus in the United States.
In 2018, 647,457 Americans died of heart disease, 599,108 of cancer, 169,936 from accidents of all kinds (including roughly 40,000 highway fatalities), 55,672 from influenza and pneumonia and 47,173 from suicide.
To stay safe, don’t smoke or drink, don’t get too excited, get in a car or climb a ladder, stay indoors, lose weight, avoid human contact during flu season and don’t get depressed. Try not to think about Fingers Biden as president.
Despite the initial hype (first one million would die, then 500,000, then less then 100,000), the coronavirus turns out not to be more contagious or lethal than a really bad flu. The probability of dying from COVID-19 in the United States is 1.5 out of 10,000. Not bad odds.
In Sweden without a draconian shutdown regime, the probability of death from the coronavirus rises slightly to 2.0 out of 10,000. In the United States, the risk for healthy individuals under 55 is probably 1.5 in 100,000.

COVID-19 isn’t the first time a flock of squawking Chicken Littles, feathers flying in all directions, has tried to terrify us with dire warnings of impending doom, just the most successful.
Overpopulation – In “The Population Bomb” (1969) Paul Ehrlich predicted worldwide starvation in the 1970s, due to population growth outstripping food production and the depletion of natural resources. If you missed that, don’t feel bad. Everyone else did too. New methods of cultivation increased the yield per acre. Greater demand led to new discoveries of oil and other resources.
Nuclear War – In 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock, which was supposed to show how close we were to planetary annihilation, due to stockpiles of nuclear weapons among other factors. When the clock started ticking, it was seven minutes to midnight – or the big bang. In January 2020, with Trump in office, we were just 100 seconds away from Armageddon. Ban the bomb! Trust Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, and the leaders of Iran.
Man-Made Climate Change – Due to burning fossil fuels, the ozone layer is shrinking. Soon, sea-levels will rise to unimagined heights, polar bears on surfboards wearing Hawaiian shirts will glide by the island of Manhattan (if it isn’t under water) and they’ll be growing tropical fruit in Antarctica. Al Gore made a fortune with “An Inconvenient Truth.” Little Greta Thunberg mesmerized the U.N. General Assembly whining that grownups “stole my future.” And Commissar Ocasio Cortez devised a Green New Deal to deindustrialize America. Almost the entire Democratic Party is now onboard. Man-made climate change is based largely on those infallible computer models.
And now we have a lockdown going into its sixth week, so Dr. Fauci can do nightly briefings and Democratic governors can be little Caesars. And when it’s all over, they’ll present themselves as saviors. If It weren’t for social distancing and the lockdown, you’d all be dead, the Michigan Dominatrix and New York’s Il Duce will tell voters. If you object, they’ll label you anti-science.
Add to the current death toll civil liberties, representative government and all of the economic gains since the end of the last recession.
Earlier generations of Americans wouldn’t have stood for it. Tar and feathers would been in short supply.
We cheerfully comply. According to an April 29 NPR/Marist poll, 65% say they’re opposed to letting Americans get back to work without more testing. Presumably, that includes pets.
The Corono-crats won’t let you go to church, won’t let Dads play catch with their sons in parks, and won’t let healthy men and women go to work or dine in restaurants. It makes us wear face masks to buy groceries. It forces some independent businessmen to witness the deaths of what it took a lifetime to build.
How did we get here? Was it the feminization of America, whereby we’ve been taught to spurn what used to be called “manly virtues”? In an era of transgendered rights, micro-aggressions and drag-queen story hours, manhood is out of fashion.
People are no longer even ashamed to admit they’re cowards. The Land of the Free depends on the brave. That’s why we’re losing more territory every day. 
But there are still some patriots left. You can see them in the growing number of protests and in the City of Stillwater, Oklahoma which amended a rule requiring the use of face masks in restaurants and stores (which are still open) after “employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse,” in the words of the city manager.
I wonder if I could apply for asylum.      
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