Devin Nunes Responds to the Insufferably Political SSCI Report Justifying a Political Intelligence Community Assessment…


Lou Dobbs knows what is going on here… you can hear it and see it in his lead-in to the interview with Devin Nunes.  Unfortunately, Devin Nunes doesn’t want to call the baby ugly. Here we are, once again stuck in this stupid place where DC pretends the previous CIA, FBI and DOJ officials were not political; while we roll our eyes at them because we know the truth; and we know that they know the truth; but their pretense is supported by a willfully blind media.

Enough Already – A Legally Conflicted Senate Intel Committee Presents Another Defense of Intelligence Corruption…


Foolishness and betrayal of our country have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. The intelligence apparatus was weaponized against our candidate by those who controlled the levers of government. That said, today’s SSCI defense of political corruption is infuriating.

To understand what is taking place within the Mark Warner and Richard Burr report it is worthwhile revisiting the 2014 House Intelligence report by Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger which was presented in defense of severe corruption in/around Benghazi.

The HPSCI report from Rogers-Ruppersberger was a cover-up operation intended to defend their own interests and involvement in the CIA/State Dept. operation in Libya. Only after the 2014 report was it discovered that republican Mike Roger’s wife was actually connected to the illegal arms sales in Libya.  Therein was the motive and conflict.

Similarly, today’s Senate Intelligence report from Mark Warner and Richard Burr, defending the construct of the ICA, is itself intended to cover their own involvement in the CIA/FBI corruption against candidate, and President, Donald Trump.  The evidence of their complicit activity is within the story of SSCI security Director James Wolfe, and how the DOJ covered-up the FISA leak in order to cover-up institutional SSCI corruption.

You can read today’s SSCI report HERE – With PDF HERE –  In essence the report attempts to validate the Obama administration’s intelligence effort surrounding the Intelligence Community Assessment or ICA [Authors: John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper and to a lesser extent NSA Director Mike Rogers], and support the conclusions of Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.

It’s all nonsense.  The ICA is a political document constructed in January 2017 to assist the cover-up operation surrounding the surveillance of Donald Trump, and push forth a narrative that Russia interfered in the election.  The ICA is a lie for political intents.

However, there’s a bigger issue here…. A much bigger issue that explains how and why this continued cover-up is being maintained.

If you are familiar with the James Wolfe story you know that in 2018 the DOJ under Rod Rosenstein purposefully made the decision to hide the leaking of the Carter Page FISA application in March 2017 because any prosecution for leaking classified intelligence would have also captured the Senate Intelligence Committee and their participation.

In the summer of 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions was recused, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was in charge and the Mueller investigation was ongoing. That was when the DOJ made a decision not to prosecute Wolfe for leaking classified information. Later in the year DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu signed-off on a plea deal where Wolfe plead guilty to only a single count of lying to the FBI.

If the DOJ had pursued the case against Wolfe for leaking the FISA application, everything would have been different.  The American electorate would have seen evidence of what was taking place in the background effort to remove President Trump. We would be in an entirely different place today if that prosecution or trial had taken place.

Three 2018 events revealed the Wolfe issue:

EVENT ONE – On February 9th, 2018, the media reported on text messages from 2017 between Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman Mark Warner and Chris Steele’s lawyer, a lobbyist named Adam Waldman.

EVENT TWO – Four months after the Mark Warner texts were made public, on June 8th, 2018, another headline story surfaced.  An indictment for Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Security Director James Wolfe was unsealed on June 7th, 2018.

EVENT THREE – Slightly less than two months after release of the Wolfe indictment, another headline story.  On July 21st, 2018, the DOJ/FBI declassified and publicly released the FISA application(s) used against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

♦ Later on December 14th 2018 a fourth albeit buried public release confirmed everything.  The FBI filed a sentencing recommendation proving it was the Carter Page FISA that was leaked by Wolfe:

HINDSIGHT – What we didn’t know at the time, simultaneous to the decision-making regarding Wolfe, was another (a second) DOJ cover-up effort was taking place surrounding the origin of the Russia-collusion fraud.

Amid a series of documents recently released by the Senate Judiciary Committee [SEE HERE] there is a rather alarming letter from the DOJ to the FISA Court in July 2018 that also points toward an institutional cover-up.   [Link to Letter]

The letter was sent by the DOJ-NSD to the FISA Court on July 12, 2018.  The DOJ is telling the court in July 2018: based on what they know the FISA application still contains “sufficient predication for the Court to have found probable cause” to approve the application.   The 2018 DOJ is defending the Carter Page FISA application as still valid.

This is an incredibly misleading statement to the FISA court because what the letter doesn’t say is that 18-months earlier the sub-source, also known in the IG report as the “primary sub-source”, informed the FBI that the material attributed to him in the dossier was essentially junk.  The DOJ-NSD says the sub-source was “truthful and cooperative” but the DOJ doesn’t tell the court the content of the truthfulness and cooperation. Why?

By July 2018 the DOJ clearly knew the dossier was full of fabrications, yet they withheld that information from the court and said the predicate was still valid. Why?

Institutional preservation.

All of the activities by corrupt actors are merged within the need to save the institutions of government from sunlight upon the extent of the corruption within them.  That is why the DOJ made the decision to bury the SSCI leak of the FISA application in June/July of 2018. That is also why the same DOJ, at the same time, made the decision to mislead the FISA court about the credibility of the evidence within the FISA application.

Robert Mueller’s special counsel was ongoing when all of these corrupt DOJ/FBI decisions were taking place.  These are decisions being made by the DOJ and FBI to cover-up massive institutional corruption while President Trump was in office; and while the intent of that corruption was to remove President Trump from office.

Allow me to frustratingly re-fucking-empasize…  These decisions are in 2018.

Jeff Sessions was Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein was Deputy AG; Christopher Wray was FBI Director, David Bowditch is Deputy, and Dana Boente was FBI chief-legal-counsel.. this letter to the court was written by AAG John Demers.

Wray, Bowditch, Boente and Demers are still employed, still working, and still participating as corruption managers.  They may not be adding to the corruption, but the fact remains they are doing nothing to address the scale and severity of the corrupt activity that was taking place.

Knowing this, why wouldn’t corrupt participants SSCI Chairman Richard Burr and vice-chair Mark Warner exploit the priorities of the DOJ for their own preservation?

Bill Barr wants to preserve the institutions.  Burr and Warner can hide behind the shield of that priority.  That’s why they can write this ridiculously false and slanted defense of the 2017 intelligence community assessment and carry no fear of exposure for doing it.

It’s all FUBAR.

What we can see from all DOJ operations is an intentional effort by Main Justice not to expose the epicenter of a multi-branch effort against the White House.  Senator Burr and Warner are hiding behind that ongoing DOJ intent.

The decisions in the Wolfe case are critical. That’s the fork in the road. If the Wolfe prosecution had continued it would have undoubtedly surfaced that key government officials and politicians were working together (executive and legislative).

The ramifications of the Wolfe case were/are stunning. Had the prosecution continued it’s very likely a seditious conspiracy would have surfaced.

♦ I often field a question: If you know this; if all of this information is in the public sphere; then why didn’t any member of the media cover it?

Here’s the answer: They can’t…. At least they cannot cover it and still retain all of the claims they had been making since March 2017 when journalist Ali Watkins gained a fully non-redacted copy of the Carter Page FISA application and first renewal.

Politico, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and The Washington Post are all implicated in the James Wolfe leak to Ali Watkins. They had the FISA information since March 2017, yet those media outlets were disingenuously falsifying their reporting on the actual content of the FISA application despite their actual knowledge.

Remember all of the media denials about what Devin Nunes wrote in the “Nunes memo”? Remember the media proclaiming the Steele Dossier was not part of the FISA application?

How was the media fifteen months later (July 2018) going to report on the Wolfe leak to Watkins without admitting they had been manufacturing stories about its content for the past year-and-a-half?

It was in the media’s interest NOT to cover, or dig into, the Wolfe story.

Additionally, from both the DOJ and Media perspective, coverage of the Wolfe leak would prove the senate intel committee (SSCI) was, at a minimum, a participating entity in the coup effort. That same SSCI is responsible for oversight over the CIA, FBI, DOJ-NSD, ODNI, DNI, and all intelligence agencies.

Worse yet, all officers within those agencies require confirmation from the SSCI (including Chair and Vice-Chair); and any discussion of the Wolfe leak would highlight the motive for ongoing corruption within the SSCI in blocking those nominations (see John Ratcliffe).

Stunning ramifications.

There was a clear 2018 fork in the road and the DOJ took the path toward a cover-up; which, considering what the DOJ was simultaneously doing with Mueller, and the EDVA regarding Assange, and the lies to the FISA court, is not entirely surprising.

Was that decision wrong? Oh hell yes, it was corrupt as heck. .

Were the decisions done with forethought to coverup gross abuses of government? Yes.

Where the DOJ is today in 2020 is directly connected to the decisions the DOJ made in 2017 and 2018 to protect themselves and internally corrupt actors from discovery.

It is often said: “the coverup is always worse than the crime.” This is never more true than with these examples, because where we are today… now miles down the path of consequence from those corrupt decisions… is seemingly disconnected from the ability of any institutional recovery. That’s now the issue for Bill Barr.

The challenge for Attorney General Bill Barr is not investigating what we don’t know, but rather navigating through what ‘We The People’ are already aware of…. And then finding a way to protect the institutions of the DOJ and FBI while getting people to stop demanding action to address the corruption within them.

AG Bill Barr has to keep feeding the purveyors of investigative hope-porn as a method to keep the pitchforks at bay, while simultaneously trying to figure out how he can preserve the institutions. Remember, the DC system operates on an entirely different legal principle when it comes to internal investigations within the bubble.

As a result we get AG Barr saying “if John Durham can find evidence of criminal conduct”; where “criminal” in DC is defined around a DC-exclusive legal theory of “intent” that doesn’t apply anywhere else in the country.  [examples: see Hillary Clinton; or see IG Horowitz saying he couldn’t find intent.]

Think about the argument:  Are we debating what lies behind redactions on current DOJ documents from the AG Bill Barr agency; and simultaneously believing that AG Bill Barr is going to deliver some form of justice from inside the institution of the DOJ?

The Bill Barr Dept. of Justice is currently engaged in an ongoing effort to cover/redact  details that are embarrassing to the institutions; but the same Bill Barr Dept. of Justice is going to prosecute those who embarrassed the institutions?…

FUBAR!

RESOURCES:

The corrupt Benghazi report.

More surfaces on the Benghazi report.

The Backstory on the Wolfe Cover-up.

Footnote #350 Shows Bill Barr’s problem.

The declassification showing the 2018 DOJ and FBI cover-up

Trump Campaign Highlights Speaker Pelosi Elitism -vs- Average American Worker…


A highly effective ad noting how Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to hold-up $250 billion in funds for the American worker Paycheck Protection Program (small business) while sitting in her multi-million home bragging about her supply of gourmet ice-cream.

New York Snitch Line Bombarded With Subversive Liberty Memes, Vulgar Pictures and Propaganda Against The State…


Commissar Bill de Blasio is not pleased with the early results from the New York City Ministry of COVID Compliance ‘snitch on your neighbor’ text message alert system.

According to the compliance dispatchers who operate the 311 program [311-692] one presumed subversive sent an alert of Commissar de Blasio while providing photographic evidence of the mayor violating social distancing via fellatio in an alley next to a convenience store.

Through the comprehensive review process, that specific text message alert was intercepted by dispatchers before being sent to compliance officers for investigation.  However, there are many more alerts of a similar nature.

As a result of what appears to be an underground network of subversive citizens; and due to an overwhelmingly coordinated effort to disrupt the intent of the effort; the snitch-alert system had to be temporarily taken down and purged.   The NYC Ministry of compliance would like to inform all citizens the snitch alert system is now reactivated.  Good citizens can once again text any subversive activity to 311-692 including pictures of infractions.

White House Press Coronavirus Task Force Press Briefing – 5:30pm ET Livestream…


Unfortunately, with President Trump effectively communicating the latest information on the federal efforts to mitigate COVID-19, more corporate U.S. resistance media have decided not to carry the live broadcasts from the White House task force briefings.

Today at 5:30pm ET the White House will hold a beating for the media and share the latest mitigation efforts against the coronavirus. [Livestream Links Below]

White House Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream – CSPAN Livestream Link

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Congress Finalizes $484 Billion Deal – $321 Billion for Paycheck Protection Program…


Republicans and Democrats finally agreed on a supplemental spending bill that will bolster the paycheck protection program with an additional $321 billion in relief funds.

[WASHINGTON] – […] The deal also includes $60 billion in loans and grants for economic disaster assistance, $75 billion for hospitals and $25 billion for coronavirus testing. Of that testing money, $11 billion will go to states and some will also go to the federal government.

Democrats admitted defeat on their demands for $150 billion for states and local governments after McConnell and Mnuchin took a hard line against including that money. (read more)

Likely President Trump and Secretary Mnuchin will discuss during today’s briefing. The bill should pass later this week.

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Because Corruption is Corruption, no matter how small!


President Trump did the right thing in freezing all funding to the World Health Organization. In the past, maybe this organization tried to help the world, but today, it is a corrupt relic dedicated to covering up China’s mistakes.

Trump announced the hold on U.S. funding for the W.H.O., saying “We spend $500 million a year,” and noted that China only spends $30 million-$40 million annually.

The president said the W.H.O., an agency of the U.N., had participated in “mismanaging and covering up” the spread of the coronavirus around the world.

“The W.H.O. pushed China’s misinformation about the virus, saying it was not communicable, and there was no need for travel bans,” Trump said.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has redirected funds from the World Health Organization to charitable groups such as Samaritan’s Purse and the Red Cross, the New York Postreported Thursday.

The US funds the WHO to the tune of 500 million a year, where as China spends 30 million, and reaps all the benefits. How is that fair?

We would rather see the funding go to American charities instead of a globalist, America hating organizations like the WHO.

And while Trump is at it, he should defund the UN and move them out of New York.

Of course, the brain dead celebrities staged a concert on Saturday fundraising for the commies at WHO.

The usual suspects showed up including Paul “Yeah, Yeah Socialism” McCartney, Granny Madonna and Lady “Gag me” Gaga proclaiming WHO chief  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a “superstar”. How much did China pay her for that?

They ended up raising about 55 million, a drop in the bucket considering the 500 million that was defunded.

Remember China lied People died and the WHO covered it up!

Tina

The Phony Baloney “Prayerfulness” of Granny Grinch Nancy Pelosi


How many American Whos give a fig if the returnees to work don’t include Ice Cream Queen Nancy Pelosi?

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesApril 20, 2020

Granny Grinch Nancy PelosiWell rested from not having to show up at work and invoking sanctimonious “prayerfulness”  while overdosing on chocolate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has morphed over to the Granny Grinch who’s trying to rob Americans of their beloved country.

But millions of Whos down in the Whoville called America are not buying into her bull.

How many American Whos give a fig if the returnees to work don’t include Ice Cream Queen Nancy Pelosi?

Let us steal some of Dr. Tony Fauci’s limelight and return to the outcome of Dr. Seuss:

…”Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry boo-hoo! That’s a noise,” grinned the Grinch, “that I simply must hear!” … Every Who down in Whoville, the tall and the small, Was singing without any presents at all!”

How many housebound American Whos are singing in anticipation of the return to work coming soon in the expected retreat of the raging pandemic?

How many American Whos give a fig if the returnees to work don’t include Ice Cream Queen Nancy Pelosi?

With all churches now shuttered, congregants can no longer hear their pastors, even brave ones threatened with arrest for delivering messages to the faithful in church parking lots, Pelosi now tries coming on like a pastor:

“Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic by invoking “whimsy magic, hoax, allegations.” (Breitbart, April 19, 2020)

This is, of course,  Marxist projection 101!

Easter gave me a time for reflection and prayerfulness

“Host George Stephanopoulos said, “In a conference call with your caucus earlier this week, you reportedly said ‘I’m afraid of what the president may do during this period,’ What is it that you’re afraid of?” (Breitbart)

“Pelosi said, “I’m afraid he is going to act on the set basis that he’s acted on it before — it’s a hoax, it’s magically going to disappear. That’s why I sent the letter I did after Easter. Easter gave me a time for reflection and prayerfulness. He failed. He failed in the testing and the rest, and it’s a hoax, and it’s going to magically disappear, that’s not based on science. This isn’t magical. This is scientific. So I said if he continues to predicate the action that we take on a false premise, then we’re in further danger.”

“His earlier delay and denial caused deaths, and so it’s very important that we walk the line that’s close to evidence, data, science, as we go forward and not whimsy magic, hoax, allegations, and placing blame instead of taking responsibility,” she continued. “I was prayerful about this.

“When people said this and that, I said that’s time for after-action review. We’ll go over all of that. Except he was drawing strength in his own view of what his falsehoods were gaining him. We can’t — we can’t fight a pandemic, we can’t open up our economy based on falsehoods.”

People can fight a pandemic and are doing so all over the world

People can fight a pandemic and are doing so all over the world.

The truth that’s sent Pelosi over the edge is that the American economy was leading the world only two months ago, and President Trump will open up the economy again—even against the defiant resistance of Pelosi and power-crazed Democrats.

Whether it’s Fundamentally Changing America or covering hatefulness with “prayerfulness”, Americans down in their DNA are ANTI-GRINCH!

Meanwhile, Pelosi’s claims that Easter gave her “a time for reflection and prayerfulness” is more than passing strange, given that “prayerfulness” and “spitefulness” do not go hand in hand—especially when it’s being doled out by a chocolate-gorging Granny Grinch!

SARS 2003: Fraud, and the credibility of the World Health Organization


If you want to believe anything the World Health Organization is claiming now, in 2020, do so at your own peril

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesApril 20, 2020

SARS 2003: Fraud, and the credibility of the World Health OrganizationHistory matters.

If the World Health Organization (WHO) deceived the world into fear and panic THEN, in 2003, why should you believe them NOW re COVID, when both instances involve epidemics?

As some readers will recall, in 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) put out a travel advisory—-don’t go to Toronto.  Toronto was “infected” with epidemic SARS.  The loss of tourist income was significant.  At the time, I was in touch with a Canadian activist who was trying to assemble a group of Toronto merchants and file a law suit against WHO for a few billion dollars, but it fell apart.

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealedclick here.)

The Canadian Encyclopedia describes the wild scene in the country: “The outbreak led to the quarantine of thousands…and took an economic toll on Toronto. It also exposed the country’s ill-prepared health-care system…In late April 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an advisory against all non-essential travel to Toronto.  Government officials and experts criticized the decision as being unnecessary…During the outbreak, thousands of Canadians were quarantined. Many voluntarily quarantined themselves in their homes. Airports in Toronto and Vancouver screened travellers for high fever.  News coverage spiked with each wave of the outbreak in Toronto and right after the WHO travel advisory. Major Canadian newspapers would each publish up to 25 stories per day on SARS…”

You can see how the World Health Organization stimulated a panicked response with its travel advisory.

So SARS must have been a large outbreak, an epidemic of major proportions.

Canadian Encyclopedia: “In total, there were 438 probable cases of SARS in Canada, resulting in 44 deaths.”

What??

What about the total number of SARS cases and deaths, worldwide?  WHO states: “An epidemic of SARS affected 26 countries…Other countries/areas in which chains of human-to-human transmission occurred after early importation of cases were Toronto in Canada, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Chinese Taipei, Singapore, and Hanoi in Viet Nam.”

Related: 

Antsy In Toronto
Dandelion official flower of SARS-plagued Toronto
STARSARS
Jumping on the SARS bandwagon

Outbreak’s economic toll on the city

Sounds quite serious.

The CDC: “During November 2002 through July 2003, a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS] that was accompanied by either pneumonia or respiratory distress syndrome (probable cases), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these, 774 died. By late July 2003, no new cases were being reported, and WHO declared the global outbreak to be over.”

I see.  Across the entire planet, in this sweeping epidemic—-8098 cases and 774 deaths.  Out of 6.3 billion people.

CDC: “In the United States, only eight persons were laboratory-confirmed as SARS cases. There were no SARS-related deaths in the United States.”

The capper?  Let’s go back to Canada.  As the Canadian Encyclopedia states, a mere week or so after WHO declared the “epidemic” was over, “English rock band The Rolling Stones headlined a benefit concert in Toronto in response to the outbreak’s economic toll on the city. Informally called ‘SARSStock’ and ‘SARS-a-palooza,’ the concert took place on 30 July 2003. Estimated attendance at Downsview Park was 450,000 to 500,000 people.”

Right.  And the residue of this “deadly virus”—-with half a million people standing cheek to jowl—-did…

Nothing.

History matters.

If you want to believe anything the World Health Organization is claiming now, in 2020, do so at your own peril.


How long does it take to change the habits of a society?


In the heartland, it’s time to re-open the economy for a people willing and able to confront hard times with hard work. The United States rejects the habit of dependent socialism

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Re-Posted from the Canada By Free Press  —— Bio and ArchivesApril 20, 2020

How long does it take to change the habits of a society?This is the question in regard to forced lockdowns and shuttering businesses.

Experts quibble over the amount of time it takes for a new habit, good or bad, to be formed. Some say 21 days, some say 30 or 45 days and some say it takes three months to change an individual’s thinking.

Job abandonment has become a virus of its own as irresponsible employees have dropped out of the workforce

The USA has been closed to business as usual for more than 30 days, which, according to what appears in the previous paragraph, is probably plenty of time to create the new habit of isolating oneself and the family but also of relying on government.

Having dropped by a gas station to fill up the other day, the manager expressed exhaustion and frustration with unexpected overtime. She loved her job but after the CARES Act passed, the unmotivated employees found excuse after excuse to keep them from work, swamping the few good employees to cover double shifts during the long hours of operation. Soon enough, the goldbrickers stayed home to wait on government subsidy, leaving the manager short-handed.

Job abandonment has become a virus of its own as irresponsible employees have dropped out of the workforce in exchange for one $1,200 check. Congress’ funding unemployment compensation with promised payments above what most workers take home has also led many to quit their jobs, wrongly assuming they’ll cash in. Evidently, they didn’t bother to investigate enough to know that unemployment is only available to workers that are laid-off or, in harsher terms, fired. Quitters won’t collect.

What the government has done is pressure the populace into quiet obeisance to D.C. and, by extension, state authoritarians busy about entrenching their power. The saddest part of the media hyped pandemic scenario is how easily the citizenry has been cowed to believe they have no recourse but to hide behind closed doors and accept the pittance of borrowed cash (shouldered by taxpayers in one way or another) and imposed confinement.

Payment Protection Program is a shortsighted attempt to cage American entrepreneurism

Humanity is weak by nature. Those unwilling or unable to place faith in God and how His handiwork and inspiration founded this nation are doomed to look to worldly answers that are not solutions but the problems’ cause. When citizens believe government is their supply and savior, they have consented to servitude.

The Payment Protection Program is a shortsighted attempt to cage American entrepreneurism. It leads business owners into signing up for a “guaranteed” loan that sucks them into government bondage. They’ve opened the door to government regulating their financial decisions and they’ve done so without surety their application will be funded.

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law,” Romans 13:8. Debt nor coercion engender love, they bring about resentment and rebellion.

And rebellion is brewing. Among Americans who view drastic stay-at-home orders an overreach, governors calling their business endeavors “non-essential,” are those willing to put state and local administrators back in their place as public servants. It’s one thing to set guidelines for a temporary quarantine to prevent disease spread (though why that’s never been done for virulent flu seasons… already covered here) but dictatorial regulation of all commerce and free movement is, in many cases, unconstitutional.

Overbroad shutdown edicts have led fed-up citizens to climb behind the steering wheel and drive to state capitals, demonstrating unwillingness to play pattycake with perverse despot

Overbroad shutdown edicts have led fed-up citizens to climb behind the steering wheel and drive to state capitals, demonstrating unwillingness to play pattycake with perverse despots. The Lansing Gridlock where thousands of cars tied up downtown traffic for miles on April 15 is a prime example. Protests took place in North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and New Hampshire though only the democrat North Carolina governor decided to arrest demonstrators citing that exercising First Amendment rights was “non-essential” activity.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and first officers of a few other states are beginning to relent and dial back the restrictions, whereas Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota didn’t capitulate to the “conventional wisdom” that wasn’t applicable to the small population of her state.

The president, who understands habits of success, has tweeted his support for protesters with messages to “liberate” the states where governors have overstepped their constitutional authority. More than a month of enforced habit-change from a mobile, work-driven populace to compelled, inactive seclusion isn’t sitting well with Americans.

The jig is up, governors. Your constituents know how to conduct themselves under difficult circumstances; they prove themselves after each natural disaster.

In the heartland, it’s time to re-open the economy for a people willing and able to confront hard times with hard work. The United States rejects the habit of dependent socialism.