Cuomo’s Executive Order Now “Soft,” Could Become Scary

In response to the Coronavirus health care crisis, New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo produced an Executive Order containing exceptions that one could “drive a truck through.” And that was the good news from Cuomo’s executive order that went into effect Sunday night March 22 in New York State.

"Soft Martial Law"

For example, Cuomo designated almost all non-amusement businesses “essential” to some degree, and even though all public gatherings are “temporarily banned,” New Yorkers were still permitted to work remotely and to get exercise by running in city parks, provided they followed “social distancing” directives. Cuomo’s executive order appeared to recognize the obvious: ordinary, normal Americans raised on the mother’s milk of freedom and liberty would not lightly accept having their movements restricted and their businesses shuttered by an all-powerful state. Cuomo’s order effectively required “sheltering in place,” but with reasonable accommodation so that New Yorkers and really anyone living in Failed Blue States would not lose their collective minds while being quarantined in their own homes. But the “Soft Martial Law,” as some have come to call living under a U.S. governor’s executive order, may not last forever. There are battle lines being drawn everywhere, between those who believe in “science,” and those who want risk-reward decisions from those in government leadership, such as President Donald Trump. The “science” advocates believe that if “one more life can be saved,” damn the torpedoes on how much civil liberties are suspended and the economy destroyed. Sure the health care “Science First” crowd is correct and really can’t be wrong, but wrecking the national economy by bringing commerce and human interactions to a halt almost assuredly will cause myriad more damage that has not even yet been fully conceived.

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New York State has been decimated by him and the Democrats who run it

And that’s why there was hope in New York State, where for years Cuomo the Younger, has been busy ruining the Empire State’s economy by banning fracking, for example, to create an economic basket case. New York State has seen its population flee for years – from an onerous tax burden, renewed crime, burgeoning homelessness and the overreaching regulations – to places such as sunny Florida, which has no state income tax. Only the sustained booming stock market and the efforts of New Yorkers to persevere against all odds have kept the once-great state stay afloat. And now that New York State has been decimated by him and the Democrats who run it, Cuomo has the audacity to say that the federal government’s massive Coronavirus stimulus efforts do not go far enough! The U.S. Senate has passed a $2 trillion Coronavirus relief bill, which Cuomo called “terrible” for the State of New York. “Sounds like a lot of money,” Cuomo said, according to CNBC. But it’s far below the shortfall in revenue that the state projects it will face, which could total $15 billion, according to the governor. “That is a drop in the bucket” compared with what New Yorkers need, he said. “How do you plug a $15 billion hole with $3.8 billion? You don’t.” Cuomo’s statement recalls the famous joke about the judge who is about to sentence a man for killing his parents, and asks him if there is any reason that the court ought to show mercy. The man responds, “Yeah, because I’m an orphan.” But also as of Wednesday, Cuomo may now be preparing to get Draconian, perhaps allowing New York City to even close streets and parks to all residents in the nation’s largest city.

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"Medium-Hard Martial Law”

State and local officials, CNBC reported, are taking a tougher stance, they say, because city residents aren’t following the state’s guidance encouraging people to maintain a distance of at least six feet from each other, which Cuomo said Wednesday is “effective and necessary” to slow hospitalization rates from Coronavirus. If outdoor exercise and gathering in parks are outlawed next by Cuomo, it will reverse the “Soft Martial Law,” outlined in the March 20 executive order. For example, buried in the executive order was a religious exemption that allowed “houses of worship” to remain open, even though churches, synagogues, and mosques were “strongly recommended” to close. The executive order, therefore, permitted religious services provided “social distancing” took place. Incredibly, some would say, almost no houses of worship in New York City have remained open and all have capitulated to the governor. Those who wanted to continue to pray were eventually shut down by other congregants fearful of others meeting and asking the Almighty to help. When this is all over, this craven response by religious leaders, I predict, will be a sad indictment of their leadership, and certainly calls into question the veracity of previous assertions of the unalterable value of faith in our lives. So, in conclusion, the “Soft Martial Law,” looks ready to be replaced by Cuomo with a “Medium-Hard Martial Law,” in which all businesses are shuttered, and people leaving their homes would be subject to arrest. This would lead to a status in New York State where if any two people tried to meet outside anywhere in public TO DO ANYTHING, they could be ordered by the police to disperse or face the consequences, which means arrest and going to jail. Their infraction would be called under English Common Law a violation of the Riot Act. That’s right, Governor Cuomo, the King of New York, has the power at his disposal to rule in a way last seen on these shores held by British royal governors before and during the American Revolution. I’m reasonably sure that this is how the Boston Massacre occurred in 1770 when colonists were killed by Redcoats after they were ordered off the streets.