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If we do not exercise our power but bend to the will of elected officers and appointed bureaucrats, this nation is lost and, with it, the rest of the "free" world.

Governors disregard Constitution tagging businesses, worship “nonessential”



Governors disregard Constitution tagging businesses, worship nonessentialThe United States has entered the realm of government tyranny, not that enough people have noticed, owing to the hype and computer models based on misrepresented statistics of COVID-19. News agencies have been tripping over themselves to exaggerate the health crisis they helped create, the latest effort being an attempt to tie heightened numbers of cases to low income (and so, obviously, minority) populations. Not one of the mainstream network or cable news channels is proving to be immune from the liberal virus of identity politics. Dr. Fauci handing them fodder by tying COVID-19 to the Black community, like he did HIV-AIDS decades ago, is a disappointing commentary for the Trump administration allowing identity disease to seep into the COVID-19 narrative.

COVID-19 on a death certificate

In their desperation to build hysteria about a flu-like infection that has negatively affected hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of workers, news and state government agencies have also caused a pandemic of potential financial ruin. By CDC statistics, there have been more than 14,000 people in the United States who have succumbed to COVID-19 since January 2020, underlying health issues contributing to (or actually causing?) the deaths in the majority of cases. CDC's website has gone so far as to post a disclaimer regarding the proven cause of death among those classified as coronavirus. They are using Covid-19 as a catchall cause. How? The Department of Health and Human Services is exacerbating the problem by distributing guidelines for death certificates that over-reports instances of COVID-19. Meaning that if indicators could be, possibly have the slightest lookalike symptom, and by some stretch of the imagination might be coronavirus, then list it as "cause of death" without confirmation. From the vsrg-03-508 form:
"Ideally, testing for Covid-19 should be conducted, but it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate without this confirmation if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty." (emphasis, mine)
Still, the mortality rate of flu strains A and B have already taken more than 30,000 lives this season but that information was ignored as insignificant. Everyone has had some contact with the recurring flu viruses every year and despite the death it brings annually, government has never moved to inflict financial hardships through mandatory shelter-at-home orders, business closures and quarantines.

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Isolation is the best way of tracking and controlling a large populace

The best adage that fits this scenario that a tumbling economy gave us (engineered, it appears, of hedgefund leveraging and sell-offs) is "united we stand and divided we fall." All the public service announcements crying "we're in this together" is a pretense for instituting the opposite by separating individuals and families to stew at home, work remotely and be left with distance-learning classes. One of the best ways of creating a vulnerable society is to keep people from gathering together to freely worship, consort and share information. Take a look at Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates' claims that this is the beginning of doing away with crowds and large public meetings and venues. Why?  Isolation is the best way of tracking and controlling a large populace. We're already partway divided with people being present together in a room but occupied operating separately on their electronic devices, living a virtual life while in the company of others. Pretty pathetic when you think about it. What's to be done to clamp down on future government shutdowns and isolation orders after the quiet compliance that has occurred during this emergency that hasn't been verified by real numbers? The answer begins with whether an individual has suffered damages – financial, health or other – due to the government's (governors and state/county officials, in particular) unsupported edicts.

Fifth Amendment: "nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

'Quick numbers review using Mississippi as an example: Governor Tate Reeves locked down the state with a "shelter-in-place" order where there were 67 deaths attributed to Covid-19 as of April 7, 2020, according to Mississippi Health Department statistics. Whereas, for Week 12 of 2020 alone there had been 37 deaths attributed to pneumonia/influenza but the state wasn't thrown into a tizzy over the loss of lives within one week. Across this nation in some 30 states, governors have ordered the general confinement of individuals to their homes under threat of legal action (fines or arrest) for venturing into public for purposes deemed "nonessential." After starting with Mississippi, it's sensible to base a test situation on that state. These orders have led to numerous businesses suffering irreparable financial loss, many being forced to permanently close their doors leaving hundreds of thousands without jobs; millions if the expanding numbers of those applying for unemployment insurance are considered. As a consequence to shuttering nonessential (by Department of Homeland Security standards) businesses, the newly unemployed have also suffered injury and damage by their state.  The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: "nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." In effect, each person who has been forced to abandon their livelihood without due process of law – an executive order based on faulty models is not sufficient reason to deprive individuals of their property or ability to earn – may prove injury and damages inflicted by the state and/or executive officer. In this case, the governor who emplaced the executive order. Just like the federal government, there is an administrative process that must be followed. For federal agencies, it's the submission of the SF-95 claim form for injury, damage or death. Each state has a comparable process. Some have actual forms, others have the process laid out in the state code. In Mississippi it involves MS Code §11-46-11.


We are the only nation that has a constitution that limits government excess

For all those who deem they have suffered damage, note that it is the state rather than the administration where redress is to be found since President Trump only suggests what the states may do in respect to the 10th Amendment. Governors, county and municipal executives are the ones who are liable for implementing practices that may have caused harm. It takes more than deciding one has suffered at the hands of government overreach to file a lawsuit, and those who get up in arms, hire a lawyer and march off to court are likely to find the case dismissed. There is a process that must be exhausted before filing suit in court, or standing to bring legal action will likely not be acknowledged. It takes chutzpah and determination to follow through with a claim for damages but if enough individuals who have truly suffered injury or financial ruin bring credible cases, elected government officials and liable bureaucrats should think twice before subjecting the nation to another round of socialism that deconstructs our constitutional foundation and destroys the economy. We are the only nation that has a constitution that limits government excess and ascertains citizens' recourse against agencies and individuals that misuse the power temporarily allotted them by the People. If we do not exercise our power but bend to the will of elected officers and appointed bureaucrats, this nation is lost and, with it, the rest of the "free" world.

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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.


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