My mate and I are practicing how to deal with these situations if they should arise again. My goal – keep it short and direct. This is not a joke. This war is not just invisible – it is visible. They are activated.
And we are too.
I shared some of those good ‘ole red pills with someone today who was more awake than I realized. This person was – is – asking the right questions and seeing the hypocrisy. They have also suddenly been “forgetting” their face covering when they visit a store and thought perhaps that inner self is sending a message.
YES! Let the Awakening Explode into a beautiful energy of Truth where we rise as one and say NO MORE. Call on Jesus. Home. Love. Truth. Whatever aligns – whatever works – use it. Daily. Today I read something about just allowing this process to unfold however, whichever way. No. That is what evil wants. That is the exact kind of passive behavior that allows such evil to sneak in and flourish. I am not dismissing the Higher Plan – as I see and feel that. However – stand by the sidelines and let evil take over our experience by being in this allowing for all to unfold/happen space?
Absolutely not.
That’s just as ridiculous as hearing these “late” people – awakening at this point – had to awaken now because if they did this earlier, the space of awakened ones would be far too crowded.
No. We want as many people awakened as quickly and as soon as possible to end this game. Power in numbers, right? People aren’t “programmed” to awaken – they are “programmed” to stay asleep. We are called to awaken – I feel that is different. Some just need more visual proof and experiences to answer that inner call – fully. And then some of us come in to this realm questioning everything which has its own challenges and consequences. :::ahem:::
For me, I am called to call it out for what it is. Expose it. Make IT go run and hide. Make IT leave. The witches are out. Last I heard – they don’t like (sun)Light.
Did he just say what I think he said? All Americans within 24 hours of this #coronavirus#vaccine being distributed across the country will be mandated to inject it?!?!!!
Here is the image in the bottom right….I am very skeptical and personally feel HRC has already been removed (the original) so IF this were accurate, it would be for show….
This friends is what Real Sheriff’s look like (real men too, btw):
Hello @Jim_Jordan do you have fifteen minutes for a call? I would like to explain a huge flaw in the Dominion software that may have had a huge impact on the General Election.
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When I went to bed last night, I tuned in and felt the energy had lightened. It was interesting as I had tuned in the same time the night previous and felt the energy (for Monday) was going to be heavy – and it was. Today – the energy did lighten. That is my experience anyway. Many hours later, around 6:30am, I awoke – hungry – so I got up and ate a light snack. I felt this “pause” in the air. I returned to bed and suddenly felt “them” around me. A short time later, this wind kicked up outside that was sudden and really intense. It surprised me as this wasn’t predicted (and windstorms are always predicted around here). It sounded like rocks were hitting the house. As this happened, I received the vision of those mechanical spiders in the matrix being sucked up and out of here. Moments later, our girl comes running down the hallway – afraid of the wind and of how she was “seeing them everywhere!” As she snuggled into me, she said “and some of them are spider looking mama. They’re everywhere and they are being taken out.”
I will just leave that there.
I feel so much continues to be removed from us that was of THEIR doing. Recently it has been what Sister D calls the “narc” program (narcissistic). I saw it really kick up earlier this fall in a way – and now I see it is lightening as those programs are being purged – being removed so we can REMEMBER easier Who We Really Are which are Heart-Centered/Heart-Based beings with Original Source Code.
I know there were other things I wanted to share but I have since lost those insights. My day was so busy – I was hopping from one thing to another until about 15 minutes ago. I have noticed one thing about myself: I am staying focused on one thing at a time. If I am called away for some reason from what I am doing – unless it’s urgent – I say “let me finish what I am doing at the moment”. Self-Care 101. Absolutely necessary for my ability to process all that is going on and remain Centered. ha! I had to pause and laugh at that one as I really feel the old stuff and old programs and matrix crap trying to pull me out of that space of being in the Now.
As far as this “election” – I’m not sure there will be a recount – not sure there will even be another election. What do you do when the majority of congress, media, etc. are complicit in some way? Have another election? Recount (while they’re still all in place)? Or do we have some mass event that clears the board and we are beholden to a brand new world…. Today I said – again – to my mate that I feel the energies are continuing to build (ugh yes I know I keep saying ok they are building and building and building and at SOME point KAPOOF) – until that one pivotal moment we all keep feeeeeling is right there so close we can touch it – and upon arrival – POOF all aligns the way it is meant to based on WHAT WE DESIRE. So I say keep on intending what you want because thought IS energy even in this prison and once the matrix prison energies are ended our creative abilities are gonna be AMAZING.
— President-Elect-JEDIMASTER222-KrakenWarrior (@victorianoreenT) November 18, 2020
Check out the movement of the “plant images” on the left – at first I thought “wind” but those movements are not consistent with wind. Perhaps it’s a hologram projection and he’s really been apprehended. Or he could be on one of those barges at G’mo….I just went through some comments and people are wondering the same about those plants wobbling outside….lol In fact….i blew up the image and if you look at that green bottle – the edge is cut off. that is clear indication of a projection. The dream I had where Donald Trump was relaxed, telling me “It’s a wrap. it’s over. we’re just watching it unfold now here.” Seeing Truth now of all that is playing out requires us to be quiet and tune in and reflect.
A Douchebaggery apologist with a strange beard in some quaint cottage trying not to lose his shirt… pic.twitter.com/1jfY9Nc5Bl
EXACTLY!! Now imagine how much corrupt power and evil actions and money will be disrupted because of the #Truth coming out that MANY #elections were rigged! Now do you understand why all the social media companies, Google, Twitter and others with partners in every corrupt country https://t.co/T9sSYt7qk5
🚨🚨BREAKING: This evening, the county board of canvassers in Wayne County, MI refused to certify the election results. If the state board follows suit, the Republican state legislator will select the electors. Huge win for @realDonaldTrump
Executives from Fortune 500 corporations say they are planning to intervene if Democrat Joe Biden is not inaugurated into office by January 20, 2021. https://t.co/IVY99O0zXn
🇺🇸 You just witnessed the beauty of The Presidents plan and pacing. "You cannot tell them. They have to see for themselves." If we pretend that those two are actually [JACK] and [MARK] then [they] are #fooked . 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/8Wbtq9PhBe
— President-Elect-JEDIMASTER222-KrakenWarrior (@victorianoreenT) November 17, 2020
HUGE! Elections Security Expert Finds Wisconsin Results a COMPLETE FRAUD — Current Machines Do Not Have Capability to Count the Mass Dumps for Biden in Reported Time Period (VIDEO) via @gatewaypundithttps://t.co/8wnAi8zFKz
— President-Elect-JEDIMASTER222-KrakenWarrior (@victorianoreenT) November 17, 2020
all of this talk about the great reset…..on the cusp of it – THEIR version (more control) the "real" version ?? the end of enslavement…two narratives playing out – LOVE FREEDOM TRUTH WINS. https://t.co/yn7nS3Qv1B
— President-Elect-JEDIMASTER222-KrakenWarrior (@victorianoreenT) November 17, 2020
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(Julians Rum on twitter suggested this so I decided to look into it to prove the claim. Yeppers. It is true.)
Is it possible this Durham probe was just another case of smoke and mirrors? Considering nothing has come from this alleged “probe”….investigation….perhaps this D-Day was referencing Durham but Durham was not the name of someone but the place where a certain someone was born?
Sidney Powell was born in Durham, North Carolina and grew up in Raleigh.
She is a graduate of Needham Broughton High School and the University of North Carolina with a B.A. and a J.D.
And just in case someone thinks there is more than one Sidney Powell (which there is) – here’s another piece showing the same information, this time w/a picture).
Release that Krakken Sidney.
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And one last interesting tidbit I wanted to share today – The name of the company distributing COVID testing is called “Dominion Diagnostics”. Coincidence? Just thought to share…..
I feel like we are now at the top of the roller coaster ride – hanging on – about ready to take an intense joyful ride down. (intense because their energy is still flailing around – joyful because that ride down removes them from our experience). NOTHING can stop what’s coming.
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Hearing from a solid source that DC police were being urged to ticket or arrest Trump supporters at yesterday’s rally for minor infractions, to advance the fairytale that Trump supporters are the violent ones, not the ANTIFA/BLM terrorists.
many sources of intel have more than one interpretation…reset could be one of those…
i think this reset was not necessarily about $$ – it was about another literal reset of this realm – another loop – to put us back "asleep"…… https://t.co/6b1Rrlc7Zi
We need to identify what parts of voting machines are manufactured in China. One method China uses to hack equipment can be found within the hardware chip itself via embedded code within the firmware (software inside the chip itself). @SidneyPowell1@LLinWood@GenFlynnpic.twitter.com/f6580XgpIP
Uh, yes along with all of these heads of states who are congratulating JB and making plans to work w/him and Big Pharma who is working with JB to make their own vaccine….etc. etc. etc…..
The biggest BOOM of the day, friends. This shows that EVERYTHING we are seeing coming out – all of these people and corporations that are pushing the false narrative about a JB win – they are all complicit.
This story begins with the little-known executive order signed into existence on September 12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump. That order, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”
In that executive order, which almost no one has covered since the day it was signed, President Trump declares a national emergency. That emergency is still in play to this day, and the 2020 election was conducted under this state of emergency, which is a crucial point to understand what’s coming next….
Why is this relevant to anything we’re seeing right now with the massive election fraud carried out by the Democrats and the deep state? Because Dominion Voting Systems is a Canadian company. And Scytl is run out of Spain.
That’s right. Dominion is a foreign-owned company, which makes Dominion-based election theft a “foreign interference issue.”…
What people are missing in all this is that Trump’s 2018 executive order gives the DOJ the power to seize all assets of individuals and companies that were complicit in aiding or covering up this foreign interference in U.S. elections.
The National Emergency order specifically calls for seizure of all assets of entities that have, “directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in a United States election.”
That would, of course, have to include practically every CNN fake news anchor, every Big Tech CEO, every fake news journo-terrorist from NBC News, the NY Times and the Washington Post. They are all complicit in gaslighting America and covering up the massive foreign election interference that just took place….
Wikileaks evidence
We also now have confirmation from WikiLeaks documents that the CIA used a data center in Frankfurt as a remote hacking base to rig US elections. DW.com reported:
WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents on Tuesday that it claimed revealed details of its secret hacking arsenal.
The release included 8,761 documents that it claimed revealed details of “malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.”
The leaks purportedly revealed that a top secret CIA unit used the German city of Frankfurt am Main as the starting point for numerous hacking attacks on Europe, China and the Middle East.
German daily “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported the building was known to be home to a vast network of intelligence personnel including CIA agents, NSA spies, military secret service personnel, Department of Homeland Security employees and Secret Service employees. It reported the Americans had also established a dense network of outposts and shell companies in Frankfurt.
It appears the CIA was using the same foreign data center to hack the US elections… and got caught. This is precisely why, as the Gateway Pundit reports, the CIA was kept completely out of the server raid operation that just took place in Germany. The raid was likely leveled against the CIA’s own server farm that ran the remote Dominion hacking operation the night of the election!
Author – Dr. Stephen E. Jones
Dr. Stephen Jones has been writing blog posts since 2005 on a variety of topics from Bible Studies to World News, and he has been writing books since 1992. Dr. Jones’ most important writings came after God brought him back into the full-time ministry in 1991. It is here that all his earlier years of searching the Scriptures began to come into clear focus. He combines a knowledge of the Old and New Testaments with a personal revelation of God that began and developed during the “wilderness” period of his life, which he often refers to as God’s True Bible College… Read More
I have something really beautiful I want to share….
You know that moment when you meet someone who truly “gets” something about you – something you often keep to yourself. Something that when you have shared with others they either dismiss it, forget about it or don’t understand the dynamics. For me it is panic/claustrophobia due to trauma that has not been properly treated and has gone on far too long, it has changed my brain. I can count on one hand the number of people who “get it” and have been willing to really SEE it. I have never shared it to dump on others or overwhelm them and the LAST thing I seek to do is inconvenience others with my issue. I recently met someone and tonight I told her about this issue. Not only did she thank me for sharing, she shared how she had once had the same issue. And not only that, she already came up with a plan to create gatherings together that will be most comfortable for me – at this time. Talk about a gift. I am full of emotion as I type this.
Sometimes being SEEN is the best gift to give – and receive.
And I said “at this time” above because I am once again focused on healing from this issue. The trauma practitioner I began seeing this year had her practice shut down to the covid crap. I let it go for awhile but in recent weeks I knew I had to try and do something with her to continue the work. We are looking for a place to rent here locally without success yet. The dreaded “covid crap” still in play. She suggested she could come to my house. The only private space here is the garage. It isn’t heated. It’s damp and cold. But at this point, if we can’t find a place by next week, we will be doing work in the garage. I’ll run space heaters and we will do our thing. I’m bleeping f’ing bleeping overly ready bto be free from this issue.
It is possible to heal a wounded, traumatized mind. The matrix program(s) made great effort to keep me hidden – to silence my voice and keep me afraid and attacked. But my heart won’t quit. My spirit won’t stop. I felt safe and seen tonight. And I know I deserve to have that as part of my experience. As I had a quiet moment to myself in the kitchen after the gathering, I heard that voice in my head try and push away the gift I had been given but then the Real Me came in strong, solid yet gentle and said “Allow the love.” Take the gift. I deserve it.
Here are some finds….
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Really interesting…..symbolic for the “storm” knocking….i want to add our weather has been unusually stormy for this time of year – and I am hearing others say the same….the cosmic playing out in the physical….and this is happening because we are in a simulation….the consciousness affects the reality….cue says “it will be biblical” and “flood”….the biblical flood has been told as 40 days and 40 nights although scholars have said it is more like a year….some theorize now that the 40 days/nights began november 3rd and lasts through december 14th…i found this (the bold is my emphasis): The Floodwaters Arrive
…11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth dayof the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12And the rainfelluponthe earthfor fortydaysand fortynights.1
Changing vote counts after Election Day raises significant legal and constitutional concerns, and President Trump should use every legal and constitutional remedy to ensure that the American people can trust the results.
Meanwhile, the media, including social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, are inaccurately labeling Biden as president-elect. No official sources have called the election. Federal law and the Constitution limit official sources to state officials, the Electoral College, and, ultimately, Congress. Thankfully, the Constitution does not give the media the ability to declare the winner of a presidential election.
We have long warned of the chaos and increased risk of fraud from recklessly mailing 100 million ballots and ballot applications. Our most recent research, in September, revealed that 353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens. In other words, the registration rates of those counties exceeded 100% of eligible voters. The study collected the most recent registration data posted online by the states themselves. This data was then compared to the Census Bureau’s most recent five-year population estimates, gathered by the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2014 through 2018. ACS surveys are sent to 3.5 million addresses each month, and its five-year estimates are considered to be the most reliable estimates outside of the decennial census.
It is not normal for multiple states to be counting presidential votes for days after Election Day. And it raises significant concerns about the validity of post-election counts. Federal law seems clear that the presidential contest is supposed to be decided by Election Day. For example, 3 U.S. Code § 1 states:
The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President
On Election Day, President Trump had the votes to win the presidency. These vote totals were changed because of unprecedented and extraordinary counting after Election Day.
The state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona have independent constitutional authority to resolve presidential election disputes. And Congress has the ultimate authority to accept or reject electors.
As you know, we are a national leader for cleaner elections.
In 2018 the Supreme Court upheld a voter-roll cleanup program that resulted from our settlement of a federal lawsuit with Ohio. California settled a federal lawsuit with us and last year began the process of removing up to 1.6 million inactive names from Los Angeles County’s voter rolls. Kentucky also began a cleanup of hundreds of thousands of old registrations last year after it entered into a consent decree to end another of our lawsuits.
And in 2020, we sued North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Colorado for failing to clean their voter rolls, and sue Illinois for refusing to disclose voter roll data in violation of federal law.
You can learn more about our election efforts here.
I provide additional details in my latest book, A Republic Under Assault: The Left’s Ongoing Attack on American Freedom.
Public Colleges Defy the Law with Segregated Events to Further Diversity
The Department of Justice (DOJ) should investigate “an alarming trend of racial segregation” at America’s taxpayer-funded universities, according to a pair of United States Senators who cite a number of troubling examples in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. Our Corruption Chronicles blog explains.
The segregation incidents appear to be part of a growing and increasingly powerful movement aimed at promoting diversity by somehow undoing what leftists assert is systemic racism at academic institutions in the U.S. This has led officials at campuses nationwide to organize numerous events, create race-based dorms and other divisive activities that, ironically, infringe upon the decades-old federal law enacted to prohibit it.
In fact, in the letter to Barr the senators—Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia—note that the colleges appear to be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The law also strengthened school desegregation and voting rights. The section that the lawmakers refer to in their letter to the attorney general specifically prohibits discrimination based on race in federally funded activities or programs like the ones listed. The senators urge the DOJ to investigate the discriminatory events and other accommodations provided in their letter as well as other similar cases as part of “our nation’s commitment to equality before the law.” After noting examples as well as a National Association of Scholars report documenting incidents, the legislators write this: “Sadly, there is evidence that segregation is a growing trend, especially on college campuses.”
Cotton and Loeffler point out two recent examples in the letter to Barr. The first involves online discussion groups hosted by the University of Michigan that were segregated based on race, with moderators also segregated by race. Situated in Ann Arbor, the school is ranked third nationally among all public universities and has an enrollment of around 31,500. The events, sponsored by the campus Center for Social Justice and Inclusion, were advertised as “virtual cafes” that offered opportunities for students to gather and discuss their experience on campus and in the world as members of a particular racial group. The series of discussions included separate events for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (known as BIPOC) and “non-POC”, or white students. “In plain English, the University of Michigan appears to have created ‘whites-only’ and ‘non-whites-only’ events, in a manner reminiscent of the doctrine of racial segregation overturned by Brown v. Board of Education,” the senators’ letter states. The lawmakers reveal that the university’s chancellor subsequently apologized, though the school maintains that the race-based events were never intended to be exclusive or exclusionary for individuals of a certain race.
Another example embedded in the letter involves the University of Kentucky, a public institution in Lexington with an enrollment of about 30,000. In August, a campus conglomerate called Bias Incident Support Services (BISS) hosted segregated training sessions for resident assistants (RA), students who oversee dorms and enforce policies and rules, typically in exchange for free housing and a meal plan. One of the sessions was for “RAs who identify as Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color, and one for RAs who identify as White.” The training that excluded white students was described as “Healing Space for Staff of Color” while the training for white students was coined “White Accountability Space.” In the “whites-only” meeting RAs received materials that listed “common racist behaviors and attitudes of white people.” Amusingly, segregation was one of the examples on the list. BISS is responsible for cultivating and nurturing a culture of belonging at the University of Kentucky, according to its website, which states that “inclusion is what diversity looks like in action.” BISS also claims that it engages in programming and activities centered in inclusive excellence.
The August event certainly did not reflect that. In fact, it was quite the opposite. “College administrators often rationalize these forms of racial segregation, claiming they give members of certain racial groups, especially minority groups, spaces where they can discuss shared concerns and issues,” the senators write. “Thus, these defenders attempt to portray racial segregation as a tool to further diversity.” Some in academia also claim that segregated facilities and events protect racial minorities from what they assert is endemic racism in schools, according to the lawmakers. “Whatever the rationale, the effect of racial segregation is to divide the student body on a college campus, creating racial or ethnic enclaves,” the letter declares. The senators end by pointing out that racial segregation is antithetical to our nation’s creed and that it is illegal under multiple federal laws.
Mexican Cartels’ Ability to Control Territory, Co-opt Governments is a Great Threat to U.S.
While mainstream media coverage of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) threat assessment focuses on white supremacists, the lengthy report offers plenty of other serious national security threats that have selectively been ignored. Our Corruption Chronicles blog brings us the latest:
Among those threats are Mexican-based drug cartels that control territory along the U.S. Southwest border. DHS released the 26-page document, titled “Homeland Threat Assessment” (HTA), recently to provide the American people with an overview of the information collected and analyzed by agency employees around the world. “The HTA is primarily informed by intelligence analysis prepared by the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and by the Component intelligence offices, which identified the leading security threats to the Homeland based on a review of all-source intelligence information and analysis,” the report states. “Given the array of potential issues, I&A’s scoped its analysis to focus on key threats covered by the intelligence elements of the Department, which expert analysts considered most likely and with the potential to significantly affect U.S. security.”
The agency determines that white supremacists pose the most persistent and lethal domestic terrorism threat to the U.S. and the media ran with it, essentially ignoring other serious problems documented in detail by DHS in the first annual report. For instance, DHS writes that “Mexico-based cartels pose the greatest threat to the Homeland because of their ability to control territory—including along the U.S. Southwest Border—and co-opt parts of government, particularly at a state and local level.” They are considered Transitional Criminal Organizations (TCOs) by the government and will continue to undermine public health and safety in the U.S. and threaten the country’s national security interests, according to DHS. “They represent an acute and devastating threat to public health and safety in the Homeland and a significant threat to U.S. national security interests,” DHS writes. “Beyond their complicity in the 71,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year, TCOs destabilize partner nations, decrease citizen confidence in good governance, foment corruption, and destroy confidence in the international banking system.”
Homeland Security officials reveal that countering the drug cartels will remain an enduring challenge to U.S. safety and security in the future. “TCOs will continue to take advantage of illegal migration flows to enter the United States and attempt to exploit legal immigration avenues,” the agency writes, adding this: “Criminal elements attempting to provide a level of legitimacy to their illicit immigration claims by intermingling with migrants travelling to the US Southwest border pose an intrinsic risk to the U.S. lawful immigration system.” COVID-19 disrupted some cartel operations, but the criminal syndicates’ ability to move large quantities of illicit goods into and throughout the U.S. remains largely intact. The Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) networks are identified as the Mexican TCOs that pose the greatest cross-border drug smuggling threat in the near-term. “They dominate the lucrative trafficking of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine to the United States,” DHS writes.
Another pertinent threat ignored in news coverage of the DHS assessment is the prediction of a mass illegal immigration crisis at the southern border in 2021. The agency anticipates a huge wave of migrants from both Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. This will be due to the lifting of COVID-19 border restrictions within Latin America, which will facilitate transit and the devastating economic impact of the pandemic in the region. “DHS anticipates that the number of apprehensions at the border will significantly climb post-pandemic, with the potential for another surge as those who were previously prevented from seeking entry into the United States arrive at the border and as poor economic conditions around the world fuel migration,” the report states. “This high volume of illegal immigration, including unprecedented numbers of family units and unaccompanied alien children arrivals, stretch government resources, and create a humanitarian and border security crisis that cripples the immigration system.” The migrant surges could undermine the agency’s ability to effectively secure the border without adversely impacting other parts of the immigration system, DHS further writes.
A section on natural disasters claims that severe weather, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and winter storms also threaten the nation. “These disasters pose a significant threat to human health and safety, property, critical infrastructure, and homeland security while subjecting the nation to frequent periods of insecurity, disruption, and economic loss,” DHS writes in the last page of the document. “Over the last year, the United States has faced the COVID-19 crisis while simultaneously dealing with numerous natural disasters. These natural disasters require the Department to readjust its priority focus, as resources continue to be reallocated to focus on responding to multiple natural disasters, while continuing to handle its traditional roles and responsibilities.”
Now THIS could get interesting….We have had those rights violated all year under these “lockdowns”….I see this as a big bread crumb foretelling what will be happening with these unlawful “lockdowns”.
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When “fundamental rights are restricted” during an emergency, he says, the courts “cannot close their eyes.”
During a Federalist Society speech last night, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito called attention to the legal issues raised by the sweeping social and economic restrictions that all but a few states imposed this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty,” Alito noted in his remarks, which he delivered via Zoom. “We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive, and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020.”
One of the issues raised by those restrictions is the extent of executive authority in dealing with emergencies. The COVID-19 lockdown imposed by Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, for example, was based on a statute that gave him the authority, in the event of “a natural, technological or man-made emergency or disaster of major proportions,” to “perform and exercise such…functions, powers and duties as are necessary to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population.” As Alito noted, “to say that this provision confers broad discretion would be an understatement.”
While “I’m not disputing that broad wording may be appropriate in statutes designed to address a wide range of emergencies,” Alito said, “laws giving an official so much discretion can, of course, be abused. And whatever one may think about the COVID restrictions, we surely don’t want them to become a recurring feature after the pandemic has passed. All sorts of things can be called an emergency or disaster of major proportions. Simply slapping on that label cannot provide the ground for abrogating our most fundamental rights. And whenever fundamental rights are restricted, the Supreme Court and other courts cannot close their eyes.” ….
While “I am not diminishing the severity of the virus’s threat to public health,” Alito said, it’s clear that “the COVID crisis has highlighted constitutional fault lines.” He warned that “there is only so much that the judiciary can do to preserve our Constitution and the liberty it was adopted to protect.” He closed by paraphrasing Judge Learned Hand: “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can do much to help it.”
