{"id":52280,"date":"2020-04-19T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=52280"},"modified":"2020-04-19T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:50:08","slug":"52280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=52280","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was that #2 below?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/nancy-pelosi-wants-you-to-sit-down-shut-up-and-obey-virus-decrees\/\">Nancy Pelosi Wants You to Sit Down, Shut Up, and Obey Government Coronoavirus Decrees<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Apparently, protesting is a right reserved only for certain people of the liberal persuasion. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;really unfortunate&#8221; that some Americans are pushing back against draconian decrees by governors and mayors by protesting the loss of some freedoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/493528-pelosi-really-unfortunate-that-protesters-are-pushing-back-against-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Hill:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pelosi\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6150536953001#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that she couldn&#8217;t understand why Americans\u00a0are protesting strict measures to keep people at home, saying that one of the answers to the pandemic is to &#8220;shelter in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">&#8220;That is really the answer,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;Testing. Tracing. Treatment. Shelter in place&#8230; But, you know, people will do what they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">&#8220;The fact is, we&#8217;re all impatient. We all want out. But what they&#8217;re doing is really unfortunate,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Some protesters have been irresponsible. But most of the protests across the country have been &#8220;drive-in&#8221; protests with people sitting in their cars honking their horns and creating traffic jams. It&#8217;s not the lack of social distancing that has Pelosi and governors upset. It&#8217;s the challenge to their authority that&#8217;s eating at them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pelosi in a separate interview broadcast Sunday morning, however, said she wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;exaggerate the protests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">&#8220;There are some in some places, largely where there\u2019s a Democratic governor. But I think of it largely as a distraction and the president\u2019s embrace of it as a distraction from the fact that he has not appropriately done testing, treatment, contact tracing, and quarantine,&#8221; she said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Health officials warn that the gatherings could inadvertently help further the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and ultimately lead to an\u00a0extension of stay-at-home measures. Many experts also say that the U.S. must have widespread testing availability and a contact-tracing program in place in order to safely reopen portions of the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Texas Governor Gregg Abbot is a Republican and 1000 people just showed up in Austin to protest his policies. South Carolina Governor McMaster is a Republican and there were protests there too.<\/p>\n<p>People are not protesting against Democrats as much as they&#8217;re demonstrating against the growing power of government. Politicians are certainly not letting this crisis go to waste as they flex their muscles to bend citizens to their will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are we supposed to believe that politicians from small-town mayors to Congress in Washington are just going to give up this power once the crisis is past?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<em>There <strong>is<\/strong> more than one way that they&#8217;ll give up that power, or today isn&#8217;t the 245th anniversary of &#8216;The Shot Heard Round The World&#8217;<\/em><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several states are using drones to catch people failing to adhere to social distancing guidelines. I&#8217;m sure local and state politicians will think of many uses for those drones once the crisis is past.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it&#8217;s the right protesting, largely to get government out of the way and let people get back to work. But once this crisis has passed, it&#8217;s likely that both left and right will find reasons to protest this aggrandizing power grab by government.<\/p>\n<p>If not, then we owe Ben Franklin an apology, who told us that we had a republic, &#8220;if you can keep it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Ben. We couldn&#8217;t keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was that #2 below? Nancy Pelosi Wants You to Sit Down, Shut Up, and Obey Government Coronoavirus Decrees Apparently, protesting is a right reserved only for certain people of the liberal persuasion. 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