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Militia mobilize to thwart arrest of 77-year-old Michigan barber who reopened his shop

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Mon, 11 May 2020 04:31 UTC

Comment: Michiganders know how to do freedom!


Manke
© Sarabeth Maney/The Flint Journal via AP
Karl Manke, 77, waves to people gathered for a press conference, having defied the governor's order not to conduct business.
The Michigan Militia says the police will not be allowed to arrest 77-year-old Owosso, Mich., barber, Karl Manke, who has defied Governor Whitmer's orders that all non-essential businesses stay closed. Friday night, Michigan State Police delivered a health protection order from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office ordering that Manke close his doors.

A local Fox affiliate spoke to Daniel Brewer, one of the militia members standing up for the barber's right to work.
"Yesterday six troopers came in to enforce the governor's order or to issue a cease or desist order so we are here to make sure he doesn't get arrested. We're willing to stand in front of that door and block the entrance so the police will have no entry there today."
As relationships heat up between overreaching government agents and protesters who want to open the economy, people like Manke are being completely let down by the system that claims to want to help them, leading to more anger and outrage than government officials are ready to handle. Manke obeyed the original orders and closed his shop, but when he was turned down for unemployment — twice — he said he had no choice but to go back to work to survive.


Comment: Here's more from Mr Manke himself:



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Eye 1

Here comes the Covid-19 Gestapo: Illinois Democrat introduces $100 billion 'contact tracing army' bill. It's name? 'HR 6666 TRACE'

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 11 May 2020 13:35 UTC
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Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Corona

Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush has introduced the H.R. 6666 TRACE Act, which includes a $100 billion grant program which would authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create an army of contact tracers operating through healthcare, schools and nonprofit entities, who would perform COVID-19 diagnostic testing "through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals' residences, and for other purposes."
Absolutely. My bill, the COVID-19 TRACE Act (H.R. 6666) would create a $100 BILLION grant program for local organizations to hire, train, and pay individuals to operate mobile testing units and conduct contact tracing in hot spots and medically underserved areas. https://t.co/5YGK34ifsU

— Bobby L. Rush (@RepBobbyRush) May 5, 2020
"Until we have a vaccine to defeat this dreaded disease, contact tracing in order to understand the full breadth and depth of the spread of this virus is the only way we will be able to get out from under this," Rush says on his website.

Comment: See also: "We need an army of contact tracers" - Meet the enforcement arm of the 'new normal'

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The political battleground of the virus has been drawn

Alastair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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U.S. professor of history at John Hopkins University, Mike Vlahos, in a series of short interviews with John Batchelor, tells us how Coronavirus has become a fiery pivot, pushing different leaders in the U.S. to take existential stands on how to deal with this virus. With various separate American states insisting to pursue directly polarised paths: Mandated 'sheltering' (the U.S. term for distancing) versus economic opening; States versus the Federal government; Blue versus Red; Dems versus GOP; 'authoritarianism' versus Laissez Faire and traditional American liberties - and now, internal state, Blue-Red conflicts (i.e. Ventura County versus California's Governor, on the burning issue of open or closed beaches); and even, counties versus states.

Vlahos notes the point is that that the battleground, thanks to the virus, has turned existential. No more is Blue/Red just a crafted rhetorical flourish - It is embodied; it is of biological flesh; it cuts into flesh - even as the virus' future is unknown. In fact, the unknown deepens fears. The choice: 'food on the table' in a re-opened the economy (even at the real risk of those 'doctors of death' returning), or to play safe, passively, with distancing. The collective psyche is split; passions are raised; weapons are flourished, and militia parade. This is not theatre: Its fervour is suffused into daily life: masks or not; socialise or not; work or not.
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Yellow Vest

'Arrest me': Elon Musk defies coronavirus lockdown restrictions and reopens Tesla plant in California

Luke Kenton and Megan Sheets
Daily Mail
Tue, 12 May 2020 07:17 UTC
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Elon Musk confirmed Monday that Tesla has resumed production at its California plant in defiance of the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Elon Musk confirmed Monday that Tesla has resumed operations at its main California plant in defiance of the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions - daring authorities to arrest him for the violation.

The plant in Fremont, south of San Francisco, had been closed since March 23 in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

But early Monday evening, Musk confirmed in a tweet that Tesla is restarting production at the facility 'against Alameda County rules.'

'I will be on the line with everyone else,' he continued. 'If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.'

Comment: At least there is someone with some power fighting to do the right thing amid the insanity of the lockdown, serving his own interests or not.

See also:

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Beaker

AIDS scientist Judy Mikovits exposes origins of coronavirus and Dr Fauci's vaccine scheme

Christina Aguayo
America's Voice
Tue, 12 May 2020 07:34 UTC
mikovits aids fauci vaccines
Judy A. Mikovits, PhD has a sitdown with Christina Aguayo on America's Daily Report and opens up about Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx & the decades of medical corruption she asserts killed millions of people.

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US has seen NO INCREASE in overall deaths in 2020, yet Americans continue ceding all rights to the state

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 09 May 2020 07:15 UTC
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Some are awake. Soon they will become the majority, and then the fireworks commence...
Americans are faced with the following choice - continue to follow the government mandated lock down while watching their life savings erode (based on faulty projections and models regarding the China coronavirus) - or get back to work.

In the movie the Matrix, the lead character, Neo, is faced with the stark reality - that we are all slaves. But Neo is given an opportunity. He is given a choice between taking a red pill or the blue pill.
After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, your story ends. You wake up in bed and believe whatever you want to.

You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth."

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Peter Hitchens: Has our mad mass house arrest during Covid-19 saved even a single life?

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sat, 09 May 2020 21:10 UTC
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People are seen celebrating VE Day from their doorsteps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Huge, devastating actions, such as the national shutdown, require clear, good justifications. These do not so far exist
We will not escape from this misery until the Government has been forced to admit that it made a foolish mistake and over-reacted wildly to Covid-19.

The Prime Minister is like a man who sets fire to his own pyjamas, while he is wearing them, to cure himself of hiccups.

Now he stands naked and scorched, as his house burns around him, and exults that his hiccups have indeed gone away. This is what I mean by getting things out of proportion.

People are seen celebrating VE Day from their doorsteps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Huge, devastating actions, such as the national shutdown, require clear, good justifications. These do not so far exist.

Above all, he must stop pretending that his actions saved us from deaths that never happened, and people must stop believing this evidence-free bilge.

Till that moment comes, months and perhaps years of costly, painful stupidity will follow. The belief that the Panic Policy worked means it can never fully end. If, and when, you go back to your job - if you still have a job - you will be compelled to abide by ludicrous, impractical rules. You will be forced to wear pointless muzzles on trains and buses.

Comment: See also:

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Seattle police officer who spoke out against Covid-19 lockdown FIRED for asking fellow cops to uphold the law and respect people's rights

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Seattle Police Officer Greg Anderson
Last week, TFTP brought you the story of Port of Seattle Police Officer Greg Anderson, who made a video calling out the bad cops throughout the country who are enforcing mandates in complete violation of the oaths they swore to uphold the constitution. This put a target on his back and in the cross hairs of authoritarians across the country. Now, proving the point that good cops are hard to find and the system is set up to purge them from the ranks, officer Anderson has been terminated.

As we reported last week, in the 8 minute video, Anderson says he's "seen officers nationwide enforcing these tyrannical orders."

"Every time I turn on the TV I see people getting cited for going to church, for travelling on the roadways, for going surfing, opening their businesses, going to the park with their families, or doing nails out of their own house," Anderson laments.

Anderson then reads a portion of the Bill of Rights before going off on his fellow cops.

"Stopping people and asking for their papers?" Anderson asks. "What is this, 1930's Germany? Are you the Gestapo? You don't get to stop people unless you have reasonable suspicion or probable cause that they have committed a crime."
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Contraland: New documentary exposes enormous scale of child sex-trafficking in the USA

Valerie Cavazos
kgun9.com
Fri, 08 May 2020 01:36 UTC
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A Tucson-based documentary on child sex trafficking is now released. "Contraland" is available online for free.

KGUN9 has been covering the making of the documentary for a few years now.

It's the brainchild of Craig "Sawman" Sawyer — a former member of the elite Navy SEAL team 6.

Sawyer worked in tandem with law enforcement agencies in sex sting operations, which led to 22 arrests.

"Bringing in various experts and running the operations - showing the viewers just how readily these child traffickers will come for an ad offering a child for sex. It's scary how many will come and how quickly. We show them the reality of it," he said.

Sawyer says he's only scratched the surface and plans to make more documentaries. He says he's able to offer the documentary at no charge because of donations to his non-profit organization, Vets for Child Rescue, and sponsors of the documentary.


Documentary website: Contraland

Vets for Child Rescue

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Hammer

"Nazi-like measures" - Kansas City orders churches to turn over membership lists 'because Covid-19'

Todd Starnes
toddstarnes.com
Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas

Mayor Quinton Lucas
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, a Democrat, has ordered pastors to turn over the names, address and phone numbers of anyone who enters church houses.

(This is something I predicted would happen in my new book, "Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation." Click here for that book.)

"Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil, track and spy upon what was once a FREE American people," Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said. "Yet that is exactly what Kansas City's misguided government officials are now demanding."

Liberty Counsel, a law firm that handles religious liberty cases, tells the Todd Starnes Radio Show that they are representing several churches that allege their constitutional rights are being violated.

Comment: Several weeks into the lockdown (and the amount of good information that is available on the virus) and we are still gobsmacked at the high levels of ignorance, authoritarianism, irrationality and downright pathology on display by so many Mayors and Governors around the the US. Add in a complicit media and a cowed, fearful and hystericized portion of society into the mix - and you've got an extraordinary amount of crazy-making being inflicted upon millions of Americans who are reasonably questioning why their lives are being totally upended. These conditions do not bode well for the overall health of the country, and appear to be worsening by the day. Take heed.

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