Liz Wheeler of One America News Network recently shared with her viewers the best argument against government mandated shutdowns. Surprisingly, it’s something besides what civil libertarians have already pointed out.
Larry Gostin, a public health lawyer at Georgetown University, observes, “So far, we haven’t had draconian methods, like armed police blocking people’s movement in the streets, surveillance and phone tapping. But we are seeing lockdowns of millions of citizens like we have never seen before … We are on the precipice of something that could transform American values and freedoms.”
A few Americans are already taking their complaints about the abridgment of their civil liberties to the courts. That trickle, says Michale Tarm of the Chicago Tribune, is likely to “become a flood” as shutdowns continue for weeks or months in some states while in other parts life begins to return to normal.
At this point, judges have rejected the few challenges citizens have made but that may soon change.
Gostin said that the courts have yet to be asked if the “unprecedented lockdowns are constitutional and in violation of individual rights. When they are, he says we are likely to see a battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the issue.”
Wheeler notes in her Tipping Point program that stay in place orders may not just be bad governing. They may be based on bad science.
Watch the video and learn from Wheeler why the lock-down orders are “insane” and what data supports that conclusion.
