“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 24, 2021, And Every Wednesday
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By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
While “Kids Without Borders” were sleeping on the floor in Donna, Texas, 800 children crowded into tents designed for 80, Marlena Pavlos-Hackney was being hauled away by state police, at dawn Friday, shackled and handcuffed.
The Polish-born owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria in Holland, Michigan, had violated Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s two-and-a-half month lockdown order which prohibited indoor dining.
“She has put the community at risk," Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquila said angrily from the bench. “We are in the middle of a pandemic!”
“Can’t understand how or why this is controversial,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said, defending the arrest on Twitter.
Of course they can’t. They’re Democrats. But Pavlos-Hackney could.
She’d seen it all before.
“We don’t want this country to be a Communist regime that’s going to dictate what we can do and what we cannot do,” she told WOOD-TV Thursday.
“I escaped communists in 1982,” she said. “I went to Greece and I was there in a refugee camp. I went through the Red Cross to apply to come to the U.S.
“I came here in 1988, and became a citizen in 1992.”
She called this country “the greatest in the world,” but now, she observed, there are different rules for different folks.
“They discriminate against small business owners. You go to big places and they don’t have to follow the rules we do.
“Bad things become good. The good things like me running my business and serving the community, and making a living becomes bad.
“And they want to put me in jail. Something is wrong with this picture.”
There is.
We realize that President Joe is often Gone with the Wind, but while visiting a vaccine center in Jacksonville, Florida this weekend, Vice President Kamala seemed as confused as Joe.
Sure, she emphasized the importance of vaccinations before travellng on to sell the $1.9 trillion-dollar Covid Relief bill to Floridians.
But when asked if she was going to visit the border, she laughed and laughed...And laughed. The way she does. And answered, “Not today.”
But what about Covid? At the border. Where children are not "social distancing." Are not tested, not treated for a “Pandemic” which troubled the county court judge and attorney general in Michigan so much they threw an American citizen in jail.
Today Joe put Kamala Harris in charge of the "crisis at our southern border," stating "I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this."
Sadly, that's probably true. At the moment, no one entering our country illegally is being jailed. Or vaccinated. No one in the media is allowed to interview, view camps or write about what the government calls "not a crisis." That sounds like something Harris can handle.
Pavlos-Hackney’s not the only one that knows Communism when she sees it. And how it gets a foothold. And grows.
Last week Federal Appellate Judge Silberman handed down an opinion in which he took to task The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal for anti-Republican bias.
He intimated that the Supreme Court gave the press too much power in the 1960’s civil rights era, evidenced by the New York Times vs. Sullivan case. This case established the legal standard that the press cannot be sued for defamation of a "famous" person, unless acting with “actual malice.”
“The orientation of these three papers is followed by The Associated Press and most large papers across the country (such as the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Boston Globe),” he said in the opinion.
“Nearly all television—network and cable—is a Democratic Party trumpet. Even the government-supported National Public Radio follows along.”
Silicon Valley, he wrote, “also has an enormous influence over the distribution of news,” which “similarly filters news delivery in ways favorable to the Democratic Party.”
"It is well-accepted that viewpoint discrimination raises the specter that the Government may effectively drive certain ideas or viewpoints from the marketplace.
“But ideological homogeneity in the media—or in the channels of information distribution—risks repressing certain ideas from the public consciousness just as surely as if access were restricted by the government.
“It should be borne in mind that the first step taken by any potential authoritarian or dictatorial regime is to gain control of communications, particularly the delivery of news.
Silberman added, “it is fair to conclude, therefore, that one-party control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy. It may even give rise to countervailing extremism.”
The kind that Pavlos-Hackney rebelled against.
Because she’d seen it all before.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay Strong, Patriots.