Government absolutely hates when you point out the absurdities in their regulations and laws and in this case, executive orders.
WLUC: Dozens gather at Baraga Marina to protest motorized boat ban
Take Governor Half-Whit's arbitrary ban on motorized boating, while allowing for unpowered boating. It was done arbitrarily, without any real analysis nor any justification as to how boating becomes more dangerous for spreading the Wuhan-flu when you add a motor to your boat.
Newsflash - it does not.
So, people rightly called her on it:
Despite the cold weather, dozens of people showed up at the Baraga Marina on Sunday to protest Gov. Whitmer’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order by fishing out of motorized boats.
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"You can go fishing and practice social distancing, and that's what we're going to show them today," said protester Roger Turunen. "We can fish safely in a motor boat and practice social distancing, and let these guys, especially the young guys that live for fishing, fish.”
In fact, Turunen says fishing is one of the safest activities to do during these times.
"How can you not social distance out in the lake? If you get within 30 yards of someone when you're fishing, they get mad at you because you tangle up their lines," Turunen said.
No tickets were issued, the protestors were easily able to demonstrate that you can practice social distancing with a motor on your boat, and show the idiocy of the Gov's order at the same time. A very effective protest.
We'll see if Gov Half-Whit deigns to take notice of this protest. let's see if she doubles down and accuses the protestors of putting other's lives in danger and go all joyless schoolmarm and extend her restrictions because of it, or does she instead ignore that it took place and showed her order to be both arbitrary and stupid? We will see.
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Governor "Jolly" Ned (Lyin' Ned) Lamont of Kommiecticut issued his latest executive order #7BB (see link below) for mandatory face masks. I responded to him on Twitter thusly: "NO. Your Move"
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Office-of-the-Governor/Executive-Orders/Lamont-Executive-Orders/Executive-Order-No-7BB.pdf?la=en
I have not been wearing a mask when going out and about. I have to take my 23 year old to an actual doctor's office tomorrow, and they have asked me to come in with her, but that we both wear masks. I feel that in a case like that, it is certainly within their rights to make that request.
I also have heard that here in Michigan, we are having another protest on April 30th, to coincide with the last day of Governor Whitless's order. I figure that no matter what the people do, she will do what she wants anyway.
I could not make it to the first protest, and since they had idiots with firearms at the protest, I am most likely going to avoid this second one. I am a super strong supporter of our 2nd amendment rights, and carry a concealed firearm almost everywhere I go. But I don't want to go where idiots are purposefully provoking the powers that be, looking to make some kind of point. Because that would be the time that I would get caught up in some kind of a mass arrest, and lost either my CCW, or my carry gun, neither of which sounds like something I wish to have happen. The old discretion is the better part of valor.
A peaceful protest is one thing, but a protest with idiots there, with open carry of guns, seems counterproductive. But you can't teach some people the right way to do things.
pigpen51
Wiltold Pilecki: Nothing like watching governors overstep their authority. Wearing a mask in public makes a lot of sense to me. But, I'm rather annoyed at their prior pronouncement that we should not wear a mask and that masks don't do anything quickly followed by an edict to wear masks because now masks do things with no apology for their prior misleading pronouncements on masks that has likely caused more spread than would have been avoided had they been honest about masks from the get-go.
pigpen51: Yep you're right. The open carry of firearms and other cosplay nonsense unrelated to the point of the protest certainly detracted from it and gave the lefties plenty of ammo so to speak to ignore the real point of the protest.
Open carry during a pro-2am demonstration can be good if done right, here it had nothing to do with 2Am and was done wrong and was very counterproductive.
Aaron,
I seem to remember a protester at an Obama event, an African American man, who had an unloaded AR 15 shouldered with a sling on his back, carrying a single round of ammo in his pocket. The police checked him, or maybe it was the Secret Service, and let him be. And Obama made sure to mention that the man was acting within his 2nd amendment rights.
I suspect that had it been a white man, looking like one of the militia members, or a black guy, who was not as neat and well dressed and well mannered as that man, the outcome for the guy would have been much different.
If I were attending a gun rights protest, I would have no problem with carrying a concealed weapon, and also a long gun on my back with a sling. But as you say, open carry can be good, if done right.
The old saying used to be, it is never good to spook the horses. But while I don't open carry, I support other peoples right to do so.
Pigpen51
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