OT. Michigan Governor Reined In

[Dean Hoffman]

The Michigan Supreme Court limited the governor's emergency powers.

It's generally a good thing when citizens are left to their own devices.

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. "C. S. Lewis Read more at

Longer version ?Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.?

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What a complete and utter load of ... with a public health issue.

[micky]

C.S. Lewis is not here to point out that he was talking about other situations, not contagious lethal diseases. The longer version above is not long enough.

But if you think he would say the same thing anyhow, answer number 2: Why should I give a darn what Lewis said. Is he so smart? Loads of others woudl say the opposite.

[Dean Hoffman]

A judge found back on September 14 that Pennsylvania Governor Stickman overstepped his bounds. He noted that the Governor might be a bit of a hypocrite. "U.S. District Judge William Stickman determined that the sweeping measures violated ?the right of assembly enshrined in the First Amendment.? He noted Wolf?s hypocrisy in severely limiting indoor and outdoor fairs, festivals, concerts and other gatherings and condemning a small anti-lockdown protest of small-business owners (whom he called ?selfish,? ?cowardly? and ?unsafe?) ? while marching with thousands of non-socially distancing Black Lives Matter radicals in Harrisburg in June." From