CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 14, 2020
THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT IS SOMETHING OUR FOUNDERS WANTED RESTRAINED. CONSIDER THAT POWER NOW DISPLAYED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIALIZED MONDAY: “AMERICANS BY AND LARGE HAVE WILLINGLY OBEYED THE GOVERNMENT’S SHELTER-IN-PLACE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING ORDERS, BUT THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ENOUGH FOR SOME PUBLIC OFFICIALS. THEY’RE INDULGING THEIR INNER BULLY IN WAYS THAT OVER TIME WILL ERODE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR BEHAVIOR THAT CAN REDUCE THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS. OUR PROBLEM IS EXCESSIVE ENFORCEMENT. SOME STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS…APPEAR EITHER TO MISUNDERSTAND THE EDICTS…OR SUFFER FROM A LACK OF DISCERNMENT. POLICE OFFICERS IN BRIGHTON, COLORADO HANDCUFFED A MAN FOR PLAYING WITH HIS WIFE AND SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ON A NEARLY EMPTY SOFTBALL FIELD…IN PUBLIC PARKS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND ELSEWHERE, POLICE OFFICERS ARE PROHIBITING LOCALS FROM SITTING ON PARK BENCHES, EVEN IF THEY ARE ALONE.”
THERE ARE MANY OTHER EXAMPLES. WE CAN’T ALLOW GOVERNMENT TO TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOMS IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING US. THAT’S WHAT DICTATORSHIPS DO. I’M CAL THOMAS.
