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Pennsylvania counties rebelling against Gov. Tom Wolf's stay-at-home order and will reopen

Counties are allowing businesses to reopen and not enforcing orders that violate constitutional rights.

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Several Pennsylvania elected officials are rebelling against Gov. Tom Wolf's shelter-in-place order. Some counties will allow businesses to reopen, while others have said they will refuse to enforce any order that violates constitutional rights.

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On March 19, Wolf ordered a statewide shutdown of all "non-life sustaining businesses." On Friday, Wolf announced that 13 Pennsylvania counties could move to the yellow phase of reopening on May 15. There were 24 counties allowed to enter the yellow phase of the coronavirus reopening on May 8, all in the western part of the state.
The yellow phase allows retail, manufacturing, and offices to open, but there are strict guidelines as far as sanitation and limiting gathering to 25 people or less. The yellow phase does not allow schools, gyms, or beauty salons to reopen.
While these 37 Pennsylvania counties will be allowed to reopen partially, the other 30 counties are in the red phase until June 4. The red phase only allows essential businesses to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wolf said, "A target goal for reopening has been set at having fewer than 50 new confirmed cases per 100,000 population reported to the department in the previous 14 days."
Many political leaders of counties in central Pennsylvania are not happy that they were not added to the yellow phase starting next week. Some of the counties plan to open up and defy Wolf's state-mandated stay-at-home order.
Officials from Adams and York counties requested that Wolf allow them to transition to the yellow phase on May 15. On Friday night, York County District Attorney Dave Sunday announced that his office "will not prosecute any criminal citations for alleged violations of the [Governor and Secretary's] orders and regulations … concerning the operation of non-life-sustaining businesses."
"According to all previously identified measurables made by you and your Secretary of Health, York County falls well within all indices and metrics," York County officials said.
In Adams County, there have been 154 confirmed COVID-19 cases and five deaths.
Perry County officials released a letter on Thursday questioning why they were not allowed to reopen with so few COVID-19 cases.
"It is beyond comprehension why Perry County, which had fewer than 40 cases of COVID-19 altogether, was not selected for reopening with the first counties May 8," the letter read. "It is time to rectify this error and allow our business people to get back to work if they choose."
Politicians from Pennsylvania counties told the Democratic governor that they would reopen regardless if they were in the yellow or red phase.
Jeff Haste, Chairman of the Dauphin County Board of Commissioners, said in an open letter that "enough is enough." Haste instructed Wolf to "open the state and return our Commonwealth to the people (as prescribed by our Constitution) and not run it as a dictatorship."
"Here in Dauphin County, 192 (25%) of the 764 cases are in nursing homes, while 24 (65%) of our coronavirus deaths are in nursing homes," Haste wrote. "If you remove the nursing home cases from the equation, 0.2% of the county's general population has tested positive. Not 20%, not 2%, but 0.2%."
Dauphin County is home to the state Capitol in Harrisburg.
Lebanon County officials sent a letter to Wolf informing him that they were transitioning to the yellow phase on May 15, with or without his approval.
"As elected officials of Lebanon County, this letter serves to inform you of our intention to move from the Red Phase to the Yellow Phase of your COVID- 19 Phased Reopening Plan, effective May 15, 2020," the letter read.
"Lebanon County has met the requirement of your original Stay-at-Home order, which was to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak and allow hospitals the time to gear up for COVID-19 patients," the letter from Lebanon County officials read. "The residents of our county have heeded your instructions to practice social distancing and other mitigation efforts, and as a result our local healthcare facilities do not lack the capacity to effectively treat these patients going forward."
The letter was signed by nine elected officials, all of which are Republicans. County Commissioner Jo Ellen Litz, who is a Democrat, did not sign the letter.
As of Friday, Lebanon County reported 797 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 16 deaths.
Cumberland County's Sheriff Ronny Anderson said his office would not enforce any order that "violates our Constitutional rights."
"The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office will honor our solemn oath to Support, Obey and Defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth," Anderson wrote on the office's Facebook page. "Our Office will stand with the citizens in defense of all of our Constitutional rights! Our Office will not be enforcing any 'order' that violates our Constitutional rights. Sheriff Anderson has stated 'I have no intentions in turning local business owners into criminals.'"
Wolf noted that more restrictions could be added if COVID-19 cases rise.
"Every contact between two people is a new link in the chain of potential transmission. And if the new case count begins to climb in one area, restrictions will need to be imposed to prevent local medical facilities from becoming overwhelmed," Wolf said during a news briefing on Friday. "So, Pennsylvanians should continue to make good choices."
Pennsylvania has the sixth-most confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. with over 57,000, and the fifth-most deaths, 3,717.

The Irony Of David Hogg's Argument

David Hogg Gets Upset When His Rights Are Taken Away Because of One Person

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MARCH 24, 2018 AT 8:31AM

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It’s usually difficult not to feel sympathetic for the survivor of a mass shooting. David Hogg has somehow, sadly, managed to accomplish this difficult task.

Whether it’s through debasing the national conversation about guns and gun safety, pretending that surviving a shooting makes him a bona fide public policy expert, allowing himself to be politicized in the most cynical of ways, using victimhood as form of naked self-promotion or doing so in the most confrontational and obnoxious way possible, Hogg has established himself not just as an enemy of Second Amendment supporters but of civilized debate.

This isn’t to say that he’s wrong on everything. Like a number of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School survivors, Hogg is upset that the Broward County Public Schools’ superintendent’s solution to stopping violence is taxpayer-supported clear backpacks and school ID badges, as he made clear during a gun control forum Friday.

However, Hogg isn’t against it just because it’s dumb (although it is dumb).

He’s against it because — get this — it violates his constitutional rights.

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After a month of attacking American's Second Amendment rights, David Hogg says having to use clear backpacks infringes on his "First Amendment rights."

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“One of the other important things to realize is many students want their privacy,” Hogg said. “There are many, for example, females in our school that when they go through their menstrual cycle, they don’t want people to see their tampons and stuff.”

“It’s unnecessary, it’s embarrassing for a lot of the students and it makes them feel isolated and separated from the rest of American school culture where they’re having essentially their First Amendment rights infringed upon because they can’t freely wear whatever backpack they want regardless of what it is,” he continued.

“It has to be a clear backpack. What we should have is just more policies that make sure that these students are feeling safe and secure in their schools and not like they’re being fought against like it’s a prison.”

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Wait — so constitutional rights aren’t negotiable in order to keep people safe? Or it’s just certain ones? I’m confused.

As I write this Saturday morning, there are likely to be hundreds of thousands of people — teenagers, mostly — lining up in the streets for the March for Our Lives, an event dedicated to anti-gun hysteria, a hysteria that has been whipped up in part by both Hogg and Everytown for Gun Safety, an astroturfed group started by Michael Bloomberg that believes the Second Amendment to be roughly as important as a discarded Kleenex.

On Saturday, these people will march so that legislators will do something, anything about guns. This will likely involve legislation, if passed, that could abrogate people’s rights under the Second Amendment. There’s no indication it’ll make a difference. But it’s in the name of safety.

Meanwhile, Hogg is being asked to wear a clear backpack in school. He says “(i)t’s unnecessary, it’s embarrassing for a lot of the students and it makes them feel isolated and separated from the rest of American school culture where they’re having essentially their First Amendment rights infringed upon because they can’t freely wear whatever backpack they want regardless of what it is.”

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But you don’t really need that backpack, Mr. Hogg. What kind of American needs a backpack made out of opaque material? Your need to express yourself surely doesn’t override my need for safety.

Oh, and by the way, unlike the kind of gun laws Everytown thinks it can push, invasive school safety measures — metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, school uniforms and public school restrictions like those — have all mostly sailed through the courts.

The great irony here, however, is that David Hogg is only interested in constitutional protections when it affects his backpack. When it’s other people’s stuff, he’s not so interested. That’s not how the Constitution works. It was put together to protect the rights of every American, including rights that may be temporally unpopular.

And while I don’t agree with Hogg that the clear backpack idea is unconstitutional, I agree that it is useless, wasteful and distracting. Just like almost everything he and his cohort are proposing.

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Why Should The Shoe Bomber Get Constitutional Rights, He's Not A Citizen?

He tried to massacre Americans on Christmas, now he’s suing for maltreatment in prison

Oct 21, 2017 8:10 am

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed "the underwear bomber," is suing the federal government over what he says is maltreatment as he serves his life sentence for attempting to murder U.S. citizens. (Image Source: YouTube screenshot)

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried and failed to blow up an airliner full of passengers on Christmas in 2009, but now he’s suing the U.S. government for better treatment while in prison.

What is he claiming?

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday and obtained by CBS, Abdulmutallab claims that the Department of Justice is violating his First, Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights.

The lawsuit alleges that he is being abused by being held in longterm solitary confinement. The strict rules of imprisonment placed on “Mr. Abdulmutallab prohibit him from having any communication whatsoever with more than 7.5 billion people, the vast majority of people on the planet,” says the complaint.

He also claims the restrictions keep him from praying with fellow Muslims, thus inhibiting his freedom to practice his religion. The court filing also claims “corrections officers have allowed… religious harassment by white supremacist inmates against Muslim inmates.”

What is he in prison for?

Abdulmutallab is serving a life sentence at a Supermax federal prison for attempting to light chemicals he had secreted onto a plane in his underwear in 2009 on Christmas. When he tried to light the bomb, he only produced smoke and flame.

Had he been successful, he could have killed the 289 people on board the flight.

A Victory For Religious Freedom

MAJOR FLIP FOR SCHOOL THAT SENT COP TO 1ST-GRADER'S HOME

Child under fire for sharing Bible stories with classmates

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A California school district that dispatched a sheriff’s deputy to a first-grade student’s home to stop him from sharing Bible verses with classmates because they could be “offended” abruptly has reversed course.

In a letter to the student’s legal representatives, the Palmdale, California, School District affirmed the student, identified by the initial “C,” may “freely discuss his religious beliefs on the Desert Rose campus during non-instructional time,” may distribute written material to anyone on any sidewalk near the school gate, his parents may continue sending him daily notes and verses, he may read and discuss his note with his peers “during non-instructional time” and he may invite peers to join him on the sidewalk after school to talk about the notes.

WND reported in June the school dispatched a sheriff’s deputy to the student’s home regarding notes the student’s mother, Christina Zavala, regularly tucked into his lunch that contain Bible verses.

According to Liberty Counsel, which represented the student and his family, the boy showed the notes to his friends during lunch time at school.

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Soon, a number of students at the school were asking for copies of the notes, which included short stories from the Bible, Liberty Counsel said.

“However, when one little girl said ‘teacher – this is the most beautiful story I’ve ever seen,’ ‘separation of church and state’ was the response, and the notes were banned from lunchtime distribution. C was told that the school gate was the only location at which he could give the Bible verses to his friends, and only after the bell rang,” the organization explained.

Nevertheless, C twice was reprimanded by his teacher in front of the whole class and told to stop talking about religion and sharing his mother’s notes, and he went home in tears, Liberty Counsel said.

Even as the crowd of students asking for the after-school Bible notes grew, on May 9, Principal Melanie Pagliaro approached the boy and demanded that the notes only be handed out somewhere beyond school property.

Still not satisfied, Liberty Counsel said, “a Los Angeles deputy sheriff knocked at the door of C’s home, demanding that C’s note-sharing cease altogether because ‘someone might be offended.'”

On Monday, Liberty Counsel announced the dispute was resolved, with the school district affirming the student’s basic rights.

“We celebrate this victory that acknowledges that students have constitutional rights to free speech to distribute literature during non-instructional times,” said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel. “Now this young boy is free to share his Bible verses and stories with his classmates this year without hassle.”

School officials initially had declined to respond to a WND request for comment, but on Monday, Supt. Raul Maldonado replied.

“We were worried ourselves and wanted to get to the bottom of this, and I think it’s been resolved very effectively,” he told WND.

He said the board’s affirmation was based on its concern that students have the right to “express their religious freedom.”

However, when asked about dispatching a deputy to a student’s home, he promised to send a report addressing the question. But the report said only that a “school resource officer” investigated and had a “friendly and brief” conversation with the family.

The report said the school district had its lawyer, Bonifacio Bonny Garcia, investigated and determined school officials “acted with the highest degree of courtesy towards the Zavala family.”

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Its letter to the school addressed the “unconstitutional suppression and censorship of student religious speech.”

The organization said it demanded that Desert Rose “correct an outrageous violation of a first grader’s constitutional rights.”

“This is a clear, gross violation of the rights of a child. That the school district enlisted a police officer to intimidate C and his family makes this case even more outrageous,” Liberty Counsel contended.

“I would expect something like this to happen in Communist Romania, where I went to elementary school, but cops don’t bully 7-year-olds who want to talk about Jesus in the Land of the Free,” said Horatio “Harry” Mihet, vice president of legal affairs and chief litigation counsel of Liberty Counsel.

Liberty Counsel pointed out students regularly exchange items such as Christmas cards and birthday party invitations.

“Therefore, it was improper to ban student religious discussion during lunch time. The district cannot suppress and censor this discussion, or the one-page notes consisting of Bible stories and verses placed by C’s mother in C’s lunch for his own personal enjoyment and edification; which he voluntarily chose to share with his little friends during non-instructional time; which interested classmates were free to accept or refuse, at their own discretion,” the letter said.

“If being censured for religious expression by one’s first grade teacher in front of one’s classmates is not intimidating and humiliating enough, the message of hostility to a child’s religious expression is underscored by the district calling law enforcement for a ‘follow-up visit’ to his house,” it said.

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