Protesters in MAGA hats and flying Confederate flags swarm Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Wyoming, New York and Virginia to demonstrate ‘tyrannical’ and ‘unconstitutional’ lockdown orders that are ‘worse than the virus’
- Thousands of protesters drove to Michigan’s State Capitol to protest Democratic Gov Whitmer Wednesday
- They waved Confederate flags, showed off Trump 2020 posters and held banners saying ‘Heil Whitmer’
- In Utah protesters held signs that read ‘Resist like it’s 1776’ and ‘America will never be a socialist country’
- And in Kentucky protesters shouted out as Democratic Governor Andy Beshear spoke to the state
- A Reopen North Carolina Facebook page has 42,000 members; a protester was arrested there Wednesday
- And a startling image from Ohio shows a baying crowd at the window of the Statehouse Atrium on Monday
- In Virginia a protest against Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s lockdown took place on Thursday
- New York residents also took the streets Thursday despite the Empire State being the epicenter of the virus
- In Wyoming protesters led calls to ‘defend liberty’ and urged Gov. Mark Gordon to not ‘flatten the economy’.
Lauren Fruen and Marlene Lenthang – Daily Mail.com April 16, 2020
Protesters from a grassroots organization called REOPEN NC face a police officer during a demonstration against the coronavirus lockdown at a parking lot next to the North Carolina State Legislature in Raleigh, North Carolina. click to enlarge
Protesters have continued to gather across the United States, ignoring social distancing rules, to demonstrate against lockdown orders they call ‘tyrannical’ and ‘worse than the virus’.
Crowds of people – many decked out in MAGA hats and with Donald Trump posters – have met up in Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah and Wyoming this week with more crowds in Virginia Thursday.
The organizer of demonstrations in Michigan, Meshawn Maddock of the Michigan Conservative Coalition Quarantine, called the lifesaving quarantines ‘tyranny’.
The group say they are ‘Republicans who want our party to stop moving left’. They run associated groups called Michigan Trump Republicans and Women for Trump. Maddock told Fox News: ‘Every person has learned a harsh lesson about social distancing. We don’t need a nanny state to tell people how to be careful.’
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said those protesting, some flying Confederate flags, had likely lengthened lockdowns. She said: ‘The sad irony here is that they…may have just created the need to lengthen it.’
The governor told reporters: ‘I saw someone handing out candy to little kids barehanded. People are flying the Confederate flag, and untold numbers who gassed up on the way here or grabbed a bite on the way home.
‘We know that this rally endangered people. This kind of activity will put more people at risk and, sadly, it could prolong the amount of time we have to be in this posture.’
A startling image from Ohio shows a baying crowd at the window of the Statehouse Atrium on Monday. Two protesters wearing Trump hats, other wave American flags and one is in the V for Vendetta mask.
And in Virginia ReOpen Virginia, End The Lockdown VA and Virginians Against Excessive Quarantine organized a protest Thursday against Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s lockdown.
New York residents also took the streets Thursday despite the Empire State being the epicenter of the virus with more than 12,000 deaths. A group of protesters gathered in Albany calling for ‘communist’ Governor Andrew Cuomo to lift the lockdown. The Democrat later extended it to May 15.
In Utah, where Gov. Gary Herbert has closed down public schools for the rest of the year and ordered businesses to shutter amid the coronavirus pandemic, protest signs read ‘Resist like it’s 1776’ and ‘America will never be a socialist country.’
Republican Larry Meyers, who organized the grassroots event and ran for Senate, said it was to ‘assert our God-given, Constitutionally-protected rights, including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, religious freedom, the right to contract, and the right to use our property as we see fit so long as we do not harm others’.
And in Kentucky protesters stood outside the window Democratic Governor Andy Beshear as he spoke the state’s residents about the ongoing lockdowns.
Hearing their shouts of ‘facts over fear’ Beshear said: ‘Folks, that would kill people. That would absolutely kill people.’
Anti-lockdown protesters in Richmond, Virginia. Click to enlarge
Trace the origins, find those who created this, try them, charge them for murder and lock them up or more will come. It is just the beginning. One cannot kill KNOWLEDGE. Do not live on your knees. we are living in an EVIL society that will control you spirit from BIRTH to DEATH if you let them. A country has patents on VIRUSES. You will eventually kill yourself off. What purposes do the TV, MOVIES AND THE MEDIA SERVES, not my interest. Police state for the last 20 years or more. They do not care what you know. THEY have MIGHT AND MASS PSYCHOLOGY ON THEIR SIDE. IMBECILES IN POWER. Take back your BIRTHRIGHT. STRAWMAN, SO WE ARE !!! Onelove !!!
Kudos to them I say!! They’ve had enough unlike us British sheep who prefer to let our government lock us down (control us..) and impose restrictions even worse than wartime, snitch on our neighbours and generally continue to believe the mainstream media hype!
And all over a virus the Government tells us on their own site is not a highly infectious disease.
Ordinary flu kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each and every single year but no country has EVER lockeddown because of flu. So the question is why this and why now?
Notice how the media are relentless with numbers of alleged victims but only numbers, no details of which town, their ages and whether or not they had an underlying health problem. No details at all in fact, just numbers which we’re supposed to accept as gospel from our lying media. The same media that didn’t tell us the truth about the grooming gangs, Jimmy Saville, paedophiles in high places being protected etc etc.
But of course, they’re telling us the truth about the “corona pandemic”…….aren’t they.
Agreed veritas, I have always said the Americans will wake up before us stupid dumbed down Brits.
time to ban all parties in the uk and usher in a political system where mp’s are independent and represent their constituents and paid for by their constituents. time to implement a debt jubilee for all personal debt every 7th year and the treasury to take back control of the issuance of money and abolish fractional reserve lending. all direct tax on labour to be abolished. all redundancies to be paid by the corporations making employees redundant
or reduce every main board directors and employees salaries pro rata to the amount required to be saved. all main board directors and non executive directors to be placed on the normal employment contract. bonuses to be taxed at 95% in any form that is paid.
Just look-up and watch the sky, in case they are resuming the aerosol (chem-trails) spraying. At the moment it seems to have slowed down.
Indeed Peter; seems they still have some of that revolutionary spirit left! Check out the other Corona articles here especially Jon Rappoport.
All such deaths are a tragedy but whatever deaths may or may not have occurred here from Covid19 have to be balanced against deaths from other causes—cancer, heart problems, car accidents etc. Such draconian and anti-democratic measures that Johnson has imposed on the whole population are not justified by the number of deaths which are no worse than influenza and are considerably less than deaths caused by other health causes as many experts have pointed out. Covid is not Spanish flu or Bubonic plague…! Death comes in many forms and humans do eventually die. It’s part of the human condition.
In addition, there’s the destruction of the economy which may never recover as it’s costing Britain £2.4 billion a day with millions out of work and millions of business owners losing their livelihood. Johnson didn’t consult the people of England about it, he just did it and the media backed him with their relentless scaremongering; just look at the number of Corona/Covid headlines and broadcasts for the last 4 weeks!!
Johnson’s first priority must be the country!!! Nobody, not even a prime minister, has the right to destroy the country for any reason; much less over a virus no worse than influenza. As I said, deaths are tragic but no matter how you look at it, this is a totally unjustified reaction by the government which cannot be reconciled with the number of deaths from Corona which even the Government’s site says is “….low overall”!!
Many people are criticising Johnson’s response including health experts.
If no country ever locked down against flu then there is no need to do it for a virus with a similar low mortality rate. This is not about protecting lives; it’s about turning Britain into a Stalin-type gulag with restricted movement, curfews, probably a new financial system with restrictions on cash and God knows what else.
Personally, I’d rather take my chances with covid than have my freedom blocked like this. Wake up people! We are being played! This “pandemic” tyranny must end now…………
Jon Rappoport says: “The USA protesters are not behaving like robots wearing medical masks. They’re acting like……live humans. Humans who are free!”
Let us organise ourselves and do the same. We have to fight for our rights or we’ll lose them……….!!
Government, bankster and corporate elites view the rest of us from on high as if we were like ants in a miniature world far beneath them to manipulate and play with. They believe they will increase their power and control by forcing the common people to be more dependent and therefore more obedient to them. They have done this by fallacy and fear mongering, masquerading their economic blundering and deliberately exaggerating the consequences in a thin covering of flu-pandemic lies which cannot sustain the truth any longer.
When those who are permitted to return to their regular lives, many jobs and businesses will already have perished forever, and there is bound now to be widespread unemployment and unrest. What we are witnessing is pure socialist thinking without a real exit plan or an ability to really create anything. They are caught up in computer modeling and think-tank theories to regulate and and control a people mostly used to real work and the ability to pay their own way plus support governments they have little confidence in with respect to any real managerial skills, and which are totally incapable of actually sustaining incentive and production. When the face of real scarcity and suffering begin to emerge, the present and ever-increasing disproportion between the effects of a flue and the sufferings of the people will quickly escalate into public disgust and rage, and despite the presence of the military aiming at the very citizens whose taxes paid for their uniforms and weapons, there will be no way to control the eruption to come. There will no longer be any trust which they so freely have squandered and they will find themselves identified as the source the whirlwind, and it will they who will be targeted instead, so that everyone can return commerce and normal family life.
Trump is playing the role of good cop to the people of middle America, relative to all the jackals, phonies and bad cops he surrounds himself with. He is, however, playing with a time bomb which is likely to blow up in all their faces. They believe that by extending the economic shutdowns for the fake pandemic, it will cover the consequences of decades of foolish MIC and military overspending, government corruption, China outsourcing, and Keynesian spendthrift, money-out-of nothing madness, and they clearly intend make middle American pay the price.
There is a huge difference between the people of Greece or those in France in past years, who in isolation from the rest of the world have protested government shortages and economic blundering with incomes and pensions, and the Americans who are more self reliant and who are likely to erupt as the viruses media and political lies are dispelled by the truth influencing more and more people who not only cherish liberty, but now hunger for it, and for their jobs to save their homes and feed their families. Once one nation goes up, so will all of the rest. Never before have the power brokers and the elites in control of all of our institutions been so clearly identified and so vulnerable because of their stealth.
The leader of this event bought the virus and learned her lessons in being careful regarding social distancing.
That’s not someone you want organising things.