When President Donald Trump tweeted Americans should “LIBERATE VIRGINIA,” it set off a firestorm of backlash throughout the establishment media. But the Commander-in-Chief squarely hit the mark because Virginia Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam has used the COVID-19 crisis to strip citizens of their God-given rights and trample the Constitution.
Governor Northam and much of the Virginia legislature have been bought and paid for by failed Democrat presidential hopeful and billionaire Michael Bloomberg. After injecting millions into Virginia Democrat campaigns to secure a majority, Bloomberg-associated politicians went on a tangent pushing anti-Second Amendment legislation.
With Virginia Gov. “Blackface” on board, the Southern state was poised to enact among the most restrictive laws in the nation, including firearm seizures. But 20,000 Americans descended on the state’s capitol armed to the teeth in a peaceful show of patriotism. Corrupt, anti-gun advocates backed down. But fast forward to the COVID-19 crisis, and Governor Blackface has taken advantage of the situation to press forward by signing a slate of anti-gun laws while citizens sheltered in place.
“We lose too many Virginians to gun violence, and it is past time we took bold, meaningful action to make our communities safer,” Northam said. “We can’t stop here. We need to keep working on this issue. It will be year after year.”
To say the timing was cowardly would be something of an understatement. Cities, towns, and counties previously stood up and declared their municipalities “Second Amendment Sanctuaries.” The Virginia liberal lacked the stones to sign these divisive and anti-American laws while citizens could safely gather and protest.
“They want to take their guns away. That’s the Second Amendment. That’s Virginia. You have a governor — I guess he should be under siege,” President Trump said, reasserting his tweets. “He seems not to be. If he were a Republican, he would be under siege. But he seems to have escaped something that is really bad. So when you talk about ‘liberate’ or ‘liberation,’ you can certainly look at Virginia.”
Recognizing the liberal extremist governor will only continue to extend dictatorship-like power over the citizenry, Reopen Virginia protests have flared. Residents recently engaged in a “drive-in” protest that flooded the city of Richmond with vehicles that created traffic jams and blared horns. The governor’s executive order that uses coercive measures to force business closures and Stay at Home pressure has been widely viewed as exceeding his constitutional authority. Reopen Virginia protestors have discovered that U.S. Attorney General William Barr appears to be an ally.
“Our federal constitutional rights don’t go away in an emergency. They constrain what the government can do. And in a circumstance like this, they put on the government the burden to make sure that whatever burdens it’s putting on our constitutional liberties are strictly necessary to deal with the problem,” A.G. Barr said. “They have to be targeted. They have to use less intrusive means if they are equally effective in dealing with the problem.”
The U.S. Attorney General has compared the Virginia governor’s executive order to a “house arrest” that does not pass the constitutional smell test.
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