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#1605997 - 03/11/20 10:55 PM As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper
lue-jones Offline
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Appomattox - It wont be firearms pried out of patriots cold dead hands following a declaration of State of Emergency in Virginia, but rather toilet paper as millions of Americans scramble to clear the shelves in preparation for Martial Law.


USA Today

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#1606089 - 03/12/20 09:15 AM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
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#1606235 - 03/12/20 04:44 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
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Virginia Governor Declares State of Emergency

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Therefore, on this date, March 12, 2020, I declare that a state of emergency exists in the
Commonwealth of Virginia to continue to prepare and coordinate our response to the potential
spread of COVID-19, a communicable disease of public health threat. The anticipated effects of
COVID-19 constitute a disaster as described in § 44-146.16 of the Code of Virginia (Code). By
virtue of the authority vested in me by Article V, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia, by §§
44-146.17 and 44-75.1 of the Code, as Governor and Director of Emergency Management and
Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth’s armed forces
, I proclaim a state of emergency
.


Virginia.gov

State of Emergency Declared in Virginia


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§ 44-146.17. Powers and duties of Governor.

The Governor shall be Director of Emergency Management. He shall take such action from time to time as is necessary for the adequate promotion and coordination of state and local emergency services activities relating to the safety and welfare of the Commonwealth in time of disasters
.


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(1) To proclaim and publish such rules and regulations and to issue such orders as may, in his judgment, be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter including, but not limited to such measures as are in his judgment required to control, restrict, allocate or regulate the use, sale, production and distribution of food, fuel, clothing and other commodities, materials, goods, services and resources under any state or federal emergency services programs.

He may adopt and implement the Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan, which provides for state-level emergency operations in response to any type of disaster or large-scale emergency affecting Virginia and that provides the needed framework within which more detailed emergency plans and procedures can be developed and maintained by state agencies, local governments and other organizations.

He may direct and compel evacuation of all or part of the populace from any stricken or threatened area if this action is deemed necessary for the preservation of life, implement emergency mitigation, preparedness, response or recovery actions; prescribe routes, modes of transportation and destination in connection with evacuation; and control ingress and egress at an emergency area, including the movement of persons within the area and the occupancy of premises therein.


Virginia.gov

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§ 44-75.1. Militia state active duty.

A. The Governor or his designee may call forth the militia or any part thereof to state active duty for service in any of the following circumstances:

1. In the event of invasion or insurrection or imminent threat of either
;


VIrginia.gov

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#1606253 - 03/12/20 05:42 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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#1606571 - 03/13/20 01:52 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
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The moment the president declares a “national emergency”—a decision that is entirely within his discretion—more than 100 special provisions become available to him. While many of these tee up reasonable responses to genuine emergencies, some appear dangerously suited to a leader bent on amassing or retaining power. For instance, the president can, with the flick of his pen, activate laws allowing him to shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the United States or freeze Americans’ bank accounts. Other powers are available even without a declaration of emergency, including laws that allow the president to deploy troops inside the country to subdue domestic unrest.


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Under this interpretation, Section 706 could effectively function as a “kill switch” in the U.S.—one that would be available to the president the moment he proclaimed a mere threat of war. It could also give the president power to assume control over U.S. internet traffic.


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The idea of tanks rolling through the streets of U.S. cities seems fundamentally inconsistent with the country’s notions of democracy and freedom. Americans might be surprised, therefore, to learn just how readily the president can deploy troops inside the country.



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Take Ex parte Milligan, a famous ruling from 1866 invalidating the use of a military commission to try a civilian during the Civil War. The case is widely considered a high-water mark for judicial constraint on executive action. Yet even as the Court held that the president could not use war or emergency as a reason to bypass civilian courts, it noted that martial law—the displacement of civilian authority by the military—would be appropriate in some cases. If civilian courts were closed as a result of a foreign invasion or a civil war, for example, martial law could exist “until the laws can have their free course.” The message is decidedly mixed: Claims of emergency or necessity cannot legitimize martial law … until they can.


Alarming Scope of Presidential Emergency Powers

For more information:

Chuck Schumer, other Senators ask Trump to declare National Emergency 2020

Senate again rebukes Trump on National Emergency - 2019

Democrats urge Trump to declare National Emergency over Coronavirus

Warner says Trump should declare National Emergency

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#1606605 - 03/13/20 03:58 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is declaring the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency, as Washington struggles with providing Americans with relief and officials race to slow the spread of the outbreak.


President Trump Declares National Emergency

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#1606659 - 03/13/20 06:31 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
fantasm Offline
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lemme tell you one thing (had alot of bourbon at this point) big box stores that may be owned by a company that rhymes with mal-mart. we get toilet paper and disinfectant wipes and everything everyone wants near on a daily basis. but if you didnt buy that special member ship that let you in 3 hours earlier than all the normal people. tough luck. those special memberships buy all the good stuff hours before regular hardworking middle class people are even allowed to enter the store.

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#1606760 - 03/13/20 10:57 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
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Petersburg has a 11pm curfew for anyone under 18
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#1606840 - 03/14/20 08:24 AM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
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my wife is in the hospital, now no visitors under 16 and visiting hours now end at 730pm, they also have been screening everyone as they come in, well ask questions and hand out masks depending on answer
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#1609447 - 03/20/20 04:18 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


First Amendment (US Constitution) - archives.gov

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RICHMOND, Va. – Gov. Ralph Northam and State Health Commissioner Norman Oliver issued a public health emergency order banning more than 10 patrons in restaurants, fitness centers, and theaters on Tuesday.


Gov. Northam gives police authority to enforce 10-person limit on gatherings

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#1609450 - 03/20/20 04:24 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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"People willing to trade their freedom for security deserve neither and will lose both."

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#1609451 - 03/20/20 04:25 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.


Thomas Paine

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#1609454 - 03/20/20 04:31 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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#1609458 - 03/20/20 04:38 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
toughtom12 Offline
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One of my buddies is still going to the gym everyday, and I asked him how his gym has been able to remain open? He informed me that the gym has a prominent Thin Blue Line Flag hanging up, and a large portion of the members are Local Law Enforcement. Remember that the people enforcing the law often exempt themselves from following it.

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#1609459 - 03/20/20 04:40 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
Newgunguy Offline
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So basically they are afraid to close it because of roid rage!


Charles.

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#1609487 - 03/20/20 05:44 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
panic788 Offline
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@lue-jones: Interesting that you would post the tumbleweed, an invasive species brought here from russia wink

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#1609627 - 03/20/20 11:48 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
lue-jones Offline
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useful idiot noun

a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda


Merriam Webster

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The phrase “useful idiots,” often attributed to an earlier Vladimir, referred to Westerners who had been successfully manipulated by Soviet propaganda.


Washington Post

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The adulation of left-wing dictators and strongmen by Western intellectuals, journalists, and celebrities didn’t begin with Stalin (in 1921 Duranty had hailed Lenin for his “cool, far-sighted, reasoned sense of realities”), and it certainly didn’t end with him. Mona Charen chronicled the phenomenon in her superb 2003 book “Useful Idiots,” which recalls example after jaw-dropping example of American liberals defending, flattering, and excusing the crimes of one Communist ruler and regime after another. Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, the Khmer Rouge, Leonid Brezhnev, Kim Il Sung, the Sandinistas: Over and over the pattern was repeated, from the dawn of the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Iron Curtain — and beyond.


Useful Idiots - Then and Now

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#1609634 - 03/21/20 12:21 AM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: lue-jones]
toughtom12 Offline
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Never mind my earlier comment... Manassas City Police just shut it down. I guess it was mostly PWC Police that worked out there?

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#1609968 - 03/21/20 06:08 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: toughtom12]
jr45 Offline
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Jersey banned all gatherings, including in the home...wtf. Not even sure how that could be legal? How long until these communists actions are implemented in VA?
NJ bans all gatherings

On the national front, maybe we should ok DOJ’s new request to indefinitely detain people with out a trail during an emergency.
DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic

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#1609993 - 03/21/20 06:57 PM Re: As US Nears Lockdown, Patriots Clear Shelves of Toilet Paper [Re: jr45]
lue-jones Offline
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Unfortunately, we have "Americans" who are now doing their best to undermine, discredit and argue into the ground information which attests to the growing severity of the governments response to the coronavirus outbreak. Its almost as if these individuals are attempting to intimidate and bully others into silence for keeping track of what is unfolding and sharing it with other Americans.

This behavior cannot be allowed to continue, where we are conditioned into silence by those who go on the offensive when another American commits the egregious offense of sharing information with others.

HighImpactVlogs - Pain is Coming

The 4th Dimension - We are just getting started


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President Trump on Friday issued an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to call up as many as 1 million armed forces reservists to active duty to help deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

The president’s order said the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland security are authorized to order to active duty, “not to exceed 24 consecutive months,” units and individual members of the Ready Reserve up to 1 million at one time as necessary.


Washington Times

Whitehouse.gov - EO to activate ready reserve

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Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine.


Bloomberg

For those interested in additional information:

Navy Moving Tanks Routine - CBS

Trump considered quarantining NY

CDC issues travel advisory NY, NJ, CT

Americans hunting Americans

Police/Military Door to Door

A message from the 4th Dimension

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