Hypocrisy in Texas
May 6, 2020
WHAT happens when a judge follows the unconstitutional orders of the Covid Crook in the governor’s office and sends someone to jail for trying to make a living during the Covid shutdown?
State officials, realizing the potential backlash, lie and say, “Oh, that wasn’t what we really meant.”
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has publicly contested the jail sentence of Shelley Luther, a salon owner sent to jail for opening her business.
As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.”
What chutzpah! Judge Eric Moyé was resorting to the “last available option,” since Luther refused to comply with the shutdown. Now Moyé will get the blame for taking the governor’s order, unlawful though it was, seriously.
The shutdowns require voluntary compliance by the public. If the public refused, the whole thing would collapse.