Instead of safeguarding our freedoms our natural rights to make personal choices the governors and their police enforcers have treated us as if we work for them.
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Formally, it works for us. We elect officials because we trust their judgment. We authorize those officials to protect our rights, and we prohibit them from interfering with our personal choices.
For a few weeks now, I thought the most extreme of these governors has been Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who publicly admitted that he didn't think or care about the Bill of Rights, even though he took an oath to uphold it. Yet, Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania has surpassed him.
When Wolf learned that some Pennsylvania county sheriffs would not use force to enforce his non-law edicts, and some public accommodations would open their doors consistent with public safety but in defiance of his non-law edicts he threatened to withhold state aid from all who live in those counties and to close the liquor stores that, by his non-law edicts, remain open.
This is straight out of 1930s Germany punish the community because of the resistance of a few. In Wolf's Pennsylvania, the people work for the government.
My colleagues at The Wall Street Journal have unearthed the facts that more Americans die annually from heart disease, cancer, accidents and non-COVID-19 respiratory failure than die annually (annualized) from this coronavirus. Every death diminishes me. So does every suppression of liberty. So does every denial of the right to make choices and take risks.
Does the government really work for us or are we afraid of it?
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