We’ve all noticed that, thanks to the Wuhan virus, the rich have gotten richer. By trapping people in their homes and destroying small business, Democrat governments have allowed oligarchs such as Bezos, Zuckerburg, and Gates, to increase their wealth by exponential amounts. What’s flown under the radar, though, is that for many months, government employees and politicians haven’t shared the people’s pain. In Buffalo, New York, beleaguered business owners finally had enough.
Conservative publications have
focused heavily on the fact that leftist cities used the overdose death of an
ex-felon as an excuse to “reimagine” policing by destroying it. However, there
doesn’t seem to have been the same fallout for those government employees
charged with enforcing the lockdowns. Around the world, they are still employed
and extremely powerful.
Not all law enforcement
officers, of course, are flexing their muscles this way. A Howell, New Jersey
police chief went public with his refusal to enforce the Thanksgiving
crackdown:
In Fulton County New York, the
sheriff refused to enforce Gov. Cuomo’s latest draconian edict:
And in California, sheriffs
are resisting enforcing Gov. Newsom’s authoritarian demands.
Bravo to all those men and
women who are taking a stand against tyranny.
Still, there are sheriffs and
other government workers willing to pretend that America is East Germany and
that ordinary people are the enemies of the state. The question is how much
longer ordinary people are going to accept this treatment?
In Buffalo, New York,
approximately 50 business owners and their supporters had gathered inside a gym
to protest New York’s “orange” zone regulations which once again have shut down
gyms, salons, and other “nonessential” businesses (as if they’re not essential
to people whose livelihoods depend on those businesses).
The Erie County government got
word of the meeting and sent over three sheriff's deputies and a health
inspector, all intent upon shutting down the meeting. Instead of the meek
compliance law enforcement expects to receive from law-abiding business people,
these government minions got serious pushback.
Someone else cried out, “You’re
on private property. You have to leave.” “Get out! Get out!” people cried. The
health inspector claimed that she had “compassion” for those whose lives are
being destroyed, but clearly intended to shut down the gathering. Instead, the
crowd chased all four county officials out, telling them to come back with a
warrant. The crowd also reminded the deputies that those assembled were not
violating any law.
The merchants then started
chanting “Get out.” The government workers got the message and left, with the
crowd keeping the chant going as they escorted the deputies and health
inspector (who was worriedly talking on her phone) not just out of the building
but off the property. The crowd's chant changed to “We will not comply.” Then
taking a page out of BLM’s book, someone told law enforcement, “This is a
protest.”
Ordinary Americans are angry. While the elite are making
money, the political classes still have a job, the leftists are running riot in
the street and imagining a reset, and the Democrats are reveling in a stolen
election, more than 80 million Americans are getting fed-up. They’ve been
locked up, insulted, bankrupted, and now they’ve seen their votes destroyed.
They’re mad as Hell and they’re beginning to refuse to take it anymore.
Image: Sheriffs getting the boot in Buffalo, New
York. YouTube screengrab.
