to enter bars and restaurants<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\nAll three government entities insist the regulations are based on SCIENCE.\u00a0 But other government entities in the state have not enacted similar regulations.\u00a0 There is no scientific reason why restaurants in St. Paul would be deadlier than Maplewood, why Manny’s Steak House would be deadlier than Lord Fletcher’s, why a student with natural immunity is deadlier than a vaccinated student.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The regulations do not treat citizens similarly.\u00a0 There is no rational basis for the difference.\u00a0 The different regulations violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. <\/p>\n
In the olden days, there were organizations which cared about such things, the American Civil Liberties Union, for example.\u00a0 They ought to be in court every day, suing on behalf of individual rights.\u00a0 They’re not.\u00a0 Nobody is.<\/p>\n
Why doesn’t anybody care about Constitutional rights more?<\/p>\n
What happened to us?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
What happaned? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big Left took over the institutions we used to trust to play it down the middle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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