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  • Using COVID-19 To Undermine Rights?

    This sounds draconian...

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - Champaign Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen has issued an executive order declaring an emergency in the city.

    City officials said the emergency is related to the COVID-19, which is anticipated to cause an impact on the health of community members. Champaign Municipal Code allows the mayor to declare an emergency for a limited time.

    Included in the executive order are ordinances that would give the city extraordinary powers to the Mayor.

    Violating parts of the Open Meetings Act
    Ban sale of firearms and ammunition
    Ban sale of any alcohol
    Closing of all bars, taverns, liquor stores, etc
    Ban sale or giving away of gasoline or other liquid flammable or combustible products in any container other than a gasoline tank permanently fixed to a motor vehicle
    Direct the shutoff of power, water, gas, etc
    Take possession of private property and obtain full title to same
    Prohibit or restrict ingress and egress to and from the City...

    https://www.wandtv.com/news/executiv...a7f3b3aee.html
    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

  • #2
    Originally posted by seer View Post
    This sounds draconian...
    Just the first step in Champaign Illinois taking over the world. Maybe the covid 19 is a false flag operation with professional actors playing sick, and the health care people are all Freemasons. But I wonder if Trump will be the one to establish the New World Order, and the One World Religion, Islamianity.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by simplicio View Post
      Just the first step in Champaign Illinois taking over the world. Maybe the covid 19 is a false flag operation with professional actors playing sick, and the health care people are all Freemasons. But I wonder if Trump will be the one to establish the New World Order, and the One World Religion, Islamianity.
      It sounds like you welcome such ideas.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by simplicio View Post
        Just the first step in Champaign Illinois taking over the world. Maybe the covid 19 is a false flag operation with professional actors playing sick, and the health care people are all Freemasons. But I wonder if Trump will be the one to establish the New World Order, and the One World Religion, Islamianity Zensunni.
        FIFY n/c

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        • #5
          Does it have a sunset clause? There were some emergency preventions by the government, such as giving the police the authority to disband groups of people numbering more than 100 (Israel made a similar law for groups more than 10), but both cases have sunset clauses so they'll expire in a few months.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
            Does it have a sunset clause? There were some emergency preventions by the government, such as giving the police the authority to disband groups of people numbering more than 100 (Israel made a similar law for groups more than 10), but both cases have sunset clauses so they'll expire in a few months.
            28 days -- derived from the movie 28 Days Later. Actually, this duration is listed in the link below.

            The article has a link to the proposed mayoral powers.
            Link: https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.town...454b21.pdf.pdf

            It seems that the file actually has .pdf twice in its name/location
            Last edited by mikewhitney; 03-16-2020, 03:40 PM.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by seer View Post
              This sounds draconian...
              Urbana/Champaign is a college town, home to UIUC.
              Closing of all bars, taverns, liquor stores, etc

              I think you missed the principal threat.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Juvenal View Post
                Urbana/Champaign is a college town, home to UIUC.
                Closing of all bars, taverns, liquor stores, etc

                I think you missed the principal threat.
                What about banning sale of firearms and ammunition, shutting off of power, water, gas, or seizing private property and taking the full title to said property? Why is that even in there? And if those things are not a violation of rights I don't know what is.
                Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by seer View Post
                  What about banning sale of firearms and ammunition, shutting off of power, water, gas, or seizing private property and taking the full title to said property? Why is that even in there? And if those things are not a violation of rights I don't know what is.
                  If they didn't put those in, what would the conspiracy theorists have to moan about while hanging around the bars that have been closed?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                    It sounds like you welcome such ideas.
                    Really? You got that from the post?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Juvenal View Post
                      If they didn't put those in, what would the conspiracy theorists have to moan about while hanging around the bars that have been closed?
                      Idiot...
                      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by seer View Post
                        Idiot...
                        Don't answer the door. That's the mayor, coming to take your guns.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by seer View Post
                          What about banning sale of firearms and ammunition, shutting off of power, water, gas, or seizing private property and taking the full title to said property? Why is that even in there? And if those things are not a violation of rights I don't know what is.
                          I assume it’s just a provocative way to state that the mayor is given absolute power during emergencies. Rights are temporarily suspended to deal with the immediate danger.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Watermelon View Post
                            I assume it’s just a provocative way to state that the mayor is given absolute power during emergencies. Rights are temporarily suspended to deal with the immediate danger.
                            While the absolute power is an option, Champaign has not shut down the sale of firearms.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by seer View Post
                              What about banning sale of firearms and ammunition, shutting off of power, water, gas, or seizing private property and taking the full title to said property? Why is that even in there? And if those things are not a violation of rights I don't know what is.
                              Just because the emergency powers gives them the power to do such things doesn't mean that is what they are going to do. It all depends on the emergency. Like what reason would they have to shut off power, water and gas during an epidemic?

                              This seems to be just more fear mongering.

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