Champaign, IL. (ECWd) –
The City of Champaign, IL. will hold an Emergency Meeting this morning to pass an Ordinance related to the “Emergency Created by the Impact of the COVID-19 Virus” – better known as the “Coronavirus” or the “Wuhan Virus.”
The City proposes to grant extraordinary powers to the Mayor, which include (starting on page 8 of the below pdf):
- 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
One thing noticeably absent? The Mayor will not have the power to prohibit the sale of marijuana…
Read the proposed Ordinance here or below:
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Don’t you just love legislation enacted to violate other legislation, and the statutory privileges the violated legislation was intended to establish?
You can’t speak (open meetings). You can’t buy arms, alcohol, gasoline. And we will legally steal whatever property we choose to sieze. As David said: “Statists gotta State” … collective injustice.
“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways.” Bastiat
This merely underscores the need to go back to Common Law.
“It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.” Bastiat
Got to love Bastiat and Spooner.