The Price of Liberty

Yes, another commentary on the New Mexico crisis.

The Western Journal reported and in part and commented: ”  When pressed on why the civil order was required, instead of something like, say, better law enforcement, Grisham stressed all of the “value” that this order would give her (yes, her.) “The value of the order is that it gives me three things,” Grisham said. (And yes, she really did say “gives me.” A Freudian slip, perhaps?) After rattling off a word salad that would make Vice President Kamala Harris blush, Grisham made her most curious point of all: That the Constitution is, somehow, not absolute. “If there’s an emergency — and I’ve declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time — I can invoke additional powers,” Grisham said, in her best attempt at a comic book supervillain monologue. “No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute.” Well, then. Look, a deep disdain for the U.S. Constitution is hardly a unique feature of deep-blue Democrats. So maybe all of her aforementioned yammering is what you’d expect from “leaders” of her ilk. But this writer would be remiss not to bring up one last genuinely scary comment this woman made. A reporter at the news conference told the governor, “If someone’s got a concealed permit, in Albuquerque, walking on a public street in, they’re not going to get arrested.” She responded, without a hint of irony: “I can make the point that they maybe they should be [arrested.]” Yes, this is a United States governor openly calling for the hypothetical arrest of a law-abiding citizen, literally walking on the street. That is utter insanity and pure evil … which is a fitting tagline for the modern Democratic Party and everything that it represents.

David Correa’s WaronGuns.com had this headline: Naked, undisguised tyranny,” and wrote in part: “They don’t even try to hide their appetites for our freedom anymore. Any LEO who enforces this will have chosen his side.” His comments were prophetic: even the new Chief of the Albuquerque Police Department gang claims that it will be Feds enforcing Luhan Grisham’s decree, not the thugs that infest APD. The County Sheriff also – within hours – stated that he and his people will support the Constitution.

Which brings us to the question: just what does a “State of Emergency” allow a bureaucrat, an elected official, even a legislative body to do? In a free nation, as supposedly all Fifty States are, is a state of emergency justification or authorization for suspending (temporarily or not) ANY God-given right? Especially one specifically spelled out by the Federal and State constitutions? (Whether or not it is obvious that the denial of rights will have any effect at all on the problems the state of emergency is supposedly addressing?)