April 22, 2020
Even during a crisis, Americans demonstrate their independence
By Ethel C. Fenig
As America's lockdown continues and the cure begins to look worse than the Wuhan, China COVID-19 disease, many suffering citizens are beginning to question the need for some of the more draconian laws imposed by the blue state and local governments. Is it really necessary to ban people, especially those adults with children, from enjoying a public park? Should Americans inform government officials if other Americans enjoy a closed park or violate another seemingly overreaching diktat?
Increasingly Americans are declaring, "No!" And then acting on their feelings.
In San Clemente, California healthy young males, restless and bored as only healthy young males can be, decided to go to a closed skate park to...skate. Individually. Properly socially isolated and distanced. Overbearing government officials would have none of this serious violation of the law so
"the city filled the skate park with 37 tons of sand." Undeterred "Conner Ericsson, a dirt bike rider, showed up with a few friends to enjoy a few runs on the sandy surface" and "then helped some skaters dig out the sand 'so they could do some social shredding,†he wrote in a social media post.' "
On the east coast, elected officials were just as overbearingly totalitarian. New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-Sandinista), thinking he was the dictator in some communist paradise hellhole, advised his constituents to squeal on their law-breaking neighbors to the proper authorities, tweeting
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/even_during_a_crisis_americans_demonstrate_their_independence.html
