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Ned The Enforcer

Lamont and Weicker

Following the lead of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has now unveiled the sanctions he proposes to levy against what a Hartford Paper calls “defiant travelers.”

We all know that where there are no sanctions, there is, practically speaking, no law. A law without teeth is a paper-law that easily can be defied, much in the way that ANTIFA-infected Black Lives Matter protests evolve into mini-riots, stretching limbs into every powder-keg urban community in the US – when defiant rioters meet no resistance from those who enforce constitutional laws written by legislators. Police enforce laws. Police are the enforcement arm of legislators rather than governors. Without an enforcement mechanism, all laws are dead laws. And that is why ANTIFA and elements within Black Lives Matter dearly want, with assistance from sympathetic legislators trolling for votes, to defund police departments. When police departments have been disabled, leftist anarchy sits on the throne.

Lamont has been threatening air passengers from Coronavirus impacted states for some time. The Governor has now, he thinks, put sharp teeth in his frequent executive orders.

“You go to a hot spot, you come back to this state, you either have a test that shows you tested negative or you must quarantine for 14 days,” said Lamont during a media availability on July 21.

Connecticut, the paper reminds us, has since late June “required visitors from states to voluntarily quarantine, but there was no enforcement.”

Now, Lamont said, “we are giving an option of having a $1,000 fine for people who refused to fill out the form.” What can it mean to give an “option of having a $1,000 fine?” Does it mean that enforcing the fines will be optional; and, if so, what is the legal standard of enforcement? Very soon, Lamont said, he would “issue an executive order that requires anyone traveling from a state that has a new daily positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents, or a state with a 10% or higher positivity rate over a seven day rolling average to self-quarantine for a 14-day period from the time of last contact within the identified state.”

And, as an added disincentive bonus, Lamont has promised that the rules he has laid down “apply to those traveling to Connecticut by car as well as by air.” Lamont has said there are “no plans” to begin issuing fines right now. Does this mean Connecticut may restrict car traffic coming from New York should testing show the state has experienced a spike in Coronavirus test rates?

Someone whose live contacts with Democrat operatives stretch back four decades -- and who for obvious reasons shall here remain nameless -- wonders, tearing at the remaining hairs on his balding pate, “Does this guy EVER talk to leading politicians within his own party before he borrows his politically toxic prescriptions from Cuomo?”

We know that Lamont, whose family tree is firmly rooted in leftist soil, is a protégé of former U.S. Senator and Governor Lowell Weicker, but even Weicker, at his most outrageous, mingled his political sweat with the sweat pouring off the brows of Democrat leftists who could lead him through the state’s sometime confusing political labyrinth. Then too, Weicker had been during his decades in the U.S Senate in good odor with national Democrat Party operatives; his progressive Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) rating was higher upon his leaving the Senate than that of U.S. Senator Chris Dodd’s .

But Lamont is, politically at least, The Man from Mars – a highly imitative governor without a clue. Of course, fortune, in the form of a politically inspired Coronavirus business shutdown, has favored Lamont. The other two branches of Connecticut’s tripartite form of government, the legislative and judicial branches, having been clipped from democracy’s trunk, The Man From Mars is the only show in town.

Weicker, whose buzz-saw politics gave the state its income tax, must be jealous. How much easier it might have been in 1991 to install his income tax by means of executive orders.

The well entrenched operative mentioned above wonders whether Lamont even wants a second term. Favored by the politician gods and a propitious and profitable marriage – Lamont’s capable wife is far richer than he – Lamont easily might retire after a first term to his family’s estate, Sky Farm, on the island of North Haven, Maine, bidding a good riddance to the problems in state government he has caused.

He notes that ambitious politicians, Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz among them, are crouching in the wings, ready to attribute to Lamont’s all too evident ineptitude the inevitable consequences of yet another prolonged Connecticut recession.


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John Rankin said…
Don --

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Covid Questions for Intelligent Politicians
John Rankin
July 23, 2020

The only way to intelligently discuss the debate over Covid-19 is through intelligent public conversation. Beginning with the science.
We have two choices in medicine: allopathy or naturopathy.
Allopathy relies on the use of drugs and surgery. To be blunt, it is the dispensing of pills, their side effects, and the cutting of the flesh when they fail. It also entails use of vaccines.
I am a hurting witness to the deadly depth of applied allopathy. It is virtually the unquestioned assumption in major medical schools, and with no vision to even consider the nature and potential of naturopathy.
I also know what it is to have verged on death several times in the past decade due to stage-4 adrenal exhaustion and its crippling cognates. The allopathic community had no answers, but a very patient naturopathic pursuit has restored my health dramatically. This entails the wisdom in knowing how to allow the body to heal itself, and always in full psychological and social context.
Hippocrates was right: “Food is medicine and medicine is food.” What we take in through our five senses makes all the difference. Both pro and con. My father, a hematologist and founder of the Connecticut Blood Bank, told me often that all drugs are by definition poisons. And ideally, only those that occur in nature should be used, and for short duration. To follow the wisdom of Hippocrates is the proactive means to sustained health.
Simply put: Allopathy is essentially the passivity of reliance on synthetic poisons trying to poison the synthetic poisons we have allowed into our bodies.
In contrast: Naturopathy is proactive in the patient, intelligent and natural evacuation of any poison, as our God-given bodies begin to heal as fully and happily as possible.
The whole Covid drama, apart from the political dimensions, is an exercise in allopathic assumptions.
Thus, by introducing naturopathic assumptions into the discussion, here are a few of very many questions that can emerge:
1. What is the real data on the direct and negative effects of Covid-19 on people?
2. Are there any ill-effects of quarantine on otherwise healthy people?
3. Are there any ill-effects of “social distancing” on otherwise healthy people?
4. Are there any ill-effects of face masks on otherwise healthy people?
5. What are the healthy effects of natural quinine with zinc for people with Covid-19?
6. How much Covid-19 can be averted by a naturopathic building of the immune system?
7. What is the average ratio of effectiveness for any or all vaccines, and what are their side-effects?
[John Rankin is a minister of the Gospel and a late entry running for Congress in Connecticut’s Fifth District: www.johnrankin.us]
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