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Day 103: COVID-19(84) Feel Better, Now?
I attended the May Day protests in Sacramento, yesterday. I drove there with my 89-year mother-in-law to participate in Operation Gridlock where we stayed in our car festooned with signs and drove (actually crawled) around the state capitol building. Separate from the vehicle demonstration, hundreds of people carrying signs and flags came to the steps of the capitol building. An account regarding the protest on the capitol steps can be read here.The story includes images of that protest plus video. Not a particularly flattering account; it emphasized the “crazy” element that the best I could tell was not a large part of that crowd but which is useful to discredit those that seek to restore constitutional government.
Below are images that I snapped from my car as we drove around.
The vehicle “parade” was quite distant from the capitol steps protest. The Highway Patrol routed the vehicles around the capitol grounds in such a way as you only clearly saw protestors on foot as they made their way from peripheral parking to the capitol building.
There were quite a few children who participated in the demonstration.
This woman emphasized the relationship between Governor Newsom and Nancy Pelosi. Although I think they are divorced now, at one point Gavin’s aunt was married to Nancy’s brother, so they were related by marriage. I think their political connections are stronger than their blood connections.
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This, and another sign that showed an image of Governor Newson in Nazi regalia, was the harshest personal criticism pointed at the governor.
The capitol steps protestors were moved off the capitol grounds by a phalanx of CHP officers in full riot gear, face masks and face shields. It made them look like Empire Storm Troopers from Star Wars. Not a good look for confronting people peacefully petitioning their government. There were some arrests, apparently, but the crowd was “law abiding” in a constitutional sense if not compliant with the “health order” for which violation they were ordered to disperse.
It’s hard to say where things go from here. Some businesses are defying the order and some cases have been filed with the courts. The governor has signaled more “easing” (maybe trying to get ahead to lead the parade?) but it still has a flavor of government largesse rather than respecting individual liberty. And that’s the rub.
So, feeling better, now? Not so much.
[Note: Links to all my COVID-19 posts can be found here.]
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Great photos!
Some will make house calls.
I just hope they legalize barber shops again before any more people die in back-alley haircuts.
There is another group that supports the Democrats and whose support is more important than votes, which can be manufactured. The tech rich who feel the need to virtue signal and who also depend on H2 visas to keep wages down for American tech workers.