Nearly two decades ago, Gavin Newsom was just a young, up and coming mayor, in the city of San Francisco, California. In 2004, he gained national notoriety when he ordered the city clerk to start issuing same sex marriage licenses against the state law of California. Though his lawbreaking venture was quickly overturned by the Supreme Court of California later that year, and the marriages annulled, the seeds of anarchy had been planted. By 2015, as ruled upon by the Supreme Court of the United States, same sex marriage became the law of the land.

Fast forward to the spring of 2020.  Gavin Newsom is now the Governor of California, responsible for leading the most populous state in the country.   Ironically, he now finds himself surprised by the behavior of his constituents who are flocking to the beaches in mass, refusing to obey his “stay at home” order during the Covid-19 pandemic.  They are following an example of civil disobedience he himself set back in 2004 when he personally felt the laws were unjust. 

A little over 2200 miles to the east, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan now finds herself in the same predicament.  She is up against an increasingly weary electorate who grows more restless by the day as a result of her seemingly unending state of emergency extensions and confusing executive orders.  To complicate matters, the Michigan legislative branch has just refused to grant her this extended power and yet she feels compelled to plow ahead in spite of Michigan law (Emergency Management Act 390, Sub-Section 30.403), which is backed by both the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives. 

In clinging to her rogue authority, Govern Whitmer now finds herself in the position of law breaker and usurper with an expectation that the residents of Michigan will somehow continue to feel compelled to follow her lawless edicts in total disregard of a co-equal branch of government.  What are Michigan residents to do?  In following Governor Whitmer and her illegal power grab, do we give up more freedom and increasingly allow the dictates of one to outweigh the rights of many as established by law?  Or do we obey the laws as they stand and ignore Governor Whitmer’s abuse of power?

It seems that the citizens of this state and country have been put in a precarious position.  When government officials are permitted to pick and choose whatever laws they want to follow, and disregard whatever is inconvenient, then we have the birth of anarchy.  

If Governor Whitmer is truly not a fascist want-a-be, and desires what is best for freedom loving American’s in Michigan and everywhere, then perhaps she should stop the passive aggressive lectures against the protestors, reverse course now and work with the legislative branch to come up with a well thought out plan to re-igniting this great state of Michigan, instead of her “go it alone” mentality that does nothing more that fuel the furnace of rebellion and anarchy.  At the end of the day, if she is unwilling to follow the law, then why would her expectation be any less of those she leads? 

This is America, we don’t do it that way.   If we are to stop this abuse, people need to once again awaken to this threat, rise up and fully exercise our voting rights in the coming elections to remove all of these would be dictators and return to a place where legitimate law and order rule the day. 

Furthermore, if the courts, out of fear, back the Governor, then they too are ignoring the law which they have sworn to uphold.  Just because we are in a perceived “state of emergency,” it does not mean that state Governors such as Whitmer and Newsom should be given sole and unlimited power to control an otherwise free people? 

When the elections finally do arrive, let us remember a battle cry, that will hopefully resonate throughout the land of the free and the home of the brave as surely as, “Remember the Alamo,” rallied the Texans so many years ago to defend their newly formed Republic.   

REMEMBER THE PANDEMIC!