There’s a difference between making sure everyone is safe and flat out tyranny and what we’re seeing in many places lately is just tyranny.

The police should not be so consumed with enforcing the letter of the law, but rather the principle of the law because when they start trying to apply by the letter, they end up doing everyone more harm than good.

There was an incident in Florida where a man was all by himself on a paddleboard in the ocean and the police arrested him for failing to “social distance”. How is this even happening when he is literally separated from people as far as he can be? So instead of him being safe and away from people, the cops approach him and arrest him thereby having to get close to him and break actual social distancing and then put him in jail around many other people.

Now in Kentucky, the police decided to take down license plate numbers for everyone who attended a church service on Easter Sunday.

As hymns sang out Easter Sunday from a large outdoor speaker overlooking the Maryville Baptist Church parking lot, two Kentucky State troopers placed quarantine notices on parishioners’ cars and wrote down their license numbers.

Inside the church, roughly 50 worshipers ignored Gov. Andy Beshear’s order against mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic so they could attend services together on Christianity’s holiest day.

Several said as they left that they had no intention of abiding by the notice on their windshields that called for a 14-day self-quarantine or face the threat of “further enforcement measures.”

Beshear said Sunday that those who received notices will get a letter “asking them to self-quarantine.”

“No one is being charged with anything,” he said.

On top of that, the pastor of the church found piles of nails at all the entrances to the church for people to run over as they pull into the parking lot.

I’m at Maryville Baptist Church, which continues to hold in-person services despite orders to cease . This morning, piles of nails have been scattered at every entrance. pic.twitter.com/WcxkqtVZQw

— Sarah Ladd (@ladd_sarah) April 12, 2020

Putting notices on every car, even those belonging to the press and media pic.twitter.com/2LEtzkM7zf

— Sarah Ladd (@ladd_sarah) April 12, 2020

A better look at the notice pic.twitter.com/THVmA7mDuc

— Sarah Ladd (@ladd_sarah) April 12, 2020

Here’s my take on the matter:

I don’t think that these people should be gathering for church at the moment. I get it and understand why, but right now I think the loving thing to do for your neighbor is to stay home while this passes.

However, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The government has no right to tell a church that they can’t gather and if there is no law, then the police shouldn’t be there trying to scare people.

Sources:
Courier Journal