Californian Town Declares Itself a Constitutional Republic to Oppose the State’s Covid Laws
The city council of Oroville, located in northern California, has passed a resolution to label itself as a constitutional republic to express dissent against the state’s Covid restrictions. This latest symbolic gesture further shows the divide between state level lawmakers and California’s more rural regions, with the city also refusing to enforce a ban on indoor dining last year. The Guardian has the story.
Oroville leaders said the designation was a way of affirming the city’s values and pushing back against state rules it doesn’t agree with, although a legal expert said the designation was merely a gesture and did not grant the city any new authority.
Tensions have existed throughout the pandemic between the rural north and California’s leadership, which has been among the first to implement lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccination requirements.
In Butte county, fierce opposition to Covid lockdowns and school closures drove support for recalling the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, with 51% of voters in the county backing the ultimately failed effort. Newsom’s policies, however, appear to have worked and the state had the lowest Covid infection rate in the U.S. last month.
Last year, Oroville refused to enforce state requirements prohibiting indoor dining. Butte county, where Oroville is located, declined to recommend a mask mandate earlier this fall, even as cases surged and a local medical centre reported treating more patients than at any other point during the pandemic.
Before passing the resolution, council members argued they were taking a stand and advocating for residents to make their own health choices.
“I assure you folks that great thought was put into every bit of this”, the city’s mayor, Chuck Reynolds, said. “Nobody willy-nilly threw something to grandstand”.
But the city’s declaration does not shield it from following federal and state laws, said Lisa Pruitt, a rural law expert at the University of California, Davis, who said it was not clear what the designation meant.
“A municipality cannot unilaterally declare itself not subject to the laws of the state of California”, Pruitt said. “Whatever they mean by constitutional republic you can’t say hocus pocus and make it happen”.
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KEY 5 min Update: Dr Peter Doshi * Associate Editor of the BMJ * – Ivor Cummins
WOW!
Doshi has played a straight bat throughout this fiasco. That he hasn’t either been cancelled or put on gardening leave suggests to me that the readership of the BMJ, who I believe are mainly front line medical practitioners, don’t disagree with him.
Here’s the press advisory that Sen. Johnson’s office presumably sent to many major media sources (as well as officials from the CDC and NIH). It shows who was going to be on the panel and what they would speak about. This panel includes at least one legitimate “whistle blower,” a flight surgeon in the U.S. Army.
Question: How many reporters attended this event and filed stories?
These reporters and news organizations do not want to publish the truth, or any comments from credible people who challenge accepted “truths.”
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2021/10/media-advisory-sen-johnson-holds-expert-panel-on-federal-vaccine-mandates-and-vaccine-injuries
This event should have gotten major media coverage. I know the senator’s office sent invitations to the press to attend (I posted the press advisory yesterday). I doubt any press members from mainstream news organizations showed up though. I certainly haven’t read any stories about the remarks of these panelists. BTW, there were a lot more panelists with interesting things to say, including an Army flight surgeon “whistle blower.”
Riddle: If you blow a whistle and nobody hear the whistle did the whistle really get blown? Or: Did the effort make any kind of difference?
Who is supposed to let the world know people are blowing warning whistles?
Julian Assange. Conveniently for them they had the foresight to lock him up so he couldn’t fulfil that role.
This is bombshell stuff wow. Very hard for Normies to dismiss; the tide is turning.
But it was dismissed because the press didn’t cover it. I’ve seen several links to “alternative media” sites that covered it. I haven’t seen any Washington Post story. CNN wasn’t there.
Yes it can. Didn’t our British citizens in America declare their independence from Britain in the eighteenth century? Oh, yes, war followed. And they won. And what about the southern states from the union in the nineteenth century. War again. And they lost.
Unilateral declarations are possible. Outcomes not guaranteed.
Without cooperation from the public authorites of this muncipality, the state of California will have to conquer and occupy it to enforce its laws there.
It’s a good start, getting an armed force to defend their independence.
In instances like this people’s belief in the right to self-determination is challenged.
The cognitive dissonance is often painful.
Who’s next: Republic of Macclesfield? Heptarchy of Hull? Bring on radical splinter polities! AKA plandemic civil war. Meanwhile belly laughs are heard from as far afield as China and Russia…
I don’t relish civil war because it means death and destruction and of many innocents but at some point, somewhere insurrection is I believe inevitable.
Just because one state votes or chooses to leave a national union doesn’t mean there has to be a war. The Soviet Union broke up almost over night with several new nations emerging with no bloodshed at all.
I’d be curious if one or more states seceded, if soldiers of the U.S. Army would go to those Staes and kill people to get them to stay in the union. Army officers who have left the Army have told me, sadly, that the remaining troops WOULD do this.
No divorces allowed in America apparently.
Direct democracy.
It’s the only way.
I think it will be fun for China to compare it to Taiwan.
“Newsom’s policies, however, appear to have worked and the state had the lowest Covid infection rate in the U.S. last month.”
A classic Groan propaganda report – straight down the tube from the Cabinet Orifice. Hold the front page! (Until we’ve licked up the shit)
Yeah, this article is complete bullshit and changing the facts to fit an agenda.
Of course we get this sentence: “Newsom’s policies, however, appear to have worked and the state had the lowest Covid infection rate in the U.S. last month.”
Has California had the lowest infection rates in the U.S. throughout the pandemic? As far as I can tell, they’ve always had the most draconian lockdown policies but until now (I guess) they’ve never had the lowest infection rate in the U.S.
So the policies are working now but for some reason didn’t work earlier.
Florida has FAR more obese and elderly people AND did and does better.
Go figure.
This lady, who I am going to call “Karen,” probably hails from non-rural sections of California.
Be warned though. This flight was heading to London. The man Karen was trying to get kicked off the flight for violating her rights – the man whose “oxygen” she was forced to breathe – is now presumably on the loose in London Town.
https://t.me/patriotlife/649?fbclid=IwAR1BWRnzxMnRanMC9vJXNuu2sjyMd-qMsc3ThDu8WMXxB4SjJm7HZZcbzz0
Looks acted.
Upon second viewing you may be right. If it is a staged event they spent a fair amount of money producing it. I wonder who produced it.
Even if it is actors working from a script, the scene depicted HAS and is occurring in similar forms across the world.
As you don’t see the rest of the aircraft, I’d be suspicious.
Yes. I’ve watched it twice now and see several things that don’t ring true. Dang. They probably got me. Still, I think the sentiments depicted – and Karen’s “lines” – capture the views of many.
I think that it’s a spoof, someone posted to that effect yesterday.
I suspect these Buttes may get fukked if they kick too hard against the prikks.
“Whatever they mean by constitutional republic you can’t say hocus pocus and make it happen”.
That’s rich.
The lunatic covid modellers masquerading as experts seem to think saying hocus pocus makes it so. Hence the Californian state must accept Oroville’s independence declaration, or recognise that if they won’t tolerate hocus pocus they don’t have any authority themselves.
“A municipality cannot unilaterally declare itself not subject to the laws of the state of California”.
Well it just did. There may be consequences but the declaration has been made.
Nothing new, here in the darkest South West we already have a republic…
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Maybe it’s just the date. But increasingly I’m thinking of 1605.
It’s been done before.
The Principality of Hutt River is situated 595 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is about 75 square km in area, consisting of some 18,500 acres of land.
The Principality of Hutt River is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on the Twenty First Day of April 1970 (it is of comparable size to Hong Kong (not the New Territories).
The Principality consists of undulating farmland well covered in places with a wealth of shrubs and glorious wildflowers in season.
http://principality-hutt-river.com/
could soon get awfully crowded if people catch on…
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Two States Of California
Lecture by Victor Davis Hanson said it all so many years ago. Available on YouTube.
Oroville? Never heard of it. Lived in California for 9 years.