Lodi News-Sentinel

Greater executive power is bad for the people

- RON PORTAL Lodi

Editor: I’ve said for years the Democrat leader’s one overpoweri­ng desire is controllin­g every aspect of our lives down to our most intimate relations with others. Now Newsom commands us to lock down again which prolongs the problem without solving it.

In Thomas Cahill’s book, “How the Irish Saved Civilizati­on,” he gave us nine reasons why the Roman Empire fell. One was greater executive power at the expense of the legislatur­e. Newsom’s edicts haven’t gone through the legislatur­e which results in one-man rule. A pandemic that has a 98% survival rate is being used by mini-tyrants to impose totally unpreceden­ted social controls on us by skirting the Constituti­on and our God-given rights.

In March, Dr. Newsom proclaimed that 56%, about 25 million people, would be infected. All would be shut down with the promise we would be well soon. By July he was telling his children — that would be us since we are helpless without government — who we were “allowed” to be around or talk to.

On Nov. 15, 2.6% of our state had been infected. That’s about 20 million less than prophesied by Father Newsom. With that good news did he celebrate with opening up our state? Not on your life, pilgrim. Now he’s ordering us on who we can eat food with, the manner we are to eat it, those we can touch and how, the number we’re “allowed” to partake it with and the location such partaking is to take place.

You wonder why I don’t believe these people. First they don’t follow their own edicts and another is they tell us what their motives are.

Justin Trudeau’s speech to the U.N. in September: “This pandemic has provided us an opportunit­y for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems and actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

Who will finance this “new economic system”? Those who paid before Trump, the American taxpayer with Biden leading the fleecing of our treasure and jobs as he’s done for 47 years of selfenrich­ment.

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