Barr praised for vow to protect personal liberties
By: Chad Groening
Thank God that our nation has an exceptional AG willing to stand up for individual liberty and personal rights against the power of the secular state.
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The U.S. attorney general is being praised for defending civil liberties and constitutional rights - and ordering federal prosecutors to do the same - during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attorney General William Barr this week ordered federal prosecutors across the country to watch state and local governments for incidents that violate the “constitutional right and civil liberties” of American citizens.
Barr made the announcement in an April 27 memo that stated the Civil Rights Division would lead the oversight effort at the DOJ.
"Many policies that would be unthinkable in regular time have become commonplace in recent weeks, and we do not want to unduly interfere with the important efforts of state and local officials to protect the public," Barr stated. "But the Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis."
There is no debate over what has happened in states and cities during the outbreak – from forcing businesses and churches to shut their doors, to stay-at-home lockdown orders – but the debate is ongoing and dividing neighbors and communities over where to draw the line between public safety and personal rights.
Tom Zawistowski, president of the tea party-affiliated We the People Convention, tells OneNewsNow that Barr deserves to be compared to no less than Abraham Lincoln.
“Because both A.G. Barr and Abraham Lincoln,” he insists, “are called upon to save the Republic.”
Barr and the DOJ have already intervened in one case: The federal agency filed a Statement of Interest in a federal lawsuit filed against the City of Greenville in Mississippi, where the mayor sent police to punish two churches for holding drive-in services. The mayor later backed downafter the lawsuits were filed.
Barr, who is Catholic, spoke in February at the annual convention for the National Religious Broadcasters, where he remarked that religion “is being driven from the public square” when religion has been an “essential pillar” of society in America.
Last fall, Barr addressed the issue of religious liberty in front of law school students at the University of Notre Dame, where he warned about “secularists and their allies among progressives who have marshalled all the force of mass communications, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia.”
Fast-forwarding to the current pandemic, Zawistowski says America reacted out of fear to “false information” from models that predicted over a million fatalities, and now it is up to Attorney General Barr to defend our rights during the unfounded fears those models created, he says.
“The data is clear. This thing is ebbing,” the tea party leader says of COVID-19 cases. “So why are we doing these things? Because they want power and control.”
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The conservative martyr?!
What kind of a moniker is that lol!?
"I can't wait to sacrifice myself" style? Sad some folks would rather die, than do the hard work of living.
Romans12:1
Christian brothers, I ask you from my heart to give your bodies to God because of His loving-kindness to us. Let your bodies be a living and holy gift given to God. He is pleased with this kind of gift. This is the true worship that you should give Him.