There’s something remarkable about the affrontery of politicians who not only promote themselves in cheesy photo-ops, but who burn tax cash while doing it.
There’s something even more remarkable about politicians who would prefer that people overlook the fact that the photo was taken at what became a political crime scene.
That’s the latest in the ever-unfolding origami of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and his bovine blundering on freedom of contract and the right to private property.
Much like Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) got caught breaching her own tyrannical COVID lockdown orders when she took a picture with a fan at an ice cream stand in 2020, Walz and Minnesota Senator Tina Smith (D, a former Lt. Governor and former VP of External Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Minn, North Dakota and South Dakota) have been caught in a photographic display of their own hypocrisy.
And, much like their attitude towards unborn human beings, it’s something they likely would prefer destroyed.
Breitbart’s Amy Furr caught up with numerous social media users and reporters who noticed both Walz and Smith pictured holding donuts in front of a shop called Daube’s Cakes and Bakery -- when it was open, that is.
But Walz’s unconstitutional 2020 lockdown orders destroyed that shop’s viability, after it had been a Minnesota fixture for 32 years.
As with many such places in many states, the owners first tried to find a way to survive when Walz banned personal indoor dining or areas where multiple people could congregate, thus:
“On June 24, 2020, the Rock of Rochester reported that the business was closing one of its storefront locations. In a social media post, Daube’s said its south store would be open for a few more days but would eventually shut down, and the business would ‘not have a storefront.’
‘We are, however, taking orders online for cakes and some of our other delicious products,’ the post read…”
But that attempt to survive Walz’s tyranny was insufficient for them to survive.
Furr followed the story, seeing the sad and far-too-common ending.
“A MedCityBeat report on June 24, 2020, gave more details about the closure:
‘Wednesday’s news follows the permanent closure of the two other Daube’s locations in Rochester: Daube’s Down Under located in the subway, and the iconic main storefront just off Civic Center Drive. All three locations shut down March 22 as a result of Covid-19, and the permanent closure of the first two locations was made public in mid-April.’”
Of course, the MedCityBeat claim that the stores shut down due to COVID19 is false.
They shut down because the government, under Walz’s edicts, forbade people from freely deciding to frequent the locations, forbade the Daube owners from deciding for themselves whether to be open to willing customers.
This is a profoundly important point. Since the U.S. government subsidized the artificial inflation of “reported” COVID cases and deaths, no one ever will know how many people either contracted the disease or died from it. And, regardless of the potential lethality or non-lethality of any virus, no state, federal, or local government or agent of it has any moral or constitutional authority to forbid other people from engaging in freedom of association.
In fact, in its Contract Clause (Art 1 Sec 10), the U.S. Constitution strictly forbids any state-level government from interfering with the fulfillment of private contract, meaning that any employer-employee agreement, be it wages, hours, type of workplace, dress, etc., to which the parties have agreed cannot be annulled by the agents of government...
Agents such as the tyrannical Walz and Smith.
Very few people pay attention to this toweringly important fact. If more people did pay attention to it, the entire domino-effect of lockdowns that began with Donald Trump’s unconstitutional March, 2020, “Order,” claiming a so-called “medical emergency,” which led to numerous state governors employing also-unconstitutional aspects of the Model State Health Emergency legislation that many of them passed after the CDC and authoritarians at Johns Hopkins Law wrote it in 2001, which, in turn, led to lockdowns, which led to these kinds of pernicious closures – would have been prevented.
In fact, a lot of people not only would not have been forced to close their businesses and send their workers into the gray netherworld of unemployment, some of them would not have been sent to PRISON by Walz.
One such person is Lisa Hanson, whom Furr rightly recalls is:
“…a grandmother in Minnesota, who is now a former business owner (and) was jailed for defying lockdown orders during the shutdown. She has since warned that Walz ‘will take’ Americans’ ‘rights away,’...”
Indeed, Ms. Hanson recently spoke to host David Knight, and offered recollections of the ordeal she and her husband experienced as they tried to retain their rightful control over their property, business, and freedom to associate or not associate with willing customers.
“We realized this is not right. He does not have the authority, as we started digging in and learning -- because, David, unlike you, I have just started learning and becoming aware, and my eyes opening, and really being opened in the last four years or so, and the shocking experience of trying to wrap my head around everything we believed, almost everything we believed was a lie.”
Walz ordered two phases of shutdowns, and upon that second shutdown, Hanson and her husband stood up for their rights.
As Elizabeth Weibel wrote for Breitbart on August 13, for her efforts in standing for truth and freedom, Walz’s brownshirts sent her to prison and told her to pay extra, over and above the taxes they demanded from her while she struggled to make her business a success, then struggled to keep it open.
“Lisa Hanson, who owned the Interchange Wine & Coffee Bistro in Albert Lea, explained how after watching Walz allow businesses such as ‘big-box stores’ to reopen while keeping ‘mom-and-pop’ businesses shuttered, she decided to defy the lockdown orders and ended up serving a 60-day jail sentence and receiving a $1,000 fine.”
Walz cannot make that reality disappear, just like he cannot “disappear” the photo of him and Smith snacking in front of one of the donut shops their own edicts shut down.
Related: Maine Gov. Mills’ COVID Crackdown Hypocrisy Becomes Laughable Summer Treat
It was not the virus. It was the government. It was foul and corrupt and immoral and unconstitutional. And the loss of business freedom has seen massive economic repercussions.
As Furr notes, the MedCity Beat reported that Interchange Wine and Coffee, and Daube’s donut/cake shop are just two of a long, long, list of businesses that Walz’s commands closed. Others included, “Jenpachi Japanese Steak House, a popular Hibachi grill,” and “award-winning smoothie and sandwich shop Tonic Juice Bar.”
And Walz never even bothered to discuss the U.S. Constitution. Never mentioned the Contract Clause.
It’s no wonder. Simply put, the respect for private property and freedom of association not only are moral precepts, they allow people to decide what kinds of “safety” they prefer. No one forces people to walk into a store. People open their businesses based on the protocols they prefer, and they don’t drag others inside. Those other people freely decide on their preferences for safety, mask gimmicks or no, useless six-foot distancing or no… At every turn, the stark difference between respect for private property and freedom of association not only stand morally superior to force and state aggression and edicts, they allow people to always decide, at every private property locale, at every moment they choose to freely associate, what they prefer for safety and other qualities.
Politicians might try to call a restaurant or store a “public place” but that is untrue. All such establishments are privately owned.
Strictly speaking, public places are run or subsidized by the government, using tax money, they are not places the government calls “public” because they might be open to visitors.
But Walz likely would not want you to remember that. Just like he probably would prefer that people forget the image of him getting ready to chow-down on a donut made in a shop that he, in a completely tyrannical, utterly immoral, totally criminal, fashion, soon would force to close.