…”If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.”.. ~Sam Adams
Comrades, the Michigan COVID compliance ministry has arrested dissident Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, 55, the owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria for refusing to comply with the dictates of the state lockdown. Ms. Pavlos Hackney now faces more than three months in prison for her non-compliance. A fellow citizen who attempted to assist the restaurant owner also had an arrest warrant issued for his support of her.
MICHIGAN – […] Ingraham County Circuit Judge Rosemaria Aquilina accused Pavlos-Hackney of having “selfishly not followed the orders” and accused her of doing so “for your own financial gain and apparently for the publicity that comes with it” during a hearing on Friday.
The restaurant owner will be in jail until the state is confident that her establishment is closed and after she pays $7,500, according to the Detroit News.
“This owner has continued to willfully violate the state’s food laws, public health orders, and the order of the court — a dangerous act that may have exposed dozens of diners and employees to the virus following the discovery that one of Marlena’s customers tested positive for the virus within two days of eating there,” District Attorney Dana Nessel said. “MDARD is particularly concerned because the potential exposure happened at a restaurant that refuses to comply with basic COVID-19 measures required by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services.”
Also during Friday’s hearing, the judge ordered a man who claimed to represent Pavlos-Hackney as an “assistance of counsel” to be arrested on suspicion of contempt of court because he allegedly represented himself as a lawyer but is not licensed to practice. (read more)
So the judge is saying that if you not a lawyer you can not advocate for a person…
If her service came with a “happy ending,” her work would be under a protected class.
“happy ending”–Democrat Socialist speak for destruction, right?
slang for what happens in a Bangkok massage parlor.
And Atlanta
Nothing wrong with that. Best part!
Dogsmaw. Had filed to appear before the court as a licensed attorney
I found this on his web site …..
Richard Martin — “I am not a “B.A.R. ATTORNEY” whose first duty is to the court.
I am a Constitutional Lawyer”
You know how I like facts. 😎 Here ya go —>
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Self-described ‘constitutional lawyer’ Richard Martin was ordered to be held in contempt of court for 93 days by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Ingham County.
The founder of the Texas-based Constitutional Law Group had filed to appear before the court as a licensed attorney representing Holland restaurant owner Marlena Pavlos-Hackney. He is not licensed to practice law in Michigan.
(Or in any other State per his answer to the Judge-nwtex)
2 min video—->
TY nwtex….
We are in for a world of hurt… SMH
How did he expect to get away with this?
No wonder he’s not a real lawyer.
Well, maybe since he didn’t go to one of the fancy law schools and pass their “entrance exam”, he just didn’t know any better. On the other hand, Kevin Clinesmith is a real lawyer and he falsified documents for an FBI FISA request so… I guess Clinesmith gets a pass.
And they took this woman to jail in ankle shackles? Seriously? I’m sure we who read here at the Treehouse cannot possibly be the only ones who see the travesty of injustice in this country.
Does he try the same thing in Texas I wonder? How does he get away with it there?
Clinesmith got a wrist tap. Punishment enough!
It is mind-boggling that within the Atlanta “massage” parlor shooting story, no one raises the issue of spreading the China virus…yet this restaurant owner is hauled away in shackles for wanting to do legitimate work.
Any kind of massage requires a level of intimacy, not performed in food service – but nobody puts their hands all over you when you go to a restaurant. None of this is about keeping Americans well.
Arrested BEFORE 6:am too. As well as brought in in shackles. Remember when Brian Kolfage (we build the wall) was arrested in Florida for a crime in NYC? He was forced to crawl into the car or van by whomever is really running this country. Klaus Schwab?
That’s how they are going to bring us to our knees. Buckle up.
Michigan can go down a toilet for all I care.
‘Several hundred supporters, including West Michigan residents, Republicans seeking office in 2022 and “patriot” activists, held a rally outside Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria Saturday calling for the release of Marlena Pavlos-Hackney. A battle between a restaurant owner who refused to comply with public health orders holds larger implications for conservatives who said the arrest affirms their worst fears about “freedom” being under attack during a pandemic.’
Marlena’s Bistro supporters see restaurant closure as latest fight for ‘freedom’ in pandemic – mlive.com
I hope the little commie mlive punk who wrote this, seemingly writing about the event with a defiant cynicism,
saw under the wrapper what this could turn into for him and his utopian clownshow.
Bill Huizinga failed to show – I guess, and therefor guess he sided with Cheyney.
Fred Upton is the new Amash.
Peter Meijer has a billboard up in GR thanking him for ‘supporting the constitution’.
I think this event will end up being a line in the sand political moment….
stop holding a “rally” and start obstructing this injustice from occurring.
The first test for “sand”.
There is no pandemic, you are living in a police state.
Your comment would be a great bumper sticker. Then again, my car might not survive.
Maybe a t-shirt though.
We are all living in a police state. There were protests in every western country in the world yesterday. Crickets in the media.
“Michigan seems like a dream to me now,” a bad dream.
And then there are the beautifully prepared and marketed comkmercials for your summer vacay in “Pure Michigan”.
If we don’t stand up for each other, who will stand for us when it’s our turn?
Michigan is a public sector union dictatorship. The same is coming to the USA in the next four years.
Obey every bureaucrat’s diktats or else.
Sieg Heil !!
Nothing against the State, Leon. President Trump was impeached for opposing the State.
The chimera of representative democracy will swiftly pass. The individual absolutely will not matter, except for the service he can provide the State.
Trump stood in the way of “the revolution”
Also known as the great reset.
This poor woman grew up under communism. She escaped here to know what freedom and liberty mean. s And now, as she pointed out in the interview with Tucker, she sees all the evidence in place of the rise of an authoritarian state. And, because of her expression of freedom, she’s been arrested and put in jail by a vengeful state security apparat. Yesterday, I was in my front yard unloading groceries, when a guy canvassing for one of our progressive councilmen showed up. He was a nice enough guy, well enough educated, well spoken, and so we talked a bit. One of the first things I told him was the historic attraction the progressive movement had in the 20’s and 30’s for Italian fascism. I then told him his council candidate knew all about this history and, yet, still was a progressive. I asked him how, if you believe in liberty and freedom, you can legitimately engage in progressive politics? He didn’t have an answer.
She came here to escape Communism only to find that she chose a state on a mission to become Communist with Comrade Whitmer leading the fight against life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I suppose that’s why they want all the illegal aliens coming in from these Socialist and Communist countries–they only know Communist rule and the only difference between what they may find here and what they had in their homeland is a higher standard of living (at least for the present). Unfortunately for Michiganders, they are victims of a Kleptocracy, Kraterocracy, a Civilian Dictatorship in their Anarchist Banana Republic of Michigan! Unfortunately for Americans, as the Democrats move to destroy the Constitution of the United States, we will become victims to the same form of treatment and our freedom will go the way this poor woman’s freedom has gone in Michigan.
Whitmer. The modern day version of Mussolini’s Claretta.
Just because it happened in MI first doesn’t mean it can’t happen your states. Now maybe not in South Dakota or Florida but…
Yes, arrest a restaurant owner for “not complying” to the “covid laws” but let in hundreds of thousands of illegals who haven’t been even tested for covid and send them all over the United States!
Makes total sense to me!! We have lost our country and if we try to stand up to this Tyranny We Are The Ones Arrested…not the illegals who are really breaking our laws…the inmates are running the asylum!!
unfortunately no one sees to be in a position to stop this…our Supreme Court is worthless and it seems so is our constitution.
the Supreme Court is corrupt, juzt like very other institution in America.
It makes sense to the criminally installed government, they need to make sure we have a surge in covid to justify more lockdowns. Spreading covid infected illegal immigrants into various locations may do the trick.
A man arrived before St. Peter. St. Peter said to the man, “I’m sorry son, but you did not lead a righteous life and you did not atone for your sins. You cannot enter the gates of heaven.”
“Where do I go then?”
St. Peter said, “You can spend eternity in hell or in Michigan. It is your choice.”
The man said, “Aren’t they the same thing?”
Hell, Michigan is about 50 miles west of Detroit
? “You say you want a revolution . . . ” ?
Reminds me Marqui de Sade
This cannot stand……….
Random acts of sanity produce nothing if not backed by others displaying courage. We’re not all in this together.
This. Exactly this. When the governments first shut ever down last year my local channels ran these disgusting, outrageous commercials about how we were all in this together. B.S. Politicians lost nothing. The wealthy people in my church who huddled in their fine subdivision, and still haven’t come out, BTW, did not lose their homes, jobs, businesses.
If we don’t stand together these courageous people sacrifice their everything for nothing, essentially, as far as results go.
Agreed. Why aren’t the people “holding a rally” instead standing in the way and preventing this travesty from being done? line the streets and encircle the business with your bodies. If we’re still playing kabuki theater about what’s next, fine – do not fight back but do not get out of the way. Do not allow entry. Do not allow injustice to be done.
Let’s see how the court of public opinion goes when cops have to beat their way through dozens of women and children to arrest a restaurant owner in front of a bunch of cell phone cameras broadcasting it.
Why? Patriotic Americans don’t have a George Soros to deposit the pallets of bricks, distribute the gas grenades, pry bars and vans to carry off the ill-gotten gain of the looters and anarchist rioters. That crowd believes in mob rule not the rule of law. Unfortunately, we have no Eliot Ness in the FBI and haven’t had one for years. Too many SES employees are globalists not Americans. They believe in the rule of social justice not life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They seek to deliver the American nightmare not the American dream. Sad but true.
Nor do they have a S0r0s-approved “Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free-If-Go-There-At-All” card.
Elliot Ness was never in the FBI. He was a Treasury Dept Agent.
President Hoover considered the FBI to be incompetent and corrupt. SO he appointed the Treasury Dept to take down Al Capone.
Frank Wilson, another T-man, used ledgers confiscated in a raid to build the tax case against dwhile Ness and the Untouchables raided his distilleries to cut down pn Capone’s money supply.
Capone got to the jury before his trial, so Judge Wilkerson dismissed them and brought in another jury, who comvicted Capone. Judge Wilkerson had Capone marched to a train that took the mob boss to the Pen.
Yes, smart to cut off the money supply. In a way this is also applicable to our Ovelords today.
We use their money system.
From what I have seen with the masked-up public in my area, the court of public opinion is going to side with the gestapo. And I live in an area that voted for President Trump.
It has to be very scary to much of the world, the way freedom has been lost in America.
https://cloudhedges.com/2021/03/20/burn-your-masks-massive-anti-lockdown-protests-rage-worldwide/
I saw where “health care workers” and veterans stood between protestors and police in the Netherlands.
Sorry I can’t find the picture again.
TY Menagarie,
In this together… propaganda speak for socialism…. SMH..
SNAP
Potential exposure? So they can’t prove the viral infection occurred at the restaurant.
And to think I maybe moving to Michigan. Just over the border from northern Wisconsin in the town of Menominee. That’s where my son lives. Or I can live 20 miles on the other side of the border by my daughter. Unfortunately she has a commie governor too. I’m leaving California to be near family. But I’ll be leaving one Commie State for something not much better.
At least there are no rolling blackouts and endless fires! Hopefully, evil whitless will be brought up on charges of nursing home deaths and can rot in the HELL of her own creation!
Didn’t the Barber win in court when she tried to shut him down and pull his license?
yet
They can’t prove Jack Sh*t. Just remember this, “Correlation does not mean Causation”. They use the word “potential” in their Global Warming scenarios too. It’s the same thing in all of their “The sky is falling” scenarios. Progressives are evil.
BOOM, there it is. ⬆️
They can’t even prove the virus EXISTS.
How do we help this woman? Not Michigan state blah blah blah. How do WE help this woman, in a state I’m far removed from? You tell me a reasonable way that has a purpose with an end result and I will do. What is it?
LINK:
Fundraiser for Marlena Pavlos-Hackney by Jon Rocha : Support Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria (gofundme.com)
Delighted to see this fund surging, now over $160,000 of a $200,000 goal….’and I helped’!
I wonder if Tucker donated?
Do a Levin Surge on your fax machines…polite letters expressing displeasure.
Those in Michigan need to stand with her!
A GoFundMe to foot her legal bills…if she was the primary income earner of her family, this is going to be devastating.
The US is now a flat out communist country.The judge who sentenced her to 3 months without knowing the first thing about Covid charade should be permanently disbarred.The cop who put her in chains is no better than a jackbooted brownshirt.
She was a PRIMARY INCOME PROVIDER for her employees and their families as well.
As a former (now retired) business owner with 145 employees, we took our responsibility seriously. We worried and stressed when times were tough and business was slow…wondering how long we could hold out without having to lay off or let go well trained, competent people.
I can’t imagine how heartbreaking and stressful being a business owner must be these days in these socialist/communist states.
Fortunately, we have lived in Florida and started 3 businesses in this state, and we and our employees weathered the economic storms through many administrations going back to the 1970s.
I’ve survived 3/4 century, and never have seen it this bad.
Think it will take a “village army” of business owners, employees and residents to stand firm and resist.
As someone mentioned in this thread, the RED LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED.
Stand up with and for your local businesses. And we who live out of state can assist by giving to their legal defense funds, and flooding whatever media outlets are left to us with encouragement.
A big Thank You to CTH and other platforms for their COURAGE, and to a handful of cable news investigative reporters like Tucker Carlson for taking a stand. Support any and all sponsors for his show. Purchase from companies who represent the people, not Government ideologies.
And do all of this with love and pride for the finest country on the globe.
This brave woman is the epitome of a Patriot. She has taken a stand for her country, her employees, her business, her family and herself.
She is my heroine this morning.
To bad the names of the cops who do these deeds are not publicized. The far left would of course extract a price so that others would think twice about breaking there oath by following orders from evil pols/
Yes and so do we who do not reside in Michigan.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ”
– Ayn Rand
“Selfish”, was it “selfish” for people to dine there, too? Will they be arrested for being “selfish” and enjoying a meal out like they can in open states?
Has the Supreme Court ruled anything on locking down businesses at all? And how about using the comparison to open states?
I caught that too. Selfish? Selfish for someone to try to earn a living in the business they’ve put their life into?
The ruling class is sounding more and more obnoxious each passing day.
Selfish is their new word. It might soon take its place beside their old favorite, racism.
I seem to recall Stalin using the word selfish to describe the Ukranian farmers who tried to keep some of their product so they wouldn’t starve to death. He, (Stalin), sent people out to the farms to “secure” all of the produce for the State, leaving these people with virtually nothing, and the result was one of the largest famines ever with millions of people starving to death in the early ’30’s.
Selfish is a governor’s husband attempting to jump the line for getting his boat in the water.
Ayn Rand published a book titled “The Virtue of Selfishness”. It innoculates people from the Lie and abusive use of the word selfish. The manipulation.
Can she opt for a quick jury trial?
Any jury will nullify the State’s evidence free retail shutdown dissenters.
So you still believe that we have a working Constitution and A System of Justice.
What I’m seeing are a bunch of ravenous power grabbers and petty tyrants.
You miss the point. A judge has nothing to do with a jury verdict.
Any jury will likely contain number of citizens who regard this virus as a political stage.
They will acquit, it’s called jury nullification.
And a solid defense path in cases where a real crime was committed but the public’s opinion is aligned in favor of the criminal.
Scribe, any jury would, really? A jury made up of many of the same people who elected dictator Whitmer.
If jury trial available, the state is going to need at least 10, never happen.
Judge will just overrule the the jury
Yep, and if Flynn’s case is any example, the judge will overrule the prosecution too, and prosecute from the bench.
IMO, we must stop thinking of these humans as our ‘fellow Americans’; they are not. They are the enemy of our freedom and liberty and God-given free will and self-determination. They are a cabal of hypocritical, lying , narcissistic jackasses with power, power that only flows from us voluntarily submitting to them and letting them live. We have choices.
I remember in the midst of the lockdowns and stay at home orders when the courts were doing nothing to protect our constitutional rights the pro-rights lawyers were saying the courts will always side with the government in a crisis but eventually there will be justice. Well you cockbag muthertruckers I call BS on your clever wordsmithing. The legal system in this country is a profiteering joke. It has been for a long, long time but now the wider population is seeing what we ‘wacko anarchists’ have seen forever. Take it in. Reality. Rant concluded. You all have a pleasant Sunday.
She isn’t going to get a jury trial. These a rules imposed by TPTB and they nullify the Constitution.
“a dangerous act “
Oh my, the cognitive dissonance it burns.
If you want a genuine Covid criminal it’s estimated Cuomo killed 12,000 elderly New Yorkers by forcing the Cv infected from hospital back into their aged care homes to infect everyone else……
Sort of like smallpox blankets.
“When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.” — Jordan Peterson
When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.” — Jordan Peterson
That pretty much sums up 3/4 of our Federal governing body.
The most frustrating thing nowadays is you can’t believe ANYONE.
FAUCI should have been behind bars a year ago with this nonsense.
He has become the leftists’ nuclear bomb.
High School psychology 101 students can easily recognize the narcissistic destruction of life, and control of populations.
He’s become the “little Hitler” of the 21st century.
Basking in the attention and adoration of a very destructive slice of society.
That would of been epic-
The lawyer pauses and replies to the judge-
If my client is selfish. If she’s dangerous what about the political class including those currently in office who either forced people into contact with the sick or they just outright ignore- is Cuomo selfish? Pelosi? More so, how about the whole Biden Administration? Here my client stands. In court while 100,000s of illegal border jumpers cross our border, many positive with COVID in violation of actual law and yet, they are free to roam. Lockdowns don’t apply nor do our laws. Is my client as selfish as those people?
So when will puppet Biden be arrested for unleashing covid+ illegals on the whole of America due to selfishly not following US law?
Just made same point. They hope most Americans are ignorant to the hypocrisy- and they are..
They will continue the current fear until they are presented with a greater fear. So far they are operating unopposed.
On a related note, recently heard there’s a Conservative equivalent of Go Fund Me. Hope that’s true so we’ll be able to contribute to deserving Conservatives. Gotta do good with all the dough we’re not sending to the RNC / GOP! GFM facilitates financial security for those on the left, while taking down funding accounts started for individuals on the right. CTH would be a great place to share funding links for Conservatives.
The site is http://www.GiveSendGo.com. It’s a Christian site. Several Treepers recommended it when I was fundraising for my LetsRollAmerica reporting tour. Easy to set up. Worked great.
Thanks for all you have done. May Our Lord bless you richly
Marlena’s Bistro supporters protest arrest of owner who defied COVID orders – YouTube
An order not a law. Yet she’s in court. An order already declared unconstitutional by the states Supreme Court.
She should move to Florida, screw Michigan, come on down.
That judge should be heckled. Her name is Rosemaria Aquilina, Ingraham County Circuit Judge.
yet her bistro is in Ottawa County.
Is “the curve” flat yet?
we have days where the state adds dozens of ‘added deaths’ from before ‘they didn’t know about’, and I am sure by now, since they never catch up to the ‘errors’, that they just don’t want to know.
It serves them well with charts.
county = hessians
I’d like to see a tally on the Medicare bonuses.
The entire objective of making the masses subservient to their masters is to eliminate small businesses and their owners so all that is left is big corporations supplied by China. This in other words is another way they will control you. Eliminate Small businesses and property ownership. “You will own nothing and you will be happy”
Ask yourself this: Has Wallmart or any other big corporate retailer been forced to shut down? Once they eliminate small business the average citizen will have no choice but to acquiesce to the big corporate sources for their essentials of daily living and we are at their mercy.
Meanwhile politicians and other elite class citizens haven’t missed a paycheck while they promise the plebs breadcrumbs, preach about wokeness, equality, as they continue to live their lavish lifestyles, and displaying hypocritical standards in their double speak with impunity.
Are we getting the message or will wait until we have no choice but to wait in breadlines and starving?
Wake up! Its happening!
I think the we you refer to fall into two categories, as always. Some of us saw where this was going a year ago. And some of us are still enthusiastically participating in the destruction of the lives of millions of people because they are afraid enough to be manipulated.
That is a good point! Sigh! Swimming upstream as a dog whistle is no fun, but it has to be done.
And the winner for Best Paragraph of the Day” is…….
“Meanwhile politicians and other elite class citizens haven’t missed a paycheck while they promise the plebs breadcrumbs, preach about wokeness, equality, as they continue to live their lavish lifestyles, and displaying hypocritical standards in their double speak with impunity.”
MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST STOP PAYING TAXES. AND BLOCK THE DOORS TO ALL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND COURTHOUSES.
That “locally sourced food” movement was getting too big for its britches.
Notice the correlation between areas where that was most popular, and the most egregious restrictions on restaurants.
Food prices escalating.
Chinese-owned U.S. industries – pork and porn.
Weather manipulation of crops.
Control of food producers.
Gates now biggest land owner.
Non-GMO seeds becoming more difficult to find.
Yeah… food to control the masses.
She should file takings law suit against the state. In the Kelo decision SCOTUS said property could not only be taken for a public need but added a “public good.” The state has shut down her property and effectively taken it for a supposed public good.
We just appointed a ninny to SCOTUS who believes the Bill of Rights does not apply during emergencies of any duration.
Sheer tyranny in a Democrat run state. There is a solution to this… more people need to wake up!
Flaming effigies would focus attention.
If a new Constitution is ever written, I believe people may be so disgusted over the actions of judges that our new form of government will only have two branches instead of three.
Her being accused of being selfish and doing it for her own financial gain tells me that the authorities went after her business because she is white. The whole purpose for the lockdowns is to redistribute wealth. Force businesses into bankruptcy, take their land and give it the minorities. I have to laugh when the media claims that minority businesses are closing faster than white owned businesses because they cant get the same loans, that BS. This is propaganda, it’s being used by the race baiters and Democrats to get Americans to pay reparations, only they’ll slap some fancy name on it to try and hide the fact that it’s reparations. They just did it with the black farmers and it worked, the 1.9 trillion stimulus that was just passed includes 5 billion dollars in reparations to black farmers to pay off their farms and bills. White farmers might get opportunity for more loans or a deferred loan that will still need to be paid back at some point. Biden already said that his focus is on helping minority businesses only, screw everyone else. Just wait and see who gets their student loans and mortgages paid off, if your white, you need not apply. Biden’s policy is to fight racism with racism, it’s insane.
Now it is evident that when the State wants to ban and confiscate guns, there will be minions who willingly and in some cases, gleefully, carry out the illegal orders of the onerous government. I’m surprised that the the State of Michigan didn’t try to arrest and extradite Tucker Carlson.
I think it was evident back during the Obama admin when the government shutdown so he closed the National Park and the DC Monuments. I don’t recall the “authorities” being sympathetic to citizens who desired to visit their national landmarks.
Obama also closed all the National Forest Service campgrounds and Bureau of Land Management campgrounds which are inexpensive due to fewer services. This made life difficult for those of us who were living fulltime in an RV or camper on a tight budget and forced to move every 14 days.
There were Freedom rallies all over the world yesterday. What happened here?
The closer we get to herd immunity the worse the restrictions get.
In Hell States like MI and NY the madness will never end. Muzzles forever.
This is outrageous and making ME insane. I’ve never actually hated before but I really hate these people who are perpetrating the demise of our country and putting innocent people in jail. The stinkin’ scum is surely rising to the top.
They truly believe their role is to create as much misery as possible – even death – to bring humanity to the next dimension in our spiritual journey.
They do their father’s work with gusto. It’s just that their father is Baphomet.
Unfortunately, it is the same god worshipped by the Satanists who planned DC. Except for John Adams.
Freemasons have been ruling our country to bring about the goals of the New World Order – Satan’s kingdom.
So maybe we just don’t appreciate this group’s resolve and dedication. We have to give them credit for a full-on dedication to their goal.
No doubt Pelosi is now the Lead Witch.
Where are the tens of thousand of people forcing the government to release her? Right, no one really gives a damn . Now shut up and put your mask on.
The crime here is opening your business?
The laundromat is open?
The pharmacy is open?
Amazon is open?
And the grocery store next door is open?
We cannot allow politicians to decide “essential services”.
Every business and every employee of a business is essential.
1. It’s just a virus.
2. The story assumes the sick person caught the virus at the restaurant, where is the evidence to support that assumption.
3. The person chose to eat at the restaurant.
4. Owning and operating a restaurant, or any business, “for your own financial gain” is the point.
It is long past time for states that have not allowed people liberty to do so.
I question that “gain” part.
Someone who makes enough money to take care of their family, their own retirement, and enable their workers to do so, isn’t gaining anything.
A judge on a public payroll may not understand this.
They understand. They want Communism.
I question whether the customer who became ill actually exists.
“for your own financial gain”
Uhhhh …. yeah
That’s what a business IS … you frikken nimrod judge !!!
You run it to make money
You know – for your own financial gain – you frikken nimrod !!!
A paycheck doesn’t just COME … from the state … in the mailbox … like it does for a state judge
Is it me?
I feel like I’m surrounded by crazy people
It has been apparent for the past 4 years, our JUDICIARY has been operating FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH, FINANCIAL GAIN.
So you can burn, loot, destroy public and personal property, steal, and terrorize entire communities without consequence but don’t you dare open your restaurant? I guess this is the Michigan brand of nonsense, courtesy of the Democrat Socialist at the state’s helm!
Now simply trying to eke out a living and pay your employees is “selfish.”
The kicker is, the lockdowns were probably unnecessary to begin with.
Hear the voice of the totalitarian, from the judge:
“I know you want to control this room but this isn’t burger king,” Aquilina said. “when the sign changes to burger king you can have it your way. right now this is my courtroom, and you will answer my questions.”
“Yes, judge Ronald McDonald. Whatever you say.”
But, but but…if this isn’t Burger King, why are you wearing a self-imposed crown in your small singular country with it’s own laws?
“….the discovery that one of Marlena’s customers tested positive for the virus within two days of eating there,”
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Imbecile judge should be ashamed. No correlation provided whatsoever to substantiate or warrant this conviction from the bench.
As far as anything I’ve read you don’t get covid in 48 hours. Anyway it’s all a narrative or plant to obtain the state’s objective of locking this woman up.
And yet with millions of customers every day, no one has yet to contract the China Flu in a WalMart, Costco or Home Depot.
What are the chances?
Imbecile judge should be impeached. Letting her personal opinions out in a courtroom when she is supposed to be the neutral arbiter of justice. Follow the law, judge, not your feelings.
But illegal aliens with covid are given free food, lodging, and transportation to anywhere within the United States they want to go. Judge is a political hack determined to hold the party line at all costs, including whatever humanity and dignity she may’ve, MAY HAVE, at one time had.
Wait- I thought the Michigan Supreme Court already declared the stuff Gretchen forced on people Unconstitutional, so how is this woman in jail?
From David Icke’s below video (queued to start):
“If you are going to create a situation where people are in a situation to survive on a tiny few people running countries, states and governments, their number one foundation is to destroy the independent livelihoods of the population…”
https://youtu.be/lcAkTroy9d8?t=194
Deaths in the United States from 2009 through 2020.
Tell me again we had a pandemic
2009: 2,437,163
2010: 2,468,435 + 31,272
2011: 2,515,458 + 47,023
2012: 2,543,279 + 27,821
2013: 2,596,993. + 53,714
2014: 2,626,418: + 29,485
2915: 2,712,630 + 86,212
2016: 2,744,248 + 31,618
2017: 2,813,503 + 69,255
2018: 2,839,205 + 26,000
2019: 2,854,838 + 15,633
2020: 2,877,601 + 22,763
If law enforcement refuses to enforce these clearly unconstitutional edicts against their fellow citizens, then the “law” becomes moot. IF YOU INSIST ON BACKING THE BLUE, THEN YOU MUST INSIST THAT THE BLUE HAS YOUR BACK.
PLEASE NOTE: Marlena was not arrested for defying the “covid edict” provisions issued by the MI Dept of Health shortly after Whitmer EO’s were slapped down by the (weakling) MI Supreme Court, October 2020.
Marlena was arrested for violating a food license revocation. As Sundance points out, enforcement will flow through weaponized goon laden state and federal agencies.
The health dept order is illegal and completely unenforceable to the point any law enforcement officer or dept stupid enough to arrest and charge a person violating the edict is looking straight down the barrel of a slam dunk Malicious Prosecution lawsuit and fat out of court settlement.
unhinged moonbat AG Dana Nessel, crazy yet not stupid in the normal sense, publicly announced 36 hrs after Whitmer EO slap down the state would not criminally enforce ANY covid order, Police Chiefs of MI Assiciation announced same stance, and sheriffs were an automatic as most never touched Whitmer’s unconstitutional EO’s anyway.
All Michigan media headlines related to Marlena arrest infer Covid order or a non existent law was broken. To help sell an “obey or be punished” narrative keep the millions of weak sheep in my state. A few stories reveal the basis of Marlena arrest.
The administrative judge, 95% of our population never knew such a goon court even existed, including myself: guarantee the food license revocation was structured to skate around and name drop covid, yet pulled for a specific manufactured health code violation, which the health dept can then enforce.
You would not believe how many sociopath goons work within every state agency in MI. The medical practices and a specific owner that successfully sued Whitmer last year were set upon by armed goons from Dept of Natural Resources, Child Services working on a “tip”, medical licensing board working on a “tip” a surgeon was operating under the influence, and tax dept. The account of that terror activity is unbelievable. Each set of morally bankrupt agency dregs walked away empty handed.
My family is leaving this state for when my youngest graduates. Soon. Can you blame me? Treehouse people truly understand. Why I love this site.
Although the doors of freedom are closing fast, there are some places where people will make a stand. Hope you find a good place. Best wishes on your move.
In my neck of the woods, we stand ready. Even with Oregon’s corrupted all mail-in balloting system, we still elected Trump by a 3 to 1 margin and our sheriff who gave Obama the finger has been running unopposed. When one hears the ring of gunfire in the forest, it’s not crime, there’s zero crime here, rather the sounds of freedom and patriots training, young and old alike.
On another topic, perhaps tangential to Michigan since ‘Motor City’ is what it was historically known for, I find it interesting the coincidence of fuel being cheap during the past lockdown that provided the Antifa and BLM mercs inexpensive transport via all forms of vehicle to run their mercenary operations and now, with demand still supposedly weak, fuel, and everything that depends on it from transportation to food, has gone up markedly, while business owners like the one in Michigan, and everyday citizens, are still dealing with all the Covid-19 op BS.
God be with you.
I was told of an instance in NYS, where a saloon owner, one who was in good with the local Democrats, had his liquor license suspended because one person defied the looney Cuomo mask edict.
The reason we don’t see states like New York and Michigan letting up, is because once they do, the last holdouts may come to realize that this has all been for nothing, and want vengeance.
It’s almost unbelievable, more and more NYC residents are coming back from seeing Florida with their own eyes, and they still aren’t totally persuaded as to the truth.
The Judge, Rosemary Aquilina is a grandstanding, SJW, that went to, Obama’s defense in a court matter when he was president.
She’s a despicable jurist that craves the spotlight. They moved the accused over an hour drive to Ingham County where the left is fully entrenched to persecute any non-compliant subjects.
The MIGOP remains AWOL in all matters COVID because this is the DeVos model. They’re fake Republicans that own the MIGOP and have turned the downtown offices into a shrine for the DeVos family.
This will not change until they’re out of Michigan politics.
This. Michigan is a cesspool of corruption. Snyder was Granholm 2.0 and we went along with it. The Uniparty is in full effect here.
If law enforcement refuses to enforce these unconstitutional edicts against their fellow citizens, then the “law” becomes moot. If you advocate “backing the Blue”, then you must demand that the “Blue” is backing you.
When dana nessel (funded by soros) first came into Power in Jan 2019, one of her FIRST Demands was Gay Marriages be performed in all Christian churches. The Catholic Church spoke on behalf of all denominations and said, NO WAY, and dana had to back off. Some of you may know we have a YUGE muslim population, but dana was silent about THEM performing gay weddings. gretchen, dana, and jocelyn are ALL Communists, tipping toward becoming Full Marxists.
my next door neighbors yard sign….
WE BELIEVE
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL
BLACK LIVES MATTER
LOVE IS LOVE
SCIENCE IS REAL
BE KIND TO ALL
My neighbors are nice ,smart,educated ,two young kids,two electric cars in the drive way, good neighbors and happy with the Biden administration…
California voters…2+2=5
This story has some sketchy, incomplete elements. If she had gotten a real lawyer, he/she would have simply checked the box for a jury trial, and she would be released pending trial likely months from now. In which trial the jury would have quickly found her non-guilty. I also think Tucker’s folks knew this would draw both viewers and, inevitably, fire from the socialist governor of Michigan, and should have made sure our heroine was represented. Perhaps they did, would like to know more.
Still believe you live in a free country? Still believe that the justice system is legitimate or has anything to do with justice?
The difficult part is two-fold, when attempting to overcome the programming.
One, fear, people fear the justice system and its soldiers
Two, brainwashing, people are brainwashed from an early age on ‘respect muh authoritah!’
Myself, I stopped believing in a ‘free country’ back in the 60’s. Unfortunately, in a country full of brainwashing and fear, that results in social shunning and peer disassociation if peers are brainwashed and one is ‘not of the body’ (Star Trek reference). In my experience, it’s only become worse over the decades and now it’s on plain and widespread display for everyone to see. Whether they do or not is free will, if there’s any of that left. I’ll fight for mine until I go to the grave.
The ironic part is that it was “centralist” democrats “suppressing” the more liberal or leftist versions of themselves, in the 1960’s.
The evolution of the democrat party is an astounding timeline of history.
Justice is corrupt, just like every other institution in America. Proceed accordingly.
Human beings are corrupt…when given the power to be so. We must reclaim our power from these power-mad tyrants.
It’s no longer the “justice” system; it’s now the JUST-US system!
This is part of the process of resistance. It’s going to happen. Fret not. We must press on. To do otherwise is surrender. Patriots do not surrender, bludgeoned and battered, keep rolling to complete victory. It’s ours to claim
Still believe in the Bill of Rights?