Mask War Madness: "Children...blowing bubbles...are threats of assault."
The escalating conflict over forced masking calls for more acts of civil disobedience
(Photo Credit: The Guardian)
At a Naperville District 203 school board meeting Monday night, a frightful masked woman went to the podium during the public speaking portion of the meeting and said this:
“I am no longer interested in meeting people where they are. When they assert they will send their children to school maskless or march them to the first day of school blowing bubbles. In the midst of an airborne pandemic, these are threats of assault!”
This crazed comment, the rantings of a lunatic, came after three meeting stoppages.
The meeting was under a mask mandate, the district citing Governor Pritzker’s August 4 Emergency Order as a reason for muzzling participants.
One man attending the meeting, simply sitting peacefully in his seat, did not cover his face with a piece of cloth.
Here’s video of how he was greeted by D203 Assistant Superintendent Chala Holland:
Yes, those are two armed police officers looming off to the side.
Does the maskless man look like a threat to you?
It’s safe to assume how no one in the room possessed the self-awareness to grasp the irony of the man citing “religious exemption” for not wearing a mask. The irony is not in the religious exemption; reasonable grounds for not muzzling one’s face. It’s how the soft defiance of one individual revealed the farcical dynamic and role playing in the ongoing national reality drama known as the Mask Wars.
In Naperville, here are the actors in the video—a face-gagged administrator providing ‘mask muscle’ protection, the foreboding law enforcement officers ominously standing in the shadows and the exasperated administrators stalking off after calling a third recess.
It’s all great source material for a scene from an episode of “South Park” or “The Simpsons.”
(Imagine Homer Simpson being the maskless dad? All that fuss…then an administrator presents a donut with the condition Homer mask up between bites. High comedy ensues. Cue up laugh track.)
Back to the frustrated administrators I just referenced.
Here’s the sequence:
So this is the world we live in today—elected officials (with the exception of the superintendents, who are appointed by the school board) can’t carry on the business of running a school district unless adults cover their faces with a cloth mask.
With one strike of his paunchy pen, activating the high-handed EO, Pritzker did more than just irresponsibly force the masking of healthy children. He emboldened the crackpots who show up at public meetings wearing car mats around their faces and shouting foolish nonsense of how children blowing bubbles are committing assault.
Long ago, these fruitcakes abandoned what little risk assessment skills they had and any sense of appropriate proportionate response to risk. They now wear t-shirts that tie heroism with maskism. They attempt to tie patriotism with face muzzling and spew hateful language of how those who don’t comply abdicate their right to be citizens.
These are the new “faces” of their respective communities; the Covid Cultists.
Congratulations. The Kooks are squatting in The Auditorium.
It’s not just the Cultists mollified by Pritzker’s decree. The hubristic local official is making a comeback.
In the two weeks since Pritzker’s mandate, the stories are commonplace all over Chicagoland—school districts pacifying the Fauci-ites who strong-arm those practicing civil disobedience.
At a Monday night board meeting for Plainfield Community School District 202, a similar scene played out as that occurred in Naperville, only more chaotic.
About halfway through Monday’s assembly, a maskless man was called out by board of eduction president Kevin Kirberg. When the maskless man, named Timothy Conrad, cited a disability exemption, Kirberg threw him out and had him arrested for trespassing.
Here is how the arrest unfolded:
What authority does does a BOE member have to demand a private citizen be arrested?
Does he think he’s Genghis Khan?
(The D202 board did pass a resolution at the start of the meeting that anyone inside the building must be masked. An exemption policy called for six hours notification before a meeting. But the timeframe to apply for any exemption was impossible to reach before the start of the meeting as the resolution had just passed.)
Here was the scene outside the building as Conrad was escorted out by police, according to a report filed by Next News Network:
Did this man show up with a firearm?
Did he threaten anyone at the meeting?
No, he was escorted to a squad car by three police officers for not wearing a cloth mask.
What. The. F**k.
(The man arrested, Timothy Conrad, was charged with criminal trespassing, a local ordinance violation, according to Plainfield police.)
Tom Hernandez, District 202's director of community relations, said this to Patch:
Refusal by a student or adult to wear a mask indoors poses a potential threat to the safety of other students and staff as we return to full in-person instruction. Failure to comply is subject to school disciplinary or legal action.
Notice the use of language.
Assault.
Threat.
Over a virus that has an over 99% survival rate for individuals between the ages of 0-69 and a child mortality rate of .008%.
I wrote in an article last week about options for people that reject the antidemocratic policies of bureaucrats. Who want choice and not to be harassed by overbearing muttonheads for doing so.
The legal system remains an option. Lawsuits are already being filed all over the state. There are potential outcomes from the courts that could result very favorably in the ongoing fight against Pritzker and reckless public health policies.
But paperwork in a courthouse filing room is not the same as an act of informed dissent. And doing so on camera, such as this demonstration in Highwood Monday:
In the coming weeks, there will be more board meetings and schools opening their doors.
The time is now for continuous streams of civil disobedience.
And keep those cameras rolling.
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