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Diner owner begs Gov. Cuomo to reopen upstate NY: ‘There is no reason why we can’t open up now’ – Geller Report News

 j    May 10, 2020 

By Pamela Geller – on May 9, 2020
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Diner owner urges Gov. Cuomo to reopen upstate NY: ‘There is no reason why we can’t open up now’

Restaurants will not be able to survive for much longer under the devastating economic impact of coronavirus shutdown orders, Crazy Otto’s Empire Diner owner Scott Tranter said Saturday
Appearing on “Fox & Friends Weekend” with host Griff Jenkins, Tranter said that the current number of cases in Herkimer would allow for a reopening.
“This has been absolutely devastating. We in Herkimer here are not downplaying the coronavirus. It’s real. I have a daughter-in-law on the front lines [and] a sister-in-law in Massachusetts. It’s real, but not like that up here,” he stated. “We have had basically — not to minimize this — three deaths. 19 people have it. No hospitalizations.”
“[It’s been] devastating economically to businesses that have closed [and] are never going to reopen. We had 22 employees that we had to lay off. We just got the [Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)] brought…15 of them back last week,” Tranter explained.
“If you look at the statistics, if you look at the data, there’s no reason why we can’t open up now,” he remarked. “And, that’s my message to the governor.”
“They keep changing the goal post. They keep changing the dates. They keep moving it forward and now [for] restaurants basically they are saying Phase 3 or Phase 4. And, you are talking July. And, all the businesses will — especially the mom and pop organizations — will not be able to hold out until July,” he Tranter pleaded.
Tranter told Jenkins he has over around $160,000 and counting thus far.
“And, if you look at the actual statistics and the PPP loans and the eight weeks that you have to use the money, bringing the employees back, I will have to lay off the majority of the employees again, okay, come June. Because we still will not be open,” he added.
“And, there is no way that you can keep a business running and your capital investment and everything. If the money is not there, the money is not there,” Tranter pointed out.
“And so, you are setting yourself up for the double whammy because while you are trying to hold your employee’s hand, you know it’s going to run out,” he concluded. “We need to have the choice and have people come in, you know, to our restaurant to eat.”
New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined a set of criteria this week that each region must meet before Phase 1 of its opening plan can begin. The soonest any region could start reopening is May 15, as the state’s stay-at home orders expire on that date. Yet some regions are being held up solely because they lack the testing levels Cuomo is seeking, leaving residents guessing how long it will take to meet that threshold.
“I get the emotion — everybody would like to see everything reopen tomorrow. Me, first and foremost. Everyone. On every level – personally, economically,” Cuomo said during his daily press briefing Friday. “But… we are now in control and we have the virus on the run because we have been smart and because we have been disciplined.”
New York State remains the epicenter of the virus with over 330,000 confirmed cases and over 26,000 deaths. However, New York City lays claim to over half of those cases and has now reported over 21,000 deaths.

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The American Thinker: Pamela Geller Sues Bill de Blasio for Forbidding New Yorkers to Protest during COVID-19 – Geller Report News

 j   May 10, 2020 

By Pamela Geller – on May 9, 2020

Pamela Geller Sues Bill de Blasio for Forbidding New Yorkers to Protest during COVID-19

By Pamela Geller


The petty tyrant Warren Wilhelm (that’s Bill de Blasio’s real name) who is currently mayor of New York City, not content with scapegoating Jews for the spread of the coronavirus, has now gone to war against the First Amendment.  Fox News reported Wednesday that de Blasio and his NYPD commissioner, Dermot Shea, “stated outright this week that people are not permitted to gather for protests in public due to the coronavirus pandemic.”  Apparently, Mayor Wilhelm thinks he is in 1930s Berlin.  But this will not stand.  On Thursday, I filed suit against de Blasio and Shea for violating my First Amendment right to freedom of assembly.

De Blasio and Shea adopted their breathtaking authoritarian measure in full knowledge that they were violating the United States Constitution.  “You’re talking about some of the values we hold in the highest regard in this country and certainly in this city, the right for people to gather, the right to free speech and the right to protest,” Shea said Monday.  “But now comes the bad news, we’re in a pandemic and executive orders have been issued, these are laws that have been passed down through executive order to keep people alive, while we greatly, greatly respect the right of people to protest, there should not be protests taking place in the middle of a pandemic by gathering outside and putting people at risk.”

Shea’s statements are in brazen violation of the First Amendment and reveal that Shea, and de Blasio as well, understands the Constitution about as much as he respects it.  For his part, the mayor said: “People who want to make their voices heard, there are plenty of ways to do it without gathering in person.”  He called upon people to “use all the other tools you have to get your point across but avoid anything that might put other people in harm’s way.”

No.  The Constitution does not carry any clause rescinding these rights if the powers that be decide that exercising them would put people in harm’s way.  These liberties are not granted by government to then be rescinded at the will and whims of government officials.  These liberties are given by G-d and possessed by the people, and they are guaranteed against government interference by the Constitution.

In other words, the Constitution explicitly and definitively rules out the action de Blasio and Shea have taken.  The complaint, which was filed yesterday by my attorneys, David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), is a beautiful thing.  It states that “this case seeks to protect and vindicate fundamental liberties that citizens of the United States enjoy free from government interference.”  It notes that the Constitution guarantees a right to protest, including the freedom of speech, and that de Blasio and Shea, “through the adoption and enforcement of executive edicts, have suspended this fundamental right in the City of New York.”

The complaint notes that “the right to freedom of speech is not a right to catharsis.  It is a right to meaningfully protest and assemble in public in order to change public policy.  The most effective way to exercise this right is to organize and participate in a large public protest.”  But de Blasio and Shea have infringed upon this freedom as well.

The stakes in this lawsuit are extremely high.  In fact, they couldn’t be higher.  As the complaint notes, “John Adams warned that ‘Liberty once lost is lost forever.’  All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.  Through this Complaint, Plaintiff Geller challenges Defendants’ suspension of the First Amendment.  There is no justification, pandemic or otherwise, for a government official to revoke this fundamental right of the people.”

The purpose of the suit is to “protect and vindicate fundamental constitutional rights.  It is a civil rights action brought under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and 42 U.S.C. §1983, challenging Defendants’ restriction on Plaintiff’s right to engage in peaceful protests and protected speech in public forums in the City of New York.”

I’m seeking a declaration that Defendants violated my clearly established constitutional rights as set forth in the complaint, as well as a declaration that the restriction that de Blasio and Shea have placed upon the First Amendment violates the United States Constitution and 42 USC §1983.  I’m asking for a preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the enforcement of this First Amendment violation and nominal damages for the past loss of my constitutional rights.

If we lose, it’s no exaggeration to say the Constitution, and our freedom, is dead.  We must win, and we will win.

Pamela Geller is the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI); publisher of The Geller Report; and author of the bestselling book FATWA: Hunted in America, as well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.  Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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