Wednesday, June 9, 2021

there are some scenarios where you can tie testing to privileges. so, a boss, for example, could tell their employees they need to get vaccinated or tested to enter their property - which reduces to a question about property rights, rather than a question about vaccines.

but, you need to ask the police what their options are if a citizen merely refuses to get tested, and cites s. 7 in doing so. that's an extremely powerful statement in this country, and the police would be shattering the rule of law if they were to enforce testing by violence - enough that they'd belong in a jail cell for doing it. i'd end up very wealthy if that were to happen.

nor can the cops deport a citizen on the spot. i have papers - you can't turn me away.

they could try to arrest me, but that wouldn't last 14 days - it shouldn't last 14 minutes, but at most might last 14 hours.

what the cops can do is write you a ticket, which is inviting a constitutional challenge. and, frankly, i'd guess most cops would actually even realize that.

if you walk right by that cop, they'll probably just shrug -  and that's happens when an unlawful government refuses to abide by the rule of law, in passing unconstitutional dictates.

i'm not just being confrontational, here - my legal opinion is that you should just keep walking once you're cleared, and that 999 times out of a thousand, the cops won't even try to stop you.