The ability to freely protest and assemble without government intrusion is one of the most sacred and important rights granted to white US citizens. Looking back on American history, one can easily identify many points where peaceful assembly has spearheaded society-altering changes in government regulations and laws. Thankfully, protesting in the face of adversity is a right our generation of Oklahomans still choose to exercise. In fact, citizens of Stillwater are enthusiastically protesting for their right to die of COVID-19.
Via freaking CNN…
An emergency proclamation issued Thursday in Stillwater, Oklahoma, requiring the use of face masks in stores and restaurants was amended Friday after threats of violence.
“In the short time beginning on May 1, 2020, that face coverings have been required for entry into stores/restaurants, store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse,” Stillwater City Manager Norman McNickle said in a statement.
“In addition, there has been one threat of violence using a firearm. This has occurred in three short hours and in the face of clear medical evidence that face coverings helps contain the spread of Covid-19.”
Due to the threats of violence the city has decided to amend their emergency order but still want people to wear face masks whenever possible, the statement said.
Thank God these folks are protesting for their “rights” to drink a Sunrise Margarita from the Chili’s on Hall of Fame Avenue without messing with a mask and not against police brutality or an oil pipeline, or else the government may have dropped teargas grenades instead of restrictions. Seriously, Stillwater, what the hell? If you reward these adult tantrums threats, people are going to learn that if they don’t like a government regulation all they have to do is pull out a gun and scream in some college kid’s face for things to change.
We were sent a photo of one of the protestors via the Ogle Mole Network. Check out this madness:
Here’s more:
“Many of those with objections cite the mistaken belief the requirement is unconstitutional, and under their theory, one cannot be forced to wear a mask. No law or court supports this view,” said City Manager Norman McNickle in a statement. “It is further distressing that these people, while exercising their believed rights, put others at risk.”
McNickle went on to explain the importance of face coverings in preventing the spread of coronavirus. The masks have been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
“It is unfortunate and distressing that those who refuse and threaten violence are so self-absorbed as to not follow what is a simple show of respect and kindness to others,” he said.
Listen, you egocentric, zealous halfwits who think having a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” license plate or getting a red, white, and blue manicure make you a patriot. Let me speak in a way maybe even you’ll understand. In fighting for your “civil liberty” to sit in a crusty old Red Lobster booth or get funky layers from a hairstylist God knows you don’t tip, you are actually taking the “civil liberties” away from thousands of other Oklahomans.
Because the more of you who refuse to wear a mask, the longer our elderly, immunocompromised, and other vulnerable neighbors have to live in fear that they won’t make it out of this pandemic alive. Maybe not all of you would go as far as threaten to shoot a minimum wage employee for refusing to serve you without a mask. Yet all of you refusing to follow the CDC guidelines seem to be fine with killing your neighbors.
Go get you some shrimp scampi. Then follow Hayley on twitter @squirrellygeek
Just wait two weeks, this state is going to be a petri dish, starting with Stillwater.
Nothing like wealth over health. Pure idiots.
LIBERATE STILLWATER!
Self-absorbed, dim-witted morons. It’s all about them, and no one else. What’s the big problem with wearing a mask. It might make them look stupid? Sorry bro, it’s too late for that.
Where do these “very fine people” get the idea that threatening violence and bringing guns to a twisted “civil rights” rally because they are butthurt is acceptable behavior for patriotic Americans? I can’t even…
Imagine That.
They seem to have no problem with wearing shirts and shoes for service so what’s the big deal with masks?
Spitting the tobacco becomes a real issue when combined with a full beard and a face mask.
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-coronavirus-cases-top-4000-with-238-deaths/32365503 … At the first threat of violence, close any store in Stillwater for 30 days or longer, protect your employees, mobilize police, natl. guard. Track down those making threats, take their weapons, make arrest. Watch them get Covid-19 and say little to nothing about it except,”tried to warn you”. Watch the idiots pack the ERs crying like babies, demanding medical help, like they were entitled to it. However, by then the ERs will be full again with Covid-19 patients. Hospitals being overrun and health care workers getting sick and mowed down like grass. They’ll have to wait in line and take a number behind all them other folks in line waiting for care, some of them colored so they won’t like that either. I think we’re going to see this ugly scenario play itself out. Trump is quite popular there and a lot of white people are gotten used to pushing and shoving and bullying their way around to get what they’re after….not me though…You know, it works both ways, I wear a large caliber hog leg myself and they can see it with my hand on it in the holster, untied, ready to pull it if they don’t keep their distance…not afraid to use it…Fed up with idiots/tweakers and the political pond scum from that region of the world.
“they can see it with my hand on it in the holster, untied,ready to pull it if they don’t keep their distance”
whoa there Karla….whoa
you might want to switch to decaf. That Mountain Dew Voltage is gettin to ya.
Are you saying you are carrying a firearm and aren’t afraid to use it if someone comes within 6 feet of you?
And this makes you different from those who are threatening violence with firearms, how?
I see what you did there tho…mentioning “colored” people (I thought that wasn’t ok to say that anymore); invoking control by the national guard and taking away people’s guns (who decides which people are worthy of having a firearm? you have one), closing businesses against their will – even those who did not experience threats, and wishing that your fellow man suffers from Covid.
you must be an absolute joy at parties.
I think she’s actually Darlene from “Ozark.”
Oh my gosh I think you are right! I can even hear the accent!
That’s a great observation
Karla you act as though we actually have hospitals? Come on up north and help us look for them.
Just a wild guess that these are the same people who lose their shit defending bakers or photographers who refuse their services to gay weddings.
City ordinance or not, business owners have the right to require masks. It is not the right of the public to access businesses on their own terms.
When did Stillwater move to Florida?
When did Florida come to Stillwater?
Now, looka HEAH! I reckon’ I ain’t a-gonna be wearin’ no MASK, like I was some kinda Gol-durned bandito! Why, I remember a time when if a man strolled in wearin’ a mask on his face, guns would be drawn! Like this!
[draws gun from waistband with finger on trigger, gun discharges, instantly castrating him. He howls, unable to (excuse the expression) MASK the pain.]
The End. This has been a Quinn Martin Production.
I’ve never been a Stillwater fan. It might be different if they had a football team there.
” covid like the Oklahoma Sooners, they’re dangerous and Mike gundy has no idea how to beat it” great twitter whoever it was
Grundy always has the football team wear face masks…oh wait!
A couple of problems with the story that was put out.
1. There is no record of a threat with a weapon. SPD did not receive any calls requesting assistance.
2. The mayor and city manager attempted to bluff stores into enforcing a law that didn’t exist. Now think for just a second, the city is going to enact a law that puts the enforcement on the back of the teenage kids working at Walmart? If the city wants to enact a law, then enforcement should be carried out by the police department. But wait, SPD posted on their Facebook page they would not be enforcing what the mayor wanted. No law on the books.
Now we can debate whether a state of emergency exists when there is only one active case in a city of 50,000, but who is trying to save face because of their lie?
I feel like I just read “Let’s bash Stillwater” and make the whole town look bad. And was the bright OSU picture was the subliminal point?
The mayor of Stillwater is a big pussy, and looked like it on national television. If he had any intestinal fortitude at all, he’d find the slime ball that threatened the employee with a firearm and throw his worthless ass in jail. You don’t back down from these ill informed, “I can do whatever I want or I’ll shoot you”, disgusting, pieces of shit. You lock them up!