Things are getting pretty crazy in Michigan.

Despite the state only having 12 confirmed cases thus far, Michigan’s far-left mayor Gretchen Whitmer is taking things to an extreme.

Whitmer has already begun shutting down all K-12 schools, as well as restaurants, bars, gyms, and theaters.

She even made churches and other places of worship shut down after gatherings of 250 or more was declared a crime.

Just look at the number of churches that canceled after state authorities made it a crime for 250 or more Michiganians to assemble together. Of course, the restriction was arbitrary. It was and is absurd to claim that 249 people are somehow safer than 251.

The fact that spiritual authorities closed churches out of deference to the orders of temporal authorities is also troubling, especially when you consider that houses of worship stayed open during the Black Death and countless other plagues, wars, conflicts, eras of tumult and times of pandemics. The fact that some bishops, priests, ministers, pastors and other clergymen of several denominations have been complicit is even more outrageous. [Detroit News]

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But the scariest part of all is that Whitmer is refusing to rule out “martial law,” which essentially means that Michigan would use their police force against residents in wake of the coronavirus.

It is time for Michigan’s governor to declare martial law.

After all, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer refused to rule out such a declaration during a recent radio interview.

Martial law would at least give some element of certainty to the wide-ranging actions taken by Whitmer in response to the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.

Right now, many Michigan residents, including business owners targeted by restrictions or closures, are living or doing business in a de facto state of marital law.

The only thing that is missing is the formal declaration itself. Without martial law, the Democratic governor’s actions have been seen by some as legally suspect at best and deeply unconstitutional at worst. [Detroit News]

Whitmer will the state of Michigan declining into mass chaos with this type of language.

It’s no wonder that her approval ratings in the state are less than dismal.

This piece was written by Sophie O’Hara on March 17, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.

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