GOP U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says a proposal to
“reopen” New Hampshire to be released on Friday, May 2 is, on the contrary, a
death wish for the state and will entomb the state’s economy for years. Andy strenuously
opposes and objects to the “bureaucratic and regulatory state” that is being
imposed on Granite Staters. Andy will soon begin a campaign of civil disobedience
to help lift the yoke of enslavement from state residents.
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Andy Martin says New Hampshire officials have a “death
wish” going forward to destroy the state’s economy while saving only a handful
of lives
Andy says that protecting the medically vulnerable
does not mandate impoverishing a million New Hampshire residents
Andy says he will defy the state government’s orders
and soon launch a campaign of civil disobedience against the new regulatory
state imposed by New Hampshire officials
Andy predicts that if the latest proposals are enacted
and enforced, New Hampshire Republicans will be wiped out in November; this is
a case of blatant and incompetent political suicide
“They are destroying our New Hampshire,” Andy says. “Why
aren’t we following the ‘Swedish model’ instead of the ‘Chinese model?’”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
(MANCHESTER, NH) (May
1, 2020) --- New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that
he objects to the bureaucratic regulatory state that is being imposed on New
Hampshire residents. The state is to announce new and continuing regulations,
as well as a continuing lock-down of state residents, on May 2nd. An “emergency”
declaration has also been renewed by the state. Andy opposes the systematic destruction
of New Hampshire, its traditions and its economy.
“It is time for New Hampshire
Patriots to stand up and oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy that is about to be dumped
on New Hampshire’s residents and businesses,” Andy says. “I not only oppose the
continuation of the nonexistent and bogus ‘emergency,’ I oppose the bureaucratic
codes that are being used to straightjacket citizens and businesses.
“Public safety and public
health are paramount concerns, but when these legitimate concepts are pursued
to illegitimate ends, the state is going to collapse. The Supreme Court
declared unconstitutional the National
Industrial Recovery Act in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295
U.S. 495. The NRA was a regulatory scheme similar to the Covid-19 schemes being
imposed on Americans by state officials.
“I would like to
present the basis for my opposition and forthcoming civil disobedience:
1. The Deep State
and incompetent CDC bureaucrats betrayed the American People
“Americans generally,
and Granite Staters, have been betrayed by a mindless Washington bureaucracy and
Deep State. When the virus is gone and cooler heads review the history of this
medical and economic disaster, the public will be outraged at how the American
people were betrayed by incompetent bureaucrats, starting at the Centers for Disease
Control (“CDC”). The history of how the incompetent CDC refused to use a simple
virus test, developed in less than a week in Germany, and initially created a defective
test and then a series of delays before a workable ‘test’ was developed, is a
disgrace to our democracy. Germany’s test would have worked fine. But the CDC’s
‘not invented here’ arrogance deprived the medical system of testing ability
for weeks and allowed the crisis to get out of hand. The CDC deprived the president
and others of meaningful information when it was most needed. If I get to the U.
S. Senate, I will work to see the CDC head is fired. He was an incompetent
leader and administrator.
2. Of necessity, I
support and endorse the state’s prior actions
“When the State of
New Hampshire eventually declared an ‘emergency’ and lock-down, it was
proceeding blindly. A ‘model’ from Imperial College in London was useless. A
similar model from the University of Washington was almost as useless. But
government bureaucrats such as Anthony Fauci used these defective models to
scare the president and the American people by initially predicting millions of
deaths and stampeding our society to adopt a nationwide lock-down approach.
“Nevertheless, in the
classic computer expression, ‘garbage in garbage out,’ New Hampshire state officials
had garbage from the federal government to work with and developed a plan that was
garbage. Thus, because state officials were duped by federal bureaucrats, I
give New Hampshire a ‘pass’ on their initial lock-down and ‘emergency.’
3. Why was the Swedish
model not used; why was it ignored?
“Sweden is a
civilized society. Swedish leaders saw the hysteria enveloping the world and chose
a different approach. No, the Swedish model did not completely avoid loss of
life or illness. But Sweden never closed its restaurants and bars, never
locked-down the people. Instead, Swedish authorities enacted sensible restrictions:
groups larger than 50 were banned, large events such as athletic events were
barred, and Swedes were asked to exercise common sense. The result: Sweden has
a death rate similar to that in the United States. But Sweden’s economy is intact,
primary schools are open, and the nation is moving ahead.
“There were and are
risks in any approach, including the Swedish system, but Fauci-led statist bureaucrats
would not consider anything but medieval quarantines, knowing full well the
quarantines would destroy entire industries and might trigger a depression.
“Why is the New Hampshire
state government now not looking to Sweden as a model, and insisting on
imposing a Fauci-Chinese dictatorship on the Granite State?
4. Today, May 2,
there is no “emergency” and no basis for New Hampshire bureaucrats to impose
their imperial rule on residents
“In my opinion, the
claim that there is a basis for an emergency declaration today, May 2, is an
insult to the intelligence and grossly unconstitutional. In my opinion, a bona
fide ‘emergency’ should (1) involve a sudden or surprise act; (2) a situation that
is out of control or difficult to control; (3) a lack of an established protocol
or resources to address the situation.
“In March, the people
were incited by the scare tactics broadcast by the national media and Governor Andrew
Cuomo’s hysteria that 140,000 ICU units and and 40,000 ventilators were needed
immediately. Cuomo also tried to scare the nation by saying ‘You’re next.
Tomorrow, you’re New York.’ Well, time has passed, and Manchester is not New
York. New Hampshire is not New York.
“Nevertheless, New Hampshire
bureaucrats, without much critical thought, declared the original ‘emergency.’
I accepted that action when it was imposed, because the state was given defective
modeling information by Washington. My three-factor emergency approach (above)
reasonably applied.
“But today there is
no coronovirus emergency. There are a handful of corona patients in New
Hampshire hospitals.
“But there is a
genuine, non-corona virus emergency. New Hampshire’s health care system is begun
destroyed by the false emergency, doctors and nurses are being let go. Hospitals
are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a month. This money will
never be recovered. There is an emergency because sick people with cancer and
heart ailments have been deprived of medical care for months. But the ‘emergency’
that was recently renewed is nonexistent. It is a political fraud on the people
of the state. Bureaucrats are ignoring the real emergency, the unemployment and
critical state of health systems that are being destroyed, while they develop plans
to regulate state lakes and beaches. Disgraceful.
5. The
scatter-shot approach has killed our senior citizens
“Ironically, while failing
to protect the ‘vulnerable,’ on the contrary the emergency and lock-down destroyed
the vulnerable. While there are a handful of cases in every age category, the
vast majority of deaths were of people over 60 and, proportionately, of nursing
home and care home residents. So, by locking down the entire state and pretending
the entire state was equally at risk from the virus, we neglected to protect
the very groups of people that were in reality vulnerable. The deaths in
nursing homes were entirely expected. Nursing homes were neglected; they were
the stepchildren of the medical system. So vulnerable seniors were ignored, and
died, while state bureaucrats lavished attention on groups that were at minimal
risk, claiming they were ‘protecting everyone’ when in reality they were
protecting no one.
“The scatter-shot
approach not only failed, it is a disgrace to our humanity that we abandoned
our most vulnerable citizens to neglect and death. Had competent officials sat down
and reviewed input from hospitals and nursing facilities, the anti-virus efforts
would have been concentrated on seniors and the critically ill and not on the blunderbuss
scattershot approach of imprisoning on 1.3 million New Hampshire residents,
almost all of whom were not ill and faced no serious risk. Dr. Benjamin Chan,
the state’s ‘epidemiologist,’ proved to be an incompetent bureaucrat. Why hasn’t
Chan been fired? Because state government is afraid to admit that Concord officials
botched the corona virus response. Fire Chan! He’s worthless.
6. New Hampshire’s
economy will not survive the latest regulatory proposals
“State government proposes
to impose an extended regulatory regime on state businesses starting Friday. A
nonexistent ‘emergency’ is used as the pretext to enslave over a million people
and lock them in their homes, deprive their children of an education and
impoverish the citizenry.
“Restaurants can’t survive
with Concord bureaucrats running their establishments. Salons are being regulated
as what services they can and can’t provide. And so on.
“There are probably
150,000 unemployed people in New Hampshire, and many more under-employed. The
state’s economy will soon collapse and Democrats will gleefully proclaim Donald
Trump the new Herbert Hoover.
7. Civil disobedience
is the inevitable outcome
“New Englanders are a
pretty law-abiding and civil people. But the Boston Tea Party is also in our
history. I foresee massive civil disobedience starting this summer, as Concord
bureaucrats try to deprive the people of access to their property, yes,
the people own the state, the state does not own the people.
“When the American Revolution
began, most people opposed the patriots and there were only a handful of people
willing to confront the King of England. So, don’t be fooled by the claim that the
vast majority of New Hampshire residents want to be ruled and regulated by
Concord bureaucrats. They don’t. As President George Bush once said, ‘[You]
will hear from us.’
8. The current rule-and-regulate
regime will decimate Republicans in November
“If Republicans as a
party do not rise up and oppose the imposition of draconian regulation and restrictions
on New Hampshire residents, by the time the virus has passed voters are only going
to remember their endless and continuing economic pain, and will take revenge
on so-called ‘conservatives’ who refused to open their mouths to oppose the craziness
that is/was being imposed on them.
9. The polls are being
manipulated to deceive the people
“It is obvious that
many people are afraid, especially senior citizens. But the idea that the vast
majority of New Hampshire residents want to remain entombed at home, while
their jobs disappear and they become impoverished, is nonsense. We are closing county
fairs and events, out in the sun and fresh air? Why?
“The motto of this state
used to be ‘Live Free or Die.’ Are the bureaucrats going to change the motto to
‘Live Enslaved and Like it?’ President Reagan warned us our freedom and liberty
are always endangered by power-hungry bureaucrats. Today, the combined threat
posed by the tech titans (Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, etc.) and the Deep
State is an even more insidious than the Cold War. President Trump talks of an ‘invisible
enemy.’ The virus may not be visible, but the politicians and malefactors of
great wealth are the real enemy and they are increasingly powerful and visible.
10. The battle for
the beaches will be a “beetch”
“My family has been
going to Hampton Beach for 100 years. Hampton Beach has never closed. There is
no reason to close the state’s ocean beaches now. The mantra that New Hampshire
will be overrun by hordes of diseased Massachusetts residents is disgraceful and
insulting (should Bay Staters just send a check in the mail?). The safest place
to be may be a beach. Fresh air and sunlight are virus-killers. But yet the
state’s bureaucrats want to kill an entire beach season, and deprive the people
of access to the safest place in the state. On what meat do these Caesars feed?
We must begin a ‘battle for the beaches’ and liberate our shores from the invaders
and Chinese-thinking regulators in Concord.
11. The usurpation
of power by “emergency” is unconstitutional
“Government
bureaucrats, even elected officials, do not have the power under either the New
Hampshire or U. S. Constitutions to rule by government ‘order,’ and control the
table seating of restaurants, the access to public property such as shores and
lakes, and in general to control every aspect of our daily lives based on a
nonexistent ‘emergency.’ The proposed plans to be released Friday are
unconstitutional.
“Well, what do you
think?” asks Andy Martin. “Live free or live under the bureaucratic/regulatory
state being imposed by Concord?”
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He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of
Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City
University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind the Mask”
[www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’
Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of
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Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire
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around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He is New Hampshire’s leading
corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.
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