Protesters plan 'Freedom Rally' in Wisconsin after governor extends stay-at-home order

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

Protesters are planning a “Freedom Rally” in Wisconsin following the governor’s extension of a stay-at-home order, marking the latest public backlash to state efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The demonstration, led by ReOpen Wisconsin and Wisconsinites Against Excessive Quarantine, is scheduled for April 24, the day the governor's initial order was slated to expire.

"Government mandating sick people to stay home is called quarantine. However, the government mandating healthy citizens to stay home, forcing businesses and churches to close is called tyranny," ReOpen Wisconsin said in a statement to a local NBC affiliate.

Madison Marie, one of the Wisconsin rally organizers, told Newsweek that social distancing could still be observed at the protest, but admits it could be difficult.

"People are responsible for their own health, but we ask that they use common sense and if they are sick we ask that they stay home," Marie said. "If they feel safer wearing a mask or gloves, they are free to do so.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493313-protesters-freedom-rally-wisconsin-governor-stay-at-home-order

[durablend]

1. Sowing dissent in swing states

We better have a plan to deal with it.

[hadEnuf]

17. If people are stupid enough to follow this then I doubt they will be voting Democratic anyway.

[HotTeaBag]

21. Or alive to vote at all.

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[hadEnuf]

22. Sad but true.

[ffr]

2. Wonderful!

[left-of-center2012]

3. Trump is inciting 'social disobedience'

Blood is on his hands

[slumcamper]

20. Hmmm...an Interesting variation on the tradition of "civil disobedience"

You are correct. Could it also be construed as "UNCIVIL disobedience"?

[ananda]

27. Well, they aren't the red party/states for nothing!

!!!

[usaf-vet]

38. Treason, sedition whatever you call it the potential results are the same. Violence and injured.....

.....citizens. Sick or physically harmed it's all the same.

JUST IMAGINE IF OBAMA HAD EVER SUGGESTED ANY SUCH THING.

[Newest Reality]

4. Hey,

Go for it. If you are willing to get deathly ill and die for a cause, you do have the freedumb to do so.

This is for all of us as Americans together, so the loss is yours and the death will not be remembered as the heroic act you imagine. But then, you can't imagine much farther than your noses.

Farewell, noble patriots. Carry on.

[groundloop]

11. There's a huge flaw with that logic - they'll certainly spread the virus to innocent people

These dumb asses simply don't care about others, or don't grasp the simple fact that if they get the virus they will be spreading it to anyone who's unlucky enough to be within a few feet of them.

I dearly hope that Dr. Fauci calls out this stupidity at the next tRump Covid-19 rally.

[Newest Reality]

13. I know what you mean.

I think that, too.

I was egging them on as a parody, or chiding actually. Although, they might be the types that if you tell them to do it, they will do the opposite. If you tell them to stop, they just get more indignant and adament if you know what I mean.

Not that a comment on a forum is going to have any impact, but you are right.

[Blue Owl]

5. You show 'em, fuckers...

Now go git yerself some FREEDUMB!

[yaesu]

6. I bet putin is behind a lot of this, I know the uber rich Devos family in MI was behind the Michigan

demonstrations a few days ago.

[DBoon]

7. Rally for Death

You have a highly contagious deadly disease that is passed by people who have no symptoms, and these idiots are protesting the only feasible way to control it

[Ellipsis]

8. Not without a permit.

Could get interesting.

[Tech]

9. I don't want any reporters to cover this, and I hope Madison businesses close all

public facilities, such as bathrooms.

[Squinch]

19. This. Don't feed the trolls.

[elleng]

10. Similar in MD (Annapolis.)

'Reopen Maryland' protest planned in Annapolis, expecting over 100 participants
ReOpen Maryland and Marylanders Against Excessive Quarantine will peacefully protest in Annapolis on April 18, pushing for quarantine to be lifted by May 1.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/maryland-group-protests-to-reopen-state/65-eabb583d-d45e-40c9-835f-22f8dd9cf28f?

[Initech]

12. Want to keep it going until August? Keep showing up, assholes.

[hadEnuf]

14. The freedom to get and spread COVID-19

"Government mandating sick people to stay home is called quarantine. However, the government mandating healthy citizens to stay home, forcing businesses and churches to close is called tyranny," ReOpen Wisconsin said in a statement to a local NBC affiliate."

"Healthy" citizens can be infected and contagious for weeks before they are sick. How can some people be so dangerously stupid?


Falsely leading people into danger is the real tyranny.


Unbelievable.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Freedom Fries batter-dipped in corona virus

*cough* *cough* .. breathe deep, while you can

[LiberalFighter]

16. Madison Marie's response is idiotic.

[Nacht Owl]

18. Yes, FREEDOM

to get sick, to die, to kill your parents and maybe your children too. God Bless Uhmerica!

[McCamy Taylor]

23. If they rally in cars then they are all fakers

[Voltaire2]

24. Trump campaign plans fake protest rallies and massive nationwide PR campaign.

There I fixed the headline.

[lonely bird]

25. If they get sick after their rally

Turn them away at the hospital.

[Talitha]

26. This is what happens when you plant your flag on that pile of manure in the White House.

[slumcamper]

28. Coughs and prayers.

Is there such a thing as a COLLECTIVE Darwin Award?

[jmowreader]

29. No, but I foresee an Ig Nobel award in their future

MEDICINE PRIZE: Presented to President Donald J. Trump and the leaders of Michigan's "Operation Gridlock" and Wisconsin's "Freedom Rally" for proving social distancing to be effective prophylaxis for the disease COVID-19 by convening rallies protesting social distancing regulations and sparking outbreaks of COVID-19 infection in their participants.

[rurallib]

30. turn off the TV cameras and the protests will stop

All they want is the videos on the nightly news.

[TheFourthMind]

31. Would love to hear the protesters definition of freedom. And tyranny. n/t

[Pantagruel]

32. "government mandating healthy citizens"

Major problem , you don't know they're healthy. Maybe if they had broader access to testing?

[BlueIdaho]

33. I hope he invites all of them to the White House

After their “big” rally. He needs to shake hands with each and every one of them.

[mwooldri]

34. Oh, a "Catch the Rona" rally. Wonderful... :( NT

[bluestarone]

36. I fear it's only gonna get worse

Ignoring them until they do anything to impede traffic or any other problems is the only recourse? They will just become more encouraged!

[Thekaspervote]

37. These are all one time events that yes may lead to isolated incidents of violence..sad

As far as some large civil uprising... covid19 has it covered. History teaches us that a sick army is a useless army

Think Armond Bundy and his idiots... calling for toilet paper after just 2 days

[Hotler]

40. and lots of people sent them rubber dicks. They got really pissed on camera

We should dick to the orange one.

[Hotler]

39. Are they going to bring their guns? nt

[left-of-center2012]

41. They did the other day.

[Hotler]

42. How is it they get to do it and if Occupy Wall St. had done that.... nt

[Polybius]

46. Occupy Wall St. was in NYC

Getting a carry permit here is impossible unless you're rich.

[RhodeIslandOne]

43. "People are responsible for their own health, but we ask that they use common sense"

STOP RIGHT THERE. NOT POSSIBLE. YOU ARE DUMP SUPPORTERS.

ENJOY YOUR DEATH, YOU FUCKS.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

44. FYI Gov Evers has 72% approval rating for handlng of

crisis - incl substantial majority of repupblicans.

This action doesnt really represent WI - very much a minority view. Its

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-americans-like-how-their-governor-is-handling-the-coronavirus-outbreak/

[Gore1FL]

45. I have lost my sympathy for stupid people.

Let them infect themselves. Fuck them. If there is a genetic predisposition to hysteria and fact avoidance then the human race will be better for it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. Freedumb rally

Fixed it for them