Militias Against Masks
By Luke Mogelson
August 17, 2020
... Seven weeks earlier, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, had added “personal-care services” to the list of nonessential businesses required to temporarily close in the interest of containing the coronavirus ... On May 4th, Manke, who is seventy-seven, had reopened his barbershop. Four days later, Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, had declared it an “imminent danger” to public health, and state troopers had served Manke with a cease-and-desist order. That had been Friday. Now, on Monday, Manke’s supporters waited to see if he’d defy the order.
Manke arrived at nine-thirty, to cheers and applause ... Customers had travelled from all over Michigan, and some from out of state — a fact highlighted by Nessel to underscore the extent of the viral hazard.
When the “Open” sign flickered on, people crowded inside ...
Around noon, Glenn Beck called, live on the air ...
... Protesters at the April 30th rally had called the officers guarding the Michigan House chamber “traitors” and “filthy rats.” Karl Manke’s customers had told me that the state police who served Manke with a cease-and-desist order were “Storm Troopers.” When officers issued citations to some of the female stylists at the second Michigan Freedom Fund rally, protesters likened them to the Gestapo ...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/24/the-militias-against-masks
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Nothing more AmeriKKKan than that.
If you are a fucking Fascist.
