The Campbell County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday opposing coronavirus restrictions imposed by Gov. Ralph Northam, becoming the first locality in Virginia to declare itself a “First Amendment sanctuary.”
The resolution was proposed in response to tighter virus restrictions announced by Northam before Thanksgiving limiting public gatherings to 25 people or fewer, expanding Virginia’s mask mandate to include children over the age of five and prohibiting restaurants from selling alcohol after 10 p.m.
The effort mirrors last year’s “Second Amendment sanctuary” movement, when several counties and cities, including Campbell County, passed measures rejecting new gun-control laws in the commonwealth. Similar to those declarations, Campbell’s “First Amendment sanctuary” status appears to be symbolic.
A group known as the Virginia Constitutional Conservatives has played a vital role in the latest push to reject statewide guidelines, drafting a template resolution online that proposes bold provisions for constitutional officers to follow.
The template calls for local law enforcement to arrest “any State Police officer, State Health Agent, or Federal Agent” who attempts to enforce the governor’s order and for commonwealth’s attorneys “not prosecute the unconstitutional mandates prohibiting the people’s right to peaceably assemble.” Failure to follow these clauses “will result in the immediate removal of County funding.”
Fantastic! Hopefully others will follow, thus resulting in a restoration of our Constitutional rights. Be brave, strong and resolute and we will over come this tyranny together.
LOL good luck with that.
So you think applying the same logic to the marxist causes of BLM, OCCUPY, harbouring illegals is OK?..Those groups are involved with ACTS of treson. Since they call for the destuction of constitutional values while abusing and hiding behind the 1st amendment!! The virginia towns stand against tryanny. Is law based on continuing the republic not destroying it!!
Excellent job Campbell county. Wicomico, now it’s your turn. Show them some support!..mho
Those VA counties need to secede and join WV.