A Virginia restaurant owner is openly defying health authorities’ COVID-19 restrictions as the fate of his business lies with a judge.
For more than a month now, the owner of Gourmeltz restaurant in Fredericksburg has refused to make his workers wear masks.
The state has sued to force him to close, and a judge has promised to decide his future in the coming days.
Matt Strickland has spent five years building his business from food truck to big storefront, but all that is at risk because Strickland refuses to comply with Virginia’s mandates on masking and social distancing inside.
Virginia says the mandates are put in place to slow the spread of a virus that’s now killed more than half a million Americans.
“I’m not afraid of the state, I’m not afraid of the federal government,” said Strickland. “I spent most of my adult life fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have no problem coming home and fighting here in Virginia.”
“If you do what the government says just because they say so, they’ll keep taking and taking and the things you give them you’ll never get back,” Strickland said.
He is so right, just because government says so doesn’t mean its right and they do just keep taking and taking til nothing is left.
Wow, Big Head Hogan would have you arrested by the misfit MSP staff who drive him around.
But, if more Patriots did this instead of watching TV
we would get back to some normalcy
I dont like speed limits, stop lights or paying for anything. I just wonder, financially how long i would last around these parts if i made all decisions that favored me.
Just sayin…
5:28 Well for people like you who can’t think for themselves you’d be in a heap of trouble?
Use that pea brain God gave you son. You might be surprised just what you learn. ?♀️
You don’t suspend the constitution because of a made up pandemic.