Beginning tomorrow, anyone indoors in Keene, New Hampshire, without a facemask (excluding a sliver of exceptions) could be cited by local law enforcement. They won’t cite the business or property owner. They will cite you, and repeat offenders will be fined.
Because the police have nothing better to do.
[W]hile previous mandates across the country would often target businesses for failure of compliance, the Keene City Council voted “to fine repeat violators rather than penalize businesses that fail to enforce the new rules.” That includes a verbal and written warning upon the first infraction. The second time, the maskless individual will face a $100 fine, and the following violations rise to $250.
Public comment overwhelmingly opposed the measure, but the council voted 10-3 in favor of it anyway, so the Keene City Council is not the least bit interested in representing actual residents. They are there to rule you.
Of course, this is a problem, and it is because Keene has a college. Places that, like Democrats, will eventually destroy everything they touch.
To this day, people will say, we don’t want a prison in our town, or a halfway house, or whatever, when the real threat to their way of life is a college campus and the people who populate it.
Progressive Jihadis use them like Mosques to radicalize domestic terrorists who then steal your representative government out from under you, reducing it to an oligarchic despotism.
And in New Hampshire, where the state lets the out-of-state Jr Progressive Jihadis vote here as if they live here, these college towns become impossible to flip.
You can punish the local economy all you like. The negative influence of the campus presence will continue to keep lefty-losers on the proverbial throne, who are more than happy to rule over the ruins.
It’s a complex problem to solve but not impossible.
If we had a governor like Ron DeSantis, we’d have clarified long ago that the towns do not have this power unless the state grants it and put that in writing.
Sadly, Gov. Sununu is okay with local ordinances of this sort, and there are no alternatives to him at present that do not look worse.
