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| Sacred Triduum Schedule 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-02-2025, 04:41 PM - Forum: Event Schedule
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Holy Week - Sacred Triduum
April 17-19, 2025
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✠ ✠ ✠ Holy Thursday ✠ ✠ ✠
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Confessions / Rosary - 2:15 PM
High Mass / Procession - 3:00 PM
Conference on the Passion - 6:00 PM
Holy Hour Reparation - 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM
Adoration till Midnight
✠ ✠ ✠ Good Friday ✠ ✠ ✠
Confessions / Rosary - 9:45 AM
Mass of the Pre-Sanctified - 10:30 AM
Stations of the Cross - 1:00 PM
Conference on the Passion - 1:45 PM
Sorrowful Mother Devotions - 2:30 PM
✠ ✠ ✠ Holy Saturday ✠ ✠ ✠
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Easter Vigil Ceremonies / Mass - 10:00 AM
Blessing of Easter Baskets - Immediately Following
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Latin on Their Lips. Treason in Their Deeds. |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-02-2025, 04:15 PM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Latin on Their Lips. Treason in Their Deeds.
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The Catholic Trumpet | April 2, 2025
They speak Latin. They wear Tradition. But they refuse the Cross and reject the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ—King of kings, Judge of nations, and rightful Ruler of all society.
This is not fidelity. It is betrayal—clothed in reverence.
Vatican II enthroned man. The New Mass enthroned ambiguity.
Now, a false resistance enthrones silence in the name of peace.
But peace without truth is treason.
As +Archbishop Lefebvre declared:
“We cannot be in accord with those who uncrown Our Lord!” — Fideliter, No. 68, 1988
And as St. Paul warns:
“And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.” — 2 Thessalonians 2:10–11, Douay-Rheims
We do not judge hearts—but we must judge doctrines, public deeds, and the organized silence that aids the revolution.
There is no neutrality in this war.
Christ must reign: in doctrine, in worship, in society, and in every soul.
Now is the hour to choose:
Compromise or Combat. Silence or Witness. Treason—or the Reign of Christ the King.
There is only one Faith.
Only one Church.
Only one Resistance.
And He shall reign. Whether with us—or despite us.
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| Non-Compromise Always Has One End |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-01-2025, 12:09 PM - Forum: Resources Online
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Non-Compromise Always Has One End
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Padre Pegrino [sedevacantist references removed - slightly adapted] | April 1, 2025
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.—2 Tim 3:12-13.
The word for “all” above in Greek is πάντες or pantes in the Latin alphabet. Just like the English above, all obviously means everyone. That is, every single person who desires to live a pious life in Christ will be persecuted, even if they are not looking for it. When seen from the point of view of heaven, this is more of a promise than a threat! [...]
Look at St. John the Baptist. The great forerunner fearlessly defended marriage between one-man-and-woman against the corrupt hierarchy of his day and the pagan invaders. Eventually, the two groups saw to his execution. The Baptist lost his head over marriage and this fulfilled his role of preparing Israel for hundreds of thousands of converts to Catholicism. Now compare this to the heresy of Amoris Laetitia (demanding the sacrilege of two sacraments—marriage and the Eucharist) as well as the heresies of Fiducia Supplicans (yes, the word “couple” is in there in reference to blessing gays nine times.) [...]
But now consider St. Thomas More. He did everything he could to avoid martyrdom from a corrupt king and corrupt hierarchy. Yet the similarities between him and the Baptist are astonishing: Both of them defended marriage as being between one-man-and-woman to a corrupt hierarchy of their day (pertaining to the one true world religion of the time—even though both groups would quickly lose it—one by becoming “the Jews” and the other by becoming “the Anglicans.”) Yet the similarities go on. The quiet but witty British lawyer and the ascetic-man of the desert both had the exact same execution of being beheaded in store for them. Why? It came for defending the sacredness of marriage.
Non-compromise always has one goal: Union with God. In putting God ahead of man, some saints will live their non-compromise on their sleeves (like St. John the Baptist) and attain a speedy martyrdom. But other saints will live non-compromise quietly, like St. Thomas More. Perhaps we could even say St. Thomas More lived in a manner that could be deemed “conflict-averse.” Yet he still put God ahead of human respect and attained the glorious crown of martyrdom. Again, the two saints defended marriage and both died by beheading, even though their personalities (and sense of non-compromise) looked very different.
But we know that “all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”—2 Tim 3:12. This is true, regardless of having a personality like St. John the Baptist or one like St. Thomas More. The good news is you can be a firebrand or peacemaker, and yet still find martyrdom. The bad news is that if you get along with everyone without any persecution, you’re not living your Catholic faith. (Re-read the line from St. Paul if you think that’s an exaggeration.)
Non-compromise always has one end: White martyrdom or or red martyrdom. Some spiritual writers have said you need to either be a white martyr or a red martyr to enter heaven. In fact, the Word of God says just as much. Also, notice another aspect of complimentary theology in St. John and St. Thomas: One was a celibate and the other was a married man. Though only one was a virgin, both had the love of God to attain to the crown of martyrdom [...].
It’s not about being obnoxious. According to the approved apparition from the 16th century of Our Lady of Good Success, the Four Virtues required for Christians following the fallout of 20th century were made very clear by the Mother of God herself: “The freemen from the slavery of these heresies, those who the merciful love of my most Holy Son will destine for the restoration will have a great strength of will, constancy, bravery and much confidence in God. To test this faith and the confidence of the just, there will be times when it will seem all is lost and paralyzed. This then, will be the beginning of the complete restoration.”
Notice again the virtues you really need to make it to heaven right now to be a red or white martyr are: 1) a great strength of will 2) constancy 3) bravery and 4) much confidence in God.
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| Our Lady and 'The Apple of Her Eye' |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-01-2025, 12:02 PM - Forum: Our Lady
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The Apple of Her Eye
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NLM | Tuesday, April 01, 2025
“The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. From the soil, the Lord God caused to grow every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” (Gen. 2, 8-9)
This 17th century painting by an anonymous follower of the Flemish artist Ambrosius Benson (1490-1550) portrays the Madonna and Child with the soft gaze of loving maternal devotion. Mary’s facial features are idealised in the manner of ancient Greek sculptures of goddesses such as Venus, by the convention of artists in the Renaissance period to draw inspiration from classical forms. The idealisation of Mary was not done to present her as a goddess, but rather to emphasize that she is a person of great beauty and holiness who is worthy of our veneration.
The white swaddling clothes that envelop Christ remind us of his future burial shroud, linking his infancy to his ultimate sacrifice through his passion and death before the Resurrection. As is common in oil paintings of this period, the sharp contrast between the luminous figures and the dark background emphasises that Christ is the Light that overcomes the darkness (cf. John 1, 5).
The painting shows two fruits: Mary holds a pear, while Christ has an apple. The juxtaposition of the pear and apple suggests that the fruits’ symbolism relates to the different trees of Eden described in the book of Genesis, and referred to in the quoted passage above.
First, the apple alludes to the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This is the fruit that Adam and Eve ate, although God had forbidden them to do so. Scripture does not name the fruit as an apple, but the connection arose because the Latin word malum means both “apple” and “evil”; it therefore became a symbol of the fruit of this tree, and hence of the Fall. The Church Fathers suggest that this malum - bad fruit - was presented by God as a test of obedience for Adam and Eve, which, of course, they failed spectacularly. Their disobedience in eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil brought about the Fall, subjecting mankind to the effects of sin and evil thereafter.
When the apple is in the hand of Christ, the New Adam, it is transformed into the fruit of salvation. This additional interpretation is based on a passage from the Canticle of Canticles 2, 3:
“As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my love among young men. In his delightful shade, I sit, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.”
In Christian tradition, the pear as a sweet fruit symbolizes divine love. In this context, in juxtaposition with the apple, it might also be considered the sweet fruit of the Tree of Life. Mary holds the pear in her left hand and supports Jesus, connecting the two in our minds. As members of the Church, we eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, which is Jesus, present in the Eucharist, and are, as a result, promised eternal life.
Church Fathers such as Ephraim the Syrian speculated that Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden to prevent them from eating the fruit of eternal life, which, after the Fall, would have condemned man to eternal misery:
“For if he [Adam] had the audacity to eat of the Tree of which he was commanded not to eat, how much then more would he make a dash for the Tree concerning which he had received no command? Lest therefore he eat of it after having transgressed and live forever bearing the shame of the transgression, God expelled him from Paradise.”— (Commentary on Genesis, Section II, 31).
Through his Church, God now invites all people to enter the life initially intended for Adam and Eve, but from which they were initially barred. Thus, humanity has gained more than Original Paradise. God offers us the path to eternal life in heaven, representing not just the redemption of man but also the elevation of human nature to something higher. The naturally sweet pear and the redeemed or, one might say, supernaturally ripened apple can be allusions to the Eucharist, perhaps indicating that through the Church, we are offered both what would have been without the Fall and what came from the Fall through Christ’s intervention.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Freemasonry seeks to ‘destroy everything’ through permanent revolution |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-01-2025, 11:59 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: Freemasonry seeks to ‘destroy everything’ through permanent revolution
The psychopandemic farce, the climate fraud, the Ukrainian crisis, and the threat of nuclear conflict are all part and parcel of the 'destroy everything' plan
that the globalist elite sets out to do in order to force society to accept its technocratic tyranny.
Mar 31, 2025
The following was written and published by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on X on March 28, 2025.
(LifeSiteNews) — For more than three centuries, Freemasonry has been waging an all-out war against the Catholic Church and Christian society. It has as its aim the subversion of the social and religious order – the divine κόσμος (order) – by means of Revolution, which is the principle of the infernal χάος (chaos).
This Revolution must be permanent, just like the crises and emergencies by which it pretentiously justifies its own destructive action are also never-ending. “Solve et coagula (dissolve and coagulate).”
No wonder [French President Emmanuel] Macron, World Economic Forum emissary, recently said: “It is more difficult to reinvent everything when not everything has been destroyed.”
The psychopandemic farce, the climate fraud, the Ukrainian crisis, and the threat of nuclear conflict are all part and parcel of the “destroy everything” plan that the globalist elite sets out to do in order to force society to accept its technocratic tyranny.
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| California bishop informs Traditional Latin Mass order it’s no longer needed in diocese |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-01-2025, 11:55 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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California bishop informs Traditional Latin Mass order it’s no longer needed in diocese
Oakland Bishop Michael Barber said in a statement that the diocese has 'enough properly trained clergy to provide the Traditional Latin Mass to the faithful.'
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Mar 31, 2025
OAKLAND, California (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — A California bishop asked that the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) leave his diocese.
Bishop Michael Barber, S.J., announced that, effective April 20, the ICKSP, which has been in the Diocese of Oakland for 20 years, will need to leave, stressing that there are enough priests in the diocese who can celebrate the TLM. Since the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, the Institute has faced persecution in some dioceses.
“Since the Oakland diocese has enough properly trained clergy to provide the Traditional Latin Mass to the faithful, Bishop Barber has requested the Institute of Christ the King-Sovereign Priest leave St. Margaret Mary to find a more suitable setting for their apostolate,” the statement read.
The ICKSP currently has an apostolate at St. Margaret Mary Church, which it shares with diocesan clergy who also offer the Ordinary form of the Mass.
“I am grateful to the Institute of Christ the King-Sovereign Priest for serving the needs of the Traditional Latin Mass Community in the Diocese of Oakland since 2005,” Bishop Barber said in the statement. “We now have more than enough diocesan priests able to fulfill this very worthy spiritual need.”
“We pray for God’s blessings on the Institute in their pursuit of this new chapter in their ministry,” he added.
LifeSiteNews reached out to the ICKSP’s Oakland apostolate for a response to the bishop’s decision but did not immediately receive a response. LifeSite also reached out to the Diocese of Oakland asking why the Institute should be removed after two decades in the diocese but had not received a reply before publication time.
It’s worth noting that Barber has a history of affirming Church teaching. He supported San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in 2022 after he barred then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Holy Eucharist due to her pro-abortion stance. In 2023, Barber and Cordileone issued a pastoral letter condemning gender ideology.
Pope Francis promulgated the controversial motu proprio Traditionis Custodes in July 2021. The document abrogated the universal permission for the celebration of the TLM granted by Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum and gave the bishops the power to restrict its celebration within their dioceses.
Since the initial promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, the Vatican has implemented further restrictive measures on the ancient liturgy. In December 2021, the Vatican issued a responsa stating that diocesan clergy are barred from celebrating Old Rite sacraments and must be willing to concelebrate the Novus Ordo. In February 2023, Francis issued a rescript restricting bishops’ ability to dispense priests from the restrictions of Traditionis Custodes.
Since the motu proprio was enacted, the Institute has faced persecution in multiple dioceses. Most notably in 2022, when notorious heterodox Cardinal Blase Cupich demanded ICKSP in Chicago sign a document stating that the Novus Ordo Mass is the only true expression of the Roman rite, thereby rejecting the traditional Roman rite, among other demands.
After refusing to sign this document, which goes against the order’s charism of celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass exclusively, Cupich subsequently barred the Institute from celebrating Mass or hearing confessions.
Last year, in an audience with ICKSP leaders, Pope Francis insisted the order continue to serve the Church according to its own proper charism.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: You Are the Vendée |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-30-2025, 08:13 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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You Are the Vendée
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The Catholic Trumpet [Emphasis mine] | March 29, 2025
When the Faith is betrayed, Catholics must do what they have always done: remain faithful, suffer in silence, fight for the truth, and wait for God’s hour.
In 1793, the Vendée refused the civil oath.
Today, Catholics must refuse the errors of Vatican II, the poisoned New Mass, and the silence of those who know better—but protect error with their silence.
This short video is for the forgotten.
For those without the Mass.
For families who pray in living rooms and sanctify Sunday with a Rosary and tears.
Better no Mass than a Mass of betrayal.
Better exile than compromise.
Better martyrdom than submission to error.
They had the civil oath. We have Vatican II and silence.
They had bayonets. We have betrayal.
But the Cross remains—and it is enough.
We kneel before Our Lord Jesus Christ, reigning from the Cross.
We read the Mass of the day.
We pray the Rosary.
We make a Spiritual Communion.
We make acts of perfect contrition.
We consecrate ourselves daily to the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Immaculate Heart.
We offer reparation.
We do not judge souls.
But we will not follow the Indult.
We will not follow the Neo-SSPX.
We will not follow the false Resistance—until they condemn error, break with compromise, and confess the Faith whole and entire.
We refuse to betray Our Lord.
We resist in silence, in prayer, and in union with the Cross.
This is not nostalgia. It is the Catholic Faith.
You are the Vendée.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Seven Verbatim Errors from Bishop Williamson’s Mahopac Conference |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-30-2025, 07:37 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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7 Verbatim Errors from Bishop Williamson’s Mahopac Conference
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly reformatted, emphasis mine] | March 27, 2025
“It must be understood immediately that we do not hold to the absurd idea that if the New Mass is valid, we are free to assist at it. The Church has always forbidden the faithful to assist at the Masses of heretics and schismatics even when they are valid. It is clear that no one can assist at sacrilegious Masses or at Masses which endanger our faith.…All these innovations are authorized. One can fairly say without exaggeration that most of these [new] Masses are sacrilegious acts which pervert the Faith by diminishing it. The de-sacralization is such that these Masses risk the loss of their supernatural character, their mysterium fidei; they would then be no more than acts of natural religion. These New Masses are not only incapable of fulfilling our Sunday obligation, but are such that we must apply to them the canonical rules which the Church customarily applies to communicatio in sacris with Orthodox Churches and Protestant sects.” (The New Mass and the Pope, November, 8, 1979)
Bishop Richard Williamson once stood courageously alongside +Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the battle for Catholic Tradition. He helped expose the crisis in the Church and resisted the destruction of the Faith following the Second Vatican Council.
Many of our new listeners may be unaware that Bishop Williamson’s later teachings departed publicly and materially from the path of +Archbishop Lefebvre. This video is necessary precisely because confusion still remains—and some continue to deny what is now a matter of public record. Ironically, it was Bishop Williamson himself who gave permission to expose such errors when he said:
“I’m going to stick my neck out… and if anybody wants to chop it off, they’re welcome.”
This short video presents seven verbatim quotes—unaltered and unedited—from his 2015 Mahopac Conference. Each one stands as a clear departure from sound Catholic doctrine and Thomistic clarity. These are not private slips. They are public errors. They demand a public reckoning.
We release this video out of fidelity to the truth, out of love for souls, and for the honor of the Church. We pray for the repose of Bishop Williamson’s soul.
“It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.”
—2 Maccabees 12:46
7 Verbatim Quotes from the Mahopac Conference
“The golden rule is this, the absolute rule of rules seems to be with this: Do whatever you need to nourish your faith.” (~00:06)
“If you need to attend a society Mass, a decent society Mass—just like she's spoken of a decent Novus Ordo Mass… go to the society Mass.” (~00:24)
“There have been Eucharistic miracles with the Novus Ordo Mass.” (~00:47)
“While the new religion is false, it’s dangerous, and it strangles grace… at the same time, there are still cases where it can be used—and is used still—to build the faith.” (~00:53)
“I would like to say it's all black or it's all white, but if I look at the way it is, it's something of both.” (~01:14)
→ Ambiguity
“Therefore, there are cases when even the Novus Ordo Mass can be attended with an effect of building one’s faith instead of losing it. That’s almost heresy within tradition, but that’s what I think.” (~01:23)
“Therefore, I would not say every single person must stay away from every single Novus Ordo Mass… if they can trust their own judgment.” (~01:58)
Final Note
These statements were never retracted.
And his bishops remained publicly silent: +Faure. +Zendejas. +Ballini. +Tomas Aquinas. +Morgan. +Stobnicki.
This silence is not neutral. It is a grave failure of duty.
“To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe...such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God.”
—Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, §14
The time has come to speak.
Will you?
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| New York Greenlights Quarantine Camps [March 2025] |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-29-2025, 08:08 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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New York Greenlights Quarantine Camps
By Bobbie Anne Flower Cox, American Thinker | March 29, 2025
Though somewhat hard to imagine in 2025 with COVID-mania in our rearview mirrors, the truth of the matter is that the highest court in New York, the Court of Appeals, has unbelievably opened the door for quarantine camps to become a reality. I have fought the governor in court for the past three years to prevent quarantine camps from taking hold, and I was successful to some extent (the Department of Health cannot currently throw you into a quarantine facility), but ultimately the State has been given the green light by our courts. A unimaginable travesty of justice!
When COVID-19 hit back in March of 2020, the NYS Legislature (illegally, I might add) gave then-governor Andrew Cuomo the power to make “directives” (read “laws”). Continuing with the illegal trend, Cuomo then passed that power on to the Department of Health (DoH). The DoH then created the “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” regulation, which the public rightly dubbed the “Quarantine Camp” reg. The regulation was not a law, as it did not come from the NYS Legislature. Instead, it was a reg written by unelected bureaucrats who answer to nobody but the bureaucrat or politician who hired them. The reg actually conflicted with our long-standing (full-of-due-process-protections) quarantine law that was passed by the Legislature in 1953. Regs cannot conflict with laws! That is a violent breach of Separation of Powers, which is the cornerstone of our free society.
Details on the atrocities of this reg can be found in a previous article. But in sum, the Quarantine Camp regulation gave the unelecteds in the DoH the power to pick and choose which New Yorkers they could lock up or lock down, indefinitely, and at any location of their choosing -- you had no say. They could have locked you down in your home, or they could have removed you from your home, with the force of police, and stuck you in a quarantine facility for days, weeks, months, etc. No notice was required, so they could have knocked on your door during family dinner and removed you from your home without any warning whatsoever. You did not have the right to an attorney until after you were locked up or locked down. There was no age restriction, so they could have done this to you, or your child, or grandchild, or elderly parent… And the most shocking part of this reg was that they did not even have to prove you were sick! Guilty until proven innocent -- the very antithesis of the principle upon which our nation’s judicial system is based.
So, when I became aware of this dystopian nightmare of a reg a few years ago, after realizing that none of the so-called traditional “civil rights” organizations would touch it, I sued Governor Kathy Hochul and her DoH on behalf of a group of NYS Legislators and a citizens’ group, Uniting NYS.
After months of battling it out in the trial court, on July 8, 2022, the court ruled that the “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” regulation was unconstitutional and “violative of New York State law as promulgated and enacted, and therefore null, void and unenforceable as a matter of law.” The judge also made note that, “involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask wearing at certain venues. Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family.”
Stunningly, Governor Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James appealed the decision. Yes, that’s right… the governor and AG, both unabashedly support insanely unconstitutional quarantine camps!
On September 13, 2023, over 400 showed up at the appellate courthouse to witness the battle first hand. It was indeed historic -- never do people take a day off of work, flock by the hundreds, and cram into a courthouse to hear a couple of lawyers go at it in a courtroom devoid of witnesses, TV cameras, and all of the other pomp and circumstance that, for example, a high-profile criminal trial might have. It was a true testament to freedom-loving citizens of a state that is wrought with corruption and greedy politicians on both sides of the aisle.
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In November 2023, the panel of five appointed judges disgracefully reversed my trial court victory, and then dismissed the case! They dismissed, not because we were wrong in our arguments… No, instead the court copped out and used an age-old dodge, ruling that my plaintiffs lack standing! With the majority of my plaintiffs being NYS legislators, it was absurd for the court to claim these lawmakers had no standing to fight against a regulation that usurped their lawmaking power.
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The decision not only lacked logic, it lacked integrity, and it flew in the face of longstanding, binding case law from our highest court.
Not wanting to back down, in January 2024, I filed my appeal with the Court of Appeals which is our highest State court. In May, that Court denied my appeal, saying there was no automatic right to be heard because the case, get this, had no constitutional issues. Unbelievable! A lawsuit about a regulation that breaches Separation of Powers and violates our Constitution doesn’t have a constitutional issue in question? Another terrible decision.
My last hope was to file another motion with the Court, this time asking them to hear the case on their own volition, you know, because it’s good for humanity and the integrity of this Court not to allow an agency to override our laws and throw people into camps without due process, etc. Sounds rather noble, doesn’t it? Well, not to an unnoble court, for a few weeks ago they issued their decision… The Court refused to hear the appeal. Period. Case closed.
Unreal.
And so, my three-year-long battle against the elitist Governor of New York (whose approval rating now hovers around 30%) and her lawless Department of Health, is over. The silver lining is that my victory of eliminating their heinous “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” reg back in 2022 still stands today, despite the appellate court’s ruling. Here’s why: The reg was an “emergency” reg that the DoH was working to make permanent. Since I successfully got it struck down before they could make it a permanent reg, the regulation does not exist today. Amen.
However, thanks to the Court of Appeals allowing the appellate court’s decision to stand, the DoH is now free to reissue their dystopian reg. “Fire at will,” is what these courts have metaphorically told the Administrative State. There is nothing stopping the tyranny of the Executive Branch and its unconstitutional DoH now.
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