Tracks opening this weekend

[Willyracer]

Think the Edgewater event was closed to the pubic.
A no-prep race. Maybe around 20 some cars
What bought the attention was a guy from Ny wreck his
sedan and burnt it to the ground. Fire dept was called in.
There was a video on "Y tub*" but has been removed.
Have seen it on several other racing sites.
I heard the story on a radio station and they made it sound
Like it was big event. Not the under the radar private
Event it was.
Not looking good for the Edge but we will see.
Hope it all blows over and everybody can get to racing

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by Carguy49

Not a good situation at Edgewater.

Someone filed a complaint against Bremerton for it's planned race this weekend. Track got a Cease and Desist order in the mail. Might have to stay closed until July 9 or something like that. The Footbrake Race was going to be the weekend of the 4th.

[Carguy49]

Bremerton had a good game plan for safety. The website still shows the race as happening. Let's see what happens.

Dennis is busting his butt trying to get things happening. I hope it is still a go.

Dale, where did you get your info??

Update: The weekend is cancelled.

[Don Kennedy]

These “orders” — stay at home, close your business, don’t run in the park, don’t go to Mass, practice social distancing — are not laws that can carry a criminal penalty for violation. They are guidelines, without the force of law. A governor or mayor can no more craft law and assign a punishment for its noncompliance than the courts could command the military or police.

Even if legislative bodies did order churches and businesses closed, and governors and mayors were just enforcing those laws, the laws would be profoundly unconstitutional. The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment firmly establishes freedom of religion as a fundamental liberty, and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment firmly establishes your right to purchase a lawful product in interstate commerce from a willing seller as fundamental.

Fundamental liberties are in the highest category of liberty, akin to freedom of conscience and speech and press and privacy and travel.

Let’s say you are at a big-box store looking for groceries and other items. The government cannot constitutionally limit your choices to food and paper towels if you prefer to buy grass seed and a garden hose. These are intimate personal decisions. You need not explain or justify them to the government and you don’t need a government permission slip to exercise your free will and make those choices.

Until now.

Now, we have become a nation of sheep. We have elected officials with constitutionally assigned duties — and constitutionally imposed limitations — who have assumed to themselves dictatorial powers and have falsely claimed that they can interfere with our personal choices. Who are the governors to decide which human activities are essential? Abortion is essential but Mass is not? No constitution gave them that power.

There are two schools of thought on the impairment of fundamental liberties. One requires strict scrutiny and the other requires due process. The strict scrutiny standard mandates the existence of a compelling state interest addressed by the least restrictive means. The procedural due process standard mandates a trial at which the state must prove fault or guilt. The substantive due process standard puts certain personal decisions beyond governmental reach.

Closing churches meets no constitutional standard. There is no question that fighting a pandemic is a compelling state interest, yet there are far less restrictive ways to address it than preventing worship. Wearing masks and gloves, staying 10 feet apart, holding Mass outdoors, even taking a personal risk and then self-quarantining are far less restrictive and constitutionally offensive than closing churches.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio violated his oath to uphold the Constitution when he threatened to use force to close permanently all houses of worship that defied his guidelines. And a small-town police department in northern New Jersey exquisitely violated the constitutional rights of Catholics — while enforcing the ever-changing whims of Gov. Phil Murphy. The police claimed they were following the governor’s orders when they barred a priest on Palm Sunday from distributing palms in sealed plastic bags while he and each parishioner wore masks and gloves and were six feet apart in the fresh outdoors.

Enough is enough.

[Stan Weiss]

Illinois Gov. Pritzker's religious freedom add-on makes stay-at-home order constitutional, federal judge says

https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-...igious-freedom

Pritzker had revised his stay-at-home order by Thursday evening, classifying some worship services as essential, and promoting the “free exercise of religion,” so long as gatherings don’t exceed more than 10 people and congregants adhere to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social distancing guidance to keep at least six feet apart.

Stan

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Stan Weiss

Illinois Gov. Pritzker's religious freedom add-on makes stay-at-home order constitutional, federal judge says

https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-...igious-freedom





Stan

Democrat Judge still trying to control all

[Tex013]

Don ,
I will make this comment from far away .
I get americans are mostly about freedom and such but calling people sheep and socialists is somewhat crude .
There is no I in team , and sometimes you just have to do something for the greater good . Not just what is good for you . I am sure JFK had something to say about that .
Maybe they , supporeters of restrictions , are just being pragmatic ?
I may not be happy my business is suffering , but , when faced with a nasty disease that is a reasonable chance to kill me or mine if left unchecked I think I will go with restrictions . Here in Aus we tend to the pragmatic ,our government got ahead of the curve and gave detail of why and we seem to be coming out the other side in reasonably healthy state. No we are not racing either yet . Though if the boofhead footballers get their way to play I see no reason at that point to not be able to race , just in front of no crowds . Ooops don't get them at track championship level

Tex

[FireSale]

Let's try to not go all Conspiracy Theory here. It's not about Politicians trying to control people, but elected officials trying to minimize something not many of us have seen before. Read up on the 1918-19 "Spanish Flu". Seattle and Washington State took drastic measures like we are suffering under and did better than many States in the long run.
Does this look familiar?


Pullman, Washington Fall 1918

[T Pogue]

Track in Ardmore Okla. had a 3 day race this past weekend with 500 plus entries.

[GTS340]

Tucson Dragway will be open this weekend as a drive-in movie

https://tickets.thefoat.com/TucsonDr...s/event-36468/