Grant County Sheriff Glen Palmer issued this statement on May 6, “The Grant Co. Sheriff’s Office will not become involved in cases or issues of businesses opening against the Governor’s order.”

Previously, Crook County Sheriff John Gautney issued a statement the sheriff would not cite businesses that reopen.

“If a business decides to open, that’s a decision the business owner makes,” the statement said. “We are a free society and able to make decisions based on common sense.”

This media- and government-driven flu pandemic business and church shutdown defies common sense. All the models have proven to be in error and put our nation in fear and confusion and the justification for the police state edicts undermine our constitutional liberty and freedom. Businesses have gone bankrupt and suicides, domestic unrest and withheld medical procedures have significantly outnumbered Wuhan flu deaths. In light of spurious and doctored Wuhan flu death numbers, the flu is historically just as deadly in Oregon.

If Umatilla and Morrow counties continue to abide by Gov. Brown’s unconstitutional edicts, our economy and small businesses will be devastated, the Pendleton Round-Up, Heppner rodeo, and Fourth of July celebrations will be canceled, and churches will find it very difficult to honor their God-given responsibility to minister the gospel.

I exhort the sheriffs of Morrow and Umatilla counties to follow suit and open up our counties to business with common sense safeguards. I exhort the directors of the local rodeos and Fourth of July celebrations to continue their traditions with common sense. We are a constitutional republic of the people, by the people and for the people. We are not a police state run by the unconstitutional edicts of a governor.

Stuart Dick

Irrigon