Public servants – like government workers who are supposed to be working for citizens – have lost the good will of the public in too many cases.

One of them was a judge in Dallas, Texas, who sentenced a hair salon owner to seven days in jail plus a $7,000 fine because she opened her hair shop ahead of schedule during the coronavirus shutdown.

When the judge chastised her for such rebellion, the shop owner explained that she and the other stylists who worked in the shop thought it was more important to feed their kids than to observe the ban.

The Free Press News Service explains the event this way:

Texas woman stands her ground: ‘Feeding my kids is not selfish’

(By Free Press International News Service)

The owner of a Dallas salon who said she had to keep her business open in order to feed her children has been sentenced to seven days in jail for defying the state’s coronavirus lockdown order.

Shelley Luther, who owns Salon a la Mode, reopened her business on April 30. Because salons were not deemed as “essential” businesses, Luther was cited for violating Texas’s statewide coronavirus lockdown.

The City of Dallas issued Luther a citation, followed by a cease-and-desist letter and a restraining order from the county.

But Luther continued to operate her business. She said she was behind on her mortgage along with several of the 19 stylists who work at her salon, and that the government did not have the right to prohibit citizens from working to provide for their families.

On Tuesday of last week, Dallas Civil District Judge Eric Moye, who issued the restraining order, found Luther both criminally and civilly in violation of his order, according to WFAA-TV. She was also found to be in violation of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home order.

Moye sentenced Luther to seven days in jail and a $7,000 fine.

According to KTVT-TV, the judge told Luther he would consider not giving her jail time if she would agree to close until the governor’s order was lifted and “if she admitted that she was wrong, that she was selfish, and that she should apologize to the elected officials whose orders she violated.”

Luther told the judge: “I have much respect for this court and laws. I have never been in this position before and it’s not someplace that I want to be. But I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I’m selfish — because feeding my kids is not selfish. I have hair stylists that are going hungry because they’d rather feed their kids. So sir, if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision, but I am not going to shut the salon.”

Cruz Tweets Support for Luther

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, tweeted his support for Luther: “7 days in jail for cutting hair?? This is NUTS. And government officials don’t get to order citizens to apologize to them for daring to earn a living.”

The office of Attorney General Ken Paxton told Dallas County State District Judge Eric Moyé in a letter sent Wednesday that he abused his discretion when he “unjustly jailed” Shelly Luther for seven days.

Governor Abbott on Tuesday, May 5, announced that all Texas hair salons, nail salons, and tanning salons could reopen on Friday, May 8.

At the other end of the commonsense spectrum, a federal judge in Massachusetts has issued an injunction blocking enforcement of Gov. Charlie Baker’s order declaring gun stores non-essential businesses that must remain closed while his stay-at-home order is in effect.

U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock issued the ruling on Thursday, stating that there was “no justification” for keeping gun shops across the state shuttered and locked, and ordering that stores be allowed to re-open on Saturday, May 9th.

The Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, and Commonwealth 2nd Amendment, Inc. brought the challenge along with several gun store owners in the state, and the SAF’s Alan Gottlieb says he is delighted by the judge’s decision.

It is laudable in our thinking that Americans are deciding to regain their traditional freedom and realize that the shutdowns are designed to condition Americans to the “new normal,” in which citizens accept every unnecessary order a government may issue.

A sleeping nation, may wake up with citizens as slaves.

Obama’s ‘Blue Dress’

Former President Barack Obama who once told swooning followers that he ended his administration without a single scandal has his own “blue dress” problem, observer Mark Levin said on a Fox News show.

Levin said Obama worked with the FBI and intel agencies, knew everything about the counterintelligence program targeting the Trump campaign, and yet he is the one man that was never questioned about the Russia-Flynn probe.

The Blue Dress reference relates to Bill Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky episode where DNA from a stain on Lewinsky’s blue dress proved Clinton was guilty of sexual impropriety.

“This is Barack Obama’s blue dress,” Levin said. “That’s what that is without the DNA on it. Let me explain what I mean. We are supposed to believe that during the Obama administration, the FBI went rogue, the Department of Justice went rogue, the CIA went rogue, the DNI went rogue, the NSC went rogue.”

“I can tell you that you’re not going to go to the FISA court going after a Trump surrogate without letting the president of the United States know,” he said. “You’re not going to send spies in the opposition campaign without giving the president a heads up. You’re not going to mess around with a dossier like they did without the president of the United States knowing about the dossier.”

The Obama regime got the velvet glove treatment from the main stream media.

He could do nothing wrong in their eyes.

Since the expected Hillary Clinton administration got derailed, the truth has begun to come out.