Aligning Himself with Other Emerald County Sheriffs, Humboldt County’s Billy Honsal Emphasizes Education Over Enforcement of Pandemic Curfew
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Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal in his June 4, 2020 Media Availability [Screenshot from Youtube Video]
In the statement made on Facebook, Sheriff Honsal states, “From the first Stay at Home Order issued in March of this year, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has prioritized education and voluntary compliance, rather than criminal enforcement of health orders.”
He added, “We have seen overwhelming success with this approach and we will continue to take an education-based approach with this new order.”
This focus on education is reminiscent of Trinity County Sheriff’s Tim Saxon perspective on curfew enforcement: “My position throughout this pandemic with the various Health Orders has been to focus on education and self-compliance rather than enforcement.”
Both Sheriff Saxon and Sheriff Kendall expressed concern that strict curfew enforcement could infringe on their residents’ constitutional rights.
Sheriff Honsal harkened to this concern stating: “We recognize our duty is to protect the rights of our citizens and to that end, the HCSO will continue focusing our resources on issues relating to crime and the prevention of criminal activity.”
Sheriff Honsal goes on to invoke Humboldt County’s citizens’ duty to protect one another inspiring compliance with pandemic protocols: “We trust and rely on the members of our community to assess the risk and take precautions as necessary to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.”
Sheriff Kendall made a similar appeal to Mendocino County resident’s sense of communal duty stating: “ “We all live by an unwritten rule,” he said. “[W]e look out for our fellow man. You’ve got to look out for your family, friends, and community. I want people to continue doing that.”
Yesterday Humboldt County’s Public Health Officer Teresa Frankovich implored Humboldt County residents to follow pandemic protocols as local numbers strained the county’s ability to contact trace:
We can move back from this purple tier. We can get this under control. It’s going to take using all the steps we’ve talked about- masking, distancing, doing things outdoors as much as possible, in addition to not traveling, not gathering over this holiday weekend. Doing so will allow us to step back into our less restrictive tier. It will allow us to protect our businesses, our schools and our healthcare capacity and it’s important that we all do it so we’re asking for cooperation…from the entire community, in getting us back to red tier and then below.
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Yeah, and not enforcing best practices got us right here.
Great job, Honsal.
Really.
Just down load the States noncompliance app at GESTAPO.Ca.Gov
Problem solved. All aboard the boxcars!
Look, it’s a Trump rally!
real Brian, the problem is the Dem Stasi who run the blue states. Now, think on that, I know it’s difficult, breaking free from the Thought Police, but it’s worth the effort. Newsom imposes restrictions, then doesn’t follow his own rules, or have you skipped that part? (And look up Stasi, it’s how socialism is enforced by the government)
Proud Boys convention.
They have an afro-cuban leader, and lots of non -white members.
Scared of the flu aids infested leftist
Yup, Trump rally…
Milk, it does the body good
It’s worse than you could ever imagine. Either fascist or elitist or police state socialist fascist . Either way Clinton drained the jobs, bush got us on opiates, Obama bankrupted small business, trump and New York Epstein Clinton ran game on us through covid. Now what?!!?
Watch out for the Covid that roams the streets between 10pm and 5 am!!!
So glad our Dear Leader Newsom has directed us to stay indoors during those scientifically proven dangerous times!!!
Honsal is right to tread softly. SCOTUS just smacked down New York’s draconian restrictions on the exercise of a Fundamental Constitutional Right.
Newsom’s should be next!
“Even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.” ~ SCOTUS
https://thepostmillennial.com/supreme-court-blocks-cuomos-orders-against-religious-gatherings/
I was not aware that a sheriff’s job was to look after people’s “rights”. I thought it was to enforce the law and the governance of elected officials. Easy way out…let folks make their own laws and call it “rights”. Scary…guy with gun makes his own rules.
Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Office Association https://m.facebook.com/cspoa.org/
Sheriffs swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. Thats it. Nothing more. They do not swear an oath to any person, much less any elected official. The reason for that is so that they do not become militarized against the general population for political reasons, instead they are bound by the document that guarantees our inalienable rights.
A Sheriff is our first defense against a tyranical Federal Government lady
illegal forced vaccinations for one
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“Overwhelming Success”
It’s hard to imagine him saying anything else, honestly. Like Trump saying the pandemic was “Totally Under Control” a month in and then that we’re “Rounding the Corner” right before the election.
At this point, after he was exposed for helping people circumvent the state’s prohibition on large gatherings last summer, Honsal has nothing to lose by denying reality and doubling down.
He is just like Trump, he will also draw a handsome retirement whether or not he remains in office. More of the same, no change. Get ready for our new president and his dark winter.
The curfew is moot anyway. In Humboldt it’s legal to impersonate a police officer and pull off home invasions, as long as you promise to come to your court date if you get caught.
How can he expect the people to listen to anything he says about public safety when they book and release known dangers to into our community?
The comment that you made really got me thinking. Thank you.
[edit] Trump hasnt taken a salary nor will he draw a retirement for being president. [edit]
Projecter.
You took that out of context.
“Also” can mean…”in addition to that”…
So he wasn’t necessarily implying they would both be drawing a salary and retirement after leaving office…
Only Honsal for sure.
“Just like Trump” I interpreted as claiming “overwhelming success”
where it obviously isn’t warranted.
The part you conveniently overlooked.
Projecter.
He gets post-Presidential perks including a pension. Don’t be daft!
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/pensions-and-perks-for-former-presidents-archive
sheriff antifa buses is useless and corrupt.
I’m going to follow our overlord governors lead… I saw him on the news telling us to preach what he practices, and that’s what I’m gonna do
Covid is spreading in spite of mask wearing because the reusable cloth mask is a supper spreader:
Any virus laden droplets/aerosols that can be breathed in to infect you can get in your eyes with or without a mask. If a mask stops them, they evaporate and release the load of virus in them to be easily breathed in or blown out into the surrounding air.
The typical cloth mask ‘filter’ has holes that are 100 times larger than the virus. But what about stopping your own cough or sneeze from reaching others, you ask? Again, the droplets evaporate and release the virus.
ALSO, try coughing or sneezing into a mask. 95%+ of the forced air and droplets will escape around the edges. They can disperse in a room quite quickly. Think of smoke.
If you light a match in a room, within a minute or so, you can smell it in the whole room without having even blown the smoke. Smoke is much larger than the virus but can be about the same size as droplets/aerosols.
BTW, if you are wearing a mask and can smell any odors or smoke, you are NOT protected at all. READ the manufacturer’s warnings. Masks will NOT prevent bacterial or viral infections or their spread!
🕯🌳Now remember this is the man raiding your neighbor’s and chipped there product up. You may be next or are you going to flip?🖖🖖
Outlaws always complain about policing. Whether their complains are true is only like a clock being right two times a day- an accident when it happens.
Huh I could’ve swore blm has been crying about cops all year over what shit the blm movement is on it’s way to killing more unarmed blacks than the cops
Is this your spokesman proud patriots?
This you’re spokesman BBC lovers I mean blm anqueefa
Outlaws understand the need for law enforcement. We are not criminals. More outlaws back the blue than you think. We understand the need for them to enforce laws regarding private property and laws that protect businesses and individuals. We also understand that they are the driving force behind keeping prices high and our business lucrative. I support law enforcement so much that I actually donate a large portion of my crop to them every few years.
When Biden legalizes weed federally, whats that going to to do to your neighbors weed? Hey! Phillip Morris, Amazon, Wal-Mart FULL speed ahead!
Biden has been a great friend of Big Pharma since the 70’s. His “legalization” model is to put it all in the hands of the FDA and Big Pharma. Expect massive raids here that put old CAMP to shame. The corporate state must be able to make the profits, not a bunch of shady backwoods “bad players”. The sheeple have spoken and they will applaud the transformation….They want to be “free” and “safe”!
Farce, let’s not forget Biden is owned by China, the country that controls most of the base ingredients for all medications. that’s how big pharma makes obscene profits. The next four years will be one of selling the US to China, with Biden, that senile old man, nodding like a bobble head, and Kamala drooling over the prospect of taking over under the 25th amendment…
I’ll take “senile” over a compulsive liar anyday. I would have loved to have seen Kamala debate Trump. She would have dismantled the old fool.
👍
She sure would of Dave Kirby! 🙂
ughm no he would hVe dismantled her just like pence did. Biden and her lie through their teeth daily. do some research. Harris lies almost as much as Biden. You should maybe watch the debates again.
Watch the debates again. Please God no. All I remember was the fly 🪰.
I would have liked that also. Even more would have liked to see Bernie do it. Oh- but the DNC made sure we didn’t see that, didn’t they?!
Like what lies name a few all you dipshits say the same thing and never have any facts all feelings
Facts, who needs facts. “Stop the steal”. Right?
Yes. What people refuse to believe about federal “legalization” is that cannabis distribution then becomes subject to international trade treaties. Yes. then we must allow importation of cannabis from other countries. Corporations based in other countries. Like…China. Let’s see everybody here compete with China or Mexico or Colombia, etc etc. where they pay the workers basically nothing. Ha Ha! Keep telling yourself you are “free” you idiot sheeple!! Can’t wait for that Cosco Kush or that Sweatshop Sour D…I am 100% not kidding- that is how business works, you morons
Be a sad day for Humboldt, not much here gonna survive. Be a tweaker infested low life ghost town.
Looks halfway there already.
History has shown monocrop farmers all end up the same. Boom then bust.
But that won’t be all. Ocean acidification in the next 10-15 years will complete your prediction by wrecking the local seafood industry.
Not to mention how we have all these tree huggers and no one cleaning the ocean it’s as if they dont realize 70% of our oxygen comes from marine life California for yeah bunch of dipshit bums
Farce, Just,
excellent comments.
🕯🌳By him not following a state mandate he is technically breaking the law so all people that billy has up rooted here should think about it. 🖖🖖
Willie, that’s nothing new.
What laws can you name them as far as I know there is no law only thing they can control are business licenses other than that stay scared pussy
He’s too busy looking for busloads of antifa.
Thank You Honsal.
Poor leadership, this is a opportunity to take care of the community. Enforce the state mandates! This guy is a joke catch and release
people from outside the area ( home invasion pos), if you can’t do the job step aside.
Mandates are not laws. Your fascist desires can be fulfilled in china. Go pray to them for safety
Because his imaginitive reading of the constitution trumps his job description which is to serve & protect. What an ass.
Protect yourself because the cops aren’t required to.
“The Police are Not Required to Protect You”
https://www.barneslawllp.com/blog/police-not-required-protect
“In the 1989 landmark case of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the failure by government workers to protect someone (even 4-year-old Joshua DeShaney) from physical violence or harm from another person (his father) did not breach any substantive constitutional duty.”
Ding ding ding. Same goes for politicians. Their only allegiance is their own careers and what connections they can make along the way
Another sheriff picking and choosing what laws to enforce, and what laws not to…this is a bad precedent…
Mandates aren’t laws. No legislative process has been carried out to create these mandates. They are 100% executive actions which violate the Constitutional guarantee of a Republican form of government.
Sheriffs’ oaths are to the Constitution, not to the government.
🕯🌳Always an excuse huh ULLR. 🖖🖖
I guess you aren’t familiar with the foundational contract of our government. You should check it out sometime.
Stupid people and your stupid facts. This is a emotional issue not one based in logic damn it! You can’t solve this problem with logic you have to yell at people on the internet for not wearing a mask, even though they wear a mask. We need to obey the supreme overlord newsome! But not the supreme overlord trump because he’s bad. But next year we can obey the new good supreme overlord Biden.
Biden has not won yet. There are legal challenges pending.
That’s right!! We are all waiting for Powell to release the “kraken”
Actually, Biden has won, as I see it.
He is not the one scratching and clawing like mad to keep from coming to the realization that he has already lost.
Trump is grasping desperately and pathetically at straws.
It is nauseating.
Not a good look for America.
80 million votes against him.
Take a hint.
But Trump had so many people at his rallies. How could Biden have won ? Also all those Trump parades where everyone flew their Trump flags, Biden supporters didn’t do any of those things. 74 million people voted for Trump more than any one ever, how could he have lost?
Oh yeah 80 million people voted for Biden!
yeah so screw the other 80 million that Voted for Trump. yet the last 4 yrs weve had to hear about Russian collusion b.s.
Truth?
80 million that voted for Trump?
I don’t think so.
That’s going to need a citation.
Or a link.
You sound alot like Dishonest Don.
Your off by 6,159,614 votes, as of this moment.
That’s the truth.
How do you figure?
More importantly is, Bidens projected electoral votes of 306 to Trump’s 232.
A reversal of 2016.
As far as the 73,899,834
voters who bet on the wrong horse, yeah, they lost.
Never bet on a horse with bone spurs.
It’s 74 million for Trump. And unlike mister Red/Blue state Trump, Biden will be a President for all of the United States.
One last thing. Quote from your leader during the first debate “elections have consequences”, time to toughen up snowflakes.
Kind of reminded me of 2016 election. Just another creeper this time ,nothing new.
none that are half way legitimate.
Where is the evidence? What the hell is taking so long? When will Powell release the “kraken”. Give it up Trump lost😢
Biden better hope the judges are in Dominions pockets
Georgia
https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COMPLAINT-CJ-PEARSON-V.-KEMP-11.25.2020.pdf?fbclid=IwAR205qxDJgthy7947g-9sZhd068xt1wItJJPcZie1uaPR4ui2i2e9E1mYtg
Michigan
https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michigan-Complaint.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0nT0HTqttBiO-Y3ngHIBU78yKiLjhfO0l2s6Uw1c5kD8i9txsiDxhxqvg
Uh, no.
You might want to brush up on the Constitution. It is quite explicit. There is no mechanism – other than Impeachment, the 25th Amendment, death or resignation, to remove a president once he has been sworn into office. Sore losers notwithstanding.
I think you are a bit misguided in your ranting.
You should ignore Trump simply because he’s an idiot. He has been consistently wrong on this particular issue just as he has on so many others.
You shouldn’t pay attention to Biden on his own but rather that he’s at least listening to the experts and willing to take their advice, something Trump hasn’t yet grasped.
Newsom, while perhaps one of the slimier politicians we’ve had recently, is at least trying to manage an outbreak in a state that has over 10% of the countries population in the absence of any coherent Federal strategy (see comment on Trump above).
Is he overstepping his authority? I’m not sure since I’m not a law expert but the State Code does grant pretty broad powers to the Health Department of the State to control infectious outbreaks and he oversees the State Health Dept so there’s at least a tenable argument to be made for it.
In any case, none of this is relevant to the Federal Constitution because the 10th Amendment clearly gives the states the authority to make rules and regulations inside each state as long as they don’t violate any of the other enumerated Constitutional requirements and a Health Mandate doesn’t appear to do that.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&division=105.&title=&part=1.&chapter=2.&article=
Particularly 120135 and 120140
Ice,
In a state that declares it won’t follow and actually obstructs federal immigration law? 😂
ICE can’t be your real acronym.
He cant and wont enforce because this mandate is unconstitutional and has ZERO ground in a court room. similar to mask mandate. unconstitutional…
I keep reading this comment and it seems nonsensical. Exactly what provision of the Constitution does this violate?
Spell it out clearly and why, I’m really curious about where this argument is coming from because it doesn’t seem to have any validity on the face of it.
Freedom of expression. Simple as that . Or right to privacy as certain folks have medicinal conditions that don’t allow them to cover their faces.
Truth,
thanks.
‘Atta boy Sheriff!
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King.
No more stopping any one at any time since that would be violating their right to free movement. No stopping crowds from filling court rooms as that would violate freedom of assembly, and we are now allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater, thanks to freedom of speech, assuming those come back.
Don’t forget owning full machine guns and working tanks and missiles. 2nd Amendment, yo!
The problem with the “education” approach is willful ignorance, such as is displayed regularly by several commenters on this site. Education can tell us that covid-19 is a dangerous threat and that wearing masks, distancing, etc are an effective way to reduce the thread. Unfortunately those who follow conservative media think that the lessons of education are a hoax perpetrated by liberals for the purpose of taking away our freedoms. There’s no cure for that.
A Sherrif is our first defense against a tyranical Federal Government lady!