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NORRIS: Doing his job

| January 20, 2021 1:00 AM

I applaud Sheriff Norris for deciding not to waste his deputies time on enforcing the mask mandate. The Sheriff is accountable to the people, not some un-elected bureaucrat. They are to uphold the laws of the Constitution and last I checked, I don’t remember legislation getting passed to make mask wearing a law.

A mandate levied on the people under the cloak of public safety is not a law. The Sheriff and his employees are not to be used as the Gestapo. I would much rather their time being spent getting criminals off the street than messing with some citizen not wearing a mask. What happened to personal responsibility?

If you want to live under a police state, then move to California. I am sure they would love to have you!

BRANDON MAYBEN

Coeur d’Alene