Letter to the editor: Business owners standing up to Gov. Tom Wolf are patriots

Regarding the article “Alle-Kiski Valley restaurants continue to defy governor’s order suspending indoor dining”: David’s Diner co-owner Lisa Speer is an example of a true patriot standing up against the tyrannical order of Gov. Tom Wolf to close down. This unconstitutional craziness is not going to end until the people rise up as Speer has done, and, per the Founding Fathers’ warnings, demonstrate civil disobedience against these “orders” which are not laws.

David’s Diner, like most other businesses, has followed the governor’s orders, and now the governor again seems to want to ruin their livelihood with threats of forceful closure.

I hope all business owners will stand up and be patriots like Speer and say no to the governor. We the people run the government; the government does not run us.

God bless all of our hardworking business owners and workers.

Shelia Hanlon

West Deer