The owners of embattled Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, were arrested on Monday for reopening their gym in defiance of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s lockdown order. The arrests came after a judge ruled New Jersey could forcibly shut down the gym.
However, Murphy couldn’t keep the gym owners down for long.
On Saturday, just days after being released from jail, owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti kicked down government-installed barriers to reopen the gym.
“Gov. Murphy has weaponized the police force against us over and over,” Smith said, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “I think he looks foolish, the way he’s treating us — he’s pulling out all the stops. You have to ask, how far will one man go to destroy a small business?”
Atilis Gym has faced an uphill battle since defiantly reopening in May. Law enforcement has forced the gym to shut down several times.
In fact, the government is so determined to keep the gym closed that, according to the Inquirer, Bellmawr officials will consider revoking the gym’s business license at an upcoming meeting on Tuesday.
If their license is revoked, Atilis Gym may have to shutter its doors permanently.
The decision to reopen the gym despite their recent arrest was popular with locals. From the Inquirer:
Around 8 a.m. Saturday, Smith and Trumbetti kicked and forced in the boards as supporters and gym members cheered them on, then replaced the doors on their hinges. Several dozen people watched from the parking lot, many waving American flags and listening to patriotic music blasting from speakers in front of the gym. Several attendees had traveled from other parts of New Jersey, and some waved anti-Murphy signs or wore pro-Trump accessories.
However, Smith and Trumbetti did not reopen without first ensuring that members would be safe.
Although they did not require members to wear masks, they limited the gym capacity to just 25% — which equates to 40 to 50 members working out at once — constantly monitored members’ temperatures, asked members to sign waivers, and gave each member their own disinfectant spray. They also installed a new air purification system.
“You can do this safely,” Smith told the Inquirer. “You can’t say that all gyms have bad ventilation. Some might — but to put them all in one category shows you don’t understand discrepancies and nuance. It shows you’re not actually interested in helping small businesses.”
All told, the gym spent thousands of dollars on safety upgrades before reopening.
Keeping businesses closed and paying the unemployed more than they would make while actually going back to their jobs is a plan by Dumbocrats to do harm to Trump. They are ruining the economy and the country to give themselves a shot at the White House. How very Communistic of them.
Police in Leftist cities do nothing to stop anarchists from destroying businesses, but they work diligently to shut down businesses that attempt to conduct business. The goal is to put everyone out of business one way or another. They are hoping to kill the economy and then blame Trump for it all.
Finally some business owners with a massive set of balls! Pandemic my ass! Wear a mouth diaper, BS! Lockdown the nursing homes you moron politicians, with your Gestapo health officials, if you need something to do. The government folks aren’t missing their paychecks, losing their jobs or shutting down their private businesses. Talk about a bunch of insulated fools! Open up 100% and take your own precautions as you see fit. But the chances of the people who go to the gym dying from this virus are about 0%. Number of cases doesn’t mean squat. It’s the death rate that matters and it is extremely low. No pandemic! We are being snookered. Time to RESIST!!!
Well said. We are beeing lied to every day by the left. Trump 2020.
GD RIGHT, BROTHER!!!!
Agree! Time to take this country back from the libtards and their communist agenda!
This is nothing short of a total COMMUNIST TAKEOVER, being incited by LIBERAL COMMUNIST GOVERNORS AND MAYORS, who take their marching orders by the likes of DR. FALSEY- AND WHO SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR SEDITION AND OF WHO SHOULD ALL BE ARRESTED FOR SHITTING ON THE CONSTITUTION.
COMMUNIST ASSWIPES!!!!!
Arrested? More like executed.
And force us to buy everything from China – their playbook masters.
Well said. It is about fear and control, and a shot at power. Trust that the DNC is on the phone often with Murphy, Wolf and others guiding them. Any politician who is willing to destroy his own country to win power is a scumbag traitor.
They all should be tried and hanged or stoned to death publicly. We shouldn’t be allowing these tyrants to control and ruin our lives over a hyped virus in fact we need to ruin their lives with extreme prejudice.
Murphy is a spiteful man and a Hitler like dictator, one term Murphy and TRUMP 2020
Lie-beral DEMONocrats…the syndicate of fake, hate, ingrate, negate, degenerate, agitate, instigate, separate, isolate, depopulate (abortions), and D O M I N A T E !!!
You just described the low IQ right wing evil!
Really, right wing evil? Where is Jesus in anything the left does?
Jesus taught peace and love, not hate and conspiracies. Jesus walked and lived with the poor that all men and women are all the same in the eyes of God. Jesus payed his taxes with love of god, not money. The god in the republican party is money…and that is all that matters to the controllers. Jesus didn’t lie or kill and detested violence…so with the party of war. Jesus taught acceptance of all, and to turn the other cheek 7×7 times. Sounds pretty liberal to me! Jesus taught to except and trust in god and everything will be ok. Not to take the law into your own hands with right wing hate. Lastly, but not finally, if you have hate in your heart, not joy, if you leader breaks the commandments, you are not on the path of Jesus. As I taught my kids, in life you will find conspiracies around every corner, until conspiracies’ are your life. Now how does that match up with righteous teachings
I am convinced that the right wing would murder Christ today as they did 2000 years ago!
Look at all the hateful ugly comments directed at me on this right wing sight. Then tell me how Jesus would condone such a thing. Take the high ground and love, leave this hate behind in your life.
Take a look at what the commiecrats are doing, annoye, you ignorant dirtbag.
It’s ALL them, AND YOU, DICKWEED
Trump is the spawn of the dark prince and has 40% of hateful Americans fooled.
You are wrong!!
You, Annoye, are a member of the hateful Americans, aka Democrats. Use your brain, READ other material than the propaganda the liberals put out there.
Praying for your black heart
You are 100% wrong. Stop listening to mainstream media, they are poisoning your brain.
And you are what? Do you have ANY intelligence at all. We’ve seen how all the dumbocraps actions have failed so they keep trying and then screw up the country. They all need voting out in November. Get a life jerkoff.
Annoye- why don’t you put your fucking mask and goggles on and shut the fuck up? While your at it, why don’t you shove a goddamned rag down your throat and cotton balls up your nose. Better stick a dildo in your ears and a fucking acid wash for your eyes, you brainwashed moron, you.
Good for those Gym owners. I hope they can keep the Gym open. It is terrible what the left is doing to this country. The statistics published about this virus is bogus. I have been through many many Presidents and Trump is by far the best next to Ronald Reagan. If people do not vote for his reelection they are fools. Even if you don’t like some of the things he has done in the past or his personality, he gets the job done. For gosh sakes, the left loves Bill Clinton and look at his past & present. People were so quick to forgive him for cheating on his wife & embarrassing his daughter, but they won’t forgive Donald Trump who is doing more than Clinton ever accomplished & has not turned the Oval Office into a house of ill repute.
When we compare the blood panels of the asymptomatic carriers to that of the carriers with symptoms, then the differences identify and define the solution.
Asymptomatics have a 25-hydroxyvitaminD>40ng/mL, and RBC Mg>5mg/dL, Zn>2mg/dL, vitamin C>1mg/dL. There are other nutrients involved but these are the most heavily weighted variables in the equation for an effective immune system, including a diet void of simple carbohydrates.
Like all carriers that develop symptoms, they have damaged mitochondria (that reduces the ATP production for the cell’s energy) that impedes their immune system from effectively destroying all pathogens, including cancer.
Regardless gyms should be allowed to reopen with precautions. Which is appears this gym has done. Restaurants, should be allowed to re-open with constraints. At some point, if the evidence dictates that a business can open without harm to it’s occupants than it should be allowed to do so. This is another broad attempt to stifle the economy. Rise up and do not let local hitler rule you.
Defeat communism open everything if some one gets sick treat them promptly with anti virals ,the economy should be 100+ percent in weeks.
And you are what? Do you have ANY intelligence at all. We’ve seen how all the dumbocraps actions have failed so they keep trying and then screw up the country. They all need voting out in November. Get a life jerkoff.
Exactly! Since the virus is 0.1 microns across, masks do ABSOLUTELY ZERO in terms of protection. The best masks that are available to the public only filter out between TWENTY to ONE HUNDRED MICRONS!!! that means the virus is between TWO HUNDRED to ONE THOUSAND times SMALLER than these masks can filter. Wearing on is tantamount to virtue signaling and being in total lockstep with THE COMMUNISTS.
Don’t kid yourselves. THIS IS AN ATTEMPTED COMMUNIST TAKEOVER!!!!!
Pure and simple, Murphy is an idiot.
Phil in TX
So is Abbott. We need to start a recall on that traitorous bastard.
I thought Abbot was ok until the piece of shit re-started lockdown once it started to ease up, due to BOGUS AND BLOATED “DEATH NUMBERS” increasing, instigated by the communists Dr. FALSEY & COMPANY . The “death rate” by virus has been PADDED UNDER ORDERS BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS to include death by car accidents, heart disease, tumors, broken necks and backs, etc…
WHAT A CROCK OF MALARKEY. The ACTUAL death rate compared to the FLU is a frigging JOKE
The commie governors and mayors won’t let you open up your businesses, but the COMMIE SCUMBAGS will let the anarchists RIOT IN THE STREETS with IMPUNITY FOR MONTHS ON END!!!!! TREACHEROUS COMMIE DIRTBAGS
can’t follow the rules, can’t have your gym, plain and simple. Faster people learn that this pandemic isn’t about them the faster we will get out of this.
Wear a D^^m mask, social distance, and don’t kick down doors (how are these people any different that some of the protestors?)
How are the different? You really don’t know? Geez. Let me spell it out for you: THIS IS THEIR OWN BUSINESS! They are not damaging it, they are not looting it, they are not assaulting anyone. They own this business and they are reclaiming it. Was that simple enough for you to understand? And did you not read the precautions they are taking and the thousands of dollars they spent improving their ventilation system?
Well, I think you need a name change. Better change it to NeverevereverOpenyourmouth. The crap that spews forth is toxic to intelligent people everywhere.
That’s right. PUT ON YOUR MASK COMRADE, CLOSE YOUR EYES, SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND LET THE DIRTBAGS TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS
YOU BRAINWASHED FOOL, WANTING SO BAD TO BE A COMMUNIST
WADDA IGNORAMOUS
The Liberal brain is physically incapable of processing factual information, always has been and always will be. Save your breath
Right you are Mike, I think it was Clint Eastwood who said: “If you could reason with democrats there wouldn’t be any democrats.” I have found that to be absolutely true in nearly every case. I have seen some very intelligent people duped completely by the left and it simply astounds me.
BRAVO, BIG MIKE!!!!! The school system was successful in indoctrinating dimbulb minds for the past 35-40 years now. Some students were “immune” to such teachings, but the COMMIE school system have become more successful in the past 20 years or so with the molding of mentally deficient and mushy minds. The fools can’t tell the time with an analog clock or read or write cursive. I handed a 25 year old INTELLIGENT (so I thought) a document that I wrote in cursive. You would’ve thought I handed him a papyrus with ancient hieroglyphics written on it. XD
If we don’t win in 2020 we will have to move to Russia……………..Crackers anyway
Hunting season on politicians 24/7 with $2.00 Bounty on their ears!