IT IS NOT YOURS TO GIVE.

Mitch "Shot in the Dark" Berg has the correct response to any issuer of ukases "granting permission" for people to go about their business.  "The phrase – which has been popping up in mainstream media with nauseating regularity – is an obscenity that must be fumigated from the American vocabulary."  Indeed.  Governments derive their powers from the Confent of the Governed.