Everyone hates civil libertarians until they need one

I support COVID restrictions, but I don't fault anyone for challenging them.

A radical anti-lockdown, anti-vaxxer group from central Canada is planning to swarm across the Nova Scotia border and travel all over the country tearing masks off people’s faces and coughing at them, and touching everything without washing their hands a la Rudy Gobert.

Or so the response to this story would have you believe:

A civil liberties group says Nova Scotia's COVID-19 health order that closed provincial boundaries to non-essential travel is unconstitutional.

Cara Faith Zwibel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association wrote a letter dated May 11 to Premier Iain Rankin and chief medical officer Dr. Robert Strang saying the order violates mobility rights guaranteed in the charter and should be scrapped.

"The government may only impose restrictions on this right that are reasonable and that can be demonstrably justified," Zwibel said in the letter. "The current restrictions satisfy neither of these requirements and should be rescinded."

Rankin closed the province's boundaries to the…