Fun Police State Living

We are heading for "CHANGE" alright, try a police state. You should read the entire post but I'll highlight certain important sections. Needless to say, living under a "police state" is already taking on new meaning in D.C. And has anyone else noticed an increase in cops and ticketing lately? Where you used to get away with not wearing a seat belt, going 10 miles over the speed, etc, you can't anymore... Hmmm.

D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence. Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them.

More from the post,

I live in Eckington, a “transitional” neighborhood in northeast DC. I got a knock on the door this morning from a guy with ACORN (looks like a lefty community group that I’d never heard of) saying that DC police would be coming around shortly asking to search homes in the neighborhood for guns, and explaining we had the constitutional right to refuse, etc. He added that anything the police find they can use against you because “you never know what a friend of a friend might have left in our house” Not sure if he told me this because I had just gotten out of bed and had answered the door in my bathrobe looking disoriented, but I digress. He was handing out a packet of info from the ACLU including a nifty doorhanger you can put out that says “NO CONSENT TO SEARCH OUR HOME”. One of my neighbors told me the guy told them they were only doing this in poor black neighborhoods, and this notice from the ACLU that I found online seems to bear this out. I know it’s not exactly a
wrong-door no-knock raid, but I am concerned because while I certainly don’t want the police (or any other strangers) rummaging through my junk, I’m kind of afraid of what would happen if I refuse the search. I already live on one of those streets with the surveillance cams installed. Does my address get ‘marked’ for being uncooperative or suspicious? I should mention of course that I don’t own any guns and have never touched anything more powerful than a bb gun.

Funny how he instantly thinks gun ownership will be causing him a problem. The Dems have only held Congress for two years. Just ask yourself what's going to happen if we get a Dem controlled legislature and B. Hussein Obama for a president. My favorite part of the post?

“This is a very targeted program that has been used in other cities,” Nickles told The Examiner. “I’m not worried about the constitutionality of it.”

That pesky constitution. If they really wanted to do something about crime they would arm every law abiding citizen and see how fast the crime rate drops. I'm betting D.C. residents would be "Howdy Ma'am-ing all day long if everyone was armed.

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Madame Defarge will rule the day.

Cross Posted at The Agitator