Posted on 06/05/2008 9:26:36 AM PDT by decimon
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. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.
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"Officer, I'm a Congressional Aide and stoned out of my gourd so I'll be needing a ride home."
This 'program' will last right up to the point the very first attorney walks up to one of these checkpoints.
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Golly?!? And, this in one of the most firearm-restricted cities in the US?
“Escape from New York” was on last night. How coincidental....
No, Lanier has at least one.
Reminds me of the Warsaw Ghetto. This stuff is nuts.
Wow, another Democrat plan right out of the Nazi SS’s handbook.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just wall off the entire District?
That ain't going to last (though with the dems in congress, I would expect similar restrictions at the federal level. It would, of course, be 'for the children'.
“Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest,”
What do you bet that they will NOT ask if someone is in the country legally?
Say, that DC gun control sure is working well, don’t you think?
The lib solution: “Let’s have a police state.”
this’ll never fly. if those zones are comprised mostly of inner city yutes that wear their pants around their thighs and show off their underwear, you betcha they’ll be hit with a discrimination suit..
Could it be that the good ol’ USA is no longer a melting pot? No we are not.
Sad but the rest of the world wants to be like us and we are instead turning into them.
Less money, less freedom, less creativity, less ...
Say....yellow stars might work.
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When does the government start constructing "Ovens"?
I was thinking a tatoo for ID would be better.
This has been tried before by some other authority inclined gentlemen.
D.C. is at the federal level. Kinda. Sorta.
This has GOOT to be racist. A few years back, some little city next New Orleans blocked off the streets between it and the Big Easy, on its side of the line.
The mayor of NO send in the cops and bulldozers to knock it down. ‘Course as blacks can’t be racist, maybe it will fly.
This plan will never work. NOTHING works in the District of Columbia.
DC does only two things well: Ticket cars and tow them.
The Police Department is a joke.
The last good chief was the guy who lead the department before Home Rule in 1975. I think his name was Jerry Wilson. The rest have been jerks, layabouts and shirkers.
Lanier has the job ONLY because she is a woman.
Ha! Welcome to the world you created Rats and Libs.
Maybe if you gave the good citizens in the hood a government check each month for doing nothing and restrict all firearm that will help.
It's not. In fact, when you don't follow the Constitution, this is exactly what you get. A disarmed populace, imprisoned 'for their own good', under the benevolent watch of their betters.
And at the very crown of the American republic, within walking distance of the actual Constitution. You couldn't make this stuff up.
In the article, the ACLU person used Russia as an example.
DC citizens are not allowed to own guns. So what does citing the Constitution have to do with anything?
Nickles told The Examiner. “I’m not worried about the constitutionality of it.”
Obviously that has at least two meanings.
First they trampled on the constitution by banning guns, now they think they can solve the problems they created by more trampling on the constitution.
“I think they tried this in Russia and it failed,” she said. “It’s just our experience in this city that we always end up targeting poor people and people of color, and we treat the kids coming home from choir practice the same as we treat those kids who are selling drugs.”
"But treating octogenarians in wheelchairs the same way we treat Muslim terrorists in airports is OK in my book," Shelley added.
What do you bet that they will NOT ask if someone is in the country legally?
Excellent point.
Since millions have entered illegally and are willing to work for very low wages, and given the fact that employers love their low wage illegal workers...We'll they are basically hands off and exempt from law.
What they need to do is set-up tables with laptop computers linked to the National Crime Information Center. Have people line-up and if they don’t have any felonies or serious misdemeanor convictions, hand them a pistol. I’m sure that DC could round up several thousand handguns for the less money than they would throw away on some other ridiculous social engineering project.
I GUARANTEE you that crime will go down, and go down QUICKLY, if this were to be implemented.
Looks that way doesn’t it? A US citizen will have to show who he is to get home....but an illegal alien....nevermind!
This is exactly what we're doing over here with Sadr City. Walling it off, manning checkpoints, forcing residents to produce papers to pass, locking the place down.
An unsettling parallel when I think about going home. Like the end of the recent Planet of the Apes remake.
“This is a very targeted program that has been used in other cities,” Nickles [the city’s interim attorney general,] told The Examiner. “I’m not worried about the constitutionality of it.”
My brain is having difficulty believing that my optic nerves transmitted this occular information to my freedom loving intuition.
My right index finger twitched involuntarily when I read it.
Hahahah...
Remember, DC is not a state, its governance is directly under the control of Congress.. the constitution does not apply there as it does elsewhere.
DC is a quagmire! We must withdraw immediately!
Or better yet- maybe we can get the Iranians to use thier influence to reduce the violence....
I have heard forat least the past 10 years from libtards that the USA is more like a salad bowl. This is supposed to be a good thing. All these diverse people from all over the world coming here to live, and not integrasting themselves into our culture, but living like they were in their rat holes where they came from. Remember, this is supposed to be a good thing.
Beginning of a Socialist Police State in the Socialist/Marxist mecca of the US, Washington DC.
That has a familiar ring to it. Hasn’t that been tried before?
BTW, did you see the qote from Livy’s history or Rome that posted elsewhere earier?
Titus Livy, ancient Roman historian, wrote in his introduction to his History of Rome that his purpose in writing was, “to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.”
constiwathion? sorry it’s dead and gone now vere are your papers and why are you questoning the government plans?
BS! There’s no crime n DC, they have gun control and are laying off cops!!!
WTF??!!
Of course this won’t withstand judicial scrutiny.
But here is the more important question: why are the people who come up with these ideas in key government positions? Do they not have even the slightest iota of understanding of what it means to be in America?
“Legitimate reason” for being in a place? Because I damn well want to be here or there. Who the hell do they think they are even considering asking the question?
Absolute abuse of power by brain-damaged control freaks.
The police chieftress came by to tell all of the cops stationed in front of the building not to react when they were throwing paint bombs at us and painting obscenities on the sides of the police cars parked along the street. I pointed out to her that the citizens of DC would be paying to have those cars repainted, and what I thought of that!
The good news is that she didn't arrest me--LOL!
I would be willing to bet that there aren’t any illegal aliens, at least Hispanic ones, in the Trinidad district they’re closing off. There might be a few Africans or Afro-Caribbeans, but the locals don’t really like them very much, either.
Have to build holding pens first,then start with writing home that the fool in the cage died of pneumonia & for economy reasons the remains were cremated. That is how the Germans Ministry of Health did it in the 30’with the t-4 program. The more things “change” the more they stay the same.
Libertarian ping.
thnx, this is a better story than the one we pinged:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026641/posts
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