Posted on 05/26/2012 4:50:30 AM PDT by marktwain
“What I gather from this article is that DOJ has finally figured out that the landlords do know “
Indeed? What *I* gather is that the law enforcement community wants to delegate its duties to the rest of us — at gun point.
Anyone who still says the Pledge of Allegiance is a fool.
What caught my notice in this article is the name of the place, Tewksbury.
The Graham-Tewksbury Feud, also known as the Pleasant Valley War, was the second bloodiest feud in US history, after the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Taking place mostly in Arizona, it ended up with all combatant members of both families being killed.
Sorry, but in most cases that would be RAACISSST! DOJ won't go for it!
In all seriousness, the government can’t seize public housing because the government already owns public housing. To whom would the government forfeit its property? To itself. Sorry, but the government wants more property (and desperately needs more revenue to finance its spending habits), so only private property is in danger, not property that the government already owns.
George Will wrote this? Maybe he’s starting to get it.
“What I gather from this article is that DOJ has finally figured out that the landlords do know ~”
So, are you implying that the motel owner was in on the drug dealing, or that he somehow *should* have known what someone renting a room for a night or two was doing behind closed doors?
Should he have played the statistics an refused to rent rooms to those most likely to be drug dealers - young blacks and hispanics ?
Just refuse to rent to Amish who tell you they really like your hot tubs.
This law is so bogus. Plenty of drug deals go down on fed property, but we don’t see that going up for sale.
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