Posted on 04/04/2020 10:00:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) is encouraging residents in his city to tattletale on their neighbors who defy his stay-at-home order. Specifically, he's targetting businesses that continue to remain open despite not being considered "essential" (at least by government standards).
If any non-essential businesses continue to operate in violation of the stay at home order, were going to act to enforce the safer at home order and ensure their compliance, Garcetti said. You know the old expression about snitches. Well, in this case, snitches get rewards.
We want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe, the mayor said during a press conference Your decision to stay home may mean that theres one less person who needs a ventilator we do not have.
Garcettis office has already sent the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to 144 of the more than 500 non-essential businesses that failed to follow his order. Of those, four have been sent to the city attorneys office for misdemeanor charges.
The mayors team encouraged residents to submit business violations here, on the city website. Its unclear what the so-called rewards will be (if anything).
The announcement comes after Garcetti formed his "Safer at Home" Business Ambassadors program last month. The program "deploys city workers and volunteers with the mayor's Crisis Response Team to businesses that appear to be out of compliance with the emergency order with a goal of securing voluntary compliance. If voluntary compliance is not achieved, the ambassadors will share information with the city attorney and LAPD for follow-up."
'Snitches Get Rewards': Garcetti Encourages Community To Report Businesses Violating Safer At Home
This is not going well.
Every business is essential and it is none of the government’s business to decide which are and which are not.
Will those “Flu-Bro” critic anti-freedom Freepers please leave this site and go fellowship with your Fascist friends at DU if you think this is OK.
This is NOT OK!!!
“Block Captains”. The communists give lonely losers a radio and an armband with the authority to snitch on anyone for any reason and have that person arrested.
In America today.
Sounds like he may be getting a dead fish wrapped in newspaper. Just sayin’
Geezus H. Crimany! Appears to me that one of the little unacknowledged and unforeseen side effects of this manufactured pandemic is unmasking these little fascists for who and what they truly are: Tyrants and Dictators. And this situation has given them the total control over the population that they have always craved.
The unfortunate side effect is that there are so many of us that are far too willing to go along with it like sheep being led to the slaughter.
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave no more. Rather we are the Land of Meek and Home of the Mild.
Lord have mercy on us all.
Don't think so? Try this: Set aside fear of the Chinese virus for just a moment and consider how different America is today than it was just three short weeks ago. From a larger perspective, this is the far greater reason for fear.
The Communist Chinese have played their attack on the West brilliantly. They have brought the greatest, strongest country in the history of the world to its knees in less than a month ... and without firing a shot (or a missile). And there remains widespread disagreement on how long America will stay paralyzed. It's clear they know us better than we know ourselves.
What’s the old expression about snitches?
2 extra food rations.
The county where I live in Arizona had a form on their website to fill out if you observed someone not in compliance.
What do you mean at least a General. LOL
But don’t rat out illegal aliens...
Italian at least?
Sounds more East German Stasi to me.
Velkommen to the 4th Reich, always oiled up and ready to roll.
The Stazi and KGB would be proud and probably dead by now snoooping&snitching around like that, but not California’s ‘watchers’.
Scratch a democrat....
Snitches clog ditches.
All of these Democrat Leftists devolve to the Marxist model whenever the have the opportunity. If they took over the country the Gulag would be instituted the next day.
Chilling.
that was my exact thought!
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