New Orleans Gun Confiscation is Blatantly Illegal

The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 9/9/05 | David Kopel

[El Gato]

Like the Miller case? Tacit consent. Bad news if there is no contest. I agree.

Similar, but not quite the same. Miller is legal precedent, whereas not contesting this would not be in the strict sense. No court could cite the fact that they "got away with it" this time, in some future case. Not true however if our side goes to court, and loses.

[Dan from Michigan]

All I have to say is that they wouldn't take my guns. It wouldn't be from my cold dead hands. They just wouldn't take it.

[quietolong]

Good question. Could be plausible deniability? BUT he never did anything about it.

[Nov3]

One of many disasters given to us by MacArthur.

Amen

[Dan from Michigan]

"Carl Levin "trys" to look like Ben Franklin, Wouldn't he seem smarter if He tried to "act" like Him?"

ROFL!

Don't blame me. I voted for Rocky.

[DocRock]

Brian Williams wrote:

"At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious members of the media... armed only with notepads. Her actions (apparently because she thought reporters were encroaching on the scene) were over the top and she was told. There are automatic weapons and shotguns everywhere you look. It's a stance that perhaps would have been appropriate during the open lawlessness that has long since ended on most of these streets. Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history."

I have no love for the MSM today, however, when the 2nd Amendment is trashed, there are no teeth for the First Amendment. These liberal journalist are getting their eyes opened. I fully agree with everything you said, but why aren't we allowed to know what the inside of a football stadium looks like that has televised games shown to the entire country. It certainly is not off limits to cameras by any stretch of the imagination or interpretation of the law.

In other news...
U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison issued a temporary restraining order Friday against a "zero access" policy announced earlier in the day by Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who is overseeing the federal relief effort in the city, and Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security director.

CNN won't show the images from the Sept. 11 attack, but they won a suit to show the bodies of victims of Katrina. Anything the MSM can do to hurt America is a cause they deem worth fighting for.

FReegards,
DocRock

[Maeve]

...or the Civil War. Lincoln not only tried to toss out the Bill of Rights--he tried to imprison the Chief Justice for telling Lincoln to go straight to Hell.

bump

[Maeve]

How do you get an injunction again Fast Eddie Compass and his decrees? When he's violating the Constitution all over the place, can someone go directly to the Supremes? I wish someone who knew what to do would do it and quick!

Does someone have to get one of the 5th Circuit judges now in Houston to go after him on these violations of Constitutional Rights that he has ordered?

Or do I just start praying that God strikes him dead?

[texasbluebell]

The whole issue of "bacteria in the water" is nonsense, according to Dr. Michael Baden, who has been on Fox numerous times in the past few days. I'll take his word over any of the land/gun-grabbers anyday.

He says there is no danger to humans, unless they drink the water.

If it gets on their skin, wash it off. People are not in danger of inhaling something from it, or touching it. Just don't swallow it.

This is all such patent nonsense that we're seeing.

[Styria]

Bump for later.

[Hank Rearden]

I personally have come to despise government in all its forms.

Then I assume you, like me, are absent from the daily George-Bush-worshipping, picture-licking thread on FreeRepublic?

It's pretty nauseating. "He's sooooo dreeeeeamy. < slurp >"

I haven't seen George Jr. defending civil liberties and the natural right to self-defense by asserting Constitutional primacy over the sleazy NO "public servants" going around confiscating guns, either. Of course, he had no problem stomping on the First Amendment.

[quietolong]

RE my #179

[Drammach]

Olongapo / City Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines

The slums in India, Bangladesh are similar.. It looks like a hurricane hit it every day.. filth and bodies in the streets, trash, criminals on every corner, beggars everywhere..

There IS disease, but while it's higher than many areas, the majority of the people appear to be healthy..

( My brother-in-law is a plumber. He hasn't died yet, and he has to wade in raw sewage somewhere every time there's a hard rain.. )

[Drammach]

They just wouldn't take it.

And they wouldn't have gotten in the house, either..

One thing you learn from "Cops", the TV show..
Never consent to a search of your car..

Likewise, watching the video of the old lady, I would add, ..
Never consent to police entering your home unless they have a legal warrant.. ( search or arrest )

By allowing entry, you give Police the legal authority to search and seize..
Once over the threshold, anything they see that "may" be evidence, IS evidence..
You have just given a "blanket" authority to the cops..

[Emmett McCarthy]

That would be right. I'm no part of that.

[texasbluebell]

Yep, exactly.

[2ndreconmarine]

The whole issue of "bacteria in the water" is nonsense

I certainly don't disagree.

However, I argue it is not the issue. I don't care if there is bacteria in the water.

At issue is that the government can simply do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, to whomever it wants under the simple pretect that "it is for their own good." Even on cable news you hear this continual justification.

Doesn't wash. In a free country, the government doesn't get to decide A) what is for my own good and B) they don't get to enforce that simply because they want to.

[2ndreconmarine]

What’s really a good laugh. Is those of us who have gone to & from Olongapo / City Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines

You have to be a Marine!!! 3rd MarDiv???

Only Marines and Squids are stationed at Subic bay and only Marines call squids, squids.

Semer Fi!!

[texasbluebell]

At issue is that the government can simply do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, to whomever it wants under the simple pretect that "it is for their own good." Even on cable news you hear this continual justification.

Doesn't wash. In a free country, the government doesn't get to decide A) what is for my own good and B) they don't get to enforce that simply because they want to.

Absolutely. We're seeing things happening in NO that should worry all of us.

[RadioAstronomer]

I pray that some lawyer reading this will get going right away on taking care of Mr. P. Edwin Compass in an appropriate manner.

Naw.. This will be whitewashed right into oblivion.