To: goldstategop
Under the city law, once the city declares a state of emergency, officials would be able to regulate fuel and alcohol sales, close any place of public assemblage and prohibit public possession or display of firearms. In addition, they would be able "to confiscate merchandise, equipment, vehicles or property needed to alleviate any emergency condition."
Confiscated property would be returned within 30 days after an emergency ends. And the city must compensate an owner for using personal property, which would have to be returned in the same condition in which it was seized.
Note that I still believe this is unconstitutional. However one would hope in times of emergency that people would willingly step up and help if they have equipment.
13 posted on
09/12/2006 3:12:02 AM PDT by
visualops
(artlife.us crikey!)
To: visualops
However one would hope in times of emergency that people would willingly step up and help if they have equipment.
In emergencies (like the aftermath of hurricanes), Floridians typically step up to help out their neighbors.
This "law" is unnecessary and its authors should be run out of town on a rail. They deserve no better.
Owning property is one of the major distinctions between free, capitalistic societies, and those owned and controlled by the state. Where do you want to live (not you, personally, visualops)??
26 posted on
09/12/2006 4:12:43 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: visualops
"confiscated property would be returned after 30 days......."
words are very cheap. think of the effort it would take to remove those words
and never have anyone even dare to utter them again. (one gets the feeling
that the people who founded the U.S. might be having a difficult time in the
hereafter)
30 posted on
09/12/2006 4:46:32 AM PDT by
ripley
To: visualops
Yes, the government will give you your generator back, after you no longer need it. This is like buying an umbrella, and having a co worker 'borrow' it only when it rains.
41 posted on
09/12/2006 5:37:58 AM PDT by
sportutegrl
(A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
To: visualops
Confiscated property would be returned within 30 days after an emergency ends.I guess you have a point there, after all temporary tax increases have always been brought back to normal after the temporary need for finances have been taken care of. /s
121 posted on
09/12/2006 4:09:15 PM PDT by
EGPWS
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