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Police set to search for guns at homes
Boston Globe ^ | 2/9/08 | Maria Cramer

Posted on 02/11/2008 8:39:34 AM PST by kiriath_jearim

As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant, officials are trying to pitch the idea of the plan as friendly cooperation to residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion.

A friendly looking logo - a drawing of a house surrounded by the sun - adorns the brochure police have drafted to explain and promote the initiative, "Safe Homes." Photos of officers playing baseball with children and chatting with teenagers dot the pamphlet. Twice, police have taken calls from listeners on a black radio station in Roxbury.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: banglist; policestate; safehomes
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1 posted on 02/11/2008 8:39:38 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

It sounds like the beginning of Nazi Germany. I hope the residents tell the cops to go pound sand.


2 posted on 02/11/2008 8:42:21 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Just softening up the neighborhoods for the home invaders....


3 posted on 02/11/2008 8:42:29 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (IX-XI -- numquam didici)
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To: kiriath_jearim

“if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant”

NO.


4 posted on 02/11/2008 8:44:04 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Start with the bad neighborhoods first. Then expand into other neighborhoods proclaiming that safe, gun free zone utopia has been achieved.
Same plan Hitler implemented.


5 posted on 02/11/2008 8:44:42 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

This won’t do any good anyway. All they will do is gather more information on the general public. Even if they found stolen or illegal weapons, what happens? They may arrest the people, put them in prison and they will become even more dangerous. The largest Mexican gangs are being run from inside our prison systems. Until they eleminate these people, the problem will get worse..........count on it.


6 posted on 02/11/2008 8:45:49 AM PST by RC2
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To: o_zarkman44

I wonder how long it will be before this “voluntary” program becomes mandatory?


7 posted on 02/11/2008 8:48:35 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Break out the swastikas.


8 posted on 02/11/2008 8:49:22 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I'd rather oppose a Liberal Democrat than a Liberal Republican!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Cold. Dead. Hands.


9 posted on 02/11/2008 8:50:20 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: kiriath_jearim

Hi there, do you mind if we root through your things?

Not if you don’t mind me busting a cap in yo . . .


10 posted on 02/11/2008 8:50:43 AM PST by tumblindice
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To: kiriath_jearim
One can suppose that citizens whose response is other than friendly cooperation can expect a follow-up threatening intrusion?
11 posted on 02/11/2008 8:51:44 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“It sounds like the beginning of Nazi Germany.”

It sounds like it because it is. Democrats and nazis march to the beat of the same drum: Totalitarianism and the crushing of personal freedom.


12 posted on 02/11/2008 8:52:24 AM PST by ought-six
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To: kiriath_jearim

Damn, that would be funny if it was satire.

What an idiotic misuse and abuse of police force.

If they believe a home owner would allow such a search, why don’t they just skip the search and ask the homeowner to locate the “illegal” guns and turn them in?

jw


13 posted on 02/11/2008 8:52:39 AM PST by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Get yourself a warrent until then your trespassing, and if you didn’t notice the sign “trespassers will be shot with a registered gun”


14 posted on 02/11/2008 8:53:35 AM PST by utherdoul
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To: kiriath_jearim

ah....the jack booted thugs have arrived.....


15 posted on 02/11/2008 8:53:57 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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The Madness of Tom Menino
16 posted on 02/11/2008 8:54:04 AM PST by pabianice
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To: utherdoul

Why don’t we have a look at your bank statement and your last five years of tax returns...


17 posted on 02/11/2008 8:54:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
...residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion.

Shame on them for not coming around to this wonderful program.

A friendly looking logo - a drawing of a house surrounded by the sun - adorns the brochure police have drafted...

"Arbeit macht Frei" sounded good too.

18 posted on 02/11/2008 8:55:32 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Maybe they’ll check to see that there are two parents in each home.....


19 posted on 02/11/2008 8:55:53 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Molon Labe!

Here it comes!

20 posted on 02/11/2008 8:56:20 AM PST by JDoutrider (No 2nd Amendment... Know Tyranny)
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