Anybody here ever watch the Vicar of Dibley on PBS or the BBC, with Alice Tinker here?
Posted on 03/25/2008 3:40:01 AM PDT by raybbr
WASHINGTON -- A crackdown on guns is meeting some resistance in the District.
Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District's gun ban. They passed out fliers requesting cooperation on Monday.
The program will begin in a couple of weeks in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of southeast Washington and will later expand to other neighborhoods. Officers will go door to door asking residents for permission to search their homes.
Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said the "safe homes initiative" is aimed at residents who want to cooperate with police. She gave the example of parents or grandparents who know or suspect their children have guns in the home.
Community leaders went door to door in Ward 8 Monday to advise residents not to invite police into their homes to search for weapons.
"Bad idea," said D.C. School Board member William Lockridge. "I think the people should not open your doors under any circumstances, don't even crack your door, unless someone has a warrant for your arrest."
Ron Hampton, of the Black Police Officers Association, said he doesn't expect many in the community to comply.
"This is one of those communities where the police even have problems getting information about crimes that are going on in the community, so to suggest, now, that the police have enough community capital in their hand that the community is going to cooperate with them, I'm not so sure that's a good idea," Hampton said.
If weapons are recovered, they will be tested and destroyed if they are not found to be linked to any other crimes.
A police spokeswoman said that if evidence of other crimes is found during voluntary searches, amnesty will be granted for that crime as well.
"Chief Lanier has been clear," Traci Hughes said. "Amnesty means amnesty."
City officials are racists and scared of minority firearm ownership.
Boston & D.C.
Anybody here ever watch the Vicar of Dibley on PBS or the BBC, with Alice Tinker here?
She wasn’t elected, but appointed by the equally clueless Mayor.
Saying that will get you pulled out of your house, thrown to the ground, and the next thing you would see would be the cops going in to search the place for that Uzi(and whatever else they may find while they are inside). A long time ago I learned it's best not to even joke about such things to cops.
"Whaddya mean about this 4th Ammendment thingy?"
A look! A 4 star General, with ribbons, and everything!
So, if you submit to a house search for guns with a dead body on your kitchen floor, you will get amnesty for that. What a brilliant strategy, D.C.!
I thought the same thing! There is no way this will happen.
Tested and destroyed? Why not try to return them to their rightful owner? I thought that the police was supposed to do that if they recover stolen property. Would they destroy a stolen car after recovery? what idiots.
Now all a person has to do now is murder their enemy and call the police to take their firearm. If they are granted amnesty for the crime, they can walk. What a country!
I don't know why most people attribute actions like this to ignorance or stupidity. It is neither. It is a calculated act of tyranny designed to see just how much Mugabe wannabe Fenty and Himmler wannabe Lanier can get away with. First it tests the resistance of the community, and second it tests the will of the police to carry out illegal and constitution activities. (Not that they'll have much objection from that front - people don't go into police work becuse they like to question orders).
People like Lanier and Fenty and those who support them are NOT stupid or clueless. They're EVIL, and they're as much an enemy of freedom as any Al Qaeda member. More so because unlike Al Qaeda who have openly declared their hate for the USA, these tyrants in making occupy positions of power within the US. Further they have more troops (DC police) than AL Qaeda does and they have the protection of law for their excesses.
You have to ask yourself why do they hate and fear guns in the hands of the citizens? They have no objection to guns as such, since I don't see them offering to disarm their police. And they aren't stupid enough to think that criminals are rendered helpless by their laws (30 years of armed criminals in DC should show them something). What do they fear? Arms in the hands of law abiding citizens, because unlike criminals, law abiding citizens might actually resist tyranny if they have the means.
“If they are allowed to do this in D.C. what keeps them from trying in all over the US.”
I think you and I are in agreement. However, I feel the need to correct your premise. They are not “allowed to do this in D.C.” The constitution forbids it just as it forbids government infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.
Rather, they are assuming the power to do this. Hopefully, the thing that will keep them from trying this all over the US (including DC) is at least one operational firearm and a crate of appropriate ammo in the hands of an able bodied patriot in every home.
2 or 3 big guys come to your door. They have handcuffs, guns, nightsticks, mace and tasers. They have the power to take away your life and liberty. They ask if it’s OK to come in and search your house.
They are very intimidating, eh?
Instead of searching for criminals and trying to prevent rape, murder and robbery, they are asking nice at your door if they can confiscate the very means with which you can protect yourself from rape, murder and robbery.
No one ever thought they'd really go door-to-door searching for firearms. But they are.
It's called incrementalism.
No, she’s an eight-star general. Count ‘em!
I think that’s probably the point, don’t you? The thing is if these people DON’T stand up TOGETHER against this it will spread like wild-fire and the ignorant citizens across the country will AGREE to it having NO CLUE what the 2nd and 4th amendments are REALLY for — to prevent EXACTLY THIS!
Fox5 interviewed Marion Barry last night on the topic ... he rambled and mumbled some sort of admonition not to consent to a search ...
Might just possibly be the first time I’ve ever agreed with him.
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