Posted on 01/25/2016 2:35:18 AM PST by Enlightened1
It's the nagging fear many have about our government: what would happen if martial law was declared? New York City just found out, at least temporarily.
Eleven states as well as Washington D.C. declared states of emergency in the wake of the massive record-breaking snowstorm which blanketed the East. But New York City went a step further. Governor Andrew Cuomo declared martial law in New York City by ordering all people to stay inside under police enforcement. He issued an absolute travel ban for anything that is not an emergency vehicle.
The New York Police Department put out a blunt announcement on Saturday: "After 2:30 p.m. and you're on the road, we will arrest you."
As if that wasn't direct enough, the NYPD reiterated, ""Stay off the road. We don't want to have to arrest you."
A spokesperson for the New York Police Department said the ban just means no vehicles on the roads. Walking, running, and bicycles are permitted. "They can pedal all they want," said the spokesman
The police did request people not to walk in the streets so people could do their job.
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I know the chances are rare, however if someone in NYC had a tricked out 4 x 4 it could be an asset, the NYPD might even ask him to borrow it, ditto that a snowmobile.
In regards to Comrade De Blasio, that isn't his real name if you will he is 1/2 Italian, and obliviously he is not letting that strong point kick in ;-).
>> Pretty thin gruel to be labeled “martial law.â€
I guess we have to lighten up on DeBlasio here on the conservative forum, now that Donald Trump supports him. ;-)
If you outlaw driving in a snowstorm, then only criminals will drive in a snowstorm.
You can have my car after you pry my cold dead arse out of it!
And besides, a travel ban during the blizzard is not martial law.
Sorry. It wasn’t that good a rant, anyway. At least they didn’t spell it “Marshall” law.
He got somebody's vote. Lots of low information voters out there.
There was another long thread the other day about the National Guard getting called out to rescue hundreds of stranded motorists on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. On that thread, one of the complaints was that the highway WAS NOT closed down.
Go figure.
Get real, folks. This was a massive snowstorm that dropped 28+ inches of snow in the most densely populated place in the U.S. You can't plow streets, and fire/EMS can't respond to emergencies, if you have the streets blocked by thousands of cars stuck in the snow.
I was just going to write that. That can’t be enforced. I mean, didn’t the poster see the news videos of folks walking all around NY, throwing snowballs and sledding?
He doesn’t support him, he said he would love the competition.
Nothing to get excited about for it is only a test to see if the meek, gullible and timid people of New York will actually go along with it.
The next “ emergency “ will be on election day and if the people were stupid enough to fall for the first “ emergency “ then it will be done again on election day.
In this case I don’t think of it as Martial Law but Lemming Law.
The boxcars will be loading at Gate 3 to take the lemmings to summer camp. It’s so nice that most don’t come back.
Driving is not a right. It is a privilege. That may be revoked whenever the state wants it revoked.
They cannot stop you for walking around.
Did you guys tak driver’s Ed?
My favorite part is the FReepers who live in Texas or other southern states with no experience with snow emergencies who claim that such “curtailment of liberty” would never fly in their home state.
Banning motor vehicle travel during emergencies like this is simply common sense. In a better world, the authorities would not have to tell people that.
Oh, right -- sure.
They already had this exact scenario unfold. September 11, 2001 happened to be the day of the primary elections in NYC.
1. The city government declared a state of emergency (for obvious reasons).
2. The election was postponed even though people began voting before the attack that morning.
3. They rescheduled the election a few weeks later, and it went off without a hitch.
That is so far from the truth as to be just silly.
No one kept you in your house. They did limit driving ( which is not a “right”) and no one’s home was searched without permission of the owners.
Oh, yeah ... that's "martial law" all right. LOL.
I was referring to the Boston bomber search, not the NY snowstorm.
And you may have been too -- my point was just that the Boston bomber search was closer to martial law than the NYC emergency action, and even the Boston incident isn't close to martial law. On a scale of 0-100, NYC is a zero, and Boston was a 5 or 10.
Fair ‘nuff.
Boston was more hunkered down, rather than martialed down. But no one was keeping you off the streets, except in the areas where the two douchebags had been seen.
And no home or building was searched without the permission of the owner.
Bags were searched on the subway. Again, no one who refused was searched. They simply could not get on the train.
My Son in Law was one of the folks doing those searches.
Oh please...”Martial law”
Texas should adopt this during rare dowmpours so they’re not wasting time effort and risking and losing lives trying to rescue some clown drowning in a deep water road. But they cannot.
We get a foot or two here on the east shore of Lake Ontario and nobody thinks anything of it. We navigate in white-out conditions and go on about our business.
Martial Law? This is Andrew Cuomo’s wet dream. I am surprised that they didn’t go house to house searching for guns, like they did after Katrina.
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