Posted on 08/14/2002 3:59:37 PM PDT by RogueIsland
Yeah, very funny.
FMCDH
A few days earlier, she had asked a fire inspector to come in and inspect the cluttered storage room, hoping it would prompt her 68-year-old husband to clean it up.
"Honey, I'm mad at you for not cleaning the clutter, so I'm calling the friggin' Fire Inspector."
Great solution, lady.
If he has a problem with it, we should make him come to the U.S. and go through an airport security checkpoint. We'll see how defiant he is then! We know how to treat 68 year old men here...
What, to be sheep? I think it'd instead serve to prompt men all across the country to have a little "sit down" with their wives.
how do you think this reporter really feels?
No comment.
First and foremost, the wife is an idiot. Lady, what in the world do you think will happen if you start bringing people in to rummage through your house if you have a bunch of contraband in there? You think it might be reported? Duh. And I wonder how funny it'll be if they decide to press charges? Ha. Ha. Hubby can spend his twilight years in the pen. That's a hoot, ain't it honey? But I suppose the storage room is clean now, so that's a plus.
But I just find the tone and the whole situation positively Orwellian. And we're not that far away from it here Second Ammendment or not. We're on the road to a "worker's paradise" fashioned after East Germany. You'll never know who's an agent for the Stazi, er, I mean Operation TIPS- the fire inspector, the cable installation guy, the UPS man, the trash collector or what you might be reported for that would result in the authorities kicking in your door. I don't know that breeding an environment of suspicion and distrust of everyone you meet day to day is actually a net gain to anyone's security.
"You could have armed how many people with 40-odd guns. You could have armed a good little gang to do . . . whatever. That only reinforces the need to securely store . . . your firearms and ammunition."
It seems to me that it actually reinforces the need to securely store any and all of your personal property in the event the authorities decide to break in and confiscate it.
But I'm confused. As far as I can tell, all the stuff that COULD have happened, DIDN'T. Period. If his dingbat wife hadn't called in the fire inspector, he COULD have lived his entire life and never had any issue with the guns, but that's not even considered as a possibile outcome. It wasn't gang members or the mafia or crazed drug dealers or escaped mental patients who kicked in his door and took the guns, it was the police. Admitedly, after the police confiscate the guns they won't be on the street (hopefully), but it doesn't sound like they were there to begin with, so the whole arguement of what could have happend is specious at best. I hate when what could have happened is used as a justification after the fact.
"Anybody would hate to lose their property, but if it's for the public good," he says, his voice trailing off.
I just shudder. It's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...it's for the public good...
And btw, this is already happening here in this country, right now, courtesy of the Chicago CAGE unit.
On another note, what was the reason for the search warrant? "Just having guns" is NOT sufficient cause for a warrant. If the victim can get himself a decent lawyer and an honest judge, he can probably get the charges thrown out.
But getting a honest judge in the northeast is easier said than done....
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