Occasionally, when I'm feeling down, I'll head over to Redstate.com for a little pick-me-up. They never fail to make me laugh. Today was exceptionally entertaining. I couldn't believe my eyes. It had to be a joke. Someone was playing a trick on these poor souls. But no, it was all too real. And all the more hilarious for it.
A terrified Redstater posted this panicked blog:
Washington, D.C. police to conduct warrantless searches of houses for guns.
By paulseale Posted in Law — Comments (29) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Guys, this is down right frieghtening. I cannot even begin where to start with this story which comes from our nation's capitol.
Police will be doing door to door "consent" searches for guns. That means they knock on your door and ask if they may search your house for fire arms banned under the current law being contested in the Supreme Court.
Residents will be asked to sign "consent" forms while being promised "amnesty." If weapons are found, they will be tested to see if they were used in any crimes. If the results come back in the affirmation, the the police may take futher steps to investigate the crime.
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I simply cannot understand how people are missing the conflict with the fourth ammendment and the closeness to an outright police state. Whats next, searching to see if people have Bibles in their homes because it isnt "inclusive" and "incites" people as decided by some member of Congress?
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Citizens are to be protected from illegal search and seizure. That means that without probable cause their should be no reason to access a home or business. This policy being followed by the Washington, D.C. police is in direct contradiction to those protections and flies in the face of our basic rights.
Sadly, once we head down this path then we subject our selves to some very serious issues which undermind the very fabric of our liberties. I hope that you would join me in contacting your law makers and voicing outrage with this policy before it spreads.
This type of policy is a type of cancer which will kill the very basic and fundamental liberties which our nation is founded upon. If it is not dealt with swiftly, then many if not all others will fall closely behind them.
The outrage! The horror! The spelling! I figured this had to be a hoax, a brilliant ploy to illuminate the rank hipocrisy of the right. I was ready to congratulate the author on his cleverness. But alas, I was disappointed to find that there was no such genius at work. But with people like this, they do all the work for you.
And if you thought the main entry was good, wait until you see some of the comments:
I've had enough of these good for nothing socialists who are taking away our cherished rights day by day. It sickens me to know that this kind of unconstitutional madness is going on in our nation's capital.
The fascists on the left won't mind. As long as they are only going after law-abiding citizens and not people with connections to terror cells calling Al-Qaida bases in Pakistan with out warrants, there will not even be a collective yawn from the left.
But wait, what's this I see? Does someone actually realize the irony?
Does no one here see the irony? I am very much against this tactic that DC and maybe other locations are going to, or trying to do.
That said, do you guys not see the problem with warrantless wiretaps of us too?
The 4th amendment is not only to protect our 2nd amendment rights folks.
Of course this type of rational thought would not be tolerated.
Not the same thing at all. The "warrantless wiretaps" are not being conducted wholesale on everyone, and they don't involve police physically entering your premises, and they don't typically involve citizens but alien suspects.
Bye.
Phew! That was close. The cognitive dissonance was starting to hurt. But now that I know that warrantless wiretaps aren't being conducted on everyone I feel a lot better.
Thank you Redstate.com. Thank you.