The Line, As They Say, Is Here
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under The Constitution
This is not a gun blog, and quite honestly, I don’t want it to become a gun blog. There are so many other places governmental authority is overstepping its CITIZEN-PROVIDED BOUNDARIES, that only talking about gun-related issues is a more narrow scope than we want to take. We draw and hold the line in *everything* where our personal liberty is at stake.
But.
Since the 2nd Amendment seems to be the one that’s under active siege lately, you’re going to see more gun-related posts here. Feel free to skip.
Yesterday saw me barely coherent over DC’s latest attempt at gun-grabbing. This morning, Robb emailed a link to a similar measure in Boston, only it isn’t going so well for them:
Boston police officials, surprised by intense opposition from residents, have significantly scaled back and delayed the start of a program that would allow officers to go into people’s homes and search for guns without a warrant.
The program, dubbed Safe Homes, was supposed to start in December, but has been delayed at least three times because of misgivings in the community. March 1 was the latest missed start date.
One community group has been circulating a petition against the plan. Police officials trying to assuage residents’ fears have been drowned out by criticism at some meetings with residents and elected officials.
I suppose they *would* be surprised, wouldn’t they. We’ve tolerated constitutional violations before, why shouldn’t we keep tolerating them?
Only this one is a bit more blatant than the others:
Officers may begin knocking on doors this week, officials said yesterday, but instead of heading into four troubled neighborhoods, as they had planned, officers will target only one, Egleston Square in Jamaica Plain, where police said they have received the most support.
Police would ask parents or legal guardians for permission to search homes where juveniles ages 17 and under are believed to be holding illegal guns. Police would only enter homes into which they have been invited and, once inside, would only search the rooms of the juveniles.
I don’t care if they’re going into South Compton, and I don’t care if they say pretty please with sugar-coated crack on top, this is unconstitutional and isn’t to be tolerated.
People of Boston, people of DC…those of you still interested in personal liberty, and the rule of LAW instead of the rule of MAN…find out who exactly is proposing and supporting these measures, and let’s get them un-elected and un-appointed.
TLIH Rule #1: The more someone is grasping for power, the less of it they should be allowed to have.
Tags: 2nd amendment, guns are good, where is the outrage?
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March 25th, 2008
I can’t recall who said it (Heinlein or Twain or maybe someone even earlier), but the old saw is that we should never give power to those who would work and campaign so hard for it.
Think about it, if no one was allowed to campaign to be president, if the only way it worked was to be nominated by others and have others campaign for you, with the nominees being silent and removed from the process, what would we have then?
We’d have Oprah for President is what.
March 25th, 2008
Ok, that’s just nasty.
March 25th, 2008
And oh so frickin’ true and ya’ll know it.
March 26th, 2008
Fourth amendment is taking a beating with this one too.