DC to start running travel checkpoints
D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Does anybody else remember when we used to look down on governments when they pulled shit like this?
UPDATE: Figures, less than 10 minutes after I sling this up I see that LawDog lays into them much better:
You two-bit, four-flushing, knock-off, arrogant, el-cheapo tin-plate Mussolinis. You pack of dime-store Himmlers with delusions of adequacy.This. Is. America. You have obviously forgotten this.
American citizens do not — I will say again my last, slowly, for the DC City Government — American citizens do not need to give a reason — legitimate or otherwise — for driving anywhere on any Freyja-be-damned tax-payer-funded public sodding street.
Oh, there’s more. Go and read.