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- jaymzdean, on 06/05/2008, -4/+268"I believe that we must give up our liberty fer freedom."
~too many ***** idiots - ltchimpo, on 06/05/2008, -17/+226I don't have to tell you things are bad -- everybody knows things are bad. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth... banks are going bust... shop-keepers keep a gun under the counter... punks are running wild on the street and there's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do. And there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat... we sit watching our T.V.s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes -- as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We know things are bad; worse than bad. They're crazy! It's like everything, everywhere is going crazy. So, we don't go out anymore; we sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and we say: Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms... let me have my toaster and my T.V. and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything -- just leave us alone.
But I'm not gonna leave you alone... I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest and I don't want you to riot or write your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians or the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad... you've got to say: I'm a human being -- Goddamn it -- my life has value!
I want you to get up now, I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up, right now, and go to the window -- open it and stick your head out and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! I want you to get up -- RIGHT NOW -- go to your windows, open them, and stick your head out and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! Things have got to change! You've got to get mad... you've got to SAY: I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! Then, we'll figure out what to do... - LastDitchHero, on 06/05/2008, -6/+166Glad to see gun control works so well in DC!!!
/sarcasm - DonWigler, on 06/04/2008, -3/+162"Attorney General Peter Nickles actually said that measures of this sort have "been used in other cities.” Which cities are those, Mr. Nickles? Warsaw?" So funny, So sad.
- zgoos, on 06/04/2008, -5/+157More info here: http://www.examiner.com/a-1423820%7ELanier_plans_t ...
I don't live too far from the neighborhood in question. This gives me the willies. I don't know which this reminds me of more, Berlin during the cold war or the Warsaw Ghetto. - inactive, on 06/05/2008, -5/+103Hopefully the ACLU will intervene and save us from the government, yet again... Sigh....
- ToadLeg, on 06/05/2008, -8/+103Welcome, welcome to City 17. You have chosen or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home. So whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here.
- jtscira, on 06/05/2008, -3/+82WOW
"Papers Please !"
Col. Klink - SteelChicken, on 06/05/2008, -4/+79im confused. most firearms are banned in DC, why is crime such a problem?
/sarcasm - protogenxl, on 06/05/2008, -13/+86They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
-Benjamin Franklin - blackbeardtron, on 06/05/2008, -2/+66"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
-Benjamin Franklin - whoreable, on 06/05/2008, -4/+66"But every now and then, I wonder if the gate was put up to keep crime out or to keep our ass in"
Cee-lo Green from the song Cell Therapy - Minarchian, on 06/05/2008, -2/+64"I believe that we must give up our liberty fer freedom."
Small correction:
"I believe that we must give up our liberty fer safety."
There....that's better :)
And you're exactly right. Way too many people are clueless as to what liberty is and what the Constitution represents. It's truly sad and makes me worry what kind of country my kids are going to end up with. - inactive, on 06/05/2008, -10/+64I guess if it's successfully they will also do this in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit,New Orleans, St Louis and all the other top violent cites. Can you NAME 5 THINGS OF COMMONALITY IN DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILES in these cites?
- hamobu, on 06/05/2008, -2/+56The idea is that we would all be safer if we lived in jails in the first place.
- TheImaginator, on 06/05/2008, -1/+52"...then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me ".
- arcticblue, on 06/05/2008, -2/+53There's an elephant in this room and no one wants to talk about it.
- NoCt1, on 06/05/2008, -3/+51ITS MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!
- NCg8r, on 06/05/2008, -3/+48I know it's not the answer you're looking for, but the CORRECT answer is "high levels of poverty". It's not Race, it's Class. The sooner you figure this out and quit hating on brown people, the sooner we will all stop falling for this old trick.
- nkleffman, on 06/05/2008, -12/+57What goes around comes around. You think we can invade and occupy other countries, destroy their infastructure, set up 'green zones' and it won't come back to get us? This police state will spread, it's just a matter of having the right excuse. The control grid is already in place. Then all the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will come back here along with the bad habits they picked up to rule over us. *****.
- 0Xonox0, on 06/05/2008, -1/+45“I think they tried this in Russia and it failed,” - Thats from the original article that they link to.
Oh, and of course its been used extensively in IRAQ. Or looking historically, I believe the NAZIS had a similar program to this. - mr5150, on 06/05/2008, -7/+49Who would have thought Alex Jones was right for a change?.....should i still think of him as a nutter?
- Spawn2105, on 06/05/2008, -4/+46Immunity for Telecoms who listen in on conversations, intercepting email for the sake of protecting the country from terrorism, now this...
Whats next, curfews for all citizens? Fear mongering or "protecting the masses from criminals" should not be a viable justification for allowing the government to go ahead with such things. There are other options for controlling the rate of crime without "locking" up the citizens.
Freedom, not a police state split into zones! - basefx, on 06/05/2008, -4/+45if you outlaw freedom of movement only outlaws will have freedom of movement
- simg, on 06/05/2008, -1/+39couldn't we just digg your comment and hope for the best ?
- Colony, on 06/05/2008, -7/+45Forcing people to stay out of certain places? South Africa tried something like that once. They called it apartheid.
- lgfaphile, on 06/05/2008, -0/+37Considering the DC gun ban (which disarms the law abiding citizen) I'd say it was more like the Warsaw Ghetto. One cannot defend oneself in DC.
- rb89, on 06/05/2008, -5/+43"Pick up that can."
- tomh218, on 06/05/2008, -10/+46But if the police are watching us, we'll be safe from the terrorists!
- YogiWanKenobi, on 06/05/2008, -5/+40In case you were wondering what the "Homeland" part of Homeland Security meant, this is it.
- pintomp3, on 06/05/2008, -4/+39the war on drugs has really made our streets safer
/sarcasm - TheSavant, on 06/05/2008, -5/+40Large populations of "not white."
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -1/+35Here's an idea to curb violence: relax the DC gun laws that never worked in the first place. DC's murder rate went UP after their handgun ban. Perhaps if you let citizens of the area defend themselves, criminals would be a little more apprehensive before robbing/murdering people. As of now DC is ruled by those with guns, which after all the gun laws, are the criminals.
Gun laws DO NOT WORK because criminals DO NOT FOLLOW THE LAW! - itsthemechanic, on 06/05/2008, -3/+36OK, LETS SEE YOUR PAPERS!!
- Matteos, on 06/05/2008, -1/+30I'm sure City 17, uh I mean Washington DC will be safer for it.
- Ethek, on 06/05/2008, -3/+31Lack of parental role models? Perhaps some type of breakdown in society that has led a high percentage of people that trust to the system for personal welfare? To trust in the system to educate their kids without any responsibility from the majority of other parents? It all goes back to personal responsibility... when people cede that and society starts failing I guess the Government thinks it has to go all out to keep society from falling apart. Welcome to serfdom.
- rrife, on 06/05/2008, -1/+29Wonder how long until they have "evidence" to show that this program works and has saved hundreds of lives.
- Balanced, on 06/05/2008, -0/+28I thought it was from the movie Network.
- Minarchian, on 06/05/2008, -1/+28Dem terrsts er everywhar!!!
- JohnnyXmas, on 06/05/2008, -1/+26FTA: "Pedestrians will not be subject to the public safety checks. "
Yep, no security holes in that routine; its air-tight. Everyone knows only people in vehicles can commit violent crimes. - greenvortex, on 06/05/2008, -17/+42Those conspiracy theories about Bush declaring martial law and "postponing" the election are starting to sound way too plausible.
- FreeTalkLIve, on 06/05/2008, -0/+25I hate that damn commercial.
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -1/+25I know I don’t live or work here, nor do I know anybody from here officer. I just wanted to look around and see if there are any houses that I might want to burgle.
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -5/+28“We’ve made too many compromises, too many retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther!”
- Picard - Elliuotatar, on 06/05/2008, -4/+27Yeah right. Rememeber New Orleans, and one town's police blocking the bridge so that people who were desperately in need of food and shelter couldn't leave? Was anyone ever punished for that? Not to my knowledge. they weren't.
And this doesn't even rank close to that. So they'll get away with this. Mark my words. - nocash23, on 06/05/2008, -0/+23well i dont think it was referred to as a ghetto at any other time so the time frame is pretty much understood.
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -0/+23Don't rely on the ACLU, they're your freedoms, it's your responsibility to save them yourself.
- MaxwellMoss, on 06/05/2008, -2/+25This is in addition to the door to door searches for firearms. http://www.nbc4.com/news/15574438/detail.html?subi ...
I realize the searches were voluntary but it is scary none the less. When are the searches going to become mandatory? - hokie47, on 06/05/2008, -4/+27I will say it because no one else will. The high crime areas are in the mostly black ghettoes. It is absolute disaster what happened to blacks. We need to come together and and fix the problem, but it must start within. This is what happens when solid family values go away
- ToadLeg, on 06/05/2008, -8/+30Step 1: Drug Prohibition
Step 2: Crime Problem
Step 3: Police State
???
MASSIVE PROFIT -
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