Chilly Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 http://dcist.com/2008/06/04/mpd_to_seal_off.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyBall4Buffalo Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Don't worry the cops are just here for your safety. Quietly ignore the stomping on of freedom, and quietly move along, to the next checkpoint. As far as other cities where this is done. It probably happens, but not talked about. I have a feeling it'll be largely ignored and chalked up as acceptable, cause they're keeping others "safe". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I cannot possibly see this passing the Supreme Court, even with the Bush appointees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyBall4Buffalo Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I cannot possibly see this passing the Supreme Court, even with the Bush appointees. Initiatives such as the Neighborhood Safety Zones have been accepted by federal courts as a legitimate law enforcement practice in keeping with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment The constitutionality of the NSZ initiative has been reviewed by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General. The NSZ will be launched next week in the Trinidad area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster4324 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 DCTom to seal off neighborhoods Man, I knew he was a jerk, but wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Where's Snake Puliskin when you need him ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Check points in the streets? Did not know DC was in Irak... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Initiatives such as the Neighborhood Safety Zones have been accepted by federal courts as a legitimate law enforcement practice in keeping with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment The constitutionality of the NSZ initiative has been reviewed by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General. The NSZ will be launched next week in the Trinidad area It sounds like it hasn't gone to the Supreme Court yet. Did they refuse to hear it or did they just not get it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Can they do this in DC being it is not a state? I would think being the District of Columbia, they can get "away" with more? Or am I off my phucking rocker (take your shots if you must!)?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Well, they could just stop suspicious-looking people...but that would be profiling. So, much like strip-searching 80-year old women for box cutters at airports, they have to check everybody. I don't know what's funnier, the idea that this plan has a snowball's chance in hell of being even remotely effective, or that paper's hysterical coverage of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 They must be taking a cue from Iraq where the ethnic neighborhoods have been divided with large barriers. Instead of spreading democracy to Iraq, we're importing segregation from Iraq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 They must be taking a cue from Iraq where the ethnic neighborhoods have been divided with large barriers. Instead of spreading democracy to Iraq, we're importing segregation from Iraq. Its that "Soul Train" mentality, Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 They must be taking a cue from Iraq where the ethnic neighborhoods have been divided with large barriers. Instead of spreading democracy to Iraq, we're importing segregation from Iraq. What, you don't like big government solutions to problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 So, they are going to restrict people from entering these neighborhoods, but the people already inside will be free to leave whenever they want? Not good enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 DCTom to seal off neighborhoods Man, I knew he was a jerk, but wow. I could understand if Alaska had seal neighborhoods, but DC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I could understand if Alaska had seal neighborhoods, but DC? Yeah, all kinds of crazy stuff goes on in D.C. Stuff they don't want you to know about. That's why they don't want us to go there. Next they're gonna move it to a secret location in 4-dimensional space/time so even Charles Whidmore can't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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