"Martial Law" Declared in Arkansas Town

[kwo51]

Black on black marshel law. Black on black crime at its higest ,maybe they just dont want to be free.With freedom comes responsibility take or leave it.

[tattedupboy]

I believe that this mayor just signed a political death wish; politically active citizens take note. Next election throw this guy out and don't look back. He and his police department have lost control of their city, so they decide that the best way to fight the criminals is to punish law abiding citizens.

[Red Hat]

Originally Posted by tattedupboy

I believe that this mayor just signed a political death wish; politically active citizens take note. Next election throw this guy out and don't look back. He and his police department have lost control of their city, so they decide that the best way to fight the criminals is to punish law abiding citizens.

Don't forget about the City Council too. They voted 9-0 to allow police to expand the program into any area of the city. May as well clean out the whole bunch.

[S&WM&P40]

Why not set up watch groups? Get the people involved? If they really want change and for this to stop why don't they step up and do there part to take back there city? Why ask the LEO to do it for you and by doing so give up your rights and be treated just like the people you want stopped? But giving the LEO this much power to just stop who ever they want for no reason. Or put you in jail for stepping out side to go to the store after hours. You are putting your selfs in jail because you follow the law. On the other hand the people you want stopped still have all there rights because they don't follow the laws. So you come to the police and give them all this power and in a way you make them gang members with badges! They are not following the rules of the law or of the US. all you have done is gone to a gang that has badges and guns. Step up and say NO enough is enough ans take back your city and your rights. before all your rights are gone and your town looks like Iraq with armed check points at every road. Next the police will be kicking in your doors and taking people to jail with no proof that any thing wrong was done.

[Ektarr]

We need Joe Arpaio for President.

[NDS]

Originally Posted by Ektarr

We need Joe Arpaio for President.

No thanks! I'll pass on the brown-shirt police state personality cult.

[HK4U]

Could be we are seeing here and in other parts of the country a trial balloon so to speak. A little test to see if in the name of security how much abridgement of freedom the people are willing to take.


"Since March 9, 1933, the United states has been in a state of national emergency. A majority of the people of the United States have their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years (now 72 years) freedoms and governmental procedures, guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought forth by states of national emergency."
Senate Report 93-549 (1973).

"The truth of the matter is that you do have those standby provisions, and the statutory emergency plans are there whereby you could, in the name of stopping terrorism, apprehend, invoke the military, and arrest Americans and hold them in detention camps."
U.S. Representative Henry Gonzalez, August 29, 1994

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

[S&WM&P40]

It's spreading.. Here is the latest case...


HARTFORD, Conn. - Police took 16 young people off the streets on the first night of a curfew crackdown in response to escalating violence, officials said.


The curfew in the Connecticut capital bans anyone under 18 from loitering on the streets after 9 p.m., unless they are with a parent or guardian.

Police Chief Daryl Roberts said curfew violators were taken to their homes and enforcement of the long-standing curfew went without incident Thursday night. He said there were no reported shootings in the city of 125,000 residents.

Police have said the curfew ordinance will be enforced for 30 days.

The announcement followed a violent weekend during which 11 people were shot. Seven of the victims were wounded in gunfire that erupted after Saturday's West Indian Day parade. A 21-year-old man was killed, and the wounded included a 7-year-old boy and 15-month-old girl.

City officials initially said that curfew violators would be detained at community centers, but backed off that plan after the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut said it would violate youths' rights. But officials said violators could be placed in state custody if they are picked up by police and there are no responsible adults at their homes.

An ACLU attorney, David McGuire, said the group opposes juvenile curfews because they violate the fundamental rights of innocent people. He said there were no immediate plans for legal action against the city.

[kwo51]

Try that in Liberty City Miami.

[KimberRB]

+1 HK I could not have said it better, you hit that nail right on the head.