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Looks like the police and other govt officials in King, NC don't have enough to do. Rather than enacting restrictions that make the situation worse rather than better, maybe they should spend their spare time reading the Constitution?
Alcohol Restrictions, Curfew Lifted In King
Police Chief: King Remains Under State Of Emergency Until Monday
BY ALLYSON BOND, HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
POSTED: 5:18 pm EST February 6, 2010
UPDATED: 11:24 am EST February 8, 2010
KING, N.C. -- Authorities said the state of emergency declaration would continue until Monday 9 a.m., barring any unforeseen circumstances or severe changes. Effective Sunday afternoon, alcohol restrictions and a curfew were lifted. All other remaining restrictions would continue until Monday, said Paula May, King police chief. Other restrictions included a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person's own premises.
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You have to wonder where these local police think they get the authority to strip away citizens' Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
What's next? Will the cops say, "Gee, since it's snowing pretty hard today, we're going to declare it's OK for the white people of King, NC to take any black person they can find, put him in chains, and force him to shovel their walk whenever needed, all for no pay and miserable housing. We know, there's a Constitutional amendment against that, too. But nobody yelped when we took away their 2nd amendment rights, so why should they change when we take away the 13th? What's the difference?"
The anti-gun-rights crowd would love to get "State of Emergency" established as a legitimate reason for banning guns.
This idea was started just after Hurricane Katrina, when police went house-to-house in New Orleans, seeking privately-owned guns and confiscating any they could find, sometimes by force. Sounds like the local heat in King, NC wants to get in on the act, albeit in a more minor way.
Historical note:
On March 9, 1933, the United States was placed under a State of Emergency by newly-elected President Franklin Roosevelt. That State of Emergency has never been cancelled, and remains in effect to this day. Many others have since been added on top of it. Most of them still remain in effect.
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