‘Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals
Authorities in Long Island have launched a crackdown on homeowners who rent their house out to tenants who have not been registered under a “zero tolerance” program that will see police conduct home inspections without notice.
Landlords in the Long Island community of Westbury will be targeted by a newly created police “Housing Enforcement Unit” that will “modify search warrant law to eliminate prior notice, aggressively use warrants and housing sweeps on a regular basis.”
Residents are being encouraged to report their neighbors to authorities if they suspect they are housing tenants who have not been registered with the government. Local station News 12 also gave out an email address and phone number encouraging viewers to, “report a suspected illegal rental.”
This, surely, is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, if nothing else?
A couple of phone calls reporting suspicious activities to a couple of Councillors, the local fire chief and the pastor of the church all and a few other notables will ensure this is quietly buried
I’m willing to bet a bottle of good wine it’ll go ahead, though.
It’s f***ing New York, what else did you expect?
True.
Lived in NY prior to 1964. And next door to Westbury for the last 4 of those years. Nothing then remotely suggested this, as the institutions still had some prior to world war II chiefs of staff then. But it was still too authoritarian for me. Oh what we would give for such lesser authoritians who understood how it was personally unsafe to go too far.
Time to start circulating the addresses of all the local cops, politicians, community organisers, Democrat workers and bureaucrats….
You bet!
Lousy teachers, the guy who mows his lawn at 7 am on a weekend. I could go on.
One of my sons went out with a German lady who grew up in east Germany. Her stories about what that was like are very sobering and gave me ammo to use against my socialist friend (over good scotch we enjoy what we have in common) who defends the eastern bloc as it was. We are not there yet, not even with this abomination, but its looming.
“looming” is the right word, Brown. I reckon it’s imminent.
“This, surely, is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, if nothing else?”
Pfft…the fourth amendment is soooooo 1789,that dusty old document is now out of date in the era of pen and phone.
I hope these commie leftards start screaming about their Constitutional rights as we force them up the stairs to the gallows
This is where the Constitution, and more specifically the Bill Of Rights, is now an IMPEDIMENT to the restoration of a free society. I know it sounds crazy, but think about it.
A bunch of cops trample the fourth ammendment and everyone goes off their nut. “You can’t do that”, they scream and whine. “We have protections!”
An investiagtion is launched and months if not years later the cops are exonerated but by then nobody is paying attention anymore.
The orderly breaching of the BOR has become a system in and of itself, and it’s just about been perfected. The irony is that the rights enshrined in the BOR are universal and have always existed. They did not magically spring into existence on the stroke of a pen in a particular jurisdiction in a particular geographical location. They were merely codified there, and not for the first time in history either.
The paper they are written on is just a peice of paper, but while masses remain content to scream about that piece of paper and demand compliance with it from a government wholly dedicated to ignoring it “with due process” there’s never going to be much motivation for tyrants to stop practicing tyranny.
You know what stops tyranny? Hanging tyrants. Nothing else.
I believe there is someone illegally living in the White House.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/98-consensus-reached/
The right to free speech, to defend yourself, to live in peace, freedom from soft-tyranny, sadly it’s all up for grabs in the USA.