The Beantown Brownshirts

This has just popped on a number of places and Gauis has created a great new logo for Beantown’s Brownshirts.

It seems that Boston’s Police Department has decided that the Constitution of The United States of America is something for them to defecate on.

Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children’s bedrooms.

The program, which is already raising questions about civil liberties, is based on the premise that parents are so fearful of gun violence and the possibility that their own teenagers will be caught up in it that they will turn to police for help, even in their own households.

First,if these parents are so screwed up that they are afraid of their own kids they can do several things. The first would be to swear out a warrant for their child’s arrest. They can quietly sneak into their own child’s room and search it. Upon finding an illegal gun they then call the cops. The police then have reasonable cause….

But simply giving up your rights because you are a cowardly pussy in NOT AN OPTION.

In the next two weeks, Boston police officers who are assigned to schools will begin going to homes where they believe teenagers might have guns. The officers will travel in groups of three, dress in plainclothes to avoid attracting negative attention, and ask the teenager’s parent or legal guardian for permission to search. If the parents say no, police said, the officers will leave.

In other words School Cops who have pretty good idea who is a bad actor are going to covertly approach said gang bangers home and ask the people there to give up their Constitutional Rights because the Cops can’t be bothered with actually, you know, DOING THEIR OWN DAMN JOB. If they know who they think has illegal guns the proper way to do it is an actual criminal investigation. But nothing in this scheme is normal.

If officers find a gun, police said, they will not charge the teenager with unlawful gun possession, unless the firearm is linked to a shooting or homicide.

That’s right, no one goes to jail. They just get their guns taken away. Which simply means that they will go out and buy another illegal weapon. They’ll do that because they are frackin criminals! And if they know that all that will happen is a minor financial loss there is no reason that they will stop.

The program was unveiled yesterday by Police Commissioner Commissar Edward F. Davis in a meeting with several community leaders.

Even the damn ACLU sees this as wrong:

“Our biggest concern is the notion of informed consent,” said Amy Reichbach, a racial justice advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union. “People might not understand the implications of weapons being tested or any contraband being found.”

Exactly right. That’s why you never give up your Rights. For any reason, for anyone.

And for the Beantown Brownshirts it is the lazy way to do police work. Commissar Davis ought to be run out of town on rail.