DC is ready to have residents show IDs to enter neighborhoods

Wow, am I glad I'm not living in DC anymore. That's insane.

Yeah great but what if you're paying someone a visit? will they be issuing visa's?

make minorities wear flare?... nah.. that would come off as racist... hmmm...

Ah, I have an idea, give only 'certain' people entrance.
Yes, Brilliant!

"Welcome to DC! The chocolate city with a marshmallow core."

This is ridiculous!
This will just foster DC's segregation and the disparities between the wards. Oh god.
I can't even believe the DC government.

Would this mean I would be kept out of the 'Spin Alley' bars??

its gonna suck to be a stoner in dc...

Mayor Fenty is a breath of fresh air.

Wow! I wonder if this will even help the crime rate because if they can't do the crime in that part of the city then most likely they will find somewhere else to do it. This idea probably looks good on paper, but when you play it out, it will be a different story.

Sounds a lot like 1941 Warsaw....

Wow, our country is slowly turning into a totalitarian state and the people are letting this happen without question. We need a revolution . . . . .

Good luck with that adam_romano. If you live in California send me a message, we're working on it.

The city has a right to protect its citizens. People go into D.C. to buy drugs. This is just a way to stop the demand for drugs coming into the District. The murder and crime rate in our Capital has been too high for too long. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Now is the time for law and order to prevail in this neighborhoods run by crime instead of the people who live there.

Another step closer to the novel 1984! That's what America is all about!

Sounds like the test pilot program for the nationwide checkpoints I keep hearing so much about.

Slowly but surely rights are being taken away. Let's see what happens in the near future with our rights.

I just took a weekend trip to Washington DC and let me just say F*** that place. I hated everything about it. the traffic coming in off of New York Ave., confusing city street signs (NE versus NW) and city layout, everyone has road rage, traffic circles, bars are EXPENSIVE, take out beer/liquor closes at ten and bars dont sell take out. overall, i had such a horrible trip and waste of money, the only thing good about it was the Flight of the Conchords

btw, i got a speeding ticket in the mail about 3 weeks after the fact to really seal the deal.

Screw it, i'm never going back there regardless and i don't recommend it to anyone else either.

Insano!

For someone that lives and work in DC... this is most welcome to patch the high-crime areas around the city. Sorry you had a base experience ii386, but to be candid, I disagree with you... You need it a local and obviously, drooping the attitude will suffice.

What the hell...?

ah racism,classism, and the fostering of a police state...the american way. rome is burning.

Agreed Betico.

What they are doing is isolating crime into poor neighborhoods. Forcing the poor to remain in their crime infested ghettos.

This really is an underhanded racist enforcement.

First they came for the terrorists, but Bush said "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the illegal aliens
and I did not speak out
because I was not an illegal alien.
Then they came for the blacks
and I did not speak out
because I was not black.
Then they came for the 9/11 truthers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a 9/11 truther.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

You said it betico.

This is fucking outrageous. If you live in DC, this NEEDS to be protested. It's smaller moves towards totalitarianism like this that build up into a giant evil authority monster. Don't let it happen. YOU take the stand, don't wait. Please don't wait.

This is the people bring it upon themselves. Those idiots who go around and terrorize and violate other people's homes and property to prosper have brought this stupidness upon everyone else. They should be found and sent to an island where they can continue to pillage one another while everyone else lives without being in a police state.

This is something that comes STRAIGHT out of a comic book.

The X-Men live in their mansion and when hundreds of mutants lost their powers the government decided to put all the mutants in one spot (all 189 of them, I believe) and protect them. They put them in the X-Mansion. They set up Sentinels to watch over them and not allow anyone to enter who was not authorized but at the same time wouldn't really let them leave freely because they couldn't protect them then.

I see both sides to this. The city is so frustrated that they are trying to help but this isn't going to help, it might for the moment but over all it's going to hinder.

Whoa! the X-men were deep ...huh...

Comic Books are far more deeper than they were when they were created. They are the philosophers of our time.

Is this to keep people out? Or keep them in?

This will have no impact on crime! The crime is no longer city vs city or red vs blue or even block vs block. It is street vs street now. Not to mention the basic freedoms being stipped away. How is this even legal?

This is a bloody democracy
i like in UK but can see this is getting out of hand
you have to stand against this even if you think it is for good there ARE better ways and letting your government know this is very importaaant

"Usurp" and "Usurpation"


Usurper (lat. usurpare = to seize for use, to use) is a derogatory term used to describe either an illegitimate or controversial claimant to the throne in a monarchy; or a person (perhaps a warlord) who succeeds in establishing an autocracy without securing "the consent of the governed."[1]; or a plurality of persons forming an oligarchy without having their powers delegated authoritatively.




• That each individual is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness;

• That the freedom to own, use, exchange, control, protect, and freely dispose of property is a natural, necessary and inseparable extension of the individual's unalienable rights;

• That the legitimate function of government is to secure these rights through the preservation of domestic tranquility, the maintenance of a strong national defense, and the promotion of equal justice for all;

• That history makes clear that left unchecked, it is the nature of government to usurp the liberty of its citizens and eventually become a major violator of the people's rights; and

• That, therefore, it is essential to bind government with the chains of the Constitution and carefully divide and jealously limit government powers to those assigned by the consent of the governed.

Ditto Sgwhites...

this story broke while my internet & cable were down due to being a broke independent artist, but i'm glad to see this story got some attention from our current community...its sad to see people willing to trade their liberty for a false sense of security.
perhaps if the u.s. government wasn't so busy spending billions of dollars on wars that profit the corporations that fund their campaigns there would be more money available for small businesses & other urban economic stimulation programs so people would have more to do than shoot & rob each other...perhaps