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09 Apr 2008
A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for guns got the green light from the City Council's public safety committee Tuesday night. It goes to the full council Tuesday, when the council will meet. The consent-to-search program, as it is called, is based closely on a similar effort launched in St. Louis in 1994 and on ongoing programs in Boston and Washington, D.C.
Oakland CA. Gestapo May Search Homes For Guns Without Warrant
CBS 5, CA -Apr 11, 2008
OAKLAND (CBS 5) ― Your home may be your castle. But by summer, you could receive a knock on the door from an Oakland Police officer looking for guns. ...
CBS 5, CA -
OAKLAND (CBS 5) ― Your home may be your castle. But by summer, you could receive a knock on the door from an Oakland Police officer looking for guns. ...
Oakland council may OK a home gun-search program
San Mateo County Times, CA -Apr 9, 2008
By Kelly Rayburn, Staff Writer OAKLAND _ A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for ...
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by James Bovard,
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San Mateo County Times, CA -
By Kelly Rayburn, Staff Writer OAKLAND _ A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for ...
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by James Bovard,
Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make it easy for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a terrorist “incident.” It also empowers him to effectively declare martial law in response to what he or other federal officials label a shortfall of “public order” — whatever that means.It took only a few paragraphs in a $500 billion, 591-page bill to raze one of the most important limits on federal power. Congress passed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to severely restrict the president’s ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened those restrictions,
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