Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Not anymore; Cedar Falls, Iowa City Council is following in the footsteps of the Indiana Supreme Court and law enforcement by passing an ordinance by a vote of 6-1 that requires keys for a universal lock box for commercial properties, apartments, and rental buildings. Note in the video where the city council member is leaving the Constitutionality of the measure up to a higher court in pursuit of even more government power. We are living in a dictatorship where the gloves are coming off and they are making every effort to set up the totalitarian central government; no matter what common sense demands.
Opposition organizes to beat key box ordinance
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Opponents of an expanded key box ordinance in Cedar Falls don’t plan to go down without a fight.
A group of people who say the ordinance is a risk for invasion of citizens’ privacy and an unnecessary cost for businesses are mounting a campaign to keep it out of the books.
Judd Saul developed a video based on footage from the May 23 City Council meeting and posted it to YouTube. He and others opposed to the ordinance are spreading the word to people they know and expect a big crowd at the June 13 council meeting to speak against the requirement of key boxes.
“If it does pass, we are going to file a lawsuit,” Saul said. He believes it is unconstitutional.
The ordinance in question is adoption of the 2009 International Fire Code. As part of the code, the fire official can require installation of key boxes. In Cedar Falls, Fire Chief John Schilling determined the city should require the boxes for commercial buildings and apartment buildings with three or more units.
Cedar Falls had required them for commercial buildings and apartment buildings with six or more units since 2004.
The key boxes are installed on the exterior of a business. The property owner deposits keys needed for emergency access to the building inside. A master key kept at the fire department allows supervisors to access the keys.
Most boxes can be installed for between $250 and $500. Some models can send an alarm to the property owner when the box is opened.
The ordinance already has passed two of three readings required for approval. If the third reading is passed June 13, it becomes law. The council voted 6-1 in favor of the ordinance May 23, with Nick Taiber casting the only vote against it.
Saul said those opposing the ordinance plan to air an ad on Cedar Falls cable television this week and will be circulating a petition.
“We’re pounding the pavement full force getting that petition started,” Saul said
You might want to send a fax to the Cedar Falls City Council and let them know what you think of their statist plan to have access to private property in the name of ‘protecting citizens’.
gloves off, change your locks, when they show up shoot them dead!
Kamyar Enshayan
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“We will decide what is best”
John? Are you one of those liberal moonbats that believes ‘by any means necessary’? I redacted Mr. Enshayan’s address and home telephone number because WE DON’T DO THAT HERE! Public information on public entities is perfectly acceptable, but we AIN’T SEIU or ACORN protesting outside peoples’ homes and scaring the crap outta their kids. Understand? Clear?
“It is a policeman’s duty to protect men from criminals — criminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property – then it is an outlaw WHO HAS TO BECOME a policeman.”
- Ayn Rand.
“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed,
for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more
easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The
primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a
big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies,
but would be ashamed to tell big lies.”
- Adolf Hitler
Thanks for shitting on the constitoution I am sworn to protect.
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