suburbanhermit:

evilteabagger:

City Government demands all keys to properties belonging to Cedar Falls residents.

WHAT

“The merit of an idea does not depend on the amount of people that hold that idea.”

True, but in a representative republic, it does. You’re elected to uphold the ideas of the people as well as the constitution. The mandated community lockbox would not only be an intrusion of privacy, but suppose the lockbox is broken into or stolen. Now one person or a group of people have access to all of these buildings. 

The reasoning behind this proposed mandate is for property purposes. The city government claims that destroying a doorway to get into a burning building isn’t necessary and is too destructive to private property. A man in the video says “I’d still like to have the old fashioned way because I have insurance on that stuff.” As any commercial building would. As any residential building would. 

The slippery slope this is leading to is bad. And this is simply an example of too much power in the government. Imagine what else they could do with this community lockbox. It seems recently that there has been huge amounts of police unconstitutionality. More than usual, that is. I see this as an escalating problem. Now imagine cops just being able to walk in your doorway that much easier now. It really honestly does point towards a police-state.