City Government Demands Keys to Private Properties

The government of Cedar Falls, Iowa, has actually passed an ordinance that requires owners of commercial property — this includes not just businesses but also apartments and some rental houses — to provide the government with keys to their properties.  I kid you not.  Notice how, in the city council meeting captured in this video, the statist legislators behave as if the citizens should have to prove why this anomalous, perhaps unprecedented law should be shelved.  They conduct themselves with an air of moral superiority, as if they're doing the citizenry a favor and the latter's complaints are an imposition.  In reality, these statists should be on the hot seat trying to justify insane legislation that never should have been contemplated in the first place.

I'll tell you, it sometimes seems as if talking is a waste of time.  The good townsfolk should just have brought their pitchforks and registered their four-pointed votes.

Comments

[red state blues]

Fascinating. The citizens who protested were much more intelligent and lucid than any of the council members, including Mr. Kamyar "Merits of my ideas always better than what the majority thinks of them" Enshayan. Does this have anything to do with how our decisions have ever been made at the local or state level? Not to mention it isn't logical. The least of your expenses in a fire are the broken window or door. How scary that these people have to take this to a higher court.

[Philip France]

I think that it would be prudent for me to open a business that specializes in the sales of axe-handles, pitch-forks and lanterns; as well as the United States of America and Gadsen flags. The inmates are running the asylum.

[Preston]

Government demanding keys to your private property in the name of "Protection." We need to wake up!