Yes, we live in a police state: NYPD can confiscate your Halloween decorations
The NYPD has an interesting take on "free speech." They can't do anything about the drum-banging rabble in Zuccotti Park because the filty hippies have "rights," but by golly if somebody in Brooklyn gets his nose out of joint over some Halloween decorations, NYPD is johnny on the spot.
A Brooklyn homeowner hung a scarecrow by a rope from a tree in his yard. A local councilman decided it was "racist," mainly because it reminded him of "lynching." Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't — several neighbors said the homeowner really gets into Halloween and meant no harm.
But in Brooklyn there is a Right To Not Be Offended. ( http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/20/halloween-decoration-removed-from-brooklyn-home-after-being-called-racist/ )
"It's unacceptable," said Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn). "You ain't speaking for this whole community because some people on this block came by and said it was offensive. They came and said it was offensive. It's not a cool decoration."
Police settled the dispute by removing the scarecrow figure from the tree.
Got that? It's "offensive" so
NYPD confiscated it. From private property. Without Due Process.
That my friends is the very definition of fascism.
http://wyblog.us/blog/news/nypd-can-take-ur-halloween-decor.html
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