DC Goes After Its Citizens

Using an obscure law that has not been enforced in recent memory, DC has decided that they can ticket your car in your driveway!

Beverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway.

That’s right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways.

“This is clearly an attempt by the city to extort money out of property owners,” Anderson tells WTOP.

Anderson has received two of the $20 tickets in the past month. Anderson has owned the Capitol Hill house (and the driveway, so she thought) for more than ten years and has never gotten a ticket. And she’s not alone.

As the government gains more and more control over every aspect of the American economy, remember that at street level this power will be yielded by unaccountable and unelected bureaucrats.  A government who can help everyone, can also take anything from anyone.  Property rights and individual liberty have become just words used to hide their very absence from everyday American life.

A Reminder to New York

Air Force One flew over Manhattan yesterday, then turned around to fly back towards the city.  From the ground, it looked like any other huge jetliner being escorted by a fighter jet, which is not a welcome sight in the Big Apple.  As the flight flew back towards the city, New Yorkers panicked.  Check the video:

You can see, quite clearly, that New Yorkers were unanimous in their reaction to a plane flying towards the skyscrapers.  Some of those buildings were hastily evacuated, as you can imagine, and mayhem ensued.  Can you blame New Yorkers?  This reaction is entirely predictable.  CBS has details:

In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD, the Federal Aviation Administration’s James Johnston said the agency was aware of “the possibility of public concern regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes” in an around New York City. But they demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI and even the mayor’s office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out.

What is the purpose of this secrecy?  If the president was not on board, who besides the pilot would have been?  Insert your speculation about rewarding contributors to his campaign here.

The article continues to say the flyover was, “Ordered by the White House Office of Military Affairs so it would have souvenir photos of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty in the background.”  The photo-op cost taxpayers $328,835- this from an administration who has spent the last month attacking AIG executives as looters of taxpayer money.

This is a typical governomics, is it not?  The White House spent large amount of taxpayer dollars on something that has no hope of earning a return, and it scared the hell out of millions of Americans who have no recourse.

Let this be a reminder to New Yorkers that they overwhelmingly voted for this administration.