Ever driven to the store to get milk and forgotten your driver's license? How about move your car from the street to the garage without your wallet? Guess what. If question 100 passes in Denver on the primary ballot on August 12th, the police can impound your car for that. Worse however is the barely hidden agenda.
Chapter 54 section 811 of the Denver Municipal code states:
The chief of police, the undersheriff and the manager of public works, and their respective designees, are hereby authorized to remove, or have removed at their direction, a vehicle or automobile junker from any public or private way or place, under any of the circumstances hereinafter enumerated, the council hereby finding and determining such vehicles under such circumstances to be obstructions to traffic or public nuisances. For purposes of this section, an automobile junker is defined in section 54-812.
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, subway or tunnel, or where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
It goes on to state many other instances in which a car can be impounded. The very first addition question 100 would make to this section:
(a) Sec. 54-811 (10) is amended by an addition to subsection (10) to read: or when a driver of a vehicle is an illegal alien or may be reasonably suspected of being an illegal alien;
Yep, this thing is written to expand police powers of racial profiling. Conveniently, the text to appear on the ballot mentions none of the undocumented immigrant provisions:
Shall the voters for the City and County of Denver adopt an ordinance requiring that a motor vehicle operated by an unlicensed driver be impounded and that releasing such vehicle shall require that the owner post a two-thousand five-hundred dollar bond to insure no unlicensed driver operates such vehicle for a period of one year and pay a one-hundred dollar impoundment land acquisition fee?
This thing is so bad even the Denver Post is opposed:
It's so bad even the Denver Post has announced it's opposition, stating Initiated Question 100 "could violate the rights of thousands of legitimate citizens while burdening Denver taxpayers."
Of course our usual brown people hating radio host (Boyles) had to lie about the measure the other day:
Think there's nothing for us to vote for on the Denver primary ballot? There sure is something to vote against. If you want to help get the message out, tell your friends and neighbors. Progress Now also has a nice tool to show support and email folks.
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