East St. Louis Mayor Enacts Martial Law

October 2, 2012 Filed under Civil Unrest - USA Posted by James Smith

By Alec Scheer

theintelhub.com
October 1, 2012

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

St. Louis CBS Local published an article on the 27th of September 2012 entitled “Virtual House Arrest Ordered for Minors in East St. Louis.”

Apparently, “angered by the recent murders of four young people, the mayor announced today that police are going to impose drastic new measures to keep teens off the streets.”

Mayor Alvin Parks said, “there is something going on in the community at this point that we’ve got to safeguard them and keep them off the streets.”

He finishes, “there are people shooting at each other for no reason whatsoever.”

The following is an excerpt from the article listing some of the rules the mayor is now imposing:

“Among the rules:

**Minors are to be off the streets at ten o’clock on both weeknights and weekend nights.

**Minors on the street during school hours will be arrested on sight.

**Police will also perform I.D. checks on street corners and conduct gun searches, and Parks says he won’t hesitate to call in the National Guard if the spike in violence continues.”

According to a KMOV article as of two days ago, on the 29th of September, the mayor “is softening his earlier proposal this week of banning males in the city from wearing red or blue clothing.”