“Crime” abounds in any police-state, as do informants. One of Motel 6’s franchisees in Warwick, RI, has agreed to vet its roster of guests with cops each night. This fascism has netted at least four arrests as the city’s mayor brags, “We know everyone who is staying in the hotel tonight.”
Forthcoming as Motel 6 may be with Our Rulers, they don’t extend the same courtesy to paying customers. “Alerting motel guests that local police know their whereabouts ‘is not a normal process of our check-in,’ said Victor Glover, a vice president of safety and security for G6 Hospitality, the parent company for Motel 6. ‘I don’t know that we have any plans of instituting that as we move forward.'”
Yo, Rat Finks: you can turn out that light. Neither I nor David Mueller, who alerted me to this story, nor anyone who prizes freedom will be staying with you.
Update: I’d like to think the public’s outrage forced Motel 6 to rescind their policy of informing on guests, but an article in the corporate media credits the cops with ending this horror: “Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen M. McCartney told the news outlets that he was uncomfortable with the practice after reviewing legal issues, according to the reports. He said he was concerned about potential lawsuits and open records requests.” But of course “… police officers will still be able to go to the hotel and check the guest list of [sic] they have reasonable suspicion…” So the serfs aren’t off the hook—though I suspect that’s the case with any hotel in the USSA. Nonetheless, for a corporation to so enthusiastically cooperate with Our Rulers in caging its customers leaves a stench that all the retractions in the world can’t remove.
Thanks to Demetri Anastasiadis for sending the link.
9:53 am on May 4, 2015
