I have many times said that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are a package. Take one part from them, and the whole thing falls apart. The ultimate goal of the authoritarians is the dismantling of our way of life. As noted on another WordPress blog this morning the failed “communitarian movement” sought, as a base statement that individual liberty is subject to communal liberty. That scholarly work was from 1996 and contrasted militia movements with communitarian’s as well as pointing out the similarities.
It seems that although the so-called movement has gone away it’s ideology has reached the halls of power. As expressed in proposed law by those that just absolutely hate liberty and freedom H.R. 2159 will deny rights to people simply based upon suspicion. The obamanites are learning though, they have tossed in leftest groups this time as well as those that they previously had branded as home grown terrorists. Read on…
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
 Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. |
A new gun law being considered in Congress, if aligned with Department of Homeland Security memos labeling everyday Americans as potential “threats,” could potentially deny firearms to pro-lifers, gun-rights advocates, tax protesters, animal rights activists, and a host of others – any already on the expansive DHS watch list for potential “extremism.”
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has sponsored H.R. 2159, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, which permits the attorney general to deny transfer of a firearm to any “known or suspected dangerous terrorist.” The bill requires only that the potential firearm transferee is “appropriately suspected” of preparing for a terrorist act and that the attorney general “has a reasonable belief” that the gun might be used in connection with terrorism.
Gun rights advocates, however, object to the bill’s language, arguing that it enables the federal government to suspend a person’s Second Amendment rights without any trial or legal proof and only upon suspicion of being “dangerous.”
“[Rep. King] would deny citizens their civil liberties based on no due process,” objected Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. “A ‘known terrorist?’ Look, if the guy has committed an act of terrorism, we shouldn’t have to worry about him being able to buy a gun; he should be in jail!”
Pratt further warned WND of the potential overlap of H.R. 2159 and a recent DHS memo that warned against potential violence from “right-wing extremists,” such as those concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty.
“By those standards, I’m one of [DHS Secretary] Janet Napolitano’s terrorists,” Pratt said. “This bill would enable the attorney general to put all of the people who voted against Obama on no-gun lists, because according to the DHS, they’re all potential terrorists. Actually, we could rename this bill the Janet Napolitano Frenzied Fantasy Implementation Act of 2009.”
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Next step? No guns allowed for right-wing ‘extremists’
Bill empowers attorney general to forbid firearms for those ‘suspected dangerous’
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