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The Patriot Post Brief 3-11-2013
From The Federalist Patriot
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The Firearms Equality Movement
March 11, 2013
The Foundation
"The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." --Tench Coxe
Inspiration
"A growing number of firearm companies have suspended the sale of guns to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens' rights to own them. In just two weeks, the number of companies participating in what has been named the 'Firearms Equality Movement,' has more than tripled from 34 companies to 118. The Police Loophole1 lists every company and links to the statements that each has released regarding their new policies. Wilson Combat, a custom pistol manufacturer located in Berryville, Arkansas, joined the movement on February 28 stating the following: 'Wilson Combat will no longer provide any products or services to any State Government imposing legislation that infringes on the second amendment rights of its law abiding citizens. This includes any Law Enforcement Department, Law Enforcement Officers, or any State Government Entity or Employee of such an entity. This also applies to any local municipality imposing such infringements. ... Wilson Combat will in NO way support the government of these states or their anti-gun agenda that only limits the rights of law-abiding citizens. Wilson Combat will continue to supply any product and/or service they can legally sell in these states to all non-government affiliated citizens.'" --CNS News' Gregory Gwyn-Williams Jr.2
Re: The Left
"The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) has launched a Second Amendment Initiative for the 113th Congress under the leadership of Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Third District) to counter ... President Barack Obama's 'out-of-touch agenda' on gun control. In a press release, RSC Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Indiana) asserted that the president's 'radical anti-gun agenda is a threat to our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.' ... The president ... has reined in major gun prohibition groups to concentrate on pushing new measures, including so-called 'universal background checks' and a ban on so-called 'assault weapons' and their original capacity magazines. ... In exchange for what amounts to obedience to the Obama agenda, these groups, Politico reported, have 'a voice in the discussions, a role in whatever final agreement is made and weekly meetings at the White House.' ... But House Republicans may stand in the way with this newly-created Second Amendment Initiative. 'As the President continues his aggressive gun control campaign,' Rep. Stutzman said in a statement, 'Republicans need to stand and defend our right to bear arms now more than ever. ... The RSC's Second Amendment Initiative will help equip conservatives in Congress to defeat the President's crusade for ineffective and unconstitutional gun controls.'" --author and gun-rights advocate Dave Workman3
Government
"Back in the Nineties, everyone was worried about militias and survivalists, who lived in what were invariably described as 'compounds,' and not in the Kennedys-at-Hyannis sense. And, every so often, one of these compound-dwellers would find himself besieged by a great tide of federal alphabet soup, agents from the DEA, ATF, FBI and maybe even RRB. There was a guy named Randy Weaver, who lost his wife, son and dog to the guns of federal agents, was charged and acquitted in the murder of a deputy marshal and wound up getting a multimillion dollar settlement from the Department of Justice. Before he zipped his lips on grounds of self-incrimination, the man who wounded Weaver and killed his wife, an FBI agent named Lon Horiuchi, testified that he opened fire because he thought the Weavers were about to fire on a surveillance helicopter. When you consider the resources brought to bear against a nobody like Randy Weaver for no rational purpose, is it really so 'far-fetched' to foresee the Department of Justice deploying drones to the Ruby Ridges and Wacos of the 2020s? ... In the Droneworld we have built for the 'war on terror,' we can't see the forest because we're busy tracking every spindly sapling. When the same philosophy is applied on the home front, it will not be pretty." --columnist Mark Steyn4
Essential Liberty
"Anonymous administration insiders claim that the president personally approves every name on the White House kill list. According to the tortured language of an undated 16-page Justice Department white paper that was leaked, 'it would be lawful for the United States to conduct a lethal operation outside the United States against a U.S. citizen who is a senior, operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force of al-Qa'ida without violating the Constitution.' ... Most troubling, the white paper reduces due process to a determination made by 'an informed, high-level official of the U.S. government ... that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States.' Though the document lists other restrictions -- e.g., capture must be infeasible -- and purports to limit 'lethal operations' against American citizens to those involved with al-Qaida 'in a foreign country,' it does not define 'imminent threat' and is silent about killing citizens here at home. In short, it raises more questions than it answers. What about American citizens, overseas or here, believed to be affiliated with other threatening organizations besides al-Qaida -- such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad? Who decides whether capture is feasible or not? Do we really want to establish a precedent that an American president or any 'informed, high-level official of the U.S. government' can serve as chief prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner for American citizens? If so, who will hold him or her accountable?" --columnist Oliver North5
Opinion in Brief
"The genius of Rand Paul's [filibuster] effort was similar to the partial-birth abortion fight -- it focused on a narrow, rare circumstance so outlandish that supporting it marks you as a kook. That only works, of course, if your opponents stick to their outlandish position -- that, for instance, it's okay to deliver a full-term baby backwards, then crack its skull open and vacuum out its brain. The administration walked right into this problem when Eric Holder repeatedly refused to say the president was prohibited by the Constitution from assassinating Americans in the United States when there was no attack imminent. Unlike the partial-birth abortion issue, the White House has finally conceded the point, but the political damage to Obama has been done. And the filibuster's energizing and uniting effect for conservatives and libertarians is also a fact. People who Stand with Rand will disagree -- among themselves and even with the senator -- about many of the specifics of our policy on drones. I, for one, think Awlaki had it coming and if there's any more like him hiding in Yemen or elsewhere, kill them too. But the Senate, or part of it at least, has finally stood up and said there really is a limit to a president's power -- that we're still a republic, not a principate." --National Review's Mark Krikorian6
The Gipper
"I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force." --Ronald Reagan7 |
