Establishment Hypocrisy from the New York Times

blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com ^ | 3 September, 2013 | Mike Maharrey

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Earlier this year, the Missouri legislature passed a Second Amendment Preservation Act that would nullify unconstitutional federal actions violating the right to keep and bear arms. Gov. Nixon vetoed it. The legislature will have a chance to override in September.

On Saturday, the New York Times came out with an editorial using the Missouri bill as a springboard to ridicule those who think the federal government should not willy-nilly violate the Second Amendment.

As a measure of the gun culture’s dangerous sway over statehouse politicians, it is hard to top the pending proposal in Missouri that would pronounce all federal gun safety laws null and void in the state and allow the arrest of federal agents who try to enforce them.

In typical arrogant fashion, the Times editorial board proceeds as if no rational argument for the Missouri nullification bill exists so they can get right to painting supporters as ignorant, redneck, extremist, nutjobs. The board uses words like “bizarre” and “laughable” to describe efforts to stop the federal government from ignoring the constitutional limitations on its power. I suppose that makes James Madison “bizarre” and “laughable” for penning Federalist 46.

The Times editorial board writes with smug condescension, assuming everybody will obediently nod and agree when they assert the Missouri bill has no legitimacy. Progressive journalists like the folks over at the Times like to portray themselves as brave defenders of the ‘little guy,’ speaking truth to power. But when anybody dares step off the 3×5 index card of acceptable opinion and question the status quo of statist federal supremacy, they howl like the establishment goons they are.

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Who expects any different from the NYTs? They have no ethics or morals other than to do whatever they have to to get what they want. Sociopathic power lovers.

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