Posted on 08/14/2019 2:40:46 PM PDT by Taxman
Officials promoting so-called "red-flag laws" should be evaluated for fitness to serve. Why?
Because their so called "extreme protection orders" are blatant constitutional violations and have no place in an American system of justice. This much is obvious.
Empowering your neighbors, roommates, former lovers, relatives or people who have a grudge against you to use armed police to attack you, without warning or probable cause, does you serious criminal harm and must be stopped cold. \
Encouraging the public to "red flag" each other is what dictators did in the Soviet Union, communist China and elsewhere. Leftist sympathizers in America are attempting it here. It cannot be allowed to proceed.
If people are too dangerous to keep and bear their own arms, they are too dangerous to be out in public, period.
Proposing to take a person's rights by armed force, without a trial or even a hearing, is such a violation of our laws, such an affront to the principle of innocent until proven guilty, and such a misuse of armed might, that anyone suggesting it should be subject to at least the psychiatric evaluation they would impose on us.
Legitimate methods already exist for intervening with truly dangerous people. Reluctance to do so reflects the extraordinary nature of taking such action against a person. Red-flag laws on the other hand are a casual workaround and a "clear and present danger" to public liberty. Proposing due-process removal by flagging is as bad as proposing racism by statute. The advocates must be stopped.
Using mass media to whip the public into a mass frenzy to support this paranoid delusion is a harbinger of the end of our peaceful Republic. It signals a desire to overturn centuries of righteous law-making with mob violence, turning neighbor against neighbor in a vain effort achieve safety.
Ben Franklin framed it perfectly: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Shouldn't we all be flagged? Isn't everyone potentially dangerous?
Criminal Penalties for Voiding Due Process
The dilemma: How do we structure a new bill so "officials" who stand in the way of full and free exercise of a given right face a penalty, or some deterrent to their actions? Like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed to do?
The left in its fury is ignoring whether bills can pass legal muster. They push the envelope: "We'll examine your Google search history before we'll grant a carry license." Preposterous of course, a product of one dimwit Brooklyn, N.Y. legislator. What would they do with what they find? Who does the looking, and who could possibly pass? They don't say, but they push it, then "news" media bathes in it, and next thing you know, it's part of the social fabric - "the narrative."
We must do the same, force them back on their heels, even the odds. Should we seek Google checks for politicians and police before they're hired? Let them gripe. Officials who examine "bad" Google histories, maybe they've been corrupted by reviewing disqualifying histories (whatever that may be, it's undefined). Officials who promote grotesque civil-rights violation into laws should face repercussions. Why would honest people object?
Fortunately, we don't have to invent new laws. We simply need to resurrect existing ones, and enforce them. The U.S. Attorney's Office has been remiss in failing to enforce critical laws on the books: 18 U.S.c. §242. Deprivation of rights under color of law.
Discriminating against civil rights is illegal. The right to keep and bear arms is and has always been a basic civil and human right. Your right to defend your life against anyone or thing that unjustly threatens you has historic precedent going back to before the Bible. It is ensconced in the earliest written law, the Code of Hammurabi in 1700 B.C., and it was restated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Heller Case as a "specific, enumerated right" (District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 628 n.27 (2008)).
In plain English, federal criminal code says anyone who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, custom or regulation, willfully deprives any person of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, shall be fined or imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
It continues that, if bodily injury results, or if the violation includes the use or attempted or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosive or fire, the prison term rises up to 10 years. If death results, or if such acts include kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault, or an attempt to kill, the violator may be fined, imprisoned for any term of years up to life, or put to death. That's sufficient. It needs enforcement.
The left is screaming for new laws, let's give them some! Tax credits for gun-safety classes, encouraging a responsible citizenry, anyone? We must also look at repeals of the most onerous ones. Do you agree?
Alan Korwin, a national columnist, award-winning author of 74 books and veteran of more than 7,000 radio and TV interviews, has been writing as a journalism ombudsman since 2006. He can be reached at GunLaws.com where you can read more common sense like you just read.
We really need to work together to prevent the imposition of "Red Flag" laws upon us!
If you value your God-given Rights and FReedoms, your Second Amendment rights, your Constitutional rights, your family's safety and your country, you must work with your FRiends, relatives, neighbors, business associates and CongressCritters to STOP this madness!
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.. ~Ayn Rand
The Second Amendment was written for this express purpose. The barbarian b*stards are at the door.
But...but...they get due process, right?
The whole idea is terrible.
Somebody could be mad at someone else and report them, and they would lose their guns.
What if something happens and he needed the guns to defend himself against a violent person who breaks into his house, but now he doesn’t have his guns and the criminal kills him?
Democrats good to go with Stasi to gain total power.
“...if bodily injury results, or if the violation includes the use or attempted or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosive or fire, the prison term rises up to 10 years. If death results, or if such acts include kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault, or an attempt to kill, the violator may be fined, imprisoned for any term of years up to life, or put to death.”
The criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington will never enforce that law against itself. States need to codify that law into their criminal codes and enforce it.
Recommendations:
Remain calm and quiet and stay away from social media.
Saying something “offensive” might raise a “red flag.”
And stock up on ammo and practice with your fire arms.
There may come a time when we have to defend our rights. And keep an ear to the rail. There will probably be obvious signs....
It will probably follow the usual — go after one individual and make an example of them. Then buy backs and then confiscation. We need to stick together — there is safety in numbers.
We need to consider the larger picture here and the end goal of disarming us so that the government can do what they please. Keep in mind too that there is a lot of hate coming from the “Democrats” and leftist these days. They are racist and hate Christians and males and would you trust them to preserve your rights or would they eagerly take away your rights to further their agenda.
And Democrats is a general term. There are many moderate Democrats who don’t like what the Democrat party has become. Look for them and seek them out and try to convert them to our side. I was once a Democrat.
And lastly and most importantly, pray.
I just stole that. Excellent!
We need Red Flag laws to get rid of Congress ‘critters.
That's why it will never work.
And as long as there is patient confidentiality, it will never work.
And as long as no one will get arrested for a criminal "to happen"...it will not work.
Etc etc
Your insurance company will know too which meds you take. And some meds are specifically designed for mental problems. This is why government run health care is bad.
the commies won’t give up on ‘red flag laws’ because
it either disarms American citizens
or else
gets cops shot dead
either way, the commie-DNC is HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!
Disarm all illegal drug dealers.
Then we'll know you're serious about reducing violent crime.
The police have been vilified by the left (unfairly IMO) in recent years. That can't make the police like the left. Law enforcement folks are professionals, but they are human too.
agreed
i know ZERO law enforcement folks who want to have anything at all to do with ‘gun laws’ ..(and they consider any proposed confiscation schemes as leftist death warrants for the police)
Do you have a link to this article? The link at the top takes me to a drill press website.
If you look closely at the red flag you can see the hammer & sickle.
“leftist death warrants for the police.”
Excellent point.
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