Posted on 11/23/2015 12:25:59 PM PST by Torcert
[..]This ignores the fact of how stupid terrorist watch lists are because they don't do the job the government claims they're supposed to. The Intercept (which isn't exactly a conservative or libertarian publication) got hold of the National Counterterrorism Center guidelines for putting people on watch lists last year. Some of these guidelines includes social media and what 'walk-ins' say, even if government employees are told not to use hunches.
So, yes, you might be on a terrorist watch list if you tweet, Facebook, or use other social media sites to post an article someone doesn't like. The rules are so vague that even those who might be criticizing or pointing something out for others to see could end up on the list. But the Democrats and their allies in the media are all in favor of passing a law keeping people on watch lists from getting guns.
Jim Geraghty at National Review has more on the problems with the watch lists.
Indeed, it's terrible for law-abiding Americans with no ties to terrorism to end up on some sort of government-run list of people under suspicion. Of course, that's precisely what has already happened; I wonder if Iftikha knows Ted Kennedy and the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes ended up on terrorism watch lists. This is one of the reasons many Republicans don't want to ban gun sales to people on the "terror watch lists" because there's little public disclosure about just how someone ends up on the "terror watch list" or "no-fly list" and once you're on it, it's exceptionally hard to get off. There is no independent or judicial review; once on it, you are guilty until proven innocent.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Gun Owners Seen as Domestic Terrorists
http://www.gunnews.com/gun-owners-seen-domestic-terrorists/
Hillary Clinton Compares Gun Owners To Terrorists
http://bearingarms.com/awesome-hillary-clinton-compares-gun-owners-terrorists/
New DHS Training Video Targets Gun Owners as Terrorists:
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/05/01/new-dhs-training-video-targets-gun-owners-as-terrorists/
U.S. reconstitutes group to fight homegrown extremists
http://news.yahoo.com/u-revives-group-fight-homegrown-extremists-officials-155621629.html?
Obama Admin Revives DOJ Group To Fight Domestic Terrorists . . . Won’t Go After Jihadists
http://www.weaselzippers.us/188260-obama-admin-revives-doj-group-to-fight-domestic-terrorists-wont-go-after-jihadists/
So it is easily within the realm of possibility that they would simply classify gun owners of the wrong sort as 'Terrorists' as an instant gun ban.
Our govt is far more concerned with the welfare of people living in countries that hate America than with Americans.
I’ll read the fine print later. But we want a bill that prevents Syrian Refugees from entering the country. The democrats want to add some language that doesn’t allow them to have guns either? lol
I bet not.
Hopefully Mitch McConnell will have the brains to not add that amendment.
But this is a prime example of how the Democratic National Socialist Party will use any crisis to disingenuously further their gun grabbing agenda.
Not only that, but they will turn around and use issues of terrorism to their advantage.
R-I-G-H-T.
I have a INALIENABLE Right to keep and bear arms. I also have a Right to my $$ and property (see 4th\5th). NOBODY has a Right to my life (see 13th) nor my property (see 5th) ala welfare. Compulsion of the latter is tyranny.
Which does govt (especially the Socialists) will uphold as valid? The WRONG side, of course.
Every single day Democrats work to kill you and your family American.
No, the Democrats will add language that prevents you and I from having guns.
Yes, and they will use any means to do so..
So they can vote against Refugees and for gun control in the same vote? Why, that would be hearless! Think of all those 3 year olds and widows that are trying to escape the violence in the Middle East.
Sarcasm
That explains the left’s unwillingness to narrow terrorism to Islam, they really want to war with us!
That is who they really consider to be a threat to their power.
The GOP should double down and add language that includes EVERY one in this country illegally - we want their name, address, and cell phone number. See if the Rats vote for that.
And each election the voters say, via their votes, that they wish to be ruled by Democrats. The good people of LA. as recently as last week made that decision. Two things are in place here: 1. They [the voters] are stupid and should not be allowed to vote. Or 2. They don’t give a damn for their lives or the lives of their families.
It's actually a bit of clever maneuvering.
That would be perfect...
If only there an opposition party with some backbone.
Yes, they never cease in taking advantage of a serious crisis.
Sections 3.3 and 3.6 read like total nonsense.
We are so screwed by the apparatchiks in DC.
The same old lies. No, Harry, they can't. Explosives and full-auto AK's are not available at gun shows. They simply aren't, anywhere, ever.
What's to stop the Democratic National Socialist Party from labeling gun owners as terrorists and taking away their common sense civil rights?
If Obama doesn't have to follow the law why should anyone else?
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