Posted on 03/01/2021 9:36:18 AM PST by amorphous
Do we really want an ever more tyrannical government?
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For many residents of Amsterdam, the German invasion of May 10, 1940, came as a shock.
“We were trapped,” said Lena Herzfeld, “along with one hundred and forty thousand other Dutch Jews.”
“Unlike France and Belgium, which were placed under German military control, Hitler decided that the Netherlands would be run by a civilian administration,” writes Daniel Silva in The Rembrandt Affair. “He gave the job to Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart, a fanatical anti-Semite who had presided over Austria after the Anschluss in 1938.”
“Within days the decrees began. At first, a benign-sounding order forbade Jews from serving as air-raid wardens. Then Jews were ordered to leave the Hague, Holland’s capital, and to move from sensitive coastal areas. In September, all Jewish newspapers were banned. In November, all Jews employed by the Dutch civil service, including those who worked in the educational and telephone systems, were summarily dismissed. Then, in January 1941, came the most ominous Nazi decree to date. All Jews residing in Holland were given four weeks to register with the Dutch census office. Those who refused were threatened with prison and faced consfiscation of their property.
“The census provided the Germans with a map showing the name, address, age, and sex of nearly every Jew in Holland.
“We foolishly gave them the keys to our destruction.”
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I quote the above passage from The Rembrandt Affair to show you just how insidious the very thought of a bill such as HR 127 can be. Allow such a Nazi-like bill to pass, and a cascade of new Fascist orders is bound to ensue.
To own a gun, you would first need to pass a background check. (If you believe in freedom, or have ever attended a freedom rally, would you be allowed to pass such a background check?)
Then you would need to pass a psych evaluation. (Since I don’t believe in the global warming hoax, would I pass a psych evaluation? What about you? What other politically incorrect attitudes could be used against you?)
Then you would be required to pay -, who knows how much? – for 24 hours of training.
Then you would be required to purchase an insurance policy issued by a government agency at a cost of $800 per year. (What reasons could they manufacture to render you uninsurable? What’s to keep them from doubling the cost of the insurance any time they like?)
What will happen if you violate this blatant attempt at fascist control? A minimum – minimum! – fine of $50,000 and, get this, 10-15 years minimum in jail.
This is insane and completely violates our 2nd amendment. We need to completely annihilate this bill!
Yes, the above is exactly what the bill proposes.
Meanwhile, they want to allow more and more felons onto the streets while defunding the police.
You can see the proposed bill in all its gobbledygook glory for yourself right here:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/127/text
Do we really want an ever more tyrannical government?
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They showed us with this last “election” that what we want is irrelevant.
Hard to believe this bill could be passed either in the House or the Senate. If by some slim chance it did, SCOTUS would surely shoot it down...wouldn’t they?
Great point.
HR 127- the latest from the illegal, unelected, unconstitutional, corrupt, criminal, foreign controlled, occupiers of DC.
HR 127 was not designed to be passed. It won’t.
But what it will do is to set the Left’s starting point in negotiations over “reasonable” gun control.
Throw as much garbage as possible into the mix, then “reasonably” ask to be met “half way.”
The US Supreme Disappointment is AWOL which is the only reason why this shame bill is even under consideration..
A whole mess of no delegated power lawlessness from the baby killers and poofter lovers of the Left.
Compromise with evil (including the Democrats) is still evil.
> HR 127 was not designed to be passed. It won’t. But what it will do is to set the Left’s starting point in negotiations over “reasonable” gun control. <
Good post there. Yes, I think you’re right. And the “compromise” will give the mushy GOPe types cover: We stood firm against HR 127, and demanded one with less restrictions!
But of course that “weaker bill” is what they wanted all along.
What the definition of a brain disease?
Be it gun control, taxes, immigration, or anything else, t’s a long standing tactic used by the Left to first ask for the Moon and the stars, then settle for just the Moon.
It is something that the Right hasn’t been able to wrap their heads around and counter with their own “Moon and stars” approach yet.
The Right always start with exactly what they want to end up with, and compromise half of it away. The Left starts with twice what they want to end up with, and compromise to exactly what they wanted in the first place.
I feel infringed.
This bill needs to go through a Constitutional transmogrifier so it can be gronified into a bill that will secure constitutional elections across the country.
I;ll not hold my breath, This will never pass the Senate.
If this gun control idiocy passes, there most certainly be swivel disobedience.
Ping.
5.56mm
The GOP has been meeting the Democrats halfway on destroying the country for decades, that’s why we are where we are.
Bkmk
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