Posted on 11/20/2004 6:52:50 PM PST by KoRn
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 9:36 p.m. EST
Condi: Why I Support the Second Amendment
Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a big supporter of the second amendment, a commitment cultivated during her days growing up in Bull Conner's Birmingham, Alabama, when the shotgun wielded by her father was often the only thing that stood between her family and the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1963, racial violence was "turning her hometown into 'Bombingham' as Alabamas governor George Wallace fought a federal court order to integrate the citys schools," writes Rice biographer Antonia Felix.
Story Continues Below
In excerpts of her book "The Condoleezza Rice Story," reprinted in the London Sunday Times, Felix recounts:
"With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes called 'nightriders,' who drove through black neighborhoods shooting and starting fires. [Condi's father] John Rice and his neighbors guarded the streets at night with shotguns.
"The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rices opposition to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black communitys only means of defense."
"I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms," said the future Secretary of State.
/Bow
The key word in your statement is legitimate. But the fact is, those with the guns have the power. Legitimate or not.
I suppose that we should ask Vickie Weaver if the actions taken by the feds at Ruby Ridge were legitimate. Of course, after the fact, Congress agreed that they weren't, and paid damages to Randy Weaver. But then it's too late.
Mark
I sure like and respect that great lady. President Bush was right to choose her for the assignments he has.
Although, at this point, I would certainly consider her for President in 2008, I am concerned that this Nation has not, as yet, grown beyond discrimination - racism. At least not enough to get her voted in.
I'm not an American yet even I get it.
The only thing I don't get is why Americans didn't arm themselves against the Klintoon I and II admins in order to overthrow it.
Absolutely correct about POWER vs. Legit. power...our guns are the insurance policy against illegitimate power....by individual criminals or governmental agencies....
That doesn't necessarily follow. In any event he would not have had the legal right, nor even the legitimate power to take them away. It would be a clear violation of the 14th amendment. However it would have given him the ability to do so and that ability is not to be trusted with the likes of Bull Connor, Janet Reno or even AG Gonzales.
Gotta love her. Condi in '08
I saw it on FR awhile ago, a quote from one of the founding fathers (Ben Franklen?). Went something like:
A democracy is two wolves and a chicken vote on what's for dinner. Liberty is where two wolves and a chicken voteon what's for dinner, and the chicken is armed. Pretty much what Condi is writing about.
Great post!
Reading first-hand accounts like this only makes me scratch my head even harder when I try to figure out why the Democrats get such overwhelming support from American Jews. It's like the descendants of the German camps are saying, "Please give us gun control so that it will be easier for some future tyrannical government to herd us onto the boxcars."
Simply baffling.
I think she'd like a real life Texas Cowboy rather than a hollywierd type like "The Rock". If she has some young neices or great nieces, maybe TC could pick up one of those someday?
She's also got "The Look". You almost have to feel sorry for Jacque Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder. Almost.
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger". Condi doesn't look dead to me!
That is why I put the word "legitimate" in there. The Second Amendment was written to make sure that the government had only the powers granted them by the people.
Oh she's got one!
We did arm ourselves, big time. But since there was an election coming up, we preferred to get rid of him that way. If he had refused to step down on Jan. 20, 2000, then would have been the time to take up those arms.
Money........
As one black sportsman from Detroit said years ago,
"When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47."........General Laney
My support for Santorum died on the day he endorsed Specter over Toomey for Senate.
You're right, but I'd still vote for her in '08. That wasn't a direct quote, but the authors interpertation of what she said. It may have lost something in the telling. She may be the only one in the Bush administration, I actually like!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.