Posted on 05/01/2007 12:47:00 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
BELLEVUE, WA – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.
The bill, S. 1237, was introduced last week at the Justice Department’s request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress. Called the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007,” this legislation would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the purchase of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm license or permit because of some vague suspicion that an American citizen may be up to no good.
“This bill,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a ‘suspected terrorist.’ Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one’s name off such a list.
“The process by which someone may appeal the Attorney General’s arbitrary denial seems weak at best,” Gottlieb suggested, “and there is a greater concern. When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone’s constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?
“We’re not surprised that General Gonzales has found an agreeable sponsor in Frank Lautenberg,” Gottlieb observed. “The senator from New Jersey has never seen a restrictive gun control scheme he did not immediately embrace, and S. 1237 is loaded with red flags. It would allow an appointed bureaucrat the authority to suspend or cancel someone’s Second Amendment right without even being charged with a crime.
“Attorney General Gonzales has no business asking for that kind of power over any tenet in the Bill of Rights,” Gottlieb said. “He took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not trample it. Perhaps it is time for him to go.”
Well if the Bush administration keeps this up, conservatives are going to be asking to impeach Bush.
I couldn't agree more.
I wont say that the bush administration is ruining this country..I just wont say that. That’s the history books job.
Hey, just bringing Mexican style governance/corruption to the USA!!
“The process by which someone may appeal the Attorney General’s arbitrary denial seems weak at best,” Gottlieb suggested, “and there is a greater concern. When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone’s constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?
Word up.
Bush really has a knack for picking the loosers. /spelling
They could do that over the border tomorrow and I would be on board.
Like Roberts and Alito?
Okay. Tonight we need to open Satriale’s and wait for the goods to arrive for processing. No more. No more. Where the hell does he think he is, canada?
Holy smokes . . . this is truly difficult to believe, if true.
This one IS Bush's fault, for appointing a Hispanic for political purposes with his qualifications held as an afterthought. It was obvious during the confirmation hearings that Gonzales was not up to the job.
How about an ammendment to the bill to allow the Attorney General to deny freedom of speech rights without due process as well? After all, terrorists shouldn’t be allowed to promote their causes on American soil.
Gonzales is not from Mexico. A huge section of this planet peaks Spanish and have names ending in es/ez
“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer”
Well now I must agree, He must step down, and he would not support this bill without the okay of Bush.
So I guess Bush is now going to sell us the rest of the way down the road.
AuntB, you are wonderful. Just wonderful.
Are they insane???
Well, you sure as hell couldn’t tell he’s not from Mexico by the way he acts.
Bang
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