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.”
I could describe a number of individuals in this administration in the same terms.
Lautenberg is back in office via election fraud, so I’m not surprised he is behind something like this. Gonzales just made my shit list. He’s gotta go.
Gonzales reminds me of most of the recently banned FReepers. They are conservatives only to the extent that they recognize the muslim threat. Otherwise they are just big government liberals.
“Gonzales learned it all from John Ashcroft”
Ashcroft was probably the most pro-gun AG ever. You are totally off base here.
McCain/Feingold took care of that.
Not a surprise.
If he thinks he should have a power like this he needs to go NOW!
Article now in Breaking News !
Congrats! Feels good doesn't it? :o)
Good thing!
Yes, it is. May I suggest you buy another one or two while you still can. Also, buy lots of ammo! We're probably going to be needing it in the not so distant future.
It's up to almost 3,000 views. We need more.
Got an email list?
That's delusional.
Ashcroft was and IS pro 2A.
As soon as he was sworn in he issued an official policy statement that the DOJ viewed the 2nd Amendment as an individual right, not a collective right (as under Clinton and Reno).
Wonder who that might be? Maybe I don't really want to know.
Gonzales was ALWAYS a mushy nominee.
His predicessor was FAR AND ABOVE superior.
Gonzalez is such an ordinary ignorant lawyer.
Not a very big one, but I'm sending it out. I don't have a FR ping list either.
Dave, would you ping your list please?
Oh, and don't thank me. :-)
I've been wanting that letter for my files :-)
Aw, you know we appreciate ya! :o)
Great link bump!
From the link:
“We have 40,000 American Citizens, killed as a result of illegal alien invasion since 9-11-2001 and instead of providing for our security, elected officials are using our tax dollars to provide aid and comfort to an American political arm of the Mexican Consular offices and the Congress on Foreign Relations who promote illegal alien invasion to eliminate American republican government.”
And on Hillary Clinton’s Yzaguirre, helping her campaigns’s outreach to Hispanics.
“As President [of La Raza], Yzaguirre often engaged in hyperbole and sensationalism to promote his racial / raza agenda. In the 1990s Yzaguirre said, “US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.”
If this article is true, Gonzales has to go immediately. If President Bush is supporting this, it is a truly sad day for me as my nearly unwaivering support of Bush on other matters will come to an end. Between spending, the open borders and now this ... I’ve had enough.
See also: Ashcroft is right on guns
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