I would agree. He was sworn to protect what we all hold dear, and he failed in his duties.
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.”
That is what undid U.S. Grant's Administration. Bus is wrecking the party with this crap. Loyalty without judgement is worse than useless, it's dangerous.
Tell me this ain’t so!
Wull... Yeah!!!
Thanks for the ping...ugh!
I'd be with you, but I don't think they make a bottle of liquid tan big enough to cover my white behind. Need more globull warming, maybe that'll help. I can speak many forms of gibberish, as witnessed right here on FR so the language barrier is broken. I love jalapeno's. I make a mean chili. I can drive a nail and mastered the leaf blower some time ago. I'm almost with you. Blackbird.
It sounds as absurd as a law giving authority to the Secretary of State to arbitrarily suspend a person’s passport or giving the Press Secretary the ability to arbitrarily withdraw a newspaper’s ability to print.
Yet another betrayal!
You’re welcome!
...and I thought I had it bad. Blackbird.
Victorious?
Sardr roaming Shia terriotories. Sardr's puppet runs Iraq. Iranian munitions pouring over the border. And, our great leader does what? At least Truman and MacArthur set the Japanese straight and got an unconditional surrender. And. MacArthur had the balls to keep the Soviets out of Japan unlike Ike in Europe. Between 1941 and 1945 we won a world wide war. For the past four years we are still fighting a runt bunch of tribes. Somehow, i think Saudi oil money is buying our leadership off across both major parties to keep the war teetering on the verge of defeat. I see nothing to praise Bush about his war leadership.
And this guy was Supreme Court material for Bush?
The party still has a faint pulse Mr. President, is there any other retarded/incompetent friends or acquaintances you would like to give a job?
Not really....the incompetent FOB is just playing fast and loose with the Constitution...thus a looser AND a loser.
I would agree. He was sworn to protect what we all hold dear, and he failed in his duties.
I was sure that a deal had been made three weeks ago for little Al to keep his job, but I did not see this one coming. What a dirt bag.
That’s it, no more support for Gonzo. Bye bye!
You got that right! This is one conservative who has been saying since GW hired him that this guy, Gonzales, is a dangerous incompetent; and, as for GW, he just keeps compounding his problems. I began to wonder some time ago.
Don’t blame the first wives for their husbands. The Bush clan has really never been at home with the Conservative/Western wing of the party. They have always been Rockefeller’s/North East republicans. It’s no coincidence that the Bush clans HQ is Maine, that’s where they feel at home. Their entering the conservative fold was a matter of convenience as GHWB saw the writing on the wall after his 1980 primary defeat that an openly wishy washy moderate was not going to make it very far in the Party and the rest is history.
Now lets not forget the second part of that double-down, "New Tone in Washington"...
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