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.”
The gun grabber mentality is also technology inpaired. Consider what can be done with a can of flour, let alone propane. As a friend who retired from a well recognized career in special operations said about the possibility of some future government taking his guns.
Guns are weapons for killing one man at a time. There are many, much more effective wweapons readily made in almost any home, with which to deal with an out of control government.
We both agree that the most effective weapon is an informed electorate. The Goron and KetsupMan would surely agree.
Thank G*d for the Internet (FR.com & LittleGreenFootballs.com in particular) and talk radio.
I second that.
Hear hear.
Obviously nothing to do with me and I have seen it before. Please ask the admin to remove that post so people don’t think I am associated with that.
Yes...obviously has nothing to do with you but I hope you understand the point I was making by posting that link.
OK.
No doubt the Bushbots and Warbots here will defend him with every last breath, I can imagine it without even reading the thread, “Yeah, but we need to stop terrorism... yada yada yada”.
Time for Alberto to get the hell out of DC and go pick lettuce or something, and open up his job FOR AN AMERICAN!!!
There is also a carwash chain with the same name and I bet they are uncomfortable also (if not suing for infringement).
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