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.”
We ARE.
I can't explain why SOME FReepers aren't, but some of us are.
Get this bunch out of government.
Perhaps it's because he works at the 2nd Amendment Foundation and they deal exclusively with 2nd Amendment issues. Just a guess.
Let’s play the Kevin Bacon game! Twice removed Mexican.
In a television interview, Gonzales told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that no immigration documentation exists for three of his grandparents and thus most probably they may have entered and resided in the United States illegally. [3]
He can still be fired.
There’s always the possibility that Bush agrees with him about this issue.
Get him out of the office!
I knew he was a disaster from the beginning. Great move Bush.
We're on the same page there. For years, I've had a vague suspicion that Bush was functioning as a means to keep conservatives quiet while he consolidated powers to be handed over to Hillary.
Perhaps it’s because he works at the 2nd Amendment Foundation and they deal exclusively with 2nd Amendment issues. Just a guess.
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And that would be my guess as well. However, his lead-in (due process, denial of constitutional rights), clearly impacts well beyond his pet issue, doncha think?
Which conservative principle is it that supports all this cr@p?
None. It’s all about enhancing the powers of the few at the expense of the many. And whether there’s an arbitrary (R) or (D) after the name, it still stinks.
All your right are belong to us.
I don’t believe that’s his motivation, but it sure could be the effect.
As gun owners that were responsible for electing President Bush we have a RIGHT to demand a pro-gun Justice Dept led by a pro-gun AG.
Please send your comments to comments@whitehouse.gov.
Comments to the VP..
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice_president@whitehouse.gov
Also email AG Gonzalas and tell him to resign.
E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.
Fits the globalist pattern.
Sometimes I hate to be right
But of course. But again, the 2A Foundation deals exclusively with the 2A, so I wouldn't expect the author to address due process as it relates to other amendments.
Speedy needs his name on that list of terror suspects just so we can see how the process of removal is accomplished.
But he’s a good man
That was McCain/Feingold.
“It’s all about enhancing the powers of the few at the expense of the many. And whether there’s an arbitrary (R) or (D) after the name, it still stinks.”
Welcome to the New Feudalism. I’ve berated myself for being a tinfoiler for harboring similar thoughts as yours, but now, I begin to wonder a little...
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