Posted on 01/03/2016 6:35:09 AM PST by Kaslin
resident Barack Obama and his fellow progressives like to talk about "gun violence," as if it guns themselves stroll about American cities and commit acts of violence, unassisted by human beings.
The silly term is meant to hide the obvious fact that it is indeed criminals using those guns, who comprise the problem, not the firearms acting alone. To deflect attention from terrorists, including Islamic terrorists, whom the president urgently feels must not be named, seems even more important to them.
It took the Administration days to fully admit what everyone knew: the mass shooting in San Bernardino was a terrorist attack, not the "workplace violence" they seemingly wished it were. Why wish it? The workplace violence scenario provides a choice target, better propelling their gun control agenda.
It took six long years for Mr. Obama to finally refer to the Ft. Hood shooting as a terrorist incident.
After the Paris terrorist attack and in the aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre, in an oval office address to the nation, Obama called for yet more gun control measures, urging Congress to act "to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun." Congress rightly refused to take such action, since American citizens are added to the No-Fly List without any due process at all, as is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment before anyone's Second Amendment rights could be restricted.
Needing a straw man to knock down, Mr. Obama characterized his opposition (and his measure), disingenuously, "I know there are some who reject any gun safety measures."
Nothing seems to get in the way of the president promoting gun control. Chafing under congressional resistance and a public increasingly recognizing the need for self-defense President Obama has since been threatening unilateral executive action. Days ago, he announced that he will meet tomorrow with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss a laundry list of executive actions, which his brain trust (I use that term loosely) has been developing.
The president claims he'll take unilateral action, "Because I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids to sit around and do nothing." Yet, recent polls show opposition to his so-called "assault weapons ban" and find more Americans (47 percent) think more people should be encouraged to carry guns, than those (42 percent) desiring "stricter gun control laws."
Make no mistake: the executive orders he threatens to sign and implement are intended to restrict access to guns, i.e. Second Amendment rights, across the board, for everyone. Something neither he nor Congress has any right to do.
According to reports in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, the centerpiece of his new one-man rules will be to re-define the meaning of being "engaged in the business" of selling guns, so that the Feds can force more people to register and obtain a federal license and thereby also be mandated to conduct background checks on buyers. Currently, the federal statute exempts a person "who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms" from having to be licensed.
The White House has not communicated at all with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, but Doug Andres, a spokesman for the House Speaker, told the Washington Post in an email exchange that, "We will consider options once we have information, but what seems apparent is none of these ideas would have prevented the recent atrocities. Our focus should be on the consistent causes of these acts mental illnesses and terrorism rather than infringing on law-abiding Americans' constitutional rights."
What does this new executive order have in common with all the burdensome new laws suggested after every other mass shooting? It's not what it will do, but what it won't do. None of the burdensome and restrictive new gun control proposals, including the leaked new background check expansion in seeming violation of current federal law, would prevent the deadly incidents used as their justification.
The guns used by the San Bernardino terrorists were purchased legally.
"President Obama is trying to distract Americans from his failure to address the true threat of radical Islamic terrorism, and instead going after the rights of law-abiding American citizens," commented Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, "it is complete lunacy."
"The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone," Obama told his radio audience. But that's simply hyperbole, and ignores the fact that the so-called gun lobby has long urged the president to enforce existing gun laws. Indeed, numerous studies show violations of current gun laws are being prosecuted less, not more.
A new term "Obama violence" ought be added to the lexicon. Unlike "gun violence," its meaning would not serve to hide reality, but to highlight the all-too-dangerous violence our current president is doing to the Constitution to the separation of powers, the Second Amendment and the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Ha...Gun Safety is a steady hand and a beady eye.
The left - ‘Rats, progressives, socialists, totalitarians - is all about violence. Comply or be verbally assaulted, physically attacked or killed. Witness history. Witness current events.
Undercover FBI agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States:
Larry Grathwohl:
I brought up the subject of what is going to happen after we take over the government. You know, we become responsible then for administrating 250 million people.
And there was no answer. And no one had given any thought to economics, how are you going to clothe and feed these people. The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.
"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama's circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
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"They're certainly friendly" -quote from 'Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod,' on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html
And, the wise one says arming yourself against terrorists is a slippery slope, after all that’s what government is for.
Government has been fairly successful in stopping terrorist acts in the formative stages, but has failed to actually be on the scene when an active terrorist attack such as San Bernardino begins. That is not realistic either.
Government couldn’t stop the Ft. Hood shooter either until it was much too late.
"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003
"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."
Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAD
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We're revolutionary Communists.'
He got off on the group's multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.
Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)
Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAD
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX
From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808
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"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
"The bomb preparations have been pointed out by critics of the claim that the Weatherman group did not try to take lives with its bombings.
Harvey Klehr, the Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history at Emory University in Atlanta, said in 2003:
"The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."[2]"
http://web.archive.org/web/20090305100659/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#Greenwich_Village_explosion
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot
A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]
Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100302063503/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot#Trial
Obama Says “Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4
“If you want the next four years lookin’ like the last eight, then I’m not your candidate. But if you want real change...then I need you. I need you to go out and talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors...I want you to argue with them, get in their faces...you guys are the ones who can make the change.”
- Candidate Barack Obama to supporters September, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/08/obama_and_the_thugs.html
Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/
Why Have There Been More Mass Shootings Under Obama than the Four Previous Presidents Combined?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3367943/posts
Confirmed: Gang Membership Up 40% Under Obama - Violent Attacks on Whites Up 18%
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3045740/posts
California Racial Attacks on the Increase (Black on Asian)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2519119/posts
Time to put impeachment on the table. Put Obama on the defensive. Tie him up with legal troubles. Derail his fundamental transformation. Unfortunately, our leaders would rather stay in power and play nice nice to a tyrant than do their constitutional job.
Thanks for an excellent post...
You’re welcome. Sickens me to think this saboteur-in-chief was elected president, not just once, but twice!
Yeah, his “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun” rhetoric about politics proves how much of a peace-loving pacifist he is....
The terrorist attack in San Bernardino is still having repercussions. Mrs. Fella was born there and needs a certified birth certificate and you have to go through the county health department to do that. The health dept was more than decimated by ISIS so it’s taking a long time to get her certificate. Trump is right we need to get the muslims out of our nation.
Same here. What were people thinking?
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