Posted on 12/01/2002 8:03:40 AM PST by blam
It was an immigration issue that the New York Supreme Court ruled on. Idiots at the time thought that "religion" in the Constitution meant any animal sacrificer that wanted to practice in the USA. NYSSC said "No!" "Religion" in the official documents in the USA means "Christianity," and all others including "..followers of imposters such as Mahommet....are to be harassed."
An old lawyer showed me that in 1973. The ruling was in 1892 or 1893. You could find it in their procedings if you want.
I am unaware of any of this being done, or even contemplated. The end of the "cold war" caused all of us to let down our guard, and now we are going to pay for it.
And, while Australia is in fact very remote from Europe and the U.S., it is really quite close to the southern (Muslim) Philippines and Indonesia.
Hell, WE have the best Coast Guard in the world, and we can't keep thousands of Cubans and Haitians from floating to our shores in rickety boats, inner tubes, and bathtubs. (Not to mention interdicting drug smugglers- who could just as easily be smuggling weapons).
Great....just the type most suitable for resisting any official sort of tyranny. And what do you think will happen to anybody caught with such a firearm? The gov't will wish to make an example of them, of course. So when it's illegal and you keep it...can you actually USE it and expect to stay out of jail? Or even stay alive?
"Im free no matter laws they try and impose."
Good for you. The right attitude. But the laws shouldn't BE there in the first place and the pols who enacted them were ELECTED by your fellow Aussies! And they're STILL in office! What happens to your guns next? Without the free and open access to guns your other "rights" are merely illusory. But of course, it doesn't matter whether there is access...the population has to be willing to actually use them to maintain freedom. Yours won't. THAT'S convict ancestry.
However...I'm not too terribly SURE that my own population would do this either.....at least currently. But with at least 150 million more guns in the hands of citizens...I'm pretty sure nobody in the other camp really wants to find out anytime soon.
The recent elections here point to the fact that gun ownership is still on the minds of many of our citizens and that the democrats are finding this out the hard way.
I think they may well wait until the liberals in our educational system can do some further brainwashing of the kids. Thats their secret here. Wait until the "old guard" dies off and use the kids to advance the agenda through a process of "dumbing down" and selective revisionism of history.
I know...I'm a teacher of history, government and psychology/sociology. I have been watching this trend for 15 years in the schools and fighting the only way I can....class by class. Sometimes it works and they learn to actually think for themselves and sometimes the conditioning is just too strong.
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