In unmistakably clear admissions before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 18, Attorney General Eric Holder signaled strong administration support for additional "gun control" edicts.
Law Enforcement Alliance of America, the only national law enforcement organization to oppose Holder's confirmation, issued a press release warning:
Drawing reasonable conclusions from what Holder publicly said, we now know:
• Holder wants a national, permanent gun registration system administered by law enforcement. A registration of honest citizens that have cleared the federal background check for gun purchases with those records permanently retained by and shared among law enforcement.
• Holder wants new federal authority to prohibit any person on the federal watch list (reported to be 400,000 names) from buying guns and supports confiscating guns from those on the list who possess them.
But I thought all of you naysayers said the government didn't want to take guns away from citizens? Holder (the brains behind Waco) has always belived that the only ones that should have guns is law enforcement and the military.
And as we've seen before, that "no fly list" nets some peculiar catches:
U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy said yesterday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government's secret "no-fly" list.
Besides which, our entire criminal justice system is supposed to be based on presumption of innocence. But let's explore the rationale of those who think differently: If denying gun purchases to people on government suspicion lists is "good" (an no one thinks this will be limited to Al-Qaeda and not include "homegrown" persons of interest, do they?), then disarming these suspects and taking away their existing arms must be "better."
Of course it won't. Every veteran that is considered a terrorist threat is going to have their rights stripped and probably won't even know it. That is untill they try to buy a gun and are denied. Registering guns serves only one purpose, confiscation. Just ask 6 million jews about that. Oh, Wait, you can't because they are all dead. Exterminated by a government that required registration of all firearms and then confiscated them. Can't happen here? Hopefully their efforts will be defeated. I will not register my guns, period. It's none of the governments buisness what I own.
From the LEAA press release,
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/attorney-general-holder-reveals-aggressive-gun-control-in-response-to-ft-hood-terror-attack-70535237.html
Attorney General Holder Reveals Aggressive Gun Control In Response to Ft. Hood Terror Attack
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Before the Senate Judiciary Committee November 18th, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed a stunningly broad and aggressive anti-gun agenda.
"The President of the United States asked that politicians not use the Ft. Hood attack to engage in 'political theater.' It appears those committed to attacking gun owners and the Second Amendment simply can't help themselves and are engaged in blaming guns and gun owners on the heels of this terrorist attack. Sadly it looks like 'politics as usual,'" said LEAA's spokesperson, Ted Deeds.
After explaining and defending his decision to give enemy combatants constitutional protections and the right to public trial in civilian courts, Attorney General Holder revealed his support for a national gun owner registration scheme and authorizing the government to ban firearm possession for any person by merely adding that person's name to the terror watch list.
Drawing reasonable conclusions from what Holder publicly said, we now know:
Holder wants a national, permanent gun registration system administered by law enforcement. A registration of honest citizens that have cleared the federal background check for gun purchases with those records permanently retained by and shared among law enforcement.
Holder wants new federal authority to prohibit any person on the federal watch list (reported to be 400,000 names) from buying guns and supports confiscating guns from those on the list who possess them.
Transcribing General Holder: "The position of the Administration is that there should be a basis for law enforcement to share information about gun purchases." "... [It's not] inconsistent to allow law enforcement agencies to share that kind of information, for that information to be retained and then to be shared by law enforcement." "It seems incongruous to me that we would bar certain people from flying on airplanes because they are on the terrorist watch list and yet we would still allow them to posses weapons." {Emphasis added}
LEAA's Executive Director Jim Fotis said, "Those behind the badge don't believe more restrictions on honest gun owners is a reasonable, practical or constitutional response to acts of terrorism. As a retired officer, I know that America's men and women in blue want to fight terrorism, to stop terrorists; not waste time keeping records on innocent gun owners!"
www.leaa.org
I was very vocal about the appointment of Holder to the AG position. When I expressed my reservations to Sen. Grassley I was ignored. Grassley voted to approve this abbomination to the top cop spot. This is the position of the Obama administration. They have a agenda to relive all law abiding citizens of the means to protect themselves. Holder is just one cog in the wheel.
2nd Amendment, Iowa carry laws and Veterans concerns. Also anything else we want to talk about.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Obama's public opton for Gitmo
The Obama Administration announced this morning that it intends to ship five Guantanamo Bay detainees to New York to be tried in civilian federal court. One of those men is the September 11th mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad.
This decision will be seen by many liberals as paving the way for closing the Guantanamo Bay facility. It is also an olive branch by an Administration facing growing criticism from its own party for its failure to move forward on closing the facility by its January 22nd deadline. In fact, the President has been battered lately by the left for staying too close to Bush Administration terrorism policies. So close in fact, that the Obama Administration had announced its intent to continue to use military tribunals despite Obama’s feverish opposition to such an idea during the Presidential campaigns.
Obama tried to make his case today for this decision by stating that Khalid Sheik Mohammad, one of the four set to be tried, would be subject to “the most exacting demands of justice.” But this move would be anything but justice.
Civilian courts are horribly situated to handle the prosecution of these types of detainees. Not only there potential security concerns associated with transporting such high-value detainees thousands of miles away, but these five men, charged with crimes related to the attacks of 9/11 would be tried in New York City, the very same location of the attacks. Defense lawyers are sure to argue that the venue is prejudicial paving the way for multiple due process challenges.
While this decision will certainly appease those seeking to erode America’s ability to prosecute war criminals under a military tribunal, there is no reason to believe a military tribunal isn’t capable of exacting justice on these four suspects. Placing these detainees in a domestic criminal proceeding creates evidentiary, security, and procedural issues. These detainees are not common criminals—but individuals that committed an act of war against the United States. Not only does the law sufficiently provide for use of military tribunals, common sense demands it.
The Obama Administration’s scattered counterterrorism policies, littered with efforts to placate the left while recognizing the legitimacy of some Bush era policies, are an invitation for terrorists to take advantage of America’s divisions. Obama needs to be clear, forceful, and direct, sending the message that America won’t stand for terrorism.
Just what we need. Bring the terrorists to this country so their buddies will have a easier time trying to bust then out. Or have another attack on NYC. These are enemy combatant captured on the field of battle. Their trial should remain a military matter. Terrorisim has no place in a civilian court. The military tribunual was already under way and now we are supposed to try them in a civilian court? are we going to give them the same rights that a American would have? This is more than a travesty, it's just plain stupid. They should be left at Gitmo and let the tribunual do the trying.
This decision will be seen by many liberals as paving the way for closing the Guantanamo Bay facility. It is also an olive branch by an Administration facing growing criticism from its own party for its failure to move forward on closing the facility by its January 22nd deadline. In fact, the President has been battered lately by the left for staying too close to Bush Administration terrorism policies. So close in fact, that the Obama Administration had announced its intent to continue to use military tribunals despite Obama’s feverish opposition to such an idea during the Presidential campaigns.
Obama tried to make his case today for this decision by stating that Khalid Sheik Mohammad, one of the four set to be tried, would be subject to “the most exacting demands of justice.” But this move would be anything but justice.
Civilian courts are horribly situated to handle the prosecution of these types of detainees. Not only there potential security concerns associated with transporting such high-value detainees thousands of miles away, but these five men, charged with crimes related to the attacks of 9/11 would be tried in New York City, the very same location of the attacks. Defense lawyers are sure to argue that the venue is prejudicial paving the way for multiple due process challenges.
While this decision will certainly appease those seeking to erode America’s ability to prosecute war criminals under a military tribunal, there is no reason to believe a military tribunal isn’t capable of exacting justice on these four suspects. Placing these detainees in a domestic criminal proceeding creates evidentiary, security, and procedural issues. These detainees are not common criminals—but individuals that committed an act of war against the United States. Not only does the law sufficiently provide for use of military tribunals, common sense demands it.
The Obama Administration’s scattered counterterrorism policies, littered with efforts to placate the left while recognizing the legitimacy of some Bush era policies, are an invitation for terrorists to take advantage of America’s divisions. Obama needs to be clear, forceful, and direct, sending the message that America won’t stand for terrorism.
Just what we need. Bring the terrorists to this country so their buddies will have a easier time trying to bust then out. Or have another attack on NYC. These are enemy combatant captured on the field of battle. Their trial should remain a military matter. Terrorisim has no place in a civilian court. The military tribunual was already under way and now we are supposed to try them in a civilian court? are we going to give them the same rights that a American would have? This is more than a travesty, it's just plain stupid. They should be left at Gitmo and let the tribunual do the trying.
Task force seeks ban on assault weapons
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 13, 2009
A binational task force on U.S.-Mexico border issues will call Friday on the Obama administration and Congress to reinstate an expired ban on assault weapons and for Mexico to overhaul its frontier police and customs agencies to mirror the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Here we go again. The guns they want to ban are not assault weapons. A assault weapon is a sholder fired, select fire arm capable of full automatic fire. The weapons they want to ban are semi auto only look alikes. It does absolutly nothing to deter crime. Criminals do not buy guns at gun shops and gun shows. The new list that they have come up with will ban everything that is semi auto. Including all semi auto shotguns and rifles. Rifles like the Ruger 10/22. one of the most popular target and plinking rifles made. It will get rid of those pesky Remington 1100s and other shotguns used in sport shooting and hunting. Their ultimate goal is total disarmament of the people. This is where they start because "assault" weapons are scary.
The recommendations are among a broad set of security, trade, development and environmental proposals that come as President Obama and his Mexicans counterpart, Felipe Calderón, move to deepen engagement on issues including economic recovery, climate change, illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking.
Robert C. Bonner, the U.S. co-chairman of the private task force, which included several former senior government officials from both countries, said the changes could be included in a follow-up to the Merida initiative, a $1.4 billion three-year commitment of U.S. aid to support Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels that ends next year.
The proposals "will transform management of the border from a source of contention and frustration into a model of cooperation," states a report by the Los Angeles-based Pacific Council on International Policy and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations titled, "Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border." The 30-member task force blamed lack of collaboration for violence, billions of dollars in lost economic opportunities and a public perception of a "broken" system.
The system is broken. The first thing we need to do is seal up the border. Step 2 should be round up all the illegals and ship them home. Where ever home is. And it's not just Mexicans. There are illegals here from all over the world. Including from terrorist harboring nations. And what about the billions od dollars sent across the border that illegals are sending home?
The study comes as Mexico's struggle to combat narco-traffickers and public corruption from the multibillion-dollar North American drug trade has forged a tighter relationship between the neighbors. In reaction, policy analysts and think tanks, most recently the School of the Northern Border in Mexico and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, have developed border development proposals.
Skeptics say U.S. attention to its troubled partner is outpaced by what it spends to combat drugs in places such as Colombia or Afghanistan, while the southbound flow of weapons into Mexico -- where private gun ownership is illegal -- has been a flashpoint as Mexico's death toll from drug-related violence has topped 15,000.
In Mexico City in April, Obama pledged to push the Senate to ratify an inter-American arms-trafficking treaty but backed away from a campaign promise to reinstate a ban on assault weapons that Congress let expire in 2004. Obama said that it would be too difficult politically to enact new gun legislation soon and that enforcing existing measures would have a more immediate effect.
Maybe he knows trying to ban any kind of gun would be political suicide. Look what happened the last time. Congress enacted the so called asault weapons ban and the very next election, lost control of both houses. Want to see a replay? Gun owners are sick and tired of being vilified everytime some other coountry can't control their own crime.
Mexican officials want a ban, saying that 90 percent of guns seized in drug crimes in Mexico and submitted for tracing to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives originate in the United States, including most assault rifles.
This is a lie that has been disproven time after time. The number is 17%. Most of their weapons come from overseas and are smuggled in. And then there are all of their nice American made M16s. The ones the desserters from the military take with them when they go. The ones sold to the Mexican government by the biggest arms dealer in the world, the United States. And where are they getting all of those rocket launcers, grenades and land mines. I've never seen those items for sale in a gun shop.
Bonner, who led U.S. drug enforcement and customs agencies under Republican administrations from 1990 to 1993 and from 2002 to 2005, said the task force sought to identify bold steps for each side. Bonner took over the panel from Alan D. Bersin, whom Obama has nominated to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Task force co-chairman Andres Rozental, former deputy foreign minister of Mexico, said Mexico should realign and strengthen 16 agencies that share border responsibilities to combat corruption and improve coordination with the DHS, as Canada did after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mexico has taken some steps, including hiring 1,400 new customs agents.
And just how long will it be before they are as corrupt as the rest of the Mexican government? They have one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
Mexico is the third-largest U.S. trading partner and the No. 2 destination for U.S. exports, he noted. The panel recommended adding private border crossings that collect tolls and prioritizing jointly planned improvements based on economic benefit.
If the United States legalizes most of its illegal immigrants and allows for a flexible flow of legal workers, Mexico should stop illegal immigration from its side of the border, the panel said.
And there it is, AMNESTY. We are supposed to give 20 million criminals amnesty because the President of Mexico thinks it would be good. Plus they want to let more in. These people have a lot of nerve.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 13, 2009
A binational task force on U.S.-Mexico border issues will call Friday on the Obama administration and Congress to reinstate an expired ban on assault weapons and for Mexico to overhaul its frontier police and customs agencies to mirror the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Here we go again. The guns they want to ban are not assault weapons. A assault weapon is a sholder fired, select fire arm capable of full automatic fire. The weapons they want to ban are semi auto only look alikes. It does absolutly nothing to deter crime. Criminals do not buy guns at gun shops and gun shows. The new list that they have come up with will ban everything that is semi auto. Including all semi auto shotguns and rifles. Rifles like the Ruger 10/22. one of the most popular target and plinking rifles made. It will get rid of those pesky Remington 1100s and other shotguns used in sport shooting and hunting. Their ultimate goal is total disarmament of the people. This is where they start because "assault" weapons are scary.
The recommendations are among a broad set of security, trade, development and environmental proposals that come as President Obama and his Mexicans counterpart, Felipe Calderón, move to deepen engagement on issues including economic recovery, climate change, illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking.
Robert C. Bonner, the U.S. co-chairman of the private task force, which included several former senior government officials from both countries, said the changes could be included in a follow-up to the Merida initiative, a $1.4 billion three-year commitment of U.S. aid to support Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels that ends next year.
The proposals "will transform management of the border from a source of contention and frustration into a model of cooperation," states a report by the Los Angeles-based Pacific Council on International Policy and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations titled, "Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border." The 30-member task force blamed lack of collaboration for violence, billions of dollars in lost economic opportunities and a public perception of a "broken" system.
The system is broken. The first thing we need to do is seal up the border. Step 2 should be round up all the illegals and ship them home. Where ever home is. And it's not just Mexicans. There are illegals here from all over the world. Including from terrorist harboring nations. And what about the billions od dollars sent across the border that illegals are sending home?
The study comes as Mexico's struggle to combat narco-traffickers and public corruption from the multibillion-dollar North American drug trade has forged a tighter relationship between the neighbors. In reaction, policy analysts and think tanks, most recently the School of the Northern Border in Mexico and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, have developed border development proposals.
Skeptics say U.S. attention to its troubled partner is outpaced by what it spends to combat drugs in places such as Colombia or Afghanistan, while the southbound flow of weapons into Mexico -- where private gun ownership is illegal -- has been a flashpoint as Mexico's death toll from drug-related violence has topped 15,000.
In Mexico City in April, Obama pledged to push the Senate to ratify an inter-American arms-trafficking treaty but backed away from a campaign promise to reinstate a ban on assault weapons that Congress let expire in 2004. Obama said that it would be too difficult politically to enact new gun legislation soon and that enforcing existing measures would have a more immediate effect.
Maybe he knows trying to ban any kind of gun would be political suicide. Look what happened the last time. Congress enacted the so called asault weapons ban and the very next election, lost control of both houses. Want to see a replay? Gun owners are sick and tired of being vilified everytime some other coountry can't control their own crime.
Mexican officials want a ban, saying that 90 percent of guns seized in drug crimes in Mexico and submitted for tracing to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives originate in the United States, including most assault rifles.
This is a lie that has been disproven time after time. The number is 17%. Most of their weapons come from overseas and are smuggled in. And then there are all of their nice American made M16s. The ones the desserters from the military take with them when they go. The ones sold to the Mexican government by the biggest arms dealer in the world, the United States. And where are they getting all of those rocket launcers, grenades and land mines. I've never seen those items for sale in a gun shop.
Bonner, who led U.S. drug enforcement and customs agencies under Republican administrations from 1990 to 1993 and from 2002 to 2005, said the task force sought to identify bold steps for each side. Bonner took over the panel from Alan D. Bersin, whom Obama has nominated to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Task force co-chairman Andres Rozental, former deputy foreign minister of Mexico, said Mexico should realign and strengthen 16 agencies that share border responsibilities to combat corruption and improve coordination with the DHS, as Canada did after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mexico has taken some steps, including hiring 1,400 new customs agents.
And just how long will it be before they are as corrupt as the rest of the Mexican government? They have one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
Mexico is the third-largest U.S. trading partner and the No. 2 destination for U.S. exports, he noted. The panel recommended adding private border crossings that collect tolls and prioritizing jointly planned improvements based on economic benefit.
If the United States legalizes most of its illegal immigrants and allows for a flexible flow of legal workers, Mexico should stop illegal immigration from its side of the border, the panel said.
And there it is, AMNESTY. We are supposed to give 20 million criminals amnesty because the President of Mexico thinks it would be good. Plus they want to let more in. These people have a lot of nerve.
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