Just months after he declared that the principle of habeas corpus, or the
right to due process -- one of the most fundamental principles of our
republic -- is invalid, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez (the Hispanic
Hitler?) has announced his support of a new law that would allow him and
all future attorneys general to nullify U.S. citizens' Second Amendment
rights without due process.
I hope the quotes of one of our nation's founding fathers which I have
inserted throughout the following report still make sense to some
Americans.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN AND WOMEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR
COUNTRY.
-- GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer
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Gonzales Wants Arbitrary Power to Block Gun Purchases; SAF Says He Should
Resign
2007-05-01
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.
[No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
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.
[The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and
bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
"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.
[As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show
them we can fight like men also.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
"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?
[Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks
and Romans, and must be that of every free state. "
-- Thomas Jefferson]
"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.
[Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will
delineate and define you.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
"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."
[Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government
those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
The Second Amendment Foundation (http://www.saf.org/) is the nation's
oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal
action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately
own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more
than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to
better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
[The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
Source: Second Amendment Foundation
[All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
http://www.pr-inside.com/gonzales-wants-arbitrary-power-to-block-r111010.htm
[Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the
people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
-- Thomas Jefferson]
In case anyone's interested, here's a snippet of an article discussing
Attorney General Torquemada's dismissal of the hallowed Geneva Conventions:
The Quaint Mr. Gonzales
By Marjorie Cohn
"Notwithstanding his mild-mannered appearance, Gonzales is the iron fist
in the velvet glove. Gonzales, whom Bush affectionately calls "mi abogado"
("my lawyer"), wrote one of the most outrageous torture memos. On January
25, 2002, Gonzales advised Bush that "the war on terrorism is a new kind of
war, a new paradigm [that] renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitation on
questioning of enemy prisoners and renders some of its provisions quaint."
Oh really? The "quaint" Geneva Conventions are treaties ratified by the
United States, and therefore part of the supreme law of the land under our
Constitution.
Gonzales also provided Bush with novel defenses against potential war
crimes prosecutions that might result from torturing prisoners captured in
Afghanistan. The 1996 War Crimes Act says that grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions are war crimes. Thus, the definition of war crimes includes
torture, inhuman treatment, and willful killing, as well as outrages
against personal dignity. Gonzales advised Bush that he could avoid
allegations of war crimes by simply declaring that Geneva doesn't apply to
the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
When Colin Powell saw Gonzales's memo, he reportedly "hit the roof."
Powell wrote a counter-memo to Gonzales and Condoleezza Rice, warning of
the immense damage this could do to the United States - legally,
politically, militarily, diplomatically, and morally. To declare that the
Geneva Conventions did not apply, Powell wrote, "will reverse over a
century of U.S. policy and practice in supporting the Geneva conventions,
and undermine the protection of the law of war for our troops, both in this
specific conflict and in general."
source: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111304A.shtml
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PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonald
www.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
www.PredatoryAliens.com
www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org
www.DayLaborers.org
www.Alipac.us
www.ImmigrationWatchdog.com
www.AmericanPatrol.com
www.SaveOurState.org
www.EscapingJustice.com
www.MothersAgainstIllegalAliens.org
See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
www.ImmigrationCounters.com
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"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")
-- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest publically-funded
organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the USA
(Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)
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：How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico；
By John Dillin
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Excerpt:
：General Eisenhower ... quoted a report in The New York Times,
highlighting one paragraph that said: ．The rise in illegal border-crossing
by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than
1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation
in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters
of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal
Government ..."
：Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said the
president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took
office.
：America ．was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large
scale,・ Mr. Brownell said. ．When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of
thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.・"
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Just two of MANY American cops murdered by illegals:
www.DeputyDavidMarch.com
www.KrisEggle.org
"Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged in
criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent Social Security
numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent
some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens on
a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status. In
addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also
prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today's federal prison
population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of
felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal
aliens."
-- Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border, Security and Claims [Note: 99% of
warrants for murder in Los Angeles, California -- the USA's 2nd
most-populous city -- are for illegal aliens]
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
"：All great truths begin as heresies.；
-- Former Democrat Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, official of
Defend Colorado Now, a movement opposed to illegal immigration
and public services for illegal aliens
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