Wednesday, January 04, 2006

An "Honest" Person

I have no problem being monitored. It's because I'm not a terrorist and I'm not involved in terrorist activities. If monitoring would reassure my government of this fact — monitor away, please...I'm also a responsible gun owner, and the government is welcome to know about my legally owned firearms. I take my Second Amendment rights seriously, as all sportsmen and collectors should. Why should honest people be concerned about the government knowing how many guns they have?
If such a thing is definable, this is quite possibly the most "un-American" commentary I have ever read.

William Fowler, I won't even wish that your chains set lightly.

[Via KABA Newslinks]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, William, I have something to hide. It's called dignity. Farm animals are watched to make sure they put on weight. So they can fatten for later slaughter. Convicts are watched, because they have raped, murdered, and assaulted their way into a concentration of fellow convicts, who routinely perpetrate same on each other. The immates in Iran watch each other to make sure women aren't wearing lipstick(horrors!) or practicing Christianity or some other state forbidden thing. Yes, these all need careful watching indeed, Smithers, because who knows what they are thinking, and people who are thinking are liable to get ideas. Or, we could come up with a new idea, or an old one if you will. It's nobodys' !@#$@*&! business what I do, and it's none of my @!#$^*^! business what you do. So dear NSA, if you're monitoring this, eat @!#! and die. Oh, and um, William, if you're reading this, how fun it must be to have to eat a !@#! sandwich every day.

Anonymous said...

More people have now died from AIDS and STDs than have been killed by guns in all of history. This despite the fact we have only approximately a 30 year history monitoring AIDS.

So, William, it is not your firearm we are worried about, but your "gun", you know, the one for fun. That's right Billy we are worried about your penis. Is it registered? Has it been catalogued? Does the government data base have specific identifying characteristics of it, so they may readily identify it from the scenes of death and injury it has the potential to cause?

If not, why not? It would be much more productive to monitor genitalia to prevent death and destruction than to monitor firearms. Do you invite oversight (that's voyeurism, isn't it? or I guess from your perspective exhibitionism) of its use? Do you have a permit? Do you carry it concealed?

Has it been determined that you need one? After all, they serve very limited purposes and only police and military can be trusted with calibers of that magnitude. I certainly hope you don't have a fully automatic one, they cannot be trusted in civilian hands, you know.

I, like yourself, am a sport, oh my mistake, you said sportsman? Well, Hell you don't even need one. Tell you what I will start a buy back program just for you. Just bag it up and turn it in at your local free clinic and I will send you a coupon for a free Wee Willie Wonkless STD....er,uh, excuse DVD.

Surely a man....er, uh, ahem,....person, yeah, that's the ticket, person as erudite as you are, can see the greater efficacy in the monitoring of your soon to be unprivate privates as a more responsible position for you to take as an indication of your reasonableness in being a damn disgrace to manhood and Americanism.

David Codrea said...

Laughing here, straightarrow...

Anonymous said...

It is things like this that confuse the heck out of me and, were it not for the black helocopter connotations, make me consider the notion that the terrorist attack was planned by our government to sieze more control. Do I believe it? Not for a second, but when you see people so readily bending over for the government then I start to ponder it...