The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.
Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place all across the country at the same time. But fairly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. If there were, those carrying them would be subject to quick confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-search of anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for "carrying." [More]
Oh, but he's not "a crazed liberal zealot"-- he carried a .357 Magnum to protect his own precious hide when he worked at the embassy in Beirut. Leave it to a career government diplomat and editorial board member to propose something so monumentally incompetent as starting a civil war in America.
Dan Simpson, as is typical of your kind, you don't have the guts to do your own dirty work--you want someone else to put their ass on the line, someone else to die carrying out your traitorous wishes.
How many men like me, who will defy your insane and treasonous fantasies, are you willing to have killed, Dan? How much blood will be enough to satiate such evil and foolish desires?
You, Dan, disgust me, as a man and as an American. But thanks for showing everyone the unmasked Police State Amerika intent that you and those like you have in mind for the Republic. Your words do far more to demonstrate your genocidal totalitarian bent than anything I could ever write.
[Via Mike Battaglia]
UPDATE: dsimpson@post-gazette.com
He not only wants to get rid of the 2nd Amendment but the 4th too obviously.
ReplyDeleteAnd to think that just a few short months ago, the gun grabbers were still hiding their real intentions behind a desire for "common-sense gun laws". Their true colours are revealed and all too many of them would dearly love to see the 2nd Amendment repealed.
And yet gun owners still seem to be sitting on their laurels instead of fighting desperately for their rights.
The hoplophobes have made huge strides in advancing their agenda this far. Time for lovers of liberty to start pushing back.
Maybe these "people" want Civil War II to begin.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the papar published it tells me more about them than the writer.They don't know it when their leg is being pulled.
ReplyDeleteI have to believe that the guy wrote this completely tongue-in-cheek, since it reads like everyone's worse police-state nightmare. He had to be aware of this. It's the kind of thing that I would write, just to show people how *bad* it would have to be to get rid of all those guns. Frisking Grandma on the street was an especially nice touch.
I think that we should congratulate the guy.
No Bud,
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that Simpson was totally, deadly earnest in his desire to being to fruition everything he wrote. I hear this kind of crap all the time here in the Blue East. With this article and the one about the kid arrested for writing an essay, I have to wonder if there is any hope for this country. There are way too many people here that seem to want a police state.
Jay said,
ReplyDelete"He not only wants to get rid of the 2nd Amendment but the 4th too obviously."
Actually the entire bill of rights would have to be discarded for such draconian edicts to work.
You could not maintain the 1st media and public sentiment would howl in outrage, maintaining a media blackout would be crucial.
The 2nd goes without saying...
3rd, does anyone think this could be done without using an army? The sheer scale involved would absolutely require confiscation of buildings to coordinate troop deployments and setup temporary headquarters. Even during Katrina government units used buildings including a church without permission, that was a very small scale deployment by comparison.
4th Clearly warrant less searches are exactly what this would entail.
5th This plan would compel people to incriminate themselves by turning over their firearms.
6th Speedy trials by jury would be IMPOSSIBLE due to the risk of jury nullification, the number of gunowners involved, and the mandated penalties proscribed.
7th For the same reason as above trials by jury would have to be eliminated in such a mad vision.
8th "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Nuff said. The 8th goes bye-bye.
9th Clearly roving "special police" units arresting anyone who lawfully owns a firearm violates other natural rights.
10th "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Since this would have to be a national effort states rights would be meaningless, as would unenumerated rights of the people.
There you have it folks, the Bill of Rights shredded in the new Utopian paradise.
Well, as a cop, I can tell you that number one, I would not be a part of these "specially trained" police units. There is nothing anyone could so to make me. And as an American Citizen, you can have my gun. Empty. If you can survive the hail of bullets coming your way when you try to take it from me.
ReplyDeleteMolon Labe
ReplyDeleteProbably won't make much difference to Simpson, but at least the readers of this paper might be well served to hear from you: letters@theblade.com
ReplyDeleteNathaniel, I posted Simpson's email above in an update.
ReplyDeleteThe man is insane.
ReplyDeleteHis obsession has lead him to advocate the abrogation of the constitution, or maybe he's just never read it.
I used to sell police equipment. My son is a cop. I know a lot of cops and outside the northeast and San Francisco, they would sick out or quit first.
What kind of moral lepers does he intend to make "Special Police"? I am sure they would make Lavrenty Beria proud.
Two words for this guy and the rest of his ilk:
ReplyDeleteDO IT.
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To Dan Simpson: Bring it on. But if I survive the initial encounter, I'll remember your name.
ReplyDeleteYeah! Bring it on! If you think the rest of us will stand idly by when we get wind of what your "Special Cops" are up to, you're dead wrong, and I stress "dead"!
ReplyDeleteMOLON LABE!!
And Bill? Thanks for standing with us!
Bill,
ReplyDeleteIt is good to hear that there are law enforcement officers who would not participate in what would obviously be treason. And I am sure there are 10's of thousands of other law enforcement officers and military personnel who share your sentiment.
Unfortunately, that does not mean that such a scenario is not possible. One just needs to look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to see that government confiscation of firearms is very possible in the United States.
For Mr. Simpson's plan to work it would likely have to follow some disaster or very dramatic event, such as a terrorist attack, particulary a terrorist attack which could be blamed on American "terrorists."
Police and military would be very reluctant, initially, to confiscate firearms from law abiding citizens. However, the first confiscations would likely be from some villified group, such as American "terrorists", perhaps even from a group that deserves to be villified.
At the first sign of resistance, after a few police officers or military personnel get killed, the attitude among police and military will quickly change.
That is when Mr. Simpson and his ilk will start calling for expanding the confiscations.
The real danger for American citizens is that Mr. Simpson and the other anti-gunners can succeed at turning the police and military against their fellow citizens. With the right sequence of events, and the correct "steering" on their part they could accomplish this. All it took in New Orleans was a couple of low lifes shooting at helicopters.
What will it take for this to happen throughout America? That is the question anti-gunners are ever so eager to answer. And we all, police, military, and citizen, must be ready for the day they succeed.
Some people think they're sooo smart...they have it all figured out.
ReplyDeleteArrogance is still alive and well...
Dan Simpson is an enemy of The Citizens of The United States of America. He advocates the enslavement of each and every citizen of OUR great country. He advocates a police state reminiscent of the KGB, Statsi, and the Cheka.
ReplyDeleteHis view is typical of the elites who make up the political class in OUR country. Be wary of him and his fellow travelers in the 5th Estate.
Expressions like "lightning rod" and "trial balloon" spring to mind (to say nothing of "dumber than a bag of hammers").
ReplyDeleteKent,
Some would say it already has begun, albeit in "cold" form.
Mark Odell
I hope Bill is telling it true, but even if he is, he is only one. I do not believe there will be thousands of them stand with us.
ReplyDeleteI remember Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzales, Katrina, etc. there seemed to be no problem finding LEOs to violate their oaths to defend the constitution.
The 2nd amendment has nothing to do with me, at all.
ReplyDeleteTHEY made it and THEY will do with it as THEY please.
I own things and will continue to no matter what anyone else says or does.
My natural rights are not jurisprudent upon the acceptance of others, they are inviolate. Period.