The object lesson here could not be more clear--we exist at the convenience and pleasure of the state. What we do, what we may possess, all are subject to permission and revocation that can, at any moment, be violently wrested from us. Nothing is ours. Not our bodies, not our lives. And this no doubt foreshadows some of that "change" and sets the tone we can expect now that the Bureau gets its marching orders from a new administration. [More]Securing the blessings of Liberty--BATFU-style. Submit or die. And we might just kill you anyway.
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column let's you know your place, at least in the government's eyes.
Also see an expansion of "prohibited persons" warning from Oregon Firearms Federation, and get the latest commentary from my fellow GREs.
I trust I can count on the regulars here, and perhaps some new visitors, to share this link?
FEDERAL OFFICIALS: Christopher Dodd, Joseph Lieberman.
ReplyDeleteWe can hope that the mayor and the town council have SOME concept of loyalty to citizens' rights. No one up the line does.
One step closer...
Reading the original news story, I see: "Paul Boynton was arrested 34 years ago at the age of 17 with a friend who had forged a check. He hasn't been arrested since, he said."
ReplyDeleteA nonviolent felony-by-association a third of a century ago, and it's enough to get people killed.
I should write my Congresspeople immediately.
Nah. They know.
On a positive note, a former member of a gang that killed about 20 people here is going to be released after 30 years as a reward for testifying against the gang. He only killed one or two people himself, or held the others' victims down while they shot or stabbed them. They never wrote bad checks; paid for everything with bloodstained CASH.