[lit-ideas] Re: Mike -- Not Real Astute

  • From: "Lawrence Helm"<lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:25:37 +0000

No, I find it hilarious that Leftist-Pacifists screamed when the government 
tried to take away suspected terrorists First Amendment Rights, but were 
appalled when the NRA objected to having these same suspects deprived of their 
Second Amendment rights.  

But like I've said, I think we should crack down on these suspected terrorists 
even harder than we are; so I disagree with both the ACLU types and the NRA 
types when it comes to not cracking down on suspected terrorists.  We are in a 
war but continue to hamper ourselves in fighting it.  We have too many 
Surrender Monkeys getting in the way of fighting our enemies.  

Lawrence


------------Original Message------------
From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, May-6-2007 8:10 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Mike -- Not Real Astute
I do hate to disappoint you, Lawrence, but I did indeed read the whole article. 
 I didn't respond to your challenge because I was too busy Europeanizing my 
neighbors with Leftist-Pacifist ideology.  Sorry.  

As to the right to sell guns to terrorist suspects, let me ask you, don't you 
find it funny that by law you can be kept from flying on a plane because your 
name is on a list of suspected terrorists?  Don't you find it hilarious that 
you can be sent to prison for life for giving a loan to someone suspected of 
being a terrorist?  Or for hiring someone who is suspected of being a 
terrorist?  Don't you find it marvelously droll that you can be disappeared and 
sent to a secret prison and tortured because someone suspects you of being a 
terrorist?    But don't worry, it's still OK to sell a gun to a terrorist 
suspect and the good old NRA is determined to protect that right.  

Mike Geary
Memphis




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lawrence Helm 
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 10:59 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Mike -- Not Real Astute


What you say might be true if you like Mike, only read the headlines and not 
the whole article.  Notice that I asked Mike for the reasons the NRA took the 
position they did and that he never answered.  That should have been a clue for 
the astute.

I looked up the article on CNN:  
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/04/nra.terror.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us 

Since the Leftist-Pacifist position afflicts its holders with the inability to 
read long articles, here are a couple of brief paragraphs from the CNN article: 
'In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive 
director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 
D-New Jersey, "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on 
mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat.  As many of our friends in law 
enforcement have rightly pointed out, the word 'suspect' has no legal meaning, 
particularly when it comes to denying constitutional liberties," Cox wrote.'
I was hoping Mike would respond.  I believe he was one of those who was 
outraged that the U.S. would infringe suspected terrorists first amendment 
rights by tapping their phones.  I was hoping to ask him why he was outraged 
over the infringement of the First Amendment Right but not over the 
infringement of the Second.  
Lest anyone jump to the wrong conclusion about my own position, I would 
restrict both first & second amendment rights of those on the Terrorist Watch 
list.  
Lawrence



------------Original Message------------
From: "JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, May-5-2007 7:35 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: NRA -- Not Real Astute
I find this very peculiar -- the NRA is aligned, typically, with the political 
party which has seen fit to wrench huge swaths of constitutional liberties and 
constitutional rights from American citizens carte blanche ...  and yet it 
defends the notion that suspected terrorists should be allowed to arm 
themselves. 

Unreal.  Absolutely Mad Hatter Alice down the Rabbit Hole Humpty Dumpty 
Jabberwocky unreal.  Surreal.  Impossible to believe.

Julie Krueger


On 5/5/07, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> My favourite bit: 
>
> '"As many of our friends in law enforcement have rightly pointed out, the
> word 'suspect' has no legal meaning, particularly when it comes to denying
> constitutional liberties," NRA executive director Chris Cox wrote.' 

Mr. Cox said that he would immediately begin a campaign to have the prison
at Guantanamo Bay shut down.

Robert Paul


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