16 Dec 15
A little history:
âAnother significant development in the art of âverbal cleansingâ has been changing the names used to describe people who espouse government intervention in the economy and society, as most intellectuals tend to do. In the United Stares, such people changed their own designation more than once during the course of the Twentieth Century. At the beginning of that century, such people called themselves âProgressives.â However, by the 1920s, experience had led American voters to repudiate âprogressivismâ and to elect national governments with a very different philosophy throughout that entire decade. When the Great Depression of the 1930s again brought to power people with the government intervention philosophy, many of whom had served in the âprogressiveâ Woodrow Wilson Administration, they now changed their name to âliberals,â escaping the connotations of their earlier incarnation, much as people escape their financial debts through bankruptcy.
The long reign of âliberalismâ in the United States, which lasted, with few interruptions, from President Franklin D Rooseveltâs âNew Dealâ in the 1930s through President Lyndon B Johnsonâs âGreat Societyâ of the 1960s, ultimately ended with liberalism being so discredited that later presidential and other political candidates with long records of liberalism rejected that label or rejected labeling altogether as somehow misleading or unworthy. By the end of the Twentieth Century, many liberals began calling themselves âprogressives,â thus escaping the connotations which âliberalismâ had acquired over the years, but which connotations no longer applied to the word âprogressive,â which was from an era too far in the past for most people to associate any experience with that word.â
Sowell
The favorite passion of liberals/progressives, then and now, is their uninterrupted enthusiasm for interfering with our lives, and punishing all who object. Casual suspension of âdue processâ is their preferred tool! That is, arbitrarily punishing political opponents and critics, with no charges ever being filed, mostly without notification, ever claiming ânecessity.â
For example, today in the âliberal paradiseâ of NYS, gun-owners can have all their guns arbitrarily seized and hauled away, all with no notice, when:
(1) A ârestraining orderâ is merely requested by an any attorney, for any reason, whether actually granted or not.
(2) Any person serving in the âmedical fieldâ (never specified) says you are âmentally unfitâ (never defined) to possess arms. Such allegations need not be confirmed, nor corroborated.
(3) When an âanonymous partyâ says your conduct was in any way threatening, or even âinappropriateâ or âoffensiveâ (once more, terms are never defined). As always, such allegations are never investigated, nor corroborated.
Thus, with a stroke of a pen, an anonymous, inaccessible bureaucrat makes sure your Second Amendment Rights are permanently taken away from you, all without so much as a hearing (much less a trial), without any charges ever being filed against you, without notice. The so-called âappeal processâ is a cruel, interminable, expensive joke! And, once seized, youâll never get your guns back anyway, even with a court order. Theyâll either âloseâ them, or what you get back (years hence) will be a unrecognizable pile of rusted scrap.
The foregoing abuses occur in NYS daily!
NYâs cadre of liberals politicians know gun-owners donât vote for them anyway, so they can be thus arbitrarily âpunishedâ with little risk to political careers. Rights of citizens never even come up in the discussion!
On a national level, HRC laments endlessly that those on the mysterious âno-fly listâ can still legally buy guns.
No one even knows who maintains the âno-fly list,â who is on it, how one gets on it, nor how one gets off of it. There is no appeal process. It is a total mystery, completely arbitrary and utterly inaccessible. The perfect tool for abuse, and HRC is right there!
How long will it be before critics and political opponents of HRC all suddenly find themselves on this list, or another like it, permanently disenfranchised and defenseless, with nothing they can do about it?
This is the inherent danger when due process is suspended âfor the children,â âfor our safety,â ad nauseam. This is the tool liberals will use to ruthlessly to strip us of all our rights
Donât be deceived by self-righteous rhetoric. Liberals mean to rule! They always have, no matter what they call themselves.
“Find out just what the people will submit to and you will have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
Frederick Douglass
/John