Max, you worthless turd! Its not a privilege, its a God-given RIGHT which your authoritarian little derriere cannot interfere with.
"The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed."
There's no wiggle room there, Maxie.
Posted on 04/04/2011 6:06:40 PM PDT by John Semmens
Gun enthusiast Stanley Sokolowski is facing a possible prison term for what Lowell, Massachusetts police are calling “possession of terrorist paraphernalia.” The charges stem from an incident in which Sokolowski’s home was burglarized and his gun collection stolen. In addition to owning a number of firearms, Sokolowski also loaded his own ammunition. This means that he had gunpowder, shell casings, and shot that he personally assembled into the bullets used in his assorted weapons.
“We’re not saying a person can’t own a weapon,” said Lowell Police Department Spokesman Max Cretan. “But this privilege must be weighed against the state’s need to control access to firearms. So, when a person goes overboard like this we see it as a potentially serious threat to peace and order.”
Cretan was unmoved by the prospect that Sokolowski could spend more time behind bars than the guy who robbed him. “A burglar is your common, garden variety criminal,” Cretan observed. “We deal with this kind of problem every day. Sokolowski, on the other hand, is a greater threat. He has dangerous knowledge. And with the equipment he had he could easily assemble bombs. Making bombs is a terrorist activity. Having the means to make bombs is possession of terrorist paraphernalia. That’s against the law.”
In case a jury doesn’t concur in the charges leveled by the Lowell Police Department, they have taken the precaution of revoking Sokolowski’s gun permit “because this is something we can do on our own authority,” Cretan said. “We don’t have to get a judge or jury’s okay to take this step for public safety.”
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/dems-to-play-hard-ball-on-government-shutdown/
LOL! Had me going ‘til the third paragraph!
Scary satire = scaretire
Ha, I looked at the header before sounding off, you didn’t get me this time. Satire! and a good one too.
How generous of you. Especially since the Constitution says we can. Overboard? Are you kidding me?
Cretan was unmoved by the prospect that Sokolowski could spend more time behind bars than the guy who robbed him. “A burglar is your common, garden variety criminal,” Cretan observed. “We deal with this kind of problem every day. Sokolowski, on the other hand, is a greater threat. He has dangerous knowledge. And with the equipment he had he could easily assemble bombs. Making bombs is a terrorist activity. Having the means to make bombs is possession of terrorist paraphernalia. That’s against the law.”
You know, I have a feeling that the Balkanized, tread upon average American is going to have to take back our rights by force. Pray for peace, but be vigilant.
Indeed. I hear you.
..darn it, satire got me again...
Me also. Except for the troubling fact that this satire is pretty realistic.
Another hoax called satire.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2697647/posts
Troubling that it is a real story.
Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. Nachum posts good articles.
I had contact with various LE numerous times and I didn't know that you couldn't have specific "things" up there. *They didn't know I had them either.
We are on a collision course with power-hungry evil people. At this point I don’t care if I’m on some “list”. I really don’t. I refuse to live in fear in the America I love.
Cretan needs to be exported to North Korea at the earliest possible moment!
It’s very telling that so many people believe this could easily happen in Obama’s America even though we now know that the article is satire.
So all chemists, anyone who took chemistry in high school or college before those classes consisted ENTIRELY of condom instruction and sensitivity training, and anyone who has one of those old books on "how to make 1000 things for use at your house from common chemicals" is now under preemptive arrest for thought crimes?
This is one of those thin-edge-of-the-wedge type situations where they pass some law expanding government power for what sounds like a good reason (as if any reason for expanding government power could ever sound good), then it gets used exclusively for purposes no one would have accepted when they were legislating it.
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