Posted on 08/27/2013 8:31:30 AM PDT by Shout Bits
Post Zimmerman acquittal, AG Holder more than hinted his department was searching for ways to further prosecute the shooter. The problem with such 'hate crimes' laws is that their systematic application applies in reverse more often than the way Holder wishes; black on white hate crimes are most common. Leftists understand this unwelcome fact is inoperative; hate crime laws are actually political tools. An even handed approach to civil rights might look very different from the DOJ that let New Black Panther voter intimidation slide. What would the Justice Department do if it were honestly seeking to enfranchise those whose Constitutional rights are denied? Sue states like Illinois, New York, and Colorado.
By far, the largest body of Citizens denied the exercise of their Constitutional rights are residents of states that violate the Second Amendment. While leftists cannot point to a single instance of voter disenfranchisement, tens of millions of Citizens may not keep and bear arms as is their natural and Constitutional right. The wording is crystal clear, "the right to keep and bear arms" is a stand-alone right not tied to other considerations, much like "the right of the people to peaceably assemble." These rights preexisted the Constitution and are universal to everyone on the planet. Despite this, nobody at the DOJ, whether under Holder or any other AG seems to care.
Leftist politicians openly state their intention is to prevent gun ownership. Imagine if Mayor Bloomberg said he was against peaceful assembly or free speech – he would be sued by the DOJ by sundown. Yet in many states run by leftist pols, this equal right is suppressed and denied. In Colorado, nearly every modern pistol is now illegal (the CO AG has issued guidance not to enforce this law, but it can be reversed any time in the future). Chicago aldermen have fought second amendment rights as if their lives depended on it, losing case after case in court while delaying rights and inventing new roadblocks (all the while overseeing the US's murder capital). NY Gov. Cuomo signed the worst anti-rights law in the nation that bans nearly any meaningful practice of Second Amendment Rights. These Democrats are overseeing today's Jim Crow.
The real civil rights travesty is not requiring voters to show ID, it is the institutionalized denial of Second Amendment rights. If voting rights were suppressed as are gun rights, there would be blood in the streets. The DOJ has a legal responsibility to sue those jurisdictions that are denying individual rights as defined in the Constitution and as affirmed by the Supreme Court, yet the notion of suing CO Gov. Hickenlooper for his treason is not even on the table.
The largest and clearest denial of civil rights are capricious and arbitrary gun bans. Needless to say, Holder's DOJ will never even consider action. Someday when an AG that claims to care about the Constitution is nominated, like-minded Senators should ask his plan to defend the fundamental civil liberties instead of the politically expedient ones.
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Looks like Holder is using ‘hate crimes’ him self.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and will bash in the heads of the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. and get no approbation from the President or their community.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice EBT cards and bastard babies.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but and not by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. and beat them to a pulp on school buses.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley politician shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low exactly the same height by law, the rough places will be made plain like Detroit, and the crooked places will be made straight like Chicago, and the glory of the Lord The One shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Sons Of Barack's!
We need a means of forcing an AG to adhere to and strictly enforce the constitution. Its one of the things I like about Michigan AG Bill Schuette. He stands by the state constitution whether he likes it or not.
If voting rights were suppressed as are gun rights, there would be blood in the streets.
I agree whole-heartedly in principle; most unfortunately, there's no such thing as "gun rights." We have a right to keep and bear arms. We have a right to self-defense. Guns, by contrast, have no rights.
You are correct by semantics. Obviously I was discussing natural and Constitutional rights to self-defense.
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