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“Michael Bloomberg, the ruthless
Wall-Streeter billionaire, is a bully of the worst sort.
If he is not exposed, he will grind away the very constitutional
structure upon which all our Freedoms rest.
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With Nancy Pelosi taking
over as Speaker of the House, and Senator Charles Schumer’s
powerful influence on the U.S. Senate, combined with the fact that
many leadership positions in Congress are filled with the who’s
who of the gun-ban crowd, NRA members must be prepared for a long
series of defensive battles in the coming two years.
Although we keep hearing that key Democratic
strategists want to stay clear of “gun control” in hopes
of capturing the White House in ‘08, we must prepare for the
worst. For the worst could be Democrat-turned-Republican Michael
Bloomberg — New York’s billionaire mayor who is leading
a clique of big city and urban state gun-ban politicians who will
not allow the gun-ban issue to remain dormant for long.
Bloomberg, the ultimate politician, switched
parties as a convenience and as a newly minted Republican spent
more than $150 million of his personal fortune to buy the office
in two successive campaigns.
The mayor is saying the federal gun law
changes he is pushing, like reversing the federal law which bans
lawsuits designed to bankrupt American gun manufacturers, is not
“gun control.” According to Virginia Lam, Bloomberg’s
deputy press secretary, quoted in the December 8, 2006 Brattleboro,
Vermont, Guardian: “He [Bloomberg] has no quarrel with the
Second Amendment.”
Gun banners like Bloomberg who publicly
embrace the Second Amendment are illusionists, really claiming allegiance
to their version of the Second Amendment. They reject any notion
that the Second Amendment is an individual right secured to the
people.
Lam continued, “He does not wish to
restrict anyone from buying a legal, licensed handgun or rifle and
has never advocated to pass additional federal laws that would be
viewed as being gun control.”
Since when are “licensed” firearms
not “viewed as being gun control?”
She goes on to say that among the changes on Bloomberg’s wish
list is rescinding the Congressional ban on the release of federal
firearm tracing data in order to “pinpoint previous owners
… .” That hard-fought, NRA-backed law stopped improper
release of law enforcement information as the basis of big city
lawsuits to destroy the firearm industry.
Not “viewed as being gun control,”
“tracing” and “pinpoint previous owners”
are all code words for universal gun-owner registration, the very
means essential for tyrants worldwide to disarm civilians.
In addition, the paper said, “Bloomberg’s
initiative is aimed largely at trying to get Washington to consider
overturning federal laws enacted in the past six years … .”
That means undoing every piece of pro-second
Amendment legislation you and I worked so hard to bring into law.
That means rescinding the protection for manufacturers and dealers
against endless punitive lawsuits, reinstituting the Clinton gun
ban, giving abusive power to federal bureaucrats and making private
sales between law-abiding individuals a crime.
In all of this, Bloomberg is using his continued
lawsuits—in violation of
the federal ban—to get huge media attention, all under the
big lie of “stopping the flow of illegal guns.”
With billionaire Bloomberg, we’re
not only talking about suits against large industry elements who
have lawyers on call. These are legal actions to overwhelm mom and
pop gun stores run by ordinary people unable to endure years of
legal battles in a far-away court in New York.
Many small dealers have already caved in
and agreed to terms dictated by Brooklyn, New York U.S. District
Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who has ordered the appointment of
a “master” to supervise every aspect of these small
private businesses located in other states.
So, we have federally licensed small businesses
in states like Pennsylvania or Ohio or Georgia being extorted by
a so-called “progressive” federal court in Brooklyn
to agree to extra-legal draconian oversight by an inquisitor personally
appointed by the mayor of New York.
That inquisitor, a New York City-paid contractor,
has specific court-bestowed power to videotape every gun store customer;
to rummage through all records for any reason, at any time; to request
traces on every gun sold by a dealer; and to unilaterally fine “without
limitation” the gun store owner for any infraction of any
federal, state “or local law or regulation.”
The “master” chosen by Bloomberg
to control this big-brother oversight is the former prosecutor who
headed the Enron federal task force, super lawyer Andrew Weissman,
now a partner with the Chicago firm representing the Violence Policy
Center (VPC).
This is the ultimate example of the tyranny
of the federal judiciary. The most anti-gun Congress imaginable
would not enact a law that gave government agents the power to videotape
the ordinary private business transactions and conversations of
law-abiding citizens. But Jack B. Weinstein has done it with the
stroke of his imperial pen.
With an unquestioning media in tow, Bloomberg
claims New York City’s supervision of businesses in other
states is necessary because as federal firearms license holders,
they have been “irresponsible.” Guns they once sold
lawfully have turned up illegally in New York.
It doesn’t take any crystal ball to
see what is next in this scheme: urban gun-ban politicians using
the federal courts to go after “irresponsible individuals.”
If Michael Bloomberg, or any one of his
group of 122-plus big city mayor-politicians, can use the federal
courts to inject his personal anti-Second Amendment philosophy into
the daily conduct of small business, he might try to do the same
in your life. If you are a gun collector in Idaho, or Arizona or
Florida or Michigan, he can claim to the likes of a Judge Weinstein
that you need their big-city supervision.
If you ever owned a gun that ended up—totally
beyond your control, perhaps stolen—in criminal commerce in
say, Seattle or Atlanta or Chicago, a Judge Weinstein in Brooklyn
or Los Angeles might just bring the gavel down on your way of life,
no matter where you live.
Ask yourself why a super lawyer like Weissman,
the Enron giant-killer, would bother monitoring a little mom and
pop sporting good store in Georgia? Why is this on a par with the
biggest Wall Street scandal of all time?
Bloomberg’s use of the courts to inject New York authority
into Georgia or Mississippi or any other state under the color of
court-created federal edict is the beginning of the death of the
sovereignty of state governments—the death of federalism.
When Bloomberg or U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer
and their media enablers tell the big lie that states with “weak
gun control laws” (read freedom) contribute to crime in states
with “strong laws” (read tyranny), they have found a
way to bring their law to your doorstep, wherever you live.
But this isn’t just about guns. Under
the concept invented by Bloomberg and Weinstein, a “master”
could be appointed to enforce any court-created law no Congress
would ever enact.
Add to this something else about Bloomberg’s
big move—personal ambition. In his effort to garner support
for his court-ordered gun control, he is gathering huge support
from the gun ban elites and media for his yet unannounced run for
the presidency—an office he coyly boasted he would pay for
with his own funds, like he did in New York City elections. He was
quoted in New Republic as saying, “I could easily put up half
a billion.” The magazine pointed out that such a figure was
“over one-third higher than the Bush campaign’s spending
in 2004.”
Michael Bloomberg, the ruthless Wall-Streeter
billionaire, is a bully of the worst sort. If he is not exposed,
he will grind away the very constitutional structure upon which
all our Freedoms rest. |
