Call it "the Tyrannical Two-Fer":
Commonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department, amounting to a “gag order on firearm-related speech,” the National Rifle Association is warning.
In updating regulations governing international arms sales, State is demanding that anyone who puts technical details about arms and ammo on the web first get the OK from the federal government — or face a fine of up to $1 million and twenty years in jail.
According to the NRA, that would include blogs and web forums discussing technical details of common guns and ammunition, the type of info gun owners and ammo re-loaders trade all the time.
“Gunsmiths, manufacturers, reloaders, and do-it-yourselfers could all find themselves muzzled under the rule and unable to distribute or obtain the information they rely on to conduct these activities,” said the NRA in a blog posting.
“This latest regulatory assault, published in the June 3rd issue of the Federal Register, is as much an affront to the First Amendment as it is to the Second,” warned the NRA’s lobbying shop. “Your action is urgently needed to ensure that online blogs, videos, and web forums devoted to the technical aspects of firearms and ammunition do not become subject to prior review by State Department bureaucrats before they can be published,” it added. [emphases added]
Hysterical alarmism? Well, there are a lot of "the NRA warns" and "coulds" in there, and the State Commissariat hasn't explicitly said that they would apply their proposed regs so....opportunistically.
But then, they wouldn't be transparent about it, now would they? And they've got a pretty good fig leaf in "international arms sales" - nobody wants to see jihadists get their hands on more arms, now do they? Other than Barack Obama, of course.
However, jihadists are not his enemies. "Bitter clingers," on the other hand...:
The result is that the Obama administration is going to assault the First Amendment in order to undermine the Second. Once again the bureaucratic regulatory state has reared its ugly head, developed a rule and posted it to the Federal Regist[er] without the consent and knowledge of the American people, nor their Representatives. This is yet another means by which the Obama administration — aka, the liberal [communist] left, is seeking to infringe upon the right of the people to keep and bear arms....
Now of course the Obama defenders will say, "What does this have to do with infringing on the right to keep and bear arms — much ado about nothing." But here is the objective: The government is seeking to restrict the free speech of American gun owners and the gun industry in sharing information pertaining to their ability to keep arms. Furthermore, the government is using regulatory coercion and threat of imprisonment to create behavior modification — not exactly a positive reflection on our governing system.
Actually, Colonel West, the problem is not our "governing system," but what We, The People have allowed to be done to it by way of "our" ignorant, foolish voting.
In addition, the Obama administration is seeking to surrender U.S. constitutional gun ownership rights to international code — a violation of the sovereignty of our republic.
What republic?
It’s just another attempt to chip away at our liberty by circumventing the legislative process and our rule of law. THAT is why this matters.
What liberty?
We’re entering that dangerous area of critical mass where America has an executive branch and a president who in their final eighteen months together will complete their fundamental transformation — by any means necessary.
What "final"? I guarantee you, Colonel, if O has this much contempt for the First and Second Amendments, he won't have any more fealty to the Twenty-Second.
But then, I suppose it's always a matter of what "the liberal [communist] left" thinks it can get away with. An "Overton window" that seems infinitely elastic, but something on which they have enjoyed little success when it comes to gun confiscation. Hence, the fig leaves, the "much ado about nothing," and quietly disemboweling Amendments I and II by means of another savage beating of Article I, Section 1.
Which makes it all the more intriguing that Colonel West broaches the topic of mass civil disobedience. That's become a recurring theme of a growing number of Americans as we, not drift, but hurtle towards the metaphorical "falls". Is that haste a result of, as it is written in Revelation 12:12, "the devil [coming] down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time”? Or is it simply sheer ideological fanaticism and an impatience to drag the country over that finish line?
We'll find out in 591 days.
The civil disobedience will need to kick off a lot sooner.
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