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May 24, 2001
One-Term George, Take Two!
by L. Neil Smith
[email protected]Exclusive to The Libertarian Enterprise
http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/
I got a message the other day with the subject, "W. Wimps Out". It seems
that despite election results and other events that would push a brighter
individual the opposite way, Republican President George Bush is about to
give the victim disarmament industry several things they want.
I don't know why this should come as a surprise to anybody. When Bush
visited my home state, Colorado, during the recent campaign, he stood beside
Socialist ... er, Republican Bill Owens, a particularly odious specimen
dubbed "Governor Gungrabber" by anyone who cares about the Second Amendment
in this state, declaring that he supports Owens' antigun legislative agenda,
which includes shutting down gun shows, registering (maybe even banning)
private sales between individuals, and forcing gun owners to lock their
weapons up where they won't pose a threat to his moral and spiritual kin,
the muggers, rapists, and burglars.
Even that wasn't much of a surprise. Bush had pushed nearly the same agenda
in his home state, although certain gun activists -- those who've lost the
point of the Second Amendment and thrown their lot in with the National
Rifle Association and its openly illegal bonnet-bees Project Exile and
instant background checks -- didn't want to discuss it. They preferred to
crow about the Texas governor's enthusiasm for licensed concealed carry,
believing (or at least claiming) that it's a pro-gun measure. It is not.
It's precisely the same idea as New York's infamous Sullivan Act, one of the
first victim disarmament laws in US history.
Not only does such a law create a public registry of gun owners -- and often
their guns -- it collects photographs, fingerprints, and Social Security
numbers, and forces gun owners to undergo intolerable physical and
psychiatric probing, not to mention hours of expensive statist
indoctrination at their own expense, a point hardly lost on certain
bloodsucking mercantilists wetting their camouflaged pants in anticipation
of being able to furnish said indoctrination for a hefty fee.
"Ah," said Huey Long, "but we will call it anti fascism."
Almost 30 years ago, the great libertarian writer and lecturer Robert
LeFevre showed me the real nature and function of Republicans. They're
Socialist Party "B". Whenever you get turned off by the vomitous cannibalism
of the Democrats, and determined to resist, in charges the second string to
finish their work for them, calming you down, helping you adjust, making you
feel grateful you're about to be mugged, raped, and robbed by "goodguys"
instead of those despicable "badguys".