Seems like a couple of asshole socialist Congressmen [redundancy alert] from (duh) Massachusetts and Maryland are going to try to subvert the Constitution by… banning militias?
Never mind that militias are specifically protected by the U.S. Constitution, and defined and entrenched in the U.S. Code as well. Those are, to the would-be totalitarians like Markey and that other tool, just inconveniences to be brushed aside. Here’s a choice bit:
“Patrolling neighborhoods, impeding law enforcement and storming the U.S. Capitol, private paramilitary groups like the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys are using political violence to intimidate our people and threaten democratic government and the rule of law.”
Wait… the Oathies, Threepers and Proud Boys are paramilitary organizations now? Here’s what they’re talking about:
The legislation creates different tiers of criminal penalties based on whether violations result in injury or property damage; provides harsher penalties for repeat offenders; and allows for a probationary sentence for first-time offenders. It also creates civil remedies by authorizing the Department of Justice to seek injunctive relief against paramilitary activity, and by creating a private right of action for individuals harmed by paramilitary activity to seek injunctive relief and/or damages.
I’m curious as to how these Commie legislators are going to sidestep Antifa and BLM, who are paramilitary groups: uniforms, command structure, multi-state organization, very prone to violence and even at times, armed — and who routinely perpetrate actions that “result in injury or property damage”. Will they be scooped up by this proposed legislation, do you think? (Okay, you can stop that bitter laughter now.)
Whatever. None of what these politicians are talking about in their little extra-Constitutional exercise should be supported, and I can only hope that it won’t be, even by RINO twerps like Susan Collins and her ilk. But I fear for the worst. Why?
Because, you see, this is what happens when one side of the aisle demonizes the other side successfully*: all sorts of mischief can ensue as long as “public safety” can be trumpeted as the excuse, even when — as in the case of the three inept “rightwing” organizations cited above — there is absolutely no circumstance or rationale under which they would behave in the manner feared.
Of course, the Left and their foot soldiers will be exempted and excused because MAGA… but you all knew that.
Range time? I think so. And I’m not a member of any organization such as the above. But I am part of what can be described as the “citizen militia”, and unashamedly so.
*Here’s the international equivalent of demonizing (and eventually) criminalizing the opposition:
(link in headline)
Does everyone see the parallels, or do I have to spell them out?
Guess what?
Their shitty constitution has nothing to do with me.
My NATURAL rights were pre-existing any “goddam piece of paper” and inviolate and there’s not a goddam thing they can do about it.
Further, their shitty constitution is all about restrictions on them, which they seem oblivious of.
Any motion by them, to infringe on my pre-existing and inviolate natural rights is an instant violation of their oath to their shitty constitution and therefore may be penalized by caging and forfeiture or death.
They are drunk with arrogance and conceit.
Do it.
Let’s get the case in front of the SCOTUS, where we can argue that since both guns and militias are enumerated rights, the government not only has a duty to supply the equipment but also supply us with training and intelligence data.
Hay ….That’s my Senator you’re referring to. …. Or as he’s commonly referred to here — ” Mr Frosty ” since his ONLY experience in the private sector was as the proprietor of a children’s Ice cream truck with a bell that rang as he drove down the street. All the rest of the time he has been on the public payroll. He’s the living proof that here in Mass Politicians fail upwards since he started as a state rep. How he continues to be re-elected is a total mystery. Well, maybe not – this is Massachusetts after all.
Supposedly he is a lawyer so you would think he would know this is unconstitutional. But that’s never stopped them before and he is a BC Law Grad so maybe he doesn’t know.
It’s not that they don’t know — it’s that they don’t CARE.
Markey makes our other senator, Lie-a-watha, look like a rocket scientist. So, in his case, it’s a tossup. But yes, they don’t care and they only call in that dusty old document when they think it supports their point of view. Case in point, only looking at section 3 of the 14th and ignoring all the other sections.
Markey and his co-conspirator are nothing more than unprosecuted oxygen thieves.
JQ
Democrats abhor the US Constitution. They also abhor our natural rights and our civil rights. We need to bring back Air Pinochet.
JQ