We'll return to our unfolding Barack Obama series in due course, but for now, an update on the Eric Holder confirmation story is in order. That this civil liberties nightmare is intended as our next attorney general ought to scare all of us--enough to motivate our personal and sustained involvement in opposing him.As a quick aside, I went to Thesaurus.com looking for a suitable synonym to use in my title for this article, and I think you'll find some of the matches ironic. They remind me of an old version of WordPerfect that suggested "Schumer" was a mistake and offered "schemer" as the correct spelling.
I'd presented the testimony of Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook before Holder's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings a little over a week ago, including a transcript. I'm sure many of you didn't see that, so I'll make it easy for you. Got a few minutes?
Another key piece of information we need to review is the transcript of the hearings themselves, courtesy of The New York Times (Day One/Day Two).
Whoa! Look at all those pages! I don't have time to read all that!
Let me again facilitate (and this is by no means the only part you need to concern yourself with, just an instructive one):
HOLDER:...I think you had asked me earlier about the regulations that I thought might still exist, post-Heller. And I had mentioned, I think, closing the gun show loophole, the banning of cop-killer bullets and I also think that making the assault weapons ban permanent would be something that would be permitted under Heller, and I also think would be good for my law enforcement perspective.
COBURN: Thank you for your answers. It's not the one I wanted to hear, but thank you for the answer.
If nothing else, read the complete exchanges on both linked pages in their entirety.
Senator Coburn showed leadership in his questioning, and is showing a degree of further leadership in his objection to Holder's confirmation.
Coburn, R-Muskogee, said Eric Holder didn’t believe the Second Amendment granted the right to individuals to own guns. Holder signed a brief in the case decided by the Supreme Court last summer arguing that the right under the Second Amendment was a collective one, meant for state militias.
That's great, senator, and thank you, but being "likely to object" doesn't cut it. Because as the NewsOK article succinctly states, "Confirmation likely." You need to unequivocally and vocally object--and you need to actively recruit allies form both sides of the aisle who owe their privileged positions to gun owner votes. You need to put a hold on Holder.
The support from Martinez and the already-declared backing from Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, should give Holder the 60 votes necessary to avoid a filibuster, assuming all the current Democratic senators support him.
One could ask where is John McCain, or where are any of the senators endorsed and supported with NRA effort and treasure in their successful 2008 campaigns?
If the assumption is "all the current Democratic senators," what can we expect from our new shining "pro-gun Democrat" star? Or we might ask where our "true champion of Second Amendment freedoms" Max Baucus stands...or Tim Johnson...or...
Too bad they've been given a pass, and that a vote for Holder will not affect their NRA ratings.
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The wolves are at the door
Our friends at the Oregon Firearms Federation are urging gun owners in their state to oppose Eric Holder.
You should, too, regardless of your state. Here's where you can get your senator's contact information. And if you're going to beg off because your senator is anti-gun, I've got you covered--see the links below, particularly "How to hold Holder without using guns."
Time is running out. We need you to act now. Will you help?
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Comments
I would supplement what you wrote with the fact that we shouldn't have a liar as an attorney general. Why did none of the lawmakers who questioned him call him out on his propaganda- What "loophole"? Exercising our rights is a "loophole"? What is a "cop killer" bullet? There is no such thing. All firearms are weapons. Any bullet can kill. Martinez isn't running for reelection so I assume he just doesn't care. But Mr. Coburn was too nice.
I emailed David T. hardy about it.
Holder perjured himself and was in contempt of the Senate in doing so during the hearings.
Hardy's response this morning was:
"...problem is, if he perjures himself, who's going to prosecute him? He'll be atty general, all US Attys will be Demos, and the committee is majority Demo. And the Repubs are generally spineless anyway."
This guy is evil on so many issues. Surely others (outside of the "gun community") are also against him?
Note that a candidates stance on gun rights and freedom has very little to do with an NRA endorsement. The NRA needs to keep a scary crisis in the background so that they can hit the gun owners up for more money. Hence folks like McCain and Johnson, who are not all that pro gun, can earn and keep NRA "A" ratings if it looks like they'll get re-elected.
From David Codrea's Examiner.com column looking at Eric Holder's gun rights opposition.
Did I hear Stephen Halbrook use the phrase "We would hope for sympathy..." at the end of his statement?
It that the level to which we have been reduced? Hoping for Sympathy...from pro-gun types like Specter and Leahy?
Dear Lord! The Kimche is way deeper than I thought!
Ok so a gun can kill people even animals, do you think that is the only way to kill someone. A butter knife coud kill someone, drunk drivers kill people all the time, bare hands kill just as much. So are we going to have to have to be a certain age to get our hands untied. Guns are the least of this worlds problems. Thanks to guns I save at least $300.00 a year on food, are they going to do something about that?
Having been lied to numerous times by my own government(and party),I no longer believe a word that is told to me by them-any of them.
That is why I shall never register or especially turn in my firearms if I'm informed to do so.
I don't care if "it's safer for the children",or if some popular president encourages me to,or even if the supreme court rules unanimously to ban guns, I WON'T.
If the second ammendment falls,all the rest can go over like dominoes.
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