House Bill Aims to Strip "Rightwing Extremists" of Second Amendment Right
*Kurt Nimmo
*Infowars
May 9, 2009
http://www.infowars.com/house-bill-aims-to-strip-rightwing-extremists-of-second-amendment-right/
A sinister bill working its way through the House may eventually serve as a
companion piece to the Department of Homeland Security's "Rightwing
Extremist" report<http://www.infowars.com/secret-dhs-doc-predicts-violence-in-response-to-new-gun-restrictions/>that
labels veterans and advocates of the Second Amendment as dangerous
terrorists - H.R. 2159, The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous
Terrorists Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Peter King of New York.
[image: featured stories House Bill Aims to Strip Rightwing Extremists of
Second Amendment Right] [image: Chan] The bill would "increase public
safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of a firearm
or the issuance of firearms or explosives licenses to a known or suspected
dangerous terrorist."
On April 29, with little fanfare or corporate media coverage, H.R. 2159 was
introduced and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The bill
would "increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the
transfer of a firearm or the issuance of firearms or explosives licenses to
a known or suspected dangerous terrorist." The entire
bill<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2159>can
be read on the Govtrack website.
A similar bill was introduced in the Senate in 2007 but did not make it out
of committee.
As noted above, the DHS has compiled a long list of folks the government
considers terrorists. The bill, if enacted, would allow the attorney
general, a documented gun-grabber, to deny millions of Americans due
process. "[Rep. King] would deny citizens their civil liberties based on no
due process," Larry
Pratt<http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97491>,
executive director of Gun Owners of America, tells WorldNetDaily.
Pratt worries that the new bill will be used in conjunction with the DHS
"Rightwing Extremism" report. "By those standards, I'm one of [DHS
Secretary] Janet Napolitano's terrorists," Pratt continues. "This bill would
enable the attorney general to put all of the people who voted against Obama
on no-gun lists, because according to the DHS, they're all potential
terrorists. Actually, we could rename this bill the Janet Napolitano
Frenzied Fantasy Implementation Act of 2009."
On May 1, 2009,
Infowars<http://www.infowars.com/dhs-extremist-lexicon-emerges/>reported
on the existence of another DHS document, the "Domestic Extremism
Lexicon." It adds more suspected terrorists to the government's list,
including people working in the alternative media, anarchists, pro-life
activists, skinheads, lone terrorists, members of the militia movement,
"decentralized" terrorists, and others.
The DHS reports were distributed to "federal, state, local, and tribal
counterterrorism and law enforcement officials so they may effectively
deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks against the United
States."
Earlier this week, a man was stopped in Louisiana and detained by police for
the crime of displaying a "Don't tread one me" bumper sticker on his car. A
background check was conducted to determine whether he was a member of an
"extremist" group, according to The American
Vision<http://www.infowars.com/man-detained-for-displaying-don%E2%80%99t-tread-on-me-bumper-sticker/>website.
"Don't tread on me" was originally displayed on a flag designed by
general and statesman Christopher Gadsden during the Revolutionary War. It
is depicted as a terrorist symbol in the DHS "Rightwing Extremist" report.
[image: featured stories House Bill Aims to Strip Rightwing Extremists of
Second Amendment Right] [image: featured stories House Bill Aims to Strip
Rightwing Extremists of Second Amendment Right] Stephen Halbrook,
Independent Institute Research Fellow and author of the book The Founders'
Second Amendment, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in
opposition to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder.
During Holder's shoo-in confirmation hearings earlier this year, Stephen
Halbrook, Second Amendment attorney, detailed Holder's vehement opposition
to the right to bear arms. Holder's role in the Waco massacre and Ruby Ridge
were expected to be brought up during the hearings but were not.
Shortly after 9/11, Holder penned a Washington Post op-ed entitled "Keeping
Guns Away From Terrorists."<http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=737982&postcount=1>In
the article, the future Attorney General argues that a new law should
give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm
sale." He also states that prospective gun buyers should be checked against
the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities. In order
to make his point, Holder makes the ludicrous hypothesis that Osama bin
Laden would be able to purchase an unregistered firearm at a gun show in
America.
The government now possesses the appropriate "watch lists" and has
designated specific categories of Americans as domestic terrorists. If H.R.
2159 becomes law the Obama administration and the Justice Department will go
after opponents to their far-reaching plan to disarm the nation and deliver
it defenseless into the clutches of bankers and corporatists determined to
reduce a once proud constitutional republic to the status of a fuedalist
backwater.
--
David Pearson
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