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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Now let me get this straight
Posted by Jill | 7:01 AM

If I go to the library and take out a bunch of books about terrorist attacks and Islam, then go to Amazon.com and buy a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook; or order a copy of The Loompanics Catalog, I might find the Feds at my doorstop, and then find myself with Jose Padilla as a daily dining companion.

But if I'm a REAL terrorist and want to buy a gun, that's A-OK:

he good news for Americans concerned about post-9/11 preparedness is that 58 potential gun buyers were flagged in a nine-month period last year as positive matches on a federal watch list of terrorism suspects. The bad news is that 47 of them were cleared to go ahead anyway and buy assault rifles, ammunition or whatever else was on their firearms shopping list. Federal agents could only watch as the crazy quilt of loopholes that passes for gun control in this country enabled dozens of suspects to stock their personal or group armories.

Welcome to the new world of homeland security, where all the national resolve to be alert is clearly butting into the citizenry's near-almighty right to bear arms.

Warnings about terror suspects' easy access to combat rifles grew after 9/11 when it was disclosed that John Ashcroft, a gun rights zealot who was attorney general at the time, had blocked federal agents from matching gun-purchase records against the growing list of thousands of terror suspects. The privacy rights of innocent gun purchasers were deemed paramount in the national emergency. The policy was theoretically reversed, but federal agents complain that they are still stymied by laws and by officials dedicated to the most extreme agenda of the gun lobby.


Looks like the ONLY part of the Bill of Rights this Administration wants to retain is the second amendment.
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