True motives behind Obama's gun 'control' stance
By George Green
From abroad I must note that when I was
last in America I could see the increasingly authoritarian executive
branch paying careless disregard to their oath to uphold the
Constitution. Thus I am hardly surprised that President Obama, who seems
to have to problem arming American soldiers to interfere with the
sovereignty of other nations, has decided to again extend executive
power, this time to ban and register firearms. The question is whether
he's doing this out of care for protecting schools or something else.
Recently there was a tragedy involving a
young man killing many school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School,
in New Town, Connecticut. This has been used as the so-called 'final
straw' requiring unprecedented intervention from the federal government,
and explicitly the administrative branch. The strange thing is though,
Connecticut itself already had similar laws to the ones prposed
including and assault weapons ban. If it didn't work in Connecticut why
is the administration proposing it for the whole nation? The chief of
police in Newtown was indeed shocked by the firepower the 20 year
assailant was packing, but if he didn't obtain it under the laws of
Connecticut, how is making it illegal elsewhere going to help?
Criminals and Crazy people will always
find a way to create violence; in lieu of assault rifles certainly
they'll take up fertilizer and coffee grinders to create bombs as
terrorists groups in nations with strict gun laws already have. Yet
there's no public outcry to ban gardening. Something else must be
compelling Obama, following in the steps of Hitler prior to his seize of
power, to go after firearms specifically, and the US amendment that was
specifically intended to allow the people to resist the government in
an armed struggle by founders who felt that another revolution could one
day be necessary. Perhaps Obama isn't worried at all about schools,
perhaps he smells revolution in the air.
For those who haven't been following
American news; the people are not happy. Two movements have emerged, the
so-call Tea Party, and the Occupy movement. The Tea Party movement has
held major rallies in cities across America gaining massive support but
with relatively no interference by the government. The Occupy movements,
seeking to directly protest the financial centers where grievances
against the American people have not been addressed and continue
unabated, have seen what can only be described as regular abuse of
authority by the police; while America accuses other nations, like
Russia, of taking a tough line on protests, when it comes to blocking
traffic on Wall Street America puts it's boot down hard.
The two groups largely disagree on what
should be done but they do agree on one point: The people in power
neither care about their issues, nor is the current government capable
of addressing their concerns; that may not yet be revolutionary talk but
it's getting close to revolutionary thinking. As Obama soon goes to his
inauguration, a multi-million dollar event with everything one would
expect to need for a rap album release party, he doesn't go with a
majority of the people. American voter turn out has been abysmal for
years and Americans go to polls far less than other first world
countries. Knowing he lacks the support of a majority of the country,
enjoying only the support of those not so disappointed with the system
that they bother, and that two growing movements identify Federal
Government as the problem; maybe we can see why Obama might be concerned
with guns. With revolution in the air the most logical thing for an
increasingly dictatorial leader to do is to dispense with laws designed
to allow for revolution when the government fails to do its job.
As further evidence I'll again point
out; the Obama administration has no real problem with assault weapons.
Obama himself is surrounded by them every day at public appearances, and
every soldier sent abroad is armed with them. Further his
administration arms rebels in attacks on governments it doesn't like.
Finally a recent program from the administration involved selling
assault weapons to drug dealers on the border of Mexico and the United
States (resulting already in numerous casualties in America, and in
Mexico) in was can only be described as an inept attempt to track drug
dealers. (Maybe they should try giving away Improved Explosives to
terrorists next?). Certainly the administration doesn't worry about
whether assault weapons proliferate they are worried about who has
access to them, and knows where they live.
Americans should be taking heed that the
administration has a very different plan for America than it says it
has abroad. Continually America has been funding revolutions, armed and
political, abroad, and arming rebels in many instances. Meanwhile at
home the humorously undemocratic two party system is making sure such a
revolution cannot take place in America regardless of the will of the
people. With the American military already conducting training to put
down an uprising within America, and the administration targeting the
Second Amendment, the reason is clear; America's elite career
politicians are worried. They're not doing the will of the people, the
people are catching on, and they're doing all they can to hang onto
power rather than do the will of the people. The new gun control laws
have nothing to do with schools, and everything to do with propping up a
failing state.
George Green
George Edward Green
III has been a journalist since 1997, and written for several
Technology, Financial, and Libertarian Publications, and lives near L'viv Ukraine
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