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Tancredo and the Gun Control Holocaust
By L. Neil Smith
lneil@ezlink.com
What do Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, District Attorney Bill
Ritter, U.S. Attorney for Colorado Tom Strickland, professional
Columbine victim Tom Mauser, and victim disarmament poster boy James
Brady have in common? They'd all rather see a woman raped in an alley
and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her
hand.
Now add to their number:
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne "Pepe"
LaPierre, nicknamed for the Warner Brothers cartoon character he most
resembles.
Colorado Republican Congressmen Tom Tancredo, self-proclaimed
conservative and former president of the highly vaunted Independence
Institute.
Each appearing more eager than the other to approve the systematic
slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent individuals (millions,
worldwide) by illegally denying them the means of self-defense -- we
call it here by its right name, the Gun Control Holocaust -- these
right-wing socialists joined their left-wing mirror images Monday,
March 6, in Denver, to speak before an audience of 100 in support of
Project Exile, which targets gun-law violators for "more aggressive
prosecution."
There are two catches to this.
First, everyone who doesn't keep his head where the sun doesn't
shine knows what "more aggressive prosecution" means since Ruby Ridge
and Waco. Tom, Wayne, pull your heads out for a minute and pay
attention.
It means having your door smashed in at 4 AM by screaming animals
in ski masks, black Kevlar, and Nazi helmets, being dragged from bed,
beaten, cursed, spat upon, thrown to the floor, kicked, your arms
wrenched behind your back and saw-toothed manacles ratcheted around
your wrists. It means seeing your wife groped and dishonored, your
children terrorized, your pets stamped to death under jackbooted feet
as the thugs laugh at their pain and your dismay. It means watching
your prescription medicines spilled out on the floor and crushed
underfoot while the muzzles of machineguns are pressed against your
head.
That's just for starters. Once they discover they've come to the
wrong address or that you and your lawyer plan to fight back, they
plant "evidence", engage in "charge stacking", where you're accused of
the same crime reworded a dozen different ways, so you're grateful to
have the charges reduced to only one or two trumped-up offenses. They
let an ambitious prosecutor maliciously misinterpret everything you've
ever said or done or owned, while a judge who's actually part of the
prosecution team and a jury preselected to find you guilty sit and
watch.
That's what's meant by "more aggressive prosecution", Wayne and
Tom. But you knew that, didn't you? Okay, you can put your heads back
now.
The second catch is that to be allowed by the left-wing socialists
to participate, the Republicans had to enthusiastically support more
aggressive prosecution of gun laws -- including those NRA-championed
background checks that constitute a wholly illegal prior restraint on
an unalienable right -- that they know perfectly well are blatantly
unconstitutional.
So much for Tom's oath of office.
LaPierre's traitorous presence at this event -- preceded by years
of fascist lies and treacherous behavior -- should come as a surprise
to absolutely no one. "Pepe" has always been a moral coward and a
strategic and tactical dunce whose apparent early radicalism was only
a masquerade adopted to unseat his rivals for power within a hierarchy
already hell-bent on making the NRA the world's largest gun control
organization.
Over the past few years, however, probably emboldened by late
Republican National Chairman Lee Atwater (who loudly declared that the
GOP could do anything it wanted to gun owners because "where else can
they go?"), more and more Republicans have joined the international
movement for victim disarmament, including former Presidents Richard
Nixon and George Bush, New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman,
Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, former presidential candidate
John McCain, Colorado Governor Bill Owens, and Colorado Senator Wayne
Allard.
And now, Tom Tancredo.
But listen up again, Tom. (Wayne, as we know, is morally deaf, so
there isn't any point in addressing him further.) No distinction can
be drawn (because none exists) between the Gun Control Holocaust
you support and the deliberate starvation of 20,000,000 Kulaks by
Stalin, the hideous crimes against 2,000,000 by Pol Pot in Cambodia,
the massacre of 50,000,000 "landlords" -- basically anybody who was
literate -- in Mao's China, or what Hitler inflicted upon 13,000,000
Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others he didn't care for in Nazi
Germany.
Each and every one of them was up there Monday on that stage with
Webb, Ritter, Strickland, Brady, and Mauser: Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and
Hitler, cheering their inheritors from beyond their well-deserved
graves.
As for the collectivist Republican trash that were seen publicly
with them, the fact is if they were on fire, not one of the Founding
Fathers would cross the street to piss them out. They're a disgrace to
the Bill of Rights and to the nation from which they extract their
obscenely bloated salaries. The idea that, even if we manage in the
future to rid ourselves of their barnyard "services", we'll have to go
on paying them a pension that will make them millionaires, is just
repulsive.
At first you're filled with outrage. In the end, you simply shrug
your shoulders, sadly resigned to having had your cynicism confirmed
again.
Of course they count on that.
More to come ...
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