Senate Weighs Farm Aid vs. Green-napping
(Still missing the gun rights connection?)
by John G. Lankford
nblankford@webtv.net
August 1, 2001
The Senate is now debating whether to pass an austere and legitimate farm aid bill or adopt a rival version funding a cornucopia of Green-napping ploys.
The House has sent over the legitimate bill, HR 2213. The Green-napping measure, S 1246, particularly its Titles II and V, is the original version of the House bill, as it appeared before it underwent extensive liposuction in committee.
Gun rights defenders instinctively saw the intimate association between those and property rights when the
Klamath Falls incident erupted, if not before.
Defeat of S 1246 and adoption of HR 2213 in the Senate is of similar, and probably greater, import.
The text of HR 2213 is available from http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2213:. The sectional index to the much fatter S 1246 is at
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:S.1246:.
Should the Senate adopt the Green-napping version, the two will go to reconciliation. In that case, Representatives as well as Senators need to know their constituents' opinions.
The Internet has wrought a transformation of our government from a delegatory to a participatory one. Since then, Internet freedom defenders and Second Amendment defenders have proven message cascades can outweigh the
influence of the old-fashioned interest-group lobbies Greens and other collectivists typically rely on.
It is now needful the point be proved again.
