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Submitted to the Denver Post Op-Ed Page
I may just have listened to my last Ken Hamblin radio broadcast. What
finally did it was an acutely embarrassing interview he conducted on
March 15th with Aurora police chief Jim Everitt.
Hamblin, an increasingly well-known black neo-conservative newspaper
columnist and talk-show host, wanted to know certain details of
Everitt's policy regarding the issuance of permits for concealed
weapons. It became clear immediately that Everitt hasn't any
policy, and that he was reluctant to describe his practices -- a very
different thing from a policy -- on the air. And to that extent,
Hamblin's interview was good, solid journalism.
Unfortunately, it deteriorated after that.
Everitt's answers to Hamblin's questions didn't differ in any material
way from those of Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan to state
senator Bill Owen who'd filled in for Hamblin on the previous Friday.
Sullivan's lying assertions were both patronizing and fascistic --
which Hamblin correctly pointed out the following Monday as he played
snippets of a conversation that, in a rational world, would not only
prevent Sullivan from being re-elected, but earn him a seat in a big
glass box like Adolph Eichmann's.
Yet, instead of launching into a righteous diatribe at Everitt as the
self-styled "Black Avenger" had over Sullivan's arrogant remarks,
or hanging up on the misbegotten bureaucrat as he deserved, Hamblin
displayed three qualities which have nearly made me quit listening
before and which have probably done it for real this time.
The first is sloppy thinking of a variety Hamblin won't tolerate in
those he calls "egg-sucking dog liberals". Everitt conceded that he
might possibly condescend to grant his godlike permission to someone
he believed was in danger, but that he didn't "feel like" it was good
for society if everybody carried a gun.
We might argue with Everitt about several points here, but this is
an example of what I mean when I say it's past time to debate on its
merits the natural, fundamental, inalienable human, individual, civil,
and Constitutional right of every man, woman, and responsible child
to obtain, own, and carry weapons any time, anywhere, without asking
anyone's permission -- and get on with jailing public servants who
make it their business to obstruct it.
Hamblin -- while grumbling over Everitt's Sullivanesque statement that
we may freely carry guns wherever and whenever it will do us the least
good, subject only to municipal abrogation and minor police harrassment
-- cordially let the "feel like" part of Everitt's answer pass because
of his formulaic "might possibly condescend", overlooking the fact
that Everitt's benevolant dictatorly concession would have done
nothing for the woman whose life wasn't in danger ten seconds before
she tried to help murder victim Rhonda Maloney, and who therefore
wouldn't have qualified under Generalissimo Everitt's regime for
permission to carry the means of self-defense in the manner of her
choice.
Which brings us to quality number two, Hamblin's inability to recall
from moment to moment what the Bill of Rights provides -- and
that what Everitt or any politician may "feel like" with regard to
individual rights is irrelevant. The Constitution does not say "the
privilege of some people to be licensed to carry state-approved
weapons in a state-approved way shall only be infringed when public
officials 'feel like' it might be a good idea". Maybe Hamblin studied
the Canadian constitution by mistake.
But that brings us to quality number three -- probably the source of
Hamblin's other bad qualities -- his habit of sucking up (sorry, there
isn't any other term for it) to the police and the military, the very
people the Second Amendment was written to protect us from. Having
had his -- and our -- rights ground underfoot by this badge-heavy
Aurora goon, having failed to stand up for them or us, Hamblin made it
totally disgusting by moistly fawning all over the semiliterate thug
for his "gang policy".
I don't have time for this.
I don't have time for anything but the absolute, unimpeded exercise of
my rights. That's why I oppose any form of licensed carry: WE DON'T
NEED NO STINKING LICENSES! And I don't have any time to waste on
philosophical wimps and wussy neo-cons who lick the enemy's jackboots
and give the game away just when we're beginning to win -- because
they can't resist a guy in uniform.
My home on the web, The Webley Page: www.webleyweb.com/lneil/
My e-zine The Libertarian Enterprise: www.webleyweb.com/tle/
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