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Not many years ago, when you were in the Colorado legislature, I got
a letter from you saying there were already too many gun control laws
and that we ought to start repealing them, rather than passing more.
That was then, apparently, and this is now.
I heard you being interviewed on KOA radio this morning, and you had
something different to say. Like every other Colorado Republican
before you -- like that feckless buckethead Bill Armstrong and that
quivering bowl of moral spinelessness Hank Brown -- you've jettisoned
your principles (provided that you ever really had them in the first
place) and leaped to join the jackass chorus braying for the latest
trendy exercise in victim disarmament, closure of the "gun show
loophole".
That "loophole" (as you know perfectly well) is one of the last
remnants of the unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and
human right of every man, woman, and responsible child to obtain,
own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun,
handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without
asking anyone's permission.
A right that (as you know perfectly well) when it was respected and
enforced in the last century, effectively prevented crimes like the
recent one in Littleton, now being used as an excuse to tear up the
Constitution.
A right (as you know perfectly well) you're eagerly helping the most
evil presidential administration in the history of America to
destroy.
What is it with Republicans and Bill Clinton, anyway? The man is a
chronic, habitual, pathological liar. He's a rank vulgarian. He's an
adulterer. He's a blackmailer. He's a rapist. He's a traitor. He's a
war-mongering hypocrite. He's a mass-murderer, both domestically and
abroad.
Yet you chose to impeach him for the most trivial of these crimes and
even then failed to convict him, or to deter him from committing
more. And judging from your actions -- rather than your words -- you
actually adore him, as, sooner or later, each of you kneels publicly,
as you did on KOA this morning, Senator, to engulf the presidential
member.
But as usual, I digress.
For years I've warned the readers of my books and articles that the
two gangs in this country pretending to be politically opposed to one
another are actually "Socialist Party A", dedicated to the New Deal,
the welfare/warfare, cradle-to-grave nanny state, and the eventual
erasure of every last trace of individualism, and "Socialist Party
B", which only promises to do the whole thing more cheaply and
efficiently.
For years, I've held you out as an exception to the stupidity,
cowardice, and corruptibility we've come to expect of Republicans.
I've voted for you and urged others to follow my example. I regret
that, and am determined now to support anyone who opposes you in the
future -- even a liberal Democrat -- on the basis that it's easier
(and less disgusting) to deal with a socialist who's proud of what he
is and proclaims it from the very housetops, than with one who creeps
around pretending that he's something else, waiting for an
opportunity to stab his constituents in the back and strip them of
their rights under the highest law of the land, the first ten
amendments to the Constitution.
I've been involved in politics for nearly 40 years, and I realize
that the chances you'll actually see this letter are vanishing and
slight. Some overpaid flunky will glance at it, make a tally-mark on
the "against" side of the grotesque position you've taken (assuming
she's not a public school graduate, and therefore capable of reading
and understanding words of more than one syllable), and consign it to
the shredder in a manner typical of all the mistakes Republicans have
made since Bill Clinton -- or maybe even Franklin Roosevelt -- was
elected.
As a futurist (and the world's most widely published and prolific
libertarian author) I predicted both the rise of the internet and the
collapse of the Soviet Empire many years before they happened, when
"experts" told me I was wrong. Even now I could tell you how to beat
Clinton and his ilk and deal with the media of which you're all so
terrified.
The 20th century has been a period of the biggest, most powerful
governments -- and consequently the most destructive wars and other
despicably inhumane atrocities -- in world history. The 21st century
-- now the merest 19 months away -- will be the century of the Bill
of Rights.
Whether your party has any role to play in that century remains to be
seen. My prediction, based on its disgraceful performance in the
last quarter of this sorry century, is that it will soon disappear
from history, lingering only as a pathetic -- and vaguely repulsive
-- memory.
Whether this prediction of mine proves as accurate as the others I've
made is entirely up to you, Senator, and to those like you in a party
sadly lacking (and badly in need of) courage, intelligence, and
integrity.
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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