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NH: Rubens rips Ayotte for 'No Fly List' gun amendment
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Republican U.S. Senate challenger Jim Rubens says Kelly Ayotte's sponsorship of an amendment preventing persons on the federal government's "No Fly List" from purchasing firearms would result in a gross violation of constitutional due process.
He maintains that the result of such legislation would be to deny many innocent Americans of their fundamental constitutional rights.
Rubens, who faces an uphill battle in his primary challenge to the first term incumbent Ayotte, was in Laconia Friday morning for an interview on WEMJ Radio and then was questioned at length by The Citizen. |
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PHORTO
(6/25/2016)
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Rubens is exactly right.
Due process is blatantly violated by this amendment, in two critical ways:
1) It allows the removal of rights BEFORE an evidentiary hearing, and in doing so
2) It stands the presumption of innocence on its head.
This practice of lawmakers knowingly passing unconstitutional laws and forcing those injured by those laws to seek relief in court has to STOP.
And only WE can make it stop, by sending a clear message with our votes.
Vote for Ruben. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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