This'n'That; May Tenth[RapeConstitution]

Fascists Continue To Rape US Constitution

    This week, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg exploited Americans' fear of terrorism to push their latest anti-gun proposal, and in doing so showed that they're willing to destroy other parts of the Constitution, to choke its Second Amendment.

   Last Tuesday, as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Lieberman held a hearing to give Lautenberg and King the opportunity to promote their bills S.1317 and H.R.2159, to prohibit the possession of firearms by people on the FBI's "terrorist watchlist," and Lautenberg's S. 2820, to maintain records of approved instant background check transactions for a minimum of 180 days. The watchlist bills further propose that a person seeking relief in court from these new restrictions would be prevented from examining and challenging "evidence" against him, and that the judge deciding whether the person had been watchlisted for good reason be limited to summaries and redacted versions of such "evidence."

 

S. 1317: Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009

 

Sponsor:

•  Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]

Cosponsors:

• Richard Durbin [D-IL]
• Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
• Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
• Carl Levin [D-MI]
• Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]
• Robert Menéndez [D-NJ] Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]
• John Reed [D-RI]
• Charles Schumer [D-NY]
• Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

 

 H.R. 2159: Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009

 

Sponsor:

Rep. Peter King [R-NY3]

Cosponsors:

• Gary Ackerman [D-NY5]
• Timothy Bishop [D-NY1]
• Michael Castle [R-DE]
• Yvette Clarke [D-NY11]
• Joseph Crowley [D-NY7]
• Eliot Engel [D-NY17]
•  John Hall [D-NY19]
• Steve Israel [D-NY2]
• Henry Johnson [D-GA4]
• Mark Kirk [R-IL10]
• Leonard Lance [R-NJ7]
• Carolyn Maloney [D-NY14]
• Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY4]
• James Moran [D-VA8]
• William Pascrell [D-NJ8]
• Donald Payne [D-NJ10]
• Mike Quigley [D-IL5]
• Charles Rangel [D-NY15]
• Bobby Rush [D-IL1]
• Joe Sestak [D-PA7]
• Christopher Smith [R-NJ4]
• Edolphus Towns [D-NY10]
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL20]
• Henry Waxman [D-CA30]
•  Anthony Weiner [D-NY9]

S. 2820: Preserving Records of Terrorist & Criminal Transactions Act of 2009

 

A bill to prevent the destruction of terrorist and criminal national instant criminal background check system records.

Sponsor:

•  Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]

Cosponsors:

• Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
• Carl Levin [D-MI]
• Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]
• John Reed [D-RI]
• Charles Schumer [D-NY]
• Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Til Nex'Time....