Editorial: Vox Populi only matters  

when it supports liberal agenda

David A. Lombardo

I was called to task about last week's rant: Take Back America. "Take back America??" he who shall go nameless wrote in an email. "From whom? The voting majority? The power of demographics? The rule of law? No one 'took' America from anyone," it said. "The political minority, and apparently you, think you have rights superior to the majority of Americans, as though you 'know better."

A scathing indictment to be sure but one that falls far more squarely on the shoulders of liberals! When the vote goes the way of liberals its democracy in practice and complaints from the right are childish rants seeking to subvert the will of the people. When a vote goes against liberals, well that's a different story; then it doesn't count.

Take for instance the recent shellacking the messiah, his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the U.S. Senate took over their ridiculous anti-personal protection initiative.

What happened to the Vox Populi the liberals profess to be so important? The people spoke, the anti-personal protection crowd lost, and so the only logical conclusion is that the mean, old, under-handed NRA juked the numbers. The NRA subverted the will of the people.

Let's get this straight, the NRA doesn't have one, single vote, not one. What it does have is the collective voice of millions of Americans and the NRA can mobilize those voters to make telephone calls. The only thing all politicians have in common is they want to ride that gravy train as long as possible and the voice of millions of voters warning them that their tenure is tenuous makes one heck of a difference. That, boys and girls, is Vox Populi.

Much has been made in the media and by politicians of the supposed 90 percent of Americans said to support expansion of background checks to cover transactions at gun shows and other private sales. Turns out, like most liberal hogwash, its made-up-fantasy designed to pull the wool over the voter's eyes.

According to a recent Gallup poll, "Few Americans mention guns or immigration as the most important problems facing the nation today, despite the current attention lawmakers in Washington are giving to these issues. The economy still dominates as the top concern, followed by jobs and dissatisfaction with the general way in which Congress and the government work."

The poll indicates only about four percent of Americans think guns, and gun control, is an important problem facing the country. How does that sit with the anti-personal protection crowd? The ones who talk about how important it is to listen to what the American public thinks? They're starting yet another all-out assault against gun owners so buckle your seat belts we're in for yet another bumpy ride. Bloomberg's mafia, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group with a higher percentage of thieves, con men, felons and child molesters than even the Congress can boast, is preparing to attempt to drive a tank over what the majority really thinks which leads me to once again ask the question: When are we going to take back America?

Bloomberg - Interpretation

of constitution has to change

According to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the recent terror bombings in Boston require a new interpretation of the Constitution to give the government greater power to protect citizens. "The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry," Bloomberg said during a recent press conference. "But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change. The Supreme Court has recognized that you have to have different interpretations of the Second Amendment and what it applies to and reasonable gun laws." Bloomberg employs the tactic of incrementally "lowering the bar" by suggesting that Americans should be willing to give up a degree of freedom in exchange for a degree of security. He would do well to remember what Benjamin Franklin had to say on the subject back in 1775: "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." [Source: NRA/ILA]

Conn Gov - Mass shooting in Iowa

would help gun control effort

National Public Radio describes its trademark, long-running weekday show, "All Things Considered," as a mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. We can now add acerbic rants to that descriptive list, thanks to the outrageous comments of anti-gun Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D). Malloy was interviewed recently on the show after the U. S. Senate rejected proposed sweeping federal gun-control measures for which he strongly advocated. According to a NewsBusters.org article, during the interview, anchor Melissa Block read back to Malloy his previous, slanderous comments about gun manufacturers: "The gun industry wants to sell as many guns to as many people as possible, even if they're deranged, mentally ill or have a criminal background - they don't care," she read then asked Malloy for his comments. He responded by stating Connecticut gun manufacturers Colt, Sturm-Ruger, Mossberg, and Stag Arms "created the NRA," and by calling NRA a monster that prevents the government from making children safer. When asked what it will take to pass gun control, Malloy outrageously suggested that pro-gun U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)--who helped defeat the anti-gun measures in the Senate, "might need a mass-shooting in his home state of Iowa to get him to change his position." [Source: NRA/ILA].

Senate libs press gun control ahead

despite public lack of support

Obama and the Senate took a shellacking over their gun control agenda as the voice of the people reverberated in that collegial chamber. Undaunted, liberals march to the beat of a different drummer that apparently drowns out the voices of the majority of American voters who disagree with them. Heaven forbid vox populi would ever influence what happens in Congress if it is at cross purpose to liberal agenda. Therefore, there is yet another antigun push being made by the anti-self-defense groups. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization rife with felons and child molesters, has initiated a mass media blitz of radio advertising in the home states of those politicos who opposed the liberal agenda. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has returned fire with counter-advertising in states to thank those very senators for their crucial support of sportsmen and our Second Amendment. If your senator voted against gun control please call and say thank you. If the vote went the other way, please call and point out you vote and 2A is a litmus test.

ACLU, Goldwater Institute

team up on free speech case

Official Notice: Please donate your old snow shovels and ice scrapers to Hell; it has frozen over. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the Goldwater Institute's appeal in Korwin v. Cotton, a free-speech challenge to Phoenix's transit advertising standards that were applied to remove 50 "Guns Save Live" advertisements from the city's bus shelters. "This case has profound implications beyond whether Appellants can post their proposed advertisement on City of Phoenix bus shelters," the ACLU's brief argues. "It involves the scope of the Arizona Constitution's grant to all persons the right to freely speak, write and publish on all subjects." In 2010, plaintiff Alan Korwin and his company, TrainMeAZ, purchased 50 transit shelter ads designed to drive business to their gun-training website. The ads pictured a large heart with "Guns Save Lives," followed by the group's website. "The City's arbitrary decision-making is exactly the type of censorship the U.S. and Arizona Constitutions forbid," said Clint Bolick, Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, who characterized the City's policy as "we sort-of know it when we see it." Who'd a thunk it, the ACLU is in bed with the Pro 2A group! Let's keep those snow shovels and ice scrapers coming folks.