> From: “jmarch” jmarch@r…
>
> OK, I’ve had enough.
>
> Fact: in Bush’s race for Governor, he campaigned on
> putting in shall-issue CCW in a state with no legal armed
> self defense whatsoever. He got Suzanna Gratia-Hupp’s
> endorsement. Once in office, he asked for a shall-issue
> bill, signed a pretty good one the moment it hit his desk, a
> couple of years later signed a nice little reform package
> legalizing Church carry and cleaning up a few other details
> from the first version.
>
> Recently he signed into law a ban on TX local gov’ts
> suing the gun makers.
>
> I don’t give a rat’s hindquarters what kind of “sooth-
> ing noises” about guns he feels he has to make on his web-
> site for the “soccer moms”. I care about ACTIONS, and the
> plain truth is you have to go back generations to find a
> serious prez contender who took a leadership roll in rolling
> BACK gun control.
>
> It gets better. His daddy picked Clarence Thomas for
> the Supremes, our absolute best friend in a robe with the
> possible exception of Judge Cummings in TX (trial judge in
> Emerson). Dubya has said he admires Scalia the most among
> the current Supremes and would seek other nominees of a
> similar viewpoint – cool, Scalia isn’t quite as vocal about
> it as Clarence but he’s another strong pro-freedom type.
>
> And now Dubya picks Cheney as veep, a guy with an
> unparalleled RKBA voting record in Washington to match
> Dubya’s killer voting record in TX.
>
> The next question is, are the Supremes gonna hear an
> RKBA case soon?
>
> HELL YES they are. The 5th Circuit is probably gonna
> decide in favor of Mr. Emerson and support Cummings’ per-
> sonal rights interpretation of the 2A and US vs. Miller.
> But even if they don’t, it doesn’t hardly matter – on July
> 5, 2000 the 8th Circuit in US vs. Hutzell supported the
> individual rights” interpretation and like Cummings in TX,
> read US vs. Miller properly. That means the 8th and 9th
> Circuits are already in direct conflict, pretty much forcing
> the Supremes to hear the next RKBA case that comes down the
> pipe. See also:
> http://www.saf.org/pub/rkba/news/8thCircuitDecisions.htm
>
> In addition to Emerson, another contender for SCOTUS
> review is brewing: Chuck Michel’s loss to the Calif Supremes
> in the Roberti-Roos mess! You appeal CA Supremes decisions
> to the US Supremes, remember?
>
> The next prez will be able to pick between 1 and 4 new
> robes before any strong RKBA case could hit the SCOTUS. We
> get the 2A enshrined as an individual right and the whole
> landscape changes. Right now, calling for repeals of bad
> grabber laws will get a politician slaughtered. BUT laws
> that won’t survive 10 seconds worth of “strict courtroom
> scrutiny to make sure they don’t harm an individual civil
> right” *can* be attacked legislatively, because it’s a
> “saving taxpayer money from the inevitable losing lawsuit”
> proposition now that the Supremes changed the game. And a
> creative politician CAN support “saving taxpayers money”
> without taking a hit.
>
> You want Bush picking those new justices, or Gore?
> Sorry, Harry Brown ain’t an option.
>
> Look guys, you know me. You know I’m not knee-jerk
> GOP, *nobody* ripped into Fascist-in-GOP-suit Danny Lungren
> harder than me during the Governor’s race.
>
> Bush is NOT a “hold your nose” candidate. Does he
> think he has to lie a bit to get in office? Hell yes, and
> he’s probably right. Politics ain’t pretty. But the
> Clinton/Gore regime aren’t just liars, they’ll kill, cheat,
> steal, bomb and screw their way to office and power…play-
> ing sneaky with those SOBs isn’t a moral sin, it’s a damned
> imperative.
>
> Vote Bush!
>
> Jim
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