President-Elect George W. Bush
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428
RE: To Do List
Dear President-Elect Bush,
A considerable number of the members of this forum have waited patiently for a long time for the privilege of addressing you as President-Elect. We are a forum devoted to issues concerning with Second Amendment to the US Constitution. While we focus on what has turned out to be an attack on a guaranteed right to keep and bear arms, you will see our concerns for the state and health of the Constitution range far beyond the Second Amendment.
I think I can say without much contradiction “As goes the Second Amendment, so goes the Constitution.” The purpose of myself and fellow-form members writing you is to provide a list of things we believe to have gone terribly wrong over the last 8 years as a minimum with respect to the health of our government, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights. My fellow forum members and I offer them in no particular order of importance except for the first one noted.
Please review the attached list and feel free to contact anyone of us should you need clarification. Again, I want to congratulate you on your victory and wish you complete and total success.
To Do
1. All elements of the American military need to see your leadership and see it right now. The abuse to which these people have been subjected for the last 8 years is unacceptable. Morale is at an all-time low. You have access to some of the best military leaders with which I am familiar. Use them to demonstrate help is on the way. Any number of forum members can fill you in on what must be done.
2. The former president executed a large number of Executive Orders, which he used to circumvent the constitution legislative process. These EO’s range from confiscation of private property to vesting governmental agencies with dictatorial power in “national emergencies.” The last 8 years shows we can no longer trust the federal government to obey and uphold the law.
3. With the concurrence of the DOJ, the BATF in particular is adopted a mode of harassing and intimidating those who support and exercise their Second Amendment rights. The Attorney General in particular feels compelled to violate the Brady Act in that information retained during NCIC checks longer than the law requires.
4. With respect to #3 above, the number and provision of law pertaining to gun control has gotten completely out of hand. I would suggest a complete overhaul of gun regulation with a view toward maximizing responsibly our freedoms under the Second Amendment. Advocates of the Second Amendment are not criminal, deranged, dangerous, or sick. We are simply Americans exercising our rights.
5. During the Reagan administration laws were written permitted law enforcement agencies to use the proceeds of drug interdiction to fund department activities. That system is now a threat to civil liberties. I would suggest terminating those provisions of law and folding the proceeds of drug interdiction in the budget. It is not healthy for governmental agencies to have a source of funding apart from the political process.
6. There is a small group of extreme powerful, unknown, unaccountable, and elitist individuals doing significant and profound damage to civil liberties, the rule of law, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This group of individuals has been empowered by the past president to effect policy (like Executive Orders) in defiance of the will of Congress. This group of individuals has successfully looted a large American industry (tobacco), sought the breakup of a large, influential and successful company because of its success (Microsoft), sought the destruction of another industry in a willful attempt to change public policy (gun manufacturers), and brought to a standstill a 200+ year old tradition of electing a president. I refer to trial lawyers. ‘Nuf said.
7. Other suggestions by my fellow forum members follow.
[Edited by Waitone on 12-14-2000 at 07:16 PM]
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428
RE: To Do List
Dear President-Elect Bush,
A considerable number of the members of this forum have waited patiently for a long time for the privilege of addressing you as President-Elect. We are a forum devoted to issues concerning with Second Amendment to the US Constitution. While we focus on what has turned out to be an attack on a guaranteed right to keep and bear arms, you will see our concerns for the state and health of the Constitution range far beyond the Second Amendment.
I think I can say without much contradiction “As goes the Second Amendment, so goes the Constitution.” The purpose of myself and fellow-form members writing you is to provide a list of things we believe to have gone terribly wrong over the last 8 years as a minimum with respect to the health of our government, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights. My fellow forum members and I offer them in no particular order of importance except for the first one noted.
Please review the attached list and feel free to contact anyone of us should you need clarification. Again, I want to congratulate you on your victory and wish you complete and total success.
To Do
1. All elements of the American military need to see your leadership and see it right now. The abuse to which these people have been subjected for the last 8 years is unacceptable. Morale is at an all-time low. You have access to some of the best military leaders with which I am familiar. Use them to demonstrate help is on the way. Any number of forum members can fill you in on what must be done.
2. The former president executed a large number of Executive Orders, which he used to circumvent the constitution legislative process. These EO’s range from confiscation of private property to vesting governmental agencies with dictatorial power in “national emergencies.” The last 8 years shows we can no longer trust the federal government to obey and uphold the law.
3. With the concurrence of the DOJ, the BATF in particular is adopted a mode of harassing and intimidating those who support and exercise their Second Amendment rights. The Attorney General in particular feels compelled to violate the Brady Act in that information retained during NCIC checks longer than the law requires.
4. With respect to #3 above, the number and provision of law pertaining to gun control has gotten completely out of hand. I would suggest a complete overhaul of gun regulation with a view toward maximizing responsibly our freedoms under the Second Amendment. Advocates of the Second Amendment are not criminal, deranged, dangerous, or sick. We are simply Americans exercising our rights.
5. During the Reagan administration laws were written permitted law enforcement agencies to use the proceeds of drug interdiction to fund department activities. That system is now a threat to civil liberties. I would suggest terminating those provisions of law and folding the proceeds of drug interdiction in the budget. It is not healthy for governmental agencies to have a source of funding apart from the political process.
6. There is a small group of extreme powerful, unknown, unaccountable, and elitist individuals doing significant and profound damage to civil liberties, the rule of law, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This group of individuals has been empowered by the past president to effect policy (like Executive Orders) in defiance of the will of Congress. This group of individuals has successfully looted a large American industry (tobacco), sought the breakup of a large, influential and successful company because of its success (Microsoft), sought the destruction of another industry in a willful attempt to change public policy (gun manufacturers), and brought to a standstill a 200+ year old tradition of electing a president. I refer to trial lawyers. ‘Nuf said.
7. Other suggestions by my fellow forum members follow.
[Edited by Waitone on 12-14-2000 at 07:16 PM]