Freedom never "wins" with the passage of new restrictions. The anti-freedom lobby is victorious with any new law further impinging and thereby, de facto, repealing our Constitutional rights. This is, as I understand it, a 650-some odd page bill, covering everything from wire-tapping of pagers without warrants to additional mandatory jail time for committing a crime while wearing body armor...unless you're law enforcement personnel. I doubt that any of the politicos even read what they voted for. The simple, tragic fact is that we lose a little more of our country every time one of these monsters passes though the gates. And tomorrow, they will be back for more "reasonable compromises". The media and their politician allies are pushing this as a win for the "gun lobby". Am I supposed to be happy that the blackguards with MP-5's aren't planing to kick my door in just yet?
Read the pabulum that "your" elected officials reply with. If it's like mine, it says "I staunchly support your rights, but I just had to vote for this to fight those evil (fill in the blank with drugs, guns, movies, books, music, religions, children, etc.)". So we get legislation like this from the "Republicrats" and "Democians". The state, left to its own devices, will happily impose control over anything and everything. The Bill of Rights lies tattered and burned, rejected as "outdated". While I know that some rejoice at the idea of posting the Ten Commandments as public diktat, have you really considered that this means state-sponsored religion, no doubt with our own Torquemadas waiting in the wings?
Another sad day for the Republic...and another shining one for the fledgling Empire. And, fellow "fringers", there will be no escape for you this time.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 (a little late, but still on track)
[This message has been edited by RepublicThunderbolt (edited June 18, 1999).]