once an eagle
Recollections of Restoration Weekend, now available at FrontPage Magazine. Many gems scattered throughout the text, but here's my very favorite:
Another panel that morning discussed steps needed to defend our homeland during the war on terrorism. It featured, among others, Senator Jeff Sessions (R.-Alabama) and Michelle Malkin, author of In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror.
A United States senator, side-by-side in collegial discussion with the author of a book that defends the mass incarceration of U.S. citizens and calls on government to assign wholesale suspicion by category of identity. Warms the heart.
posted by Chris Bray @ 1:59 PM
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And right after that:
During lunch, Wayne LaPierre, Chief Executive Officer of the National Rifle Association, discussed how the traditional American impulses of self-reliance and our right to self-defense had been factors in the 2004 election. The fact that longtime gun-control advocate and supporter John Kerry felt compelled to campaign in camouflage while carrying a shotgun and pretending to be a hunter, said LaPierre, shows how far the political balance on this issue has shifted in favor of liberty.The message? We need to be paranoid that ordinary citizens are terrorists. We need to restrict their civil liberties, and internment during world war 2 was a good way of doing so.
And we also need an armed citizenry, to protect against...what exactly?
Oh yeah, a government that might restrict our civil liberties.
It's good they are staying on topic.
I always find it odd that the NRA has this enormous blindspot to the abuses of the Patriot Act and the Bush Administration. I would think that since the leadership is so concerned about authoritarian government, and individual liberty, that they would see the contradiction. Perhaps they are so fixated on gun rights that they can't see what's happening?
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