It comes as no surprise at all, that in the aftermath of the Orlando Islamic terrorist 
attack…all liberals can talk about is taking guns away from law abiding citizens or making it hard, if not impossible in some cases, to even purchase a gun.
THAT, say the liberals, is the best way to defeat terrorism.
Ted Cruz had a slightly different perspective on the situation…
“You don’t defeat terrorism by taking away our guns. You defeat terrorism by using our guns,” – Ted Cruz.
All the liberals need, is an inch in order to take ten thousand miles and they are using the Islamic terrorism murders of 49 innocent civilians to push their insipid agenda.
Here’s how they intend to start…
If you are on a no fly list…you will be put on the no BUY list too.
THIS, say the liberals, will keep potential terrorists from getting a weapon.
Oh, really?
And just who, exactly, decides who is a potential terrorist? I’ll tell you who…some gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels…that’s who. And should we trust a gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels?
Certainly not, as it was a gaggle of federal government bureaucratic weasels that was targeting Conservatives at the IRS…and it’s another gaggle of federal government bureaucratic weasels running Obamacare…into the ground. Other gaggles of federal government bureaucratic weasels have engineered such operations as Fast and Furious, the Iran nuke deal, Benghazi and it’s attempted cover up, the Clinton email scandal and IT’S cover up and swapping out one traitor for 5 of the Taliban war council mambers…just to name a few.
You see, here’s the problem…
While we do indeed have a no fly list…nobody is quite sure how, exactly, someone gets ON that list. We do know, however, that once you’re on it, it is near on to impossible to get OFF of it. In fact…on average, it seems, 50,000 people per year are added to the no fly list while only about 60 are taken off of it.
Here’s a little something else that just might get your blood to boil…
There are some 400,000 known terrorists on the TERRORIST WATCH LIST and of them…only 3,400 are on our no fly list. That, by the way, accounts for less than 1% of those known terrorists. Now those aren’t some made up figures from who-knows who…those were the figures provided to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about 6 years ago by Timothy J. Healy, director of the Justice Department’s Terrorist Screening Center…the very gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels that compiles the no fly list.
Do you realize that, in 2004, Osama bin Laden was NOT on the no fly list? According to worldNetDaily…“According to airline-security documents obtained by this magazine, 
the name Osama bin Laden was punched into the computer by an airline official and, remarkably, that name was cleared at the security checkpoint all passengers must pass through before being issued a boarding pass.”
Now that your blood has reached a roiling boil…hold on to your pressure valves because I’m about to blow them right off.
According to Senator Marco Rubio, who, by the way, sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a majority of the people on the federal “no-fly list” do not belong there because they are every day, garden variety, law abiding Americans. Remember, in 2010, Timothy J. Healy told a senate Committee there were 400,000 people on the no fly list and last year, Rubio said that list had grown to 700,000. That’s 300,000 new names on the no fly list over a 6 year span…equaling an average of 50,000 new names per year.
“These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism
, they wind up on the no-fly list, there’s no due process or any way to get your name removed from it in a timely fashion, and now they’re having their Second Amendment rights being impeded upon.”
One would think that Rubio was speaking out just last week on this issue, but that’s simply not true. Rubio made that comment on December 6th…of last year…which means this is not the FIRST time the liberals have floated this particular balloon.
Now then…while in a knee-jerk, reactionary way, it seems to make some warped sense to keep those on the no fly list from being able to buy a gun…there is one, little, teeny-weenie problem with that.
It’s called the Constitution which states, via the Bill of Rights…
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with 
the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
That is our 6th Amendment and the one before that one, the 5th Amendment says…” No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
Then you have the 14th Amendment which states…”All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of t
he United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Are you starting to get the impression that our Founders and Framers were pretty solid on the whole “due process” thing?
One giant problem with the no fly list, as compiled by a gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels…is that there is no due process. In most cases, you won’t know that you’re even ON the no fly list until you try to board a plane…because the gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels won’t tell you. Once you realize you’re ON the no fly list…nobody in the government will talk to you. You see…there is no trial, you haven’t been convicted of anything, there is no redress of grievances.
Well, glory be…what was it again that our 1st Amendment said about that?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Only twice has the government been sued regarding the no fly list and the government lost both cases, but those were major class action lawsuits, brought by the ACLU involving multiple people…what redress does the average individual American have?
Nearly zero.
Another giant problem with the no fly list is how it is compiled. According to vox.com, a very left-wing website… “While the criteria for what sorts of ‘threats’ get placed on the no-fly list is specific, the evidence that can be used to put someone on the no-fly list – or any government watch list – is pretty thin. The government is trying to predict whether people who have never committed any acts of terrorism before will commit one now, and that involves a lot of what the government calls ‘predictive judgments.”
It’s pure speculation.
You would be shocked at some of the names that have, over the years, appeared on the no fly list…in 2004…Ted “anti-gun” Kennedy. In 2006…Steve Hayes from Fox News. Daniel 
Brown…a U.S. Marine returning from Iraq. Robert J. Johnson, a surgeon and a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. U.S. Representative, former Freedom Rider, and Chairman of SNCC John Lewis (politician) (D-GA) has been stopped many times. U.S. Representative Don Young (R-AK), the third-most senior Republican in the House. In August 2008, CNN reported that an airline captain and retired brigadier general for the United States Air Force has had numerous encounters with security officials when attempting to pilot his own plane. Even Air Marshals and NUNS have found themselves grounded.
If you think someone with as much clout as a Member of the United States Congress or a Senator could easily get themselves OFF the no fly list…think again…as even THEY have been stopped from boarding over, and over, and in some cases, over again by a factor of 9 or 10 times. Not even our elected officials seem to have a path toward redress from the gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels. In fact, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said he was stopped between 35 and 40 times in only a year after his name appeared on the list in 2003.
So…an inch and ten thousand miles…
The inch is getting those placed on the no fly list also placed on the no BUY list…the ten 
thousand miles involves the unconstitutional actions of it all, violating at least 4 Amendments, and the direct and distinct possibility that those with an axe to grind against guns, or patriots, will simply target those with whom they disagree, ala the IRS.
That’s “ala” and not “allah” as in akbar for those weasels reading this article.
No wonder liberals are running amok, like a gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels, trying to implement this unconstitutional and purely subjective targeting scheme. Obama is all for it and so too is Hillary Clinton.
And here’s the kicker…
Donald Trump is SO all for it that HE’S having a special meeting with the NRA to try and get THEM onboard with it.
We all know about birds of a feather…what about weasels of a fur?
But it’s all in the name of protecting us from Islamic terrorists…right? Protecting us all from the less than 1% of known terrorists that are actually ON the no fly list…right?
After being investigated by the FBI, not once, but twice, for possible ties to Islamic terrorism did Omar Mateen get HIS name placed on the no fly list? No, he did not…instead…he got a job with a security firm that handles security for the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. Now if that’s not enough…when Mateen went into a gun store, to purchase the very weapons he used to commit his act of Islamic terrorism…the gun store owner, acting on a hunch driven by Mateen’s odd behavior and the items he wanted to purchase, including BODY ARMOR…reported Mateen TO the FBI.
Mateen, like the Islamic terrorists in San Bernardino, like Nidal Hassan at Ft. Hood and like more than 99% of known terrorists…”slipped through the cracks,” and wreaked havoc, death and destruction upon the unarmed, in gun free zones.
But what about “gun violence?” Would this new, rehashed liberal tactic, supported by Obama, Hillary and Trump, protect us from the thugs on the streets?
By what criteria would the Aurora movie theater shooter, or the shooter of Gabby Giffords, or that punk that shot up the church been placed on the no fly list? By what measure would the average street criminal in Chicago, or Detroit, or Baltimore be placed on the no fly list and we all know that most common street punks don’t go to a gun store to buy what they can more easily steal from law abiding citizens or other street thugs.
The very last thing we need, is a gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels telling us that they want to shred the constitution for our own best self-interest when in reality, what they are doing, is laying the groundwork to prevent us from the ability to protect ourselves…from them.
In 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote… “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Franklin was writing about a colony’s ability to protect itself in a time of war, the French and Indian war to be specific, being an essential liberty.
Then, in 1789, came our 2nd Amendment…
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Since our gaggle of federal government, bureaucratic weasels won’t put but less than 1% of known Islamic terrorists on the no fly list…how about putting the likes of Trump, Hillary and Obama on it, as it seems clear that any who would advocate against the wisdom of our Founders and Framers, while trying to shred the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments are a bigger threat to our nation and our unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than so
me 71 year old nun, a returning Iraqi war veteran, a surgeon, a congressman, a decorated military and now commercial pilot or a sky marshal could ever be.
Rather than trying to find a way to prevent law abiding Americans from keeping and bearing arms…what we SHOULD be doing is finding a way to prevent either Hillary OR Trump from swearing to uphold and defend the Constitution next January while they are advocating its destruction this June.
