Let's Play a Word Game With the Phrase "Is Seldom Abused" - Granite Grok

Let’s Play a Word Game With the Phrase “Is Seldom Abused”

tyranny-alert-001Kimberly has a post here in which the NH Department of Safety admits that Police chiefs have abused their power when it comes to discriminating against legal gun owners requesting pistol revolver licenses. The word used with regard to the abuse of power is ‘Seldom.’ Yes, there is abuse but because it is infrequent, we’d rather not do anything to prevent it, and there is certainly no rush to end it.

Seldom. Infrequent. Not common. But present.

How’s-about we casually apply that logic to some other turns of phrase and see how that goes? What if we said, “Police chief’s wives are seldom abused by their husbands”? #CopsWivesMatter?

Or how about ‘black citizens are seldom abused by arresting officers’?

Sounds serious, and if true it would be.

Women forced to share public restrooms with “men” are seldom abused. Seldom is relative, you know that, right?

Students at PhillipSEXeter Academy are seldom (if ever) sexually abused by the faculty.

New London, NH Police Chief David Seastrand’s use of his authority–to let drunk Colby-Sawyer college girls go un-charged if they would let him take naked or nearly-naked photos of them–was seldom abused. Seldom.

Seastrand had to retire, probably on a full pension. Poor dear.

I think it is safe to say that the NH Department of Safety, or any relevant state-level authority, is not going to try to get anyone fired for abusing their power “to deny someone a constitutional right.” So what if it might actually be their job to do exactly that.

The NH AG isn’t going to send a letter to every police chief in the state, or shake-down local departments, to ensure that every citizen’s constitutional rights are protected. No audits. No reviews. No investigations. No point; they are, in fact, more interested in doing the opposite. They are on-board with lobbying your legislature to protect the “right of abuse” by authorizing officials; and not just because the Governor wants it that way. They want it that way. They want the discretion to discriminate. To abuse their authority.

It’s just a bunch of whiny gun-nuts, you say? Maybe you don’t care?

If you don’t care, ask yourself; how long will it take before those kind of people running that sort of government will apply that sort of indifference to something you really do care about?

Are you that naive to think that they’d stop there?  That they won’t eventually work their way ’round to it, whatever it is? They are already regulating Energy, healthcare, your wages, how you travel, what you heat your home with, how you teach your children, what you say, where you go to the bathroom, how much water is in your toilet, and a thousand other details, all subject to increasing regulatory burden and oversight.

Your continued indifference is their continued victory.

Now maybe, just maybe, you will never realize how you got there from here, or how we got here from there, but it will most certainly be too late by then to defend you from that next infringement; most likely because you couldn’t be bothered to concern yourself with the true meaning behind this infringement, or the dozens or hundreds that have preceded it.

Seldom abused, is abused. And at some point, inevitably, the word seldom disappears.

 

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