And Kelly Ayotte, former NH Attorney General and one that is supposed to know about Rights, has gone full Monty on Collin’s no-due-process-before-but-you-can-petition-a-judge-afterwards law that goes after guns instead the true enemy – Islamic Jihadis. A bureaucrat can take away your Second Amendment Right simply by deeming you “suspicious” – no charges, no evidence, no habeas corpus, no judge, no jury and no law.
Just a bureaucrat “and a pen”. THIS should make us ALL very nervous knowing that the Feds are metricing their agents to put people on that list (reformatted, emphasis mine):
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a month. If they don’t, there’s no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments. “Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft … and they did nothing wrong,” said one federal air marshal. These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system.
“Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?” 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked. “Absolutely,” a federal air marshal replied. 7NEWS obtained an internal Homeland Security document defining an SDR as a report designed to identify terrorist surveillance activity. “When you see a decision like this, for these reports, who loses here?” Kovaleski asked.
“The people we’re supposed to protect — the American public,” an air marshal said.
Alrighty then! So a “quota system” can have you lose your Second Amendment Rights. Make no mistake – given this weaponized Administration, this is a “don’t waste a crisis” moment even if it completely the fault of the Government.
Who, btw, has as its main purpose to protect our Liberties. Something tells me this ain’t that.
UPDATE: This seems to fit in – from RedState:
Collins claims that the appeals process will protect the “due process” rights of Americans that previous anti-Second Amendment efforts have tried to ignore, but in actuality, it proves her ignorance and/or disregard of the Constitution.
And remember, Kelly Ayotte is a co-sponsor of this:
Our constitutional rights mean we are innocent until proven guilty; her bill means we are guilty until proven innocent. The bill does provide for reimbursement of any legal fees if the appeal is victorious–which means taxpayers will pay for abuses and errors made by the government–but with appeals likely to take years, the nightmare this would create for innocent Americans is almost impossible to imagine.
One just really has to ask – what is the difference between these two Republicans, Collins and Ayotte, and the Democrats (like CT’s Murphy who is all in ignoring the Constitution) in ignoring our Rights?
Actions have consequences and it seems that neither Party is all that concerned with the results vis-a-vis the Constition. For all their professed love of the Constitution (and that’s what Kelly espoused during her first campaign), I see the Rs as hardly any better than the Ds.
