Part 4 – Testimony on behalf of HB564 – relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones

Starting up where I left off in Part 3:

• Michelle Obama (First Lady of the US, (D-unelected Progressive National Nanny):
  • But when our kids spend so much of their time each day in school and when many kids get up to half their daily calories from school meals, its clear that we as a nation have a responsibility to meet as well. We can’t just leave it up to the parents.
  • And when many kids spend up to half of their waking hours and get up to half their daily calories at school, you know that the food you serve, and more importantly, the lessons you teach, you’re not just shaping their habits and preferences today, you’re affecting the choices they’re going to make the rest of their lives. That’s why we start with kids, right? We can affect who they will be forever.
  • But the truth is, young people are knuckleheads.”
  • “Make no mistake about it, this November, when we get to the polls, that is what we are deciding. Not Democrat or Republican, not left or right. In this election, and every election, it is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.

• US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell: “The “new energy future” will require the federal government to encourage “the right kinds of behavior””
• US Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-FL): “America has topped the world, in many ways, [in] greed and selfish behavior.”
• Harvey Weinstein (Hollywood film executive, big Democrat donor, and #MeToo abuser): “Obama’s not embarrassing — the country’s embarrassing“ (this from this sexual predator outed by the #MeToo movement)

• Georgia Board of Regents:
  • “I personally feel a great responsibility to protect our students from their own devices,” Regent Philip Wilheit told the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
    “This is about behavior modification,” Regent Larry Ellis told the Athens Banner-Herald. “That’s what we’re all about in higher education.”
  • Marcus Merz (CEO, insurer PreferredOne): “We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has.

• Tom Percy (Secretary of Labor): Congrats to @oberlincollege grads today. Remember: Don’t let individualism trump community
• Thomas Russell (Equal Opportunity Officer, Cameron University) regarding the nation’s Bill of Rights: “I like those amendments to the Constitution. They’re foundations to democracy. But that’s all they are, foundations.”
• Fmr. Representative Charles Pashayan (R – CA): “All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.” – United Nations Small Arms Conference, 2001
• Fmr. Chancellor of Boston University John Silber: “I don’t believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness . . . The Constitution doesn’t count!”
• Representative Jan Schakowski (D – IL): “I believe…..this is my final word……I believe that I’m supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any to own a handgun”.
• Geraldo Rivera (“journalist”): “Like I’ve always said, the Second Amendment, the provision that gives every American the right to keep and bear arms, is blind and stupid.
• Democratic Commissioner Ann Ravel, Federal Election Commission: My role in the commission is not to apply constitutional principles because I’m not on the Supreme Court. If I were, I’d be happy to do so. We’re a regulatory agency and our role is to follow the law and apply the law.
• German President Joachim Gauck: “The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”

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More in the next post.  My problem is the theme running through all of these quotes:

The Constitution means nothing, nothing at all to these folks (unless it allows them to advance their agenda and hinder a conservative one)

They view us, those that elected them, as children unable to choose and decide correctly in the things of life.

Therefore, Govt MUST tell us what we can and allowed to do.  Scratching head here – isn’t that why our forefathers left their countries to come here?

This is the rot of Progressivism / Socialism: the State must be in the superior position – to rule and not to serve.