Turns out cracking the code is easy: if it’s said or done by someone either on the right or by some group perceived to defend right-wing causes — like, for instance, taking action to prevent executive edicts that seek to replace a legislative process, or protecting second amendment rights — it is racist. The particular verbiage doesn’t even matter. Hence, “nullification” is code for “state’s rights,” itself code for “ain’t no darkie going to get away with presidentin’ under my watch!,” and the NRA’s battle to protect what is written explicitly into the Bill of Rights and pertains to an unalienable right granted to individuals of any political stripe, that’s now either somehow reminiscent of Bull Connor, fire hoses, and a violent redneck culture that, under the sway of the KKK, made up the ethos of the South during the civil rights struggle, or else, you know, Nazis.
Just for the moment, leave aside the historical inaccuracies — most notably the actual history of gun control in this country, which reveals that gun restrictions were often adopted as a way to keep blacks subjugated (Charlton Heston, for instance, marched with blacks during the civil rights movement, and was famously an iconic figure for gun rights) — and concentrate on the progressive strategy here: both the first amendment and the second amendment are under attack by leftist propagandists, and yet they set themselves up, always, as common-sense guardians of the rights guaranteed by both, be it through this new category of policing “hate speech” or sussing out for us racist “code words” or calling in the video game industry and having them answer to the Vice President; or else by setting conditions for gun ownership based on arbitrary changes to rifle cosmetics and limits to the size of cartridge carriers.
Meanwhile, what they are really doing is pushing for restrictions on individual liberty, backing unconstitutional fiats that would potentially open up mental health professionals to civil or even criminal liability if they don’t report to some government database any instance of patient behavior that could at some future time manifest itself through an act of violence (though the percentage of violent crimes committed by the mentally ill is statistically negligible, and though these mental health professionals are already compelled to report what they perceive to be imminent threats to local authorities); conferring on the AG the power to create new categories for background checks that would restrict ownership to people who appear “dangerous” (and we already know that this administration has placed right-wing constitutionalist groups among a set of potential terrorists); and directing that we spend billions in tax dollars to address a problem — an “epidemic of gun violence” or an uptick in mass shootings — that the FBI’s own criminal statistics suggests doesn’t exist.
That is, they seek to herd us, categorize us, and put us in federal databases — and this is cheered on by the left, who in other instances scream about choice and privacy.
These are despicable, dishonorable men and women. And as they act unconstitutionally, their claims to control me through selective prosecutions and an inequitable deployment of law (hi, David Gregory!) are, in a word, nullified.
I’m nobody’s slave. And given the circumstances, I’m proud as hell to be an outlaw.
(h/t Mark Levin, who you can hear unload on Brokaw at TRS)
I listen to Michael Medved in the afternoons (yeah, bit of a masochist, but I like to know what the “R” establishment is thinking …) and somehow he is able to champion the 2nd amendment but also scoff that Lefties will really “seize everyone’s guns”.
In the midst of those points, he did say something valuable about the Left’s game plan vis a vis the “Nazi” and “Bull Conner” tropes. Medved posits that the Left is using every framing/narrative/media possible to make owning guns “shameful” akin to smoking cigarettes and being against same-sex marriage.
The Left is trying its damnedest to demonize gun-ownership.
Why this Jew can’t make the leap that it is possible that the Government can turn on it’s citizenry, especially considering his background, confounds me.
Medved posits that the Left is using every framing/narrative/media possible to make owning guns “shameful” akin to smoking cigarettes and being against same-sex marriage.
If it’s become so obvious that Medved can identify it, then things really have gotten out of control.
These attacks will continue as long as whites keep giving the word “racist” power, by being afraid of it.
Once we free ourselves from the fear of being called racist, all bets are off ;)
Or magazines, see DC, Washington and New York now too.
Again, it’s just a matter of time before “Gun Fetishism” (otherwise known as “Owning a gun” or “Wanting to own a gun”) becomes a recognized mental illness.
I think the most “anti-federalist” force in the nation is the Federal government itself at this point in time.
Whaddya know! Calypso Louie was ahead of the curve!
geoff, I think in the present political climate, reverse racism might very well be one of the points —let whitey get to experience what it’s like to be defenseless, to live in fear of riders coming in the night.
Besides, like the good minister says, us white folk,with all our guns, combined of course with our overly emotional natures (particularly when it comes to issues of blood lust), our indiscipline and lack of self control, if we were to even see that movie, why, we just wouldn’t be able to stop ourselves from trying to get a piece of…
a piece of….
a piece…
Well, something bad would be bound to break!
Wasn’t Trotsky denounced as an anti-communist?
Or is this more in the line of like how the anti-defamation league is all about making sure that only the right people get defamed?
The one constant is that the riders are always Democrats.
Medved posits that the Left is using every framing/narrative/media possible to make owning guns “shameful” akin to smoking cigarettes and being against same-sex marriage.
I really should take up smoking, just to further maximize my Complete Unacceptability to our Leftist Overlords.
Triple-threat, baby!
I wonder if doctors would bear any liability if a patient went postal and had not been reported as a potential nut? If so, wouldn’t doctors tend to favor unstable assessments?
Or magazines, see DC, Washington and New York now too.
I’m going through all my old issues of Guns and Ammo with an X-acto knife to make sure there aren’t more than seven cartridges in any magazine.
BECAUSE OF TEH CHIDREN!
Oh, here’s another creative editing trick, ala NBC and George Zimmerman
Ah, but under Obamacare, they’re government employees so sovereign immunity….
What if the patient is a postal employee, though? Then what? I’d call it a wash.
Seriously? Someone needs to do their homework regarding the history of nullification. Starting, for instance, here.
“Wasn’t Trotsky denounced as an anti-communist?”
A similar trick was used to redefine National Socialism as “right-wing”.