:: walterindenver ::

:: Friday, December 13, 2002 ::

More Fed Justice Problems

This seems to be something of an injustice:

According to GOA, Bean, 63, attempted to enter Mexico for dinner March 14, 1998, after sponsoring a gun show in Laredo. He was arrested by Mexican border authorities when they spotted approximately 200 rounds of ammunition lying on his car seat; possession of ammunition is a felony south of the border. ....
Though he was convicted in Mexico for an act that is legal in the U.S., because he spent time in jail on a felony conviction he effectively lost his right to own firearms – a loss that also puts him out of the gun-show business.

The most disturbing part of the story is how Ashcroft and U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olsen sought to overturn the restoration of rights granted by lower courts. This is one more case where this administration actively works against individual rights, even in cases unrelated to the 'War on Terror.'

:: Walter 10:10 AM [+] ::
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David Carr

writing at Samizdata.

If you support drug prohibition than you have no argument with the gun-grabbers, the health fascists or the enviro-mentalists and I can do nothing but dissolve in fury when I hear so many Conservatives complain of 'political correctness gone mad' in response to smoking-bans or the confiscation of toy guns. These idiocies are nothing to do with 'political correctness'; they are the logical consequences of the widespread acceptance of the prohibitionist principle which provides both the moral validation and missionary righteousness of the nanny state.
What they do to cocaine today, they will do to hamburgers tomorrow.

I couldn't say it better myself, which is why I've lifted this paragraph over here to this blog. Readers interested in this subject should go over and read the whole article and the ensuing debate in the comments section.

:: Walter 9:23 AM [+] ::
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