THE NEXT STEP IN DOMESTIC DISARMAMENT

Justin Oldham
Anchorage, AK
Nov. 9, 2005

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to know that there really is a movement under way to disarm the American public. Pro-Federalist forces have been looking for a way to break the second amendment since the 1970's. After three and a half decades of struggle at the highest levels, they are now switching tactics.

Realizing that political action at the Federal level garners too much attention from the incident- hungry national media, party bosses and career politicians in the lower levels of government are doing what their D.C. superiors couldn't. They're creating a trend that will see you volunteering to give up your guns by the end of this decade.

These are precisely the tactics I wrote about. Politics & Patriotism: The Fisk Conspiracy, makes the case that the 'trend' toward big government is actually a series of carefully exploited moments in time that are intended to make YOU give up what THEY couldn't take lawful action. Since the mid-1990's, career politicians at the Federal level have begun to realize that their relatively small numbers make them easy to observe and catch when they do something wrong.

There are less than 1,000 elected officials at the Federal level. That number swells to well over 70,000 at the State and Local levels. That's a lot of people to keep track of. So much so, that State and Local media outlets don't even try. This makes back-channel deals in your home town more than possible. It makes them a sure thing.

November 8 [2005] saw the voters in San Francisco approve anti-gun legislation that bans the making, selling, and owning of most guns illegal inside city limits.

Read more about that here.

Ask any lawyer, and they'll tell you that case law matters. Legal precedent makes almost anything possible. Local laws becomes the basis for State laws, if they withstand court challenges. State laws become the basis for...Federal laws...if they stand up to challenge in court. Any judge who chooses to "legislate from the bench" can strike down a legal challenge. They often do this, knowing that the 'approved' precedent will find its way in to the legal code. In many cases, this is how Federal law has over-ruled State law.

The bottom-up approach to disarmament is only made possible when career politicians take advantage of uninformed citizens and low voter turnout. In my home town, 25% of the people vote. When the special interest groups mobilize, they can vote down any measure they don't like. This is how our social and political elites now plan to take your guns. They'll out-vote you. The test case in San Francisco, if it survives legal challenge, will give them all the courtroom cover they need. Use your voice while you still have it. Vote wisely.