My kids and a couple others we have recruited participate in the Liberty Day program. Last September we set up a booth at a Diamond Backs baseball game and the kids began quizzing the crowd on the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and Amendments.

From that initial Liberty Day experience, other personal observation and discussion in my day, I firmly believe that a majority segment of the American population:

a) Is no longer aware of European history, and does not care;
b) Is no longer aware of our country’s history, and does not care;
c) Believe that statutes grant rights to citizens, moreover that the US Constitution grants citizens their rights;
d) Will scrap their all of their liberty for a little security provided by the state;
e) Has abdicated their responsibility as citizens to govern themselves;

From observing government utilitarian legislation and judicial decisions, I also believe that many of our elected and appointed officials are part of that segment. Others, knowing the ignorance of the general population and the fear that the state can generate in many folks, are usurping the nation, states, and local municipalities everyday. I don’t believe most US citizens even know what freedom is any longer, nor do they really care. After all, they get to keep most of their paycheck and were able to watch American Idol last week.

Her recent statements reflect her shot at the Minutemen, however, as another individual poster noted, if you are armed with a weapon (slingshot, baseball bat, firearm, …) and participating in a Neighborhood Watch program, this particular legislation would classify you as a domestic terrorist.

Under this little Sinema gem you can practice your 1st Amendment Right (association) and your 2nd Amendment Right (bear arms) individually, but if you perform them simultaneously for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity, you are a domestic terrorist.

Sinema is a lefty whack job, but not an idiot, nor ignorant. She is an insidious type that preys on the ignorance of the population to promote state usurpation of the governed. It’s worse. Head over to the AZ legislature site and you will find she has co-sponsors.

As another fine poster pointed out the 14th Amendment …

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Sinema knows the law and that the state can’t take the right away or turn it into a privilege. Tyrannical Marxist types rely on ignorance to trade liberty for security. After all, there are terrorists about and the citizenry looks to the state for protection these days.

We may all scoff at this stuff with “This is ridiculous …” or “It will never pass …”, but who would have thought that the Kelo v. New London decision would have come out the way it did? Who would have thought McCain-Feingold would have ever passed? Who would have thought that firearms would be outlawed in US cities? Gee whiz, we live in such a usurping nanny-state that ingredients in fast food are being outlawed.

Maybe it won’t pass in its current form this year, but I will wager it comes back at a later date in a different form. Attach it to banning some trans-fats and global warming, and Sinema might have a winner in the near future.

AZ_Redneck on January 21, 2007 at 1:11 AM

Allah — we need a preview button –

In my previous, this should be quoted

So her larger point is worth considering: why would the Mexican border’s neighborhood watch need firearms?

and this

Homeland Security issues along the international border may effect the quality of a persons hunt.

AZ_Redneck on January 21, 2007 at 1:35 PM