It is, just not the way she means it.

Hillary Clinton: Gun Control a “Civil Rights Issue”

DO IT NOW: Public Comment Period for ITAR Gun Owner Silencing Rule

From Sebastian:

A reader asked about the public comment period for the proposed rule by the State Department to muzzle free speech for gun owners. Here is what the proposal says about public comments:

DATES: The Department of State will accept comments on this proposed rule until August 3, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit comments within 60 days of the date of publication by one of the following methods:

Email: DDTCPublicComments@state.gov with the subject line, ‘‘ITAR Amendment—Revisions to Definitions; Data Transmission and Storage.’’
Internet: At www.regulations.gov, search for this notice by using this rule’s RIN (1400–AD70).

Comments received after that date may be considered, but consideration cannot be assured. Those submitting comments should not include any personally identifying information they do not desire to be made public or information for which a claim of confidentiality is asserted because those comments and/or transmittal emails will be made available for public inspection and copying after the close of the comment period via the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls Web site at www.pmddtc.state.gov. Parties who wish to comment anonymously may do so by submitting their comments via www.regulations.gov, leaving the fields that would identify the commenter blank and including no identifying information in the comment itself. Comments submitted via www.regulations.gov are immediately available for public inspection.

So you have until August to submit a public comment. I encourage everyone to do so. Remember, they are legally required to address serious comments. If they receive even tens of thousands of them, it will seriously interfere with their ability to promulgate this regulation according to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). If they are going to do this power grab, I see no reason to make it easy for them!

We have no rights they are bound to respect.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants

Seems like a clear violation of our Fouth Amendment rights to me. It's clearly worth an email to your representatives in Congress. Oh, and to Law Enforcement. I don't care if my rights make your job hard. You guys have the power to take away a person's freedom. That should be hard.

Clay Shirky on SOPA and PIPA

H/T to Mike.

No Expectation of Privacy

...because walking down the street is a privilege not a right.

I'd blame it on Bloomberg but there's not a Federal, State, or, Municipal law enforcement agency in the country that won't jump right on this and call it officer safety.

H/T to Jeff.

Lèse Majesté

I was wondering what the MPD's response would be to this. No need to wonder any longer. They arrested Rosenberg for carrying a weapon into a Courthouse Complex even though he had permission, as required by law, from the local sheriff to do so. Methinks the unstated charge against Rosenberg is lèse majesté.

Author Assaulted by Police

Joel Rosenberg, author of the Guardians of the Flame fantasy series was assaulted by a Minneapolis Police Officer for the crime of exercising his legal right to carry a concealed firearm. Rosenberg is a CCW permit holder. Details here. Rosenberg filed a criminal complaint against the officer and it will interesting to see if the result is what it would have been had, say, Rosenberg assaulted the officer. I'm sure the Minneapolis Police Department will take the appropriate actions and hold the officer responsible for his actions. Seriously.

A test run for tyranny?

This is as simple as a test run for shutting up opposition to the Obama/Progressive agenda. Even if some bloggers out of the 73,000 blogs were posting copyrighted material they all weren't, and taking down the whole blogging platform and the seizure of their posts was not justified and seems a clear vioaltion of their 1st Amendment rights. Ya gotta wonder when they'll get to the rest of us. Ya know they thinking about it.

H/T to Glenn.

I’m all for stopping terrorists. I’m even...

...ok with stretching the rules a tad to make work easier for the good guys. Under no means do I support drop kicking due process out the window so that gun control supporters like Mikey Bloomberg can use the no fly list to strip people of their Constitutional rights. Bloomberg wants people on the no fly list barred from purchasing firearms. The no fly list is so screwed up no “reasonable” person should even consider using it as a standard for anything even its current purpose. Little kids have been barred from flying because they share a name with someone on the list. Appealing your name on the list is next to impossible. No one even really understands the Feds process for putting someone on the list but we’re supposed use it as a standard for stripping a person of their rights. This is what Bloomberg wants us at the mercy of so he can further his gun control agenda. My right to possess and carry a firearm is a Constitutional, civil, and human right. I won’t give 'em up. Read into that what you will.

'Bout time

Judge Marbley said the TSA had no authority to open the envelopes. In his ruling, he said prior cases clearly established that airport security searches should be aimed only at detecting weapons or explosives.

It's a start. Maybe we'll have less stupid shit like this. But somehow I doubt it.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Columbus has filed notice that it will appeal the judge’s order.

H/T to Uncle

TSA: Thought Police?

Get the fuck outta here! A comic book writer gets flagged for extra screening at an airport checkpoint and they find a script for an issue of Unthinkable. This comic is about a government think tank tasked with developing 9/11 scenarios which then began to come to past.

The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics.

I can see the TSA searching your bags for weapons, chemicals or other nasty stuff that might effect whether Flight what the fuck gets safely from point a to b, but reading peoples private papers? Please explain to me what this has to do with the security of the flight. Don't we have something called the fourth amendment? Has the TSA now taken on the role of Thought Police?