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Obama Picks Anti-gun Judge for the Supreme Court
-- Time to start contacting your Senators right away
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, May 29, 2009
Unless you've taken a very long Memorial Day vacation, you've no doubt
heard the big news.
President Obama has picked an anti-gun radical to replace Justice David
Souter on the Supreme Court.
Obama's pick is Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is currently on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Second District. There she has racked up an
anti-Second Amendment record and has displayed contempt for the rule of
law under the Constitution.
The Heller decision put the Supreme Court in support of the
Constitutional protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms.
Sotomayor, a politically correct lover of centralized government power
(as long as she is part of the power elite), immediately went into
counter-attack mode against the Heller decision.
Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel earlier this year which ruled
in Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to the
states. As she and her cohorts claimed, the Supreme Court has not yet
incorporated the states under the Second Amendment. Until then, she
believes, the Second only applies to the District of Columbia.
This is pure judicial arrogance -- something Sotomayor relishes (as long
as she is one of the ruling judges). In fact, protection of the right
to keep and bear arms was a major objective for enactment of the
Fourteenth Amendment, as recently freed slaves were being disarmed and
terrorized in their neighborhoods.
But Sotomayor disdains this important right of individuals, as indicated
by an earlier opinion from 2004. In United States v. Sanchez-Villar,
she stated that "the right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental
right."
Sotomayor has held very anti-gun views, even as far back as the 1970s.
Fox Cable News reported yesterday that in her senior thesis at Princeton
University, she wrote that America has a "deadly obsession"
with guns
and that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to
firearms ownership.
Sotomayor's Second Amendment views go hand in hand with her politically
correct views on the law and the role of judges.
In a speech given at Duke University in 2005, she made it abundantly
clear that judges are involved in making policy. Realizing that this
did not sound very judicial (even though most judges act on this basis),
Sotomayor tried to laugh off her brazen admission: "I know this is on
tape and I should never say that, [audience laughing], because we don't
make law -- I know. Um, okay. I know, I'm not promoting it, I'm not
advocating it." The audience continued to laugh. They got the joke.
But Sotomayor's joke will be on us and our liberties if she gets
confirmed to the Supreme Court. And that is why we need to start
contacting our Senators early and often, urging them to vote against
this dangerous nomination.
ACTION: Please contact your two Senators and urge them to oppose the
nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. You can
go to the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the
pre-written e-mail message
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| Posted: Mon Jun 1st, 2009 12:59 PM |
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Honestly did anyone expect anything else?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 1st, 2009 01:44 PM |
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Varmintcaller: I appreciate your posting About bo's pick for the Supreme Court.
Contacting our senators may do good in some states, but I fear that in mine, my petition would fall on deaf ears.
Our two Senators are both freshmen democrats, one elected and one appointed by our anti-gun democrat governor.
They know that if they go against the democrat leadership of the Senate, their offices would probably be changed to a janitor's closet in the basement. In addition to that, possibly no appointments to committees.
What the hell, I'll contact them anyway.
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I contact my un-representatives anyway, it helps to remind them which way the winds blowing. If they only hear from anti-gun and pro-affirmative action groups, they will think, we all have same views. We always need to remind them, we're out here and we vote.
If enough resistance is raised to this one, who Obama views as a "moderate appeasement" choice, his next choice may not be as far left, as it would've been, if this one sails right on through.
Remember this anti-gun, anti-constitution, pro-affirmative action, pro-world court and pro-choice judge was his idea of compromise.
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I agree still make your voice heard!!!!! we are American and still live by the consitution!!! we have the right to bear arms !!!!! Here in Wis. we have some real Asses Too..
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3006 user wrote:
What the hell, I'll contact them anyway.
Well, I did email my two dem senators... So far I haven't been graced with a reply to my polite message..
If you do send your opinions to your own members of congress, IMO, you should keep it courteous... Sending them a nasty won't even get by the junior staff member opening the emails.. Also, if you are a member of NRA, mention that in closing...
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