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Blog quote of the day

Posted by simonov on 23 February 2007

We have included in our links list since soon after we were set up a link to Glenn Greenwald’s Unclaimed Territory blog. Greenwald rarely or never says anything about gun rights specifically, but he is scathing on the Administration’s mass abrogation of all our civil rights, with the connivance of Congress and the Washington press corps. And his book, How Would a Patriot Act? is required reading for any American who cares about our rapidly eroding rule of law.

He posted something in his blog today that really hit home:

When it comes to equating the United States with the likes of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nobody has done more to attempt to bring about that outcome than George Bush and his neoconservative mentors. And they have accomplished that by simultaneously elevating the legitimacy and significance of those petty tyrants and barbarians, while continuously lowering our own behavior to the depths of their savagery and by adopting their insatiable need for violent conflict.

I think about this every time, for example, I see some White House response to the cockadoodle-dooing of Hugo Chavez. It embarrasses me as an American to see my government even taking him seriously; that’s precisely what he wants! And the more powerful nations like the US react to Ahmadinejad’s bluster, the more prestige he gains in the eyes of the people who elected him to power.

Furthermore, as Greenwald indicates, we aren’t much better. Only one country in the world, of which I am aware, stomps about the planet unilaterally invading other countries; kidnaps people to shuttle them around an international network of secret prisons and torture centers; unabashedly interferes with local elections and domestic political activities all over the globe. That is not a record for civilized people to be proud of.

What has this to do with guns? Ask yourself whether a government that acts like this can also be trusted to protect gun rights. And if you still don’t get it, ask yourself what this government has done for gun rights lately.

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