Databases and liberty
Trump is for keeping those on the terror watch list from buying guns. There are over 400,000 of them supposedly. Carson disagrees:
I am a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and I don’t want to deprive people unnecessarily of that. There needs to be better due process
Good for him. A guy called into the Chris Plante show today and claimed to have a carry permit and that he was on the watch list. How does that even square?
Meanwhile, this nonsense about a Muslim database seems to a big bunch of nothing, perpetuated as news.
November 23rd, 2015 at 6:51 pm
By whom or how does one’s name get on the terror list? If it is not by ” due process of law” (5th Amendment) then names are placed there illegally and that by criminals.
November 23rd, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Ron W: “names are placed there illegally and that by criminals.”
We are talking about the Obama administration, after all…
November 23rd, 2015 at 11:56 pm
Suspend all new immigration. Require immigrants already here to register and prove legal status. Remove illegals actively and by attrition. Enforce existing criminal law.
November 24th, 2015 at 3:46 pm
A while back you had an item about Trump and imminent domain abuse. The Trump fans’ defense was that he was just using the law as it exists to maximize his profits. Even on the limited topic of imminent domain, that rationale overlooked the fact that Trump didn’t just use it to his advantage, but has said that he thinks it’s a legitimate role of government to take property away from some people so that other people and the government can profit.
The bigger picture problem is that people who openly wish to abrogate one of your rights, and use the power of the government to abrogate one of your rights, rarely limit that wish to just one of your rights. Nobody who’s been paying any attention at all is even a little bit surprised that Trump would like to deny people the right to self defense without due process.
November 24th, 2015 at 8:46 pm
AndyN,
It is eminent domain. And it is required for lots of private business uses. Want to keep your lights on? The Utility Company needs the ability to use eminent domain to run the new transmission and distribution lines across private property. Want to keep your car running? Oil and gas pipelines run across private land to keep your car running and your house warm. Need a new or expanded city airport? How many square miles of already developed land are required? The only way to get land for these projects is to use eminent domain laws. No one wants to have a pipeline, transmission line or road run across their property. No one wants to move because the metropolitan airport needs a second or third long runway, or the new light rail line needs to run to the suburbs.
Eminent domain laws with Fair Compensation are necessary, that is why eminent domain is in the Constitution.
November 25th, 2015 at 1:03 am
rd,
Thank you for the spelling correction. I doubt many people argue against eminent domain being used for an actual public good like every example you cited. The problem with Trump is that he’s explicitly stated that he favors it for cases that benefit private industry directly but only benefit the public tangentially in the form of job creation or increased tax revenues. He’s on record as approving of the Kelo decision 100%.
To be honest, aside from the spelling correction, I don’t think you’ve disputed a single thing I said. Trump’s stated view of eminent domain is that it’s okay to use it for no higher purpose than wealth redistribution. It should surprise no one that a person who holds that view of the relationship between the government and the citizen probably doesn’t care a great deal about our other rights either.