Justice department crosschecking firearms purchasers with “watch list”?
Well, they’re getting sued for that:
A federal class-action lawsuit filed this week accuses the Justice Department of treating every potential gun owner like a terrorist by requiring the cross-checking of names of firearm purchasers with those on secret watch lists.
Paloma Capanna, an attorney, filed a complaint this week against the Justice Departments top brass in Rochester, New York, to raise objections to the federal governments use of rosters containing the names of suspected terrorists when reviewing proposed firearm purchases. Ms. Capanna is a policy analyst with the Shooters Committee on Political Education, a New York-based gun rights group.
The plaintiffs currently more than two dozen individuals led by Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America specifically take aim at the governments decision to cross-check likely gun buyers with the Terrorist Screening Database maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center, a division of the FBI.
December 28th, 2015 at 11:42 pm
at first glance, this doesn’t seem an unreasonable process. After all, if they’re on the Terrorist Watch List there must be something wrong with them, right?
Wrong.
The infamous watch list will be the grist of “what’s wrong with government” articles for decades to come. Apparently, nobody really knows who is on the list, why they are on the list, and the folks who MIGHT demonstrably be justified in contesting their membership there-in can’t get their names off because (shhhhh! It’s Secret!)
December 29th, 2015 at 3:27 am
This is why we have a constitution.
Until someone in high office gets charged with a federal crime and convicted, this sort of shit will continue. So who is serious about this? Anyone?
We are faced with organized criminals in high office, with a lot of power. Who will even say it, much less act on it in a serious and legal manner?
December 29th, 2015 at 3:34 am
Sued? Sued? Let’s say a group of men robs a bank at gunpoint, maybe they kill someone, and the worst they have to fear is a lawsuit? And the very worst outcome of the lawsuit, the worst thing that happens to the perpetrators is that the taxpayer has to pay a settlement. That’s the form of insanity we’re witnessing here. And we’re expected to cheer. Hooray! Someone’s finally fighting back!
Uh, No, Young Grasshopper; attacking the foundations of the republic demands a bit more than a lawsuit, I should think. Someone’s laughing their asses off at us.
December 29th, 2015 at 11:17 am
Remember, kids, politicians and terrorist prefer unarmed peasants.
These secret lists are leading us to Star Chamber actions so hated by freedom-loving Americans.
December 29th, 2015 at 9:03 pm
The “watch list” is a flagrant violation of the 5th Amendment’s “due process of law”. But our President and Democratic candidate Hillsry Clinton support it. Once upon a time, liberals would never support arbitrarily taking one’s rights, but now they’ve morphed into authoritarian leftists. But then, it seems they support most any violation of the Bill of Rights as long as law abiding citizens’ 2nd Amendment rights are being restricted or denied.