Friday, 10 July 2009

• Knock, Knock...

  Maybe you're watching television, relaxing after a long day at the office, maybe you're playing with your children, who just came home from school, or maybe you're sitting down to enjoy dinner with your family. Whatever you are doing, it is interrupted by the loud knock at the door. 
  
  You're confused, because you aren't expecting company.  You're even more confused when you open the door to heavily armed men in uniform, announcing they are from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.  And they want to talk to you about some suspicious purchases your family has made.
  
  Eventually, you realize they are there because of that .22 rifle you bought a few years ago to plunk tin cans at your weekend house in the country.  Or maybe it's the handgun your wife bought when she obtained her concealed carry permit last year.  Or perhaps you have a 12-gauge shotgun that you keep in the closet, just in case, to defend your wife and children if - God forbid - an armed intruder were to break in at night.
  
  These are all legal purchases, for valid reasons in the eyes of the current laws - even if you have all three.  But, because you live in Texas, the Mexican government wants the BATF to question you.  In their eyes, the act of owning a firearm makes you a suspect and a criminal in their failed 'war on drugs.'  In a shocking display of 'diplomacy,' our government agreed to help them by giving the BATF blanket permission to question you, and search your home if they don't like your answers - without a warrant.
  
  Think this is too far-fetched?  The product of an over-active imagination?  Anti-government propaganda?  A crazy conspiracy theory that could never happen here, because the Constitution guards against it?
  
  Think again. It's happening now.  LINK
  
  

  Do you think it is wrong that government agents are harrassing innocent citizens at the behest of a foreign government? 
  Do you even care? 
  Or would you rather I shut up so you can go back to watching Michael Jackson on every channel?
  

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