In general, I support the laws allowing most licensed and qualified
citizens to carry concealed weapons in most places. Here in Florida
someone who has a permit does none the less, not have the legal
right to carry weapons in many areas, like courthouses, police stations,
schools, stadiums and of course, bars. A national political convention
however, where emotions run high; where the attitudes resemble the
local stop-and-sock tavern, and people whom other people would like to
harm are present, would seem to be another proper exemption.
I'm afraid it's not so in Florida, where during the upcoming RNC in Tampa, squirt guns,
pieces of chain, ropes and other items which might be used to harm or
at least get people wet are strictly illegal, Republican Governor Rick
Scott seems likely to refuse the City Council's request to keep guns out of the convention. You can bring your Beretta , but leave the Super-Soaker at home.
There are other reasons of course, to wonder how Scott
gets away with avoiding the other common nickname for Richard. No, I'm
not talking about his rejection of Federal funds because as he says,
hiring people kills jobs -- and I'm not talking about the dozen or so
felonies his company committed in a billion dollar orgy of Medicare
fraud. I'm not even referring to his recent attempt to "purge" the
Florida voter rolls of likely Democrats. This time "Rick" deserves a
nice cold blast from one of those banned squirt guns for neglecting to tell nearly 18,000 Floridians that their voting rights have been restored
and that they can now register. I'm sure he has forgotten how a few
hundred votes can put a President who the majority of voters did not
vote for into office. Otherwise he would be ashamed, right?
Or
maybe he is out of the loop once again. Maybe he just didn't know, the
way he didn't know about the 1 billion, 700 million dollar Columbia/HCA
medicare fraud; in charge but not guilty by virtue of some ineffable
virtue and of course well deserved of his severance package of 10
million dollars, 300 million in stock and a million a year "consulting"
fee.
I wonder what he'll make for his part in defrauding America this time; his help in making the White House white again.
Capt. Fogg,
ReplyDeleteAgreed to by the dinosaurs. Even the appearance of the threat of violence has no legitimate place in American politics. A convention should be a civil event (which need not preclude a strong set of competing attitudes), not a menacing one.
I think a fair number of these voter purges and discriminatory bits of state legislation are going to be held up in the courts, but they reveal the true nature of the contemporary GOP: in spite of all the commentators blathering about just how CLOSE this election is going to be, I think they suspect that Obama is going to win handily (if by no means in a landslide) because people just can't stand Romney and don't believe a word that comes out of his corporate piehole. So the only hope for the Republicans at the presidential level is to sleaze their way into the White House by means of disenfranchisement. They're so dumb that some of them even come right out and admit what they're up to.
There could come a day — and mind you, I'm not suggesting this should happen and don't want it to happen — when a gathering of conservative Republicans and/or NRA zealots becomes the scene of murder and mayhem, the violence made more deadly because of a few self-appointed dirty harrys returning fire on the perp(s). And doing so with more gusto than skill guided by cool-headed target discrimination.
ReplyDeleteOne wonders what the fallout would be. I suspect it would just mean being heavily armed would be made mandatory at future gatherings.
I can almost picture the RNC turning into the OK Corral, part two. I can't understand what Governor Scott thinks he's doing, but I also don't believe it will hurt the Repubs if it backfires. That would require some sanity on the part of the Right and we all know they think of sanity as a 'Libtard' sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great for gun sales too and that could be sold as a jobs creation plan. They all go out and buy more guns every time there's a suspicion that our colored president is going to use some incident to justify sneaking in the window at night and stealing the family Kalashnikov along with a chicken or a watermelon.
Really, who can suspect any pure motive from a guy like Scott, who got filthy rich from swindling Medicare out of billions and the candidate he supports who complains about Obama's bailouts after the FDIC bailed out Bain - and I don't give a shit what the National Review says, It quacks like a bailout - and why should we be fair to these bastards anyway? We've had decades of stinking lies and libels to rival Goebbels' -- With Satan's own Fox News bellowing about Liberals being rapists and murderers ( I'm not making it up) even if I'm stretching the truth, even if I'm wrong, it's more accurate than any of their wild, sociopathic ravings. Hell, I hope they slaughter themselves in Tampa. Far less boring than the Olympics and a bit like draining a boil.