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14th April 2015, 10:40 AM
Dark knight Bloomberg’s approval of Jeb and Hillary bodes ill for gun rights
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Newly-knighted Sir Michael Bloomberg indicates he would be equally supportive if Jeb Bush were standing by his side instead of Hillary Clinton. Why?
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That titles of nobility were viewed by the Founders as incompatible with the Constitutional form of government they established is a given. So it should come as no surprise that Michael Bloomberg, one of the foremost advocates for infringing on the right to keep and bear arms, was pleased beyond measure to accept the honorary title of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, as The New York Times reported Thursday. Also no surprise: He declared the heirs apparent to two wannbe political dynasties, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, to be the only two candidates capable of ascending to the throne.
Least surprising of all is Bloomberg’s stated rationale, that “Hillary and Jeb are the only two who know how to make the trains run.” It’s unsurprising because that phrase has its origin as a reference to a popular misconception on the "virtues" of Fascism as practiced by Benito Mussolini.
That Bush and Clinton are both acceptable establishment candidates lacking true fundamental differences on questions of government’s proper role is exemplified by his presenting her with the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal in 2013. Both the name of the organization and the name of their award appear nothing less than Orwellian, and that’s by design.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers,” the late Georgetown University professor Carroll Quigley, an early “important influence” on Bill Clinton, wrote in “Tragedy and Hope.”
“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy,” Quigley advocated.
But wait, there’s one major difference, some will argue. A+ rated Jeb Bush was a featured and honored speaker at the National Rifle Association’s Leadership Forum in Nashville over the weekend, while Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre warned attendees Hillary Clinton would bring “a permanent darkness of deceit and despair.”
Isn't that enough of a difference?
Perhaps, if gun owners overlook the obvious elephant in the room, that Bush’s and Clinton’s positions on a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal aliens are indistinguishable from Barack Obama’s, and identical in terms of end results. All credible polling shows the engineered injection of millions of overwhelmingly Democrat and “gun control” supporting voters into the electorate will bring about needed majorities to ensure anti-gun laws are passed, anti-gun judges are confirmed, and legislative and judicial gains will be reversed. And not coincidentally, that is the position shared by reelected NRA Director Grover Norquist and his ally in “immigration reform, Her Majesty’s most recent Knight Commander, Sir Michael Bloomberg, who didn't get to be a billionaire by aligning himself with people who stood in the way of his ambitions.
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Newly-knighted Sir Michael Bloomberg indicates he would be equally supportive if Jeb Bush were standing by his side instead of Hillary Clinton. Why?
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
That titles of nobility were viewed by the Founders as incompatible with the Constitutional form of government they established is a given. So it should come as no surprise that Michael Bloomberg, one of the foremost advocates for infringing on the right to keep and bear arms, was pleased beyond measure to accept the honorary title of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, as The New York Times reported Thursday. Also no surprise: He declared the heirs apparent to two wannbe political dynasties, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, to be the only two candidates capable of ascending to the throne.
Least surprising of all is Bloomberg’s stated rationale, that “Hillary and Jeb are the only two who know how to make the trains run.” It’s unsurprising because that phrase has its origin as a reference to a popular misconception on the "virtues" of Fascism as practiced by Benito Mussolini.
That Bush and Clinton are both acceptable establishment candidates lacking true fundamental differences on questions of government’s proper role is exemplified by his presenting her with the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal in 2013. Both the name of the organization and the name of their award appear nothing less than Orwellian, and that’s by design.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers,” the late Georgetown University professor Carroll Quigley, an early “important influence” on Bill Clinton, wrote in “Tragedy and Hope.”
“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy,” Quigley advocated.
But wait, there’s one major difference, some will argue. A+ rated Jeb Bush was a featured and honored speaker at the National Rifle Association’s Leadership Forum in Nashville over the weekend, while Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre warned attendees Hillary Clinton would bring “a permanent darkness of deceit and despair.”
Isn't that enough of a difference?
Perhaps, if gun owners overlook the obvious elephant in the room, that Bush’s and Clinton’s positions on a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal aliens are indistinguishable from Barack Obama’s, and identical in terms of end results. All credible polling shows the engineered injection of millions of overwhelmingly Democrat and “gun control” supporting voters into the electorate will bring about needed majorities to ensure anti-gun laws are passed, anti-gun judges are confirmed, and legislative and judicial gains will be reversed. And not coincidentally, that is the position shared by reelected NRA Director Grover Norquist and his ally in “immigration reform, Her Majesty’s most recent Knight Commander, Sir Michael Bloomberg, who didn't get to be a billionaire by aligning himself with people who stood in the way of his ambitions.