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After reading that article it occurs to me that the author is not preaching to the right choir.
The article outlines a reasoned support of the typical Libertarian view of the Constitution, and not the typical liberal or Democrat view of the Constitution.
He uses the ACLU as an example of an outfit who supports most of the Bill of Rights but in fact I don't think many Democrats really want many of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights including the 2A. The big one is the Tenth Amendment. The whole concept of "liberalism" is to completely ignore the Tenth Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Like, social security, healthcare, welfare, arts funding, research funding, 99.999% of pork spending, affirmative action, special-interest projects, etc... all of those are not "powers delegated to the United States by the Constitution", and therefore they are "reserved for the States respectively, or the people".
The vast majority of the government and almost the entirety of the Democrat platform (and the Republicans as well) are in direct and stark violation of the Tenth Amendment.
Don't tell me liberals are interested in the Bill of Rights.
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I agree with you to the extent of the Tenth -- a thorn in many liberal sides. During bar preparation in 1996 students were assured that California had NEVER tested on the Tenth Amendment. Guess what was on the essay portion?
But the ACLU would seem,
at least anecdotally, to support the 1st (all five clauses), the 4th (despite an overwhelming opposition by the prison-industrial complex), the 5th (same opposition), the 6th (same opposition) and the 8th.
Bong Hits for Jesus was one recent and widely publicized free speech case.
IMHO, most liberals (let's just say "people to the left", or "Democrats" without parsing progressives, or pinkos, or winos) are ardent supporters of Amendments 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8. They just ignore the Ninth/Tenth and rationalize (or attempt to rationalize) away the Second. I'm no constitutional scholar, so we're talking in broad strokes here.
Without sparking controversy, let's examine how a liberal would view the case of
Mumia Abu-Jamal. They would probably feel there were some violations of the Fourth, definite violations of the Fifth and Sixth, and definite violations of the Eighth. And if you consider his recordings and broadcasts,
"Live From Death Row,", liberals would probably support his right to create and distribute such works.
Is this libertarian? Yeah, it looks that way to me. But that is the nature of libertarianism -- the ability to walk into a room and agree with different halves of the room on certain issues, and pis . . . antagonize the ENTIRE room on certain issues.
Angry Mouse is attempting to market an idea with maximum effect. Hire a media-buying firm and they'll do the same thing -- reach the largest number of your demographic audience at the least cost. If that effort appeals to the libertarian nature of the liberals (and Kos is a liberal blog) in the audience . . . well, to me the only measure is whether it is effective, not why. Angry Mouse does this by appealing to the (social) libertarian leanings held by many liberals.
So, once again (and totaling numbers from friends who've distributed this on RKBA sites), over 3000 shooters have read
Why Liberals Should Love the Second Amendment. Hopefully they have all forwarded it to liberal friends. Nay-sayers have questioned the efficacy of this exercise. It is, however, worth the ten seconds it takes to forward a URL if two clichés are even the tiniest bit true: (1) the hundredth monkey; and (2) six degrees of separation.
I get to Senator Clinton in two degrees (possibly one), not that she'd change her mind. Each of you can get to someone in Congress or a federal judge in probably no more than four degrees.
Read the article. Pass it on. And then entertain yourself with
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