Once the Attorney General has designated a politically incorrect groupas being a “hate group,” unfit for military service, how long will ittake for the government to find other restrictions to impose on them?
I’ve written before about the recent focus on “hate groups,” and how the existence of these admittedly unsavory organizations is being used as justification for the curtailment of rights, including gun rights. I have also written about proposed legislation in both houses of Congress that would empower the Attorney General (radically anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder, at the moment) to unilaterally designate a prospective gun buyer as a “suspected terrorist,” without a conviction (or even a trial), without an indictment (or even a hearing), without an arrest (or even a formal accusation).
Congressman (and former federal judge–impeached for corruption) Alcee Hastings (D-FL) has decided it would be a good idea to, in a manner of speaking, combine those two concepts, with an amendment he added to the defense appropriations bill, H.R. 2647.Granted, the stated purpose of Hastings’ amendment is reasonableenough–the idea is to exclude neo-Nazis and similar reprehensibletypes from military service. It does, after all, make sense to avoidgiving such people military training, not to mention access to weapons.