"I Remember Verlyn Klinkenborg, by Me"

It was the early 1990s, and Verlyn had just released a book about a bar (ostensibly). He came to the Borders where I was then employed as part of his nationwide book promotion tour. The store's publicist, who had a reputation as something of an airhead, thought it would be swell to invite a local barkeep named Nick to the event so that he and Verlyn could swap bar stories. Nick was nice enough to accept her invitation.

The night of the Verlyn Klinkenborg show, I diligently worked away at my merchandising duties about 20 feet away from the event, so that I could be productive and hear what the guys had to say at the same time. Verlyn tried desperately to stay on the topic of his book, which had not so much to do with bars as about the people who lived above one, while Nick told the story of how his saloon came to be and very little else. Something was decidedly wrong.

A couple of weeks later a colleague and I visited Nick's saloon for the first and only time. We chatted with him a bit about his Borders experience. What it boiled down to was this: He didn't understand why he had been invited, since the book wasn't really about a bar or bars in general; he didn't really have any interesting bar stories to share; and he came away thinking that Verlyn Klinkenborg was kind of an idiot and didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

We were in complete agreement on that assessment. God forbid Verlyn should start writing about something important and serious, like, I dunno...guns, maybe?

This post on gun ownership is kind of the cherry on top of recent political revelations. Things that really illuminate the differences between the political parties.

One party wants to remove much of the public recognition of faith from our nation. The same party appointed the judges that approved the theft of our property to be given to richer, more powerful people, a la Kelo. This party has also stated their intent to raise taxes as soon as they are in power, and the party just in the last two days has threatened to revoke ABC's license because they didn't like a docu-drama. And a party hostile to gun ownership.

Destruction of property rights.
The confiscation of wages through higher taxes.
The removal of faith from the public life.
The attack on freedom of speech.
The desire to disarm the populace.

Somehow I don't think that the political party that wants
- you to have as much money and property as you earn
- to reduce taxes so you can keep as much of it as possible
- wants you to exercise your faith as much as you want
- and .....most importantly..... thinks you should be able to own firearms to protect life, liberty and property

This might not be the party that wants to strip you of your constitutional freedoms. A political party with those principles seems like the party that supports freedom.

The party that wants to remove those rights just might be the party that would most likely strip you of your freedom.

I'm just saying.

The scariest part of Klinkenborg's editorial is the total disconnect regarding rights:

"...by granting this right to individuals..."

"...civilians believe their rights entitle them..."

"It’s about making certain that the public — our political and civil society, in other words — has no ability to limit the rights of an individual."

Klinkenborg fails to understand that rights are not "granted." The premise upon which this country was founded is that the "government" doesn't "grant" rights - the rights belong to the people and the government is limited (by the constitution) from taking those rights away. We allow the ideology of people like Verlyn Klinkenborg to go unchallenged at our peril. Repeat after me... Rights belong to the people and are not granted...

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