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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails

Democrats want to use the No Fly list to deny suspected terrorists the right to buy guns. If Hillary wins, considering the Clinton’s history of renting out the Lincoln bedroom in exchange for campaign contributions, I would anticipate them expanding the program and operating it like a Public Television fundraiser.

If you make no donation, your name stays on the list and you cannot exercise Constitutionally protected rights.

For $25, you will not be subject to a “random” tax audit. This doesn’t protect you from a justified audit based on red flags on your return, but it will avoid the “random” audit of political enemies that President Obama pioneered in his first term. 

For $50, you can take one round-trip flight.   Go ahead and book that vacation, you’ve got flight insurance.

For $100, you can vote in this year’s election. Special discounts are available for groups likely to vote Democrat: Blacks, welfare recipients, illegal immigrants.  And by “discount” of course, I mean a program like the Earned Income Credit where the government pays you.  But it’s per vote so in some cities, it could be a huge economic stimulus.

For $500, you can apply for a permit to be considered to purchase a single round of ammunition. Not guaranteed, it’s dependent on a background check and is discretionary with the local Democrat party chairman who will consider whether you are a person of “Good Moral Character” meaning “not a Republican.” But you can apply.

For a cool million, you can buy any firearm you want, even fully automatic, no background check, no waiting, conveniently delivered to your door by agents of the ATF themselves.  Because if you can afford to make that large a donation, by definition you are one of the Good People and not one of the Little People, so ordinary laws don’t apply to you.

The sad part is Republicans are poised to give it to them.

Joe Doakes

Sad, but true.

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  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    It’s too bad that our country is now a totalitarian state and I see no way to turn it around.

  2. Dog Gone Avatar
    Dog Gone

    DG,

    Alas, you’ve gone back to your old habits – making snide, dismissive, condescending claims that your facts (“ironically”) can’t support, and scampering away, thereby using my comment section as a metablog.

    I told you I wouldn’t tolerate it.

    So this time, in addition to needing you to start discussing the claims you make in my comment section, I’m going to need some answers from you.

    • You recently claimed you’d been “published” in the London School of Economics’ blog. I’ve asked you repeatedly; the “publication” was actually just a link to one of your articles on “Minnesota Progressive Project”. Am I correct? If not, please provide a link, either publicly or privately to me. it appears you are trying to stretch five pounds of bag over ten pounds of reality.
    • Another: many years ago, you claimed that Salem Twin Cities was in imminent danger of being sued into receivership, because of a scam being run by one of its paid programs. You made a big show of it, in fact. You made a big show of how one of your neighbors – an expert in corporate law, but naturally nobody we could talk to, of course – backing you up on this.
      . So – whatever became of that? That was at least seven years ago; any updates?
    • In 2012, you claimed that Rep. Cornish’s “Stand your Ground” bill – which passed both chambers of the legislature with a bipartisan majority – was “crap legislation”. When asked to substantiate the claim beyond the level of opinion, you provided some stats that, in fact, proved that Stand your Ground was excellent legislation that did exactly what I said it would; you just didn’t know any better. So – please either substantiate your claim with actual facts (and be prepared to defend your defense!), or admit you were talking out your ass

    I could find a lot more, but I have a life.

    God bless ya, DG, but I’m calling BS on you.

    No boss hoss the nation is not a totalitarian state.

    And no, there is no indication Doakes that any change to the no-fly list would not include changes recommended by the ACLU, such as notification of being on the list, and better means to be removed from it if you are a ‘false positive’.

    But hey, just keep proving you are pro-terrorists getting guns and bombs, because that isn’t going to play well with the voting public.

    Pretty much the way that the open carry Texas crowd looks like total idiots for screwing up the response by law enforcement to the Dallas shooter.

    New report out shows that the NRA lost something like $47 million in membership money; looks like the rank and file are leaving in droves, precisely because they don’t agree with people like you or the NRA leadership.

    I’ve given you some homework. Please see to it. Thanks.

  3. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Dog Gone, you continually amaze me. You’re not just un-American, you’re Anti-American.

    The entire concept of a limited-powers Constitution is intended to protect citizens’ rights FROM THE GOVERNMENT. Yet here you are, insisting the government should take away citizens’ rights on any bureaucrat’s whim, so long as there’s some procedure for citizens to beg for their rights back. That turns two centuries of Constitutional law and theory on its head.

    Liberal Democrats in Congress repeatedly voted down a Due Process amendment to the No-Fly-No-Buy bill. Democrat Senator Manchin claims citizens have too much Due Process when it comes to guns. Those, right there, are the “indications” that the bill will not include the ACLU’s proposed fixes upon which I rely.

  4. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    New report out shows that the NRA lost something like $47 million

    Let’s see a link to that, DG. I call BS.

  5. kel Avatar
    kel

    NRA saw a surge in membership revenues after Sandy hook that appeared to drop off with the next year’s filing. Much of that surge was Lifetime/Benefactor memberships which do not have annual fees – just one time only fees – once you buy the Life membership you don’t pay again. The drop in the American Rifleman circulation can be ascribed to the influx of younger members who access the publication(s) online.
    Likely the reference DG is making is to this article:
    https://www.thetrace.org/2016/01/new-nra-tax-filing-shows-membership-revenues-dropped-by-47-million-following-sandy-hook-surge/

  6. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    Dog Gone wrote:

    “you are pro-terrorists getting guns and bombs”

    Yeah, you’re pretty irrational. Please, do try to support this goofy statement.

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