Breaking hypocrisy

According to the Drudge Report, Phillip Thompson, an assistant to Senator James Webb, D-VA, was arrested for trying to clear Capitol security with the Senator's bag, which contained a loaded handgun, as well as "unregistered ammunition", whatever that means.

The real hypocrisy in the story is not the poor sap who was caught carrying the bag, but the fact that the Senator was apparently entirely within his rights to bring a handgun personally onto Federal property. You see, Federal law prohibits anyone, even off-duty local police officers, from carrying firearms onto Federal property. Of course, as in just about all other matters, Congress has apparently exempted themselves from this prohibition, so that if Webb himself had been in possession of the pistol, everything would have been fine. You see, the laws are for the little people, not the high and mighty.

I haven't even mentioned the question of how Webb can legally be in possession of the pistol outside of the Capitol, but within the city limits, as it is illegal for even him to do that. He can't cry ignorance, either. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-TX, has introduced legislation to allow all residents of D.C. to exercise this right after learning that she would be unable to keep a handgun at her Washington residence for self-protection, but of course it is getting intense opposition. Guess from which party? That's right, the Democrats, the party of good ol' Jim Webb himself.

Any of us peasants who got caught with a handgun on Federal property would get no mercy at all from the justice system. I hope that Mr. Thompson gets prosecuted fully, not because I am unsympathetic to his plight, but so that Congress gets taught a lesson about the consequences of their unequal and unfair policies. We don't have royalty in this country, and it's about time they were taught that.

This incident is a shining example of why I began this blog. Our "leaders" need to be forced to follow the same laws that they impose onto the rest of the peasantry. Only then will they see how onerous their legislative mandates become.