A simpleton spouts weasel words

"if you are on the no-fly list, because you are known as maybe a possible terrorist, you cannot buy a handgun in America".

No evidence needed, and no appeal process to redress mistakes. In Rahm's view, once you appear on his magic list, your Second Amendment rights should be gone for good.

So such an august person as Senator Ted Kennedy, mistakenly put on the no-fly list for some unknown reason, is a "maybe a possible terrorist" and should be forever barred from his Constitutional right to own a firearm?

What about Congressman Don Young? He was in the same boat (or plane, as it were). Or, better yet, how about the very air marshals that fly armed on planes to "protect" the flying public, yet who ended up on the list? Why isn't ol' Rahm pulling their guns?

"If you're on that no-fly list, your access to the right to bear arms is canceled, because you're not part of the American family"

You mean the same no-fly list that now tops 1 million people, that's so top secret no one can ascertain whether or not they're on it until they try to fly somewhere, and that has no established procedure for removing one's mistakenly added name that actually works? That one, Rahm?

And of course, no one would ever end up on that list as a result of a little political intimidation or petty payback, right? Tell that laugher to CNN reporter Drew Griffin, who mysteriously wound up on the list after an unflattering piece on the TSA aired, or former Justice Department ethics attorney Jesselyn Radack, who blew the whistle on her agency and then also managed to somehow find herself officially labeled as a bad guy. Have these two (and thousands of other innocent people) regale you with the stories about their futile efforts to get off the list, despite presenting the apparatchiks with a mountain of evidence that proves without a doubt that they shouldn't be on it.

"with another 20,000 names being added each month" (from the CNN story)

How long until you or I get added, and thus lose our rights forever with no hope of appeal?

I know I speak for millions of people, dear Rahm, when I tell you in the politest possible way to go pound sand.



(Thanks to Tam for the heads-up on the video)