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12/11/1999
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White House ambulance chasing
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_limbaugh/19991210_xcdli_white_hous.shtml
By David Limbaugh
The Clinton administration has just outdone itself with its
latest outrage of the week. It has announced plans to file a
class action suit on behalf of public housing residents against
gun manufacturers.
You may be asking yourself, "Why public housing residents?" The
official reason is that the government is entitled to reimbursement
for the $1 billion it spends annually on security because of the
inordinate number of shootings in public housing projects.
But the real reason is that the federal government would have
no jurisdiction in this matter without using the public housing
residents as pawns in their monomaniacal quest for gun control.
As usual, blame anyone but the responsible parties for the
crimes. To Clinton, it's the gun manufacturers who are at
fault, not those who fire the weapons.
If this isn't an artificially trumped-up lawsuit, I've never
seen one. It is nothing but a transparent ploy to terrorize
the gun industry into making gun control concessions that this
administration couldn't achieve through legislation.
James Dorr, an attorney for several gun companies, said that
there is no legal basis for the federal government to sue gun
manufacturers when it has licensed these companies to make and
sell guns. Exactly.
Many in the gun industry, who have been cooperating with the ATF
"to get the bad guys," justifiably feel betrayed by their own
government. "To find out that the very government you're trying
to help is going to sue you ... you just don't know where to turn,"
said Robert Delfay of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
What is really scandalous is that while the Clinton administration
claims to be concerned with safety, it has abrogated its responsibility
in the one area most likely to promote safety. A recent Syracuse
University study showed that prosecutions of federal gun crimes were
down by more than 40 percent.
But to me there's something even more troubling about this lawsuit.
Simply put, it is a perversion of the legal system and another violent
assault on our Constitution. It is an ambulance-chasing power play by
the White House.
We must realize that our unique freedoms are preserved primarily in
two ways: First, by criminal and civil laws preventing individuals
from infringing on the rights of others; and second, the constitutional
limitations imposed on government through the Bill of Rights and the
Separation of Powers Doctrine.
People are quite attuned to many of the criminal and civil laws and
the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Indeed, champions of
the various civil rights, such as free speech, sometimes advocate them
with a near-religious zeal. But they seem to be less aware of the subtle
workings of the Separations of Powers Doctrine and its importance in
guaranteeing our liberties.
The framers understood that one of the best ways to limit governmental
power was to divide and diffuse it among three separate branches --
legislative, executive and judicial -- and impose an intricate scheme
of checks and balances between them. With these checks, each branch is
prevented from gaining too much power at the expense of our liberties.
This administration has been particularly abusive of the Separation of
Powers Doctrine. The president apparently believes his policy aims are
more important than the constitutional safeguards of our liberties. In
other words, the ends justify the means.
That's why the administration has no hesitation, for example, in:
a.. refusing to cooperate with congressional investigations aimed at
curbing its numerous abuses of executive power;
b.. by-passing legislative prerogatives with its expansive Executive
Orders; and, of course,
c.. using the Justice Department for political ends by fomenting baseless
class action suits against the tobacco industry and gun manufacturers when
Congress failed to regulate these industries according to its liking.
Regardless of their convictions about the "evils" of tobacco and guns,
Clinton and other liberals must be called on their freedom-snatching
methods of eradicating these "evils."
Our founding fathers deliberately assigned to Congress the power
to make laws and to courts the power to interpret them. Policy
decisions, such as gun control measures, should be made by the
democratically elected Congress, not by appointed and unaccountable
judges.
The next time you hear conservatives bellyaching about Clinton's
congenital disregard for the rule of law, please remember that they
aren't just referring to such trifling matters as his perjuries and
obstructions of justice.
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