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I was leaving the shooting range last night when somehow I got sucked into a conversation about Sens. Clinton, Lautenberg and Schumer are enemies of the USA. The shop owner who I know pretty well was talking about that bill that would allow the Feds to confiscate firearms with no warrant in the event of an energency (and the AG decides what is an emergency.) I had to agree that it is a pretty scarey bill as it seems to be just another way to consolidate power in the executive banch. Somehow, though, he made the leap to treason. I tried to explain what treason really is. Aid and comfort means war materials.
Well, then he pointed out that most Senators are not veterans. (Still wonder what that has to do with anything.) Then they got to Kerry. Oh, he didn't earn those medals you know. And anyone with a movie camera must have just been making a resume. I said the Navy thinks his medals are genuine and that I believe him. I also said I was not interested in reading a propoganda book called Unfit for Command. Then the other guy, a customer, said I must be a liberal for not believing their paranoid crap and because I'm a lawyer (which in fact is a pretty conservative profession.) I told him I was a prosecutor and that surprised him just a little. Then the customer started in on the whole liberal media delusion. It occured to me then that our side had already won the election so I just let it go.
Later I realized how insulting the "you must be a liberal" remark really was. It did not occur to me then because I don't think the term is derrogatory, but he certainly meant it as such. What I should have said was, no I am an American citizen who happens to think the liberal point of view is usually right. I make up my own mind based on the evidence. I could have said, "Yeah, that's why I'm in a gun range," but that would be a denial I did not want to make.
Wow. It was like being in Stephanie Miler's Right Wing World for real where the laws of nature no longer apply.
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