This is hardly surprising, but it’s still sad. Sad to see that the moron we stupidly elected to the highest office in the land surrounds himself with other morons, such as this jackass:
From ABC News:
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.
The obama administration looks like it’s trying to set off a civil war or a mass exodus of seceding states. With the biggest power-grab and pick-pocketing the American taxpayers have ever seen now law, there is an increasing grumble to bail out of the US. At the small end there’s the “Tea Party” movement; up to the “Sovereignty Movement,” and right up to outright secession (note that in that last link, the writer assumes that secession is only discussed by “extremists;” when what seems more likely is that the writer merely assumes that anyone who dares to discuss the topic is by definition an extremist).
States seceding from the US would, at least in the short term, be an unmitigated disaster. While the last time this happened bloodshed was avoided until the South decided to militarily attack the US Federal Government, if states split from the US today I am not entirely convinced that the US government would be as hesitant to spill blood. And if one state secedes from the Union successfully, the rest of the US will likely fall apart to some degree sooner or later. A Balkanized US is right out of the worst genres of apocolyptic fiction.
On a smaller scale, secession could be a fantastically useful thing. For example: Illinois would benefit no end if it would secede from Chicago. Let Cook County, with it’s ridiculous laws and fantastically corrupt politicians, go their own way. In California there was the “Bay Area Nation” idea, where San Francisco and surroundings would split off to form their own hippie utopia. Such a small nation would obviously be a great advantage… the die-hard socialists and communists would have a place to flock to (thus freeing up space “back home” for people who aren’t friggen’ morons), and the US would have yet another blatant example of why collectivism is a dumbass economic system when the Bay Area Nation fails even more utterly than Cuba has. Plus,the US would have a place to empty its jails into.
But what’s going on today is much more widespread. I heard similar rumblings during the Clinton administration… but those rumblings took years to get up to speed, and I don’t recall them being as loud at their worst *then* as they are *now,* only a month into the obama regime’s reign. As “Atlas Shrugged” daily transitions from a bizarre fantasy novel into a disturbingly accurate look at the government, the chances of obama pushing things too damned far and spurring a Strike just look more and more likely. Setting up a blatant socialist state and grabbing the guns is just asking for trouble.
