Roy Cooper has been the Attorney General of North Carolina for the last 15 plus years. You'd think that in that time he'd have learned a little bit about protecting civil liberties. While he refused to sign on to the multi-state attorney general amicus brief in the
Heller case, he did sign on to the one for
McDonald v. Chicago. Cooper also intervened in the Duke lacrosse case which ultimately dismissed all the (false) charges against the three Duke University lacrosse players.
Now that Cooper, a Democrat, is running for governor he is going all out to look tough on crime and secure the votes of those who are feeling insecure during these times of Islamofascist terrorist attacks. To that end,
he has proposed that the North Carolina General Assembly preempt Congress and prohibit those in the
FBI's
Terrorist Screening Database from purchasing firearms. It should be noted that neither of the San Bernadino killers was on the list.
Attorney General Roy Cooper on Monday called on state lawmakers to approve legislation that would prevent anyone being monitored by the FBI as a terror suspect from purchasing firearms in North Carolina.
"Stopping terror suspects from getting weapons that could harm our state and its people makes common sense," Cooper said in a statement. "Even if Washington won't act, we can."
In the wake of last week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., the U.S. Senate voted down a measure that would have curtailed the gun rights of people on the government's no-fly list and other FBI databases of terror suspects.
Hasan Harnett, Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, immediately fired back at Cooper.
“It’s shameful that Roy Cooper has chosen once again to side with Washington, D.C. and follow President Obama’s lead, using the recent terrorist attack as a bait-and-switch to push for more gun control in North Carolina. Considering anyone can be placed on the terror watch list for any number of reasons arbitrarily, it is equally as scary that our state’s elected attorney general and top law enforcement officer is for stripping our citizens of their constitutional rights and denying them due process in order to score points with the far-left elements of his party.”
Roy Cooper has finally come out of the closet on gun control. For years he has been rather wishy-washy on gun rights. I'm actually glad that he has decided to ally himself with the national Democrat Party on gun control issues. Given that Michael Bloomberg spent millions to make sure the state kept it racist Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permit system, I would fully expect Cooper to get Bloomberg's monetary support.
Grass Roots North Carolina is not taking Cooper's proposal lying down. They have issued an alert and are asking people to both email and call Cooper regarding his proposal. They refer to it as "modern-day McCarthyism". I would suggest everyone who is reading this to cut and paste the message and flood "No Fly" Roy's mailbox.
NC's
Attorney General to
Bring
Modern Day
McCarthyism to North
Carolina
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Parroting Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton,
North
Carolina Attorney General
Roy Cooper recently
demanded
state legislation to
deny gun purchases for
anyone
on the Terrorist Watch
List, saying:
"Stopping terror suspects from
getting weapons that could
harm our state and its people
makes common sense. Even if
Washington won't act, we can."
By barring gun purchases to
1,000,000 people on the
Terrorist Watch List, Cooper
surpasses even Barack Obama's
proposal to deny roughly
50,000 people on the No Fly
List.
Fret not that tens of
thousands of lawful citizens -
including Senator Ted
Kennedy - have been
denied airline
transportation
thanks to
misidentification. Never mind
the
Terrorist Watch List is so
inaccurate it includes
72 Department of Homeland Security employees.
Forget that stringent gun
control in both France and
California failed to stop
terrorists from getting
weapons. And don't bother to
read the Huff Post's "7
Ways You (Yes, You) Could
End Up On A Terrorist Watch
List".
Why not? Because all that is
trivial compared to having the
state's top cop and would-be
governor proposing to flout
the Constitution by denying
you due process under both the
Fifth and Fourteenth
Amendments. You have no
"right" to fly, but as
affirmed by the Supreme Court
in DC v. Heller and
McDonald v. Chicago,
you
definitely have a
right to keep and bear
arms.
America has traveled this road
before, and the landscape
wasn't pretty. Widespread
violations of Constitutional
rights and civil liberties in
the late 1950s against
"subversives" on secret
blacklists compiled by the FBI
were so shockingly
un-American, they earned their
own moniker: McCarthyism.
Where
will Cooper's modern
McCarthyism end? Once
government is free to deny a
fundamental, enumerated
Constitutional right for
merely being included on a
secret list, are our other
cherished freedoms far behind?
Free speech? Freedom of
religion? History demonstrates
that when governments are free
to use the full powers of the
state against those on secret
lists, the first casualty is
liberty.
Due process
-
notice, an opportunity
to be heard, the
right to
face one's accuser -
has been America's
bulwark
against tyranny since
the Founders penned the
Constitution.
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IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!
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- EMAIL ATTORNEY GENERAL ROY
COOPER. Use this contact form on the NC
DOJ website:
http://ncdoj.com/Home/ContactNCDOJ.aspx
and use
the copy/paste
message provided below,
under 'Deliver This
Message.'
- PHONE ROY COOPER at this
number: (919) 716-6400
Tell
him that you've
read about his proposed
scheme to suspend the
Second Amendment rights
of North Carolinians
using the arbitrary and
secret "Terrorist Watch
List." This would
suspend the rights of
certain citizens absent
any proper due process.
Suppressing the Fifth
and Fourteenth
Amendments is clearly
illegal, and would be an
example of modern day
McCarthyism. It will not
be
tolerated.
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DELIVER THIS MESSAGE
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Suggested Subject:
"'Watch List:' No McCarthyism in
North Carolina!"
Dear Attorney General Cooper:
I
have just read of
your
proposal to use the
"Terrorist Watch List" to
deny Second Amendment rights
to North
Carolinians. I
am absolutely
mortified to hear
this, and I
demand that you
immediately cease any effort
to establish what can only
be called modern day
McCarthyism.
The "watch list" is an
arbitrary and secret
government list. Citizens
who are placed on this list
usually have no knowledge of
the fact that they are on
it, have had no hearing, and
no opportunity to face their
accusers. There are also
numerous examples of
innocent civilians being
placed on this list in
error. The "watch list"
sidesteps due
process, and denying
citizens their
Constitutional rights
outside of proper due
process is a clear violation
of the Fifth and Fourteenth
Amendments.
There is no Constitutional
right to "fly commercial,"
but there is a
Constitutional right to keep
and bear arms. Do not
attempt to use an arbitrary
and secret government list
to deny human rights to
this
state's citizens. It
would be a huge
mistake.
I
will be monitoring this
issue through alerts from
Grass Roots North Carolina.
Respectfully,
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