[Bret L]

Bipartisan Betrayal: "Bush Aide" Attacks American Gun Rights On Behalf
Of Mexico

By Henry McCulloch

"The Washington Times's Jerry Seper reports on yet another reminder that American government is not truly a two-party system, but a one-party regime with a hard left-of-center wing (the Democrats) and a just plain left-of-center wing (the post-Reagan GOP).

Anything to do with our awkward neighbor, Mexico, always brings out
the worst in both wings of the regime. That's what's happening with
growing narco-anarchy in Mexico, where the American approach has
consistently been to throw good money after bad while refusing to look
at the character of the recipients.

The leaders of both big American political parties blithely adopt the
Leftist canard that the reason Mexican drug cartels are so heavily
armed is that Americans have the right, under the Second Amendment, to
own weapons. The presumption, never proved or even seriously tested,
is that Mexican narcotraficantes get all their weapons from the United
States.

The Democratic Party remains committed to disarming Americans in
defiance of the Second Amendment, but for tactical reasons is not
trying at the moment to revive Bill Clinton's unconstitutional
"assault weapons" ban. Barack Hussein Obama and his Barbadian-American
attorney general both favor reinstating it, but Obama had decided not
to push that now, even though the ban "made sense" in his mind.

That can only be because, bloodied by the fight over socialist
medicine and contemplating the prospect of another fight over illegal
alien amnesty and "guest-worker" programs, the Democrats don't want to
take on yet a third major assault on the Constitution that most
Americans will hate.

In this instance, the Republican riding to the Democrats' aid is a
better-forgotten apparatchik of the administrations of both feckless
former Presidents Bush: Robert Bonner, former federal judge and former
head of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Bonner, presumed to be an expert because of the appointments he once
held, has emerged from his L.A. law office to call for the
reinstatement of the "assault weapons" ban.

Bonner [send him mail] claims that, along with other measures, is
vital to help restore (if it was ever truly present to restore) civil
order in Mexico. No doubt this endorsement by a prominent Republican
who is supposed to know something about Mexico and the border will
embolden Obama and Holder along with Democrats in the Congress--and go-
along Republicans like Lindsey Graham--to push soon to reinstate the
ban.[Bush aide urges weapons ban to slow Mexican drug war November 17,
2009 Jerry Seper]

And so, once again, our rulers propose to subordinate the legitimate
interests and Constitutional rights of Americans to the perceived
needs of Mexico and Mexicans. This is, of course, nothing new. The
right of Americans to live in states that the federal government
protects against invasion, as Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S.
Constitution mandates, has been subordinated for decades now to the
"need" of Mexicans, other Latin Americans and just about anyone else
(as long as he is not of European heritage - unless, of course, he is
Jewish or Irish; thank you, Messrs. Jackson and Vanik, and thank you,
Ted Kennedy) to enter our country, squat here, pillage our over-
generous welfare, school and penal systems, drive drunk and kill
people, sell drugs and kill people, undercut Americans at work, and
render huge swathes of our country utterly alien to the natives."

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/...alf-of-mexico/