HR 838 The Beginning of the Thought Police

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on May 13, 2020May 23, 2020

C’mon, this is 2020 not 1984
Or, And you want more unaccountable bureaucracy?

One of the founding principles in English law is that one actually has to break some statute to be guilty of law-breaking (Oh, I forgot, that was before COVID-19).

HR-838 would (1) establish another unelected, rule-making bureaucratic agency unaccountable to the people, and (2) establish profiling rules, subject to the whim of the agency, to surveil citizens who meet the parameters of their profiling markers. This is an embryonic thought police.

Throw a bone to the people

Oh, by the way, a bone was thrown to placate the people. “No funds authorized to be appropriated under this section may be used to . . . encourage or discourage the otherwise legal ownership and use of firearms.” We won’t encourage or discourage firearm ownership and use. We’ll just surveil them.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1812-1845
(Youngest Justice [age 32] ever appointed to Supreme Court)

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. . . . There is certainly no small danger, that indifference [to the right to keep and bear arms] may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”

Liberty Letters, 1833