“Let me be clear,” Attorney General Eric Holder
emphatically declared in a 2012 speech to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, “we will not allow political pretexts to
disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious rights.” Holder’s
remarks were a call to arms against efforts by Republicans to require that
voters show identification when they go to vote. His words reflect a belief
that the right to vote is so “precious” that requiring individuals to show an
ID before casting a vote is tantamount to being “disenfranchised.” However, when it comes to protecting the right to “keep
and bear arms” – which, unlike the right to vote, is a right expressly guaranteed
in the Constitution itself – the Attorney General of the United States is
nowhere to be found. Apparently our Second Amendment rights are just not
“precious” enough to worry about when governments engage in actions expressly
designed to “disenfranchise” individuals from exercising those rights.
The hypocrisy is so blatant it is painful........ The
double standard reflected in the Justice Department’s selective assertion of
concern for minority rights is deeply disturbing. Even a ruling in one case earlier this year by U.S. District
Court Judge Edmond Chang concluding that “certain fundamental rights,” such as
those protected by the Second Amendment, should be “outside government's reach”
and not entrusted to government stewards to protect, has not awakened Holder from
his selective slumber.....To Read More....
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