Mountaineerfan's Blog

If anyone needs any more evidence as to the real purpose behind NY Mayor Bloomberg's war on gun owners and dealers is about then here it is.I'll give you a hint,it's NOT about fighting crime.

Isn't it ironic that a man who openly admits to wanting gun laws changed while at the same time not knowing anything at all about the current laws suddenly wants all reference to the defendant's rights under The Constitution banned from a trial that he's a part of?

ReportFromTheFront,is this the government you say we don't need to protect ourselves from?

    BELLEVUE, Wash., May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg has moved from outrage to atrocity, said the Second
Amendment Foundation, by asking anti-gun activist federal Judge Jack B.
Weinstein to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during a civil
lawsuit trial beginning May 27 against Georgia gun dealer Jay Wallace,
proprietor at Adventure Outdoors.
 The New York Sun reported that Bloomberg's attorneys made the request.
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said the move
clearly shows that Bloomberg has "total disregard not only for the Second
Amendment, but also the First."
Bloomberg's attorney on this case, Eric Proshansky, has reportedly
argued in a brief that "Any references to the Second Amendment or analogous
state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant" to the upcoming
trial.
"This trial is supposed to be held in a federal court, not a kangaroo
court," Gottlieb stated. "What's next, a request that Judge Weinstein not
allow defense witnesses or rebuttal? Why not just dispense with the trial
altogether and lynch Mr. Wallace from the limb of a tree out in Central
Park?
"The civil prosecution, and un-civil persecution, of Jay Wallace has
never really been about the Second Amendment, until right now," he
observed. "And, thanks to Mr. Proshansky's brief, this trial is suddenly
all about the First Amendment as well.
"We are neither surprised nor shocked at Mayor Bloomberg and the city's
attorney for making this move," Gottlieb added. "This is the kind of
behavior one should expect from a billionaire demagogue who considers
himself so far above the law that he launched this vigilante campaign
against firearms retailers by stepping outside legal channels in the first
place. He sent private agents to several states without legal authority,
jeopardizing legitimate on-going criminal investigations in the process.
"Now Bloomberg wants a gag order," he concluded. "Apparently, in
Mikey's world, a fair trial is one in which a defense attorney is muzzled,
and the defendant is already guilty until proven innocent. Bloomberg missed
his calling. Instead of being mayor of an American city, he should have
been the administrator of a gulag."



    The Second Amendment Foundation (http://www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest
and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action
group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own
and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more
than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to
better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.