{"id":20406,"date":"2015-03-24T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20406"},"modified":"2015-03-24T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:31:13","slug":"hearings-on-operation-choke-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/hearings-on-operation-choke-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearings on Operation Choke Point …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… are set for today<\/a> in Congress.<\/p>\n

Who gives a rat’s patoot about hearings? They’re just political theater, signifying nothing.<\/p>\n

But Operation Choke Point has rightly been called “the greatest government overreach that no one is talking about.” (OCP has been called that, in fact, by the guy heading up today’s hearings, Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin.)<\/p>\n

Why this matters: Because it shows how some obscure, unelected entity, ostensibly having zero to do with firearms, civil rights, business ethics or anything other than insuring bank deposits, can get a bright idea in its head (or have one politically implanted there) and become part of the endless effort to destroy gun rights. It also shows the dirty “how” of the dirty business: pressure, innuendo, and the general creepitude of mission creep.<\/p>\n

Who needs, you know, actual laws<\/i> (however bad)? Who needs stormtroopers in the streets to enforce outrageous diktats? That’s so very, very twentieth century! All you have to do these days is whisper the “right” message in the “right” ears to turn legal business people into pariahs and begin the process of gradually destroying an industry — and the human rights associated with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… are set for today in Congress. Who gives a rat’s patoot about hearings? They’re just political theater, signifying nothing. But Operation Choke Point has rightly been called “the greatest government overreach that no one is talking about.” (OCP has been called that, in fact, by the guy heading up today’s hearings, Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin.) Why this matters: Because it shows how some obscure, unelected entity, ostensibly having zero to do with firearms, civil rights, business ethics or anything other than insuring bank deposits, can get a bright idea in its head (or have one politically implanted there)…<\/p>\n

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