[Updated] Rights vs. The Status Quo

There’s a bigger picture in The Honorable Despicable, Constitution-Shredding Police-Statist Robert S. Lasnik‘s injunction against public downloads of DefCad’s firearms files.

That right is currently abridged, but it has not been abrogated. Regulation under the AECA means that the files cannot be uploaded to the internet, but they can be emailed, mailed, securely transmitted, other otherwisee published within the United States.

Abridging rights is peachy, so long as they aren’t completely abrogated?

Seems that nutjob in a black dress neglected to read the First Amendment before ruling in favor of government censorship.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

“Abridging,” Lasnik. You can’t do it. Your direct violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution that you allegedly swore to uphold is precisely why people talk about hanging judges (as opposed to a hanging-judge, if you didn’t follow the link).

Happily, Cody Wilson and DefDist/DefCad aren’t overly intimidated by your stupidity.

However, there is that “bigger picture” I mentioned. Keep reading that order.

The Court finds that the irreparable harms the States are likely to suffer if the existing restrictions are withdrawn and that, overall, the public interest strongly supports maintaining the status quo through the pendency of this litigation.

He has found a government right to maintain the status quo.

Oddly enough, I recall a state trying to enforce the status quo: separate but equal schools for blacks at gunpoint. It used to be “status quo” that blacks couldn’t use white water fountains, had to sit at the back of the bus, and couldn’t sit at diner counter.

At a guess, Lasnik would be good with that.

Women barred from voting used to be status quo.

Slavery used to be status quo.

The Thirteen Colonies being subjects of the British Crown used to be status quo.

Catholicism being a crime used to be status quo.

Judge Lasnik has invented a right of the government to enslave America in a state of cultural and technological stasis. Ironically: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts…”

The Internet enabled individuals to be heard/read/seen by a far greater audience than the printed word status quo of centuries. Right now, that despicable bastard is chipping away at free speech on the Internet about one particular topic.

If Twitter/Facebook/Google were run by rightwing ultraconservatives, rather than far left socialists, I suspect someone would be happy to apply Lasnik’s “abridging” precedent to shutting them down.

DefDist’s files were out in the wild before the State Department shut them down. State eventually admitted that was wrong. But all the files were still out in the world (I have them myself, and have for years). That was the status quo. People have been home-making guns for centuries; that was the status quo.

Lasnik has created an imaginary right to reset the clock back to some earlier state which makes him happy.

Shall he reset America back to muskets and racial bans on gun ownership? A status quo where dictatorial governors suppress dissent with troops?

Added: Lasnik Memes

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3 thoughts on “[Updated] Rights vs. The Status Quo”

This decision was made by a liberal judge, simply because he knows what such a right to be able to print your own gun, will sound a death knell for much of the gun control crowd. No longer will they be able to ban things like ” assault rifles” or ” high” capacity magazines. The magazines are actually one item that I can see 3 D printing working especially well on.
I went to the state police academy between my junior and senior years in high school, here in Michigan. We did almost the exact same things that a prospective trooper would do for the 7 days I was there. They showed us a collection of weapons that they had taken away from ” criminals” on the streets. The one that sticks out in my mind the most was a kids cap gun, like we used to use, with the roll of caps that popped when the hammer hit them.
Some enterprising soul had used some copper tubing and a few other simple parts, and had converted it into a single shot .22 pistol. The cops called it a zip gun, and at the time I didn’t know it was legal to make a gun at home. Looking at it now, I can see just how simple and legal it would be to make one, and carry it openly, which is totally legal here in MI. No need for any government involvement what so ever.
I thought that the presidential election was important when Trump was elected, so much so that I voted for him, just because I knew that Michigan was an important state, and that the vote here would be close. I think that this fall, in November it is going to be even more important, with the distinct possibility of the house going back to the Democrats. While on it’s face it seems like it is no big deal, since the Republicans have made a shambles of it. But I think that the Democrats would cause even worse problems, simply with control of the very subjects of debate on the floor.
I may not know much, as I prove time and time again on this site, but one thing I am certain of is that I am now a single issue voter. It is out of the 2nd amendment that all of the other protections of the bill of rights springs forth, and it is on that issue that what freedom we do have rises of falls.
I also am going to try as much as possible to stay true to my other voting policy. NRA. Never Re-elect Anyone.

I’ve seen a magazine (the readable kind) wrapped around a shotshell, with a dowel. Dowel drilled out for a nail to extend through as a firing pin. Rubber bands over the protruding nail head. Pull, release, bang. It had been confiscated from a jail inmate.

When tested, it worked.