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The Court finds that the irreparable harms the States are likely to suffer if the existing restrictions are withdrawn and that, overall, the public interest strongly supports maintaining the status quo through the pendency of this litigation.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