I suspect rather than coincidence, that these guys have a perverse sense of humor coupled with complete disdain for the intelligence and awareness of the peasants. Their MAP 21 is another brick in the Agenda 21 wall to incarcerate and enslave the masses.
The following arrived as an e-mail action alert. I’m posting it here as it gives a good explanation of the trick they are trying to pull on a significant, but minority group of gun owners … who have the right to self defense just as much as any other human on this planet.
STOP THE “MAP-21” BILL EMPOWERING
THE IRS TO GRAB OUR GUNS!
URGENT: Congress horse-trading, wheeling and dealing in Conference to produce the FINAL VERSION of a new titanic transportation bill full of pork and log rolling. But you need to know that it ALSO attacks Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms! Among the hidden provisions of the “MAP-21” Act are ones that could give the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the power to TAKE AWAY firearms from anyone ACCUSED of being delinquent on their taxes! DEMAND THIS BILL BE MADE TO COMPLY WITH THE CONSTITUTION, OR VOTED DOWN!
Congress is SO desperate for cash to fund their pork-fests, they will sell out our Constitutional Right to Arms to the IRS tax collectors – and never mind our guaranteed Due Process rights! INCREDIBLY, BOTH Houses of Congress are gearing up to pass this disgusting encroachment on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms – We MUST stop it in its tracks before it’s too late!
DEMAND EVERY SINGLE U.S. CONGRESSMAN REJECT THE “MAP-21” BILL HANDING OVER OUR GUNS AND PASSPORTS TO THE IRS! SELECT HERE TO SEND YOUR BLASTFAX AND STOP THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATROCITY NOW!
We have been alerting you to the UNCONSTITUTIONAL violations against your God-given, fundamental rights and protections of Due Process! What makes this “MAP-21” Act even worse than what we’ve known about in this bill all along are illicit provisions for CONFISCATION OF PERSONAL FIREARMS, TOO!
The only thing is, America as a whole does NOT know about these gun-grabbing provisions because they have been tucked away into the HUGE highway bill that is supposed “to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.”
“For other purposes…”
“MAP-21” is officially called the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” but MAKE NO MISTAKE – “MAP-21” goes FAR BEYOND highway safety and construction and delves into the nasty area of UNCONSTITUTIONALLY EMPOWERING the already TOO-powerful, UNACCOUNTABLE, over-bloated IRS and BIG GOVERNMENT PRIVACY VIOLATORS.
If “MAP-21” is not stopped, it could give the IRS the power to ACCUSE Americans of tax delinquency WITHOUT DUE PROCESS, and “authorize” this agency to revoke their passports and travel rights, place them in a centralized database, AND ARBITRARILY DICTATE THE ABRIDGEMENT OF THEIR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO OWN A FIREARM.
DEMAND EVERY SINGLE U.S. CONGRESSMAN REJECT THE “MAP-21” BILL HANDING OVER OUR GUNS AND PASSPORTS TO THE IRS! SELECT HERE TO SEND YOUR BLASTFAX AND STOP THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATROCITY NOW!
And speaking of centralized databases – the bill ALSO mandates black box tracking devices in all new cars, and orders the deployment of ‘vehicle to infrastructure’ communication systems. In other words, your vehicle will become part of ‘the Internet of things’ that the national security and intelligence community has been crowing about, and through your car or truck you will be compelled to submit to constant real-time tracking, eavesdropping and surveillance by a privacy violating, liberty stealing Big Brother.
On the gun grabbing and IRS passport revocations, our dear friend and colleague former Congressman Tom Tancredo notes on his website, “No formal charges are required. Simply the accusation from the IRS is sufficed to strip American citizens of their Constitutional rights.”
That’s right!
All the IRS has to do is CLAIM that a citizen owes $50,000 or more in taxes and the IRS has the authority to REVOKE any American’s travel rights, essentially placing them on the domestic terrorist list – and then REMOVE THEIR UNALIENABLE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: Congress is READY TO PASS this bill authorizing the IRS to VIOLATE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
We’re not making a mountain out of a mole hill, folks. The Left-controlled mainstream media does not want YOU to know about this, so do not be expecting to hear a breakdown of the ‘Highway to Socialism’ bill on your evening news. With the help of ever-Progressive members of Congress – ahem, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer and a host of enabling RINOs – this bill is IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, READY TO PASS THE HOUSE and it has ALREADY PASSED THE SENATE.
DEMAND EVERY SINGLE U.S. CONGRESSMAN REJECT THE “MAP-21” BILL HANDING OVER OUR GUNS AND PASSPORTS TO THE IRS! SELECT HERE TO SEND YOUR BLASTFAX AND STOP THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATROCITY NOW!
The Daily Economist reports that “MAP-21” (S.1813):
“… contains a provision that would allow the IRS to order the State Department to refuse to grant, refuse to renew, revoke or restrict the passport of any U.S. citizen which the IRS certifies owes the IRS $50,000 or more in unpaid taxes. There is no requirement that the tax payer be guilty of or even charged with tax evasion, fraud, or any criminal offense – only that the citizen is alleged to owe the IRS back taxes of $50,000 or more.”
You’ve heard of the government’s “No-Fly” List for TERRORISTS, haven’t you? Well, now thanks to our elected Reps if you’re ACCUSED (NOT EVEN CHARGED OR PROVED IN A COURT OF LAW) of owing back taxes, YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN A DOMESTIC TERRORIST!
Fellow Citizens, the death of our due process rights is the death of liberty – the death of the republic, make no mistake!
And under this criminal, thuggish Obama administration, you better believe gun-owning, law-abiding, hard-working patriotic Americans won’t be treated as swell as convicted domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Of course, it pays to have friends and confidantes in the Oval Office.
IF this bill becomes law, not only can the IRS come in and take your guns BASED ON UNPROVEN ACCUSATIONS, the IRS can even BLOCK YOU FROM BUYING ANY GUN IN THE FUTURE!
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was caught bragging to our dear friends at the Brady Center that the “no-fly” list would be used to keep citizens, who’ve received no due process or been charged with any crime, on a binding “no-buy” gun list!
DEMAND EVERY SINGLE U.S. CONGRESSMAN REJECT THE “MAP-21” BILL HANDING OVER OUR GUNS AND PASSPORTS TO THE IRS! SELECT HERE TO SEND YOUR BLASTFAX AND STOP THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATROCITY NOW!
The Highway Trust Fund is facing imminent insolvency, yet in terms of funding, its principal purpose, MAP-21 merely kicks the can down the road. In addition, MAP-21 – which has been described by Capitol Hill insiders as a 15-month extension relying on 10 years of revenue – contains these outrageously unconstitutional, liberty-stealing, “non-germane” provisions that MUST BE STRUCK IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE NOW!
Additional non-germane policy changes include the RESTORE Act, which includes a seven-year reauthorization of the Department of Interior’s Land and Water Conservation Fund (Sec. 1701) – a land-grab tool used by environmentalists and nanny-state regulations in the independent trucking industry that will cost billions. In total, MAP-21 contains $6.8 billion in new non-highway program spending.
Because the House did not pass a comprehensive bill, conference members are building off the Senate’s lefty MAP-21 for the final version. The Conference Committee’s members include several Big Government lawmakers from the Atlantic corridor – Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Bob Menendez of New Jersey; House conferees include New York Congressmen Tim Bishop, Jerry Nadler, and Richard Hanna.
DEMAND EVERY SINGLE U.S. CONGRESSMAN REJECT THE “MAP-21” BILL HANDING OVER OUR GUNS AND PASSPORTS TO THE IRS! SELECT HERE TO SEND YOUR BLASTFAX AND STOP THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATROCITY NOW!
You’re not going to find any specific passage in the 1,674-page monster ‘highway’ bill that plainly states what the feds are planning to do, unless you know what to look for – after all, these are career politicians and apparatchiks we’re talking about – not straight-talking folks like you and I – and they would never jeopardize their careers by blatantly telling us they were out to get our guns. Oh no. Instead, they would imply what they were after, leave their power to act “authorized” – and hope it goes unnoticed by opposing Constitutionalists.
It didn’t.
Not only does this bill give the IRS the power to revoke your gun rights on an unproven whim that you may owe $50k in back taxes, this bill leaves WIDE OPEN the possibility for the Secretary of Transportation to revoke (perhaps in the event of a ‘national emergency’) permits to transport guns and ammunition on the nation’s highways, railways and possibly air and waterways – effectively destroying the Second Amendment rights of ALL gun-owners, buyers, sellers and manufacturers across America!
Served military time overseas, perhaps? “MAP-21” is Obama’s minions on Capitol Hill thanking you for it. – NOT!