The numbers on the list
relate to the summaries of the executive orders reported earlier today
by the Washington Times. The titles used are shorthand language by this
author, with a fuller reference in the cited article.
MENTAL HEALTH / MEDICAL SPIES (7)
These executive orders effectively "deputize doctors" to spy on patients, while priming and populating a database to take firearms rights under the pretense of "mental health" issues. This type of legislation has already been pursued by the likes of Sen. Chuck Schumer and others.
Order
#2 Address legal restrictions related to states sharing data under
Health Insurance Portability Act Contributes towards centralized health
care database that will be used to authorize gun purchases.
Order
#14 Directs the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to
"research causes and prevention of gun violence." Undoubtedly, the
report will flag PTSD and other related "mental health" symptoms that
will negate gun ownership. Undoubtedly, it will not properly address the
role of SSRI and other psychotropic prescription medications that an
overwhelming number of mass shooters have reportedly been on.
Order
#16 Under Obamacare, doctors can ask patients about "guns in their
homes,†and are clearly encouraged to flag gun owners that may show
so-called signs of "mental illness." Under the newly revised DSM-5
manual that psychiatrists use for diagnosis, a wide-array of behavior is
categorized as mental illness. While it may be desirable that unhealthy
people find treatment, it is clear that such sweeping labels will serve
to prevent otherwise law-abiding citizens from purchasing guns.
Order #17 Orders a letter to health care providers reminding them to "report threats of violence" to law enforcement.
Clearly, this would also be a database flag used to disqualify
potential buyers. The order leaves room for this policy to be abused.
Order #20 Clarify mental health coverage under Medicaid Emphasizes mental health as an issue of focus.
Order
#21 Clarify "health benefits and parity requirements" under Obamacare
Once again, ObamaCare is tied to collectivist society and effort to
control guns.
Order #22 "Mental-health parity regulations" Mental health
is clearly emerging as a watch word for reigning in firearms ownership
rights. While truly unstable individuals should be helped, the
opportunity for abuse is clearly widespread and troublesome. A nation of
sheep have been encouraged to ask their doctors for pills if they feel
unhappy or depressed. Will a history of SSRI medication be used to take
away an individuals right to bear arms, for instance?
Gun Owners of America
sounded the alarm back in June 2012 that ObamaCare would be used to
flag would-be buyers and disqualify individuals from purchasing weapons:
"Centralizing
these medical records will allow the FBI to troll a list of Americans
for ailments such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to deny them
their gun rights, in the same way that the Veterans Administration has already denied more than 150,000 veterans their right to bear arms."
A
summary review of these executive orders makes clear that this kind of
profiling and issuing of "no buy" lists is indeed a major concern that
undermines Second Amendment rights.
Good intentions to promote "mental health"
are distorted and used to "out" supposedly unqualified individuals who
will have no due process, no trial and no chance to even make a case
concerning their rights.
While ObamaCare and other health care
practices will increasingly flag patients and enter them into a
database, the Obama cabinet will be engaged in selling the American public, taking away the rights of individuals on the basis of "mental health."
BRAINWASHING AMERICANS ON MENTAL HEALTH & GUN OWNERSHIP (2)
Order #7 Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign During the Clinton Administration,
now Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to "brainwash" people on guns,
attempting to change the perception of gun ownership the way that
attitudes towards cigarette smoking was changed. Clearly, the
president's new campaign would continue this effort, demonizing and
undermining the clear constitutional and self-defense rationale for
bearing arms.
Order #23 "National dialogue" on "mental health"
w/ HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius & Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan Meanwhile, the
heads of two of the most dangerous and distorted agencies will tour the
nation to lecture on reforming the nations' "mental health" practices. Again, this has all been issued in the context of gun control.
The Obama Administration
is wantonly infringing upon the Second Amendment again by trying to
distort the lines of jurisdiction and give the Dept. of Health and Human
Services (administering ObamaCare) and the Dept. of Education authority
on labeling or dealing with people deemed unfit for ownership.
"NO BUY" LIST / "SEIZED GUNS" / PRIVATE SALES: ATF, FBI, LAW ENFORCEMENT (8)
The data amassed through the health care system will be matched with the criminal background checks that are already in place. Felons are already barred from purchasing firearms. Now, law enforcement
is instructed to run additional background checks before "returning
seized guns" while federally licensed firearms dealers are saddled with
additional ATF regulations, and will, apparently be facilitating
background checks for "private sales," which are targeted for further
restrictions under this initial executive action.
Again, the stage is clearly set for background check authorization denial on the basis of "mental health" flags, on top of already instituted criminal history flags.
Order #1 Strengthens data sharing under federal background check system Further centralized integration of data.
Order
#3 Provides incentives for states to provide background check In
addition to infringement on the Second Amendment, much of this executive
action furthers the trend of federal overreach, guarded in theory by
the Tenth Amendment. This order calls for "incentives" (i.e. federal
dollars) for cooperation by states which have a constitutional right to
non-compliance with federal policies.
Order #4 Attorney General
to "review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun"
Again, we see the formation of a “no buy†list similar to terrorism
watch lists and "no fly" lists maintained by Homeland Security
where due process is non-existent and individuals are flagged and
disbarred based on suspicion or 'signs' of mental illness or related
behavior. The potential for abuse and lack of legal recourse is clear.
Order #5 Law enforcement
shall "run full background check" before "returning seized guns" The
question here is what is a "seized gun" and under what circumstances is
it seized?
Will unregistered firearms, otherwise legally owned by a law abiding individual, be seized?
This
policy potentially violates legal gun owners stopped in traffic, at
checkpoints, at registration (as proposed under Feinstein's bill) or
even at home visits. While background checks can be done almost
instantaneously, a "full" background check could disarm legal owners for
days or weeks until individuals are cleared and, essentially permitted,
to resume ownership.
Order #6 ATF to send letter to gun dealers
on "how to run background checks for private sales" This is a big area.
We have already witnessed the ATF attempting to halt legal private gun
sales in the state of Texas.
Now, as a half-measure to banning
private sales outright, prospective buyers will be forced to go register
and pass background checks at dealer locations, effectively outlawing
purely private sales.
Meanwhile, licensed firearms dealers,
already burdened with paperwork and red tape, will apparently be forced
to facilitate private sale transactions, after receiving ATF policy
mandates on "how to run background checks."
Order #9 Require
federal law enforcement "trace guns recovered in criminal
investigations" This executive order reeks of the hypocrisy exercised by
the Obama Administration during Operation Fast & Furious, which has
now thoroughly unfolded into a scandal that has found Attorney General
Eric Holder in contempt for lying about what he knew and when, while
casting doubt on the honest intentions of the ATF and Department of
Justice.
The Obama Administration admittedly “walkedâ€
thousands of semi-automatic weapons (now conveniently targeted by gun
banners) into the hands of Mexican drug cartels so that they could
subsequently be "traced" and blamed for crimes.
Order #10 Dept.
of Justice to analyze "lost and stolen guns" data, make available
Further centralizing data to trace guns, this order has the potential
for abuse by criminalizing otherwise law-abiding owners who've not
cooperated in registration efforts and may possess "lost or stolen guns"
through legal means.
Order #11 New BATF director appointed. This
relates to a purging of officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives who were either indicated in the Fast and
Furious scandal, or who may hold further information on other officials
involved, particularly those higher up in the chain. Whistleblowers at
the ATF helped uncover some of the details about Fast and Furious that
were ultimately linked to Obama cabinet officials.
SAFETY DRILLS to push crisis culture, paranoia training and federal money/jurisdiction (6)
Finally,
in fitting with the federalization of background checks, data sharing,
and a mandate over gun safety and "mental health", the executive branch
is sticking its hands into safety protocol at schools, churches, public
centers and more.
It further hypes of the paranoia of terrorism
and lone wolf domestic extremists identified by Homeland Security and
other departments to institute mandatory training drills, crisis
scenarios and the like that have the potential for abuse by wasting tax
payer dollars on statistically unlikely scenarios while federalizing the
chain of command and jurisdiction for police and other first
responders.
Order #8 Review safety standards gun locks / gun safes
Order
#12 First responders, schools active shooter training Homeland Security
and FEMA have already been conducting training and drills based on mall
shooters, returning veterans gone wild, homeland terrorist and other
related scenarios. The Infowars crew covered one such drill that took
place in Denver, not far from the Aurora Batman massacre, that was
dubbed "Operation Mountain Guardian" and run by a federal chain of
command headed by Homeland Security.
Now, organizations like
CrisisActors.org are institutionalizing this training by hiring
FEMA-certified actors who play various roles in these terror and shooter
scenarios. Obama's executive order expands and further mandates this
practice for incidents which are statistically very rare, but widely
hyped in the media as imminent.
While certain aspects of this
kind of training may be prudent, in many respects it conditions the
public and first responder force to accept greater government control as
an automatic response to any mass casualty incident, when the
jurisdiction would normally fall on local or state authorities.
Order
#13 Efforts to "prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime" Obama
voted for laws to 'throw the book' at illegal gun owners who defended
their homes from invaders in the state of Illinois, the home of the
murder capital of the world, Chicago.
Private gun sales and
unregistered firearms will clearly be prosecuted, while Castle laws and
'Stand Your Ground' legislation will be undermined or challenged (recall
the Trayvon Martin case).
Order #15 Attorney General report on 'gun-safety technologies'
Again,
the same Attorney General who wanted to brainwash Americans on guns and
who was complicit in the Fast & Furious scandal wants to implement
new technologies and promote gun safety. Where is Holder's credibility
to do so?
Order #18 Incentives to schools to "hire
school-resource officers" Federalized money will be thrown around for
politically-correct "school-resource officers" who will likely provide
counseling and monitor student behavior.
Order #19 Model emergency response plans for schools / worship / college campuses
The
Sikh temple shooting, the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre and the
Batman movie premiere massacre have all brought the fear of violence to
our private lives, and invited in the federal government to mediate
those spheres.
Once again, it is generally abusive for a
president to rule by executive fiat, and the authority to do so demands
questions. It is all the more unconstitutional for a president to take
on a constitutionally-guaranteed right and attempt to reign it in
through countless regulations, all without formally consulting Congress.
While
further gun control legislation has been recommended by the Obama
Administration, and will be pushed via the kind of bills being
introduced by Sen. Feinstein and Sen. Schumer, the people should demand
that the overreach of executive power be checked by calls for
impeachment, as Infowars.com recommended yesterday and in past
occasions.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
http://www.infowars.com/infowars-analysis-of-obamas-war-on-guns/
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article points out that gun control will be mandated through Obamacare by linking so-called "medical care" and gun confiscation.)
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