Passage of S. 909 is indeed a staggering blow to lovers of freedom. Many will now conclude it’s not worthwhile to attempt to resist the next wave of Orwellian legislation.
After the pro-hate bill victory in the Senate July 16, I hoped against hope to find (or contrive) a way to induce President Obama to veto the arms/hate bill. Conflict between the President’s will versus that of the House of Representatives in regard to further purchase of F-22 fighters seemed to hold such promise. That hope faded in discussion I had Friday with the office of Democrat Rep. Earl Blumenauer from my district. His staffer told me that despite a 389-22 vote in the House last month in favor of adding 7 to 12 Raptors to the arms bill, House Democrat leadership is now moving rapidly to abandon such support. They will unite with the Senate to strip further F-22s, determined to present Obama with an arms/hate bill package in no danger of veto.
Further, he told me, the defense industry, far from being disappointed or miffedat losing $1.75 billion in F-22 contracts, looks forward to receiving the samefunds for production of the more modern, versatile F-35. Blumenauer’s officeis receiving no pressure from the defense industry to revive the F-22 issue.
Clearly, there no longer exists any substantive basis to believe the arms/hatebill might be vetoed. Thus it is not plausible that public pressure might inducePresident Obama not to sign the hate bill into law this fall. After proposing a last-ditch offensive to defeat the hate bill late last week,I feel something like the Japanese soldiers who kept fighting on remote SouthPacific islands well after the war ended. If such tenacity is a fault, I wouldrather be guilty of it than have failed to do everything I could to kill thehate bill while there was time.
But there is still very much all of us can do to preserve liberty.
We need to help make the hate law unenforceable by resisting and disobeying inevitablegovernment edicts (particularly as precedents from liberal courts) to limit freespeech. This will require willingness to suffer for the cause of truth and freedom.