The week in review: Sept.11-17

What a week this has been for 2nd Amendment supporters! The 'blatantly illegal' gun confiscation in New Orleans, though glossed over in the major media (which has apparently returned to its role as government lapdog), has raced over the Net like wildfire as gun owner support groups pooiint out that 'Disaster can't destroy gun rights' (NRA) , call for investigation of the gun seizures (CCRKBA) and call for grass roots action to 'Help rattle the cages on gun confiscation ' (GOA); cartoonist extraordinaire Scott Bieser produces perhaps his most important political cartoon ever ('Boston in 1774, New Orleans in 2005 ') and columnists point out 'Gun seizures are unacceptable, Mr. President! ' (no answer from the Prez, of course:-) , 'Bad decision, dangerous precedent ' (the understatement of the week) and 'Katrina educates world on need for owning guns ' . Will this indeed be a ';moment of ephinany' as L. Neil Smith believes? Or, as the establishment apparently hopes ...does 'Everybody love martial law' (Joe Plummer)?

Meanwhile, ... in the disaster area, the 'Algiers Point militia guards neighborhood ', while 'Fears of post-Katrina disorder spark gun-buying spree ' and 'WalMart halts gun sales, infuriates customers ' ... while across America, citizens continue to defend themselves, their neighbors and their property , in Alabama, Louisiana, Idaho, Georgia, New Mexico, Minnesota, Florida, Colorado, and Conecticut; in Virginia 'Gun show owner, patron, may file law suit' against the BATF and police who 'conducted 'Task Force' undercover surveillance and enforcement operations in connection with six gun shows in Richmond, Va., between July of 2004 and June of 2005'.

These are, indeed, interesting times ... keep your powder dry!

Til next week

Mary Lou

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