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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:48:13 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>In article <v4tfeh$1ons5$1@dont-email.me>,
> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/18/2024 9:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> > In article <v4t1dt$1ig6v$1@dont-email.me>,
>> >   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> On 6/18/2024 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> >>> In article <v4s1q2$1c3jr$7@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Maybe if we all chipped in a few bucks, Clarenzabell and Sammy Flagflyer
>> >>>> would change their votes.
>> >>>
>> >>> Weird how Alito's flag also has flown over San Francisco's city hall for
>> >>> more than half a century. Hardly a bastion of conservatism, San
>> >>> Francisco. Yet when SF prog pols fly it, it's no big deal.
>> >>>
>> >>> https://ibb.co/S6wFxDy
>> >>>
>> >>> It was also used prominently by BLM during their 'mostly peaceful'
>> >>> Summer of Love.
>> >>>
>> >>> https://ibb.co/Z8kvvMc
>> >>>
>> >>> So to recap: a flag when flown by leftist pols and far-left violent
>> >>> communist protest groups is totes cool, but the moment a conservative
>> >>> raises it on his private property, he should be impeached and removed
>> >>> from office.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, we hold a Supreme Court Justice to a stricter standard of
>> >> impartiality than we do an organization like BLM.  Life's unfair...
>> > 
>> > Government officials are government officials. If it's not a problem for
>> > the ones in San Francisco to fly it, it's not a problem for any official
>> > to fly it.
>> 
>> When I say "we hold a Supreme Court Justice to a stricter standard", I 
>> am, of course, speaking of a time when such fantasy seemed within reach.
>
>Now it's "we hold Supreme Court justices to a double standard".
>
>Just look at the faux-rage over Clarence Thomas's "perks"-- which I 
>acknowledge are unseemly-- but there's no similar outrage from the 
>pearl-clutchers on the Left over Kagan's and Sotomayor's indulgences.

As if we all don't have billionaire best friends who pay for our travel
and exotic vacations...