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Letter: Rights at risk

The Columbian
Published: July 7, 2013, 5:00pm

The Benghazi scandal, the IRS scandal, the harassment of the Associated Press, the “Fast and Furious” scandal, countless violations of our Constitution, spying on American citizens, the National Defense Authorization Act provision permitting indefinite detention of American citizens without legal recourse, trillion-dollar annual deficits, the stonewalling of attempts to control illegal immigration — each of which are far worst scandals than Watergate. (At least Nixon had the decency to resign.) Did somebody say “impeachment”?

Now the Department of Homeland Security is proposing to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition (http://bit.ly/121jgff), “personal defense” weapons, another name for assault weapons. This is done all while President Obama and the radical Democrats seek to deprive American citizens of their constitutional right to keep and bear arms (which was written as a defense against tyranny in government). Is there a pattern here? Ironically, we just celebrated “freedom” on July 4 — most of which we’ve now lost.

Robert Wassman

Vancouver

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