COPS KNOW CLINTON IS PHONY

Cops know Clinton is phony.

It's taken nearly seven years, but it looks as though-finally-rank and file cops are ready to publicly call Clinton the hypocrite he is regarding law enforcement and gun control.

According to an article in Capitol Hill Blue Sept. 8, the Law Enforcement Alliance of America is preparing to launch an ad campaign (today) decrying Clinton's hypocrisy and informing Americans that, among other things, Clinton's "Justice" Department has had a 46 percent drop in prosecutions since Attorney General Janet Reno took over.

Specifically, the LEAA's campaign will oppose "the president, congressional Democrats and other gun control advocates." Jim Fortiss, executive director of the 65,000-member strong LEAA, said that Clinton "almost on a daily basis, exploits the rank-and-file of the law enforcement community to further his anti-gun agenda, yet his own administration has a reprehensible record of prosecuting criminals who violate the laws already on the books."

"It is an insult to the injured and maimed police officers and all in law enforcement who risk their lives on a daily basis to even consider more gun legislation, not to mention releasing convicted terrorists for politically motivated reasons," he added.

Amen. How many times have we heard this? And yet-to hear Clinton, Democrats and the mainstream media tell it-all cops hate guns and those who own them. That's just garbage.

In fact, study after study has shown that some 90 percent of police officers regularly say they support gun rights and the right to carry a concealed weapon. They say that because they-and not the anointed gun socialists-know that such constitutional principles are key deterrents to crime. Outside of posting a cop on every street corner-which is Clinton's wet dream and the wet dream of every socialist authoritarian-gun in the hands of America's law abiding stop more crime than anything else.

But you cannot convince the gun Nazis that this is either true or a sound idea. No, they'd rather continue to have their loved ones gunned down by real criminals who know that neither they nor their neighbors are armed and can do nothing to stop them. They'd rather continue to be too scared to walk down their own streets while pointing fingers at law abiding gun owners and comparing them to some distant, knuckle-dragging relative of the human race.

What cowardly stupidity.

It is these gun Nazis-and not law abiding gun owners-who are most responsible for hundreds of violent crime deaths a year.

It is they who insist on an unarmed and undefended population. It is they who revel in perpetual "victim" status, not pro-rights Americans who long ago realized that guns-not laws and not politicians-help keep American society safe. The most recent crime figures bear this out.

The LEAA hopes to convince millions of Americans that most beat cops are neither afraid of the Second Amendment nor of the right of anyone to use it. They already know what the socialist Clinton and his Democrat and Republican cohorts don't care to admit: Cops, too, are safer with more guns on the street.

This article was published Thursday, September 9, 1999 in the WorldNetDaily by Jon E. Dougherty, a contributing editor to this news source.