NEWS RELEASE
BLOOMBERG OUTRAGE: ASKS JUDGE TO BAN 2ND AMENDMENT REFERENCES!
BELLEVUE, WA – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has moved from outrage
to atrocity by asking anti-gun activist federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein
to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during a civil lawsuit
trial beginning May 27 against Georgia gun dealer Jay Wallace,
proprietor at Adventure Outdoors.
The New York Sun re****ted that Bloomberg’s attorneys made the request.
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said the move
clearly shows that Bloomberg has “total disregard not only for the
Second Amendment, but also the First.”
Bloomberg’s attorney on this case, Eric Proshansky, has re****tedly
argued in a brief that “Any references to the Second Amendment or
analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant” to
the upcoming trial.
“This trial is supposed to be held in a federal court, not a kangaroo
court,” Gottlieb stated. “What’s next, a request that Judge Weinstein
not allow defense witnesses or rebuttal? Why not just dispense with the
trial altogether and lynch Mr. Wallace from the limb of a tree out in
Central Park?
“The civil prosecution, and un-civil persecution, of Jay Wallace has
never really been about the Second Amendment, until right now,” he
observed. “And, thanks to Mr. Proshansky’s brief, this trial is suddenly
all about the First Amendment as well.
“We are neither surprised nor shocked at Mayor Bloomberg and the city’s
attorney for making this move,” Gottlieb added. “This is the kind of
behavior one should expect from a billionaire demagogue who considers
himself so far above the law that he launched this vigilante campaign
against firearms retailers by stepping outside legal channels in the
first place. He sent private agents to several states without legal
authority, jeopardizing legitimate on-going criminal investigations in
the process.
“Now Bloomberg wants a gag order,” he concluded. “Apparently, in Mikey’s
world, a fair trial is one in which a defense attorney is muzzled, and
the defendant is already guilty until proven innocent. Bloomberg missed
his calling. Instead of being mayor of an American city, he should have
been the administrator of a gulag.”
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