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Date Posted: 12:48:31 06/15/02 Sat
Author: Drummond
Subject: Second Amendment advocate supports bullet tax (and Indian gaming rights)

(Note - Wes Chesbro is a liberal politician in my area who votes with the wind, changing his position on the death penalty after Polly Klaas, and coincidentally shortly before running for State Senate).
From the Anderson Valley Advertiser, by Bruce Anderson (a self-identified "libertarian socialist"). You've got to love his prose, regardless of what you think of his unorthodox politics. He takes the Pulitzer quote "A newspaper should have no friends" to heart. He actually slammed me once, when I was on a side he didn't like in a court case. I felt honored!


Profiles in Chesbro-ism.

The Northcoast's blandly corrupt State Senator has again proved himself as the big Eggo among State Senate wafflers, this time by abstaining on a bill that would tax bullets. Bullets? Bullets. Chesbro voted on the eleven other matters placed before his self-interested snout at last Wednesday's session of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, but couldn't "pull the trigger" (sic) on the one that would put a 5-cent tax on every single round of ammo sold in California. This is a tough one for Chesbro. Northcoast libs will delude themselves that their boy has struck a blow against gun violence if he votes yes, but the gun people, a mono-maniacal constituency equivalent in froth-power to the abortion nuts, ar fanatical single-issue voters. I hasten to add I own five guns myself, but I've found most intruders can be repelled with a single butt stroke to the chin without my expending so much as a single bullet so Chesbro can put a $50 surcharge on bullets so far as I'm concerned. I've got enough ammo to reload at least once. Who needs more than that?

The cammo buddies. That's who. The gun people who don't like the bullet tax bill tend to be the kind of guys who dress up like recon jungle patrols and shoot up whole boxes of bullets just for the fantasy of it.

But speaking as an occassional bullet buyer, the bullet tax is a good idea. Its revenues would pay for the hospital care of uninsured victims of gunshot wounds, and there are more and more of them all the time in our ever more pathological society.

Senator Chesbro's first instinct being to lie, he compelled a female staffer to tell media he wasn't present when the bullet tax came up for a vote, that the senator had "other legislative commitments." When a reporter produced the vote tally showing that Chesbro had in fact been present and had voted on everly else but the bullet tax, Chesbro had to come out from behind his staffers' skirts to say he'd been there, that he'd abastained, and that he was a "moderate" on gun issues, that he hadn't made up his mind on how he'll vote on the bullet tax when it comes to a vote of both houses of California's over-large redundant legislature (Like we don't even need a State Senate, but there they are).


As it's readers have long known, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat is synomyomous hypocrisy. For years the paper has beat the drums for the wine industry as a desirable form of Northcoast "development," even gooing so far as to publish breathless profiles of leading wine moguls on the front page of the paper as if their profligate eating and drinking practices were of any interest whatsoever to most normal people.

While the wine industry has laid waste to great swathes of the Northcoast with only the worst of their crimes receiving any attention from the PD, here comes a small band of Indians doing some modest site prep for a casino in the vined-over Alexander Valley; the PD roars out with shocked front-pagers complete with aerial photos about them damn Injuns scraping off a hillside, and are they really Injuns or just a bunch of Las Vegas pimps dressed up like Tonto?

What is it about Indians finally getting a crack at a few bucks that sets off so many palefaces? And where do Alexander Valley grape growers get off complaining in their in-house newspaper about environmental damage they allege Indians are doing after all the ecological havoc they've wrought?

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