Why Did Zell Miller Switch Political Parties ?

[Oscar Knight]

....In Zell Miller's Book :

In chapters eleven through nineteen, Miller talks about specific issues and explains why he takes the stands that he does. From his opposition to abortion, to his supporting for government funding for the arts, to his support for Second Amendment rights, Miller explains why he holds these and other political positions; some in compliance and some that go against his own political party.

www.epinions.com/review/A_National_Party_No_More_The_Conscience_of_a_Conservative_Democrat/content_246945451652?sb=1

www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/08/zell_miller.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Democrat

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Miller

Zell Miller's Stand on The Second Amendment

First to the political arena, where Second Amendment advocates claimed an enormous victory last week when Southern Democratic governors, joined by Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller, called on Democrats to be more sympathetic and supportive of people who own guns. This follows Senator Miller’s remarks at a National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting where he concurred with NRA officials that gun owners in Southern states like Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia cost Al Gore the election. "It’s about values. It’s about setting priorities. It’s about personal freedom. It’s about trust," remarked Senator Miller. (Let’s not forget it’s also about the Constitution.)

www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_updates/other_noteworthy_cases/annie_get_your_gun.htm

[Oscar Knight]

Remarks by U.S. Senator Zell Miller at 2002 NRA Annual Meeting

nraila.org/news-issues/speeches/remarks-by-us-senator-zell-miller-at-2002-nra-annual-meeting.aspx?s=

[Oscar Knight]

Democrats Distance Themselves from the Brady Bunch

WITH AN EVER WIDENING split in the Democratic Party on the issue of gun control, Sarah Brady and her group, are still working hard to keep the issue viable in the political arena. The Brady bunch, formerly known as Handgun Control, Inc., are trying new tactics as Americans’ enthusiasm for gun control has lessened and Democrats are reassessing the issue.

Under the leadership of Bill Clinton the Democratic Party was almost in lockstep with the Bradys. At the 1996 Democratic convention Sarah and Jim Brady were featured prime time speakers promoting their gun control agenda. Yet, during those dark years for law-abiding gun owners there were a few bright spots in the Democratic Party. Three Democratic Governors, Zell Miller of Georgia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Jim Hunt of North Carolina, bucked the national trend and supported gun owner interests.

....Read More :

archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24150

[Oscar Knight]

.....For those in our audience that is unfamiliar with the Brady Campaign, You might read that this group is for "Common Sense Gun Laws".......( Obama deploys this catchy phrase also ).....Not so, this group opposes the Individual Right to Bear Arms, under our Secondment :

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER

Amici Briefs

BRIEF FOR BRADY CENTER

#5
]4. The phrase “keep and bear Arms” refers to
possession and use of weapons for military
purposes
While the lower court thought it self-evident that
the word “keep” injects a private, non-militia purpose
into the Amendment, there is no historical or textual
basis to believe that while the right to “bear Arms” is
military, the right to “keep and bear Arms” is not.
There are, of course, multiple contexts in which “keep”
has an “obvious individual and private meaning[].” Pet.
App. 27a. It does not, however, have that meaning as
part of the phrase “keep and bear Arms” in a constitutional
provision referencing the importance of a “well
regulated Militia.”

supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/07-290/07-290.mer.ami.pet.brady.pdf

Despite the perception that the decision was a setback for gun control advocates, Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement that he was "pleased that the Court reaffirmed its language in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment individual right to possess guns in the home for self-defense does not prevent our elected representatives from enacting common-sense gun laws to protect our communities from gun violence."

Helmke argued that Chicago can now amend its laws

www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20009049-503544.html

Obama: ‘Common Sense Regulation’ on Gun Owners’ Rights

abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/02/obama-common-se/

Obama Plays it Safe on Issue of Guns

2008

abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4298582

[Oscar Knight]

.........We already have too many gun control laws, However, these laws is not being enforced by our courts :

The Rapper Rules

T.I. sentenced to one year on gun charges

What's wrong with our laws ?

Those laws are not logically or reasonably being enforced; This is living proof.

Andrew Young suggested that, “The civil rights movement, in many ways, was a campaign against white violence in America” that was largely “won by judges” who relied on “creative thinking” to promote racial equality and end racial violence in the South. Young thanked Pannell for engaging in a similar kind of creative thinking in sentencing Harris.

Harris' community work since his arrest has made visible inroads in “black violence in our society” that is “perhaps now more dangerous to the community than white violence had ever been,” Young explained.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Friday for illegally possessing machine guns and silencers, as prosecutors lauded his anti-violence advocacy since his arrest.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, originally faced up to 20 years in prison and the effective end of his career but performing community service as part of his plea agreement with prosecutors reduced his sentence.

The rapper, who has a 1998 crack cocaine conviction that made it illegal for him to own guns, pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing machine guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.

The charges stemmed from T.I.'s October 13, 2007, arrest by federal agents after the rapper had a bodyguard buy machine guns and silencers for him, prosecutors said.

www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE52Q6LF20090327

Andy Young speaks up for rapper T.I. in sentencing

At the hearing, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s most trusted lieutenants, praised the judge as he spoke on Harris' behalf.

Young suggested that, “The civil rights movement, in many ways, was a campaign against white violence in America” that was largely “won by judges” who relied on “creative thinking” to promote racial equality and end racial violence in the South. Young thanked Pannell for engaging in a similar kind of creative thinking in sentencing Harris.

www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=3/30/2009@30968

"The rapper, who has a 1998 crack cocaine conviction that made it illegal for him to own guns".

The firearms he was possessing, required federal stamps, because were classified as full auto machine guns and low report sound suppressors. For each federal offense, TI should have been charged a minimum of ten years for each offense, in a Federal Prison.

Why the Year and One Day sentence ?

Because, an inmate in a Federal Prison can received time off for good behavior, only if they are sentence to more than a year. The year might turn into 10 months.

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[Oscar Knight]

.......Do we really need to know the answer, has to the reasoning behind Zell Miller's decision to switch over from being a Democrat to a Republican ?

....The Democrat Party is so infected by special interest groups and organizations, the party has become nothing but a knock down, drag out, party of total chaos.

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Zell Miller and Ronald Reagan. Joe Lieberman threw the ba*tards away too.

[Oscar Knight]

Ronald Reagan tells joke about Democrats

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