Congratulations to Bobby Jindal for his win of the Governor’s office of the state of Louisiana. Governor-elect Jindal’s first act as chief executive of Louisiana is to call an emergency meeting of his state’s Assembly.

The agenda is to clean house of corruption. I gladly praised Bobby Jindal last year in my book  – Transfer of Wealth – and I am so very pleased at his win. Congratulations, again, Bobby.

I addressed the aftermath of Katrina, pointing to the utter disgrace of how the Dems had run things to the point of undermining the American way of life. I had pointed to several disgraces during and post-Katrina, and shown how Jindal’s courage has served successfully to begin to turn things around for his state. You could see his leadership - his patriotism - shine early on.

His dignifying the people then and now is most encouraging, and what Americans love in any candidate is to know they are respected. This, no doubt, will be part of his service for Louisiana, and it is this which makes news in whether his win can signal other patriotic wins around the nation.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed not only whole communities, but its winds finally blew the roof off the smoke-filled rooms of abuse of due process. The poverty there — forty years of it — is described by most of the media as a failure of Government, but this is very misleading. It is a failure of Democrat policies which had for so long operated against the better judgment of the constituents.

The insistence of the Dems instituted one horribly wrong policy, among many - in such largess, it substituted the Democrat Demagoguery for Spirit, and committed the second most objectionable and foreseeable form of cleansing - the prevention of whole families from being born - in breeding generations of Hopelessness. Dependency and Hopelessness. The prevention of families from being born.

Largess is one of the ugliest compounds in the formulary of demagoguery as it masquerades as compassion. It breaks personal spirit, it discourages self-respect, it breeds anger, and it substitutes dependency for faith. Dependency is the ankle shackle of chains.

This is an exquisite example of how disrespectful one party is of its constituents, the formula for success being Jindal’s view of his constituents.

From Page 36 of Transfer Of Wealth…

In 2006, the law-abiding won another victory in Louisiana in the passage of HR 5013, otherwise known as The Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act, sponsored by Bobby Jindal (R-La). The Act bars Federal officials from takings of lawfully owned firearms during emergencies or disasters. It passed 322-99.

Jindal added: “In time of disaster, you cannot throw out the amendment that guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Following Hurricane Katrina … confiscations and prohibitions .. deprived law-abiding citizens of their rights to personal security, personal liberty and private property, all in violation of the Constitution of the United States.”

The Second Amendment Foundation and the NRA joined in suing New Orleans Mare Nifong .. I’m sorry, Nagin, Mayor Nagin .. To return weapons confiscated illegally. The plaintiffs prevailed, and the Mare refused to comply. New Orleans is now on the record as being in contempt of court. Now what? Officials break the law, then defy constituents to sue, only to break the law further by defiance of the court order constituents win.

Bobby Jindal’s predecessor, Governor Kathleen Blanco, did nothing to protect the interests of the people of Louisiana on this account, and instead put “Boots on the ground” of National Guardsmen who were “..fresh from Iraq with orders to shoot to kill.” This while citizens are disarmed and while prisoners are let out of jail ‘for their safety’.

Gun confiscations bring dependency now to include not only the poor, but the rest of the state, disarming them while thugs roam. This dependency – compelled dependency and defiance of law – has to stop.

Bobby Jindal is more than a breath of fresh air, he is an utter inspiration.

I know the Governor-elect will be glad to carry his respect for his constituents as far as he can. Where rights of citizens are recognized by state law, support for personal carry of weapons is spotty throughout. There are many reports – too many reports – of police detaining persons and confiscations of personal weapons throughout the state. Gun control and outright disarmament has been a large part of the movement to breed dependency on various levels. Can a Governor repeal all gun control by executive order, and thereby begin to break the grip of dependency?

There is suspicion that gun confiscations are a trial balloon to see how the public will handle it, along with other issues the people protest as being interconnected with general defiance of law. In a condition where officials have too long ignored due process, the people respond by invoking due process. By electing the right people.

Congratulations again. Congratulations to us all.

Bobby Jindal’s win is good for the country.
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John Longenecker is CEO of Good For The Country, Inc., an emerging non-profit think tank. The Foundation has issued a White Paper on Gun Control Policy viewable at www.GoodForTheCountry.org/whitepaper.html