Allen West’s ‘EPA Is Doing Gun Control’ Column Isn’t Just Loony, Tin-Foil-Hatty, It’s Also Very Plagiarized
Ooh, does it involve torturing prisoners? That’s a scary trend. No, it seems that the trend is that “back door gun control is in full effect in the United States,” courtesy of the EPA, which forced that smelter in Missouri to close by tightening restrictions on the amount of lead residue the plant could emit. The company chose to close the smelter rather than install new pollution control equipment. And since lead is needed to manufacture Freedom Bullets, it’s pretty obvious that the closure has nothing to do with environmental protection, and everything to do with killing the Second Amendment, so that “all ammo has to be purchased from the government instituting an ammo registration,” says West, because that is a very non-tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory.
Oh, and then there’s this, too: large chunks of West’s editorial are lifted from an October 29 column by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton* published at noisyroom.net and crossposted at Right Wing News. If the example of Rand Paul is any model, this is probably a cue for bloggers to start firing up the Google machine to search phrases from Mr. West’s other “writings.”
No problem, though — just as it offered Rand Paul a home, Dead Breitbart’s Frothing Wingnut Shelter also reprinted West’s column. That isn’t entirely by him.
