To The Media, Regarding Newtown

[Draggingtree]

Mama by the Bay:

 

To The Media, Regarding Newtown

 

 

Dear Members of the Media,

 

By now you’ve probably heard the small wave of outrage that is condemning you for interviewing the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School. You already know that furious parents across the country feel that it’s inappropriate to shove a microphone in the face of a traumatized 8 year old.

 

But have you ever wondered why?

 

It’s because WE WILL REMEMBER.

 

I remember.

 

I was 14 when my friend Mike was murdered, at my school. Violence rushed through our campus like a lightening bolt, bringing children to the ground in an unexpected, startling shock. This was a few short years before Columbine. This was before cell phones. Before Twitter. Before we could check on each other through FaceBook or pull up CNN on an iPad.

 

I remember running out of the gymnasium, swooped up in a current of other children, only to be met by another wave of familiar faces, running back towards us. “Mike!” they cried. Faces frozen, cheeks inflamed, out of breath. We could see the ambulances down the street, back doors thrown open, half-hidden by fences and bushes. The children ran. We stumbled, we wandered, we ended up in the hallway by our lockers. Our cheerleading coach, who was never incredibly warm and fuzzy, came barreling towards us. “What are you doing?” she asked. “We’re getting our things, we’re going to call our parents, we need to go to the hospital to be with Mike” we said. We were fueled by teenage innocence, and we had no idea it would be the last drop of naivete that we were allowed. “You’re not.” she whispered, as she put her hand on my shoulder. “You need to go back to the gym. The school is in lockdown. You can’t go to the hospital.”

 

I can’t remember if she told us then that Mike had died. I can’t remember how I found my best friend Tori, but I know that I did. I can’t remember how I ended up on the front lawn of the school, surrounded by friends who were crying into their hands, their backpacks strewn across the sidewalk, the swirl of police lights shining down on us like sunshine.

 

this fits right on with the "Rant" I posted on the porch

 

[pollyannaish]

I hate the press. Voyeaurs.

[Casino67]

Less than 48 hours after the Connecticut school shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, which took place on Dec. 14, the Westboro Baptist Church is already making plans to picket. The Westboro Baptist Church is known for picketing and protesting at funerals across the country.

 

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/connecticut-school-shooting-westboro-baptist-church-planning-to-picket

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Madalyn Murray O’Hair

 

 

Posted by Yorkshire on 2012/12/15

 

She’s the B###h that took God out of School and nothing has been the same since. And this was over her son having to pray at Poly HS in Baltimore. Remember it well. She moved to Texas, went missing, found dead much later. And I think her son became a minister. Now today we had another PREYING at school, but it was of children. I wonder if each school shooting, the heat is turned up higher at her current residence.

 

Saw Obama comment on this. And honestly, I didn’t think he was going to get through his comments without breaking down. He did wipe away a tear or two. It was tough for him to handle. I will praise him for his words.

 

It happened in 1963 along with all the other things that altered the course of America and more or less derailed the core fabric of the country. To me, it was the start of the long slow descent we’re in now. What was commonplace in 1962 has been peeled back slowly to the point of what was normal life then, is now looked at as you could do that then. This woman was a starting point of all normal nuclear families complain of today. That is if normal nuclear families still exist anymore.

H/T Yorkshire @ http://truthbeforedishonor.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/madalyn-murray-ohair/ for this article and the truth written!!!

[Pepper]

@pollyannaish

@Casino67

@Draggintree

 

A Good God in Bad Times?

December 15, 2012 By candidobservation Leave a Comment

 

In light of the tragic massacre of 26 people at the Sandy Hook

 

Elementary School in Connecticut , some people are going to gravitate toward God, seeking shelter from their pain…but some are going to turn away, maybe not forever, but for a while.

We have a need to have God “behave,” and protect us from bad things, especially when we think we are good people. The question of theodicy – i.e., is God all good and all-powerful? If God is all-powerful, and this happened, then is God NOT all good? Or…if God is all good and this happened…then is God NOT all-powerful?

 

When tragic and senseless things like this happen, people become confused about God. In general, they are not open to hearing about the need to forgive, or to show mercy…No, their pain, our pain as vulnerable human beings kicks in, and we get angry at God and wonder where God was when the disruption of our peace and stability occurred.

 

 

CONTINUE

 

A Good God in Bad Times

[pollyannaish]

What I have learned is that we have to let ourselves go through the process of finding God in dark places. There is no quick and easy fix. We cannot take a pill and feel spiritually and/or emotionally OK. God comes to us…or we receive God…in fits and starts. God allows us to turn away over and over as we writhe in pain…and God receives us when we turn back to Him/Her. Emotional and spiritual pain, both of which is part of the emotion called grief, is like a spiritual virus that must run its course. It cannot be rushed. God allows us to rebel, to scream, to shake our heads in disbelief…and God waits for the pain to run its course, after which God hopes we will have a new awareness and appreciation for the kind of omnipresence that is God and that is with us, even when we cannot feel it.

 

Powerful. Thanks for posting that @Pepper. I know this from experience, and am blessed it has not been the experience that these parents are facing. My heart is broken for them.

[clearvision]

Just read a news paper article talking about how irresponsible SOCIAL MEDIA users are for spreading false information.... POT... KETTLE...

[pollyannaish]

Just read a news paper article talking about how irresponsible SOCIAL MEDIA users are for spreading false information.... POT... KETTLE...

 

Isn't that precious.

 

Edited to add: *spit*

[Draggingtree]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madalyn Murray O’Hair

 

 

Posted by Yorkshire on 2012/12/15

 

She’s the B###h that took God out of School and nothing has been the same since. And this was over her son having to pray at Poly HS in Baltimore. Remember it well. She moved to Texas, went missing, found dead much later. And I think her son became a minister. Now today we had another PREYING at school, but it was of children. I wonder if each school shooting, the heat is turned up higher at her current residence.

 

Saw Obama comment on this. And honestly, I didn’t think he was going to get through his comments without breaking down. He did wipe away a tear or two. It was tough for him to handle. I will praise him for his words.

 

It happened in 1963 along with all the other things that altered the course of America and more or less derailed the core fabric of the country. To me, it was the start of the long slow descent we’re in now. What was commonplace in 1962 has been peeled back slowly to the point of what was normal life then, is now looked at as you could do that then. This woman was a starting point of all normal nuclear families complain of today. That is if normal nuclear families still exist anymore.

H/T Yorkshire @ http://truthbeforedishonor.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/madalyn-murray-ohair/ for this article and the truth written!!!

 

Atheist group denounces lighting ceremony

 

Ken Hedler

The Daily Courier

 

12/16/2012 10:38:00 PM

 

PRESCOTT - A Madison, Wis.-based atheist organization has sent letters to local government and Prescott Unified School District officials and Secretary of State Ken Bennett protesting the religious aspect of the annual courthouse lighting ceremony.

 

"Our national organization, which works to keep state and church separate, has been contacted by taxpayers and residents of Prescott who strenuously oppose Arizona public schools, the City of Prescott, Yavapai County and the Arizona Secretary of State endorsing Christianity during the courthouse lighting ceremony," states the five-page letter from Andrew Seidel, staff attorney for the Freedom of Religion Foundation.

 

Seidel concluded by stating any future courthouse lighting ceremony must adhere to the constitutional requirement that, "The government may acknowledge Christmas as a cultural phenomenon, but under the First Amendment it may not observe it as a Christian holy day by suggesting people praise God for the birth of Jesus."

 

http://www.realclearreligion.org/

[Draggingtree]

[Draggingtree]

The best explaination ever of why we don’t need gun control

 

By:

firstchevalier

(

Diary

) | December 21st, 2012 at 08:07 PM |

0

Larry Correia posted the best explanation of why America does NOT need more gun laws. His blog can be found HERE so I’ll refrain from expounding further, but suffice to say his blog is a MUST read regardless of which side you fall on. Mr. Correia is heavily steeped in credentials to have what some have called an ‘Expert Opinion’ on these matters so I

http://www.redstate.com/firstchevalier/2012/12/21/the-best-explaination-ever-of-why-we-dont-need-gun-control/

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CNN Anchor Criticizes God for Sandy Hook Massacre

 

December 21, 2012 | Filed under corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Deaths,Democrats,Gun control,Liberals,Media | Posted by Warner Todd Huston

Trying to figure out how to deal with the massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut is no easy task. For reporters, “dealing” isn’t supposed to be the goal, reporting is. But for CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield, reporting is of less interest than placing blame even to the point of blaming God for the crime.

On December 19, the CNN anchor interviewed Rabbi Shmuley Boteach ostensibly to discuss the lack of reverence for God in American schools. Banfield reported that some blame this lack of reverence for setting the stage for these sorts of crimes.

During the segment, Banfield quoted the head of the American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, who said that one reason this massacre happened is that “we’ve kicked God out of out of the public school system.” This, Banfield editorialized, was an outrage.

Of course, because we have free will, most theologians would say God wasn’t the one that did this crime. It was man’s will guided by evil (or Satan, if you will). http://wizbangblog.com/2012/12/21/cnn-anchor-criticizes-god-for-sandy-hook-massacre/

[Valin]

LA Times: Clinton Pledges Funds to Add Police to Schools

April 16, 2000

LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON

 

WASHINGTON — Marking the first anniversary of the shooting deaths at Columbine High School, President Clinton announced $120 million in new federal grants Saturday to place more police officers in schools and help even the youngest kids cope with their problems.

 

"In our national struggle against youth violence we must not fail our children; our future depends on it," the president said in his weekly radio address.

 

(Snip)

 

 

H/T Breitbart: Flashback: Clinton Requests $60 Million to Put Cops in Schools

 

Maybe Wayne is taking a page from Bill.

[Valin]

 

May I highly recommend

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Pauline Maier

 

Book Description

Release Date: June 7, 2011

When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether that would happen. The document we revere today as the foundation of our country’s laws, the cornerstone of our legal system, was hotly disputed at the time. Some Americans denounced the Constitution for threatening the liberty that Americans had won at great cost in the Revolutionary War. One group of fiercely patriotic opponents even burned the document in a raucous public demonstration on the Fourth of July.

 

In this splendid new history, Pauline Maier tells the dramatic story of the yearlong battle over ratification that brought such famous founders as Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and Henry together with less well-known Americans who sometimes eloquently and always passionately expressed their hopes and fears for their new country. Men argued in taverns and coffeehouses; women joined the debate in their parlors; broadsides and newspaper stories advocated various points of view and excoriated others. In small towns and counties across the country people read the document carefully and knew it well. Americans seized the opportunity to play a role in shaping the new nation. Then the ratifying conventions chosen by "We the People" scrutinized and debated the Constitution clause by clause.

 

Although many books have been written about the Constitutional Convention, this is the first major history of ratification. It draws on a vast new collection of documents and tells the story with masterful attention to detail in a dynamic narrative. Each state’s experience was different, and Maier gives each its due even as she focuses on the four critical states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York, whose approval of the Constitution was crucial to its success.

 

The New Yorker Gilbert Livingston called his participation in the ratification convention the greatest transaction of his life. The hundreds of delegates to the ratifying conventions took their responsibility seriously, and their careful inspection of the Constitution can tell us much today about a document whose meaning continues to be subject to interpretation. Ratification is the story of the founding drama of our nation, superbly told in a history that transports readers back more than two centuries to reveal the convictions and aspirations on which our country was built.

 

 

****

[Draggingtree]

 

May I highly recommend

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Pauline Maier

 

Book Description

Release Date: June 7, 2011

When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether that would happen. The document we revere today as the foundation of our country’s laws, the cornerstone of our legal system, was hotly disputed at the time. Some Americans denounced the Constitution for threatening the liberty that Americans had won at great cost in the Revolutionary War. One group of fiercely patriotic opponents even burned the document in a raucous public demonstration on the Fourth of July.

 

In this splendid new history, Pauline Maier tells the dramatic story of the yearlong battle over ratification that brought such famous founders as Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and Henry together with less well-known Americans who sometimes eloquently and always passionately expressed their hopes and fears for their new country. Men argued in taverns and coffeehouses; women joined the debate in their parlors; broadsides and newspaper stories advocated various points of view and excoriated others. In small towns and counties across the country people read the document carefully and knew it well. Americans seized the opportunity to play a role in shaping the new nation. Then the ratifying conventions chosen by "We the People" scrutinized and debated the Constitution clause by clause.

 

Although many books have been written about the Constitutional Convention, this is the first major history of ratification. It draws on a vast new collection of documents and tells the story with masterful attention to detail in a dynamic narrative. Each state’s experience was different, and Maier gives each its due even as she focuses on the four critical states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York, whose approval of the Constitution was crucial to its success.

 

The New Yorker Gilbert Livingston called his participation in the ratification convention the greatest transaction of his life. The hundreds of delegates to the ratifying conventions took their responsibility seriously, and their careful inspection of the Constitution can tell us much today about a document whose meaning continues to be subject to interpretation. Ratification is the story of the founding drama of our nation, superbly told in a history that transports readers back more than two centuries to reveal the convictions and aspirations on which our country was built.

 

 

****

very good

[Draggingtree]

TO LIVE AND DIE IN AMERICA

 

 

 

 

3 Shot And Killed In Mich... 18-Year-Old Shot Multiple Times, Dies... Man Kills Wife, Teen, Himself... Man Shoots, Kills Own Son... Cops Shoot Teen Dead... Man Gunned Down In Parking Lot... 5 Dead In Spate Of Shootings... 2 Murdered In Philly... 2 Kansas Cops Shot Dead... Shooter Killed... 4 Die In Apparent Murder-Suicide... Ga. Cop Dies From Gunshot... Argument Leads Teen To Shoot Friend... Man Shot To Death...Teen Dies After Being Tied Up, Shot... Man Shot Dead In Street... Drug Deal Leads To Shooting Death... Mother Of 2 Killed In Road Rage Shooting... Man Shoots, Kills Intruder... 1 Killed In Coney Island... Man Dies From Gunshot Wounds... Cops Investigate Gun Death... Shooting Victim's Body Found On Bike Trail... Man Charged With Shooting Own Brother Dead... Man Dies After Being Shot In Chest... Body Of Shooting Victim Found In Pickup... Teen Arrested For Robbery Shooting Death... Man Carrying 2-Year-Old Son Shot Dead...

 

http://www.huffingto..._n_2348466.html

 

FAILED Huffingpost trying to make a point

[Draggingtree]

December 21, 2012

The NRA's Press Statement

 

They called it a “press conference” but NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre read a statement (pdf) and then left.

The big takeaway people are talking about is the NRA’s call to have a cop in every school. I’ll get to that in a moment but first I want to run through a couple of the statements that I found to be problematic.

And here's another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.

Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm,

Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here’s one:

it’s called Kindergarten Killers. It’s been online for 10 years. How come

my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn’t or

didn’t want anyone to know you had found it?

Then there’s the blood-soaked slasher films like "American Psycho"

and "Natural Born Killers" that are aired like propaganda loops on

"Splatterdays" and every day, and a thousand music videos that

portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life. And then they have

the nerve to call it "entertainment."

But is that what it really is? Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a

way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?

In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one

another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized

society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and

criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of

every month of every year.

So guns don’t kill people, video games and movies do?

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/335892.php

[Valin]

December 21, 2012

The NRA's Press Statement

 

They called it a “press conference” but NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre read a statement (pdf) and then left.

The big takeaway people are talking about is the NRA’s call to have a cop in every school. I’ll get to that in a moment but first I want to run through a couple of the statements that I found to be problematic.

 

 

The NRA has rightly fought back against the notion that guns and not people are the problem. To see them try and shift blame and undercut the logic of their own argument is disappointing and beneath them.

 

It’s always easy to say, “don’t take away my freedom, take away the other guy’s” but we shouldn’t even entertain ideas like that. It’s stupid when liberals set up a choice between 1st and 2nd Amendment rights and it’s not any better when the NRA does it.

 

 

Well Said!!!

[Draggingtree]

Childish Fantasy’: Gun Control and the Victim

 

by Jack Dunphy

December 26, 2012 - 12:19 am

Gun control advocates refuse to properly assess human vulnerability.

 

On the evening of December 14, when the horror of Sandy Hook Elementary School was quite rightly the only subject on everyone’s minds and lips, I was in my car listening to talk radio. I tuned to one station and then another before choosing Dennis Miller’s program. I was eager to hear Mr. Miller’s take on the day’s sorrows, but I was astonished to hear him and his guest (I’ve forgotten who) discussing … the fiscal cliff. How could this be? It was as if the massacre hadn’t happened.

That fiscal cliff seems not to be such a big deal after all, does it? And now we have all but abandoned talk of fiscal cliffs and begun our “conversation on guns.” Or have we?

Based on what we’ve heard so far, this “conversation” amounts to little more than an attempt by one side to shame the other into silence and acquiescence. If you refuse to admit that you, the gun owner, are part of the problem; if you dare to suggest that the public at large would not be less safe but safer if more law-abiding citizens were allowed to carry concealed handguns; if you refuse to acknowledge what is so patently obvious to your enlightened betters living in colonies along both coasts — which is that firearms are inherently evil and have no place in a civilized society — then you are an abettor in the slaughter of children and deserving of public scorn if not imprisonment and even death. http://pjmedia.com/blog/childish-fantasy-gun-control-and-the-victim/

[Draggingtree]

December 26, 2012

The left's Alinsky tactics in the gun debate

Neil Snyder

In a blog for today's American Thinker, Joseph Smith says that National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is getting the "Alinsky Treatment" from leftists in the media and elsewhere. He's correct because as he said, they are attempting to freeze him as a/the target, personalize the gun issue, and demonize him for defending our right to bear arms--a right that's guaranteed by our Constitution.

 

CNN's Piers Morgan tried to do the same thing to Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt. On his show, Morgan said that Pratt was "unbelievably stupid" and "dangerous." He even said, "You shame your country." If you haven't seen the interview, you should watch it because Morgan looked and sounded like a crazed lunatic and Pratt was the voice of sanity and reason.

I have appeared as a guest on Pratt's radio show, "Gun Owners News Hour," several times. A few weeks ago, I was a guest on his show to talk about a book that I wrote titled Falsely Accused. snip http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/12/the_lefts_alinsky_tactics_in_the_gun_debate.html

[Draggingtree]

Byron York: Journalists rush to take sides in gun debate

 

December 24, 2012 | 6:15 pm

Should journalists be advocates for tougher gun control measures? It's a question worth asking as more and more reporters, commentators, and TV anchors are openly promoting stringent gun policies in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.

It's not just the ranters on the left, like MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, who recently called National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre "the lobbyist for mass murderers." O'Donnell is a controversialist who says things like that all the time. So is CNN's Piers Morgan, who told the Gun Owners of America chief Larry Pratt, "You are an unbelievably stupid man" and "You shame your country."

More notable are the ostensibly straight-news journalists who have come down on the side of stronger gun control. For example, when a Republican congressman, Georgia's Jack Kingston, argued on MSNBC recently that tough gun control laws haven't prevented mass shootings in some European countries, the network's anchor, Thomas Roberts, responded, "So, we need to just be complacent in the fact that we can send our children to school to be assassinated?"

Earlier, while reporting from Connecticut, a CNN anchor, Don Lemon, http://washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-journalists-rush-to-take-sides-in-gun-debate/article/2516795

[Valin]

Mass shootings require curtailing rights

Posted By Uncle Jimbo • [December 18, 2012]

 

The time for action is now. The recent spate of mass shootings must finally spur us to do what must be done. We need press control. That's right, the media is out of control and they are enabling and certainly promoting the sick bastards who are slaughtering innocents. The Founders could not have envisioned a 24/7 news cycle with blaring soundtracks, garish headlines, and a relentless, almost pornographic sensationalism. There is no doubt the sad souls who plot these horrors can picture their faces beaming from screens around the world. They gain a notoriety they could never achieve otherwise and the ghouls who give them a stage must bear their responsibility.

 

Back in the day, you had to take quill to parchment, or if you were doing mass media you could run off a couple of hundred pamphlets. The high capacity, assault weapons of cable news and the internet were as unimagined in colonal times as nuclear weapons. The Bill of Rights is not suicide pact and an unabridged press does not mean very channel should be as well-armed as the New York Times. Semi-automatic handguns have been around since the 1890s but school shootings are a much more recent development. What has changed since then? Instant fame, or more properly infamy, that's what and it is time to put some common sense controls on the folks who give these losers a chance to live forever.

 

(Snip)

 

 

The urge to do something, anything, in the wake of a slaughter like Newtown is powerful. The number and variety of gun control schemes advanced is staggering. The moral high ground is occupied and fire rains down on we unenlightened few who refuse to acknowledge the simple fact that guns kill people. But why have they decided to kill school kids now? Have the guns changed? No, not in any significant way in almost a hundred years. 1922 is when John Browning gave us the high capacity magazine and for some reason there was no massive increase in schoolyard slayings when 13 rds of 9mm were suddenly available. It took a coarsening ot our culture, a coddling of crazies and a cornucopia of cable news coverage to create this.The guns are just a scapegoat.

(Snip)

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Hoisting Them on their Own Petard

 

December, 27, 2012 — nicedeb

Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker is noticing a growing trend within conservative ranks – the embracing of Alinsyite tactics in dealing with the Socialist left. Some of us have been doing it for awhile – it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when, but I know I personally, have had no problem using ridicule as a potent weapon against ridiculous lefties. It’s especially gratifying when used against thin skinned narcissists – (not mentioning any names.)

Following Alinsky’s rules would seem counter-intuitive for people with moral scruples – Saul Alinsky was an evil man with evil intent. Conservatives have no interest in accumulating “Power — not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have”, for instance. Yet power is the main motivator for the left. Democrats don’t care a whit about the fiscal cliff - they may pretend that they do, but tax increases on millions of Americans and the weakening of the nation’s defenses are desirable outcomes to the Alinsky left that drives today’s Democrat party.

As Timothy C. Daughtry wrote today in Defense of John Boehner:

Why would hardened leftists try to avoid an end that they have been pursuing for decades?

And it is pointless to try to convince hardcore leftists that increasing taxes on productivity not only weakens the economy, but also reduces tax revenues. We can assume that Obama and his advisers already know the well-established evidence of the last century in that regard. For the left, the real agenda is increasing the reach of government into the lives of its subjects, not growing the economy.

Everything is about power with the totalitarian left – how to accumulate it – and how to keep it.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are only playing defense

David Gregory and PiersMorgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note. Both men are the targets of digital petition drives aimed at holding them to their own standards, and ridiculing them, invoking Rules 4 and 5 from Rules for Radicals:

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/hoisting-them-on-their-own-petard/

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Learning to love Alinsky’s asymmetrical political warfare

Posted by William A. Jacobson Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 10:39am

As we move into 2013 and the legal insurrections, we should learn from history.

As Thomas Lifson at American Thinker points out, now that the major institutions have been surrendered, it’s time to emulate the left, Here comes the Alinskyite Right:

David Gregory and Piers Morgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note. Both men are the targets of digital petition drives aimed at holding them to their own standards, and ridiculing them, invoking Rules 4 and 5 from Rules for Radicals:

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

This may be one of the first signs of the direction the conservative movement will take in President Obama’s second term,

 

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/learning-to-love-alinskys-asymmetrical-political-warfare/

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Stopping the spread of deadly assault weapons

 

 

Stay informed

 

 

In January, Senator Feinstein will introduce a bill to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.

 

To receive updates on this legislation, click here.

 

Press releases

 

 

· Feinstein to Introduce Updated Assault Weapons Bill in New Congress, December 17, 2012

 

· Feinstein Statement on Connecticut School Shooting, December 14, 2012

 

Summary of 2013 legislation

 

 

Following is a summary of the 2013 legislation:

 

· Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of:

 

o 120 specifically-named firearms

 

o Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one military characteristic

 

o Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds

 

· Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by:

 

o Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test

 

o Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test

 

o Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans

 

· Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.

 

· Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:

 

o Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment

 

o Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes and

 

o Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons

 

· Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:

 

o Background check of owner and any transferee;

 

o Type and serial number of the firearm;

 

o Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;

 

o Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and

 

o Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration

 

A pdf of the bill summary is available here.

 

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/assault-weapons