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Posted on 04/18/2012 9:24:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog
At an organising breakfast for National Rifle Association (NRA) grassroots activists, Samuel Richardson, a man with whom I have not exchanged a word, passes me a note. "Please read the book Injustice by Adams," it reads. "He was [sic] lawyer for US Justice Department who prosecuted Black Panther Case." Quite why Richardson thinks this book is for me is not clear. There are six other people at the table, a couple of them journalists. The fact I am the only black person in a room of around 200 may have something to do with it.
J Christian Adams, a former department of justice lawyer, resigned after the department decided not to prosecute members of the New Black Panther party who brandished guns and intimidated poll watchers outside a voting station in Philadelphia in 2008. Several attorneys, including Republicans, have argued that while the case was serious it did not warrant the department's resources. Adams believed there were darker forces at play, claiming the case "gave the public a glimpse of the racially discriminatory worldview" of the department under Obama.
Richardson goes further. The press and the government are in cahoots, he explains, to oppress white people. "It's fascistic," he explains. "It's just like Hitler did. Discriminating against one ethnic group and claiming that they're the cause of everything that's wrong. It's what happened in Rwanda," intimating that white Americans, like Tutsis, could one day find themselves systematically slaughtered in their own land.
It would be easy to ridicule the NRA. Billboards for its national convention all around St Louis promise "acres of guns and gear". In the exhibition hall they are giving two free guns, twice a day, to anyone wearing a sticker that says "Ambush", and they are selling semi-automatics in pink camouflage.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Some interesting comments.
Dear U.K.
Get over it. American riflemen and natural born patriotic freemen kicked your ass. Let it go.
Dear U.K.
Get over it. American riflemen and natural born patriotic freemen kicked your ass. Let it go.
And before the US entered World War II, we sent thousands of guns over to England to help arm their Home Guard against the anticipated Nazi invasion.
Fomenting racism won’t give leftist Britons (see source of article) any edge against our Second Amendment. Most US Democrat voters are now also in favor of our right to bear arms. Firearms are in style.
I often have fantasies that other pro-freedom organizations could be as focused and successful as the NRA.
Trayvon Martin: a killing too far
Outrage at the death of Trayvon Martin is finally lifting the lid on the US's racist underbelly
Get I wonder how he would introduce a story about the killing of whites by blacks.. killings that occur many times more often the whites killing blacks. Maybe something like..
"Brother scores one for us victims against the gun-lovin' honky mf'ers"
Interesting, to say the least-one MORON thinks thousands of “armed Americans” will be in London for the Olympics. How will they GET there with a handgun- they won’t let you board an aircraft with one!
Expanded my collection a bit this week with the purchase of a 10/22. Had just about every type of gun someone would want for defense, but didn’t have a .22 of all things. lol
The thing is a joy to shoot, and surprisingly accurate out of the box.
Consider the source:
Gary Younge, speaker at the Marxism 2012 Festival:
http://www.marxismfestival.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=166&Itemid=104
Guardian columnist Gary Younge returns to Marxism this year to look at Obama’s first year and a half in power and the response it has drawn from the US right. He will also introduce a discussion around identity, the subject of his new book.
http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=224420
Communist University:
Riots are a class act - and often they’re the only alternative by Gary Younge
http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/2005-11-16,+Riots+are+a+class+act,+Gary+Younge,+Guardian
“The right to bear arms shall not be infringed”. The word “shall” carries the force of law. The government, bound by the Constitution, is required to abide by the law, period. May the powers to be ignore Constitutional law at their own peril. If they break the laws, they pay the price.
The Guardian UK is the most anti-American newspaper over the Atlantic. They’re editors even idiotically tried to arrest Dick Cheney so don’t bunch this ass-wipe excuse of a newspaper for the Brits in general.
In California there is no 2nd amendment. “Bear arms” I think means to actually carry them, not keep them locked in a safe in your house, which is about the only way you can have guns in this crazy state.
After reading the (typically, I’m sorry to say) supercilious anti-gun screed of this resident Brit, and quite a few of the comments that followed by his countrymen, I’m reminded of an encounter I had with one of our allies:
Me (paraphrasing my creaky memory): “In this country we consider ourselves to be citizens, with express rights enumerated in our Constitution. You guys have no written Constitution and still consider yourselves to be `subjects.’”
His response: “I don’t consider myself to be a subject.”
My reply: “Then I charge you with treason to the crown and award you the title of `Honorary American’.”
As much as I value our alliance with our cousins, this was probably my favorite comment:
“Isn’t the Atlantic Ocean wonderful?”
This is my favorite 22 of all time, Ruger sr22 which is a 10/22 fully outfitted with AR-15 parts. On a bipod with a red dot site you can put bullets through the same hole @ 50 yds.
The Lefts lies are really getting old and tiresome.
Constitution trumps state’s rights. California has gone off the deep end. People are leaving the state of nuts and flakes in droves. California is the result of left wing politics gone horribly wrong. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of good people there who are stuck in the middle of all of the liberal crap.
10-22’s are NICE and the capability of different style “ad-ons” are almost endless and plentyful (including “clips”).
plentyful = plentiful ....geezz...sorry
Yep.
Those UK riots would not have gone on for nearly as long as they did if more honest citizens were allowed to own guns.
Title needs barf alert.
I made a mess.
Thank You. :)
Brits still can’t handle we beat their asses. Without guns we’d still be subjects to the damn queen.
One of the best rifles to have on hand.
Hardly. One or even ten guys alone aren't going to decide to overthrow the government and succeed in anything but suicide by cop. "Democracy" is undermined by politicians who don't give a flying fig about the rule of law.
Where’s the barf alert?
Dear Mr. Younge, you Marxist pimple on humanity’s arse, our forefather’s unerringly saw the wisdom of maintaining a right to keep and bear arms and threw the British boot heel off of our throats because of it. Now it rests on yours because you were too weak and deluded to keep your government masters from taking all means of resisting them from you. In fact you were so stupid you helped them. Enjoy your subjugation!
Lying propagandist. What more needs to be said?
“Missouri representative Jeanette Oxford, who represents a district in St Louis, disagrees. “From the outset violence was enforced with weapons of various kinds in North America,” she says. “I think the ability to enforce your right through might is ingrained in us.”
The strong can’t tyranize the weak if, and only if, the weak are armed.
Rep Jeantte Oxford is a Democrap, of course. Her position is satirized by her own appearance - rather obese and fitting for a Democratic “Trough Feeder”.
Lovely rifle wow!
That skeletal stock is just fantastic.
I have found that shooting cheap Remington .22 lr ammo out of the sr22 will cause the gun to jam from time to time. It’s easy to clear, but that does frustrate. Same thing happens in my standard Ruger 10/22 if I use the same Remington ammo.
As Muslims, political correctness and cultural diversity destroy the UK, the time will come when the victims will wish they were armed.
No, I don’t think so. It is strictly a Ruger 10/22 barrel and receiver with specially made ar-15 parts. It is capable of using all Ruger 10/22 accessories as well as ar-15 accessories, and as far as I know it only fires .22 lr ammo.
It’s kind of like shooting an ar-15 with really inexpensive ammo, which is nice. Very fun to shoot this weapon, and with a bipod and red dot, it is so accurate it’s frightening.
I am amazed when people call the NRA successful as there are huge swaths of land in this nation where people cannot carry guns.
I am amazed when people call the NRA successful as there are huge swaths of land in this nation where people cannot carry guns.
Damn right. 237 years ago today, as a matter of fact, when the Brits in question were trying to take our guns.
They can kiss my ass and go back to the other side of the Pond and stay there.
yeah, the 10/22, bought one back in the 80’s for about $60,
have put about 3000 rounds thru it over the years, great little gun , pefect for plinking. and with a 25 round clip, its a lot of fun.
OPSEC, PEOPLE!
For God's sake, why would you discuss SHTF if front of some stranger with a Britsh accent?? Why would you pass the only black guy in the room-and a perfect stranger to boot-a note referencing the Black Panthers?? Some of us, me included, are still treating our politics like a game. It is not: it is deadly serious and the other guys are playing for keeps. They ARE taking names. Loose lips sink ships and also destroy careers, families and ultimately lives. Just a couple of suggestions based on the article:
1. Don't talk guns, prepping, SHTF, race or anti-guv within earshot of ANYONE you don't know well. This goes double for gun shows/shops. No matter where you are anybody from the ATF to the NYPD to some little sh*t reporter from a British newspaper could be listening. Just because you are among friends doesn't mean a thing. Look around. See who is listening, or who could be listening. Don't suppose that because someone is at the next table that he can't hear you.
2. Get over the idea that this stuff is fun to chat about and cool stop treating it like a hobby. The French Resistance wasn't in it for fun...if they'd been yukking it up in the Parisian cafes about those great new Sten guns the British had sent over the Nazis would have had them all rounded up inside of a week. As far as everyone outside INCLUDING FAMILY is concerned, you don't prep, you don't own any modern guns and you may not be thrilled with Obama but politics is no big deal. You'd rather talk about sports, or horticulture, or Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition or ANYTHING other than guns or prepping or SHTF. "Keep it secret, keep it safe."
3. Cops get nothing until your lawyer is present. Reporters get nothing, ever. If you see cameras or microphones, skedaddle.
3A. If you want to dance around in front of the media and protest with empty holsters or open carry or whatnot, that is fine as long as you are mentally and physically prepared to not reveal what you know under torture, and to die in agony without revealing said information. Count the cost. Is it worth it? What about others?
We are acting like kids playing an adult game. It's a good way to lose.
The British arent subjects, contrary to myth. We have been ‘citizens’ since the Nationality Act of 1981.
Younge is a notorious leftie, and the Guardian hardly speaks for the average Brit.
“natural born patriotic freemen “
Are there “unatural born” people? “Freemen”? Are you one of THOSE kooks, the “Freemen”?
I think it's pretty pathetic that there are, as quoted by wikianswers: "Most estimates range between 39% and 50% of US households having at least one gun(that's about 43-55 million households). The estimates for the number of privately owned guns range from 190 million to 300 million. Removed those that skew the stats for their own purposes the best estimates are about 45% or 52 million of American households owning 260 million guns). there are about 80 million gun owners in America with a combining total of 258 million guns."
And the total NRA membership in the U.S. is 4 million? That's what is really pathetic and amazing. People need to get off of their dead asses and become members. Say what you will, even though people don't always agree with the NRA, they are the largest organization that is working in our favor to stop the dismal tide of anti gun efforts.
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