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Posted on 10/29/2003 9:47:39 AM PST by yonif
Los Angeles - Most blacklists are designed to intimidate. But thousands of Americans are clamouring to join one drawn up by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA's shadowy 19-page list of United States companies, celebrities, and news organisations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included.
"As a supporter of comprehensive anti-gun safety measures, I was deeply disappointed when I discovered my name was not on the list," Hoffman wrote in a letter to the NRA that was released on Tuesday.
"I was particularly surprised by the omission given my opposition to the loophole that makes it legal for 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns at gun shows," he added.
Hoffman's name has now been added to the list, which reads like a Who's Who of American business, culture and religion and that ranges from the American Jewish Congress to A&M Records, ABC News and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.
An NRA spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
The list was found deep in the official NRA website by a group of grass-roots anti-gun campaigners and publicised by them two weeks ago to garner support for two pieces of gun control legislation going through Congress.
The campaigners set up their own website (http://www.NRAblacklist.com) and urged Americans to voluntarily put their names there. A full-page ad on Tuesday in Daily Variety - the Hollywood trade magazine - urged movie and music artists to sign up.
"What the site tries to do is turn it into a badge of honour to get on the blacklist by saying 'Hey Julia Roberts is on the blacklist. Why don't you join it?' It's been incredibly successful. Since we have launched, 25 000 people have signed on to ask to be put on the blacklist," said Wendy Katz, spokesperson for the group.
The NRA initially denied compiling a blacklist as such, saying it was merely responding to members wanting to know which individuals and corporations opposed the US Constitution's Second Amendment on the right to bear arms.
But National Rifle Association executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre said of the list last week: "Our members don't want to buy their songs, don't want to go to their movies, don't want to support their careers."
Katz said the campaigners hoped to expose the NRA's influence in Washington, DC, spur opposition to a bill that would grant immunity in civil cases for gun manufacturers and dealers, and gather support for renewal of a 1994 ban on the sale of military assault weapons.
Excuse me? I thought it was my money. Some bureaucrat sets an arbitrary amount that is now "suspicious" and they can steal (confiscate) your money AND charge you with a felony! Incredible.
With a stroke of a pen things that are of themselves are not wrong become felonies. And because we have caved in on "reasonable" restrictions they will continue to dream up more things that require us to turn in our weapons.
Maybe not in Montana. Come visit Kalifornia some time and check out a gun store.
Fannie Flagg, Actress?
She's an actress?
I agree entirely.
We get to decide who people of consequence are.
Why do we want to list every moron in the country?
Every block has at least one or two sad sacks who can barely tie their shoelaces, need someone else to care for them, and would love to be "luminaries by association".
Spare me.
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Huh? Hoffman is anti-gun safety? So he's against gun safety.
Just wanted to be clear on this, Dustbin.
I got in a big argument over this with one of the vendors at a gun show last weekend. He insisted that they didn't deserve a bullet, and even rope was too good for them.
Then, my wife said "D-Con" - and THAT got his approval (and brought down the house...)
The original NRA blacklist is carefully documented so as to keep NRA out of trouble. But it looks to me like the commie rodents with their "fake" blacklist don't even bother to validate the names of anyone who's on the list. I mean, anyone could get on their site and put Osama bin Goatraper or somebody on the list, right?
Which begs a couple of questions...
What would happen if somebody who *did not want* their name to appear on the list, got spuriously and gratuitously and maliciously and scurrilously and roguishly and ratfinkishly added to the list by a "Prankster"?? They might get really upset, especially if they think they're going to get "Boycotted" by somebody as a result... Not only that, but what if a whole bunch of spurious entries like Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Ladin and Moscrofulus Grobb and... etc. started ending up on the list?
In fact, what if the entire San Fagdisco or Los Anal-eze telephone directory ended up on the list???
JUST wondering...
Yeah, or Adolph Hitler. In fact, I know for a fact he's on the list because I put him there.
Hey, he supported gun control.
Mark
Actually, they don't like that either... As Ann Coulter has said (paraphrasing), liberals only support wars that are NOT in the interest of US national security.
Mark
I agree entirely. We get to decide who people of consequence are. Why do we want to list every moron in the country?
Every block has at least one or two sad sacks who can barely tie their shoelaces, need someone else to care for them, and would love to be "luminaries by association".
Spare me.
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