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The NRA' s announcement
The Washington Times ^ | 21 DEC 03 | John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on 12/22/2003 8:54:07 AM PST by Federalist 78

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

When is a television station not a television station? How about if it is owned by the National Rifle Association (NRA)? It may not seem momentous, but the NRA's announcement this week that it might buy a television or radio station has sent shock waves through campaign finance regulation advocates and may ultimately undo last week's Supreme Court Decision upholding McCain-Feingold. If the NRA were recognized as a media organization, it would be free to say what it wanted about political candidates, unconstrained by any campaign finance laws. No worries about restrictions on independent campaign expenditures.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; cfr; johnlott; nra; nrachannel
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The U.S. has aborted >44 million. Life is becoming cheap in this nation. Better keep the 2nd to keep it from getting any cheaper.

"A constitutional principle without an actual constituency to back it up will soon crumble." - Michael Greve, John G. Searle Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Gun Owners of America , Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership , Fifth Circuit No. 99-10331 , Saving the Constitution from the Courts, RKBA Bookstore, ... ,

From a speech given to the ABA National Security Conference on "The Rule of Law in United States Foreign Policy and the New World Order. Washington, D.C., October 10-11, 1991.- R.J. Rummel

Today, we can extend the idea of peace through democracy to cover freedom from government genocide and mass murder. But to do so requires overcoming incredible mass ignorance even about the megamurders for which authoritarian and totalitarian governments have been responsible. Of course, everyone knows about the Nazi genocide. And most consider the near 6,000,000 Jews murdered as a monstrous crime against humanity by Hitler and his Nazi gang of racists. Few know that they also murdered in cold blood an additional near 14,000,000 Poles, Gypsies, Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Russians, Yugoslavs, Czechs, Frenchmen, and others. Few outside of the Soviet Union know about Stalin's horrors, that he killed people by the tens of millions (I calculate about 43,000,000). Even fewer realize that under the communists regime in China more tens of millions were killed (as shown in Table 1). And virtually no one except Armenians seems to remember the Armenian genocide; except Bengalis the Pakistan genocide and mass murder; except Indonesians, Chinese and Koreans the Japanese atrocities during the Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. Who knows anymore about mass murder by the Chinese Nationalist? It is understandable, then, that the global magnitude of murder by governments in this century is almost universally unknown, that it might exceed an absolutely incredible 150,944,000 men, women, and children killed, or more than four times all this century's battle deaths in all its domestic and international wars. Of course, it must then be unknown that virtually no democratic citizens are among this utterly fantastic number.

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By shooting, drowning, burying alive, stabbing, torture, beating, suffocation, starvation, exposure, poison, crushing, and other countless ways that lives can be wiped out, governments have killed unarmed and helpless people. Intentionally. With forethought. This is murder. It is democide.
...democide is a government's murder of people for whatever reason; genocide is the murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or language.

TV News, Rich People Now Control Political Speech, Analysts Say Richard Lessner, executive director of the American Conservative Union, called the restrictions on issue advocacy groups, which don't apply to wealthy individuals, the "dirty little secret" of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) upheld by the court.

"If you're a truck driver and you want to get together with a hundred other truck drivers and each pitch $10 into the hat to buy an ad because you don't like what your senator or congressman is doing, you're cut out of the process," Lessner said. "But if you're George Soros and you want to spend $10 million dollars on running TV ads nationwide, you're perfectly empowered to do that." 11 Republican Senators, 41 Republican House Members and One Republican President Signed BCRA-2002


1 posted on 12/22/2003 8:54:07 AM PST by Federalist 78
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To: Federalist 78
http://c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=NRA


Watch this interview.
2 posted on 12/22/2003 8:55:59 AM PST by OXENinFLA (This just in, LIBYA gives up WMDs; Democrats IMPLODE.........Film at 11....)
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To: Federalist 78
That's that. I'm joining the NRA.
3 posted on 12/22/2003 8:56:54 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I used to think they were crazy when they said "Republicrats.")
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To: Federalist 78
During the weekend I heard that the NRA is thousands of dollars in debt. Does anyone have further info?
4 posted on 12/22/2003 9:02:28 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Federalist 78
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. --George Washington

5 posted on 12/22/2003 9:06:36 AM PST by Klickitat
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To: sarasota
Where did you hear that? Is there an article you can post? If so, please ping me on it. Thanks.
6 posted on 12/22/2003 9:08:16 AM PST by Klickitat
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To: Klickitat
I heard it last night on FOX News. I believe they said the NRA is $100 million in debt.
7 posted on 12/22/2003 9:19:54 AM PST by Surfer Bert
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To: Federalist 78; *bang_list; Shooter 2.5
bang_list ping...
8 posted on 12/22/2003 9:20:20 AM PST by in the Arena (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my FReeper friends..)
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To: Federalist 78
The fancier the bureaucrats make the plumbing, the easier it will be to clog up the drains.
9 posted on 12/22/2003 9:23:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (Socialism is Slavery)
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To: Federalist 78
I want my NRA-TV!
10 posted on 12/22/2003 9:29:18 AM PST by Redcloak (°¿°)
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To: Surfer Bert
Don't think i can swing the whole 100 million today,,, but i will send money, if that is the case.
11 posted on 12/22/2003 9:31:24 AM PST by TYVets ("An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlien & me)
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To: OXENinFLA
Listening to the C-Span program and the idiots who are calling in. no wonder the dems get so many votes. Simply Amazing.
12 posted on 12/22/2003 9:31:25 AM PST by Burf
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To: Redcloak
I warned a very liberal friend/campaign consultant about this and he dismisse my concerns.
13 posted on 12/22/2003 9:34:47 AM PST by FastCoyote
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To: FastCoyote
Rag him about it incessantly.
14 posted on 12/22/2003 9:40:28 AM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Federalist 78
It's beginning to look like the NRA will end up doing more for the First Amendment than they ever did to defend the Second if this plan works or has the effect of breaking the back of this horrible piece of legislation.

15 posted on 12/22/2003 9:44:26 AM PST by Badray (Molon Labe!)
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To: in the Arena
Thanks for the ping.

Anytime the NRA ruffles the anti's feathers, it's a good thing.
16 posted on 12/22/2003 9:46:27 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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To: AAABEST; wku man; SLB; Travis McGee; Squantos; harpseal; Shooter 2.5; The Old Hoosier; xrp; ...
Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
17 posted on 12/22/2003 9:49:09 AM PST by Joe Brower ("If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." - G. Orwell)
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To: Surfer Bert; Klickitat; sarasota
I wouldn't worry to much about that. It's just the libs hoping for bad news. It's not like when the MMM had to lay off workers until a lib sugar daddy had to come to their rescue.

Also the NRA's treasurer denied it.
18 posted on 12/22/2003 9:49:34 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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To: Federalist 78
This will drive the Libs crazy.

They have been in control of the Media so long, they think they own the airwaves.

19 posted on 12/22/2003 9:54:12 AM PST by Gritty ("What passes for Liberal 'constitutional law' in America: 'heads we win, tails you lose'-Ann Coulter)
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To: Redcloak
I want my NRA-TV!

Yeah, so do I. I gave them money for an effort to do that quite some time ago (even got a nifty cap, oh boy!). Still no NRA-TV.

20 posted on 12/22/2003 9:54:36 AM PST by cmak9
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