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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"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.
Freedom Virtually Ends Genocide And Mass Murder
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
"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
They have been in control of the Media so long, they think they own the airwaves.
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.
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