Posted on 09/07/2007 9:36:18 PM PDT by epow
Corruption Run Amok Within Anti-Gun Ranks
Friday, September 07, 2007
A recent spate of contemptible allegations has shaken up some prominent players within the ranks of the anti-gun community.
Earlier this week, anti-gun Broward County, Florida Sheriff Ken Jenne resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges stemming from a federal corruption investigation.
You may recall Sheriff Jenne’s involvement in the controversial 2003 CNN report where he and reporter John Zarella blatantly and deliberately misled viewers in a staged “demonstration” of semi-automatic “firepower,” and were called to task for their misrepresentation by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, forcing CNN to apologize.
The plea deal came as Jenne faced a possible grand jury indictment on more serious money-laundering charges. The plea will likely mean at least a year in prison for the longtime force in Florida politics.
The George Soros saga continued this week, as the Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined one of the largest liberal political action committees $775,000.00 for using unregulated soft money to support John Kerry and other candidates during the 2004 elections.
Bankrolled largely by the vehemently anti-gun Soros, “America Coming Together” (ACT) raised $137 million for its Get-Out-The-Vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.
The settlement, which was unanimously approved by the FEC, represents the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.
Finally, this week, CNN and other media outlets reported that two mayors and two state legislators were among 11 public officials arrested in New Jersey as part of a large-scale corruption sting.
The state officials allegedly accepted cash bribes from sham FBI insurance brokerage and roofing companies, and in return awarded the companies with public contracts.
Anti-gun State Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. (D) and Alfred E. Steele (D), and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, (a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (R) Anti-Gun Mayors Coalition) were among those arrested.
If convicted, they could be sentenced to up to 20 years in federal prison. Rather than calling for additional restrictions on law-abiding gun owners, perhaps these individuals should have focused their efforts on policing themselves.
OTOH, very little is heard or seen in the MSM about the 11, yes eleven, virulently anti-gun NJ politicians who were recently discovered to be some of the most corrupt, dishonest, venal public officials in the state's recent history, and that's saying a lot when the state is NJ. Crimes worthy of 20 year prison sentences go unreported or scarcely reported while a misdemeanor worth a $100 fine commited by a pro-gun rights Senator is hashed and rehashed endlessly on every major MSM outlet in the US.
It couldn't just be that the American MSM use a blatant double standard for passing judgment on corrupt public officials when it comes to pro-gun and anti-gun lawmakers, or could it??
No surprises to any student of history (ancient or modern). The same sort of politicians who tend towards corruption are the same characters who fear and distrust ordinary citizens.
Who Knew?
LOL! I renewed my NRA membership Thursday.
Gun owners have definately lost a good and loyal ally with Larry Craig’s ouster .
Agreed. I have more to say about that matter, but it's way past this old timer's bedtime so it will have to wait until tomorrow.
Thanks to all for the replies to keep the thread alive, all FReepers should know how corrupt and criminally venal the antis really are.
The rare politician who sees himself as a servant of the people and who sees himself under the law is not afraid of law-abiding citizens. The type of politician who sees himself as a ruler who is entitled to be served by the people and who sees himself as above the law instinctively fears and despises the people.
I am as pro gun as you can get but very anti NRA. I have seen them in action and they are bullies and bullies. They demand their way or no way and if you dare cross them, you are “anti gun.” Well, I am anti NRA and still own guns and believe the 2nd Amendment deals with individual gun rights, not government gun rights.
BTTT
If we don’t have guns, we can’t fight back.
Indeed you’re right. The NRA has turned into a parody of itself.
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