Posted on 05/22/2008 4:38:46 AM PDT by King of Florida
When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stood at City Hall two years ago to announce that he had just filed suit against several gun shop owners, mainly in the South, it was in a certain fashion the capstone of a signature campaign. Mr. Bloomberg had already bashed the industry in several angry speeches, gone to Washington to pressure congressmen and lobbyists, and made his war against illegal guns a personal crusade.
Now, however, Mr. Bloomberg is likely to answer verbally — and literally in person — for his personal crusade. City officials said on Wednesday that he was virtually certain to take the witness stand next month at a landmark federal trial resulting from his suit.
As befits a court proceeding stemming from a deeply held conviction, Mr. Bloomberg will find himself confronting, in the defendant, a rather stubborn man of equally firm belief. His name is Jay Wallace, and he is an irascible outdoorsman who owns a sporting goods store in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna, Ga. With his wife, Cecilia, Mr. Wallace, 51, arrived in New York City earlier this week in advance of the trial, which is to begin on Tuesday.
“I believe that I care more about firearms getting into criminals’ hands than the mayor of New York City does,” Mr. Wallace said on Wednesday at a pretrial conference at the Brooklyn federal courthouse, where the trial will be held. “I’m in the business. I know how my business is run.”
The trial can be read in many ways: as gun victim versus gun seller, as city versus country, as red state versus blue state, and, none the least, as a version of David v. Goliath, with Mr. Wallace in the self-appointed slingshot role.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
bloomberg is just another arrogant rich person who thinks his money allows him to just speak and others to jump.
At least the wealthy people on the right do what wealtrhy people are supposed to do, consume, and inject life into the economy by creating more wealth and making no bones about it. The wealthy on the left want to do the above, but they have to try to hypocritically pretend they’re also contributing to the “greater good” by interfering with the lives of the “little people”. I’m fine with rich people, I just wish they’d go spend their money and leave the rest of us alone instead of trying to salve their white liberal guilt at the expense of the rest of us.
Yes, one of many.
Bloomy’s just had his head handed to him on a platter in one gun case, see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018552/posts
Let’s hope it happens to him in this one.
I’ll tell ya Bloomie, stay the hell out of the south, and take all your carpetbaggin fellow NooYolkas back home with you!
We don’t care how y’all do/did it back in NooYolk, this ain’t NY!
Of note, updates by Mr. Wallace are posted at http://bloombergfightbackfund.com/
BTTT.
Wallace is screwed. He might as well save his money and go on home. He’s got Judge Weinstein, one of the most arrogant, anti-gun judges in the country. Wallace’s attorney needs to ask for either a change of venue or a different judge, or he’s wasting his client’s money.
I disagree. Nothing happened to Bloomberg as a result of this decision. The anti-gunners are waging an "asymetric war" on the rest of us in that there are severe consequences if we lose at any point of the process, but if they lose, there are absolutely NO consequences to them either personal or financial. Not a single penny of Bloomturd's was lost in this. The taxpayers financed all of it. There were no personal consequences to it. Bloomturd didn't lose his NYPD personal protection detail. He doesn't face any compensatory or punative judgements for the trouble he caused. He didn't get tried for treason. So I think the neo national socalist a$$hole did NOT get his head handed to him. We simply didn't get ours handed to us. "we" successfully defended against an attack, but the enemy is out there and still has plenty of assets to renew the fight.
Until there are significant consequences to antigunners for pulling this sort of crap. They will continue relentlessly until one of three outcomes occurs.
Southern Man don’t need him around, anyhow...
Meanwhile, NYC has asked that Wallace not be allowed to mention the Second Amendment. I suppose he'd better not salute the flag, either.
Please understand that NY , like most other states that go “Blue” do so due to major urban influence, while the rural stays Blood “Red” almost to a man.
I am a displaced (happily) NYer, and none of my NY friends or family agree with the NYC or Albany crowd. Rather, we would like to draw a line across So. NY (sullivan county) and secede from that un-holy union with down-staters.
God Bless
Thanks for posting that link. I just made a donation to Mr. Wallace’s Bloomberg Fight Back Fund.
Excellent! Government has unlimited resources to prosecute and confiscate peoples liberty, and now seemingly no consequences for doing so. We the people are being made to pay for our own enslavement. They know this, and few of us seem to. You are 100 % correct.
You file the charges and I'll co-sign 'em. Of course, getting a DA to get it before a judge could be tricky, but not impossible. Plenty of evidence right here on the Internet for a full conviction of Bloomingidiot.
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