Posted on 06/15/2010 6:43:01 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
The National Rifle Association is suffering a sudden onset of amnesia this week, as the gun lobby cuts a deal to exempt itself from the latest Congressional attempt to repeal the First Amendment. NRA members may soon regret the organization's bid to ingratiate itself with Democrats at the expense of its longtime free-speech allies.
The campaign finance bill, sponsored by Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Chris Van Hollen, is the Democratic response to the Supreme Court's January decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which restored the First Amendment right of corporations, unions and nonprofits to make independent campaign expenditures. At the time, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre called Citizens United "a defeat for arrogant elitists who wanted to carve out free speech as a privilege for themselves and deny it to the rest of us."
Look who's arrogant and elitist now. Under the Schumer-Van Hollen bill, political speech would be bound up with new restrictions, including special burdens on government contractors and corporations that have a certain level of foreign ownership or received TARP funds. The bill also includes disclosure rules designed to hit corporations, requiring CEOs to appear to "approve this message" the way politicians do, and for groups to identify their donors. Except for the NRA.
Under the NRA carve-out in the House bill, the new rules won't apply to any organizations that have been around for more than 10 years, have more than a million members and receive less than 15% of their funding from corporate donors. That fits the NRA nicely, though as best we can figure, everyone else, from the Sierra Club to Planned Parenthood, fails to qualify. So much for defending the little guy against the fat cats.
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so I suppose the nra allowing the muslim terrorist front group CAIR’s agenda setter, lobbist, fund raiser and head heavy hitter, grover norquist, to ALSO serve as an nra board member for years, (with their FULL knowledge of his anti American activities), is just fine with you huh?
I think this whole thing is BS from people and groups jealous of the clout the NRA has and wants it. Sorry spell check not working tonite.
Where are you getting this crap?
You showed your hand! We are totally against the UN and their attempt to take over 2nd Amendment rights.
You Lose!
You showed your hand! We are totally against the UN and their attempt to take over 2nd Amendment rights.
You Lose!
I did earlier today. I let them know I will not be renewing my membership.
for crying out loud! your kidding, right? do your homework, the CAIR/norquist/NRA connection is no secret and has not been for a few years. good God!
I regret that the NRA felt more concern about other pro-gun organizations than they did about the right of those other organizations to have free speech.
And so they sold out. What a pity. A great force for good has given itself a “Glock racing stripe”.
I guess you don’t have a subscription to America’s 1st Freedom. And don’t call me ignorant & don’t call me greedy even though I am a capitalist.
We argued against the bitch that represented the UN in this debate showcasing our opposition. There’s even a video, check it out.
Bobby.223 if you think any NRA member is cozy with a mooslim you need to check your meds dude, you’re over medicated.
donmeaker, go to gun show, you’ll feel better. But I got the feeling that you don’t even know the working end of a pistol. Tell me I’m wrong.
to much for you to look it up? it is on the record. okay sonny have it your way, you kids know it all.
The NRA is selling out first amendment rights just because they have been exempted this time. A long fought Supreme Court ruling to get rid of infringement of their freedom of speech as well as everyone elses.
LaPierre is bugging the hell out of me lately, he goes out on Tea Party Rally Day in Searchlight, Nevada to meet with Harry Body Odor Reid. Reid may not be as anti-gun as other Dems but he did nothing to pass Thune’s bill last year.
Hey Gramps, what was it about the meds thing you didn’t like?
Read America’s 1st Freedom mag. You can check it out online @NRA.COM
by the way son, I’m older than dirt. Gotta go teach my 11th granddaughter firearm safety tomorrow. Do you need help?
link me to a news source.
okay sure! the/your ‘dude’ thing gave you away tho. anyone over 35 years old does not use ‘dude’. that is how children talk. so go ahead anyway tho, once again, one more time, do your homework on the once great nra, look up grover/CAIR/nra. start, (many other articles on this scandal tho), with debbie schlussel’s 8/7/2008 article. “nra had a spy in gun control group...muslims have a spy in the nra”. you might learn something...
AND Juan "Lettuce" McShame here in Arizona. For shame!
The "R" in NRA stands for "Rifle", not "Republican".
As an NRA member, I want the organization to look out for my best interests; not the GOP's. And if memory serves, the last time we got campaign finance reform, it was pushed by a Republican senator and signed into law by a Republican president. Now those same Republicans want the NRA to sell out its members so that the GOP can raise more campaign money.
I don't think so.
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