Posted on 06/01/2012 5:41:30 AM PDT by marktwain
Gun rights advocates recently discovered that the gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns has burrowed its "gun violence prevention coordinators" (read "anti-gun lobbyists") into city payrolls from Augusta, Maine to Seattle, Washington, at taxpayer expense.
MAIG is the brainchild of New York City's zealous anti-gun billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who formed the group at a 2006 gun control summit held in Gracie Mansion and co-hosted by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. MAIG touts an agenda of "commonsense reforms" that gun rights advocates see as being somewhere on the far side of repealing the Second Amendment.
With a membership that started at 15 and now approaches 600 mayors, MAIG's agenda has expanded from tracking "illegal" guns used in crimes to promoting outright gun bans in Congress. But the tactic of slipping anti-gun operatives into municipal governments looks like something new.
Florida blogger Sean Caranna stumbled upon these gun control termites about a month ago while researching another project. The Orlando city council's website showed a contract renewal notice for a city employee with the job title, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns regional coordinator."
Caranna was stunned by the job description: to "play an integral role in the coordination and planning of gun crime prevention and illegal gun-related initiatives, events and media opportunities in the city and in the region." In the real world, that meant holding city-sponsored meetings to recruit anti-gun constituencies to undermine Second Amendment rights. Their slogans blared "gun crime" and "gun violence," misdirecting attention away from the real problem of gang violence.
Orlando taxpayers footed $24,000 of the job's $60,000 annual salary, prompting Caranna to look further. He turned up about a dozen other cities with a similar position and a similar burden on the city's general fund -- including Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Seattle.
Caranna called blogger Dave Workman in Seattle, who jumped on the story and found himself wondering about Orlando's $24,000 payment toward the salary's $60K total -- where did the other $36,000 come from?
He contacted Thomas L. Taylor with the City of Seattle's budget office, who confirmed that a now-discontinued position for a 'gun violence prevention coordinator' in the Office of Intergovernmental Relations had been "largely funded" by MAIG.
Workman found two grants for the position totaling $75,000, but the money was actually funneled through something called the United Against Illegal Guns Support Fund. Its president in 2010, when the grants were disbursed, was John Feinblatt, a close adviser to Mayor Bloomberg.
Where did UAIGSF get its money? The Foundation Center's huge grant database showed that it got $2.4 million in foundation money from 2008 to 2010, with $1.3 million coming from Chicago's rabidly anti-gun Joyce Foundation, where Barack Obama was once a board member.
Workman continued to shed light on the funding of MAIG, which was originally supported by Bloomberg ($3 million), insurance mogul Eli Broad ($750,000), and the Joyce Foundation ($1.1 million). When the Support Fund opened shop in 2008, Broad's private foundation and the Joyce Foundation continued as anti-gun donors.
Joyce incubated the idea of joint government and foundation funding for gun control activists in 2008 with a grant of $375,000 "To support four diverse 'mayors against illegal guns' coalition members in hiring city coordinators to act as regional point persons for the coalition."
Workman's database-surfing found $32.2 million in tax-exempt money pouring into various gun control pockets during the past decade. George Soros' Open Society Institute, for example, gave $600,000 to the Tides Foundation in 2002, "To support the donor advised fund for the Funders' Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention."
Workman said, "Gun control has its donor advised funds and funders' collaboratives and city-funded parasites, but I rarely see such coordination among gun rights donors."
Perhaps conservative donors need to regroup their constitutional priorities.
After the U.S. agrees to the UN position of gun control, none of us who own guns will have to worry about it except where and how to hide our guns from those who would come to take them. I have a few places planned.
These rich elitists are working diligently to institute a one-world government in the form of a Plutocratic Techno-beaurocracy, unrestrained by popular opinion or basic human rights.
I hope New York City vomits this pocket Hitler out of office and replaces him with a less odious leftist in the next election.
These rich elitists are working diligently to institute a one-world government in the form of a Plutocratic Techno-beaurocracy, unrestrained by popular opinion or basic human rights.
I hope New York City vomits this pocket Hitler out of office and replaces him with a less odious leftist in the next election.
And if they're hidden what good are they? If this comes to pass everyone will need a list like ko-ko from the Mikado had complete with addresses.
George Soros’ Open Society Institute, for example, gave $600,000 to the Tides Foundation in 2002, “To support the donor advised fund for the Funders’ Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention.”
Somebody should put out a bounty for George Soros.
What guns, I lost those in Galveston Bay fishing over the weekend. We need to put these people in the crosshairs and end their organizational anti gun involvement.
I see wayyyy too much Bloomberg in the news, and it’s always about what he wants to ban next. Sugar, guns, alcohol... this fascist piece of sh*t needs to go the **** away.
Bloomturd is not the problem, he's the symptom. It's the vast hord of New Yorkers who think just like he does and vote for people like him that are the problem. Your average NY voter has the same opinion on guns that bturd does - pi$$ yourself if you see one in the hands of a private citizen and arm the JBTs with everything they need to remove the last few vestiges of freedom that keep the citizens peasants from living in a complete tyranny.
When NY replaces him it will be with someone as bad or worse (remember David Dinkins?)
Hidden so THEY cannot find them, but not me. I WILL use them, trust me.
Every Mayor that did this needs to pay the taxpayers back out of his or her own pocket or face criminal charges.
Mayors against guns is nothing more than a hate group designed to deprive Americans of their Civil Rights.
They are no better than the KKK... Not surprising since it’s the LEFT doing it.
Hiding our guns isn’t the solution. At that point, using them as the 2nd Amendment intended will be. Sad that our nation is coming to that.
Precisely. If you’re at the point where you think you need to bury your guns, it is probably time to be using them.
Yes. I remember Dinkins - the Men’s Room Attendant.
And you are right. Its just like Obama. He is merely the symptom of the disease - the putrescent pustule on the butt of the American Body Politic. The real problem is the disease itself - the morons who voted him into office.
It will only change when we flush the Marxists out of the educational institutions,mainstream media and entertainment industry. They mold young, pliable, impressionable minds into tools of the Marxist Atheist Left.
From a FReeper, a few years ago:
Too many want to bury their guns. Our guns will do no good if buried and not used against those who would deny us our basic rights. I don’t believe we should bury anything except those who will come for what we have. Posted on Monday, December 29, 2008 9:59:29 PM by rustyboots
Source of this quote is on my profile page:
LESSON NO. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms -- kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.
Recently I was fairly close to being classified a felon. Guess what? In my home I have a fairly large collection of firearms. And if I happened to be convicted you can be assured that “a soldier” (cop) would have been knocking at my door. So, you need to be careful what you espouse.
Anyway: Case dismissed. At the whim of the judge. That's right, whim. I don't appreciate my rights being compromised by whether a bureaucrat is having a bad day or not.
I think many on this forum don't have any idea how easy it is to have your civil rights taken away by being convicted of a felony. I don't even believe many actually know what a felony is. So, for anyone who cares here ya go.
A felony is anything you may be convicted of, or plead down to, that the possible sentence is one year in jail or more. That's possible sentence. Sentence suspended? Felon. 36 hrs in jail? Felon. Probation? Felon. Most wouldn't believe what “crimes” constitute felonies. IMO just another way to disarm the citizenry
Recently I was fairly close to being classified a felon. Guess what? In my home I have a fairly large collection of firearms. And if I happened to be convicted you can be assured that “a soldier” (cop) would have been knocking at my door. So, you need to be careful what you espouse.
Anyway: Case dismissed. At the whim of the judge. That's right, whim. I don't appreciate my rights being compromised by whether a bureaucrat is having a bad day or not.
I think many on this forum don't have any idea how easy it is to have your civil rights taken away by being convicted of a felony. I don't even believe many actually know what a felony is. So, for anyone who cares here ya go.
A felony is anything you may be convicted of, or plead down to, that the possible sentence is one year in jail or more. That's possible sentence. Sentence suspended? Felon. 36 hrs in jail? Felon. Probation? Felon. Most wouldn't believe what “crimes” constitute felonies. IMO just another way to disarm the citizenry
Recently I was fairly close to being classified a felon. Guess what? In my home I have a fairly large collection of firearms. And if I happened to be convicted you can be assured that “a soldier” (cop) would have been knocking at my door. So, you need to be careful what you espouse.
Anyway: Case dismissed. At the whim of the judge. That's right, whim. I don't appreciate my rights being compromised by whether a bureaucrat is having a bad day or not.
I think many on this forum don't have any idea how easy it is to have your civil rights taken away by being convicted of a felony. I don't even believe many actually know what a felony is. So, for anyone who cares here ya go.
A felony is anything you may be convicted of, or plead down to, that the possible sentence is one year in jail or more. That's possible sentence. Sentence suspended? Felon. 36 hrs in jail? Felon. Probation? Felon. Most wouldn't believe what “crimes” constitute felonies. IMO just another way to disarm the citizenry
Surprising article by a Chicago ‘LIBune’ Tribune writer:
chicagotribune.com
At home on the gun range
Women get together for adventure, camaraderie and target practice
Barbara Brotman
May 30, 2012
“OK, I’m looking at how many boobs I can see,” Diane Drall said.
We were a bit startled. But we stood obediently as Drall checked to make sure we didn’t have low-cut necklines, and she explained herself.
When a handgun is fired, it ejects the bullet’s extremely hot casing, she said. “If a piece of brass reaches you and it goes down your bra,” she said, “it’s not going to kill you, and it may not leave a scar, but it can hurt.”
You don’t get the casing-in-the-bra talk just anywhere. But at Women in the Outdoors, we got that, and sessions on jewelry-making and quilting too.
I never said I would not use them.
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