Posted on 12/29/2012 6:38:05 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
And not for David Gregory.
A week ago on NBC’s Meet the Press, David Gregory brandished on screen a high-capacity magazine. To most media experts, a “high-capacity magazine” means an ad-stuffed double issue of Vanity Fair with the triple-page perfume-scented pullouts. But apparently in America’s gun-nut gun culture of gun-crazed gun kooks, it’s something else entirely, and it was this latter kind that Mr. Gregory produced in order to taunt Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. As the poster child for America’s gun-crazed gun-kook gun culture, Mr. LaPierre would probably have been more scared by the host waving around a headily perfumed Vanity Fair. But that was merely NBC’s first miscalculation. It seems a high-capacity magazine is illegal in the District of Columbia, and the flagrant breach of D.C. gun laws is now under investigation by the police.
This is, declared NYU professor Jay Rosen, “the dumbest media story of 2012.” Why? Because, as CNN’s Howard Kurtz breezily put it, everybody knows David Gregory wasn’t “planning to commit any crimes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Hi Alfred, I was just reading your post on the difference between “unalienable” and “inalienable”. I found it quite interesting.
I was also reading an article about President Obama omitting “Creator” when quoting the Declaration (http://www.wnd.com/index.phpfa=PAGE.view&pageId=237349) when I noticed that he repeatedly uses “inalienable”. The omission of the one word and the incorrect usage of the other in numerous instances can only be intentional. He’s very consistent about it. I was curious about your thoughts on this.
Matt At the time, I responded briefly. However, here’s an expanded version of my reply:
In the context of American history, the terms “Creator” and “unalienable Rights” appear first and most famously in our “Declaration of Independence” of July 4th, A.D. 1776. There, in its second sentence, theDeclaration offers the single most radical statement of truth in at least 2,000 years of Western political thought:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Prior to our Declaration, the nations of the western world were governed by monarchies where only one man—the king—was deemed to be sovereign. The king was sovereign because he, and he alone, was deemed to have been directly endowed by the God of the Bible (the earthly king’s “Creator”) with the “divine right of kings”. That endowment of God-given rights did not attach as a result of an election or human appointment. That endowment attached as the result of a “coronation ceremony” that took place in the highest church within the nation.
The king would wear a crown of gold and jewels which was intended to symbolize the glittering “corona” seen around the heads of the Christ and saints in medieval paintings. The crown didn’t simply represent the king’s secular or political authority; it represented his spiritual authority. Because the king, and only the king, got his rights directly from God, the king had a special spiritual status (sovereignty) that no other man living in that kingdom could match.
We can see some confirmation of these observations in the rules of chess and the design of classic chess pieces. In the classic chess piece design, the king alone has a cross on the top of his crown. That cross symbolizes that the king is directly “endowed by his Creator” with the “divine right of kings” and is therefore sovereign.
Under the rules of chess, you can “kill” (remove from the chess board of “life”) all of the other pieces. If an opponent lands on a pawn, knight, bishop, rook or queen, that piece is effectively “killed” and removed from the board. But the opponent can never “kill” the king. You can checkmate the king by putting him in circumstances where he is both threatened with “death” and unable to move to another, safer location. You can even accidentally put the king in a circumstance where he is not “in check” (being directly threatened) but can’t move without moving into “check” (death).
The king, and king alone, had the “divine right of kings”—which included an unalienable Right to Life. You could capture a chess king, but you could never, never, lawfully “kill” him.
finish the story here:
http://adask.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/god-given-unalienable-rights-individual-sovereignty/
The argument for letting him walk rests on his membership of a protected class — the media. Notwithstanding that (per Gallup) 54 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the NRA while only 40 percent have any trust in the media, the latter regard themselves as part of the ruling class.. . . which is precisely my point when I say that journalists do not respect the First Amendment as it relates to anyone outside their club.
And their “club” is defined by going along and getting along with the consensus of what is convenient for journalism as such. Which is how stories such as the Trayvon Martin case get fit into the standard "white-American-him-bad” template.
Check out link if you want to see Jay Rosen at his creepiest... (he’s probably worse in real life - but this offers a hint...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
Check out link if you want to see Jay Rosen at his creepiest... (he’s probably worse in real life - but this offers a hint...) New York Times folks in full bloom...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
But, even if we’re denied that pleasure, the “dumbest media story of 2012” is actually rather instructive. David Gregory intended to demonstrate what he regards as the absurdity of America’s lax gun laws. Instead, he’s demonstrating the ever greater absurdity of America’s non-lax laws. His investigation, prosecution, and a sentence of 20–30 years with eligibility for parole after ten (assuming Mothers Against High-Capacity Magazines don’t object) would teach a far more useful lesson than whatever he thought he was doing by waving that clip under LaPierre’s nose.
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THRIVING ON CHAOS The disturbed Obamatons are creating a dysfunctional chaotic culture, The anti-social psychopaths recognize no moral and ethical boundaries----aggressively going after what they want, irregardless of the consequences.
Para-military Dem liberals and progs, are aiding and abetting a cabal of hate-filled individuals----all of them lying in wait to harm conservative/Christian/Constitution-loving Americans.
They are a cabal of ruthless predators w/ no empathy for others.
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REFERENCE FR POSTED America is now run by angry, feral adolescents fueled by hatred, jealousy and revenge
Coach Is Right ^ | December 21st, 2012 | Derek Hollenbeck
POSTER'S COMMENTS It’s not uncommon for some in the minority community to believe that the white establishment (Republicans) uses its power to slander and destroy those who threaten the "status quo"......
Snide remarks about the “invisible and permanent powers-that-be” (Republicans) trying to take down minorities...... is a sentiment some minorities bandy about when they try to justify (what they deem) is their loser status.
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THIS KIND OF PERVERSE CORRUPT THINKING IS REMINSCENT OF THE POST-CIVIL WAR ERA----Carpetbaggers---Northern invaders into the South ----were prominent in politics until 1875, but nearly all left under pressure from the Red Shirts and White Liners -----white paramilitary organizations, then-described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party", working openly to violently overthrow Republican rule, using intimidation and assassination to turn Republicans out of office and suppress freedmen's (former slaves) voting.
The Republican sheriff of Yazoo, Mississippi, received a brief flurry of national attention when insurgent white Democrats took over the county government and forced him to flee. (WIKI)
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FREEPER ACTION MEMO In 1875, Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican--and the first African-American US Senator-- wrote to then-Pres Ulysses S. Grant denouncing Northern invaders into the post-Civil War south for manipulating the Black vote for personal benefit, and for keeping alive wartime hatreds. (WIKI)
We need to get someone with integrity----like Cong Allen West (not reelected)----- to write letters to his colleagues, and to the media.
Cong West needs to do the following:
(1) decry the agitation and intimidation tactics being used by these groups,
(2) expose using hatemongering for personal gain,
(3) emphasize the illegalities WRT threatening members of the US Congress,
(4) precpitate investigations into fraud and intimidation upon our electoral/legislative system by these hate-mongering groups, and,
(5) determine the scope and dimension of subversion these activities are visiting on US ntl security.
Should David Gregory be treated more leniently than a domestic cat just because when Obama tickles his tummy he licks the president’s hand and purrs contentedly?
In any future gun, law, Conservatives should insist on a “Gregory Exemption”... prosecutors have to demand that prove intention of an evil act beyond possession.
Seems simple enough...
The Only thing cooler than a Mark Steyn Article is Mark Steyn reading it and posting a MP3 of it on his site...
And pennants are always “clinched”.
CNN journalists fancy themselves liberal elites - - laws don't apply to them or the real elites, right? In delusion they're part of the ruling class. (Well, until they're laid off - and which point they realize elites used them - and they never were real members - but that's another post...)
Until then they're superior - and if you don't believe it, check out their attitudes and 'airs'...
Journalists use to be talented working class people who were in touch with real people. Not anymore - which is why no one gives a damn about 'the news' as presented by CNN. Or about CNN - or any of the rest of the 'oh so superior (by their own standards) newsies.
Gregory is not alone in his Lawlessness.
Odds are a Program Producer procured the Magazine, the Director was advised of the stunt, making him an accessory and Gregory did the deed. Looks like we can include a Conspiracy Charge as well as Possession.
Now, we must assume that the Magazine was transported from a “legal” location to the “illegal location”, which would require transport over State Lines resulting in Federal Charges, not just local D.C. Charges.
It’s time to cast a wide net and get all these Scofflaws off the street to protect the Children.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” ~ H.L. Mencken
Put the arrogant ass in jail. Steyn is right:
SOMETIMES A SOCIETY IS TOO STUPID TO SURVIVE.
No one compares to Steyn.
Bttt
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