Posted on 02/25/2018 10:59:39 PM PST by Kaslin
We’re now supposed to give up our guns because it's the 21st Century, people, and the cops will totally protect us and oh, you can’t dare criticize the FBI for failing to disarm yet another ticking time bomb and what kind of crazy nut would expect a police officer to actually confront a gunman?
Show of hands: Who thinks this stops, even slows down, once those mean old not-actually-assault weapons get banned? That liberals have taken a hard stand in favor of cowardice does not exactly fill one with confidence that once we give up our Second Amendment rights that we’ll be safer or freer.
I guess we both have blood on our hands for having this chat - the real heroes are Sheriff Israel and the Broward Cowards. Because of the children or something.
But at CPAC, the president was super clear - he is not wavering on the Second Amendment. Sure, gooey puff boys like Marco Rubio are eager to roll over and show belly, but a hard line on our rights is not going anywhere. Hey Little Marco, this is the Republican Party, not the Foam Party.
Rubio, displaying the political savvy that convinced him to don a studded leather collar and be led around on a leash by Chuck Schumer, talked Congressman Brian Mast into rolling to. Suckers. The New York Times was delighted that Mast agreed to commit career sucked by sticking his constituents in the back when he tried to leverage his being a vet into somehow qualifying him to tell everyone else what their rights are. Amazing, but those of us vets who don’t dance to the libs’ tune never seem to get a Golden Ticket to the NYT op-ed page.
These gullible outliers don’t change the fact that the rest of the GOP is solid. That’s why the left is changing the rules and trashing our norms to do what they can’t do politically through intimidation. They have cultural power we don’t, and they now seek to use businesses to destroy our rights and silence our voices. Understand that they don’t want an argument or a conversation - they want to use their non-governmental cultural power to deny us access to a platform so that we are unable to make our views heard. We need to recognize this dangerous trend and counterattack ruthlessly with our political power.
Conservatism is not a suicide pact, and our principles are not a mandate to unilaterally disarm. We need to make them hate the new rules. Maybe they won't learn anything, but at least they won't win by cheating.
The liberal elite is using its social and cultural ties to those at the helm of big companies to essentially blacklist the NRA, and there by the tens of millions of Americans who support gun rights. But oppression is oppression whether it’s done by a government bureaucrat or a corporate one, and our principle of non-interference in business assumes business stays out of politics. But now National, Hertz, and others are cutting ties to the NRA, and liberals are advocating banks do the same. Their intent is clear – what they can't do in politics they will simply do by not allowing the representatives of people whose politics they don't like access to the infrastructure of society. And we're not supposed to do anything about it because, you know, free enterprise and stuff. You know, our principles.
No. They are exercising political power. We have our own political power, and we need to exercise it - ruthlessly. The first step is an executive order at the federal level directing that no federal contract can go to any company that discriminates against an organization based on its advocacy or exercise of an enumerated constitutional right. We wouldn't allow a company to do business with our federal government if it discriminated on other grounds, so why should we do it discriminate on political grounds? Why should taxpayers be subsidizing people who hate them? When those government employees start walking past the Hertz and National counters, the liberal jerks who run those companies are going to find that they're posing and posturing has a price.
Next, Congress needs to pass a comprehensive non-discrimination regime designed to protect us into law and allow individuals and entities the right to sue any business that discriminates on the basis of the advocacy for exercise of any constitutional right. We need to make sure there are huge penalties for non-compliance – how about $1 million a day? We also need attorneys’ fees provisions for the plaintiffs as well, because we want to turn lawyers into bounty hunters seeking out these posers who are doing so much damage to our society by collaborating in the suppression of speech that the elite does not approve of.
We could call it the “Civil Rights Anti-Discrimination Act” and dare the Democrats to vote against it. Now, of course, due to the filibuster, it might be tough to pass a law protecting our rights through Congress, but we own about 30 legislatures. That's 30 states that can each outlaw this kind of discrimination within their borders. So Hertz and National, welcome to a whole bunch of lawsuits in Texas and Wyoming and elsewhere. But hey, it's worth it because of the children, right?
The liberals are also pushing venues like Amazon and Roku to drop NRA News - to actively censor a news outlet because they don't like its agenda (I appear regularly on it). The difference between government censorship and corporate censorship is no difference at all. Again, the federal government and the states have the power to regulate. Once again, we must ban discrimination on the basis of advocacy for or exercise of constitutional rights, and empower individual plaintiffs to seek penalties and attorneys’ fees for violations. If these companies really believe what they're doing is right, they can hire lawyers in 30 states.
In fact, it’s clearly time to consider antitrust investigations and other legislation designed to bring to heel the massive, unaccountable, agenda-driven big Silicon Valley players.
Right now, none of this posturing has a price tag, but this private sector oppression is devastating to our political system. Anyone who thinks that this tactic will stop once guns are banned is kidding himself. We will no more accept submission to a bunch of companies than we will the government.
Now, this all doesn't sound very conservative does it? Well, that's the response Democrats are counting on, that we will pretend the old rules still apply while they're jamming us with the new ones. These attacks are a fundamental assault on the liberty of normal Americans. We need to recognize them for what they are, and we need to exercise our own political power to defeat this attack on our ability to participate in our own governance. Bake us a cake, jerks. We warned you – you are going to hate the new rules.
ALL NRA members should launch a boycott against National Enterprise budget Avis Hertz Dollar Thrifty rent a car companies. They should go on TripAdvisor and Yelp and make their feelings be known that they will not rent cars from any of these companies until they repeal their ridiculous statements about the NRA. NRA members should seek out alternatives to the rent a car companies for rental Transportation if they need it. You want to push back? Push back hard counter-boycott. 100%
If you give up a piece of your rights every time someone abuses theirs, then pretty soon you will be without rights and the freedoms they protect.
On a more individual level the anti-gun Left wants us to operate in the basis of emotions as they do or try to shame us if we do not.
We should decline both with equal vigor.
They don’t like us. Accept it. Don’t even want them to like you and get on with the business of tearing down their political idiocy.
The relationship between gun free zones and these shootings is one critical point to make.
Agree!!
the leftist elite know gun control/confiscation is a loser issue. they just use it to gin up their base.
The same corporations taking away our rights will one day face the same fate.
And I won’t give a damn when it happens to them. What comes around goes around.
Let’s squeeze them hard and give them a taste of their own medicine.
Nothing personal; its just business.
Even most who don’t currently own a gun, but understand the stupidity of these companies announcement to boycott the NRA, are outraged at the announcement by these rental car companies. I for one will not rent from any of them any time soon. Surely countless others won’t either. Tell them if you decide to boycott them, too.
So we are supposed to disarm and let the FBI, the local police, and the school resource officer take care of the problem? That makes perfect sense.
I'm going to get a big stack of NRA bumper stickers and apply them to every rental car from the above companies that I come across. Make those rental fleets spend a little money removing the unwanted decorations - and just maybe some of the front office suits will get the message.
The NRA is not some obscure amorphous Mass. The NRA is us..... Real people, you and me. People that ordinarily would be giving these companies our business our hard-earned dollars. Who are they to dis us and discriminate against us and withdraw incentives from us? Screw them it’s time to push back hard. Flood their TripAdvisor and Yelp sites with comments to the effect that you were a person and you are NRA and you will have nothing further more to do with renting their cars. Every company I know is scared to death of bad reports on TripAdvisor and Yelp because they do not have any editorial control.
NRA officials READING THIS : URGENT - Make available to your NRA activist members loads of free NRA stickers that we can put on Millions rent-a-cars, effective immediately. Urgent. ASAP
Or don’t boycott them but make good use of the CDW.
liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.—-Woodrow Wilson (the irony of it!)
Bttt
The issue Ivankaed Trump so it is not so much a loser anymore. Maybe Trump is?
The problem was the Gun-Free Zone, where all people were denied the right to defend themselves. If this right (supposedly guarenteed by the Second Amendment) had not been infringed, fewer, if not all would have survived. If you need a slogan, how about: ‘Rights were denied- children died’
Lefties think that NRA membership consists mostly of gun manufacturing executives & hardcore KKK members.
That will prove to be their Achilles’ Heel.
“ALL NRA members should launch a boycott against National Enterprise budget Avis Hertz Dollar Thrifty rent a car companies”
I believe that train left the station the same day the first company (Enterprise, I think) made its announcement. If FR posts were any indication of a movement, they’ve lost probably thousands of customers. Also Symantec, Windham Hotels, and about 200 other companies.
We’ll be cancelling our Microtel (Wyndham) reservations for family reunion this year.
In many airports, rental cars are in the same garage as regular parking lots. Could walk through and “decorate” aisles of cars. Of course, now cameras are everywhere, so maybe it’s not a good idea after all. Fun to think about, though.
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