NRA Board To Pass Resolution on CARA: Opposed Member

Sierra Times ^ | 10.27.01 | Sierra Times Staff

[brityank]

I received a response back from the NRA/ILA bleating that they are only supporting that portion of the Act that pertains to the Second Amendment.

Extract from letter:
"Unfortunately, several organizations and individuals that are primarily concerned with federal land aquisition issues have launched a campaign against NRA because of it's support of CARA's Title III."

What I conveyed in my letter, was that if the CARA bill as currently constituted passed, then any hopes for maintaining our 2A rights will be abrogated and eventually nullified. While I agree that the 2A is not about hunting; hunting has and will continue to provide the greatest portion of their membership base. CARA wil close of the greatest portion of those lands, especially out West, that are currently open to hunters and further will decimate the businesses that rely on hunters for their existance.

If you haven't contacted the NRA, DO IT NOW.

[brityank]

Heads up.

[brityank]

Need your BUMP lists. :^)

[Scholastic]

Thanks,

I quit giving the NRA the time of day long ago.

[brityank]

I am a life member since being on the pistol team in the Navy in '65. I supported the creation of the Institute for Legislative Action.
The only thing they get from me now is grief, and they deserve all that I can give them. Ignoring the rest of the constitution will not retain the Second Amendment any more than ignoring a rotten apple in a barrel will make the rest last through the winter.

[farmfriend]

I lost my bump list last night. I can recreate it but it will take time I don't have right now. Sorry. 68-69... was given a copy.

[Buffalo Head]

"The only thing they get from me now is grief,..."

You are either a supporter of the Second Amendment or you are supporting the efforts of Chuck, Diane, Ted, Hillary, etc. There is no middle ground. There are no excuses.

A traitor is scum.

[First_Salute]

The whole "law," is a perfect example of what legislators feel they need, so that they can prove they are useful --- that is, produce laws like bumper bolts off an assembly line --- but, the motivation for production is not, demand.

This "law" is not in demand by the people of the fifty states.

However, this "law" is most definitely in demand by a "major interest." And that "interest" would be Wall Street.

It is investors whose strategy it is, to use government funds for the purpose of acquiring farmlands ... under the color of acquiring the whole, such farmlands and more surrounding lands and other lands in the name of the environment.

Why do investors want these lands (at taxpayers' expense)?

Because investors see a wilting of industrial development for which they wish to subsitute alternative growth in which to appreciate capital gains.

Unfortunately, too many a significant bunch of those on "the right," are lock-step with those on "the left:" environmentalist wackos, when it comes to this "legislation."

The purpose of such investors is to develop corporate farming like you have never seen.

Supposedly government is going to buy the land for the sake of nature.

Meanwhile, out of the public eye, deals will be made for large-scale contract farming. So for example, twenty farmers and ranchers give up their land; the government installs itself; then the government requests bids to farm (and / or mine), not all, but significant portions of the land.

The state universities who are want to establish agricultural and environmental stations in greater abundance, along with many small farm community towns, are liking the idea for the increased jobs opportunities.

The unions are going to go for it, because it means replacing private employment with state-approved townies who are also "politically correct." That's right, the farmers are out and the diversity-indoctrinated are in.

That is what this "law" is all about: New-Age Corporate Farming.

The theory is that such large-scale management will make efficient, what is supposedly an out-of-date art: family farms.

Oh to be sure, the government and C.A.R.A. supporters will point to portions of land in their propaganda, which are not farm-able nor mine-able, and their minions will nod, "Ya see! 'It's about the environment!"

But such extraneous lands are fluff, in contrast to the prime rib, that is, prime real estate which is sought by the likes of Archer Daniels Midland and other land reinvestment trusts, such as those by which the Kennedys, Rockefellors, et al, can afford their "limousine liberals'" limousines.

[brityank]

Unlike Bush, I did not resign my life membership. Unlike you, I do work at getting the NRA back to defending the Second Amendment -- as it stands; not as you and your friends would allow it to become under your friend Dodd's abomination GCA68. Get your head out of there and open your eyes.

[snopercod]

If the NRA supports this land grab, I'm going to have to cancel my membership and switch to GOA. Probably should have done that long ago...

[John R. (Bob) Locke]

So what do you say to someone who supports the 2A, and then supports something like CARA?

Shouldn't we be supporting the entire Constitution?

The NRA doesn't appear to think so.

[farmfriend]

A post on another thread taught me how to recover my bump list. Freepmailing it to you and pinging for you.

[farmfriend]

Pinging the Klamath list as requested.

[farmfriend]

Pinging the stolen JohnHuang2 list as well.

[blackie]

Many of us are on both lists... {;~)

[blackie]

Many of us are on both lists... {;~)

[farmfriend]

I know that is a problem but if I combine both lists then I am pinging people who may not be interested in Klamath stuff. Problem with using stolen material.

[farmfriend]

I did post an "I'm sorry" on other threads where I used both lists.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Anybody with NRA headquarters connections
please see if the NRA will put this Petition on their website.

Stop Illegal Land Grabs Petition

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!