AMERICAN HUNTERS & SHOOTERS ASSOCIATION: A cheap, imitative, lying whore sponsored by OBAMA’s Joyce Foundation
I discovered this distasteful animal while reading Jeff G’s post “Obama and the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment”, in a comment by ThomasD. Straight away to the site, where to my horror, there was Obama staring back at me.I left a comment. I’ll bet whatever you want these lying liars won’t post it. But, here’s a screenshot of the preview. Click to embiggen.
AHSO takes money from The Joyce Foundation. Obama was, from 1994-2002, a director of the Joyce Foundation…
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama must demonstrate executive experience, but he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar tax-exempt organization. He has one obvious reason: during his time as director, Joyce Foundation spent millions creating and supporting anti-gun organizations.
And, while a director of that organization, Obama lorded over their primary focus: the destruction of the 2nd Amendment…
In 1999, midway through Obama’s tenure, the Joyce board voted to grant the Chicago-Kent Law Review $84,000, a staggering sum by law review standards. The Review promptly published an issue in which all articles attacked the individual right view of the Second Amendment.
In a breach of law review custom, Chicago-Kent let an “outsider” serve as editor; he was Carl Bogus, a faculty member of a different law school. Bogus had a unique distinction: he had been a director of Handgun Control Inc. (today’s Brady Campaign), and was on the advisory board of the Joyce-funded Violence Policy Center.
Now, we have this…stinking…organization come up, targeting hunters with pro-Obama ads in Virgina and where else they feel a need to confuse and mislead people. Talk about an Alinsky operation, this one is a classic, right out of the playbook. Lie, lie, and lie more: that’s Obama and his ilk.
More, from Jeff’s illuminating post…
All of which points to one simple fact: It is easy to promote a Living Constitution when you are convinced that it is you who controls both the oxygen and the blood supply. And as postmodern pragmatism gains purchase among the academic class (moreso out of its usefulness than out of any profound discovery offered in its description of the world), the justifications and rationalizations for “guiding” policy toward its “appropriate” legislative end is a natural as breathing to those who believe whole-heartedly in their own intellectual entitlement as social engineers.Obama has show himself again and again to be a man willing to use the press and his followers to “win” debates by anything other than the strength of his ideas in a free marketplace of ideology.
For that reason alone, we should fear his Presidency.
Of course, as a self-styled “progressive,” Obama can really act no other way; for someone who believes he is manipulating history, Obama’s failure to see how his progressive ideology determines his every move is quite sadly ironic.
Sadder, even, the people who might be fooled by this cheap imitation of the NRA.
Please, if anyone finds this by g00gle, or whatever, remember this:
THE SECOND AMENDMENT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO TO WITH HUNTING. OR WITH SPORT SHOOTING.
To allow Joyce Foundation whores like AHSO to dilute that message will chip away at our real rights.
Support the NRA, the best and the original.
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THE SECOND AMENDMENT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO TO WITH HUNTING. OR WITH SPORT SHOOTING.
I actually agree. For the record, however, it also has absolutely nothing to do with, for example, concealed carry. Its purpose was to allow the government to quickly raise a citizen militia (since a standing army is supposed to be unconstitutional), and to allow the populace to engage in armed revolt if the government should become oppressive. Presumably, it’s also to allow you to defend yourself (from wolves, bears, and Indians) if you live out on the frontier, but even that’s a lower-priority concern. Anybody who tells you it’s about anything else is wrong or lying, in my opinion.
Anybody who tells you it’s about anything else is wrong or lying, in my opinion.
Well, here’s where I break with the strict constructionist views, and voice my support for the widest reasonable interpretation of the 2nd.
We’ll need some good snipers to take out the doods operating the microwave energy weapons next month.
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What our founding fathers and others, had to say about gun control and freedom…
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” — Thomas Jefferson Papers (C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950)
“They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania..
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.” -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785).
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.” -George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426.
“The Constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” -Thomas Jefferson.
“(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” -James Madison.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” -Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria.
“Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion…in private self defense…” -John Adams, A defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788).
“…arms…discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. …Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived the use of them.” -Thomas Paine.
“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” -Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p322.
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson, Bill for the More General diffusion of Knowledge (1778).
“To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them…” -George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380.
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun. -Patrick Henry.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” -Patrick Henry
“To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…” -Richard Henry Lee writing in Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic (1787-1788).
“The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.” -Samuel Adams, debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87.
“…the people have a right to keep and bear arms.” -Patrick Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185.
“The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country…” -James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789).
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms.” -Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169.
“The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age…” -Title 10, Section 311 of the U.S. Code. (see http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/)
“The people are nor to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.” -Zachariah Johnson, 3 Elliot, Debates at 646.
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” -Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950).
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…”-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (#28).
“As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” -Tench Coxe, Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, under the pseudonym “A Pennsylvanian” in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1989
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States…Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America.” -gazette of the United States, October 14, 1789.
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” -Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the federal Constitution (1787) in Pamphlets to the Constitution of the United States (P. Ford, 1888).
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” -Martin Luther King Jr., June 23, 1963. Speech in Detroit.
Statements of The Enemies of Liberty:
“Government begins at the end of the gun barrel.” - Chairman Mao
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.” –V.I. Lenin.
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” –Joseph Stalin.
“We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.” - Jose Cerada, (White House official who specializes in gun control policy), The Los Angeles Times
“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans …” Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
“Gun registration is not enough. Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.” - Janet Reno
Now tell me, o wise ones. What part of “shall not be infringed” don’t you understand?
Thanks for that, WW.