NRA cuts deals to limit free speech
URGENT ALERT: NRA cuts deals to limit free speech
Three prominent Washington D.C. websites are reporting what many capitol insiders warned of: the National Rifle Association has made a deal with the devil (i.e. anti-gun Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) to limit the free speech of Americans in exchange for their carved-out exemption.
While some pro-gun rights advocates may think free speech does not matter or that nothing another gun advocacy group does should ever be questioned, the National Association for Gun Rights and I take a very different view.
Without the right to free speech, we are defenseless in the battle to save our Second Amendment rights.
Let me be clear: restricting our First Amendment rights is the first step to stripping us of our Second Amendment rights, and should be resisted at every turn.
We don’t care who you are or what an organization may have done in the past – we only care about whether your actions will promote or harm our rights.
And frankly, this craven deal by the NRA will damage our gun rights and our free speech rights. After you read up on the facts, I ask you to give the NRA an earful by calling 1-800-672-3888 and insist they renounce the deal with Pelosi and Reid. Believe me, it is not too late if you will get involved.
- http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/06/14/yet-again-the-nra-sells-out-to-democrats/
- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38500.html
- http://www.campaignfreedom.org/newsroom/detail/shotgun-sellout-house-democrats-cut-special-deal-with-nra
Though at first objecting to the DISCLOSE Act, which would radically limit the free speech of organizations and thus, gun owners, the NRA has now agreed to an exemption for their organization (and other mammoth, mostly liberal, organizations like AARP and probably Moveon.org) in exchange for support of the Democrats’ bill.
This legislation would place draconian limitations on the ability of organizations to voice their opinions on politicians, and by extension, their legislation. The chilling effect on free speech would be difficult to overstate.
Along with their tacit endorsement of Senator Harry Reid, the NRA is signaling that they trust the Democrats will spare the Second Amendment from further assaults.
But that’s a strategy of appeasement, and to put it bluntly, it’s insane. It just delays the inevitable.
Winston Churchill addressed this strategy when he said “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Background:
This is not the only time the NRA has cut a deal to harm gun owners and gun rights in the glare of an anti-gun media frenzy.
Just a three years ago, the NRA joined with arch gun-hater Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) to pass H.R. 2640, the Veteran’s Disarmament Act. When gun control advocates saw the Virginia Tech shootings as an opportunity to pass gun control, the NRA immediately signed the documents of surrender and actively lobbied Congress to pass legislation that will disarm tens of thousands of Americans, including veterans.
Why did they do that? Frankly, they were more concerned with what the media and Washington power-bosses were saying than their loyal-to-a-fault members.
Similarly in 2004 when, desperate to pass the Firearms Manufacturers’ Lawsuits Protection bill, the NRA dangled a re-authorization of the Clinton Assault Weapons ban in front of hungry politicians. The deal was going to be that if anti-gun politicians voted for the Lawsuit Protection bill, the NRA would not oppose re-authorization of the sun-setting Clinton Gun Ban.
Thankfully, a coalition of groups led by the National Association for Gun Rights joined together to kill that deal by exposing it to the light of honest gun owners across this nation… just like we are doing now. In that fight, after a few weeks of excuses and covering their tracks, the NRA backed off of the deal, the Lawsuit Protection Bill still passed and the Clinton Gun Ban ended.
What can you do?
Tell the NRA you’ve had enough, and urge them to kill the DISCLOSE Act, not cut a deal to pass it. Call them at 1-800-672-3888 today, as it may be too late tomorrow.
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Is it true that you have made a deal with the Democratic party to limit free speach of the American people inexchange for an exemption of the NRA?
I have been a staunch supporter of the NRA for 45 years, And am a Benefactor member, but this is beyond my belief. Have you sold out to the Enemy?
National Rifle Association (NRA), don’t use my membership as an excuse to sleep with the Devil. Your deal with anti-gun Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid does not guarantee that your 1st Amendment right to defend the 2nd Amendment will be preserved indefinitely. As history has shown the Socialist/Fascist elements that politically hijacked (polijacked) the Democrat party will come up with a way to rename their attack into something that in appearance seems to benefit the people, they may simply bury their intent in a bill that is 1,000 pages long, or at the last minute added to another bill’s 1k pages (i.e. the crap-and-trade bill).
If you sleep with the Devil eventually you will get destroy by fire.
Keep it up and the pitchforks will most definitely be coming out!!!!!!!!!!!
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Please don’t tell me the NRA is a sheep….sheep eventually go to slaughter. Did you loose your balls NRA? Go find them…..quick…..you are about to loose a bunch of membership if this s*** is true.
I am so disappointed in the NRA right now. So very disappointed…
After being a member of the NRA throughout the years I am going to probably stop giving money to them because they obviously don’t stand for what they used to anymore. It’s too bad the NRA is bowing down to pressure from evil politicions who desire to disarm the American who pays their wage!!
I recently cancelled my membership in the NRA. I cannot support an organization that is willing to sell my rights to the highest bidder!! Why do I feel like the frog in the river? The scorpion will not change it ways, yet we continue to trust it not to sting us halfway across the river! Please call and write the NRA, and threaten to cancel your support.
I agree with Beth S. I have emailed the NRA and asked them to cancel my membership. Long ago I have ceased to receive anything from them except requests for financial support, even though my dues have been paid on a regular basis over the (at least) past 10 years. My publications arrive sporadically, if at all, & then cease. It’s done with now. They can take their half-baked support and play somewhere else. Without attachment or modification, I want my freedom of speech along with my 2d Amendment rights that I’ve dedicated my personal and professional life to preserving for self and my fellow Americans. I would hope Mr. Heston would be turning in his grave, but somehow, I personally don’t think he’d care much, either.
What is the big deal about having to let people know who gave money to what candidate? I think it’s better to know so we can hold these politicians accountable when big business, Wall St., and who knows who else are trying to buy their way into political favors. Get it out in the open! The best thing for US would be to have publicly financed campaigns. It would help get the special interests out of politics and maybe, just maybe the people of this country could be heard instead of just the rich and powerful. No one that is a normal, middle-class person can afford to run for office anymore without being backed by big-money. This country was never intended to give power to only the rich, “of by and for the people” means all of us. This to me would be the best way to help the everyday person of America.
I was a NRA life member until I heard they intented to back Harry Reid. I immediatly wrote them an email stating I no longer wish to maintain membership and to drop me from their rolls. Harry Reid is one of the most vilest politicians holding office at this time along with pelosi.
I have to say the latest supreme court decision is no decistion. It says nothing about our right to bear arms under the constitution but instead, regulates our rights via state law. Some joke from a politically motivated supreme court. God help America.
Just talked to the NRA-ILA who said they did not ask for any exemption but it was placed there in an effort to garner support from the proposing party’s members (no deal was solicited by the NRA, and by the way, the bill failed). As for the grading of candidates–obviously there are some significant issues with the way they grade (single issue only). There are no single issues, they are all inter-related, which is why the founders created the constitution the way they did. It is too easy for a candidate or legislator to hide real intent behind a single issue as alluded to by your article. Thanks for the phone number to the NRA, I would encourage all to call and voice concerns and/or support.