Posted on 09/25/2009 1:40:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
Wanted to once in awhile post a HERO bill as opposed to all the ZERO bills I have. I immediately thought of Charleton Heston. He was an admirable conservative man. For many, many reasons.
With that, he gets the first HERO dollar bill. The ZERO bills, of course, are worth ZERO, they are worthless. In contrast, the HERO bill is, appropriately, priceless.
Here's the front first, then the back:
For the whole series of
Zero dollar bills, go here:
of Zero Bills"
Late in his life, when he could have made the rounds collecting “lifetime achievement awards,” Mr. Heston defended our freedom and suffered the opprobrium of his lessers. But liberty was more important to him.
Late in his life, when he could have made the rounds collecting “lifetime achievement awards,” Mr. Heston defended our freedom and suffered the opprobrium of his lessers. But liberty was more important to him.
Didn’t Mr. Heston push for the passage of the GCA of ‘68?
He did get awards later in life, he just didn’t let that stop him from doing what he passionately believed in. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003, for example. One thing is clear, which is what you were trying to illustrate: he wasn’t doing what he was doing to get awards. He did what he did because he was living his beliefs.
That’s why patriots like him are priceless. We simply don’t have a lot of great ones like him around. However the Tea Parties going on across the country, we are getting fresh patriots starting to get involved because they’re concerned and they weren’t doing it for anyone else or because someone begged them to go.
Good job, but it’s spelled “Charlton”
$%#&@$&, thanks, I’ll fix it. Too many sources around that have it misspelled.
From the very quick looking up of this, it appears he was approached by people to be part of a number of famous actors to come out publicly in support of basically adding long guns to be covered under the GCA of 1968 and did oblige and support it.
I can’t prove it, but personally I believe he looked at what the GCA laid out and believed it wouldn’t prevent law abiding gun owners from obtaining firearms, though it would make it less easy than before. I believe for generally a peace-loving guy, living in a time where Kennedy blown away 5 years earlier, and Robert Kennedy shot earlier in 1968, I believe he thought these were steps that could be taken to reduce the ability to get a gun by those who would use them to murder and commit anarchy, without taking away the ability of law abiding people to buy guns. You could (and I would) say it was probably myopic and maybe not the best long-term solutions to push for, but the violence levels people were used to back then were a lot different than they are 40 years later.
And yes, he also supported the Kennedys, but consider JFK’s tax cutting policies we praise him for versus today’s marxists masquerading as democrats. He also primarily supported the Kennedys because of their positions on equal rights for blacks. Not because he felt himself to be a liberal democrat. The democrats of yesteryear like Kennedy and Zell Miller are ones we’d be recommending for Republican seats, they have a lot more in common with us today than their own party today.
For the whole series of
Zero dollar bills, go here:
of Zero Bills"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.