Posted on 07/10/2010 4:19:27 AM PDT by Vaquero
(WATCH THE VIDEO)
Joint Statement by Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President & CEO, and Chris Cox, Executive Director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action There may be no vote a United States Senator casts that is more important than a vote to confirm a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now that the Court has clearly stated that the Second Amendment is a fundamental, individual right that applies to all law-abiding Americans, NRA members and gun owners expect a nominee to the Court to fully support, defend and preserve that freedom.
Here are a few selected FReeper comments to date:
In another article, titled “Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V,” she writes, “I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the un-coerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation.”
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, helped craft President Bill Clinton’s political strategy for sustaining his veto of the partial-birth abortion ban in 1997. As a result of Clinton’s successful veto that year, the ban was not enacted until 2003, when it was signed by President George Bush.
I can settle the question for everyone on the site.(Harvard Connections, you know.) Kagan is gayer than Christmas in Port-au-Prince.
She’s in the back of the closet, just like Barney Frank was until he was outed and heroically made a virtue out of being a god-curséd sodomite SOB, as well as a crook.
Now, about her hard-core, real-orders-from-the-Kremlin-belong-to-a-cell, commie family. Dad was a big time commie union infiltrator.
Mommie was a commie.
Bro still is a big-time commie.
These Kagans are NYC commies from the 1930’s, 1940’s, type of people. Elena? Red Diaper baby type. Can sing the “Internationale,” but not the SSB.
Pull the old Kagan FBI Files.
Look ‘em up in the VENONA files. I hope every Republican Senator does.
You don’t have to have very many brain cells to know that Elena Kagan is a Pluto-bound abortion-loving socialist. The thought of that grinning overfed New York bull dyke on our Supreme Court for the next 30-40 years makes me weep for my country.
Chief Justice Roberts:
Kagan Asked Court to ‘Embrace Theory of First Amendment That Would Allow Censorship Not Only of Radio and Television Broadcasts, But Pamphlets and Posters’
Her heroes: Abner Mikva, Thurgood Marshall, Cass Sunstein (who believes the Constitution requires taxpayers to fund abortion and has proposed abolishing marriage - the pure Communist line since 1917) and Aharon Barak Israeli Supreme Court justice Aharon Barak (who has been called Israel’s “Big Brother”)
The NRA is being very vocal now only because they got caught in bed with Pelosi on DISCLOSE. I’ve switched to “Gun Owners of America” and will not go back.
Now they want to join the fight?
As NRA members decide not to renew memberships, the NRA needs to purge its self of the idiots like Chris Cox to stop the mass exodus.
Did you get your 'thank you' card from the DNC?
NRA Now Leans Toward Endorsing Harry Reid
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/07/01/nra-now-leans-toward-endorsing-harry-reid/
The NRA is about to endorse Harry Reid.
Their opinions mean nothing to me.
I did not renew my membership.
that is Bullspit.
but while the lies fly, you will have to wait since they will not endorse his opponent till near the general election....unfortunately Reid is a solid ‘B’ which by NRA standards is better than most Senators get...
wait and see
GOA are pipsqueeks.
you will lose all that lobbying if you switch.
that is a friggin LIE...it never happened....you should check your sources...wannabee NRA groups are lying like rugs to gain political power.
Electioneering for leftists who support antigunners on the Supreme Court, and other Government jobs isn't a good thing.
Your attention is directed to the link at post #8.
ummm....
Maybe if the NRA didn’t back a DEM Senate majority leader, the Republicans could do something about the nomination of Kagan. As it stands they can’t - so “oppose” all you want - the Republicans don’t have the votes to stop this nomination.
(it only takes one GOP defection to kill a filibuster attempt - and I’d bet there are at least 2 who are adamantly opposed to filibuster)
And Chris Cox didn't send letters to NRA Board Members telling them the NRA/ILA was to control things?
I left the NRA because of their support for John Murtha. I’ll never go back as long as they support the likes of Harry Reid.
they havent backed him....
I believe they wont.
That would apply more to the NRA who is reported to be contemplating endorsing Dingy Harry.
I won’t “lose” anything, and I won’t be supporting Reid and Pelosi by proxy.
thats right:
Thank you for contacting NRA-ILA. Please read the following statement issued by NRA-ILA on June 25th. http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5936
Also, please view the following video with Chris Cox:
http://www.nranews.com/#/nranews/VideoModule/Chris%20W%20Cox%20On%20The%20Elena%20Kagan%20Gag%20Rumor%20And%20McDonald.xml or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaC6iZsvh_g
In addition, please view responses from two of our board members.
There are a myriad of rumors regarding the NRA cluttering the internet, but one in particular is causing me personal anguish. That rumor reports that the NRA staff has issued a gag order to the NRA Board of Directors regarding comments on the nomination of Elena Kagen to the Supreme Court. Let me explain something about the structure of the NRA; authority to do anything within the NRA comes from you the members of the NRA. That authority is delegated to your elected Board of Directors, who in turn elects officers and formulate policy, that is then issued to the Executive Vice President/CEO, who then turns that policy into action through the professional staff. Gag orders for the Board of Directors do not exist.
Friends; those of you close to me should know by now that telling me I can’t speak up on an issue of vital importance to the 2nd Amendment is going to get you into a war. I spoke vociferously regarding the nomination of Sonya Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; in fact I joined a number of national 2nd Amendment leaders protesting the appointment and urging through a nationally published letter she not be confirmed. I did that because of her ties to New York State and the position she took, making anti-2nd Amendment decisions.
We fervently hope the Republican Senators will block this nomination.
The 2nd Amendment protects all the rest. Why would the NRA, the protector of the 2nd Amendment, attempt to limit the 1st Amendment rights of its’ own Board of Directors? It does not, but if you think the Board members you voted for could be gagged then you voted for the wrong guys.
Tom King
NRA Board of Directors
President
NYS Rifle & Pistol Association
Their opinions mean nothing to me.
Thhey WONT!
You would think FReepers would be smart enough to know when the left is setting them up by spreading rumors about the #1 political organization in Washington DC.
Divided we fall.
If the NRA endorses any Senator who votes to put Kagan on the Supreme Court, they will never see another dollar from me.
It does not matter how "gun friendly" the Senators' voting records are. Putting a gun-hating Socialist on the Court will nullify those votes.
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#trash/129b2c4fabb7598e
Gee Tom, you danced with the devil and now you have to pay. For me, the NRA has lost all credibility. Where is Charlton Heston when you need him?
good to see you've made up your mind though.
and about Charlton Heston? the president position is strictly honorary.....the real power lies with the Executive Vice President and the head of the NRA ILA.
the president position is for face recognition only.
Imagine! A Supreme Court nominee being REJECTED? Voted DOWN? Who would even consider such a possibility?
I seem to recall that Robert Bork was an excellent nominee. Kagan doesn’t come close to Bork, but her nomination looks like a slam dunk?
I don’t get it.
And also smart enough to run from an organization that has turned on its supporters.
I seem to recall that Robert Bork was an excellent nominee. Kagan doesn’t come close to Bork, but her nomination looks like a slam dunk?
I don’t get it.
its simple...a healthy chunk of Republican Senators are a bunch of cunning runts and excuse my dyslexia
When nkew what she was before she was nominated. She is a no good commie !
We fervently hope the Republican Senators will block this nomination.
Yea that hopey changy thing is working out real well. Grow a pair Tom and call Orin Hatch and tell him to shut up and block her.
Step one: Get rid of Harry Reid
Step two: Fail to have a Republican majority in the Congress
Step three: Watch as an antigun leftist fills Harry’s job
Step four: Watch as dozens of antigun bills flood the Congress
Step five: Complain to the NRA they aren’t doing enough to stop dozens of bills in Congress
AND FOR ALL YOU IGNORANT ANTIGUN NRA HATING IDIOTS:
1. The NRA didn’t become a lobbying group until 1974.
2. While whiners complain about mail, guys like me get out the checkbook.
3. The NRA fought against Parker, not Heller. That’s because Parker was filed before Roberts and Alito. We would have lost. The NRA knows how to count to the number nine.
4. The goa has never done a single thing in it’s entire history. It’s the NRA and the SAF that filed all those lawsuits.
5. The “R” in the NRA stands for rifle. Not Republican. Get rid of Reid AFTER taking control of Congress or you’ll be whining about gun control and pleading for the NRA again. As always.
6. The antigunners hate the NRA just as much as some freepers. That explains the mentality of some freepers.
7. The media doesn’t know the name of any progun group other than the NRA. That should tell you something but you’re too stupid to understand.
8. The goa is the only gun group that asked the Supreme Court to take the narrow view. So far, they haven’t filed a single lawsuit to take responsibility for their actions. It’s the NRA and the SAF that filed all those lawsuits.
9. Lazy, stupid people always have an excuse not to get involved.
Tell me a single thing the goa has ever done on their own.
McDonald vs. Chicago. Nope, SAF.
Katrina victims? Nope, NRA.
Winnetka Lawsuits? Nope, SAF and NRA
Morton Grove Lawsuit? Nope, NRA.
San Francisco? Nope, NRA
Evanston? Nope, NRA and SAF
Parker? Nope, Robert Levy and it’s a good thing the case became Heller with Roberts and Alito or we would have lost. That’s why the NRA tried to stop it.
Heller? Nope, Levy again.
United Nations attacks? Nope, NRA as a Non Government Organization.
Free legal support for their members? Nope, NRA.
Even Basil’s Second Amendment Sisters give women’s classes
JPFO? They aren’t even a lobbying group.
Who does the leftist media fear? I’ll give you a hint, the initials are NRA.
NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN WHAT THE goa HAS EVER DONE ON THEIR OWN IN THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY.
NO ONE ESPECIALLY AvOrdVet WHO STILL CAN’T FIND A SINGLE THING THE goa HAS EVER DONE ON THEIR OWN.
America is a wonderful place where folks can rant about whatever comes to heart. My pursuit of happiness is supporting the GOA not the nra.
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