NOW!!!
Posted on 03/21/2013 6:18:48 AM PDT by shortstop
Andy is fighting back.
As tens of thousands of New Yorkers have declared they will not comply with his massive gun ban, he has decided to play hardball.
I’m talking about Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York. At the first of the year, he rammed through a toughest-in-the-nation gun ban that criminalizes tens of thousands of law-abiding New Yorkers.
Guns and magazines they’ve owned for years suddenly became illegal, and a massive registration scheme was foisted upon them. Upset and resistance were widespread and immediate.
And a couple of weeks ago, a few thousand salt-of-the-earth New Yorkers gathered on the grounds of the state Capitol and shouted that they would not comply.
Like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., they pledged civil disobedience to an unjust and immoral law. They chose obedience to Constitution over subjection to its perversion.
Across upstate, a handful of sheriffs – whose association had denounced the law – said that they would not enforce it.
That showed the governor he had a problem.
Most elected officials would have dealt with that with outreach, by trying to make peace, by at least giving his opponents a fair hearing.
But Andrew Cuomo isn’t most elected officials.
He is a special breed of cat.
So he’s offering a reward.
Specifically, his administration is offering a $500 reward to anyone who gives police a tip that leads to someone’s arrest for possessing an illegal gun.
He criminalizes law-abiding citizens, they resist his efforts, he hires their neighbors to turn them in.
For years, thugs and drug dealers have been gunning people down on the streets. For years, rampant urban violence has been a cancer in New York’s cities.
And there was no reward.
No $500 to induce one thug to turn another in.
But there’s a new gun law, and this new initiative, and anyone who dares resist the governor’s dictate needs to fear everyone around him.
Here’s how it works.
A toll-free number has been established. State troopers will answer it around the clock. People will call, anonymously, and report folks who have an illegal gun.
Like your turkey shotgun with the newly outlawed thumb-hole stock, or the high-capacity magazine that came with your pistol when you bought it in Pennsylvania.
The troopers will pass that tip to the law-enforcement agency in the community where the alleged gun owner lives. The state will later contact that agency to see how worthwhile the tip was. At the end of the investigation, the state will expect a report from the agency on how it went.
I think that’s meant to make sure the local agency doesn’t blow off the tip.
If there is an arrest, the state will pay $500 to the person who gave the tip.
I’m not sure where the Fourth Amendment fits in all this. Apparently, uncorroborated anonymous tips are going to be considered probable cause to make someone the subject of a state-monitored police investigation. That would presumably include some sort of search warrant. How can you find out, for example, if someone has an illegal gun without going through their property and possessions?
Sounds like a great way to screw with somebody.
Sounds like a great way to shred the Constitution.
Sounds like a great way to turn people against one another and to turn every busybody or disaffected brother-in-law into a narc.
But Andy is that serious about guns, and the people who own them.
Apparently, a lot more serious than he is about rape, murder and child molesting.
Because I don’t find any reference anywhere to a New York state program where you are offered a reward for turning in rapists, killers or pedophiles.
Rape and murder a child, and the state does not offer a reward for your arrest. Have a shotgun with a collapsible stock – like those sold all across America – and there’s $500 on your head.
It seems like the state is more interested in suppressing your freedom than it is in protecting victims’ lives. It seems like New York doesn’t want to catch criminals, it wants to catch grampas.
And it is willing to pay snitches to do it.
Just like Big Brother.
And Hitler and Stalin.
Turn the people against one another, make sycophants the servile tattletales of an angry and powerful state.
And pay people to spy on one another.
That’s Andrew Cuomo’s America.
I’m incredulous that we have simply allowed these disgusting sacks of puke to repeatedly ignore and violate the Constitution of the United States.
How Hitlerian of him. That New Yorkers should vote for this Mafia family to rule over them and take away their rights is absurd. Blue State voters don’t deserve any respect.
That showed the governor he had a problem.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Cuomo has no idea about the problem he has created. Committees of Safety are now being secretely organized in New York, and associated Committees of Correspondence.
This is indeed Nationalist Socialism, the polite words for Fascism. Cuomo has a bleeding heart excuse to disarm New Yorkers, and knuckle under to criminals and insanity to remove the 2nd amendment rights of New Yorkers.
A huge social conflict is about to assail Mr. Cuomo. His days as a politician are numbered.He is a chickensh*t coward of a politician.
It sounds like our New York Freepers had better get busy flooding the system. A group of a few dozen folks with time on their hands could make enough calls to paralyze them. When 99% of the calls turn up nothing at all and take the cops on one wild goose chase after another it will end quickly.
Yeah, if we knew their real identities. The ones that are stable enough that you can identify them aren't the real bad actors.
NOW!!!
Snitches get stitches.
Or, when your neighbor walks outside with a rake, call in that he has an assault weapon. “But officer, it sure looked like a gun.” Several thousand of those a day might take the wind out of their sails.
It should be an epic shootout for the 2016 Dem nomination with Cuomo, Hillary, and SlowJoe.
Like most voters who put him there and citizens who pay his salary.
When do we stop blaming the politicians and start looking at the enablers?
No, we non- NY State citizens need to punish all of NY State by removing all sales of ammunition and firearms starting with the State Police and all Government in NY State on down to the citizens. No partiality shown.
NY State has gun control cancer and it need to be treated harshly, it has Gun Control AIDS and needs to be quarentined. Time for the free market to apply maximum pressure on the Head thug in that State. Alinsky Cuomo. He will be running in 2016. Lie-awhatha Warren will be his VP.
Make it all Andrew Cuomo’s fault. Call or e-mail ATK today and demand that ATK stop all firearms and ammuntion sales to NY State. Call Glock, Remington, SIG, etc....
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
(This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
~ Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
The rules
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
How: NY State Boycott of all arms and ammunition, starting with NY State Government, local Government and all NY State Citizens/Taxpayers/Serfs
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
We all know firearms and the Second Amendment. Time to say NO to the Bullies in NY State!
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
NY State Government will be clueless on how to handle a boycott by Industry initiated by Taxpayers from the other “56” States.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
No Rights to own Firearms for Citizens = No Rights, exemptions, or any other weasel language to possess Firearms or ammunition for Government Employees anywhere in NY
If a NY State Citizen cannot buy the firearms/magazines/ammunition…. Nor can a Government Entity or Government Employee in NY State
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It is irrational. It is infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
Call Andrew Cuomo, he owns: your lack of Rights, your lack of security, or lack of ammunition or lack of firearms
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
For those of us outside of NY State: More product available and we end this gun control issue for a while
For those in NY State: Think of this as Chemo-therapy for gun control cancer; the process is not very enjoyable, but the results of killing off the gun control cancer are worth it.
Enjoy watching the NY State bureaucrats squirm and fuss
Enjoy watching the anti- gun types freak when the Government is not armed either! Que Mike Bloomberg, NY Police Union types and the UN idiots “guns for our security now! While leaving the taxpayers un-armed”
ENJOY ANDREW COUMO GET POUNDED ON ALL SIDES and watch his 2016 chances go away!
People should just call in and report whenever they see some celebrity or politician with their bodyguards.
Flood the system with bogus calls. Report children who chew Pop Tarts into forbidden shapes. Narc on crooks you see on TV and in movies. Call the cops on cops. Do it from a pay phone and give them Nancy Pelosi’s name.
Drown these would-be tyrants in their own folly.
We now have an East Germany in the Western Hemisphere...it is called “New York”.
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