New NRA president says gun control activists are 'civil terrorists'
Source: The Guardian
Activists pushing for stronger gun laws are engaged in civil terrorism, Oliver North, the Fox News commentator appointed as the next president of the National Rifle Association, has claimed.
The former Reagan-era security adviser, who was once convicted on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair, also claimed the NRA was the target of a cyberwar.
Theyre not activists this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing thats never been seen against a civil rights organization in America, Oliver North told the Washington Examiner, a conservative newspaper. You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things even there you didnt have this kind of thing.
During the era of Jim Crow segregation, American civil rights activists were beaten and murdered. In 1963, four black children were killed when white supremacists bombed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/10/new-nra-president-oliver-north-says-gun-control-activists-are-civil-terrorists
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)white wing racists who are the vast majority of gun-fanciers in this country.
pecosbob
(7,502 posts)Thanks...I'll be sure to consider your views...not.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)North was tried in 1988. He was indicted on 16 felony counts, and on May 4, 1989, he was initially convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and ordering the destruction of documents through his secretary, Fawn Hall. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell on July 5, 1989 to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours of community service. North performed some of his community service within Potomac Gardens, a public housing project in southeast Washington, DC.[28] However, on July 20, 1990, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),[29] North's convictions were vacated, after the appeals court found that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony.[30]
BumRushDaShow
(127,300 posts)And trying to fucking invoke Jim Crow to essentially compare the NRA to an organization like the NAACP, despite the fact that his gun and bomb toting KKK-loving brothers blew up 4 black children, is so far over the top that it has done stunk up high heaven and is now stinking up the hell that he came out of.
I'll even add some of these on your behalf* -->
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turbinetree
(24,632 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,300 posts)Blue_Tires
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DBoon
(22,286 posts)put them on a no-fly watchlist, maybe arrest and imprison them.
Because that is what dictators do to their political opponents
safeinOhio
(32,528 posts)School shootings are a result of a failure of regulating the militia.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)Nice to see our good friend Ollie carrying on the LaPierre tradition of massive, general assholishness.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)oliver north is still a dumb piece of shit.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)A former republican gunrunner who sold arms to our "enemy" Iran is calling American children who don't wish to see their classmates gunned down in school terrorists. Trumps America.
jmowreader
(50,451 posts)Paladin
(28,202 posts)You've finally descended to a position that really fits you: president of a far-right, lily-white, violence-addicted trash group, the NRA. You're no Chuck Heston---as you're already demonstrating. Give Ted Nugent a kiss for us.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,538 posts)I was afraid he was going to say something rational, but, no, right off the bat he drives the bus into Crazyland.
I'm old enough to remember when the NRA was purely a gun safety organization.
elleng
(130,133 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)So, I guess he is calling the founding fathers civil terrorists. It was the founding fathers who agreed to an amendment that in part stated "a well regulated militia". It seems that if you go by the actual wording of the 2nd amendment the government has every right to put into place gun control.
Marcuse
(7,395 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Anti-tank weapon systems and missiles to Iran and use the proceeds to fund a right wing paramilitary force in Nicoragua is called...
A Traitor.