Fox News Marks Newtown Anniversary With Lobbyist Who Says God Is 'Judging' Unarmed People

[TomCADem]

Source: Crooks and Liars

Fox News host Chris Wallace said on Sunday that he interviewed a fringe conservative gun lobbyist in order to balance the debate about gun law on the anniversary of the slaughter of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Connecticut.

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"Now, for the other side of the gun debate," Wallace announced. "Larry Pratt is executive director Gun Owners of America."

"We're not really going to able to talk about a victory until we get rid of the laws that prohibit people from having guns to protect themselves in schools and in other places," Pratt explained. "Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns were prohibited."

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Wallace, however, failed to press Pratt on some of his more controversial statements. Earlier this year, Pratt suggested to a tea party group that there were guns in the Bible and that God was "blessing" gun owners, while "judging" unarmed Americans.

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So, according to Pratt, walking around armed is one outward indicator that we have God's mercy?

http://crooksandliars.com/david/gun-lobbyist-larry-pratt-says-guns-were

He pointed to a story in the Book of Samuel, where only two men in Israel had a sword "as a result of their sinfulness."

"Finally in his mercy, God enables them to win in a battle and rearm," Pratt explained. "But that must have been one nasty battle, to go into battle with with only two guys with a gun! And everybody else empty handed. So, I would submit that we should not go into battle empty handed."

"But the only way to avoid that is to be on our knees and to be asking for God's pleasure," he added. "If the country comes back to the Lord -- as he told Solomon in that great prayer -- then he will repent of what he's done to the country, he will heal the land, restore it and put his blessing upon it."

"And we should be praying that we will all be able to go around armed because that will be one outward indicator that we have God's blessing."

[diabeticman]

1. For this segment alone FAUX should be denied or fined by the FCC for refering to their channel as a

news channel.

[Jerry442]

12. They say the cure for noxious speech is more (good) speech.

Some days torches and pitchforks look kinda tempting though.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Fox gives these nuts airtime, not surprised but does anyone really listen to it?

Or is it just that white noise that too many people hear over and over, in homes and in the mall, like a subliminal message mantra?

[JBoy]

3. Fox News "balance":

"Well, we've heard from a sane person, so now let's hear what an insane person says."

[hibbing]

4. exactly

The "left" or "liberal" they usually have on are moderates at best that offer reasonable proposals that most Americans would be in favor of. These people are balanced by some right wing nutjob.

Peace

[starroute]

5. Larry Pratt has been a jackass for a very long time

This piece is from 1992, but it tells you most of what you need to know. And though the rhetoric is distinctly on the inflammatory side, I believe the facts are all solid.

http://www.refuseandresist.org/big_brother/030796circle.html

A Small Circle of Friends:
Larry Pratt, the Council for Inter-American Security and International Fascist Networks

Recent allegations of anti-Semitism and racism levelled against Larry Pratt, a national co-chairman of the Buchanan for President campaign committee, is an intriguing example of media obfuscation and "truth" on the half-shell. That Pratt addressed the 1992 "Christian Men's Meeting," organized by notorious Christian Identity racist, Pete Peters, is an established fact. That Pratt shared the platform with Aryan Nations fuhrer , Richard Butler and "former" Klan "Grand Dragon," Louis Beam, the neo-Nazi architect of "leaderless resistance," is incontestable. That he gave a speech at the 1993 Jubilation Conference in Sacramento, California, an annual gathering of far-rightists' sponsored by the anti-Semitic publisher of Jubilee, the flagship tabloid of the Christian Identity movement, is true and has been accurately reported by the bourgeois press.

What should be of equal concern to the media is information about Mr. Pratt which is far more damaging -- his close collaboration over a 20 year period with an international network of war criminals, neo-Nazi terrorists, and the organizers of Asian, European and Latin American death squads. But because such activities advanced the geopolitical and military goals of the United States, Pratt's actual record is passed over in silence ; a facet of media self-censorship that has been well- documented elsewhere.

At the outset of this report I will emphasize, Pratt is a reactionary whose political orientation can aptly be described as clerical-fascist. On numerous occasions, he has expressed disdain for democracy and the economic, political and social rights of the oppressed. . . .

By 1990, the "Culture Wars," the assault on the basic rights of people of color, the organized proletariat, immigrants, women, queers and the left had come to replace the mythological significance of the "Red Menace" for the far-right. Mr. Pratt, this time in the guise of "defender" of "traditional family values," and "America's Godly heritage," was equal to the task, "protecting" white Christians from a "flood" of "illegal" immigrants. Pratt would use his skills as a propagandist and his position as president of Gun Owners of America, to launch a new campaign -- to make English the official language of the United States.

[madrchsod]

6. so i guess we are supposed to carry swords?

or maybe concealed daggers? so either way we have god`s blessing.

these guys make my head hurt....

[Initech]

7. Fox News: you've heard the sane argument. Let us give you the insane one!

[SoapBox]

8. Sicko perverts.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Faux is reichwing propaganda. Nothing less. Thanks for gutting the Fair Doctrine, gutless DC DEMS.

[Bucky]

10. There's guns in the Bible. God hates unarmed children. You should pray to God for weapons.

My brain is overloading. How is this not psychotic thinking.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. The Three Wise Men arrived carrying gifts ....

... of gunpowder, primers, and rifles.

It is so written.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Picture of the event

[Frank Cannon]

13. Those little 6-year-old sinning bastards are burning in hell now.

It's so sad. If only they obeyed God's commandment to pack an iron in their little Hello Kitty backpacks.

I seriously hope I never encounter this jackass in public somewhere. I doubt he'd be able to whip that smoke wagon out and get a shot off before I bless him with a mouthful of bloody teeth.