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Policy: Dialogue of the Athenians and Melians

Organizations:
American Medical Association (AMA)

Americans for Gun Safety (AGS)

American Jewish Congress (AJC)

Brady Campaign

Million Mom March (MMM)

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)

Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Violence Policy Center

Individuals

Michael Bellesiles, author of Arming America

Common Cause President Scott Harshbarger, of Amirault fame

Million Mom March spokes- person Rosie O'Donnell

Convicted inside trader George Soros

Airhead Britney Spears
Other pages
The enemy's dirty laundry
Enemies of the Second Amendment

Policy: Dialogue of the Athenians and Melians
"...you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." It therefore follows that only equals in power need to negotiate. In other cases the weaker side, whether right or wrong, will seek to gain by negotiation what it cannot gain by force.
  • Hitler "negotiated" for the Sudetenland because he felt himself weaker than an alliance between England, France, and Czechoslovakia. Historians do not believe that Hitler would have gone to war had England and France told him to go to hell instead of appeasing him.
  • Hitler similarly gained the rest of Czechoslovakia because England and France (still probably stronger in 1938) did not stand up to him.
  • On the political front, the Million Mom March sought to "negotiate" away the Second Amendment through a policy of incrementalism. Second Amendment supporters who knew themselves to be stronger did not seek any negotiations or compromises with the Million Mom March. We destroyed it as an organization by exposing evidence of serious improprieties. This caused its own rank-and-file supporters to walk away in disgust.
Stentorian.com is not interested in negotiations, compromises, or discussions with anti-Second Amendment organizations like the Brady Campaign or the Million Mom March. All we have to say to them is, "You have nothing we want and your very existence is of negative value to us. We therefore have no reason or desire to negotiate with you over which of our civil rights we are going to give up. Take them from us if you can before we figure out how to annihilate you poltically and render you permanently incapable of causing us trouble in the future."

The following organizations are Stentorian.com's declared enemies. Whereas one should always seek win-win solutions instead of conflict, Stentorian.com can foresee no possible constructive negotiations or win-win discussions with the organizations designated in red. We must render them incapable of continuing their activities (by exposing them to the public and their own supporters for what they really are, so no one will give them credibility). The Romans burned Carthage to the ground and salted the fields so nothing would ever grow there again. The political equivalent has already been done to the Million Mom March, which is now on life support as a vassal of the Brady Campaign.

Stentorian.com offers political "peace" to the other organizations on condition that they cease and desist from all anti-Second Amendment activities and adopt a position of strict neutrality in this controversy. Until they accept the idea that they do not have a dog in this fight, they also will be treated as political enemies whose very existence is of negative utility to American society.
American Medical Association (AMA)
AMA President Richard F. Corlin devotes almost all of his "junk inaugural speech" to showing his total ignorance about gun control, while saying nothing about the AMA's plans (if any) to address the:
  • skyrocketing cost of health care health insurance premiums
  • skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums that are driving AMA members out of business
  • absence of quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9000) in health care organizations that could fix most of these problems
Corlin's inaugural speech also jeopardizes the credibility and reputation of the American Medical Association.

Americans for Gun Safety (AGS)
Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Paul Evanko flunks AGS for its "shoddy research" and statements on Pennsylvania's instant background check.

American Jewish Congress (AJC)
"American" "Jewish" Congress, a double oxymoron. Its values are neither Jewish nor American. (I'm Jewish and I resent the AJC's association of the Jewish religion with its political agenda.)
 Brady Campaign (formerly Handgun Control Inc., HCI)
  • Brady Campaign fined for failing to report campaign expenditures. Second Amendment Foundation link: "According to the FEC, the Brady Campaign's so-called Voter Education Fund didn't report $111,777 it spent opposing Kentucky Rep. Ernest Fletcher, or the $99,731 it spent trying to beat Rep. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania," Gottlieb noted. "Can you imagine the outrage that anti-gunners would be spewing if a gun rights organization failed to report more than $211,000 in campaign expenditures, especially if the money was spent to unseat some gun control fanatic?"
The Million Mom March (MMM), on life support as a vassal of the Brady Campaign
 Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC, Eric Yoffie)
  • UAHC President Eric Yoffie may have abused UAHC's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by stumping for Albert Gore at the 2000 Million Mom March in Washington. Per Yoffie's statements, the Maccabees and Warsaw Ghetto Resistance fighters were "idolators." Anti-UAHC and AJC royalty-free leaflet.
  • Lesson of Hanukkah regarding the Second Amendment (downloadable royalty-free leaflet)
Violence Policy Center (VPC)
Individuals
It is Stentorian.com's position that individuals have a right to belong to anti-Second Amendment organizations as ordinary members without being put on an "enemies list." On the other hand, it is considered appropriate to name individuals who use their private status (e.g. as well-known celebrities) to attack the Second Amendment as enemies. The question is, "Are you doing it as 'a member of your team' or as 'a private person?'" If you are doing it as a private person, you may be named as an enemy. If the Brady Campaign wishes to name me as an enemy in the Million Mom March's Time Out Chair, my name is spelled "Levinson"-- the person who broke the back of the Million Mom March.

Michael Bellesiles, author of Arming America
The enemy has used this book to support its revision of American history by claiming that firearms were never a major part of American life.
January 2003: Alfred A. Knopf ceases publication of Arming America
Publisher Stops History Book Publication      Tue Jan 7, 5:34 PM ET

 By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press Writer

 NEW YORK - Publication has been halted on a disputed book about the history of guns in the United States.

 Questions about Michael Bellesiles' "Arming America" had already led Columbia University to rescind the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.

...Jane Garrett, Bellesiles'  editor, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the publisher would no longer sell it.

 "We are in the process of ending our contractual arrangement with Michael for `Arming America,'" Garrett said.

December 2002: Columbia University revokes Bancroft Prize for History. Typical of the character, ethics, and integrity of the anti-Second Amendment movement
Columbia Rescinds History Prize for Book

 By HILLEL ITALIE        Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP)--Severe doubts about a book on guns in the United States has led Columbia University to rescind the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.

"Arming America,'' by Michael Bellesiles, had received the award in 2001.

In a statement released Friday, Columbia said that the school's trustees had concluded ``his book had not and does not meet the standards ... established for the Bancroft Prize.'' Columbia has asked Bellesiles to return the prize money, $4,000.

May 2002: National Endowment for the Humanities withdraws fellowship
NEH halts backing for gun  historian's grant            By Robert Stacy McCain       THE WASHINGTON TIMES

 The National Endowment for the Humanities has  withdrawn its name from a fellowship for a professor facing  accusations of research fraud over his book about the history of gun ownership in America.

Chicago's Newberry Library "was in error when it awarded an NEH-supported fellowship" to Emory University history professor    Michael Bellesiles, NEH Deputy  Chairman Lynne Munson wrote Monday in a letter to Newberry officials.


 Noting that Mr. Bellesiles resigned on 25 October 2002 (Saint Crispin's Day), I've redone King Henry V's famous speech accordingly.

He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil remind his neighbours and the public
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he pull forth Michael Bellesiles' resignation
And say 'These wounds the antigun movement had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats we did that day: then shall Bellesiles' shoddy scholarship
Familiar in our mouths as household words
"intentional fabrication or falsification of research data,"
"other serious deviations from accepted practices in carrying out or reporting results from research,”
Be in all newsgroups and letters to the editor freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But Bellesiles in it shall be remember'd;
Those few, those unhappy few, that band of liars;
For the antigun organizations that associated with Bellesiles
Shall be branded liars; be they e'er so vile,
This day shall remind the American people of their condition
And charlatans in the Brady Center and the VPC now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were here,
And hold their cause cheap whiles any speaks
Of Michael Bellesiles' resignation upon Saint Crispin's day.
'Arming America' Author on Paid Leave Pending Probe
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
August 26, 2002
Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - The author of a controversial book, which claims there was no widespread ownership of firearms by U.S. citizens prior to the Civil War, has been removed from his teaching position at Emory University, the school announced Thursday.

"Professor Michael Bellesiles will be on paid leave from his teaching duties at Emory University during the fall semester," Emory said in a written statement acknowledging that a six-month investigation into allegations of research fraud "is continuing."

Bellesiles has been under fire almost since the first copy of his book "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," rolled off the press.

The main thesis of the work is that, prior to the Civil War, "the majority of American men did not care about guns. They were indifferent to owning guns, and they had no apparent interest in learning how to use them." [Click on the link to read the entire story]

Bellesiles resigns from Emory University: note the appropriate date (St. Crispin's Day, proposed 2nd Amendment holiday)
October 25, 2002
 Robert A. Paul, Interim Dean of Emory College
 I have accepted the resignation of Michael Bellesiles from his position as Professor of History at Emory University, effective December 31, 2002.
Emory Investigative Committee Report (.pdf file)
Questions addressed by the committee:
1. Did Professor Bellesiles engage in "intentional fabrication or falsification of research data" in connection with probate records from Rutland County, Vermont?
2. Did Professor Bellesiles engage in "intentional fabrication or falsification of research data" in connection with probate records from Providence, Rhode Island?
3. Did Professor Bellesiles engage in "intentional fabrication or falsification of research data" in connection with probate records from the San Francisco Bay area?
4. Did Professor Bellesiles engage in "intentional fabrication or falsification of research data" in connection with probate records supporting the figures in Table One to his book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture"?
5. Did Professor Bellesiles engage in "other serious deviations “from accepted practices in carrying out or reporting results from research” with respect to probate records or militia census records by:
(a) Failing to carefully document his findings;
(b) Failing to make available to others his sources, evidence, and data; or
(c) Misrepresenting evidence or the sources of evidence."

In summary, we find on Questions 1 and 2, that despite serious failures of and carelessness in the gathering and presentation of archival records and the use of quantitative analysis, we cannot speak of intentional fabrication or falsification. On Question 3, we find that the strained character of Professor Bellesiles’ explanation raises questions about his veracity with respect to his account of having consulted probate records in San Francisco County. On Question 4, dealing with the construction of the vital Table One, we find evidence of falsification. And on Question 5, which raises the standard of professional historical scholarship, we find that Professor Bellesiles falls short on all three counts.

Dr. Bellesiles' side of the story here (pdf file)

Common Cause President Scott Harshbarger
Common Cause files an ethics complaint about John Ashcroft for disagreeing with them and Handgun Control Inc, aka the Brady Center, aka Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (all those aka-s, "also known as-es," remind one of a hoodlum with a mile-long rap sheet, don't they?)
(Washington, D.C.) The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Common Cause today filed an ethics complaint against Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, asserting that the Attorney General violated his ethical obligations to his client, the United States, by sending a letter to the National Rifle Association (NRA) that impermissibly undermines the official U.S. legal position in pending litigation.
Let's take a look at Mr. Harshbarger's background: "Judgment in Massachusetts," by Dorothy Rabinowitz The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, August 24, 1999
One can doubt whether the justices will achieve their cherished finality. The issue is headed either to federal courts or to the desk of Gov. Paul Cellucci, who could use the pardon power to reverse a clear miscarriage of justice. While Mr. Cellucci has maintained a careful silence about the Amirault case, last fall he narrowly defeated Scott Harshbarger, then state attorney general and now head of Common Cause, who has consistently defended the victory he won as the original Amirault prosecutor.
The type of evidence on which the Amiraults were convicted (emphasis is mine): "The Children Behind the Glass" By Dorothy Rabinowitz  05/15/1996 The Wall Street Journal Page A14  (Copyright (c) 1996, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) Bracketed comments are mine.
Former district attorney and now Attorney General of Massachusetts Scott Harshbarger , whose office prosecuted the Amiraults, has continued to offer assurances and proclamations that justice was done in the Fells Acres case.
[Mr. Harshbarger continues to insist that justice was done, well, let's take a look at the justice that was done.]
...[The defendant] had, it was alleged, plunged a butcher knife into the rectum of a four year old, which he had had great trouble removing, according to the prosecution's child witness -- and, according to this witness, when Gerald told another teacher what he was doing with the knife, she simply warned  him not to do it again. Nothing about this testimony prevented Gerald Amirault 's conviction on the charge that he raped the child with a butcher knife -- one which miraculously left no signs of injury. The same young witness produced testimony about a visit from a green and yellow and silver robot from "Star Wars," who bit her on the arm. There were charges of molestation in magic rooms by bad clowns, extracted by determined interviewers. The Amiraults had slaughtered bluebirds, child witnesses said, tied a naked boy to a tree while all the other teachers and children stood around watching.
[Mr. Harshbarger: have the same butcher knife plunged into your own rectum by a proctologist, a physician who can do it without, for example, piercing your large intestine, if it's humanly possible. If he can then withdraw it and leave no signs of injury, I might be willing to believe your statement that "justice was done" in the Amirault case. It's too bad the Amiraults' defense attorney didn't think of making this suggestion during the trial.]
...When the Fells Acres trials ended in convictions, and the TV cameras were gone, when the state's attorneys had finished celebrating their model prosecution (as the case was billed at the time) and Scott Harshbarger had won re-election -- when it was all over the Amiraults were left holding on to one another, and what remained of life.
More about the prosecution team's evidence-gathering methods. "Justice in Massachusetts" By Dorothy Rabinowitz 05/13/1997  The Wall Street Journal  Page A22  (Copyright (c) 1997, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
...the plea prosecutors made, especially to juries: "Believe the children." Children don't lie about things like sex accusations, prosecutors, including those in the Amirault case, insisted. "Believe the children" apparently meant, however -- as any reading of their interrogations pleading with children to tell about their abuse shows -- that the children were to be believed only when they agreed, after long persuasion, they had been molested. Otherwise, they were not to be believed -- considered "not yet ready to disclose" when they repeatedly insisted, as they so often did, that nothing had happened to them.
Who is Dorothy Rabinowitz? Well, Buffy the Vampire Slayer may be a fictional character but the likes of Scott Harshbarger probably react to Ms. Rabinowitz the way a movie vampire reacts to a cross (or bright sunlight, i.e. the light of day).
Ms. Rabinowitz is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. She received the 1997 Champion of Justice Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in recognition of her journalistic achievements and commending her in particular for her writing on false sexual abuse charges. In 1993 she won the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the commentary category.

Million Mom March master of ceremonies Rosie O'Donnell
From, "When self-protection is the issue, gun control advocates show their hypocrisy," Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 6/3/2000

"Rosie O'Donnell is only the latest liberal to be vociferously in favor of gun control for other people-- and yet ready to use firearms for their own protection. Others have included columnist Carl Rowan and Adolph Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times, whose newspaper has been 200 percent behind gun control laws for years."

"Rosie O'Donnell has hired a security guard to protect her young son and the guard has applied for a gun permit. ... Why is it more important for Rosie O'Donnell's son to have armed protection than for a black youth, or other people living in high-crime neighborhoods, to have armed protection? Here is the same 'do as I say, not as I do' hypocrisy found among liberals who want to prevent other people from exercising the same school choice that they exercise for their own children."

..."When gun-control advocates throw around figures about how many children are killed by guns, they don't tell you that most of these 'children' are teenage gangsters, not little kids who find loaded guns around the home."

International financier George Soros (New anti-Soros leaflet for the 2004 election)
Convicted inside trader George Soros is a major benefactor of anti-Second Amendment activities. Perhaps he believes that his wealth entitles him to reshape American society according to his own desires. Soros also believes that American foreign policy should be subordinate to the whims of the United Nations. As shown below, Mr. Soros also hates the United States, which he describes as "a danger to the world," and he objects to our country's use of force to protect its citizens from terrorism. I welcome him to renounce his U.S. citizenship (if any) and exercise his freedom to get the hell out of my country. Since he equates the United States to Nazi Germany, I am sure there is another place (France?) that he might find more congenial. No wait, France is the country that convicted him of inside trading.
  • News.com.au: "THE US financier George Soros was convicted of insider trading  by a French court today and ordered to pay a 2.2 million euro  ($A4.01 million) fine."
  • Washington Post: "Soros Found Guilty of Insider Trading." "PARIS, Dec. 20 -- A French court today convicted  billionaire philanthropist George Soros of insider trading  for stock transactions 14 years ago and ordered him to  pay a fine of $2.2 million, roughly the same amount he made in the sales."
Activities funded by convicted inside trader George Soros' Open Society Institute:
  • Fraudulent, dishonest, and harassing lawsuits against firearms manufacturers
    • "With funding for the initial phase of the litigation provided by the Open Society Institute and the Irene Diamond Fund, the NAACP will be represented in this case…" - The Honorable Kweisi Mfume, 7/12/99 Keynote Speech, 90th NAACP Annual Meeting (source)
    • "Soros has worked to combine with other wealthy activists and foundations to provide funding for numerous anti-gun projects. Soros and the Irene Diamond Foundation made equal $5 million contributions to form the Funders` Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention. This organization has provided funding to the anti-gun Harvard Injury Control Center and has helped bankroll reckless lawsuits designed to cripple the firearms industry." (source)
  • "Soros is now using his fortune to not only to unseat President George Bush, but also to challenge the United States' role in the world. ...Soros has obscenely likened President Bush to Hitler and his administration to Nazi Germany and has described the United States as "a danger to the world."" (source)
  • "Soros is intent on making American sovereignty subject to international will. He calls America's actions to protect its citizens from terrorism as "supremacist." In its place he would have the U.S. adopt the "Soros doctrine." Under the Soros doctrine, U.S. interests would be replaced by international "collective action."" (source)
Britney Spears
Singer Britney Spears is listed on the so-called "NRA Blacklist" as an enemy of the Second Amendment. It turns out that she couldn't stay married for even three days. "The star, dressed in torn jeans and a baseball cap, wed Alexander on the Las Vegas Strip at 5am on Saturday morning. Within hours Spears, also 22, realised she had taken the 'joke too far,' a spokesman said."

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