We can only speculate on why the Million Mom March Foundation felt that it had to liquidate itself and transfer its assets to the Brady Center but the information and that at http://www.stentorian.com/2ndamend/mmm/form990.html ("problems" with the group's tax return for 2000) suggest that, had it not done so, its 501(c)(3) exemption would have been revoked by the Internal Revenue Service because of widespread evidence of abuse of that status.
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I sent several letters to the NRA that identified opportunities to devastate the antigun movement by using the antigun groups' own actions against them. I got back form letter responses, and the recommendations apparently went in one ear and out the other. Well, the score to date speaks pretty much for itself. |
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So what's a proscription list, anyway? It's essentially a "feces" list, as shown in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
In this application (destruction of the anti-Second Amendment movement), we are referring to the effects of legal, nonviolent, and socially acceptable methods as opposed to how the Romans dealt with their political enemies. (Well, I suppose what they did was socially acceptable, if definietely violent and not technically legal, in their era: Edgar Rice Burroughs' I am a Barbarian has its hero remark that there have always been Romans, and there will always be Romans as long as the supply of poison and daggers holds out.)ANTONY: These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.
OCTAVIUS: Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?
LEPIDUS: I do consent--
OCTAVIUS: Prick him down, Antony.
LEPIDUS: Upon condition Publius shall not live,
Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.
ANTONY: He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
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OCTAVIUS: So you thought him;
And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,
In our black sentence and proscription.
Before you get too upset over this page, think of the following. The end does not always justify the means, but the means often vindicates the ends.Million Mom March: ? 1999- 1 October, 2001
As an example, the fact that driving a stake into someone's heart kills him does not mean he was a vampire. Driving a stake into anyone's heart would kill him. Similarly, an election victory that is won through a political victory fund like the NRA's, or through creative uses of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt money as practiced by the Million Mom March, does not mean the victor is "right."On the other hand, if someone turns into dust when you expose him to sunlight, it's pretty conclusive proof that he was indeed a vampire, because non-vampires do not turn into dust in sunlight. The fact that the organizations that are listed as having been destroyed WERE destroyed by the legal, nonviolent, and socially acceptable methods that were used is pretty good evidence that their deeds, like vampires, couldn't stand the light of day. And that should tell you something about the entire antigun movement.
But let me put an end unto my theme:
There was an end of the Million Mom March -- hapless group!
Far flash'd its burning towers o'er Potomac's stream,
And redly ran his blushing waters down.
The horrid war-whoop and the shriller scream
Rose still; but fainter were the thunders grown:
Of forty thousand who had march'd the Mall,
Some hundreds kept on -- the rest deserted all!The White Hats now were conquerors -- a match
For Timour or for Zinghis in their trade. [Tamerlane, Genghis Khan]
While collectivists and Serviles, beneath their eyes, like madmen
Raved, and the controversy's roar was scarce allay'd,
With victorious hands they wrote their first despatch;
And here exactly follows what they said: --
"Glory to Liberty and the Constitution!" (Powers
Eternal! such names mingled!)
"The Million Mom March is ours."paraphrased from George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, 8th Canto (originally the storm of Ismail by Aleksandr V. Suvorov, Russo-Turkish wars)
From Handgun Control Incorporated/ Brady Campaign "(Washington, D.C. - June 28, 2001) The Brady Campaign and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Million Mom March announced today that the organizations would merge on October 1."In simple language, the stricken Million Mom March, which is no longer capable of surviving as a viable force in American politics, has chosen to die gracefully (save face) by "merging" with the down-but-not-out Handgun Control Incorporated/ Brady Campaign. Our side must not let the destroyed MMM save face, we must make it absolutely clear to the public that the Million Mom March is dead thanks to its own dishonesty, hidden agenda, and lies.
Management expert Tom Peters says, "You don't get an eagle by merging two turkeys." By absorbing the dying Million Mom March, the Brady Campaign acquires all its liabilities, like lying to its own members about "13 children a day and allegations of using tax-exempt money to support political campaigns. Instead of two political/public relations targets our side now has one. It makes our job much easier. One should never count on an enemy's stupidity but it is always welcome when it manifests itself.
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Second Amendment activists Jim March and Najda Adolf delivered the coup de grace in March of 2001 by pointing out that the 501(c)(4) (lobbying, non-tax-exempt) Million Mom March was receiving free office space at the San Francisco General Hospital. The problem has been fixed and the MMM had to relocate. It still exists on paper, but it's essentially all over for them. When the Romans sacked Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War, they salted the fields so nothing would ever grow there again. For those too dense to figure it out, the burning city symbolizes the effect of legal, nonviolent, and socially acceptable actions against the MMM. |
Why we should feel good about
ruining the Million Mom March (more precisely, making its own alleged misconduct
the agency of its ruin)
Mary
Carpenter, the grandmother of two
children who were killed by Million Mom March-sponsored legislation,
sent a letter to the North Carolina legislature that described in detail
the multiple pitchfork wounds in these children's bodies."It was you [California
lawmakers] who created the laws that kept my grandchildren from being able
to defend themselves with any weapon greater than their bare hands. All
of my son's children had been trained in the use of firearms but were unable
to get to their Dad's weapon because of California State Law." [so-called
safe storage laws, sponsored by the Million Mom March, that required the
father to lock his weapons so his children could not use them]
"Look at your child tonight and imagine him or her with their eyes jabbed out, their skulls splintered, their brains pierced, and their spines broken with the heavy tines of a spading fork. In defending her sisters to the death with the only weapon you allowed her, Ashley had 138 puncture wounds. Twenty-nine of them were on the right side of her face, five on the back of her head, and thirty-seven to her chest and lower neck. (Obviously he was trying to behead her.) She was nine years old. While committing no crime greater than sleeping in his parents bed, in his own house, John William, 7 years old, was stabbed 46 times, with most of them in the chest, neck, and head."
All we can do now is throw the organizational carcass of Donna Dees-Thomases' Big Lie, the organizational carcass of Rosie O'Donnell's hypocrisy, the organizational carcass of the thinly-disguised Al Gore campaign rally known as the Million Mom March, face down on the graves of John William and Ashley Danielle Carpenter, and this we have done.
Chronology of the destruction of the Million Mom March
MARY LEIGH BLEK, Million Mom March: The gun lobby
has been talking for 40 minutes. During that time, 40 people have
died from the use of small arms and light weapons in this country.
That figure, not the statement of those representatives, is further proof
that this country is at war.
In February 2002, Progressivefunds.com had a Web page entitled "Handgun Control, Inc. Online Shopping Mall." It said, "Raise money for Handgun Control Inc. every time you shop online." It listed many businesses, including Dell Computers. Second Amendment supporters began to announce their intention to boycott Dell.It turned out that neither Dell nor the other merchants support HCI. Progressivefunds had an affiliate program through Linkshare, and it apparently set up its Linkshare account to give the proceeds to HCI whenever someone bought something through that Web page. A pro-Second Amendment group could have done this just as easily. I sent the following letter to Linkshare:
Subject: Abuse of Linkshare by affiliate to imply merchant endorsement of gun control politicsAs of about 15 March, 2002: http://www.progressivefunds.com/hci/ and also http://www.progressivefunds.com/
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:28:45 -0500
From: "William A. Levinson" <wlevinso ix.netcom.com>
To: contact linkshare.com (@s deleted to prevent address harvesting)Linkshare,
I'm writing to you about the following Web page, http://www.progressivefunds.com/hci/, "Handgun Control, Inc. Online
Shopping Mall." It says, "Raise money for Handgun Control Inc. every time you shop online," and it lists many Linkshare merchants in a manner that can be easily construed... in fact, WAS construed... as suggesting that these merchants endorse Handgun Control Inc.'s position on gun control.An incident (since cleared up) between Dell Computers and a small business, Weigand Combat Handguns, sparked a furor in the pro-Second Amendment community. http://www.progressivefunds.com/hci/ is now being cited in Internet newsgroups and on Dell's customer discussion boards as evidence that Dell is anti-Second Amendment. Some people want to boycott Dell, as they did Smith & Wesson and K-Mart.
My own opinion was that HCI is either lying ABOUT Dell's support, or lied TO Dell to get its support, because HCI has a long history of lying and dealing in half-truths. It looks like the former, but with progressivefunds.com telling the half-truth. The half that is true is
that HCI DOES get money whenever anyone buys through http://www.progressivefunds.com/hci/.The untrue half that is implied by this page is that the merchants listed support HCI. Nowhere does the page say that the transaction goes through Linkshare and that anyone (including pro-Second Amendment groups) can be Linkshare affiliates. Posting the merchants' names in this context, without explanation, can easily damage them by causing Second Amendment supporters to boycott them.
I urge you to look at http://www.progressivefunds.com/hci/ yourselves to see what you think, and whether http://www.progressivefunds.com/ should continue to be a Linkshare affiliate in light of the trouble it has
caused for Dell Computers and possibly the other merchants it has listed without an explanatory note. If you want to see some of the trouble I'm talking about, look at Yahoo's stock message board for Dell.-Bill Levinson
copied to talk.politics.guns, Dell message boards.
"Under Construction: The site you were trying to reach does not currently have a default page. It may be in the process of being upgraded. Please try this site again later. If you still experience the problem, try contacting the Web site administrator."Damage assessment: Progressivefunds.com's Linkshare affiliate status was revoked for the reason described.
Other
Victories
for actions that underscore the principle of "getting in the enemy's face"-- the underlying principle of the Greco-Roman (Western) way of war "Very few people have ever been killed with the bayonet or the sabre, but the fear of having their guts explored with cold steel in the hands of battle-maddened men has won many a fight." - General George S. Patton, Jr. "Stab once and throw the Turk off the bayonet. Bayonet another, bayonet a third; a real warrior will bayonet half a dozen and more." -Field Marshal Alexander V. Suvorov (1729-1800) "The bullet's an idiot, the bayonet's a fine chap." - Field Marshal Alexander V. Suvorov |
Nike, goddess of Victory for actions that inflict massive damage on the antigun movement, bringing us closer to the day when Uncle Rom can say, "Please pass the salt." (As in what Rome did to Carthage after the Third Punic War) |
NY Senate Candidate Rich Lazio
During a debate, Lazio confronted Hillary Clinton with a signed pledge against soft campaign money and invited her to sign-- in front of the camera and audience. She gibbered and gobbled like a turkey. This underscores the traumatic psychological shock that can be inflicted by the moral equivalent of a bayonet attack. |
Jim March and Najda Adolf for delivering the apparent organizational death blow to the Million Mom March |
| But let me put an end unto my theme:
There was an end of Ismail -- hapless town! Far flash'd her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop and the shriller scream Rose still; but fainter were the thunders grown: Of forty thousand who had mann'd the wall, Some hundreds breathed -- the rest were silent all! Suwarrow now was conqueror -- a match
[Suwarrow = A. V. Suvorov]
King Henry V to Smith & Wesson on its business woes: KING HENRY V God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
We will forgive S&W for its deal with Bill Clinton (who, as it turned out, couldn't hold up his end, to give S&W preference in goverment contracts) when it is under completely new management, perhaps bought out by another firearm company. Until then, don't buy new Smith & Wesson firearms. |
First Ambassador Thus, then, in few.
Your highness, lately sending into Washington, Did claim some certain privileges, in the right Of your great predecessors, the Founding Fathers In answer of which claim, Rosie O'Donnell our mistress Says that you savour too much of your youth, And bids you be advised there's nought in America That can be with a nimble galliard won; You cannot own a gun and, if you do, you should go to jail. She therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit, This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this, Desires you let the Second Amendment rights that you claim Hear no more of you. This Rosie O'Donnell speaks. KING HENRY V What treasure, uncle? EXETER Tennis-balls and trigger locks, my liege. KING HENRY V We are glad Rosie O'Donnell is so pleasant with us;
* and I don't mean Wiccans. I actually mean something else but "witch" will do for polite company. The Dauphin's achievement, by the way, was to make it easy for even
non-Catholics to remember that Saint
Crispin's Day falls on October 25.
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Thought for the Day
(From the Greek classics-- who says Second Amendment supporters are
uncultured?)
Achilles now
like inhuman fire raging on through the mountain gorges
splinter-dry, setting ablaze big stands of timber,
the wind swirling the huge fireball left and right--
chaos of fire--- Achilles storming on with brandished spear
like a frenzied god of battle trampling all he killed
and the earth ran black with blood. Thundering on,
on like oxen broad in the brow some field hand yokes
to crush white barley heaped on a well-laid threshing floor
and the grain is husked out fast by the bellowing oxen's hoofs--
so as the great Achilles rampaged on, his sharp-hoofed stallions
trampled shields and corpses, axle under his chariot splashed
with blood, blood on the handrails sweeping round the car,
sprays of blood shooting up from the stallions' hoofs
and churning, whirling rims-- and the son of Peleus
charioteering on to seize his glory, bloody filth
splattering both strong arms, Achilles' invincible arms--
Homer, The Iliad, Robert Fagles' translation
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