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Editorial: Racist DC Gun Law Vanquished

End racist gun control now, says editorial.

Firearms Not Banned Everywhere in DC

“The regulation on the grounds here is that a member can keep a firearm [handgun, shotgun or rifle] within the confines of his office,” .... “D.C.’s laws don’t apply on Capitol grounds.”
Many members of Congress aren’t aware of the House regulations, which have been in place for more than 40 years...
“Well, it’s not something that’s advertised,” 
TheHill.com - Lawmakers say they won't pack heat.

Fred Schnaubelt: Why Dr. Martin Luther King Was A Republican

Another great email from Fred:
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April 22, 2008

WHY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A REPUBLICAN
By Fred Schnaubelt

Barack Obama has asked for a dialogue on race. Before beginning at the beginning of institutional racism in the U.S. do you remember Bull Connor in Birmingham, Alabama? He was the sheriff who unleashed police attack dogs and high pressure fire hoses on African-American children peacefully demonstrating in the 1960s.  Those compelling TV pictures spread like a Rodney King beating across the country burning indelible impressions on me and all who watched. Bull Connor changed Civil Rights forever.

Sheriff Bull Connor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist and a Democrat, even though many people today mistakenly believe he was a Republican.

Condoleezza Rice speaking at Vanderbilt University said that when she was growing up it was the Democrats who refused to register her father to vote but Republicans did. 

Reverend Wayne Perryman, a Seattle minister and the author of Unfounded Loyalty, takes us back to the beginning of institutionalized racism in the U.S.   He filed in December 2004 a class action suit against the Democratic Party for reparations for its 200 years of oppression. The Democrat Party, since inception until 1964 was the party of slavery, secession and segregation. wayneperryman.com

“Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by deception,” writes Perryman. “They either know the racist history of the Democrat Party and still chose to be a Democrat, or they were deceived into believing it a party that sincerely cared about Black people.” Although he is quick to concede the Democratic Party of today is not the same as the party of the past.

1. Perryman, articulates the following chronology: “History reveals that every piece of racist legislation that was ever passed and every racist terrorist attack that was ever inflicted on African-Americans was initiated by the members of the Democratic Party. From the formation of the Democratic Party in 1792 to the Civil Rights movement of 1960's, Congressional records show the Democrat Party passed no specific laws to help Blacks and every law that they introduced into Congress was designed to hurt Blacks.”

2. History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party.  Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African-Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it; Republicans gave their lives to ban it.”

3. During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African-Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities. Senate debates revealed that the Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”

Perryman’s indictment continues: From 1792 until 2004, the Democratic Party (the oldest political party in America) never elected a Black man to the United States Senate, while the Republicans elected three.

During the first civil rights era it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse (Morehouse University) and General Oliver Howard (Howard University) who founded many traditional Black colleges. Republicans fought to open them while Democrats fought to close them which is why many traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.

In the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision Court records shows that it was the Democrats, with Chief Justice Roger Taney writing the majority opinion who classified Blacks as property rather than people. It was the racist laws of the Democrats that were responsible for two subsequent landmark cases:  Plessy v Ferguson (separate but equal) and Brown v. The Board of Education. (“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”)

Congressional records show that Democrats vigorously opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (introduced by Republicans) to abolish slavery, give citizenship to all African Americans born in the United States and, give Blacks the right to vote. Democrats voted unanimously against the 15th Amendment.

Congressional records prove that Democrats worked hard and long to prevent passage of the following laws that were passed by Republicans to achieve civil rights for African-Americans:
Civil Rights Act 1866
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (Pres. Eisenhower signed, Sen. John F. Kennedy voted against)

During the 1960's many Democrats, including Senators Al Gore Sr., Robert Byrd and Sam Erwin fought indefatigably to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act (which passed only because more Republicans voted for it than Democrats).  Democrat Senator Richard Russell addressed the Senate stating, “We will resist to the bitter end any measure which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races…” With 18 Democrat Senators he organized the longest filibuster (56 days) in Senate history.

After signing the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act and issuing Executive Order 11478, Richard Nixon, a Republican, started what we know as Affirmative Action.

Not widely known, it was three white persons in opposition to the Democrats’ racist practices who started the NAACP.

While Democrats would prefer it suppressed, it was Democratic Attorney General, Robert Kennedy working for his brother the President, who approved secret wire taps and hidden microphones under Dr. Martin Luther King’s bed. The tapes were sent to his wife. Given the historical record of Republicans and Democrats then is it any wonder that Dr. King, like his life-long- Republican father, would be a Republican.

Republican President Ronald Reagan, over the objections of racist Republican Senator Jessie Helms, signed the law making Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.

Today, after exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, Perryman says the average African-American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African-Americans face today. The Congressional record shows that all legislation (since 1964) has had strong bi-partisan support.

So how did the Democratic Party turn things around and get the support of Black Americans?  President Lyndon Johnson took a hint from Otto Von Bismarck, father of the modern welfare state who wooed voters by inducing them to become dependents of the government. With the right to vote “uppity” African-Americans were fast becoming the dominant force in Southern politics and to insure the very survival of the Democratic Party it was imperative they be co-opted.  Johnson was able to contrive the most brilliant public relations turnaround in the history of the United Sates.  This was done through redistributive economics, by in effect, paying African-Americans to vote for Democrats in spite of the racist history of the Democratic Party.  It was accomplished primarily through promises and concessions and the redistribution of hundreds of billions of dollars in “entitlement” programs commencing with the “War on Poverty” and “Great Society” programs.  Barack Obama is right about one thing when he speaks of “promises not kept.”  That has been the hallmark of the Democratic Party.

Rev. Perryman admonishes both parties to remember their past. “The Democrats must remember the terrible things they did to Blacks and apologize and the Republicans must remember the terrific things they did for Blacks and re-commit to complete the work that their predecessors started and died for.”

Schnaubelt, a San Diego City Councilman from 1977 – 1981 was San Diego’s first elected official to hire an African-American Chief of Staff, brought Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams to address the City Council, and was credited by Clarence Pendleton for his conversion from Democrat to Republican when appointed Chairman of the Civil Rights Commission.   
Fred Schnaubelt

Heston Obit Exposes Racist History of Gun Control

Link: Defending freedom | Comment is free.

What a turnaround. Demanding gun control has traditionally been the preserve of reactionary, even racist elements in American society. Up until the 1980s, gun control was mostly a conservative campaign, driven by a conviction amongst right-leaning activists, politicians and lawmakers that ordinary people, especially those of the non-white variety, could not possibly be trusted with guns. Only the state, they believed, should have the right to use fatal physical force.

Anti-Defamation League Equates Right to Keep and Bear Arms with Bigotry

Link: NRA-ILA :: Legislation.

According to a recent ADL release (http://www.adl.org/PresRele/SupremeCourt_33/5207_33.htm), “The League urged the Court to ensure that states retain the ability to keep guns out of the hands of ‘violent bigots.’” Glen S. Lewy, ADL National Chair, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, noted, “If states lose the right to regulate firearm ownership, it would help violent bigots in their efforts to create an America based on hate and intolerance. We urge the Supreme Court to ensure that states have the tools to counter these agents of hate.”

Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement

(Via Of Arms and the Law.)  Link: Townhall.com::Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement::By Ken Blackwell.

As the nation reflects on the struggles and achievements of our African-American citizens, we must celebrate the actions of heroic civil rights activists known as the Deacons for Defense. In the fight for equality, these brave men utilized their right to bear arms to protect their families, possessions and liberties. Unfortunately, these freedom fighters are seldom mentioned as an important part of African-American history.

Gun Control and Nazi Germany

Dr. Lott links to a law review article by Stephen Halbrook responding ably to the recent assertion that Nazi gun control is just a myth perpetuated by the NRA. Link: John Lott's Website: Gun Control and Nazi Germany.

Charlton Heston, MLK, and Civil Rights

Decades before he destroyed the morale of the US military, President Clinton evaded the draft.

Decades before he became president of the world's largest civil rights organization (NRA), Charlton Heston walked with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Link: Jewish Post - Brotherhood - CORE's Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Awards Dinner.  Excerpt:

A great many people think of me as Moses parting the Red Sea but if the 20th Century ever had a real Moses who led his people to the promised land that man, of course, would be Dr. King.

Media Blackout on Nagin Boo-ing at Sugar Bowl

N'Orleans Mayor Nagin gets booed at Sugar Bowl, media doesn't report it.

Link: No Sugar for Nagin (Wayne LaPierre's blog).  Excerpt:

This is the same Ray Nagin who called for confiscation of lawfully owned firearms, jeopardizing the lives of innocent victims who were trapped in his crippled city and easy prey for violent gangs and looters. The same Ray Nagin who had previously tried to run America's firearms manufacturers out of business through frivolous lawsuits.

Can small arms be a check on government?

Link: The Volokh Conspiracy - James Madison, Gun Nut:#171608.  Excerpt from an anonymous comment on Volokh Conspiracy, responding to a contention that small arms could not effectively check the power of a better-armed government:

Small arms such as a single-shot deringer, a semi-automatic pistol, .22 revolver, a bolt action rifle, a modern military type rifle, heck, couldn't even a simple knife be considered a potential check on government, or at least on those who govern? Looking at history it would appear to me that small arms are quite capable of being a “check” on those who govern.

Hitler & gun control

Link: Philadelphia Daily News | 12/05/2006 | Letters | Hitler & gun control. Excerpt:

"Once Hitler had the general populace duped, he didn't need to take away their guns. If anything, it was too many guns and not enough rational thought that allowed Germany to descend into the madness that was the Nazi era."

This gentleman's letter misses the point: it's the victims that need guns, not merely the "general populace," which, as he correctly points out, descended into madness.  The Jews mounted a brave and effective resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, with only a few pistols.  Imagine what they could have done if better armed and trained.  See Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership for more info on the Warsaw uprising, and how the Nazi's perfected the gun control they inherited, inventing handgun control and using it to disarm Jews and anyone opposed to the Party.

This rationale for the need to arm victims can be applied to arming teachers.  The teacher in the classroom, who may be a victim herself, will engage more quickly than an armed guard or police officer (remember Columbine?).

Truly lame idea for gun exchange

Link: Truly lame idea for gun exchange (SF Chronicle).  Excerpt:

"I wouldn't give them a sling shot," he said. "In fact, given some of the things that (Axl) Rose has said about black folks, I think I should get a gun for just going to the concert," he said, bringing a laugh from his friends.

Another ridiculous gun buyback program.  This time, it's Oakland offering two tickets to a Guns N' Roses concert.  The quote above is telling perhaps - I'll stick this post in the "Gun Control = Racism" category.  (Via Wayne LaPierre.)

The Racist Roots of Gun Control

Link: The Racist Roots of Gun Control, by Clayton E. Cramer.

"The historical record provides compelling evidence that racism underlies gun control laws -- and not in any subtle way. Throughout much of American history, gun control was openly stated as a method for keeping blacks and Hispanics "in their place," and to quiet the racial fears of whites."

This article has been around awhile, and makes its case well that gun control had racist origins (in addition to the obvious present day discriminatory effect in major cities plagued by crime).

Remember New Orleans!!!!!!! (Bush signs bill banning repeat of New Orleans confiscation)

World Examiner has some catching up to do - a lot happened this week.  As Cam Edwards reported, both on NRAnews and on his blog, President Bush signed the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection bill into law.  This is supposed to prevent a repeat of New Orleans-type gun confiscation, although I wonder what exceptions might be in the bill, and what this piece of paper will mean if teachers and parents fail to  pass on to future generations the great American tradition of firearms ownership and carry.

For shocking video of mass gun confiscation on US soil, see GOA's page on Gun Confiscation in New Orleans.