Minute man coin, SB 2099 and Wal-Mart / Who is behind the rumors?

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Over the past few weeks or so I have noticed that a few things have gotten me off my ars and writing letters and making phone calls more than usual. I did it NOW! Not later. Now don't get me wrong I write a lot of letters and make many phone calls but these got me moving.

The first was this SB 2099, I saw red. Now what I noticed was that even after reading the bill and knowing full well that the bill did not mention a fifty dollar tax per year on my tax return I did not want to take the chance that this one would get passed us.

The second was the call in poll for Wal-Mart. Well if they wanted to know if I wanted them to keep selling hunting guns, by God I was going to tell them. This one made me even more mad than the first, I spend money at Wal-mart. It was like a friend selling me out. It was false as well, or was it?

I also remember a rumor that the state of Massachusetts was going to recall the new state coin because the minute man some how represented gun violence. I didn't call on that one though.

Well I just have notice these and was wondering out loud if any one else noticed. They are based in some truth, but they bend it and then make the announcement in a very believable fashion. Who could it be doing this? It is not hard to borrow a mail server and send out hundreds of e-mails, or even hundreds of thousands of e-mails. What do you all think? Is this us playing with them or them playing with us? Or is it just my imagination?
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>.. a rumor that the state of Massachusetts was going to recall the new state coin because the minute man some how represented gun violence. [/quote]

That was not a rumor, it was a joke, as was obvious if you read it. It was, as far as I know, first printed at "The Onion" which prints nothing but jokes.

The scary thing is that the first paragraph or two was believable...
 
Seems to me that if the antis were to throw these types of things at us a few times and we "release the hounds" every single time, it will eventually have a "Little boy cried wolf" effect. Eventually gun owners will be tire of seeing red every time something else comes at us and they will quit being so active. That's when they slip one in on us and we lose another right. How's that for a theory?
 
Wal Mart in Tampa caved in to the MMMers the other day and said they wouldn't be selling guns because the store is near a school. This actually did happen.
 
BATF and FDA reach Trade Agreement


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WASHINGTON, DC--The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms and the Food & Drug Administration reached a formal trade agreement Monday. Under
the terms of the deal, the ATF will provide the FDA with alcohol, tobacco and firearms in exchange for equal value in food and drugs.

"My administrative assistants and I were enjoying some of our food the other day when it hit
us," FDA Commissioner Michael Friedman said. "We have tons of food lying around, and tons
of drugs, but nothing to drink, smoke or shoot. Then, someone--I think it was [deputy
commissioner] Phil [Royce]--suggested we call up those guys at the ATF across town and see
what we could get. Turns out, they were ready to deal."

Said ATF Director John Magaw, "You work up a powerful hunger dealing with all this alcohol
and tobacco. So when Michael told me he had some food and drugs to offer, I told him to come
over and help himself to whatever he liked, even the firearms."

In the deal, the FDA received 345,000 bottles of Jack Daniel's, a quarter-million cartons of
Merit Ultra Lights and 27,000 guns, including 4,300 Smith & Wesson .38 snub-nosed revolvers,
2,500 Glock .380 ACP pistols, and 1,850 Colt Anaconda .44 Magnums.

In return, ATF officials were permitted to pick anything they liked from the federal fridge
and national drug stash. They took 190,000 packs of Oscar Mayer hot dogs, 25,500 pints of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream, 7,200 bags of Cheetos, a half-ton
of marijuana, and 300,000 kilos of pure, uncut Colombian cocaine.

Insiders report that the exchange, performed late last night at ATF headquarters, was "completely satisfactory to both sides."

"I like a beer now and then, but I'm not much of a smoker," FDA inspector Ed Walls said. "I'm more of a food-and-drugs type of guy. But after I picked out a
Coors Light Party Pak, I started poking around and wound up going home with a bunch of automatic rifles and this cool grenade launcher."

"This is a great day for both agencies," ATF Assistant Director Wilbur Karros said. "I can't deny that some friction has always existed between us, usually on
issues of jurisdiction--who gets what contraband, is a bottle of absinthe considered alcohol or drugs--things like that. But now that we've gotten together, everyone
can get all the stuff they want."

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~USP

"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TearsOfRage:
That was not a rumor, it was a joke, as was obvious if you read it. It was, as far as I know, first printed at "The Onion" which prints nothing but jokes.

The scary thing is that the first paragraph or two was believable...
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Like many things, this may have started with a true story. A few years ago there was an effort to replace the University of Massachusetts logo, the "Minuteman" because it represented a part of our histroy which many feminists and liberals wanted to deny and hide. An legally-armed white male standing up for our freedom.

Luckily it failed.

Frosty
 
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