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Confirmation of the candle giveaway and anti-gun position....What a hoot!
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Matt Maggio, Publisher & Editor Email
What do you call any group that hands out over 200,000
candles
at the end of a rock-music festival whose name is synonymous
with
druggy and drunk revelers getting out of hand? The word is
irresponsible; a gun-control group did it at Woodstock 99 on
Sunday - resulting in mass rioting.
Small fires started by concertgoers wielding candles fast
converged into a massive inferno - even forcing concert staff to
jump from seven-story towers set ablaze. Refrigerated trucks
carrying refreshments were set ablaze by stoned, candle-wielding
fans. Stoned fans leapt naked through flames. Automatic fire
extinguishers trying unsuccessfully to extinguish the fires turned
the place into a foggy sea of Halon. New York state police in riot
gear
battled druggy rioting fans.
But the real story of Woodstock 99 was who was responsible for
the riots and destruction. PAX, a New York-based gun control
group
centered in the entertainment industry, was a cosponsor of
Woodstock 99, and handed out candles for an antigun protest to
every single fan there - when it knew or should have known that
most if not almost all those it handed candles to would have been
drunk, stoned on dope, or both. PAX did so in full awareness that
rock concerts in the U.S. have had a bad history of mass
disorders
and even fatal riots, so when its executive director and cofounder
Dan Gross said that "peace, love and music is what Woodstock is
all
about," he should have added rioting. And there is no
dissociating PAX from Woodstock; PAX's web site lists
Woodstock's promoter John Scher as a member of its board of
advisers.
And who funds groups that hand out candles to a city-size mob
in full awareness that most all in it are stoned? Handgun Control,
New Jersey CeaseFire, together with such New York elites as
Calvin
Klein, DKNY Jeans, The Gap Foundation, numerous
recording-industry companies, HBO, MTV, and Time-Warner
Cable - all are listed by PAX as sponsors on its web site.
And who runs an outfit that hands out hundreds of thousands of
candles to a horde of people it knew or should have known were
stoned? Sarah and James Brady are listed among its advisers on
its web site, as is Richard Aborn, former president of Handgun
Control. Other listed advisers - other than a fistful of antigun
politicians including
Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, and Carolyn McCarthy - are
mostly in the entertainment industry, many high executives.[/quote]
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