The site:
http://www.alamanceind.com/nation/nation_3.html
The article:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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.
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John/az
"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..."
http://www.alamanceind.com/nation/nation_3.html
The article:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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.
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John/az
"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..."
. On the Woodstock thread in Gen'l forum