Puke alert: Copy of Declaration of Independence falls into the hands of the commies

Should have posted the whole article in the first post. Here it is:

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Lear Buys 1776 Copy of Declaration

NEW YORK (AP) - Television producer Norman Lear and
a partner paid $8.14 million for a 1776 copy of the
Declaration of Independence, and Lear says he is going to
make it the star of a patriotic road show.

Sotheby's auction house said Thursday's sale on its Web site
brought the highest price for any item ever sold on the Internet and for any American
historical document.

Lear, producer of such shows as ``All in the Family'' and ``Maude,'' said he and Internet
entrepreneur David Hayden planned to send the document on a national tour under the
auspices of Lear's liberal advocacy group, People for the American Way.

``Ninety-nine percent of all Americans will never see this document,'' Lear said. He said it
will be shown around the country in ``a theatrical event that will be unashamedly patriotic.''
He did not elaborate.

An amateur collector found the document in 1989 hidden behind a torn painting, which he
bought for $4 at an Adamstown, Pa., flea market because he wanted the frame.

In 1991, Sotheby's sold it at auction for a then-record $2.4 million to Thursday's seller:
Visual Equities, a fine-art investment firm in Atlanta. It failed to sell at auction in 1993.

Lear said he had learned about the auction last week. He said he went to view the document
at Sotheby's and wept when he read the opening lines of the declaration, then enlisted
Hayden's help in obtaining it.

Hayden, the founder of Critical Path, an Internet messaging service, and Lear faced off with
another would-be buyer, posting 29 separate bids that began at $4 million and ended at
$7.4 million. Sotheby's commission brought the price to $8.14 million.

The copy was produced by John Dunlap, a Philadelphia printer, the night of July 4, 1776. It
is one of 25 that survive from the hundreds that were printed and sent to the 13 colonies
proclaiming their independence from Great Britain.

All but four of the surviving copies are in museums or public institutions.

Sotheby's had initially predicted the document would sell for between $4 million and $6
million.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The report also analyzes a troubling trend toward on the current Court to use 5-4 rulings as a veto to overturn acts of Congress on "federalism" or states’ rights grounds. Such decisions by the Court have advanced the NRA’s interests by striking down parts of the Brady Bill and the Gun Free School Zones Act. The judicial veto has been used to limit Congress’ ability to protect people from age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment act. On May 15, the Court again wielded the judicial veto to strike down the part of the Violence Against Women Act that provides federal protections against sexual assault and violence.

"The judicial veto is being used to limit Americans’ fundamental freedoms by restricting Congress’ power to pass certain kinds of legislation, much as the Court did in the period leading up to the constitutional crisis of 1937, when the Court was overturning New Deal legislation," said Neas. "A Scalia-Thomas majority would take this dangerous trend to even greater extremes and lock up Congress’ ability to protect Americans rights and freedoms for decades to come." [/quote]What "rights and freedoms" are they talking about? :confused:

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"Majority Tyranny" is what they refer too. Fifty-one percent imposing it will on the 49 percent. What is in the best interst of the collective, "Communism".

Robert
 
I saw this story at msn.com, and was going to post it but Jack beat me to it. :) I too had no idea the PFAW were a bunch of commies! :eek:

I'd love to see a copy of the DI, that's about the only reason I'd go to DC, to see it in the Smithsonian!
 
Lear started PFAW up as a response to Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, and they've pretty much been in a dither ever since. Hint: FDR is their absolute hero.

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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
 
Personally, I'm appalled at this. The Feds spend gazillions on all sorts of horse**** BS stuff, but they don't buy an original DI???!!! With these multiples they should reside in every region of the country, so no one should have to travel more than a 1000 mi to see it.

I'll tell ya...1/3 of my salary is being taken from me and very little is being spent on anything I approve of.....but of course, His Billness and Algore must have the vacation trips, parties and phoney wars.



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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
Norman Lear is a leader of that group of people in the Hollywood (and New York) entertainment business to whom I refer as the Mega Millionaire Marxists and the Billionaikre Bolsheviks.

Lear is extrememly anti-guns-owned-by-serfs-and-peasants, donates huge sums of $$$ to the anti-gun groups, and belabors his rich comrades to do the same. He belives in full confiscation (and the subsequent butchery of millions of serfs and peasants in order to bring about his and his comrades' version of the Brave New Marxist Socialist Medieval Feudal Police State Utopia."

Note of his profound hypocracy: his very expensive bodyguards are very heavily armed, when Lear and his family venture out into the "hinterlands." FWIW. J.B.

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It's not all bad; maybe they'll actually READ it and learn something! Oh, sorry, I got my hopes up...

They should call themselves pFLAW: People For the LIBERAL American Way.
 
I laughed when Lear commented on TV that he "is extremely conservative when it comes to the Bill of Rights"

Yeah right, the Reporterette should have asked him how he interpreted the 2nd Amendment.

To these Leftists the Bill of Rights begins and ends with the First Amendment all others be damned.
 
Ignoring for a moment who owns it, I'm glad a private citizen bought it. The government owns enough. John
 
I keep saying this, and I'll repeat it.

The first amendment only protects speech repugnant to the government.

If you listen closely you'll hear the media criticize the first (well, free speech) as much as guns.

Someone like Alex Jones needs the second, not CNN or Pravda.


Battler.
 
Norman Lear sux, but you knew that already.

What if Lear and Fonda got married and had a child?

:barf)

what would Conan O'Brien come up with?
 
Hey - what if PFAW and PETA got together? Free speech for animals? I can see it now:
Art 1. Animals have the right to bark, growl, chirp, squawk without infringement.

Art 2. Animals have the right - without penalty - to bite, rip, shred, tear, chew and digest any human in defense of their life or of other animals.

Art 3. (You fill in - I'm tired already). :)

Happy 4th.
 
Gary,

Yes, I hail from Vermont, and am a proud Yankee - but unfortunately, the Corps seems to think that I am of more use down here in Az. I grew up 'just north' of Bennington in the town of Manchester, and am quite familiar with the area. If I were to hazard a guess, this fellow has a place in either Arlington, or Dorset, and both places are Liberal enclaves to the Nth degree.

Most of the reason why VT has this 'Civil Union' thing is because of 'transplants' such as Mr. Lear who're only part time residents (only during nice weather) who vote thier liberal views and spread thier liberal money around.

Yeah, I know that this is away from the subject, but I had to gripe, and it was convienient here.

As far as the Pfaw (sounds like a choking cough!) is concerned, as long as they are countered with intelligent arguments and are held accountible for all thier lies and double talk, we shouldn't have to worry about them too much... I hope!
 
First off i would like to say that if I were that citizen in 1989 who found it, I do not think I would have given it up. And if I did it would only have been because it would be better protected somewhere else, I'm not the greatest at not destroying stuff on accident. But i would not have sold it, it would hav been given freely to a museum or something, an original Decleration of Independence is priceless, not worth a measly couple of million.


BTW Unkel Gilbey, I know how you feel, I'm from AZ but the Corps has more use for me in Hawaii right now :)
 
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