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.. They don’t even listen.

H/T Redstate

A number of conservative bloggers, from BlackFive to RedState to The American Thinker have been dumping on the NRA because it dropped its opposition to the DISCLOSE act after a special carve-out was added to exempt them from its limits on free speech.  They say that it is a betrayal of the NRAs libertarian conservative principles to fail to oppose the act on the basis of the act’s effects on free speech.  After all, they say, the First and Second Amendments are inextricably linked — each supports the other.

That attitude displays a fundamental misunderstanding of what a lobbying organization is.  For people like me, “supporting” or “opposing” a bill means complaining about it during lunch, or maybe writing about it in my blog. Maybe I’ll write a letter to my Congrescritter.  Usually, a position on one single bill will not change my vote — it’s one straw added or removed from the back of the camel.  For a lobbying organization, “opposition” isn’t just expressing a preference.  It means that it will *do* something substantive.  It will decline to contribute to a campaign, or contribute to an opponent.  It will do opposition research.  It will make TV and newspaper ads.  It’s not  just waving  its hand; it’s swinging a knife.

The NRA is an effective lobbying group because it is so single-minded.  A politician can be a baby-eating, spouse-cheating, jerk who double-dips the salsa and chips at the dinner table, but if he or she supports gun-rights, the NRA is his or her friend.  That’s a rock-solid guarantee that allows that NRA to get support of gun rights from people all over the political spectrum from the secular progressive left to the conservative religious right.

Now, pundits want the NRA to throw that all away because they don’t like the way the legislature is acting regarding corporate speech.  They want the NRA to put itself in the position of saying “Hey look, you know how we said that if you were a friend of gun rights, we are a friend of yours?  Well, er, that’s not really the case any more. “  They want the NRA to be in the position of campaigning against a gun rights proponent in order to support an enemy of gun rights because of a vote on a completely different issue.  That’s crazy.

The NRA opposed the DISCLOSE act because it impeded its ability to support Second Amendment rights.  When that impediment was removed, even though by a carve out, that removed the objection.  That’s entirely appropriate.  The NRA doesn’t have a dog in the free-speech fight.  It has a dog in the gun rights fight.  And it is no more appropriate to demand that the NRA dilute its voice in protecting Second Amendment issues than it would be to say we should stop supporting the EFF because it doesn’t take a position on concealed carry.

The NRA, by being focused on its single issue, has been a profoundly effective force in securing Second Amendment liberties.  That’s why I support it.  And I don’t want it to shoot itself in the foot by diluting that focus on other issues.  Just like I support the EFF.  And I don’t want it to shoot itself in the foot by diluting that focus on other issues, either.

Is Paypal continuing into dhimmitude or has it officially decided that only those who support a new genocide against Jews should have their services?

Atlas Shrugged has been banned as a “hate site.”

On the other hand, Revolutionmuslem.com is peachy.

Which one, do you think, posted:

Allah(oh God) Kill The Jews That Occupy Palestine & Their Supporters

A Prayer to My God

Ya Allah(Oh God) I beseech You to carry out your wrath on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine & their supporters.

Ya Allah(Oh God) please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces.

Ya Allah(Oh God) burn their flammable sukkos while they sleep.

Ya Allah(Oh God),make rocks crash through their car windows as they drive in Your land Bayit al Maqdes

Ya Allah(Oh God), make their fingers and brains stick on cafe walls from impact.

Ya Allah(Oh God) answer my duaa (prayer)

This is what Paypal supports.  Opposing it is “hate” and must be stopped.

Great job, Paypal.

I stopped using Paypal when they declared war on the Second Amendment.  Of course, with some places, it’s your only choice, but people who count on monopoly eventually fall.

See it here. Priceless.

Update — YouTube has taken it down.  Of course they’ve left a billion other parodies up, but if speech is pro-Israeli, it must be silenced.

You can still see it here.

Well, you knew it was coming.  All those little people reading all that stuff they shouldn’t be reading.  It’s getting in the way of the Revolution.  And, as all liberals know, the only truly *free* press is one that is well-regulated and managed by the government.  Big Brother knows best, and what he doesn’t want you to know, you shouldn’t know.

This is absolutely frightening.

The Obama administration has produced a 47-page document on the government takeover of the press. The word “freedom” is found only twice — once in “Freedom of Information Act” and once in the bibliography.  I guess it’s just not something worth discussing.  “Liberty” is mentioned only once — in the discussion of the federal subsidy of Radio Liberty.  Another obsolete concept, I guess.  Well, at least we’ll always have Keith Olberman — a *real* journalist.

Hope and change, Comrade!

What a disaster.

H/T/ Instapundit.

You know, when libs talk about abortion, the first thing they talk about is the “right” of a woman to do whatever she wants with her body.  I always liked that notion, but the only problem is that the libs don’t believe a word of it.  People have a “right” to do what they want with their body, as long as it’s something the libs like.  If it’s something they *don’t* like, then *poof* the right suddenly doesn’t exist.

Consider the position of the Obama administration that people do not have the right to raise their own food and eat it. Pathetic.

Remember, in the Progressive-Socialist utopia there will be perfect freedom — the freedom to do what they want you to do.  No more and no less.

Hope and Change!

What a disaster.

Freedom?  You’ll have to do better than *that.*

H/T  ihatethemedia

Obama’s thugs have been assaulting innocent people ever since the election.  They know they are above the law, and violence is their tool.  Powerlineblog has been doing a series on their assault on a 17-year-old boy in Maryland, and on the neighbor who documented it.  Here’s how they are taking over health care.

These people are evil, and Obama supports it.

Hope and change!

What a disaster.

Heh.

Obama doesn’t like a law, so he decides he simply won’t enforce federal law in Arizona.  He wants to be a tyrant.  I didn’t know Presidents got to pick and choose what laws were really laws.  Well, I guess “Progressives” do.

Hope and change!

What a disaster.

H/T Brietbart