January 06, 2004
Great Leaders, Ha?
You may remember back in October I wrote about and also added my own name to NRA Blacklist. Now the folks behind that site have launched a new one titled NRA Leaders designed to introduce the people behind this organization and expose their views. Here are a selected number of quotes from NRA officials, most of them on the 76 member Board of Directors that includes many known personalities and elected officials. Enjoy:
Ted Nugent, the singer is on the NRA Board of Directors. Here's his view on apartheid: "Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands ? These are different people. You give 'em toothpaste, they fucking eat it ... I hope they don't become civilized. They're way ahead of the game."
Jeff Cooper is another current member of NRA Board of Directors. His views on diversity are as follows: "The goal of good government is the optimum balance of liberty and order. Social diversity does not pull in that direction. Liberty is what we seek over the centuries, but if we grant it to too diverse a population, order disappears. Regarding the United States? it would seem that we ought to choose assimilation over diversity. It seems to me that diversity, rather than being a goal to be sought, should be an obstacle to be circumvented."
John Lott is another NRA personality who says: "Should racial preferences play a role in government hiring? My own research has statistically analyzed the effect of changes in hiring rules and the composition of police departments on crime, arrest and conviction rates. Increasing black officers' share of the police force one percentage point as a result of the new hiring policies increases murders by at least 2%, violent crime by almost 5% and property crimes by 4%."
Leroy Pyle, a former NRA Board Member offers this opinion on Sarah Brady: "That ugly cackler. She pulls her husband around like a pull toy on a string. My friends and I say that if that ever happened to one of us and our wife did that, somebody would slip into the house one night and slit her throat."
And then there's an elected official, occupying a seat in U.S. congress. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY), another Board of Directors member of NRA was once interrupted in the midst of this speech: "My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So, does that mean if you go into a black community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person, or does that mean because my..." [NOTE: her comments were interrupted at that point by Melvin Watt (D-N.C.) who demanded that her words be stricken from the record as inappropriate.]
Visit the site for a few more.
Posted by Pedram at January 6, 2004 07:43 PM