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The Patriot Post Digest 4-30-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Apr. 30, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/62694-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” —James Madison (1788)
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IN TODAY’S EDITION
Strife in the NRA is bad news for the Second Amendment.1
Daily Features: More Analysis2, Columnists3, Headlines4, Opinion in Brief5, Short Cuts6, Memes7, and Cartoons8.
IN BRIEF
Blacklisting the NRA — And the Second Amendment9
In San Diego last weekend, a sociopathic assailant walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and fired a weapon at congregants gathered there. He murdered a woman, Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was attempting to shield Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was also injured.
The attack ended when Navy veteran Oscar Stewart and Border Patrol Agent Jonathan Morales, who were in the congregation, charged the assailant and chased him from the premise. Morales fired at the assailant. Stewart concluded, “It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.” Indeed it does.
Democrat Party principals10 were quick to blame Donald Trump11 for the high-profile attack12. Yet they never take credit themselves for the epidemic of daily violence13 that occurs in their Democrat-controlled urban centers — the direct result of Democrat social policies14.
Demos were also quick to reiterate their support for incremental measures that, in effect, repeal our Second Amendment15 right to bear arms — the First Civil Right16 and the first line of defense in support of Liberty17 against statist tyranny. The Second Amendment is “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” and, as such, a primary target for the leftists, who constantly endeavor to erode our Liberties.
Demo presidential aspirant Sen. Kamala Harris18 (D-CA) has taken the lead on this Liberty assault, founding her campaign on gun-control measures. Harris declared, “We need leaders in Washington, DC, who have the courage to speak the truth. … Upon being elected, I will give Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun-safety laws, and if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.”
Whenever a socialist Democrat says “speak the truth” or “reasonable gun-safety laws,” beware. While most of us can agree that some laws regulating firearm sales and possession are necessary in society, there are now about 25,000 federal, state, and local gun laws on the books, none of which will completely prevent a sociopath in a synagogue or urban center from killing people. But the Democrats’ political agenda is about constricting the 2A rights of law-abiding citizens, whom they view as a threat to unmitigated central-government power.
The premier organization advocating for the protection of our Second Amendment from encroachment by the Left19 is the National Rifle Association, which held its annual convention last week — amid assault from without and controversy from within.
President Trump addressed the NRA convention attendees, using the opportunity to announce that he was pulling the U.S. signature from UN Arms Trade Treaty20. But the domestic assault on Liberty is much more formidable than that from foreign threats.
Specifically, New York and California are using the power of the state to undermine the NRA21, attempting to restrict its legal status and press it ever-deeper into debt with legal costs22.
Framing the Left’s objective, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says: “The NRA’s goal is to sell more guns, and they don’t care if they sell them to legal owners or to illegal owners. They want to sell more guns.” That is a lie on every level23, but for leftists and their Leftmedia publicists24, the truth is whatever they define it to be.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre summed up Cuomo’s agenda in remarks to NRA members: “The governor wants you, and wants your organization, the NRA, denied financial services. Simply put, the governor wants the NRA blacklisted.”
Trump cast his support for the Second Amendment, which he has consistently done as president, noting, “The NRA is under siege by Cuomo and the New York State A.G., who are illegally using the State’s legal apparatus to take down and destroy this very important organization and others.”
The external challenges to the Second Amendment and the NRA come in a week when the organization was facing internal strife — as many organizations do when attacked from all sides. Organization president Oliver North resigned his post under duress and, on Monday, the NRA board unanimously renewed its support for LaPierre as CEO and elected Carolyn Meadows as its president25.
As for the internal disputes26, LaPierre is to the NRA what generational leader William F. Buckley was to National Review and Edwin Feulner was to The Heritage Foundation. The NRA is fortunate to have retained LaPierre. I have close contacts within NRA leadership, and I have known Oliver North since his years with Ronald Reagan’s27 administration.
Without detailing this dispute, in which both sides raised reasonable concerns, suffice it to say that I am disappointed that Ollie took this dispute public. In short, it was an internal battle of titan personalities.
The bottom line: This is a perilous time for the NRA or its members to be distracted by internal division, which is precisely what the Left wants. For the first time in memory, virtually all Democrat presidential contenders and Demo senators across our nation are aligned against the NRA. In other words, they are all aligned against the Second Amendment, the last line of defense for American Liberty.
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ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: While Economy Roars, Leftists Aim for Recession28 — GDP grew 3.2% in the first quarter, but media polling is driving the narrative.
Deputy AG Rosenstein Resigns Following Rocky Tenure29 — The often-attacked deputy AG ends his tenure at the DOJ on a strong note.
Grassley to Trump: Drop Tariffs or the Trade Deal Gets It30 — The senator is largely right on the merits, but the president is invested in his strategy.
Canada Silences Father of Gender Dysphoric Daughter31 — Judge orders him not to speak against his teen daughter’s decision to seek hormone treatment.
American Spirit: Three Black Men, a White Widow, and BBQ32 — “We can show the world that it’s all right to be kind.” The quartet had dinner together.
Video: Media Blames Synagogue Attack on Trump33 — A montage of leftist talkingheads blaming the president for anti-Semitic violence.
Video: Who Are the Racists?34 — Conservatives are accused of racism by the left on a daily basis. What’s going on?
TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
TRUMP MOVES TO BLOCK SUBPOENAS: The Associated Press reports36, “President Donald Trump, his family and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block congressional subpoenas seeking their banking and financial records. … Two House committees subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and several other financial institutions earlier this month as part of investigations into the Republican president’s finances.” The lawsuit states, “The subpoenas were issued to harass President Donald J. Trump, to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses, and the private information of the President and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage.”
ASYLUM OVERHAUL: “President Trump called Monday night for a sweeping overhaul to an asylum system he has long said is rife with fraud — including a new fee to process asylum applicants, and the capacity to rapidly adjudicate applicants’ claims while also barring them from working in the U.S. in the meantime,” according to Fox News37. “Immigration courts that process asylum claims currently have a backlog of more than 800,000 cases, and asylum applicants are increasingly staying in the U.S. even after their claims for asylum have been denied.”
BETO’S GREEN NEW DEAL: Via Fortune38: “Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke released a $5 trillion plan to combat climate change over the next decade with a goal of achieving net-zero emissions in the U.S. by 2050. The former congressman … said he would put the U.S. back in the Paris Agreement, if elected, and seek legislation in his first 100 days in office to set a ‘legally enforceable’ requirement that the nation remove as much greenhouse gases as it emits, with half of that goal completed by 2030.” Sunrise Movement executive director Varshini Prakash lamented, “Beto claims to support the Green New Deal, but his plan is out of line with the timeline it lays out and the scale of action that scientists say is necessary to take here in the United States to give our generation a livable future.” |
