Dunno whether to laugh or cry.
Alan Gottlieb and other mainstreamers sponsored a rally this morning in Olympia, Washington, to plead with legislators to undo the ghastly billionaire-driven I-594.
Although a bill to do that is in the works, WA law doesn’t allow a voter-passed initiative to be easily altered or overturned in its first two years. So that’s interesting in itself. (And never forget: Gottlieb wants background checks; he just wants to be at the table to make the deals.)
What’s more interesting is that today’s Gottliebian beg-your-legislators rally drew only about 1/10th — one tenth — the number that Gavin Seim’s “I Will Not Comply” rally brought to the Capitol last month. That was the rally that Gottlieb tried to undermine.
But here’s the really interesting part. Despite organizers’ requests that everybody leave their guns at home (because, you know, guns are nasty, scary things) … most of the crowd showed up armed. So they weren’t there for Gottliebian purposes.
Yep. In state after state where new anti-freedom outrages have become law, angry, rebellious gun owners are doing the leading while “leaders” stagger along after them, protesting, “Bu-bu-but!”
Via Mike Vanderboegh, who notes that one of the speakers at the rally gave Gottlieb yet one more thing to sweat over.
And you’re wondering where “testy” is coming from?
I’m in the process of tracking gun bills in the 84th Texas Legislature. It gaveled into session just Tuesday, so I only have 44 so far.
Non-compliance was the result of the burden beginning to be unbearable. It doesn’t happen in an intellectual discussion, it happens when someone decides enough is enough. And it’s something that apparently all the legislators and anti’s find surprising. I suppose those bozos thought that just because legal gun owners are ‘law-abiding’ that we would stay that way no matter what stupid and intrusive laws they passed without regard to Constitutional legality. Well, um, no way poopie-heads. We’re taking America back for free men and women.
And so, perhaps Gottlieb’s lame turnout might wake him up so he can join the ranks of the liberty-loving citizenry. He’s been a roach in the salad long enough. Get with it Alan, or become entirely irrelevant in the near future.
I can’t remember where I read it now, but the “discussion” has gone so far that we are no longer talking “apples and oranges.” We’re talking apples and carburators.
Gottlieb… you really need to decide if you are a farmer or a mechanic…
Talking out of the corner of his mouth, saying one thing and doing another — all this is too obvious to ignore, by both sides. I can’t believe Gottlieb is so dumb as not to know how he sounds and what others think of him. What does he expect from his role in this over the long haul?
http://www.sweetliberty.org/mof.htm
Interesting details, the boy has been scamming one way or another a long time.
Thank you, RW, for that article.
Based on that — though their actions and beliefs differ drastically — the first person that came to mind was Ellsworth Toohey (in The Fountainhead). Both are users, opportunists, and manipulators. Both want to be “the man behind the power” and “the power behind the Man” (at whatever level).
I’ve seen that (excellent) article many times over the years and have wondered why the second part never appeared when and where it was scheduled and why, with all that dynamite (and obviously well-researched) information, nobody has ever written another.
Could it be that the man who is so very good with lawsuits put too much pressure on somebody?