Fight fire WITH FIRE - A NATIONAL TRAITOR DATABASE

[Double Naught Spy]

Right, and they think they are on the side of the Angels and that their cause is good and just. So why would making information already known about them being put on a list have any influence on their behavior at all? It won't scare them, but may help a few remember where they live, LOL.

 

[RPRNY]

Threats and intimidations do not deter sincere politicians.

I've been a lobbyist for 25 years. I've worked on the ground in over fifty countries on five continents. This "sincere politician" is rarer than hen' s teeth or rockinghorse poop. Thank God, otherwise I'd have a hard time making a living. Luckily, there are very few of them. Anywhere. And the few that exist rarely get reelected.

Your conclusion that many upper East Coast politicians are anti gun because their constituents are anti gun or do not see 2A rights as important is absolutely correct. The sincerity of their convictions however is highly dubious. When shown through demonstrations, loss of fundraising or single issue focused fundraising gains by opponents, that there is a cost associated with their convictions, you might be surprised how quickly those convictions change.

Upper East Coast voters are slaves to the Democratic party and its urban focused gun control agenda not because they widely love and embrace the full Party Platform but largely because the social conservatism and Christian Fundamentalist influence in the Republican Party ring hollow to them. Many New Englanders, for example, are old Liberals (as in believe in Liberty and Justice for all) and portraying gun control as part of a broader effort by Big Government to come down on the little guy will resonate with them. Candidates with what I would call a Liberaltarian bent can succeed (to whit: Vermont). In contrast, there's almost no hope in the Mid-Atlantic States where urban new Liberals embrace Big Government, it's use to right every possible social wrong or ailment through Federal Law, and the Welfare State. They simply predominate in the electorate.

 

[alsaqr]

The sincerity of their convictions however is highly dubious. When shown through demonstrations, loss of fundraising or single issue focused fundraising gains by opponents, that there is a cost associated with their convictions, you might be surprised how quickly those convictions change.

Perhaps on some issues but not gun control. i had jobsites in several NE states for many years. i have never known of any dedicated anti-gun politicians who changed their minds on gun control due to demonstrations or any other factor.

Never saw so many NRA stickers on vehicles in my life as in MA. Got to know dozens of MA gun owners and NRA members. Given a choice of a "conservative" pro-gun union breaker and an anti-gunner, the anti-gunner wins hands down among MA NRA members.

With few exceptions, the only way a Republican candidate can win in MA, NJ, NY and a few other states is by being an anti-gunner. MA had its share of anti-gun Republican governors, including the "lesser of two evils" presidential candidate who signed a permanent AWB into law.

After the 2012 election the New England delegation to the US house of representatives was 100 percent Democrat.

The six-state region will not have a single Republican U.S. House member, and only two Republican senators will serve in the next session. Only one of six governor’s offices will be filled by a Republican.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ve...amid-losses/UFxr7nTwabGYOk514phhUN/story.html

 

[Double Naught Spy]

When shown through demonstrations, loss of fundraising or single issue focused fundraising gains by opponents, that there is a cost associated with their convictions, you might be surprised how quickly those convictions change.

This won't happen because of a naughty list because the naughty list won't show any of this. Heck, the Democrats in Colorado don't appear to be very afraid despite having recall elections in some cases and losing. They are still pushing anti-gun legislation.

 

[Speedo66]

I think the only use of the list is to send letters to their home you would normally send to their office in the state capital.

A personal letter to their home address will probably actually be read by them, as opposed to a staff member throwing it away before the legislator sees it.

 

[TRX]

...unless they screech "stalker!" and swing a warrant for your arrest, for having the temerity to write to their home address. Some of those stalking laws are crazy.

Though, back before caller ID was common, I used to get hammered by calls from the local newspaper, five or six times a day, trying to get me to subscribe. I worked nights, so they kept waking me up; I had to leave the ringer turned on, because my elderly father might need me. No amount of "don't call this number again" ever worked. I finally found the home number for the publisher, and called him at 3 in the morning and explained I resented his employees calling me half a dozen times a day. He hung up on me. The next night, nobody answered. The third night, he had an answering machine. His idiots still kept calling, but I got some small measure of revenge, anyway...