Judicial Watch finds anti-gunnery at the Clinton Lie-berry

[AZRickD]

Looks like the conservative publications and think tanks (Human Events and Judicial Watch, in this case), have finally caught on to what we took for granted years ago.

This time, a little research at the Clinton Library in Arkansas pulled up a few gems to help prove the point.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16096

The Clintons' War on Gun Rights

by Tom Fitton
Posted Jul 19, 2006

What kind of president will Sen. Hillary Clinton make? Giving her ethical failings, I realize this is a disturbing thought, but we must consider it as Clinton remains the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic nomination for President in 2008.

The way I figure it, with the Clintons, past is prologue. Bill Clinton’s unfinished illicit business as president will be Hillary’s to take up if elected. That’s why Judicial Watch’s investigations team has been inspecting the newly released Clinton Presidential Library records. (We don’t endorse or oppose candidates, but it is part of educational and corruption-fighting mission to see the Clintons held accountable.)

Recently, our investigations team uncovered documents that provide some interesting, and troubling, details about the Clintons’ plan to destroy the gun industry, a la “Big Tobacco.” Here’s just a sample of what we discovered:

A memorandum from former Clinton Advisor Sidney Blumenthal to Bruce Reed, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, dated November 9, 1998, which reads: "I've enclosed an article and a press release about the new effort to file class action suits against gun manufacturers. I think this is a very promising idea. Let's talk about it soon." The press release, from the Office of the Mayor of New Orleans, was in draft form, suggesting the Mayor coordinated the strategy with the Clinton White House.

The "promising idea" identified by Blumenthal involved filing massive product liability and negligence lawsuits against major handgun makers, "the opening salvo in a campaign against the gun industry by an alliance of anti-tobacco attorneys and local governments," wrote The Los Angeles Times. According to one of the lawyers involved in the lawsuits: "We are going to do to [the gun industry] what we did to tobacco. It's going to be a very large war."

Our investigators also uncovered a March 6, 2000 letter from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer with a handwritten note at the top from Bill Clinton to then-White House Deputy Counsel Bruce Lindsey, which reads: "Bruce, See me re: this…has some good ideas for future." Among the "good ideas" -- denying gun manufacturers the right to sell guns to the military and law enforcement unless they sign an anti-gun "code of conduct" that would cripple the industry.

Clinton and the anti-gun rights crowd used this extortive litigation strategy to strong-arm gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson into adopting some of their policies. President Bush put an end to the federal abuse of the gun industry in 2000. Will a “President Hillary” revert back to government extortion of the gun industry?

 

[sm]

Yep.

Suggest Judicial Watch’s team do a bit of investigating :

-at Rose Law Firm where Hillary worked
-visit with Judge Hale, Hubbell, Jim Guy Tucker, Foster - whoops he died didn't he?
-See the folks in Hot Springs
-Mena
-About that property that Library is on, and surrounding property also known as River Market
-Whitewater
-Across the river from the Library check into AllTel Arena, how that property was gotten, the NO guns there and NLR fiasco with no guns in parks.
-Visit State Police and some policy making going on dictated by /influenced by

Too Bad Bard's in the Heights closed...some "regulars" would be neat to visit with over coffee and pie.


This akin to how the Kennedy's keep getting elected, history, and how they continue to have supportors.

It ain't pretty.

 

[deanf]

Wow. They announce the results of their investigation with such breathlessness that you would think what they found was a state secret.

This information is nothing new.

 

[beerslurpy]

Shame on you guys who thought this was still a new threat. We already faced the threat and beat the tar out of it. True story.

What do you guys think the Protection of Lawful Commerce thing was all about last year? The trial lawyers were still going ahead with the plans you mentioned and we torpedoed them. Product liability and negligence have both been completely shut down. They were already killed in every trial court they showed up for, and the new cases are completely barred by the Lawful Commerce Act.

As gloomy as things sometimes look, we have had our share of victories over the anti-gunners:
-we beat the trial lawyers in the courts and in the legislature.
-we beat IANSA in Brazil. Forgot about that, didnt you?
-we beat IANSA in the UN, of all places. Thats like beating the devil in hell. Inconceivable.
-we are stepping up in Parker- things are looking good here
-we are beating back AHSA by exposing their true nature
-anti gun politicos are all in hiding
-MSM is trending less anti-gun than usual

It is slow, but we are winning. Even the bad news is "less good" than it is "bad." A big switch from the old days when the only good news was no news.

 

[antsi]

This is kind of an interesting list for those who think there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats on RKBA.

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As gloomy as things sometimes look, we have had our share of victories over the anti-gunners:
-we beat the trial lawyers in the courts and in the legislature.
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NEVER would have happened under Kerry/Edwards. Kerry is a fully owned subsidiary of the trial lawyers lobby. Edwards IS a trial lawyer. Under those two, the anti-gun class action suits would have been aided by Washington instead of defeated by Washington.

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-we beat IANSA in the UN, of all places. Thats like beating the devil in hell. Inconceivable.
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Bush appointed a raving anti-UN, anti-IANSA maniac as UN ambassador. It was Bolton - Bush appointee, over the hysterical objections of the Democrats - who stood up to those clowns. Under Kerry/Edwards, we would have had a UN ambassador fully and enthusiastically cooperating with the IANSA agenda.

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-anti gun politicos are all in hiding
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Not really "hiding." They're speaking in code until after the elections. They're saying "I support the Second Ammendment rights of sportsmen and hunters," and that kind of thing.

Translation: "I need more rural and Southern votes. After I'm elected, I will go after "assault weapons," handguns, and self defense first. Only after that will I go after people's hunting and skeet guns."

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-MSM is trending less anti-gun than usual
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I'm not sure about this. Read the "Law and Order SUV" thread over in general gun discussions. They're as virulent as ever. The local media here in Indiana keeps saying that we are responsible for high crime rates in Chicago due to our "lax gun laws." You do occasionally see a gun-related piece in the MSM that isn't overtly anti-gun, but they usually have anti-gun lies buried in the text (see the Boston globe thread).

 

[roo_ster]

What sm said.

What I find odd is that a newcomer to Little Rock, Arkansas can dig up more dirt on then-Gov Clinton just by, well, living in the area than all those J-school reporters could in the year-long campaign back in 1992.

And I wasn't even trying.

 

[Lupinus]

Bush appointed a raving anti-UN, anti-IANSA maniac as UN ambassador.

My kinda guy

 

[Henry Bowman]

Bush appointed a raving anti-UN, anti-IANSA maniac as UN ambassador. It was Bolton - Bush appointee, over the hysterical objections of the Democrats - who stood up to those clowns.

Sadly, the worst hysterics (openly weaping on the Senatae floor) was from Ohio RINO Senator Voinivich.

 

[cuchulainn]

No surprises, but the confirmation is good to have.

 

[Malone LaVeigh]

I think you people are drawing the wrong conclusions from the Clinton memos. The key is the alliance between Clinton and his moderate/corporate faction of the Democratic Party and the trial lawyers. Trial lawyers were one of the few large industries available as a funding source for the Democrats (the rest being solidly in the Republican camp.) The trial lawyers, in turn, saw this as a potential cash cow.

Corruption? You bet your booty.

Clinton a world class (lower bodily orfice)? Oh, yes.

Hillary just as bad? Maybe worse.

But to read an ideological component into it is a mistake. This was all about money for the trial lawyers, contributions to the Dems, and political payback to an industry that was perceived to support Repubs. Now, this would all be academic, except that it is important to realize that neither political party is really driven by the issues. We have a lot of work to do to get both parties to realize there is a high price to pay for infringing our freedoms. I happen to think working within both parties, and supporting pro-freedom candidates, is the best approach. Unfortunately, there are very few pols on either side of the aisle who fit that description.

 

[Desertdog]

The Clintons' War on Gun Rights.

Commentary by Tom Fitton.

The Clintons' War on Gun Rights
by Tom Fitton
Posted Jul 19, 2006
http://www.judicialwatch.org/



What kind of president will Sen. Hillary Clinton make? Giving her ethical failings, I realize this is a disturbing thought, but we must consider it as Clinton remains the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic nomination for President in 2008.

The way I figure it, with the Clintons, past is prologue. Bill Clinton’s unfinished illicit business as president will be Hillary’s to take up if elected. That’s why Judicial Watch’s investigations team has been inspecting the newly released Clinton Presidential Library records. (We don’t endorse or oppose candidates, but it is part of educational and corruption-fighting mission to see the Clintons held accountable.)

Recently, our investigations team uncovered documents that provide some interesting, and troubling, details about the Clintons’ plan to destroy the gun industry, a la “Big Tobacco.” Here’s just a sample of what we discovered:

A memorandum from former Clinton Advisor Sidney Blumenthal to Bruce Reed, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, dated November 9, 1998, which reads: "I've enclosed an article and a press release about the new effort to file class action suits against gun manufacturers. I think this is a very promising idea. Let's talk about it soon." The press release, from the Office of the Mayor of New Orleans, was in draft form, suggesting the Mayor coordinated the strategy with the Clinton White House.
The "promising idea" identified by Blumenthal involved filing massive product liability and negligence lawsuits against major handgun makers, "the opening salvo in a campaign against the gun industry by an alliance of anti-tobacco attorneys and local governments," wrote The Los Angeles Times. According to one of the lawyers involved in the lawsuits: "We are going to do to [the gun industry] what we did to tobacco. It's going to be a very large war."
Our investigators also uncovered a March 6, 2000 letter from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer with a handwritten note at the top from Bill Clinton to then-White House Deputy Counsel Bruce Lindsey, which reads: "Bruce, See me re: this…has some good ideas for future." Among the "good ideas" -- denying gun manufacturers the right to sell guns to the military and law enforcement unless they sign an anti-gun "code of conduct" that would cripple the industry.
Clinton and the anti-gun rights crowd used this extortive litigation strategy to strong-arm gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson into adopting some of their policies. President Bush put an end to the federal abuse of the gun industry in 2000. Will a “President Hillary” revert back to government extortion of the gun industry?