Obama and ACORN Officials Set Sights on Gunowners
Saturday, November 8, 2008
By Jim Kouri
NWV News Director
ACORN, the publicly funded national organization linked to voter fraud in several
states is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil
rights in New Jersey, and the Second Amendment
Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation.
One example of ACORN's gun control activism is when its officials intervened
in an unsuccessful attempt to defend Jersey City, New Jersey's local
gun control ordinance, which was struck down December 13, 2006 in New
Jersey state court as a violation of state law pre-empting stronger
local gun ordinances.
"ACORN has, since 1998, received an estimated $31 million in government funding," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. "Now they have intervened in a
New Jersey gun rights case in defense of an illegal Jersey City one-gun-a-month
ordinance that violates the state preemption statute."
"For the past few election cycles," Gottlieb noted, "ACORN has
clearly grown more partisan toward the political Left. ACORN'S PAC has
endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president. That's hardly surprising since
he used to serve as their legal counsel and he taught the group about
community organizing. ACORN and Obama are lockstep in seeking to destroy
our Second Amendment rights," he stated.
"The organization is currently under FBI investigation over allegations of
voter fraud in several states," he added.
"Bad enough that ACORN is implicated in fraudulent activities in several
states, but now an ACORN chapter in the Garden State is working against
the ability of New Jersey gun owners to exercise a constitutionally
protected individual civil right to own a handgun," said former
NYPD detective, Sid Frances.
"It is an outrage that this group has intervened to defend an antigun ordinance
that has already been declared illegal by the court," he observed.
"So long as ACORN accepts one penny of public funding, the organization
should remain absolutely neutral on social issues, political campaigns
and especially legal actions defending the right to keep and bear arms."
"We call upon the FBI to expand the scope of its ACORN investigation and
focus on the group's involvement in the Jersey City case," Gottlieb
stated.
"We support Ohio Congressman John Boehner's request that the White House
immediately block all federal funding of ACORN activities until this
group's questionable activities are fully investigated. We want to know
how they are paying for attorneys, and why Seton Hall's Center for Social
Justice and the Public Interest Law Center are providing legal assistance
to ACORN for this effort."
"This is still the United States, not a socialist gulag," Gottlieb concluded.
"Public money should not be given to private organizations which
then turn around and utilize that funding to usurp the electoral process
and erode constitutionally guaranteed civil rights."
Other political observers see something more sinister at play with Obama and
ACORN's interest in disarming law-abiding citizens.
"This gun control effort is part of an overall government takeover by the
radical left who now control the White House, the Senate and the House
of Representatives. The next part of the Obama-ACORN plan is a new military
force separate from the US Armed Forces," claims political strategist
Mike Baker.
"Obama has called for a 'civilian
national security force' as powerful as the US military, comments
that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared
by conservatives to the Nazi Hitler Youth," warns Baker.
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national
security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national
security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded,"
said Senator Obama during his campaign.
The idea wasn't Obama’s but Robert Gates’ which might explain
why Obama is toying with the idea of keeping him on in his administration,
claims Det. Frances.
"An Obama Administration will accelerate the rush toward the New-World Order:
first, by confiscating privately owned weapons, followed by creating
a military force that would have jurisdiction within the US mainland.
It will happen sooner than we believed," said the decorated former
New York police officer.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri's own website is located at jimkouri.us
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