You’ll note that it can come in a suit and wear hair gel just as easily as it can show up wearing a big mustache and military fatigues then pose on a balcony opening onto a public square. Politico, “Rahm Emanuel presses banks on guns”:
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, moving to take a lead role in the gun control debate, is turning up the pressure on banks that do business with firearms manufacturers.
Emanuel is sending letters to two major financial institutions, TD Bank and Bank of America, which offer lines of credit to gun makers suggesting that they stop lending money to the manufacturers if they don’t come out for new gun restrictions.
“TD Bank currently aids the gun manufacturing industry through a $60 million revolving line of credit with Smith & Wesson, a gun manufacturer that produces the AR-15 — an assault weapon that was used by James Holmes to kill 12 people and wound 58 in a crowded movie theatre in Aurora,” Emanuel’s missive to TD CEO Bharat Masrani states. “I ask you to use your influence to push this company to find common ground with the vast majority of Americans who support a military weapons and ammunition ban and comprehensive background checks.”Noting that Chicago’s municipal employees and teachers had already divested money in pension funds from gun makers that are opposing new gun laws, the White House chief of staff-turned-mayor wrote: “Now we need you and other commercial banks to join this fight for safer streets. Collectively we can send a clear and unambiguous message to the entire gun industry that investors will no longer financially support companies that profit from gun violence.”
Forget that these same manufacturers create the weapons that outfit the military and law enforcement. Or that most of their profit comes from selling firearms to law abiding citizens, who have second amendment right to their ownership. No, we’re to believe that Big Gun — the latest in a long line of villains for our national 2 minutes of hate — does what it does in order to “profit” from “gun violence,” with gun violence being defined solely as that violence that occurs during criminal usage of a weapon, one often illegally obtained, and never as that “violence” done to criminals by those who use their weapons in defense of themselves or their families.
This is revolting. It is more disingenuous propaganda. And it shows just how far the left is willing to go to eventually disarm us.
Having bailed out major banks, the government can begin calling in favors. And it looks to be completely comfortable doing just that.
Asks Hot Air’s Erika Johnsen, with just the right note of amazement and indignation,
Emanuel is lobbying these major and publicly traded financial institutions to actively discriminate against law-abiding companies that don’t happen to support his entirely political gun-related agenda? A political agenda which, by the way, will not help to reduce violent crime? Would this even hold up in a court of law?
Depends. Can Chief Justice Roberts somehow define it as a tax?
I’ll say it yet again: this will not end well.
(h/t JD)
I like how he lies about “the vast majority of Americans who support a military weapons and ammunition ban and comprehensive background checks.” Could he be more deceptive?
They have people convinced that anyone can go buy a select-fire gun anywhere, legally, with ease.
I wish there were a way to de-mystify guns for everyone that didn’t require some kind of compulsory action. All we can do as individuals is invite the lefties we know to the range to try shooting for themselves, and frankly, I have rid myself (or they of me) of all lefties I knew, so I cannot help.
Remember how we used to hear the phrase, “It can’t happen here?”
It is happening, right in front of us.
BofA took a serious bashing after the bailout fiasco (I know I’m not the only one who cancelled a credit card from them). Just imagine how quickly they could rehabilitate their reputation, by standing with Ruger against Rahm.
Like the GOP, I doubt they’re astute enough to make the right move, but still — it’s sitting right in front of them.
* Lobbying and supporting gun control as a means to protect children.
* Lobbying and supporting government financed abortion on demand as a means to protect children.
– Can you spot the absurd hypocricy between these two positions? I’ll bet you can kids.
“Bank of America is pleased to announce that it is offering free firearms-safety classes to all of its account holders. Bank of America is also pleased to offer a new financing program for eligible account holders, offering attractive options for purchasing defensive firearms.
While Bank of America acknowledges that its customers in the City of Chicago are discouraged by Mayor Emanuel from exercising their right to defend themselves, their families, their homes, and their businesses from the rampaging hordes that daily terrorize Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, Bank of America cannot stand by while its valued customers are deprived every day of their rights, their peace of mind, and — all too often — their hard-earned cash and Bank of America-branded credit cards.
For more information, or to enroll in classes, visit your local Bank of America branch office today.”
Communists for Fascism! Anyone surprised?
Yep, pretty much. Course this is Rahm Emanuel, and a Jew can no more be a fascist than a non white person could be racist, so shut up.
Communism is a democracy now?
Did not know that…
their solution works so well in chicago
There was a report in late December from a small, firearms-related manufacturer that BofA was holding up their online transactions and when contacted, a BofA rep supposedly told him that ”WE [BofA] BELIEVE YOU SHOULD NOT BE SELLING GUNS and PARTS ON THE INTERNET”.
When contacted by Snopes, BofA ‘s response was that the holdup was a normal response to a spike in online transactions. However, there was apparently no response to the BofA rep statement about “Not Selling Guns”.
How BofA handles the Rahm letter will give us a pretty good idea whether or not that BofA rep’s statement accurately captured the internal corporate culture.
Empty gun store shelves tell us that the vast majority of Americans support something else entirely.
Who was it that said fascism is always descending on America and landing in Europe?
All it took was a progg winning re-election to finally guide that bad boy in on the right runway.
As usual, they are going by the theory that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. It works well too often for my taste.
It works well too often for my taste.
Until, uh-oh, it doesn’t.
It’s the same trick every time: Give me your gun, said the government official. OK, now give me your wallet.
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Erika Johnsen is the best thing to happen to that Hot Air place in many many moons
Can you believe the party of abortion is now claiming they’re “Pro Life” by proposing gun bans? And now the Republicans are the party of dead children. I heard that yesterday and my jaw dropped and I really wanted to punch a liberal, really hard in the face. Maybe more than one.
I can’t believe it
Nice writeup by David Mamet.
Rahm Goes Fascist on Firearms
Small victory: Obama appointee Carmen Ortiz (or as I’ve taken to calling her, the “unwise Latina”) got bitchslapped in court today.
http://bostonherald.com/comments/1062280931
Oops, that link is to the comments. Here’s the article:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/triumphant_motel_owner_slams_carmen_ortiz
The bad news, of course, is that the taxpayers are on the hook for the consequences of her power grab.
fast and furiously
Holder begins gun-control push
Holder can kiss my ass.
it is good for the Carmen Ortiz to be vigorously bitch-slapped
I think there are quite a few people out there in need of a bitch-slapping.
Communism is a democracy now?
…..and Chachi loves Ritchie and Erin never touches the booze.
oh noes an unwise latina
That it is, happyfeet. That it is.
If there’s any justice (hah!) she’ll wind up prosecuting “dog crapping on someone else’s lawn” cases in Circle Jerk, East Dakota.
she does not value human freedom in a way that is recognizably American
there’s alot of massholes
Several thoughts for totalitarians in our midst:
—Grow the fuck up.
—I do live free from the fear of gun violence, in part because that threat is minimized by the widespread private ownership of firemarms.
—democracy borned in the possession and ownership of arms by ordinary people. Victor Davis Hanson, among others, has devoted books and parts of books to the subject.
Why does the CDC have such a woody for gun control? Is it just more funding?
i think the CDC failshits are embarrassed they’ve let the antibiotic-resistant diseases spiral so out of control
which is like their primary mission
fucking jackoffs
Do You KNow the Way to San Jose
which is like their primary mission
Not true. The primary mission of the CDC is to track infectious diseases. They were originally begun in 1942 to track the course of malarial infection. They now wear more hats than a fashion model and have a budget of more than $9.2B.