The man in the video is ex-American Adam Yahiye Gadahn (formerly Adam Pearlman - go figure), spokesmodel and operative for al Qaeda. If the sound is a little muddy, I suspect they had to keep editing out the sounds of NRA members spontaneously combusting.
The NRA has always opposed keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists, and closing the gun-show loophole.
Why does the NRA hate America? Why are they working with terrorists to destroy our country?
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Update: Apparently, Youtube took down the video for violating their terms of service. (And, really, I suppose that telling people to go to gun shows and buy guns to wage jihad should be a violation of their TOS...) Fortunately, it's hosted elsewhere. Crooks and Liars, for instance.
You're kidding... the guy's name used to be PEARLMAN!!??
ReplyDeleteCurious, so when these folks go over to the Dark Side, where do they get their Muslim names anyway... is there like a "Muslim Name Generator" or something?
I suspect it either translates to something they like, or it's chosen for them. (He used to be known as "Azzam the American" ('Azzām al-Amrīki, عزام الأمريكي, sometimes transcribed as Ezzam Al-Amerikee)
ReplyDeleteWhy does the NRA hate America? Why are they working with terrorists to destroy our country?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worry about it, we're doing a damn good job of it without any help. Besides, my guns stay cleaned and loaded and ready to use at any time, it may come down to each to his/her own.
I won't join any rebellion but I'm a damn good cheer leader.
I'm guessing that you think you can fix things through politics.
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As to your first response, I take it you think your guns will do you a damned bit of good if it "come(s) down to each to his/her own."
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Gotta sleep sometime, pal.
As to your second response, two things.
1. Me, change? Nope, point and laugh. That's me. Note the nickname.
2. I clicked through to your profile, and I guess it would be more appropriate to ask if you think you can change things through spiritualism or some other random superstition?
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Hey, I'll be out there with my flintlock, just like old times.
ReplyDeleteWhen we blame things on the NRA however, we shouldn't forget the over 4 million members and the additional millions who agree with them. Support for private gun ownership is very strong and it's easy to forget that when one lives in the few areas in which it is not.
Where I dislike them most is in the area of hysterical hyperbole -- at which they excel. In other areas such as promoting safety and conservation, I agree with them. But any politician, no matter how crooked will get their support if he's "pro-gun." Any law relating to guns is seen as the preamble to "gun grabbing" legislation and so they shoot themselves in the foot often and accurately as they are doing here.
Of course irresponsibly inflammatory hyperbole is the currency of American politics. Always has been. These things can't be discussed, no matter how rationally or pragmatically without descending into superstition.
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The NRA wouldn't encourage you to leave your weapons loaded, nor would I and what the hell is politics about if it cannot be allowed to "fix things." A bunch of misfits holed up in fortified compounds may be your dream of the future -- maybe the only scenario wherein you play a significant part but it's your dream, not the American dream -- a dream you'll have to pry from our cold, dead fingers.