I'm not sure how the technology works, but chances are if you have a telephone land line you have received what is known as a robocall. They are used by political campaigns nationwide. Someone somewhere pushes a button, or buttons and everyone in town gets a phone call dialed by some complex and mysterious computer. As soon as you pick up and say hello a recorded message will urge you to vote for this or that candidate. Sometimes the calls are paid for by a lobbying group, or a political party that is desperately trying to either pass or kill a piece of legislation. When you answer, the vaguely human voice will plead with you to contact your local representative and or senator and ask him, or her to vote yes, or no on a specific bill.
Under the best of circumstances robocalls are a pain in the ass. They usually start going out at about the same time the great and powerful computer decides you've arrived home from work, or are close to eating dinner. Most of the time caller ID really doesn't help. The number that flashes on your ID screen will usually be just that, a number with nothing to identify what entity is generating the call.
Enter the National Rifle Association. When they feel threatened by legislation they love to use robocalls. They want to make sure you know some monstrous liberal cabal is threatening to pass restrictions on say the number of bullets that can be carried in a single ammunition clip, or mandate something as evil as universal background checks on gun purchases.
As we found out over the weekend they don't really care who their whiz bang computer outfit makes the calls to. After all, it isn't the who, it is the how many.
In this case the how many was located in Newtown, Connecticut. That would be the same Newtown, Connecticut that lost six of its teachers and twenty of its first graders to a well armed and deadly cretin just over 100 days ago.
The calls began to arrive late last week. The somewhat stilted spiel urged the good people of Newtown to pitch in and help defeat pending gun control legislation in the Connecticut General Assembly. No one knows if any of the children who survived the shooting heard the calls or not, although it is a distinct possibility some did.
To say a number of people are outraged would be an understatement. Connecticut's two U.S. senators immediately fired off a letter to Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. Among other things in the letter they wrote, With these robocalls the NRA has stooped to a new low in the debate over how to best protect our kids and communities. Then there was, This latest act is just another example in a long line of offensive steps your organization has taken in the wake of this tragic shooting. The letter ends with the plea, Show some basic decency and cease and desist these calls.
As of this writing the NRA has not responded. It is unknown whether LaPierre is preparing another press release condemning the liberal media and video games, or if he is simply too busy pulling the wings off of flies to answer.
The New York Post reports that The Newtown Action Alliance Facebook page is filled with seething anger. Terms and words like, not a shred of decency, heartless and terrorist are common.
Any normal organization would be reeling right now from such an incredibly cruel gaffe and the response to it, but then as we all know the NRA isn't a normal organization. They feel their membership will stand by them no matter what they say or do. In fact LaPierre's crowd might actually like doing this sort of thing. In the end everyone does what they must in order to get an erection. It is probably just a matter of time before Ted Nugent wants to schedule a NRA fundraising concert on the campus of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Yes, we the people are being confronted on a daily basis by what amounts to a pack of ravenous hyenas. They have no compassion, they are ruthless, and they will not stop. The NRA has nothing to do with freedom. They are the unrelenting, sociopathic, political mouth piece of weapons manufacturers every where.
They want you to be frightened. They want you to feel as if you cannot leave the house without a gun. They want you to believe this republic is an uncivilized war zone and they will do everything in their power to hammer that notion into your brain.
If we buy into their evil vision we are lost and so is everything we hold dear about this nation.
If they win tyranny truly will have conquered us all.
3-26-13
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