Sipsey Street Irregulars: Rolling Stone hit piece on Larry Pratt, wherein Dudley Brown ducks & Robert Farago is treated as if he really knows the difference between excrement & shinola.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Rolling Stone hit piece on Larry Pratt, wherein Dudley Brown ducks & Robert Farago is treated as if he really knows the difference between excrement & shinola.

The Zealot: Larry Pratt Is the Gun Lobby's Secret Weapon

In membership and resources, GOA lags behind not just the NRA, but also newcomers to the hardline scene like Dudley Brown's National Association of Gun Rights. NAGR claims to offer activists the "best bang for your pro-gun buck." But few in the gun-rights movement agree with this claim. "If you take a look at what NAGR actually does with its money, there isn't a whole lot," says Alan Gottlieb. "I don't see NAGR ever turning bodies out or being anywhere, basically. In all the states we're involved in, if we bump into them one out of every 20 times, I'd say that's a lot. GOA is in more places than NAGR is with less resources." (Brown declined to comment for this story.)

As well he might. The other day in Colorado I heard Dudley described as "the Morris Dees of the gun rights movement" -- that is, someone who is simply interested in pimping off a cause for money.

"I would say, yes, Pratt's conservatism will hinder him," says Robert Farago, publisher of TheTruthAboutGuns.com.

Speaking, no doubt, from his long experience in the automotive rights movement, er, ah, I mean the gun rights movement. No doubt that if Eastern European pancakes experience a resurgence in popularity, we can expect a new blog entitled, "The Truth About Blintzes."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Proud GOA member for the past five years. I will not join or support the NRA.; July 16, 2014 at 8:33 AM
Baja Blitzer said...: Larry Pratt was there to help my family, when the NRA ran off and hid (3 life members). GOA is a real 2/A outfit. Reese family FAST & FURIOUS scapegoat (google) Tanx Larry and Sipsey street, David Codrea,Jeff Knox,Matt Bracken, and all the others that have and do fight for justice............
Rick Reese and family Deming N.M.; July 16, 2014 at 9:09 AM
Anonymous said...: I like Larry EVEN MORE now! Thanks Rolling Stone. Sometimes a "hit piece" backfires on ya!; July 16, 2014 at 11:32 AM
Anonymous said...: This article proves that the statists are scared SHITLESS of Pratt. They are trying their damnedest to marginalize him and anyone who agrees with (but is not led by) him. They are trying to say people that comprise his membership or agree with his ideology couldn't have possibly come to that conclusion any way other than having Pratt dictate it to them. They are so absolutely clueless, they actually believe the liberty movement is all in the heads of a few "leaders" and if they dispense with them, the ideals will just die out.

They repeatedly call Pratt a "liar" without providing a shred of evidence that what he predicts as the logical consequence of all of the various bills he's commenting on is false. See, he's calling these tyrants on their game, and the press doesn't like it. They don't like that he can see through the bullshit and the stated "reasons" for more gun control/restrictions and gets to the heart of the matter; the end goal: a total gun ban, a complete national registry, and eventually confiscation. They act as if, b/c they have not openly stated it....that somehow Pratt doesn't really know that's the real goal.

This quote about Pratt while Reagan was in office is priceless:

"But having a conservative in the White House did not lessen his hatred and distrust of the federal government."

You mean Pratt had the audacity to not accept the false left vs. right paradigm most Amerikans cow to? How DARE he!!!

While Pratt's certainly a religious zealot and IMO, tyrannical in his views on others believing what he does.....the main point the article really wants to make is that he's also a "racist" b/c of his associations....and we all know that being labeled a racist in Amerika today is on par with being a convicted (at least in the court of public opinion) child molester. Conflating Pratt and Randy Weaver with the Christian Identity movement is pure, unadulterated propagandizing...but for the uninformed on Ruby Ridge, I guess it will likely work.

Pratt's stances on many things are simply unacceptable (WoDs, forced religious observance, and interfering in sovereign nations' affairs....to name a few), but one is forced to question just how much the writer with an agenda at Rolling Stone is factually reporting vs. slanting it to demonize his target.; July 16, 2014 at 2:51 PM
avordvet said...: I knew Larry was the real deal when he stood with us at Gravelly Point.

The GOA is probably one of the most tenacious second amendment groups out there, most I know in the group are VERY acvtive in 2A restoration... and thats why I'm a GOA life member.; July 16, 2014 at 5:06 PM
bondmen said...: I am a proud GOA member because I know it's not the biggest civil rights organization but it is certainly the most effective civil rights organization! Larry Pratt is imbued with the fire and spirit that possessed the Founding Fathers and this is what America needs more of.; July 16, 2014 at 5:17 PM
DAN III said...: I've MF'ed Farago more than once at his site. He is no prize for us gunners. In my mind he is a jackass.; July 16, 2014 at 5:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Bobby F wants to see one thing, more of Bobby F, and if it is on TV then he will happily appear on MSNBC and say what they want said
Some PPL, despite their intentions, are slaves to their demons; July 17, 2014 at 8:43 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

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Sipsey Street Irregulars

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Rolling Stone hit piece on Larry Pratt, wherein Dudley Brown ducks & Robert Farago is treated as if he really knows the difference between excrement & shinola.

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