-Caveat Lector-
Grassroots Fax Alert -- 8/3/99
Call CBS And Set The Record Straight On The Second Amendment
Last night, CBS Evening News's "Reality Check" segment tried to
recreate American history in its discussion of the Second Amendment. The
piece
totally ignored recent scholarly research and falsely claimed that the
Second
Amendment is not an individual right. To counter this revisionist
history, the National Rifle Association has launched a campaign to
provide CBS News
with its own reality check.
"Clearly, the reality of CBS is not in step with the reality of the
view of the vast majority of law-abiding Americans, nor in line with
the view of
most constitutional scholars. The national media elite at CBS wouldn't
know
reality if it stepped in front of Dan Rather's limousine," said James
J. Baker, Executive Director of NRA's Institute for Legislative Action.
"This alleged news network completely ignored a mountain of recent
research from constitutional scholars who agree that the Second
Amendment refers to an individual right, just as the First and Fourth
Amendments do."
"Every American, every journalist, who values truth, accuracy and
balanced reporting should call and express their outrage at CBS'
effort to disguise their editorial bias as news," Baker said. "It is
little wonder that their ratings continue to diminish."
ACTION ITEM: Please call CBS News and your local CBS affiliate to
express your outrage over last night's so-called "news" report that
blatantly ignored the over- whelming majority of recent scholarly
research. CBS Evening News's main phone number is
(212) 975-3691, and the phone number for anchor Dan Rather
is (212) 975-6677.
Among its many "oversights," CBS failed to cite the 1990 Supreme
Court reference to the Second Amendment in U.S. v.
Verdugo-Urquidez that stated, "`the people' protected by the
Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments ...
refers to a class of persons who are part of the national
community." Each of these Amendments protects individual
rights. The network also neglected to report this year's federal
court ruling from the Northern District of Texas, U.S. v. Emerson,
(see FAX Alert Vol.6, No. 12) in which the federal judge overturned
a federal gun law on Second Amendment grounds and argued,
"The rights of the Second Amendment should be as zealously
guarded as the other individual liberties enshrined in the bill of
rights." And the list goes on and on.
Mr. Baker sums it up well, commenting, "The bottom line is that
CBS failed as a news organization last night. They even completely
ignored statements by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
in clear and full support the Second Amendment as an individual
right and in anticipation of ruling on a future case to that effect."
While CBS works to dismember the Constitution, NRA-ILA will
continue to work tirelessly to preserve the Second Amendment,
and the entire Bill of Rights for future generations. The Bill of
Rights, including the Second Amendment, and the NRA were
here long before CBS was founded, and we'll be around long
after they're gone!
PLEASE CALL CBS FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING
& ENCOURAGE PRO-SECOND AMENDMENT ACTIVISTS
TO DO SO AS WELL!
Posted: 1999-08-03
VA-ALERT is a project of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc.
(VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization
dedicated to defending the civil rights of all Virginians. The
membership considers the right to keep and bear arms an essential civil
right.
VCDL web page: http://www.vcdl.org
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