How long do you think NRA management's "Winning" Team could continue suckering gun rights supporters into sending them $200 MILLION a year if they came out and frontally assaulted the right to keep and bear arms, rather than gradually undermining it while appearing to fight the good fight? I wish you were right. I wish it was just incompetence. Russ Howard www.keepandbeararms.com/howard > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I don't have the magazine in front of me, but if you'd like, I could > scan the page and send you a JPEG or something like that of it. I > don't think the NRA is as good a defender of the Second Amendment as > it could be, and ditto with John Ashcroft, but at least they aren't > trying to totally nuke our freedoms like Clinton, Janet Reno & > Handgun Control Incorporated. > > Jonathan Wienke > > - -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:51 AM > To: Jonathan Wienke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mr. Wienke, help me out on this -- Re: FW: General Ashcroft > make his move > > > - --- Jonathan Wienke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I get the NRA's American Rifleman magazine. The July > > issue also has > > an article about Ashcroft's letter, which does not > > quote the rather > > lengthy footnote. However, it does contain a legible > > image of BOTH > > pages of the letter, including the ENTIRE text of > > the footnote. This > > is hardly the action of an organization bent on > > distorting Ashcroft's > > view on the Second Amendment. Stupid editing on the > > part of the > > America's First Freedom team, perhaps, but not an > > organization-wide > > conspiracy. > > > > Jonathan Wienke > > > > Mr. Wienke, > > I paged through the entire July 2001 issue of American > Rifleman, and maybe I'm just blind as the proverbial > bat, but I don't see the article to which you refer > that quotes the entire Ashcroft letter. On what page > is it? > > The July 2001 issue of First Freedom is the one > featuring the Ashcroft letter -- that I have received > thus far. > > On the point you raise: maybe it was merely a bad > editorial decision for the one magazine. Fine, and we > can forgive that. But, ask this question: in what > kind of workplace environment could this kind of > editing decision be made? > > Remember that more than one editor had to approve the > final copy. This is not just a typo. More than one > person had to consciously decide to omit relevant > material without telling the reader. > > I have to wonder if other sorts of "editing decisions" > that massage the facts and distort the truth are being > made ... and we readers don't know it. > > Maybe it was entirely innocent. Then NRA should > promptly apologize, correct it and publish the full > text in the following issue. Let's see if they do. > > - --Richard Stevens > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! > Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> > > iQA/AwUBO2YCRxj6oMyeDxZoEQIcBgCfd2QPu23wfwj56en49EF9Aoou6OsAoJdJ > PLKWKsFtG76jnEqK2G6sGBZA > =xyd4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
