{"id":26916,"date":"2012-03-19T06:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26916"},"modified":"2012-03-19T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:59:41","slug":"trading-mexican-lives-for-public-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26916","title":{"rendered":"Trading Mexican Lives For Public Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Breitbart,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1b8be0; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/03\/18\/Holder-Fight-Guns-Like-Cigarettes\">video of Eric Holder in 1995 claiming we need to &#8220;Brainwash&#8221; the citizenry<\/a>\u00a0when it comes to guns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Holder was addressing the Woman&#8217;s National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to &#8220;change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC&#8221; about guns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that&#8217;s not cool, that it&#8217;s not acceptable, it&#8217;s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holder went on, of course, to run one of the most egregiously, disastrously corrupt programs in the history of American government, &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221;, a program hatched entirely to trade Mexican (and American) lives for points against the dreaded &#8220;gun lobby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Local political leaders and celebrities, Holder said, including Mayor Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, had been asked to help. In addition, he reported, he had asked the local school board to make the anti-gun message a part of &#8220;every day, every school, and every level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite strict gun control efforts, Washington, DC was and remains one of the nation&#8217;s most dangerous cities for gun violence, though crime has abated somewhat since the 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note to Attorney General Holder:<\/p>\n<p>I shot about 300 rounds over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It <em>was <\/em>cool.<\/p>\n<p>Spread the word!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Breitbart,\u00a0video of Eric Holder in 1995 claiming we need to &#8220;Brainwash&#8221; the citizenry\u00a0when it comes to guns: Holder was addressing the Woman&#8217;s National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to &#8220;change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26920,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions\/26920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}