Groups Conspiring To Dupe Americans With Lennon Tribute Concert

Josey1

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Says Groups Conspiring To Dupe Americans With Lennon Tribute Concert U.S.Newswire, 10/2/2001 16:10 To: National Desk Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911; Web site: www.ccrkba.org BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today condemned three gun control organizations for attempting to dupe Americans into financially supporting their cause by contributing to a benefit concert airing Oct. 2 on TNT. Americans who contribute to the John Lennon Tribute benefit concert in the belief they are supporting relief organizations that responded to the World Trade Center Attack could find their donations going instead to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Million Mom March and Violence Policy Center. The concert, initially set for Sept. 20, was re-scheduled for broadcast tonight on TNT. Originally intended to benefit the three anti-gun groups, the scope was expanded to include the American Red Cross, International Association of Fire Fighters, September 11th Fund, New York Fraternal Order of Police WTC Fund, National Organization for Victim Assistance and the Twin Towers Fund. Now, according to a Brady Center press release ''a portion'' of the proceeds will be divided among those organizations. Exactly what percentage was not disclosed. ''This is an outrage,'' declared CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. ''The gun control crowd has crawled to a new low, and now hopes to exploit this national tragedy to rake in money to help bankroll their political agenda. Don't these people have any shame?'' Gottlieb hailed the heroic efforts of Red Cross volunteers, police and firefighters, and rescue workers who traveled immediately to New York following the vicious terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. He urged all Americans to be as generous as possible with their contributions to the actual relief effort. ''American are generous, compassionate people,'' Gottlieb stated. ''We were all attacked Sept. 11, not only in New York City and at the Pentagon. And now America wants to support those brave men and women who responded to the call, risking, and in some cases, losing their lives in the process. That the Brady Center and its cohorts would stoop to take advantage of America's generosity by this so-called act of sharing the stage with relief organizations is a disgrace.'' Gottlieb noted recent disclosures that the Brady Center and Million Moms have fallen on hard financial times because people have learned that gun control is a losing issue. ''This amounts to nothing more than a despicable attempt by the gun control lobby to balance its books,'' Gottlieb charged. He pointed to a statement on the Brady Center's own Web site promoting this expanded benefit, by Center President Michael D. Barnes, as proof. Said Barnes: ''In the wake of the tragic events last week in New York and Washington, D.C., it has been brought home, for many of us very personally, that every life is important. Not one life should be lost to senseless acts of violence. Now more than ever, we must redouble our efforts to prevent gun violence in America.'' ''The attack on Sept. 11 did not involve a single gun,'' Gottlieb replied. ''This was a terrorist act, in which the perpetrators used knives and box cutters to commandeer four commercial airplanes, which they turned into guided missiles. Until now, I had always thought that there existed, in the anti-gun movement, at least some shred of human decency. It is with utter disappointment that I now stand corrected.''

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.250Savage

Why am I not surprised? Are there no depths these "people" will not go to for their sick, twisted agenda? Though I have to say I've always thought John Lenin...er, pardon me, Lennon, was a pinko.

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salzo

I cringed when I heard about this concert, this Lennon Tribute for the victims of WTC. I am a big fan of the music of the Beatles and John Lennon, but John Lennons songs are so anti freedom and pro socialist, Americans should have said "thanks, but no thanks". And then tis handgun control revilation? Just more of the same from the Marxist crowd.

SP Tiger

I happened to see something about the concert last night on VH1, I think it was. They stated the money was originally for gun control, but decided instead to give the money for relief efforts in NY and DC. Dave Matthews is now on my banned list, he happened to be the one I saw performing when the report came on. Why is it all these "artists" are jumping on the anti-gun bandwagon? I don't like country music at all, but it seems C&W musicians for the most part are hunters and shooters, and will stand up for the 2nd Amendment.

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Better to have and not need, than need and not have.

salzo

Being a musician, I think I can answer. Artists, in general, are always looking for Utopia. They cannot help but see all of the ugliness in the world, and they are firmly committed in the belief that someway, somehow, we can make the world a perfect place. In their works, they can be very profound, but in their political thinking, they cannot not get beyond superficial thinking. Example, people kill, they use guns to do it, therefore if guns are illegal, no one will have guns to kill. They completely ignore the reality that even without guns, and if guns did not exist,there will always be people who want to cause harm to another. They believe in general, that all people are good, and the reason people go bad is because of external interference, and without these interferences, people will be good(If there were no guns, people would be good).I completely accept many great accomplishments of the arts(music,literature, theatre, dance, painting, sculpture, etc..) but I think it is ridiculous to listen to an artist when it comes to public policy, and political policy; They do not have there feet on the ground, and are realistically unable to see the whole picture(Unless of course, you are an artist who lived under "utopian" regimes like the USSR(Soltzenitzen, Shostakovich, Barishnikoff, etc..)

Lowrider

The same goes for all these Hollywood types. These people make a living pretending to be something and someone that they aren't and sooner or later I think they lose all touch with reality.