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heath
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I live in a small town outside of Ft.Knox,KY.We have a county newspaper called the News Enterprise.Before Christmas I ran an ad to sell my Mini 14.The ad said nothing about it being a semi automatic since I figuired whoever was interested would know .The woman took my infomation and the ad was run for 1 day.The newspaper called my house and told my wife they were pulling my ad because it was a semi.The reason it ran for one day was because the staff didn't know it was a semi until later.Mad,you bet!I personally went to the newspaper where they produced a policy stating that semi-automatics,pistols and such could not be run unless the person placing the ad had a FFL.My response has been to personally boycot the newspaper(canceled my subscription of 10yrs)and to tell anyone that will listen what a liberal rag this paper is!My question is;what else can I do?
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Tell everyone you know what they did. Ask them to tell everyone they know what they did. Then, if you can get enough folks riled up, go to the people who advertise in that propaganda rag and let them know that you (collectively) are going to boycott their stores and services.
Newspapers don't make any money from the sale of newspapers, rather it is on the revenues generated from the advertising and classified ads that they sell.
If business owners are faced with a boycott, they can bring a whole lot more pressure on the editor/publisher of the rag they call a newspaper than you as an individual can.
That's one way. It can be effective if everyone follows up on what they say they will do. We had our local paper here pull private sale ads on firearms from their classified section, but that only lasted about two weeks. Seems that some of the advertisers decided that they wouldn't buy/run their big full page ads as long as the paper had that policy. In our case, we were lucky.
Hope you're succesful in getting these morons to see the light.
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Do an online Better Business Bureau complaint, they hate that.
Here is their web site:
http://www.newsenterpriseonline.com/
Their address:
408 West Dixie Avenue Elizabethtown, KY 42701
270-769-2312
Their Email:
ne@mail.the-ne.com
The whole dang country is slowly stopping personal firearms sales in papers. That's why I quit getting papers too.
No one took them to court.
No one boycotted business.
No one got off of their complacent butts and did anything.
I called and told them why I was canceling my subscription.
They had the attitude that, they did not care about me, or my opinion.
Seems they were right. Did not make a difference to them at all.
This is part of the overall plan to register (and then confiscate) all of the firearms.
If you are unable to "advertise" guns for sale, how can you sell them, buy them?
That is why they want ALL sales of guns, at guns shows, to go through dealers with an FFL.
Can you say REGISTRATION?
The media is being controlled. (and has been)
This is just another step in their plan that we are forced to swallow.
One step at a time, they are going to win.
Apathy runs rampant.
Not that I see much hope but....Good luck.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
But the big question that comes to my mind is what do they do when they fall out of favor, irritate the real power? How long do you think that they will be around to print anything? Does the term Pravda mean anything to anyone? What about Goebbels?
For those of you who were pre-pubescent when the Soviet Union collapsed, Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist regime. They printed the party line, whatever it was. And if you argued about it, or didn't say what they wanted said, when they wanted it said, and how they wanted it said, well, let's say that you got first hand knowledge of the brutality of the Siberian winters in a work gulag.
Since our history books teach a "revised" version of what has happened in the past, tidied up the reality with a sanitized, more politically correct account, Goebbels was the Minister of Information for Adolph Hitler. He was a master of propaganda, seriously. But in the end, the German people suffered from Hitler's aggression, and Goebbel's lies. Someone has to pay the price.
Oh well..you reap what you sow.
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
You know what really made me laugh? I saw on so televised news channel that a pair of jeans was being traded for a AK-47 there. I was floored at this unbelieveable statement. Completely false, guns are banned there (and as far as I know, are still banned).
Death to Tyrants!!!
Lev 26:14-39
Remember how many seats were lost after AWB passage? Vae victis!
Those who would offer any interpretation that would relegate Amendment II to "relic" status of a bygone era are blatantly stating that the remainder of the Bill of Rights isn't worth a damn, either.
Luke 22:36.
Also, remember that the citizens are supposed to own this country and that all power is supposed to come FROM the people TO government. Now in the case of politicians obeying the will of the people because those politicians are nothing more than hired help, I will admit that doesn't always work so well. But there is another faceut to this "power resides in the people". The only reason that newspaper company is in business is because you, through your government, GAVE THAT NEWSPAPER A LICENSE TO OPERATE. Contact the government agency that issued their license (city license to operate, state license of incorperation, etc) and complain that that business is not using their business license in a fair and honest manner and you and your friends think something should be done about it.
I am getting kinda tired of typing, but if anyone wants to know more ways to harrass newspaper companies, let me know and I will give you more ways.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
We want to take a higher road than that! LOL
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
you have been denied your first amendment rights to free speech.
look for a lawyer to file suit along that line. no newspaper can survive among their peers if it comes out they do not support the 1st amendment for everyone. look for support to start a class action suit. most "I don't want to get involved" types line up if a chance for an easy buck turns up. with a small donation from all participants, take an add in their own paper asking for public support. if they refuse, your case is a shoe in! if they run the add, you win too.
Jim
"all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" Robert Fulghum
anyone who says "nobody needs a full auto" has never been in front of a brown bear charge
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Oh, and guys, we have GOT to start thinking outside the box and encouraging other gun owners to come up with new ways and ideas and to LISTEN to those ideas. By encouraging such exchanges we might pair up two mediorce ideas that joined together make one excellent idea.
All interested parties please look for my new topic post.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
The fact is that everything you saw on the news was lies. Propoganda.
I vowed never again to watch a Warner Bros. movie, but they put out so many movies that I wanted to see. I started downloading them from the P2P programs for free that the Hollyweird people were trying to outlaw. Now I get to watch the movies I like without giving money back to these "film makers" who would love nothing more than to take my guns.
I truly support people's right to own guns, and I approve of those who want the full autos (hey, as of right now, I'm attempting to save up the $13,000 it would cost to transfer a registered "transferable" MP5K or MP5K-PDW).
For 7 years I was in the highly competetive field of real estate sales. It is very, very difficult to maintain a happy relationship with a couple when I had their house listed for 3 months without a sale. But I found a way to keep most of my sellers happy with my efforts. I came up with a slogan I used to keep me going in the right direction. My slogan was "tell the sellers what I am going to do to help sell their house, tell when I do it and then tell them I did it." In other words by following my own advice I was able to get a lot more "mileage" out of any and all efforts I put into selling the house. Such as a special ad, or an open house, etc.
Maybe we boycotters should try something like this. Tell the company we are GOING to boycott them, tell them we ARE boycotting them, and then save some sales receipts (get the yourself, borrow, etc) from their competitors and mail then to the company you are boycotting with a note telling how they lost a lot of your money because you are boycotting them.
In regards to going to movies, at a multiplex you can always buy a ticket for one of the movies that is not anti-gun and then just go to any movie that you are interested in. That way you and your wife/date are still able to have a night out at the movies, but you are not supporting anti-gun movies (the ticket price you pay will be credited to the movie you agree with) but you can still see any movie that pleases you with no guilty conscience. JMHO.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
If it can cut, kill or maim, I want two.
Agreed 100%
and
Welcome to the melee. Pull up a chair, and join in the fun.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
If it can cut, kill or maim, I want two.
I don't think the lawyer thing would work personally, but that doesn't change the fact that its total bullsnot.