THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, May 15, 1995 TAG: 9505120009
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
The attempts of the media and others to try to tie the National Rifle Association and the citizen militias to the recent tragedy in Oklahoma is not only asinine and stupid; it is downright immoral.
For anyone to try to use such a tragedy to promote any political agenda is wrong and certainly demonstrates an example of why citizens feel the need to form militias.
The NRA and the legitimate citizen militias support the U.S. Constitution and a political agenda that maintains the government of the people. While they vigorously oppose politicians and legislation they consider dangerous to liberty, they in no way support terrorism or any notion of overthrowing the government by force.
The reason the media (much of which are controlled by the Council on Foreign Relations) have tried to poison public opinion against the NRA is the upcoming bills to repeal some of the useless gun-control laws that infringe the rights of law-abiding people.
The militias (like labor unions and the NRA) represent the possible formation of a huge block of votes and grass-roots political activists that can make or break almost any politician or political agenda.
We must as a people educate ourselves about the Washington insiders who have come to believe themselves the ruling class. We must learn to see through their propaganda so as to discover their real agenda.
T. W. CULPEPPER
Chesapeake, May 5, 1995 by CNB