Holder: We Must Brainwash People about Guns-Like Cigarettes

[Dusty]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ike-Cigarettes

Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."

Holder was addressing the Woman'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 "change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC" about guns.

"What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that's not cool, that it's not acceptable, it's not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes."

Holder added that he had asked advertising agencies in the nation's capital to assist by making anti-gun ads rather than commercials "that make me buy things that I don't really need." He had also approached local newspapers and television stations, he said, asking them to devote prime space and time, respectively, to his anti-gun campaign.

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 "every day, every school, and every level."

Despite strict gun control efforts, Washington, DC was and remains one of the nation's most dangerous cities for gun violence, though crime has abated somewhat since the 1990s.

Holder went on to become Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration, and currently serves as Attorney General in the Obama Administration.

The video of Holder's remarks was uncovered by Breitbart.com contributor Charles C. Johnson.

[Ret10Echo]

When it comes to this administration... I find it impossible to even feign surprise.

(Enter Richard's line here....)

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

When it comes to this administration... I find it impossible to even feign surprise.

(Enter Richard's line here....)

Agreed..........

Big Teddy

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

(Enter Richard's line here....)

Richard's line? OK...

"Did I tell you I taught my pet rabbit how to smile when I was only twelve years old?"

Couldn't resist.

Hannity and Breitbart's crowd are determied to vet everything about the administration between now and November. Supposedly, have a buttload of stuff to release over the next few months, and this is one of them.

[greenberetTFS]

I'm sure glad I have you and Dozer as buddies,would hate to have either of you against me.... You two are really something else.....

Big Teddy

[darbs]

Originally Posted by Dusty

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ike-Cigarettes
"What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that's not cool, that it's not acceptable, it's not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes."

What Mr. Holder fails to realize is that not only are guns "hip" but are far more effective if carried on your hip...

What a boob...

I'm with R10E on this admin for sure, no surprises anymore...

All that brainwashing about cigs has not worked. So many people smoke still that there are cigs in every corner and drug store you walk into.

I can only imagine this approach with guns will go drastically wrong for Holder, kind of like fast and furious.

[tonyz]

Holder has stayed true to form and continued with the brainwashing attempts when, on his watch, this administration tried to support a narrative that US firearm's dealers were the primary source of firepower for the Mexican drug cartels.

The murders of perhaps thousands of Mexican nationals and at least one US agent is on his hands. Smoke that Mr. Holder.

[Snaquebite]

Typical coming out of Holder...However I'm not so sure "Hip"is best choice of words...I feel really hip when I'm carrying (on my hip)...

[plato]

Would be a cool t-shirt, though.

"Warning - The Attorney General has determined that provoking me may be hazardous to your health"

[tom kelly]

Has anyone in The U S Congress asked for him to resign or better yet have the Pres. accept his resignation, before he offers it. A note on how this Administration views weapons...When the Sect. Of Defense was speaking to the U S Marines in Afganistan word was passed down for the U S Marines to leave their weapons outside the room where Panetta gave his talk. I guess they trust the Taliban more than the Marines...TK

PS. There should be a contest for the most prominent IDIOT in the Obama Administration? May be it should be weekly since there are so many of them.

[Dusty]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...t-and-furious/

Two top Republican lawmakers investigating the Fast and Furious controversy are demanding the White House make a former aide available for testimony to see whether the scandal reached the upper echelons of the administration, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, fired off the letter Wednesday urging the White House to make available Kevin O'Reilly, a former National Security Council staffer who is currently stationed in Iraq for the State Department.

The lawmakers are giving White House staffers the deadline of April 4 to respond, with Republican aides privately saying the back-and-forth could provoke a showdown over executive privilege if the administration tries to shield O'Reilly from talking to investigators.

Issa and Grassley wrote in the letter that O'Reilly's personal lawyer has told them that he would permit his client to speak to the lawmakers as long as the White House does not object, and they are willing to do the interview by phone to accommodate O'Reilly's work.

"To date, the White House has not complied with multiple congressional requests to interview O'Reilly," the lawmakers wrote to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. "Our staffers have had extensive discussions with lawyers in your office, who have represented that the White House does not perceive any need for us to interview O'Reilly and consequently will not make arrangements for him to speak to us."

White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in response: "White House Counsel is reviewing the letter and will respond as appropriate. But broadly speaking, while some personnel in the White House were made aware of ATF's efforts to combat gun trafficking along the southwest border, including Operation Fast and Furious, there has been no evidence to suggest that anyone at the White House knew about any decision to allow guns to 'walk' to Mexico."

Issa and Grassley are interested in O'Reilly because of previously revealed emails between he and William Newell, the ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division.

Republicans have raised questions about why an agent in charge of a field division of the Justice Department was having direct contact with someone inside the White House about an ongoing criminal investigation.

Administration officials have suggested O'Reilly and Newell were old friends catching up and there was nothing improper about their contact.

In an email dated Sept. 3, 2010 to O'Reilly that referred to Fast and Furious, Newell wrote: "You didn't get these from me."
Another e-mail suggested that Newell was trying to go around his leadership to communicate with O'Reilly.

"Just don't want ATF HQ to find out, especially since this is what they should be doing (briefing you)!"

The lawmakers wrote to Ruemmler that during a congressional hearing on July 26, Newell was unable to explain "why he had direct contact with O'Reilly about an ongoing criminal investigation."

Democrats believe the latest volley is more evidence that Republican lawmakers are merely trying to score political points, especially after recent comments by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, about GOP leaders are concerned about using their committee gavels for "political purposes" in the months leading up to the election.

"I think there's a bit of an aversion to that," King told The Hill. "Me? I have no reservations about that. This is politics."


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