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Old 03-18-2012, 15:23   #1
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Holder: We Must Brainwash People about Guns-Like Cigarettes

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.
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Old 03-18-2012, 15:39   #2
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When it comes to this administration... I find it impossible to even feign surprise.

(Enter Richard's line here....)
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Old 03-18-2012, 15:46   #3
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When it comes to this administration... I find it impossible to even feign surprise.

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

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Old 03-18-2012, 16:07   #4
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(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.
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Old 03-18-2012, 16:51   #5
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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.....

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Old 03-18-2012, 18:39   #6
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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.
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Old 03-18-2012, 19:43   #7
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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.
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Old 03-18-2012, 18:33   #8
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"Hip?"

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"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...

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