I hate the power that the ultra rich assert using fake grassroots organizations to manipulate people into giving up their rights and freedoms. It doesn’t matter if it is the left doing it or the right.
Give the people of this country honest news and report facts, not opinions, then let us decide the course of our nation.
From America’s 1st Freedom: https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2017/5/8/michael-bloomberg-admits-he-deceives-when-he-can/
Everytown consistently uses “gun death” statistics that include suicides to make it seem as if there are many more homicides than there are.
by Frank Miniter
Monday, May 8, 2017
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, the eighth-richest person in the United States, and the billionaire behind the rabidly anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety, was asked on CBS’ “60 Minutes” why he didn’t run for president of the United States. His answer was revealing.
“If I thought we could win, or had a reasonable chance, I would have [run for president],” he said. “It would be totally unlikely, very unlikely that an independent could win. And in my case, I was mayor for a long time. People know where I stand. I couldn’t pretend to be something I’m not.”
So Bloomberg realized that his efforts to ban things like “Big Gulp” sodas, coal mining and, effectively, the Second Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights made it impossible for him to fool a majority of Americans into voting for him. He “couldn’t pretend to be something” else than what he is, so he opted not to run.
That’s honest—at least to himself.
Officially, Everytown is a private group that doesn’t disclose its donors. Bloomberg is, of course, the founder of Everytown. He funds the anti-gun group and, we must presume, the group does what he desires. So it is interesting that he realizes his anti-freedom, paternalistic views are too well known to the American people for him to win the presidency, but that he nevertheless thinks his group Everytown for Gun Safety is far enough removed from his views to be taken as nothing but a “gun safety” group by Americans.
After all, even if journalists, given their own political leanings, are unwilling to use the old journalist’s mantra “following the money” to report Everytown’s real mission, Everytown has itself lied so much and so blatantly that it also can no longer hide its real agenda. (Tellingly, this is likely the reason Bloomberg morphed “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” [MAIG] into Everytown, as MAIG had so dirtied its name it needed a new one.)
Continue reading at: https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2017/5/8/michael-bloomberg-admits-he-deceives-when-he-can/
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