Palin to NRA: 'If You Control
Arms, You Control the People'
Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 10:00 PM
By Todd Beamon
Sarah Palin rallied the faithful at the
National Rifle Association's convention on Saturday, saying that they are
"needed now more than ever because every day, we are seeing more and more
efforts to strip away our Second Amendment rights."
"They are trying, though. You know
who 'they' are?" she asked the 13,000 attendees at the Indiana Convention Center
in Indianapolis,
referring to the Obama administration. "If you control oil, you control an
economy. If you control money, you control commerce.
"But if you control arms, you control
the people," she added. "And that is what they're trying to do."
Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice
presidential candidate, opened the NRA's "Stand and Fight Rally" at
the annual meeting, which began Friday.
Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North
also spoke — and the crowd was entertained by country singer Sara Evans and the
Grammy-winning legendary group Alabama.
On Sunday, the Rev. Franklin Graham, son
of the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, will be they keynote speaker at the
association's prayer breakfast.
In her 12-minute speech, Palin blasted
everyone from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to Attorney
General Eric Holder and Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid. She charged that the administration's attack on the Second
Amendment was also an assault on the nation's "foundational values and
tradition.
"They are not right when they preach
tolerance and free speech," Palin said. "So when a kid at school is
cursing away like any character in any [Quentin] Tarantino movie, no one bats
an eye. But when a kid says a prayer in school, these hypocrites lose their
minds.
"They are not right," she
continued, referring to Obama's foreign policy efforts that "poke our
allies in the eye, calling them adversaries, instead of putting the fear of God
in our enemies. Enemies who would annihilate America. … But you can't offend
them. Can't make them uncomfortable.
"Well, if I were in charge,"
Palin added, pausing for sustained applause from the audience, "they would
know that waterboarding is the way we baptize terrorists."
She also slammed Biden's suggestion last
year his wife, Jill, fire two warning shots in the air to ward off an intruder,
referring to the vice president as "Joe Squirt Gun."
"That's fine … if your rapist is a
bird," Palin said, triggering laughs from the attendees. "Gals, you
know, nowadays, ammo is expensive. Don't waste a bullet on a warning
shot."
She also attacked Holder's testimony
before a House committee earlier this month that he envisioned the day when gun
owners would wear bracelets that allowed only them to operate their guns.
"Hey Holder, you don't want to go
there, buddy," Palin said.
She further illustrated her disdain by
discussing the three bracelets she wears daily. The first one says "don't
tread on me," a motto that has tea party associations.
"That's to honor you, all of you with
the clear thinking, and the heart and the guts to stand up and fight for what
is right," Palin told the crowd. "Because they don't know what is
right."
Her second bracelet honors a "gold
star" soldier who died in Afghanistan.
Palin did not name the solider, saying only that his name was given to her by
his widow.
"A true hero. He and his family paid
the ultimate price for our freedom — and I'll never forget, nor ever
disrespect, our finest with slashed numbers and benefits and budgets," she
said, referring to recent efforts to slash benefits to veterans and drastically
scale back the nation's armed forces. "And Mr. Obama, for shame. Is this
how you thank them?
"Friends, they have protected our
freedom. We honor those who have served and serve. And we so honor those who
will never feel their homeland beneath their feet again. And we salute those
gold-star families."
Palin's last bracelet, she said,
"celebrates 1791," the year the Bill of Rights was ratified, making
the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution law and completing the process
begun with the Declaration of Independence.
"That's why we're here: to affirm
that solid oath to liberty," she said. "To celebrate family and faith
and freedom, knowing that God shed his grace on thee, America.
"So stand and fight for her, for her
children's future, for freedom.
"And, buddy," she warned, in
another reference to Holder, "you can have these bracelets when you pry
them past my cold, dead hands."
Eric Holder
NRA-ILA (Eric Holder’s Gun
Control History)
Note: Eric H. Holder Jr.
is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice
for the Barack Obama administration, was an
intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
and a board member for the American Constitution
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, the Human Rights
Watch, and the International Rescue
Committee.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch,
and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American
Constitution Society, and the Human Rights Watch.
Joan R.
Platt is a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and was a director at the Genocide Intervention
Network.
Bradley
D. Wine was a director at the Genocide Intervention
Network, and a member of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council.
Elie Wiesel
is a member of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, and an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
Michael
J. Gerson was a member of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, and an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
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