Howard Nemerov -- Calling All Civil Rights Activists

CALLING ALL CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

By Howard Nemerov

January 9, 2009

NewsWithViews.com

I am building a national network to ensure the survival of our civil right of self-defense. Our mission is to contact our congressional representatives at least once a month with a short fact-bite explaining why this civil right is so vital to the preservation of all other rights, as well as the survival of our nation as the international torch-bearer of Liberty.

Initially, we will create and support a minimum of 20,000 activists in each state. One million people contacting their representatives each month will make even the most rabid anti-rights advocate hesitate, because they know that each of you represents an even larger number of votes, and getting re-elected is the goal of most representatives: of the 435 seats in Congress in 2008, 400 incumbents were running for re-election (92% of all available seats).

You will receive a sample talking point each month, or you can say whatever you think will make the best point with your representative. (You know them better than I.) However, keep in mind that a calm statement of fact often is harder to ignore than another emotional rant. There is already too much rhetoric on both sides of this issue.

Is your representative committed to stripping your civil rights? Then they are even more in need of hearing from you. Just like an alcoholic needs to stop drinking in order to recover and become a contributing member of society, an elected official in the throes of power addiction suffers from their own delusion and denial, because at the deepest level of Soul they know their actions run counter to Truth. Yes, they forgot they are there to serve us and not the other way around. Perhaps they are sincerely deluded into believing they are doing the right thing. Or perhaps they know exactly what they are doing and pursue their lust for power with conscious intent while playing on unsuspecting and under-educated constituents’ emotions with the “for the children” or “guns equals violence” gambits. Even so, they are addicted to their lust for power, greed, vanity, or even lust of a more basic sort (interns, anyone?) just as surely as the crack addict lusts after their next fix. And yes, they will hurt others in their all-consuming need to sate their addiction. And certainly, they should and will pay full coin for the consequences of their actions. Nevertheless, they are sick and need your kind and persistent guidance as much or more than those representatives who have been our champions and defenders and may now be feeling ostracized and attacked by the public via the biased media which is the accomplice to those who work to diminish your civil rights. Friend or foe, they all need our support and input.

Anger only keeps doors closed. Words are like bullets. Once they exit your pen, you cannot recall them. Think about your target: Liberty. Consider what may be downrange from your target: unintended consequences. So keep you finger off the trigger until you are ready.

Finally, remember you are not a gun owner. You are a civil rights activist. Even Obama is on record that we need more civil rights activists, or community activists as he calls them. So keep in mind that you have an opportunity to influence family, friends, acquaintances, co-workers, and even folks on the street with whom you strike up a conversation. If you need a comprehensive tool to make you a more effective emissary for our precious civil right of self-defense, I suggest my book Four Hundred Years of Gun Control: Why Isn’t It Working? As a former supporter of civilian disarmament, I wrote this to help reach out to people in the “middle” who believe gun control is right because that is all they hear from the media, but are ignorant of the truth. Every data set tells a story, and while there is a mountain of data to support every conclusion in the book, it doesn’t get in the way of a good story.

As Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, says: “Four Hundred Years of Gun Control is a fascinating read. The numbers are there to show that gun control has failed, but they do not get in the way of a very readable narrative. This is a great book for arming yourself, as well as disarming those who think gun control has merit.”

The data is there to provide you with a never-ending supply of “Did you know…” opportunities to help others wake up and bring them on board as coworkers in our civil rights movement.

As Thomas Jefferson said: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Beyond vigilance, we need to apply study, thought, and action.

Please contact me at [place the at-sign here–this bracket garbage is to stymie spammers] howardnemerov.com. As this project grows beyond my ability to operate alone, I will need “block captains” in each state to keep the communication lines open through the state and local levels. So let me know what level of participation you are interested in.

Freedom is our challenge and our opportunity, and ours to preserve.

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Howard Nemerov is a “recovering” gun control supporter. He began to research the issue of gun control on his own, and what he found transformed his perspective. Now he writes to help gun owners become better emissaries when talking about gun rights, and to help undecided people understand the underlying principles of the right to self-defense.

Howard is a contributor for the Texas State Rifle Association’s “TSRA Sportsman” and appears frequently on NRA News as an Analyst At Large, talking about gun control and its threat to our way of life and liberty. His new book is “Four Hundred Years of Gun Control: Why Isn’t It Working?” Where the emphasis has been on rhetoric and legislation, this book includes extensive data analysis from neutral and even pro-gun-control sources to determine if the rhetoric is true, and if the laws have worked...after Four Hundred Years.

E-Mail: hnemerov@netvista.net

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