{"id":12206,"date":"2017-07-10T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2017-07-09T20:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T03:33:46","slug":"terrorist-enabling-nra-may-have-crossed-line-between-free-speech-and-illegal-incitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=12206","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terrorist Enabling&#8217; NRA May Have Crossed Line Between Free Speech and Illegal Incitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[This article was supposed to run last week, just after this video was released. But, alas, I dropped the ball in publishing it for Ernie before leaving town for the week! My apologies. But, of course, it&#8217;s never too late to call out the &#8220;terrorist enabling&#8221; NRA. So, here ya go. &#8211; Brad]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By way of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XtGOQFf9VCE\">deeply troubling recruitment video<\/a>, Dana Loesch, the unhinged <a href=\"https:\/\/home.nra.org\/nra-announcement-about-dana-loesch\/\">spokeswoman<\/a> for the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9426\">terrorist enabling<\/a>&#8221; National Rifle Association (NRA), may have <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8299\">crossed the line<\/a> between protected free speech and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1960-1969\/1968\/1968_492\/\">unlawful incitement<\/a> aimed at producing imminent violence against the many non-violent demonstrators who&#8217;ve taken to the streets as part of the resistance to the Donald Trump\/GOP fascist-like, anti-egalitarian agenda.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtGOQFf9VCE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the video, Loesch, a former Breitbart &#8220;News&#8221; editor, who once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/video\/2011\/02\/11\/cnn-contributor-dana-loesch-praises-lila-rose-b\/176307\">equated<\/a> feminism with advocacy for &#8220;female genocide,&#8221; attempts to erect a picture of an ominous, violent leftist threat to &#8220;law abiding citizens,&#8221; by which she means mostly white, often well-armed NRA card-carrying Trump supporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Utilizing out-of-context violent videos, the NRA&#8217;s Loesch deliberately paints, as ominous, violent mobs, what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/us\/nra-ad-trump-protests.html\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> describes<\/a> as the &#8220;overwhelmingly nonviolent&#8221; protests that hundreds of thousands of Americans have engaged in as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TrumpResistanceMovement\/\">Trump Resistance Movement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Appealing to the oft exploited paranoid fears of the uninformed and misinformed American Right, Loesch proclaims that an undefined &#8220;they&#8221; have incited mobs &#8220;to smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize law-abiding citizens.&#8221;  She proclaims: &#8220;The only way to save our country and our freedom from their lies is to <i>fight the violence with the clenched fist of truth<\/i>!&#8221; (<i>Emphasis added<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>The video was interpreted by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, as &#8220;an open call to violence to protect white supremacy,&#8221; <i>The New York Times<\/i> reports, adding: &#8220;Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for President Obama, called the video &#8220;revolting and frightening.&#8221;  Yet, according to the <i>Times<\/i>, Loesch insisted she was &#8220;condemning&#8221; rather than &#8220;inciting violence.&#8221;  Displaying a remarkable lack of self-awareness, the NRA spokeswoman added: &#8220;I really question the reason and motive of individuals who conflate peaceful protest&#8230;with violent riots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the past we&#8217;ve expressed concern about the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9454\">carnage<\/a> wrought by the NRA&#8217;s profit-seeking lies.  But this latest video may have truly crossed the line into unlawful incitement.  The call to respond with a &#8220;clenched fist&#8221; is a call directed at an overwhelmingly white and oft well-armed NRA membership.  That makes this video extraordinarily dangerous, and possibly an illegal form of incitement.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><i>Ernest A. Canning is a retired attorney, author, Vietnam Veteran (4th Infantry, Central Highlands 1968) and a Senior Advisor to <a href=\"http:\/\/vetsforbernie.org\/\">Veterans For Bernie<\/a>. He has been a member of the California state bar since 1977. In addition to a juris doctor, he has received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science. Follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cann4ing\"><b>@cann4ing<\/b><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This article was supposed to run last week, just after this video was released. But, alas, I dropped the ball in publishing it for Ernie before leaving town for the week! My apologies. But, of course, it&#8217;s never too late to call out the &#8220;terrorist enabling&#8221; NRA. So, here ya go. &#8211; Brad] By way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,1005,551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-breitbart","category-dana-loesch","category-nra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}