U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg was swiftly condemned Tuesday after a years-old audio clip surfaced in which he appears to discuss in starkly racial terms the ‘stop-and-frisk’ policing practice he presided over as mayor of New York City,” Politico reported Tuesday. [and by the way, AmmoLand News reported on in 2015]:
“The scratchy recording was disseminated overnight across social media, provoking a new wave of online criticism against the billionaire businessman’s self-funded White House campaign just as it has begun to earn broader support in public polling.”
News outlets, which are quick to smear Trump supporters and Republicans in general as racist, were scrambling to act as megaphones for Bloomberg’s excuse-making. CNN made sure to help him distance himself from racism charges, citing his apology and emphasizing how such policies “do not reflect the way he thinks.” But even supposedly “conservative” Fox News left out Bloomberg’s most damning statement when it reported:
“A newly surfaced recording from a 2015 speech by Michael Bloomberg, in which the former three-term mayor of New York City gives a full-throated defense of the controversial policing procedure known as ‘stop and frisk,’ is threatening to undermine the 2020 presidential candidate’s subsequent apologies for backing the policy and hurt his status with minority voters.”
The reason the recording is “newly surfaced,” is because Bloomberg put the squeeze on the Aspen Institute, which hosted his speech, to spike it, and they, like good little agenda-firsters, rolled over for him without question. And the reason he wanted it killed, a handful of us reported at the time, is that we noticed a piece of information buried deep in an Aspen Times account of the event:
“Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.”
That group contains legal adults. It also contains citizens, voters, veterans. To treat them all like violent criminals and blanket strip them of a fundamental right without a charge or even the pretense of due process would be the act of a mad tyrant.
It’s bad enough that a man who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution thinks so little of the Fourth Amendment. Worse is that even “conservatives” defending Bloomberg’s position on “stop and frisk” are avoiding the real problem: Ignoring the Constitution and instead imposing generational “progressive” policies has resulted in a statistically significant subset of the very types of “citizens,” across all demographics, that John Adams cautioned about in his 1798 missive to the Massachusetts Militia:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The solution is not to ignore the Constitution even more. That’s the road to universal misery and death.
Adams continued, revealing a founding intent at odds against everything loathsome toads like Bloomberg stand for:
“An Address so unanimous and firm from the officers commanding two thousand Eight hundred Men, consisting of such substantial Citizens as are able and willing at their own Expence, compleatly to arm, And cloath themselves in handsome Uniforms does honor to that Division of the Militia which has done so much honor to their Country. Oaths, in this Country, are as yet universally considered as Sacred Obligations.”
That’s what this blasphemous little wannabe dictator and his fellow power-mad freaks, in their relentless quest to control everyone in Everytown, would deny us all: Not just our right, but our duty and the duty of the states to uphold the core purpose of the Second Amendment.
That’s what prospective totalitarian Bloomberg would deny to all minority males under 25, regardless of their worth as individuals. Lumping them all in with that part of the population incapable of self-control is bigotry, and that at its core is collectivist. It’s no surprise that citizen disarmament zealots parrot the same narrative as domestic enemy communists, and accuse Second Amendment advocates of being the ones who are racist — all in the name of “common sense.”
Keeping and bearing their own arms capable of being used to preserve freedom against those who would take it by force was once an expectation for free men. Remember that the next time some useful idiot or the evil creature doing the using bemoans our having “weapons of war.” And remember that the moral people Adams envisioned as being necessary to Constitutional government were the same people his contemporaries deemed “necessary to the security of a free State.”
We can conduct ourselves just fine, as the incredibly peaceful — and inclusive — outcome of the Virginia rally (or any annual NRA meeting, for that matter) demonstrates for all to see. We won’t be scapegoated by those who can’t or won’t. And we will not disarm.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
the leftist media will spin this as bloomey being a liberal republican mayor, not the enlightened demonrat he is today. if he becomes president not only will he through executive order ban as many firearms as possible but also sugary drinks, salt and plastic straws.
Thank you, David. After speaking this week to a university employee who was responsible for a summer youth program, I emailed him that I believed the program was influenced by “cultural Marxism.” He said that he did not know what cultural Marxism was. I took about a minute to explain to him a few pointers, examples of gun confiscation and he became inflamed, saying that I made up the term “cultural Marxism” and that it was a pseudo word meant to resist the majority who want gun control. He understood nothing about gun confiscation or knew nothing of the history… Read more »
The anti-gun zealots couldn’t care less. They are willing to tolerate anything which will remove guns from the hands of common citizens.
Progressives initiated a campaign of genocide against black America under the guise of “Family Planning.” No surprise that rabid progressives like Bloomberg see only the color of one’s skin and judge communities as well as individuals as such. I had the misfortune of being on recruiting duty in NY during his reign. I cannot tell you how many times my peers, Marine recruiters, were subjected to stop and frisk while out of uniform and how many times our delayed entry pool kids were harassed. But that is progressive America where everybody is up against the wall, feet back and spread… Read more »
bloomthug, called ‘bloomer’ by Greg Guttfeld, is the same jerk he always was. He has not changed, his story revision is just to pander votes.He has several gun control groups that he funds, and is not worthy of a single vote.
Nuh Yawk is such a hole, why would we want someone to lead us into that misery ???
So, it is true that a slight majority of murders are committed by minority group members. It is also true that the murderers are a minority of this group. Say 6,000 murders a year are committed by African Americans and Latinos (actually I keep up with the stats following weapons used in murder, so its extremely high African American, Latino somewhat higher than non-Latino White but much lower than African American. BTW it’s true, more people beaten to death than killed with rifles). The killers are still a tiny minority within their groups. The case in New York (and other… Read more »
How many of those stopped and later indited or incarcerate, only due to this policy, did Bloomburg help exonerate or ex sponge the record once the policy was rightfully deemed unconstitutional. I would guess zero. How many votes should he receive for president? I would say an amount equal to that.
Always remember what bloomberg said “we must take away guns from the people being shot”, he didn’t say, take away guns from the shooters !! Not a single tv news person caught that !! As usual Fox news, news max, etc, can talk about the same 5 crap stories every hour on the hour, for weeks on end, but refuse to educate their audience about new draconian guns laws passed every week, only a once a week 20 second mention of some gun grab, with zero explanation, and definitely no guests to explain and educate, they are complicit in this… Read more »
If this POS lil Napoleon dares to recite the oath may his words turn to poison and close his airway as he suffocates to death before this whole nation. I know this sadly didn’t happen when he became mayor.
Even if bloomberg wasn’t so anti gun/2A , I despise his method of buying the next election. Using the corn flakes and laundry soap model of repeating and repeating ad nauseam his face and message(?) makes mockery of the intelligence of the American electorate !