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Random Thoughts About The NRA Annual Meeting Posted: 05 May 2013 08:00 PM PDT
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Would They Prefer The Term "The Late Unpleasantness"? Posted: 05 May 2013 08:24 AM PDT
Elected on the eve of the NRA’s annual convention, set to start Friday in Houston, James Porter takes over as its president with a long record of Second Amendment absolutism, conspiracy theory looniness and racial repulsiveness. What they term racial repulsiveness is Mr. Porter's use of the euphemism - the War of North Aggression. Given that Mr. Porter is from Alabama, it is one of those tongue in cheek expressions often used as an alternative name for the Civil War just like War Between the States and, the even more genteel, The Late Unpleasantness". Initially intended to express anger at the draft, the protests turned into an ugly race riot, with the white rioters, chiefly Irish immigrants, attacking blacks wherever they could be found. At least 100 black people were estimated to have been killed. The conditions in the city were such that Major General John E. Wool, commander of the Department of the East, stated on July 16, "Martial law ought to be proclaimed, but I have not a sufficient force to enforce it." The military did not reach the city until after the first day of rioting, when mobs had already ransacked or destroyed numerous public buildings, two Protestant churches, the homes of various abolitionists or sympathizers, many black homes, and the Colored Orphan Asylum at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, which was burned to the ground. As to that conspiracy theory looniness, they are speaking of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty in which Mr. Porter's comments have been spot on. |
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