We did that once, JH45, in Cinncinati.
Only took the suits a few years to reverse all the reforms of Cinncinati and to change the rules so it could not be done again.
Yeah verily, truer words never put to monitor screen.
And they did it in total and complete open violation of the NRA By Laws. The By Laws specifically prohibited the current adminstration from using the NRA publications to further their cause and to do harm to those opposing them in an election. In blatant disregard of this the Exec VP and then sitting President posted full page and more ads (at your and my expense not their own) to discredit every single person running for the Board of Directors who was not in lock step with them. Even tho the By Laws have not been changed in this regard they have continued to do the same every single year since.
The result of this is all of the folks who were or are in line with what we accomplished in Cinncinati are now gone from the Bd. of Directors. Only the hand picked servants of the Ex. VP and sitting President are left.
Do you know that when Marion Hammer was President that in violation of NRA By Laws $100,000 per year was indirectly placed in her hands? The NRA donated $100K to a group in FL and they in turn donated $100K to her. Now while it wasn't in "legal" violation of the By Laws because of the slick way in which it was handled it sure violated the SPIRIT of the By Laws and funnelled NRA funds into her hands as President of the NRA. A position which under the By Laws CANNOT receive one red cent from the NRA for serving. Guess what happened to the $100K per year when she left the office? Yup it didn't flow her way anymore. Can it be anymore clear than that?
From what I've read on Neal Knox's site on the subject Tony Makris and Wayne LaPierre nearly bankrupted the NRA a few years back. Story goes that Makris' firm held the contract for solicitation of funds. They were paid NOT for performance but for effort. One call or one letter regardless of money that it produced gave his firm a set fee. Remember when you got phone calls every month if not every week and letters monthly or more often? Yup that's the when of it. That is when they had to start offering the discounted Life Memberships to keep the NRA solvent. Neal Knox is one of the last of them I really trust.
Dali Llama say he not able understand why IntrepidWizard not pack up belongings and leave PRK if he find it so distasteful???
Me either. But for the most part folks don't leave such messes even tho they know they are so badly out numbered they'll never change it. Some do leave. I have a new neighbor here in Bama who just left CA. Heck he even brought his ex inlaws with him and his new wife. Now that's going too far to me. :-D
Greybeard-
My plan was to get a 338 Lapua for when that time came. Plink off the bad guys from a mile away as opposed to getting up close and personal with the Gestapo.
Park.
Good plan except for one thing. You're not gonna know when they are coming for YOU. They came like thieves in the night at Waco for Koresh. They didn't walk up and knock on the door in day light and say we have a warrant to serve. Oh no, they broke in a second story window in the dark of night. You know the outcome of that. They didn't announce themselves in advance when they went to Ruby Ridge and shot the innocent young mother with babe in arms, or the young son out in the woods.
No when they come for you it will be in the dark while you sleep.
