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Ackerman McQueen brought in an introverted nerd & created NRA CEO Wayne “Pepe La Pew”. It brought in Planet of the Apes lead Charlton Heston & wrote his “cold, dead hands” speech. It created the current NRA PR imagine, as the ‘defender of liberty against the evils of govt’.
(Armed threats against the govt are felonies, BTW). They created & ran the now defunct NRAtv. Now, the NRA & ‘AckMac’ are suing each other, & it has released damaging info on La Pew. And Heston’s and now McQueen’s hands are cold and dead.
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Bonne Fete Nationale!
Happy Bastille Day!
Down with all tyrants and traitors!
“What does this horde of slaves,
Of traitors and conspiring kings want?
For whom these vile chains,
These long-prepared irons?
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