Domestic Spying
This is the story of two Marys. Both are in their early 60s, heavyset, with curly reddish hair. But for years they have worked on opposite ends of the same issues. Mary McFate is an advocate of environmental causes and a prominent activist within the gun control movement. For more than a decade, she volunteered for various gun violence prevention organizations, serving on the boards of anti-gun outfits, helping state groups coordinate their activities, lobbying in Washington for gun control legislation, and regularly attending strategy and organizing meetings.
Mary Lou Sapone, by contrast, is a self-described “research consultant,” who for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.
For years the gunloons have told us their interpretation of the Second Amendment protected civil rights. Yet, it seems the NRA and its dupes will happily violate everyone else’s rights in order to provide easy access to criminals and the mentally ill.
Imagine: let’s say the position was reversed; that the Brady Campaign placed a spy in the highest levels of the NRA. Can you imagine the hue and cry from the gunloons? Why, they’d be demanding lynch mobs and vigilante justice–just as soon as they could pry themselves from their LaZBoy recliners. And after they had something to eat. And after watching the “24″ rerun.
What “civil right” is being violated here? The government isn’t even involved in any of this.
BTW, if the NRA wants to use somewhat underhanded tactics to defend the rights of US Citizens I’ve got no problem with that. They didn’t break any laws.
Comment by mike w — August 22, 2008 @ 12:51 pm