So goes the mantra for celebrities and liberal politicians when it comes to our Second Amendment rights.

Michelle Malkin has a post about Jesse Jackson’s new war on guns, alongside a post on a Texas Democrat who opposes our right to defend ourselves, and yet he shockingly used a gun to defend himself!!

Fox News has the story about the hypocritical politician:

A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from a construction site, police said Monday.

Rep. Borris Miles told police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the Houston house he’s building Sunday night when he heard a noise downstairs and saw two men trying to steal the copper. After Miles confronted the pair, one of the men threw a pocketknife at him, Houston Police spokesman Victor Senties.

Miles, a former law enforcement officer, shot the man in the left leg, police said. The wounded suspect was being treated at a Houston hospital. Police were trying to identify the other suspect.

Miles, a Democrat, voted against a bill that gives Texans stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, vehicles, and workplaces. The so-called “castle doctrine,” passed by the Legislature this year, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. The law goes into effect Sept. 1.

Well, there’s a huge surprise. Like celebrities and politicans have never practiced hypocrisy before. Still, it’s fun to point it out whenever it happens to remind people of it. Liberals never care about “little people” like us, they just want to make sure they are safe and comfortable in their little ivory tower, while we suffer the consequences to keep them there.

Moving on, “Rev.” Jesse Jackson is trying to squash one of our most important civil rights… in the name of civil rights. He’s holding a 25-city anti-gun protest on August 25, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s march in Washington, D.C.

Dr. King was, of course, a gun owner.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is planning a counter protest:

While Rev. Jesse Jackson is feverishly organizing a 25-city anti-gun protest on Tuesday, Aug. 28, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) wants gun owners to visit gun shops and shooting ranges, and contact their state and federal lawmakers on that date to demand that they support our Second Amendment rights.

Jackson’s day of national protest is timed on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington, D.C.

“The great hypocrisy here,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb, “is that Dr. King’s historic march was to promote and defend civil rights. What Jesse Jackson is planning is designed to crush America’s most important civil right. A right that Dr. King exercised by owning a handgun.”

Jackson wants to limit the number of firearms a person may purchase in a calendar year, place new restrictions on who is allowed to legally own a handgun, and mandate longer waiting periods.

“While Jackson and his gun-grabbing cronies want to make it more difficult, if not impossible, for average Americans to keep and bear arms,” Gottlieb said, “gun owners can exercise their Constitutional rights, and tell their lawmakers to defend the Second Amendment. They can visit a gun shop, buy a gun or ammunition, or visit a range and exercise their rights.

“Being from Chicago,” Gottlieb said, “it is astonishing that Jackson has failed to see the correlation between that city’s Draconian handgun ban and Chicago’s violent crime rate, yet he wants to lead a nationwide protest against a constitutionally-protected civil right. Rev. Jackson evidently has forgotten the question raised in Luke, Chapter 6: ‘Can the blind lead the blind’?”

“Holding law-abiding gun owners responsible for crimes they did not commit, which is what restrictive gun laws do, is like bearing false witness against thy neighbor,” Gottlieb said. “I might suggest that anybody joining in this protest remember the words of Matthew, who said ‘Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

All to continue along in “Rev.” Jesse Jackson’s mission to take everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and turn it onto its head.

I wonder if Jackson’s security detail carries guns. Anyone know?

Well gee whiz, ain’t that just the shocker of the century!!

Bill O’Reilly discussed it on The O’Reilly Factor with Dick Morris, mentioning he invited Elizabeth Edwards on his show to discuss personal attacks from the left:

“Okay, now after that interview, and nobody knows this, we called Elizabeth Edwards. And we said, ‘you know we’re real interested in this personal attack stuff because we have a problem with that on the left. Would you come on, either sit, you know, on a set, or on the phone?’ ‘No.’ Now, I’m saying to myself, wait a minute, you call into a program that no one watches, alright. And you have a point, no one watches. She’s- nobody sees this. I’m giving you a forum where ten million people on radio and TV are going to see it and you say no.”

“Alright, now, we called Edwards as I mentioned, Elizabeth Edwards. And said, ‘look we want to talk about this too, these personal attacks.’ And she says ‘no.’”

And gee, she said no. I’m just shocked. Shocked and appalled. Who would’ve thought?

Hat tip: Newsbusters

Michael Moore, that man who just wants to spread the words of truth and freedom, will make an astonishing 50% of all of Sicko’s profits, the LA Times is reporting.

But what’s even better is the statement he made:

The ramifications of that loaded deal are not lost on the filmmaker, particularly since “Sicko” is arguably his most populist film yet.

“It’s a really interesting irony for me,” Moore says, as his chauffeured Lexus SUV (a hybrid) steers through afternoon traffic on the filmmaker’s return from a taping of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”

While some filmmakers’ wealth can make their films seem elitist, Moore argues that his moviemaking and financial accomplishments actually have allowed him to remain even more focused on the real world.

“What it should do to me is remind me every single day that I have an even greater responsibility to do good with the success that I have been blessed with,” Moore says. “I need to make sure that I am able to make the next film with the money that I have made on this film.”

By being financially independent, Moore says, he is insulated from the corporate pressures that might try to dilute his impassioned documentaries, which include “Roger & Me,” “Bowling for Columbine” and the Oscar-winning “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
“The money allows me to never have to give in, never compromise,” says Moore, wearing his trademark T-shirt, jeans and windbreaker, his Michigan State baseball hat off for the moment. “Nothing can ever be held over my head in the sense of, ‘If you don’t do this, we won’t give you your money!’ ‘Oh, wow, I guess I’ll be in really bad shape, won’t I?’

“That’s an enormous bit of freedom that I have — to stay completely true to the things I believe in. But I have an even greater responsibility because I have been blessed with that great success. I challenge myself with that, constantly.”

“Certainly, the No. 1 question I get asked is, ‘What can I do?’ ” Moore says. “I am not prepared for that. Because I am not leading a movement to revolutionize the healthcare system in America. I am making a movie. I have spent a year and a half making this film, and this is my contribution.”

Moore says his first-class travel, accommodations and car service are not his choice, or even his preference (the latter statement has been disputed by some people who have worked with him).

“Harvey pays for all this,” he says. “I would never stay at the Four Seasons, with all due respect to the Four Seasons. If I were coming out here on my own, I would never stay there. They pay for that because that’s the workplace and I’m working and we do the junket there.”

People who resent his wealth, Moore says, are not generally working-class stiffs like himself who have moved into the upper class. “When one of us succeeds, we’re happy about that. We don’t begrudge that. The begrudging that comes from my success or my financial success comes from people who grew up in a little nicer home and somehow didn’t get the same break that I was fortunate enough to get in this business. So they are embittered.”

I love how he claims he doesn’t want first class treatment or anything… as he is being driven around town in a chauffeured Lexus SUV hybrid. Did I say love? I meant hate. I can’t stand when rich people try to make themselves sound more like us… “Oh, well, we don’t really splurge on too much, we try to spend our money responsibly,” says ____, speaking from the balcony overlooking the tennis courts, pool, and beach view of their estate. Good grief! This is America! We believe in capitalism! It’s ok to spend the money you earned on whatever it is that you want!

However, when you are part of the “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” class, like Michael Moore is, I guess you want to keep those little tidbits to yourself.

Anyways, I just found this interesting, to say the least — especially Michael Moore’s whole “Now I can be true to myself!” drivel. Yeah, yeah, we got it. Just stop talking. We’d all be a lot happier.

I also love how he says that his first few crockumentaries were “impassioned”… because he didn’t really care about those. He cares about the healthcare industry… even though he doesn’t want to lead a revolution to change it. Gotcha, Mikey.

I guess we can put it this way: if Dubya was for socialized healthcare, like what they have in Cuba and Canada, then you’d make a crockumentary railing about that, too, huh? Whatever conservatives are against and liberals are for — got it. Michael Moore’s foot, meet Michael Moore’s mouth.

Seriously… just stop talking. Really.

As if I needed another reason to dislike Michael Moore… blech.