In the three weeks since the Sandy Hook school shooting,
Americans have been browbeaten by a plethora of foreigners in the media
keen to lecture them on how their constitutional right to keep and bear
arms should be eviscerated.
It started with British CNN host Piers Morgan, who
seized upon the tragedy within hours to push his fanatical anti-second
amendment agenda, calling for a British-style total gun ban. This
eventually led to a White House petition calling for Morgan to be deported which went viral and has thus far attracted over 100,000 signatures.
As USA Today highlights,
the Morgan controversy served to enflame a global gun control debate
with foreign media personalities around the world lecturing Americans on
what rights they should be able to exercise.
“In news outlets around the world, editorials, news
stories and columns demand American gun control. Our political debates
have gone global and American conservatives are outnumbered in a way few
even realize. Factor in the impact of worldwide social media and the
Internet has given our home-grown liberals an incredible advantage and
distorted what should be a uniquely American debate,” wrote Dan Gainor,
noting that quasi-state owned media outlets like the BBC and Qatar’s
Al-Jazeera were also demanding Americans be stripped of their inherent
second amendment rights.
It was then the turn of the Communist Chinese government to jump on board the anti-gun bandwagon. An editorial in the official state-run media front Xinhua called on Barack Obama to declare “war” on the second amendment and disarm U.S. citizens as soon as possible.
China’s rhetorical assault on the second amendment was
particularly ironic given that it was Chairman Mao himself who said,
“political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Mao’s policies were
responsible for the deaths of 40-70 million people, the vast majority of
whom had no means of defending themselves against the genocide overseen
by Mao and his henchmen during the Cultural Revolution.
Not to be outdone, the Kremlin-funded Russia Today
television network also lined up to attack gun rights. During an
interview with former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig
Roberts, an RT anchor repeatedly interrupted Roberts when he refused to agree that the Sandy Hook massacre should lead to draconian gun control laws in America.
“I was surprised to see that RT Moscow’s interest was to
spread the official US story of the shootings and to ask me if I
thought “assault weapons” would be banned as a consequence,” said Roberts,
noting that RT refused to acknowledge Roberts’ attempt to cite media
reports that confirmed Adam Lanza’s assault rifle was left in his car
and was not even used during the massacre.
In a separate discussion about
the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, a Russia Today host and an RT
editor tried to savage Alex Jones’ impartiality by accusing Infowars of
being money driven.
Russia Today accusing another media organization of
allowing their accuracy and bias to be dictated by finance is somewhat
rich given that RT is funded to the tune of billions of dollars by three term dictator Vladimir Putin’s government and was conceived by Putin’s press spokesperson Aleksei Gromo.
Dan Gainor notes that RT is “the voice for the Putin
regime,” and that it seized upon the Sandy Hook shooting to launch an
exercise in “America-bashing” which portrayed the United States as being
“filled with meth labs, murders and anti-government opponents.”
Federally-funded NPR also showcased how Australians were calling on Americans to be disarmed, despite the fact that as the Wall Street Journal documented,
“Strict gun laws in Great Britain and Australia haven’t made their
people noticeably safer, nor have they prevented massacres.”
It makes a serious statement when virtually every major
global media outfit in the world is on board with the Obama
administration’s aggressive campaign to eviscerate the second amendment,
and serves as a reminder that Americans are under ideological assault
from political enemies both foreign and domestic.
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