Rand Paul Offers Amendment to Stop Eric Holder’s Operation Choke Point

A few weeks ago, we told you about “Operation Choke Point” -- an effort by Attorney General Eric Holder to put gun stores out of business.

The good news is this: Senator Rand Paul has just filed an amendment to the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations bill which will cut off Obama’s efforts to shut down gun stores by drying up their credit.
The Paul language is Amendment 3292 to H.R. 4660.

The appropriations bill is currently on the floor, but we expect the Paul amendment to be considered Friday or Tuesday. If adopted, the Obama administration would be barred from attempting to cut off credit to guns stores – just because they sell guns.

ACTION: Contact your Senators. Demand that they vote for the Paul amendment.

Sample Letter:
In connection with the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations Bill, Senator Rand Paul will offer an amendment to curtail "Operation Choke Point" - an effort by Attorney General Eric Holder to put gun stores out of business by shutting off their credit.

Basically, it works like this: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), at the behest of Barack Obama, has declared that gun stores are "high risk" businesses. "High risk" businesses have been, up until now, a small category of supposedly disreputable businesses, which have included pornographers, sellers of drug paraphernalia, and payday lenders.

The second step in the process is Eric Holder's Justice Department's "Operation Choke Point." And its function is specifically to choke off any credit or credit card processing for businesses (now including gun dealers) who fall in the "high risk" category.

Already, scores of gun dealers have complained that their banks have cut their credit or otherwise put pressure on them. Three articles detailing this effort to shut down gun dealers may be found here, here and here.

The good news is this: Senator Rand Paul has just filed an amendment to the Science Justice Commerce Appropriations bill which will cut off Obama's efforts to shut down gun stores by drying up their credit. The Paul language is Amendment 3292 to H.R. 4660.

The appropriations bill is currently on the floor, but we expect the Paul amendment to be considered Friday or Tuesday. If adopted, the Obama administration would be barred from attempting to cut off credit to guns stores - just because they sell guns.

http://cqrcengage.com/gunowners/app/bill/421616

Mennonite pastor who helped girl escape lesbian ‘mother’ sent to jail for refusing to testify

January 25, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "I have time for just a short note," Mennonite pastor Kenneth Miller to his supporters as he awaited his inevitable arrest yesterday, "'...Whom having not seen ye love, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.' (1 Pet. 1:8-9)  He is risen. His Kingdom reigns forever. All is well."

Hours later, Miller faced federal judge William Sessions III, and informed him that he would not testify before a grand jury against several acquaintances accused of helping the pastor arrange for the escape of Lisa Miller and her daughter, Isabella, from the United States in 2009.  According to the Burlington Free Press, Kenneth Miller told the judge that testifying would be inconsistent with his religious beliefs.

BRAVO PASTOR!!

"Mistresses" desensitizes our society to adultry

To: Media.Inquiries@ChurchDwight.com,marketing@t-mobile.com,chturner@pier1.com,macarter@pier1.com,customerservice@pfizer.com,Joan.Chow@ConAgraFoods.com

As a parent and father, I strongly encourage your company to drop all plans of financially supporting the inappropriate ABC program "Mistresses" which airs on Monday evenings at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 CT. This show is degrading to women and damaging to our culture.

I am appalled that your company is sponsoring a show that displays affairs and casual sex, often with multiple partners, as normal and acceptable behavior. ABC's "Mistresses" is attempting to desensitize our society and our children.

While your company is a household name, I do not agree with your financial backing of this program. Not only is this program insulting to conservative viewers and traditional families, but it also focuses on infidelity and adultery.

As a consumer, I am asking you to please pull your ad immediately, and to support moral values and family-friendly programming instead. My decision to support your company depends on it.

I look forward to hearing from you regarding my concern.


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NBC’s gruesome Hannibal – advertisers need to hear from you!

Your advertisement on "Hannibal" promotes dangerous ideas and disturbing violence, especially in light of the recent shootings that have been on the national conscience. Do you really want to encourage empathizing with psychopathic killers and cannibals? That is the premise of NBC's "Hannibal."

Consider what the Daily Beast had to say about this repulsive show. " All of this talent and effort to burnish a (and let’s face it, that’s what he is here) hero who maims, kills, and eats people (most of them female) while feeling nothing regarding their suffering: ick, to use the shortest, most polite word."

The Salt Lake Tribune calls Hannibal  “one of the most violent, bloody shows on TV.”

I strongly urge you to pull yoursponsorship of “Hannibal.”  I will be following the advertising results to see whether or not your company empowers this show in the future.  If you do, you will lose my business and that of thousands of others who are greatly concerned about the impact of such sickening themes upon our families and the American culture. 

You have a choice, obviously, in where you place your advertising dollars.  I, too, have a choice in the companies I support with my patronage.  Please do the right thing and choose a more deserving and life-affirming show on which to advertise.

http://americandecency.org/take_action_form.php?message=285