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direstraits posted:

Democrats spread the myth that the parties switched identities in the 1960s or so.  That's a myth, propaganda repeated over and over, aka a Big Lie.

The Dems moved minorities off the plantations or, later, shareholder shacks to the cities.  Using the old political machine methods used for early immigrants, the Dems ensnared the minorities with welfare and such to ensure votes. View the large cities managed for decades by Democrats, minorities in ghettoes, fueled by drugs and cheap booze, poor schools, with few options but for the best to escape, the rest to exist in some version of criminality or poor paying jobs.  If, there were only a few instances, such could be called happenstance. For it to be the rule involves conscious choices by the Democrat politicians -- parasites, the lot of them. 

 

Dems have a long history of using "the public good" as a cover for their real motive, political power used to enrich themselves. Take the first "gun control" act in the US - the Sullivan Act as an example. The act was named after the Tammany Hall crook Timothy Sullivan who introduced the legislation partly to be seen as protecting genteel polite society and partly to actually protect the Tammany Hall gangs from themselves and their victims.

The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York.

In 1911 — in the wake of a notorious Gramercy Park blueblood murder-suicide — Sullivan sponsored the Sullivan Act, which mandated police-issued licenses for handguns and made it a felony to carry an unlicensed concealed weapon.

This was the heyday of the pre-Prohibition gangs, roving bands of violent toughs who terrorized ethnic neighborhoods and often fought pitched battles with police. In 1903, the Battle of Rivington Street pitted a Jewish gang, the Eastmans, against the Italian Five Pointers. When the cops showed up, the two underworld armies joined forces and blasted away, resulting in three deaths and scores of injuries. The public was clamoring for action against the gangs.

Problem was the gangs worked for Tammany. The Democratic machine used them as shtarkers (sluggers), enforcing discipline at the polls and intimidating the opposition. Gang leaders like Monk Eastman were even employed as informal “sheriffs,” keeping their turf under Tammany control.

The Tammany Tiger needed to rein in the gangs without completely crippling them. Enter Big Tim with the perfect solution: Ostensibly disarm the gangs — and ordinary citizens, too — while still keeping them on the streets.

In fact, he gave the game away during the debate on the bill, which flew through Albany: “I want to make it so the young thugs in my district will get three years for carrying dangerous weapons instead of getting a sentence in the electric chair a year from now.”

Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results. Young toughs took to sewing the pockets of their coats shut, so that cops couldn’t plant firearms on them, and many gangsters stashed their weapons inside their girlfriends’ “bird cages” — wire-mesh fashion contraptions around which women would wind their hair.

Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

http://nypost.com/2012/01/16/t...rth-of-nys-gun-laws/


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