“It raises some real concerns with the tactics of the NRA. If they’ve got one person, maybe they have more. If they’ve done this dirty trick, what else have they done?” said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, which planned to search its offices for listening devices and computer spyware.
Paul, seriously. You’re giving way too much credit to NRA. Listening devices? Spyware? Have you seen NRA’s web site recently Paul? Trust me. You won’t find anything. If you do, then I’ll be the first one to bitch that such enormous technical talent is going to waste spying on the Bradys rather than giving NRA a really solid web presence. I’ve never seen G. Gordon Liddy hanging out at NRA events. I think you’re safe from bugs, black bag jobs, and various other malfeasance. Relax, and enjoy some Tequila.
Paul Helmke= pwned bitch!
I swear, if it was me I wouldn’t make such a big stink about this. I would do my best about vetting potential supporters from now on. Publicly declaring that you are gonna sweep your office for spyware and bugging equipment just makes you look insecure and unstable. Hardly qualities to project for a serious political interest group. LOL!
Personally, I think he sounds like some pillow biting queen who is throwing a tantrum because he got pwned. I mean look at the difference between him and Phil Goldsmith. Goldsmith is acting like he has a pair. Anyway, eff’em both! They both suck in every way possible!
yeah. everybody knows we’re using laser pickups pointed at their windows to listen in on them from afar.
LOL talk about paranoid. But the point is not for them to actually find anything, nor do they need to, they just have to make the loonies who already believe the anti-gun crap to believe this as well and that will whip them all into an anti-freedom frenzy.
But I agree if they have that technology than they should be able to make that toolbar not slow down my browser lol
“In the battle of ideas with the gun lobby, we’re at a constant disadvantage because we’re honest.”
The above is a “Crying Bryan” Miller quote from the AP article. It gave me a laugh, that’s for sure. First of all, Bryan, you and your side are at a complete disadvantage in your battle of ideas against our gun rights, all because you simply do not have the second amendment on to back you up – we do! This is why gun grabbers like you keep losing so much.
Second, you and your side are anything but honest – you distort facts, figures, and reality (Gun show “loophole”, “cop-kiiler” bullets, .50 caliber rifles, etc., etc.) constantly to suit your agenda.
The article also mentions that this “double agent”, Mary Lou McFate, “befriended an activist who was later convicted in a pipe bomb attack” against a business which used dogs for research. Could it be possible that McFate provided information to the police so that they could make the arrest? I would like to hope that she did.
Given that the animal-rights and environmental terrorists seem to often use arson and bombings as a way to advance their radical agenda, I could see some sort of left-winger and gun-hater resorting to such tactics also. If a “mole” could prevent such an attack, or at least direct the authorities towards the guilty party afterward, I would say that’s a good thing.
He honestly said that with a straight face? So, which are we?
Option 1: Redneck hicks who cling to our guns and beer and sit around alll day glorifying our rise against the government and growing our enormous potbellies inside our flannel monstrosities?
Or…
Option 2: Criminal masterminds capable of infiltrating, bugging, surveilling, and exfiltrating without anyone being the wiser?
I suppose I could see a hillbilly in black spandex and nightvision goggles, but I really do not want to.
I, too, am honestly surprised at the big froofera the Brady Bunch is making about this whole deal… Sounds like they cannot manage their own membership base adequately to me. I mean, it is not like they have national secrets to protect or something… What did they expect the NRA to find out – that they are against guns?
Talk about overreacting…
The Brady Campaign Against Guns is not an open book? They have secrets?? Like what, their membership roll is a cooked-up collection of old Chicago phonebooks, full of voting dead people ?
As the Brady Bunch is a flawed and fraudulent Astroturf operation, their Tequila should be equally an industrial fake – Cuervo Gold: a bog standard mixto tequila that’s only 51% Agave in order to qualify under the bare minimum that Mexican law allows to be called tequila – the ‘Gold’ color from added colouring not from aging – and not much more than a cheap vodka with a dollop of syrup flavor.
Bleh.
Somehow Paul’s paranoia doesn’t surprise me.
I disagree. The entire movement must be crawling with kulaks and wreckers.
Defrost Comrade Stalin and purge the whole operation, then start with pure believers.
Buwahahaha
What the hell. This is how the FBI brought down the KKK.
Paranoid much, Paulie?
I have seen G. Gordon Liddy at a NRA event …. it was an event in Gwinnett County GA supporting NRA endorsed candidates. I think it was 2002. Wayne LaPeirre spoke.
Hmm….. maybe they do need to worry then :)
I suppose when you’ve been unhinged from reality for so long, your whole world begins to take on a bizarre nature.
And why would we BCs (bitter clingers) bother with a nobody like Helmke, when we’re so busy manipulating the global economy for the oil companies, spreading chem-trails through the atmosphere to cut down the population, giving AIDS to poor Africans, bringing down American skyscrapers in controlled demolitions while faking terrorist attacks, torturing innocent Muslim activists for amusement, and steering hurricanes from our secret, nuclear-powered satellites, to say nothing of the earthquake I started the other day in an attempt to get rid of California liberals? (oops, I’ve already said too much)
Look, we all know this is George Bush’s fault. George Bush along with the Halliburton Black helicopter brigades used optical laser auditory sensors to spy on the Brady Campaign. A number of things were found out:
1. Paul Helmke is actually a former Detroit stripper named “Paula.”
2. The Joyce Foundation funnels their money into the Brady Campaign the same way prisoners bring drugs into prisons.
3. Mary McFate was actually Dick Cheney in drag.
4. The tin foil used for Brady campaign hats doesn’t stop Donald Rumsfeld’s evil mind control brain waves.
5. Barack Obama is actually a robot named Tron 5.
These are all true but they were covered up in a vast conspiracy to protect………..yes you guessed it……..The Illiuminati!
Dammit, ATL, you’re saying too much! Remember your Free Masons vow of silence!
If we don’t keep quiet about our operations, we’ll have the tri-lateral commission on our asses again, and our NRA security clearance could be revoked. Now, you’ll all need to reset your secret decoder rings to “Quebec” and await further instructions.
Ok,
I am waiting my new instructions Dark Lord.
Thank you sir, may I have another?
“Protect the profits of the gun industry”
as compared to what, the profits about big oil, pharma, electronics corporations, corporate media…how bad can the so-called “ebil gun industry” be compared to anyone else who seems to make at least 1000000x the profits?
ATL:
Your new Core Directive: Infiltrate Paul Helmke’s bedroom. Obtain secret files about “Shadow Party” and “Operation: Preventing Irrelevance”
Wait a minute…did I post that…O SHI-
*Brady Campaign horde storms in*
“PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!”
I can’t believe the gun grabbers and so-called progressives have double standards on this matter, they’ve done it before, why should they expect their opponents to “play fair” either?
for the greater good my ass.
Lyle says:
August 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I suppose when you’ve been unhinged from reality for so long, your whole world begins to take on a bizarre nature.
And why would we BCs (bitter clingers) bother with a nobody like Helmke, when we’re so busy manipulating the global economy for the oil companies, spreading chem-trails through the atmosphere to cut down the population, giving AIDS to poor Africans, bringing down American skyscrapers in controlled demolitions while faking terrorist attacks, torturing innocent Muslim activists for amusement, and steering hurricanes from our secret, nuclear-powered satellites, to say nothing of the earthquake I started the other day in an attempt to get rid of California liberals? (oops, I’ve already said too much)
Damn, why do I always miss out on all of the fun Stuff?