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David has given powerful anti-gun speeches since Sandy Hook, making the media tour. Little did we know he is an actor and his wife, Francis, is personal assistant to Maureen White, the finance chairwoman for the Democratic National Committee. We seem to have some major deception going on with Sandy Hook. This was planned well in advance to disarm us.
The infamous couple David Wheeler and Francine Lobis-Wheeler. Putting on quite an act at the Sandy Hook Promise press conference, in fact, they made a spectacle of themselves. Pushing hard for gun control on the premise of the “dead children,” there was plenty of body language and facial expressions, which belied the fraud.
Francine is a singer, actress, songwriter and teacher who has designed music and movement programs for babies and preschoolers. Moreover, look at this: according to the New York Times ”Ms. Lobis, 34, works in New York as the personal assistant to Maureen White, the finance chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Here is the screenshot of the Times write-up confirming this:
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Sandy Hook Hoax Confirmed: Six Actors Busted, Absolute Proof | NODISINFO
It would appear that the DNC used one of its understudies, an expendable, to do its dirty deeds. Thus, eventually, according to the Post, “Benjamin’s family moved to Newtown last Apri,.”see photo supplied by the paper below. Did they arrive there at Obama’s behest? Surely, it wouldn’t have been by coincidence. Moreover, certainly, if he would have just moved there, barely six months prior, wouldn’t that have been the most horrible experience conceivable? Think about it. Living in New York, safe and sound, only to come down to quaint Newtown to have your son gunned to death by a madman. That’s plenty of reason to be in shock and filled with remorse. However, that was nonexistent. Nothing, not even a tear, not even a bit of shock, not even some paleness, some redness in the eyes, some exhaustion: nothing? Truly, wouldn’t a person go mad, for a beautiful child like this to have been killed.
This family photo looks contrived. Regardless, how are we supposed to believe he died, when all we get is evidence like this?
Oh, but, after all, the drama is so grand that the Boy Scouts get in on the act, giving the ol’ 21 hand salute. Cathy Gaubert begged for her child’s photo, Lily Gaubert, to be taken down, when it was erroneously associated with a death. As a true mother would she did everything in her power to get that fraudulently posted picture down. How is allowing a child’s photo, Benjamin Wheeler, to be used in this way, fully photoshopped for drama, normal? See her heart-felt pleading, here:http://instagram.com/p/TS1VEhSC_U/
Gaubert was in a panic merely over a fraudulently posted picture, one attributed to purported Sandy Hook victim Allison Wyatt. Where is the panic in Sandy Hook over 26 bloody corpses blown to smithereens? No wonder no one believes it.
If you really wanted to ban those guns, at least you should show a few bodies: the more macabre the better. Yet, all we get are photos, and not just real ones but, rather, the enhanced versions.
What more proof, then, can there be anything more bizarre than this? Is this how a mother reacts to losing such a beautiful being, or is this normal, only for Sandy Hook?
The face isn’t altered. It isn’t ‘shopped.’ Try to find some sadness here. See any? You see the opposite, don’t you? How about some pallor, distress, or anguish. Did humankind just undergo a face-lift? Does anybody have an explanation for that facial expression other than fraud? Here’s more:
Ever seen anything like that before? If you look at the video close up, the one made by Scott Walker, the reason for all the faces is evident. She’s trying to prevent herself from bursting out in laughter. It’s not a pile of lipstick; it’s heavy-duty contortion of the circumoral muscles to prevent a guffaw. Moreover, look at that scoundrel on the far right, Mr. Barden. Who is he fooling with that put-on grief? Barden wants the guns sent to the crusher. So does Mr. and Mrs. DNC.
So, the question is what happened to this young boy? Surely, since he wasn’t killed he must be alive. But, where? In New York or Florida?
However, what about all the flowers and those white coffins? This, too, is a ruse. What a shame, the whole country is suffering from a concerted attack by a pack of criminals, yanking people’s emotional chains, therefore displays such as this:
The time line regarding these actors is crucial. The Phelps (is this their real name?) arrive sometime late in 2010, possibly later. Who knows if they were ever there at all, that is until this event. Regarding the Wheelers, they’re newbies arriving, as mentioned. Rosen seems to be a long-term resident. Parker: there is confusion there. No one seems to know of him, other than CNN.
Yet, here is the point. There are numerous actors definitely known, and they are not just any Newtown/Sandy Hook residents. Rather, they are crucial players in the scam, the oft-interviewed Gene Rosen, the Hochsprung eulogizers, Nick and Laura Phelps (likely an alias), the infamous, money-grubbing grief-stricken actor, Robbie Parker. Add the Wheeler professional actor guild to the crowd, and that makes a grand total of six. That’s huge. That means that anyone who claims to be a prominent Sandy Hook individual, an oft-interviewed witness or ‘authority,’ is likely an actor, too. In other words, a phony.
Six exposed, plenty more to go.
To have such a large population of actors directly associated with the event, actually, the major players, the major ones interviewed on the networks, as well as actual parents, cannot be deemed normal, not when added to an entire host of another anomalies. There are purportedly 20 fathers of the named children. Two are now proven as bona fide actors. Two of the networks main interviewees, Gene Rosen and the Phelps’s, are experienced actors.
The whole thing is a scam of unprecedented proportions. Americans have no idea how greatly they are being taken. The Zionist war machine is working overtime to crush them.
Many thanks to the freedom-loving efforts of the countless truthseekers on the Internet. Without their efforts, this write-up would not be possible.
Note: the real nature of the Soto clan is coming up. The evidence against them is glaring and definitive.
See more:
Sandy Hook Laura Phelps 100% Proof = Actress - YouRTubeNews
Benjamin Wheeler moved to Newtown in April - Connecticut Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thECsktGXo8.
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FEDS COWER LOCAL SANDY HOOK RESIDENTS TO NOT TESTIFY TO THE REAL SHOOTERS
Sandy Hook DA cites 'potential suspects,' fears witness safety
By Ralph Lopez Feb 5, 2013
Connecticut State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky has argued that unsealing warrants in the Sandy Hook case might "seriously jeopardize" the investigation by disclosing information known only to other "potential suspects."
Sedensky said that unsealing the warrants would also:
"identify persons cooperating with the investigation, thus possibly jeopardizing their personal safety and well-being."
The statement by the CT prosecutor's office is the first indication from state authorities that Adam Lanza may have not acted alone. The statement was made in support of a motion to continue the seal on the results of five search warrants for 90 more days.
CT State Police Public Affairs Officer Lt. Paul Vance said in an official press release on December 16th that:
The male subject identified as the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary School has been identified as ADAM LANZA DOB: 04/22/92; he resided at 36 Yogananda Street. His cause of death was gunshot wound and his death is ruled a suicide.
However, neither Vance nor the CT Attorney General's office have ever ruled out the possible presence of other suspects. The New Haven Register reports Vance as having said: "Whenever you conduct an investigation you don’t speculate as to where it’s going to take you, as I said, we’re going to look at every single thing, every piece of material and we’ll take it from there."
The CT State Attorney General's Office is handling the investigation of the mass shooting, in which 20 children and 8 adults died last December 14th.
The motion to extend the seal on the records for 90 days was granted by Superior Court Judge John Blawie, who wrote in his decision that:
"The court finds that due to the nature and circumstances of this case and the ongoing investigation, the state's interest in continuing nondisclosure substantially outweighs any right to public disclosure at this time,"
The warrants were for searches, on different dates, of the Lanza home, and of Adam Lanza's mother's two cars. One of the cars, a 2010 black Honda Civic, was the vehicle which Lanza allegedly drove to the crime scene. The other, a 2009 silver BMW, was parked in the garage attached to the Lanza home. The court motion seals the affidavits stating what was found upon execution of the warrants for another 90 days, until late March.
Little else is known about what the authorities may be referring to in support of the motion to seal the affidavits for another 90 days beyond the normal statutory allowance of 14 days. Lt. Vance did say in a press conference on December 15, 2012, somewhat apologetically for not being able to answer all of the reporters' questions, that there were "some cards that we're holding close to our vest."
State's Attorney Sedensky wrote in the motion that:
“No arrests have been made and none are currently anticipated, but have not been ruled out.”
Sedensky said:
"There is information in the search warrant affidavits that is not known to the general public"
An image of the key passages in the court motion is below. The entire document has been uploaded at Scribd by the New Haven Register, the venerable New England newspaper associated with the home of Yale University.
(FULL LANZA WARRANT MOTION HERE)
Public records
Motion to extend seal on Lanza search warrant affidavits
Read more: Sandy Hook DA cites 'potential suspects,' fears witness safety
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ACCORDING TO BULLCRAP BLITZER OF CNN, THIS GUY'S LITTLE GIRL JUST GOT BLOWN AWAY BY A MADMAN
Robbie Parker called out by Naval Investigator over Sandy Hook Acting - YouTube
BREAKING NEWS!!! (02/24/13) - NO DEATH CERTIFICATES EITHER!!!!
Newtown seeks to deny newspapers access to death certificates
CALL NOW TO EXPOSE THESE FRAUDS!!! (203) 270-4210 OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY
Newtown seeks to deny newspapers access to death certificates
by Ralph Lopez Feb 21, 2013
The Newtown, Connecticut Town Clerk is seeking to deny newspapers from viewing public record death certificates of Sandy Hook victims, according to the Newtown Bee.
The Clerk maintains that access to vital records such as death and marriage certificates should be limited to immediate family members or their representatives, and has undertaken to change present law.
The New York Post, the Connecticut Post, the Associated Press, the Hartford Courant, and other media have put forth requests for official death certificates of Sandy Hook victims, the Newton Bee report says. Newtown Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia says she is working with State Representatives Dan Carter, Mitch Bolinsky, and the leadership of the state association of town clerks to craft state legislation:
"that would provide the press and public with limited directory information from death and marriage records, but would withhold the actual death and marriage certificates."
Death certificates are part of vital public records, which also include birth and marriage certificates. They are public domain documents used, ultimately, to determine official recognition of presence or past presence in civil society. They also serve as a mechanism for upholding the integrity of information in which there is a public interest, as it relates to voting, citizenship, and receiving public benefits. Abuses of voting processes involving voters who, unbeknownst to the public, are actually dead, are legendary.
Death certificates typically contain little information about manner of death beyond categories such as "natural cause," "homicide," "accident," "suicide," or "other." News organizations utilize such records in crime reporting as a standard part of normal, often tedious, fact-checking procedures. Death certificates also contain the sworn statement of the medical examiner.
The Newtown Bee stated:
"Ms Aurelia said she has received requests for death certificates and other proprietary information from the New York Post , the Connecticut Post , the Associated Press and the Hartford Courant among others."
"Some are also requesting all my e-mail correspondence and text messages related to 12/14," she said."
According to the Newtown Bee, Assistant Town Clerk Renee Weimann said "I feel it’s my responsibility to protect these victims. They’ve been through enough.” Last December 14th, 20 children and 8 adults died in a shooting rampage by alleged shooter Adam Lanza.
Ms Aurelia and members of her staff testified in favor of such a bill at a hearing of the state's Public Health Committee last February 20th. The law would also exclude members of the public who are not "immediate family/authorized agency/attorney" from viewing the records, according to the Newtown Bee.
The Bee reported that the media and other sources have been making the requests under existing Freedom of Information Act laws. Media can take local, state, and federal government agencies to court over failure to comply with requests for information.
The move comes as the public awaits the answers to questions such as whether or not alleged shooter Adam Lanza was on any psychiatric medications, especially those known as SSRIs which some psychiatrists maintain have been associated with thousands of incidents of random violence, and have a causal effect. Also lacking is any further elaboration on a Connecticut State's Attorney's statement last December, in a court motion, that there may be other "potential suspects," and that revealing certain evidence at this time might "seriously jeopardize" the investigation. Connecticut State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky also said that revealing certain evidence at this time might:
"identify persons cooperating with the investigation, thus possibly jeopardizing their personal safety and well-being."
Yesterday the Hartford Courant ran a report in which Jim Smith, president of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information, said a death certificate is a factual document that lacks the details of an autopsy report. The Courant quotes Smith saying:
“There isn’t anything in a death certificate that is going to hurt the deceased...it’s not like an autopsy report. It’s been public for centuries. It’s not going to invade anyone’s privacy.’’
CT State Representatives Bolinsky and Carter, and Newtown Town Clerk Aurelia, all argued, according to the Courant, that identify theft was a concern, since the maiden name of the deceased's mother is on death certificates. However, this is also on birth certificates, which are not a target of the trio. Also, the proposed legislation would seal the death records only of minors under 18. It is unclear why identity thieves would not merely steal the identities of people over that age.
Read more: Newtown seeks to deny newspapers access to death certificates
Debbie A. Aurelia, CCTC, CMC
Town Clerk Elected Term : 2009-2013
Monica Duhancik
Assistant Town Clerk
Aileen Nosal
Assistant Town Clerk
Renee Weimann
Assistant Town Clerk
Address:
Newtown Municipal Center
3 Primrose Street
Newtown, CT 06470
Phone:
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Hours:
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DEBBIE ROCHON, LOW-BUDGET HORROR MOVIE QUEEN...STARRED IN "SANDY HOOK MASSACRE LINGERIE PARTY" NOT KIDDING!!!
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Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre
2000 NR
Seven strippers take a break from their daily bump-and-grind by vacationing at Sandy Hook, but after a blissful day of tanning and relaxing, the ladies must batten down the hatches before they are hit by a hurricane -- and a serial killer. The hook-bearing psychopath terrorizes the women, and blood flows as they try to escape their pursuer. Scream queen Debbie Rochon co-stars with Mistress Persephone and Mr. Creepo (director Tim Beckley).
Cast: Debbie Rochon, Tim Beckley
Director: Tim Beckley
Genre:Horror
DEBBIE ROCHON
Date of Birth
3 November 1968, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birth Name
Debbie Ann Rochon
Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini Biography
Debbie Rochon grew up in British Columbia, Canada. She was a child of the streets and victim of much abuse until she accidentally ended up in a featured extra role in Paramount's Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)!
The event changed her life, and she saved enough money to move to New York City and study acting at age 17. After many years working with numerous theater companies in off-Broadway plays, she started to land small roles in films. Spike Lee's editor Barry Alexander Brown cast her in a featured role in his first directing effort, Lonely in America (1990). Soon the parts grew bigger and bigger and primarily fell in the fear flick genre.
Since then Debbie has starred in dozens of horror movies and has gained cult stardom worldwide. Since 1994, she has acted in various roles in Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Productions, most notably Tromeo and Juliet (1996) and Terror Firmer (1999), as well as many other low-budget independent made-for-video horror flicks in lead, supporting, minor and bit parts. Although she is mostly associated with creepy features and thrillers because of her evenly-shaped, dark-haired appearance on and off camera, she has garnered acclaim for her turns in comedy and drama. She has also co-hosted a number of radio shows in New York City that focused on film and pop culture.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Paul
Trivia
Started out as a New York stage actress. Has written for numerous genre publications including her current column in "The Joe Bob Report".
Was 1st Runner up in Joe Bob Briggs' 1996 Hubbie Award for Best Actress in Abducted II: The Reunion (1995).
Won the 1997 Barbarella Award for best actress in Broadcast Bombshells (1995).
She won the 2002 Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope award for Best Psychette (Best Female Psycho in a movie) for her role as Jane Toppan in American Nightmare (2002) (V).
Won 'Scream Queen of the Decade Award' (1990 to present) from Draculina Magazine (2003), readers poll.
Was inducted into the B-Movie Hall of Fame October 2004.
Won the 2004 Micro Cinema Film Festival Award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work in Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots (2004) (V).
Has a large vertical scar on her upper right arm which she got from a knife attack at age 14 while living in the streets of Vancouver.
Won Best Supporting Actress Award for her work in the comedy sci-fi send-up Screech of the Decapitated (2005) (V) at the 2005 B-Movie Awards.
Was a character in the horror novel "Bad Moon Rising", written by multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry.
Won The Golden Cob Award 2009 for Best Scream Queen by public vote system.
Won Best Actress Award at the 2010 Eerie Horror Film Festival for her role in Slime City Massacre (2010).
Was honored with an award for Dedication to Excellence in Independent Filmmaking at the 2010 Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival.
Won Best Actress at the 2011 Buffalo Screams Film Festival for her role in Bart Mastronardi's "The Tell Tale Heart", part of the Tales of Poe (2012) horror anthology.
Was inducted into The Hell of Fame Feb. 2012.
Won Best Actress Award at The Golden Cobs 2011 for her role in Alien Vengeance (2010).
Won Best Actress Award at the Macabre Faire Film Festival 2012 for her role in The Tell Tale Heart.
Served as a jury member on the first all female jury at The Oldenburg Film Festival 2012, alongside Mira Sorvino, Gabrielle Miller, Tamar Simon Hoffs and Lana Morgan.
Won Best Actress Award at the 2012 Terror Film Festival for her work in The Tell Tale Heart.
Won Best Actress Award at the 2012 Pollygrind Film Festival for her work in Exhumed.
Salary
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) $300 per week
Where Are They Now
(2000) Co-hosted "Tim Reid The Movie Guy With Debbie Rochon" - an Internet talk radio program onhttp://www.eyada.com/.
(January 2004) Currently writing her autobiography. She is also developing screenplays, continues to act in film and writes magazine articles for genre publications.
(January 2006) Employed with Fangoria Magazine. Tours with their Weekend of Horrors convention and appears weekly on their Sirius Satellite Radio show.
(June 2006) Co-host of the weekly Fangoria Radio show on Sirius satellite radio, Sirius Stars channel 102, with Twisted Sister frontman and horror film producer/actor Dee Snider. Fangoria Radio debuted on Friday, June 23, 2006.
(May 2012) Resides in both New York City, New York, USA and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Currently has a column in 'Fangoria' magazine called 'Diary of the Deb'. Has a column in the new Italian horror magazine 'Tenebre'. Also continues to write for The Phantom of the Movies' 'Videoscope' magazine.
(November 2012) Currently writing her column for Fangoria magazine called Diary of the Deb. Also pens for The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope magazine. Has begun editing process on her directorial debut Model Hunger.
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UP WITH THE PEOPLE CRISIS ACTORS???
NEED A JOB PRETENDING TO BE A VICTIM FOR THE FEDS??? JUST CONTACT ONE OF THESE SICK ORGANIZATIONS AND POTENTIALLY GO TRAUMATIZE SOME MORE AMERICANS FOR HUSSEIN!
Visionbox - Denver Acting Studio
Crisis Actors
Crisis Actors - Trained Players and Actors Making It Real
“A new group of actors is now available nationwide for active shooter drills and mall shooting full-scale exercises, announced Visionbox, Denver's leading professional actors studio.
ITHACA — It is one of those ironies which seem to abound. The Ithaca Police Department finished training for handling situations like a school gunman on the day 20 children and 6 adults were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
Saying SWAT teams are no longer adequate to respond to time when police must encounter a gunman in a building, an IPD spokesman said officers were trained during a six-week Law Enforcement Active Shooter Response between Nov. 5 and December 14.
After five officers were trained in how to respond to an active shooter, a vacant City of Ithaca building was used to train other IPD officers. Along with classroom instruction, officers were taught tactics and equipment for “force on force encounters.” Among the tactics learned: room entry, stairwell clearing, hallway movement and mental preparation. The training is in response to “the continual recent tragedies involving senseless acts of violence towards large groups of people in schools, malls and other public places,” according to the department.
“The mindset on police response to an active shooter incidents has changed in the last 15 years, most notably since the school shooting in Columbine, Colorado. The past approach was to wait for the SWAT Team to arrive and handle the situation,” according to Ithaca police. Noting SWAT teams “usually takes valuable time” in which victim are left at risk, the new game plan for police has evolved.
“The approach has evolved into training every officer to respond to the scene of any active shooter incident, locate any person actively attempting to hurt or kill innocent people, and stopping that person as soon as possible.”
The Hidden Story Of The Up With People Singers
Posted by JacobSloan on September 22, 2011
Failure Magazine examines the bizarre hidden story of “Up With People”, the gigantic 1970s singing ensemble which operated almost as a cult, performed at the Super Bowl and met with presidents and the Pope, and was quietly funded by corporations such as Exxon and Coca-Cola that were eager to put forward a youth-y alternative to authority-questioning counterculture:
Before there were yuppies, there were uppies—the term Up With People members use to refer to themselves. Most Americans over the age of 35 are vaguely familiar with Up With People, as its cast members have sung to more than 20 million people worldwide, and at the height of the ensemble’s fame it provided the halftime entertainment at four Super Bowls (1976, 1980, ’82, ’86). But many are unaware of the group’s cultish utopian ideology, its political connectedness, and how it was funded by corporate America, part of a deliberate propaganda effort to discredit liberal counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.
Up With People emerged from the controversial religious movement Moral Re-Armament (MRA)—a cult-like organization that preached honesty, purity, unselfishness and love—so it’s no surprise that the groups bore more than a passing similarity. In fact, Up With People founder J. Blanton Belk was heir apparent to Peter D. Howard, a British journalist who succeeded Frank Buchman as MRA’s leader in 1961. But Belk broke away to incorporate Up With People as a non-profit after President Dwight Eisenhower urged him to distance himself from the dreary image of MRA.
It’s no surprise that President Eisenhower encouraged and supported Belk. As Mark Crispin Miller—professor of media ecology at New York University—notes during Smile, “The sixties were a time when a lot of longstanding pieties were being seriously questioned…. Students marched and there were race riots and we saw the first upsurge of feminism. This was …extremely worrying to the powers that be,” he says. It also explains why Eisenhower (and later President Richard M. Nixon) was thrilled to see Belk sending throngs of clean-cut, short-haired kids out into the world to sing upbeat, positive-minded songs, thereby countering the protest movement. “What we did was give young people a chance to express their views through music,” says Belk in a sequence from the film. It was a clever appropriation of the same vehicle—music—that had been embraced by demonstrators who opposed the Vietnam War and the establishment.
Of course, Up With People’s songs (“You Can’t Live Crooked and Think Straight” and “To Tell the Truth,” for example) bore virtually no resemblance to the popular music of the time. With simple chord progressions and childish lyrics, the group’s ditties can best be described as “insipid.” But good songs weren’t necessary to get Up With People’s message across, just as musical talent wasn’t a prerequisite to joining. The visceral power of a huge throng of smiling, exuberant and seemingly joyful young men and women rushing on stage and performing as one was enough to entice a reliable stream of new recruits. And thanks to the political connectedness of Up With People’s board members, Belk had no problem lining up gigs all over the planet, in front of audiences that often included presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders. (Up With People has performed for Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, and at the inaugurations of Nixon and George H.W. Bush, to name just a few high-profile engagements.)
But the financial lifeblood of Up With People was corporate America, which recognized that it could use uppies to promote a business-friendly image. Patrick Frawley Jr., a right-wing evangelical who owned Schick, was one of the group’s biggest supporters; he purchased television time and underwrote the first Up With People album, which had John Wayne, Pat Boone and Walt Disney on the cover. But Schick was hardly alone among multinationals. Companies like Exxon, Halliburton, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, General Electric, Coors, Toyota, Enron and Searle donated tens of millions of dollars to the organization, keeping it afloat until 2000, when George W. Bush became president and evangelicals could declare that their ideological war had been won.
The propaganda effort aside, individual members of Up With People certainly fomented their share of positive change, or at least spread good cheer wherever they went. In fact, most were just having a good time performing and traveling the world, oblivious to the agenda of the organization’s leadership and financial backers. “The members of the cast were like puppets. They never stopped to think about where the funding came from, or that someone had to open doors for them,” reminds Storey. Anyway, in some respects the group was surprisingly progressive. Up With People not only accepted members of all races and cultures, but deliberately placed minority cast members with Caucasian host families whenever the ensemble rolled into a new town.
Up With People didn’t lose its way because it lost the ability to control its cast members’ behavior, or because the public suddenly came to recognize that its sickly sweet songs were insufferable. Up With People declined because it became irrelevant, especially after the Cold War ended and American corporations no longer felt compelled to send groups of singing young people overseas, hoping to sweep in behind them to do business.
In the face of diminishing corporate support, Up With People began relying more heavily on tuition fees to pay for its increasingly expensive stage shows. While the organization began charging tuition in the early 1970s ($2,400 in 1972), fees rose dramatically in subsequent years, up to $5,300 in 1982. By the 1990s, the organization found itself struggling to recruit youth capable of paying tuition rates that exceeded the cost of most private universities, a problem compounded by the mostly indifferent response to the group’s public performances
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CLINTON'S FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL ADMITS THAT TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION IS THE SOLE AIM OF "GUN CONTROL" "LAWS"
[All firearms] ... should be outlawed. Our organization will probably take this stand in time but we are not anxious to rouse the opposition before we get the other legislation passed.
Elliot Corbett
Washington Evening Star
Secretary, National Council For A Responsible Firearms Policy
1969-09-19
We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. Of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, "This is a great law. The problem is solved." And it's also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time. So then we'll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with a half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal.
Nelson T. "Pete" Shields
"A Reporter At Large: Handguns", New Yorker, at 53, 58
Chairman, Handgun Control, Inc.
1976-07-26
Gun violence won't be cured by one set of laws. It will require years of partial measures that will gradually tighten the requirements for gun ownership, and incrementally change expectations about the firepower that should be available to ordinary citizens.
New York Times
1993-12-21
Repealing the Second Amendment is no cause for the faint-hearted, but it remains the only way for liberals to trigger an honest debate on the future of our bullet-plagued society. So what if anti-gun advocates have to devote the next 15 or 20 years to the struggle? The cause is worth the political pain. Failing to take bold action condemns all of us to spend our lives cringing in terror every time we hear a car backfire.
Walter Shapiro
USA Today column
1999-09-17
If we get the Brady Bill to President Clinton and he signs it into law, then the door will be wide open for further gun control legislation. Of course, we hope that's true because, as you know, our campaign to enact a National Gun Policy to combat gun violence doesn't end with the Brady Bill - it just begins.
Sarah Brady
HCI newsletter
1993-03
I think you have to do it a step at a time and I think that is what the NRA is most concerned about, is that it will happen one very small step at a time, so that by the time people have "woken up" -- quote -- to what's happened, it's gone farther than what they feel the consensus of American citizens would be. But it does have to go one step at a time and the beginning of the banning of semi-assault military weapons, that are military weapons, not "household" weapons, is the first step."
Barbara Fass
ABC News Special, Peter Jennings: Guns
Stockton, CA Mayor
1991-04-11
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.
Janet Reno
"Good morning America"
U.S. Attorney General
1993-12-10
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... many Americans do believe that handguns are effective weapons for home-defense and the majority of Americans ...believe the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the individual right to keep and bear arms. Yet, many who support the individual's right to own a handgun have second thoughts when the issue comes down to assault weapons. Assault weapons are often viewed the same way as machine guns and `plastic' firearms -- a weapon that poses such a grave risk that it's worth compromising a perceived constitutional right.
Josh Sugarmann
"Assault Weapons: Analysis, New Research and Legislation"
1989-03
The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons -- anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun -- can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.
Josh Sugarman
1988, Violence Policy Center
We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns [to ban.]
Jose Cerda
Los Angeles Times
Clinton Administration White House Official
1997-10-22
...the only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers...
Charles Schumer
PBS debate with Bill McCollum
U.S. Senator (D-NY)
1996
It makes no sense for assault weapons to be around our society.
George W. Bush
Houston Chronicle
1999-08-12
Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.
Joseph Biden
quoted by AP
U.S. Senator
1993-11-18
"I just want you to know that we are working on it," [Sarah] Brady recalled the president telling them. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."
Barrack Obama
meeting between Jay Carney, Jim Brady, Sarah Brady, and President Obama, quoted in the Washington Post, 2011-04-12
U.S. President
2011-03-30
These and much more, including a few choice quotes from Lenin, Mao, and
this interesting comparison
People who like assault weapons, they should join the United States Army; we have them.
Wesley Clark
CNN Crossfire, 2003-06-25
General
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
Heinrich Himmler
