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I can attest to the media's ability to spin the government's actions, and portray people as deranged wackos.
At the time of the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents, I was just another gun owner. I had my hunting rifles and shotguns, and didn't consider them to be in danger. I remember watching the coverage of the Waco incident, and remember how the media successfully warped my mind to believe they were just a bunch of religious crazies, like the Jim Jones people, or the people that killed themselves over Hale-Bopp. They had me believing that the Davidians actually set their own building on fire. As far as Ruby Ridge, all I remembered was the story about how Randy Weaver was one of those "crazy militia guys" that most people now think of in the same thought as Timothy McVey.
That is, until I became a gun rights activist, and began to think for myself, instead of happily swallowing the spoon-fed crap dished out by the media. It still amazes me how easily the media pulled the wool over my eyes on those two events.
They are still doing it to millions of Americans today. Just imagine what kind of story there would have been had someone in NOLA stood up for their rights, and not obeyed that unconstitutional disarmanent order. That person would have been severely attacked by the media, probably as a "militia wacko". That could be any of us at any time.
Well, we can take comfort in the fact that the media will get there's too. Once they've taken away the right to keep and bear arms, there will be nothing standing in their way to take away freedom of the press.
