Charlton Heston

[Linstrum]

Not one word have I heard in the news media about the April 5 passing of one of our staunchest champions as well as all around great American and actor Charlton Heston. Besides an award winning actor, he was a supporter of our Civil Rights (both racial equality rights and our Second Amendment rights). The devoted 1960s Civil Rights Activist and marcher who later fought tooth and nail to keep the United States Constitution intact by defending it from those who would dismantle it piece by piece until it was nothing but a blueprint for a dictatorship, has been slammed by a great many of the very people that through his personal hard work can own firearms without being challenged because of the color of their skin. How quickly they forget. I haven't forgotten what he has done for the country and hopefully in a few years the importance of this great man will be remembered better than it is now. He lamented many times that it was difficult for him to bear the attacks and hatred of so many Americans who he was so busy defending. I'm glad he stood firm and through my as well as many, many others' membership in the NRA, we let him know that he was not standing alone!



Mr. Heston, “Omega Man”, job well done! :drinks:
May you rest in peace!

[Ricochet]

The New York Times ran a couple of nice pieces on him. One an obituary, the other I saw was a nice review of some of his older, less known movies. The obituary pointed out his Civil Rights advocacy with Martin Luther King, BTW.

[grumpy one]

The Economist magazine, a fairly eminent British-based journal that tends to be conservative on economics and perhaps a bit liberal on social issues, made him the subject of their weekly obituary:

http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11004056

Personally I thought it was close to insightful, and certainly fair. For social liberals, I'd say they were respectful even.

[NVcurmudgeon]

The Economist magazine, a fairly eminent British-based journal that tends to be conservative on economics and perhaps a bit liberal on social issues, made him the subject of their weekly obituary:

http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11004056

Personally I thought it was close to insightful, and certainly fair. For social liberals, I'd say they were respectful even.

Thanks for the well done Economist link. Also, it should be noted that Charlton Heston enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942. He served as a radio operator on B-25 bombers in the Eleventh Army Air Force in the Aleutians. He was discharged in 1945.

[725]

Truely the quintessence of American manhood.

[Old Ironsights]

Not one word have I heard in the news media about the April 5 passing of one of our staunchest champions ... Besides an award winning actor, he was a supporter of our Civil Rights (both racial equality rights and our Second Amendment rights). ...

While I really liked Heston as an Honorable Man, an Excellent Actor, all around Good Guy and Racial Civil Rights Advocate, his "Championing" of RKBA has always been an NRA PR put on.

Mr Heston NEVER liked EBRs - decried AKs publicly (on the Radio in 1997 & 2002) describing them as "scary" and that they "possess more firepower than necessary for hunting and self-defense" , and was, in fact, such a staunch champion of the 1968 GCA that the NRA called him on it.

His entre' into NRA Politics was just that - Politics... designed to put a Big Name on an organization that was bound and determined to kick out its RKBA "hardliners" (Neil Knox et. al.) and become a more Media Oriented Fundraising Machine.

http://www.gunownersalliance.com/moses-1.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/661606/posts
http://www.nrawol.net/NRA_Leadership.html#Heston record
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/ak-heston_500w.jpg

Sorry to burst your bubble, but you are the victim of (NRA) Media Manipulation and distortion of the facts.

But then, I guess, given "Joke" Jackson's comments on EBRs (http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSGySNLyACE) Heston's position can hardly seem out of line for LaPierre's New NRA... :roll:

Oh, how I miss Neil Knox. :(