So, AG Eric Holder is definitely sticking around for awhile. How ’bout that.

“We want to have as part of the anti-gun initiative bill an informational campaign to really change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC., and in particular our young people. They are saturated in the media and in entertainment or by the entertainment industry with violence and I think that too many of our young people, particularly our young men, are fascinated with violence and, in particular, fascinated with guns.

What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we’ve changed our attitudes about cigarettes. When I was growing up, people smoked all of the time — both my parents did — but over time, we changed the way people thought about smoking and now we have people, who cower outside of buildings, smoke in private and don’t want to admit it. Um, and that’s what I think that we need to with guns…really change the way people think about guns.

Now, this is not something that’s going to be very easy to do because we are fighting something, quite frankly, that appears everyday on the television, on the radio, in our popular music, in movies that these kids are exposed to. It will be an effort that will entail this that I am not familiar with. I think that I am a pretty good lawyer, but I, we need to get innovative, creative things that are going to grab the attention of these kids and really change the way, as I said, that they think about guns. So, what I’ve asked is that the creative community in Washington, the ad agencies that create these snappy ads that make me buy things that I don’t really need to devote that talent in a more constructive way so that we can get at the minds of these young people.

In this informational campaign, I’ve also called upon newspapers and the television stations to devote to us time and space so that we can get these ads and so that we can use these spots and not to give us 1, 2 o’clock in the morning when no one is watching, but to give us time when people, particularly young people, are watching television so that when they are watching The Fresh Prince of Bel Air or Martin or whatever else they watch…and, yeah, I watch them every once in a while…so that they will see these ads and be grabbed by these ads.

I’ve also asked people, who have influence over youngsters, entertainers, athletes, to be involved in this programme, as well, nut not only them, community leaders, Jesse Jackson, Mayor Marion Barry, people with credibility with young people should be on the television, on the radio, and telling these youngsters that it is wrong to carry a gun and that if you have information about people who are carrying guns that you need to share that with Chief Thomas and his people, as well.

I’ve also asked the school board to make a anti-gun message a part of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message. Every day, every school, and every level. One thing that I think is clear with young people, and with adults as well, is that we have to be repetitive about this. It is not enough to simply have a catchy ad on a Monday and then only do it every Monday. We need to do it everyday of the week and brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.

We also want to have a hotline that we will set up and have the number of that hotline emblazoned in their minds so that when they see a gun or become familiar with the facts of a gun crime, they would call that hotline and pass that information on.”

- Eric Holder, speech addressing the Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1995

Isn’t brainwashing prohibited by the Geneva Conventions as a form of torture? I thought that Progs were AGAINST torture???

Oh, that’s riiight. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

Resist We Much on January 10, 2013 at 6:22 PM