TRT in the Crosshairs
Source: LewRockwell.com
Published: June 5, 2001
Author: Jeff Elkins
[url]www.lewrockwell.com/elkins/elkins19.html[/url]

The Anti-Defamation League has the Tyranny Response Team in its
crosshairs: the ADL is now investigating the tactics of the
grass-roots Colorado gun-rights group that has spread nationwide.

The leftist ADL, well-known for seeing "haters", militias and
"anti-Semites" behind every bush, hasn't quite placed the Tyranny
Response Team in those categories - yet. But the Inspector Clouseaus
of the Denver ADL are concerned and on the case: "That's what it's
about: keeping an eye on these groups," barked Bobbie Towbin,
associate director of the ADL's Denver branch.

The Tyranny Response Team or TRT has become one of the more effective
grass roots 2nd Amendment rights groups. Founded by gun shop owner
Bob Glass, largely as a response to the socialist Million Mom
Marchers, TRT members (and the equally fine group Second Amendment
Sisters) can be found at any well-publicized anti-gun rally and
usually outnumber the victim disarmament crowd - the folks that would
rather see a young lady strangled with her own pantyhose rather than
use a gun to defend herself, to quote L. Neil Smith.

Bob Glass has crossed swords with the Denver ADL in the past: He has
lead marches against the Denver ADL headquarters to protest that
group's "philosophically, historically and morally bankrupt" anti-gun
arguments. Glass claims that "the only card they have to play is
character assassination."

The ADL is expert at that particular card game. The TRT should be wary.

Indeed, Glass and other TRT members need to lock and load and don
bulletproof vests: ADL researchers are actively compiling information
about Glass' group. There are efforts underway to link members of the
TRT to "hate mail" sent to Columbine High parent, Tom Mauser: Mauser
has been outspoken in advocating stricter gun control, in the wake of
Columbine. Glass has denied his group had anything to do with those
letters.

Particularly irritating to the stalwarts of the ADL are the Tyranny
Response Team's effective tactic of using the symbols of the
holocaust as counter-propaganda in the war against the 2nd Amendment.

The Colorado Tyranny Response Team has protested at Boulder City Hall
wearing black shirts with yellow, six-pointed stars, evoking memories
of the unarmed Jews of WWII Germany. TRT literature also uses
photographs of holocaust victims, something verboten unless you are
protesting from a leftist, statist stance.

At so-called Million Mom Marches, Tyranny Response Team members have
bravely interjected an element of truth into the proceedings. They
are "in your face", letting the ignorant and foolish soccer moms know
they are pawns of spiritual descendants of the Nazis: Their tactics
have been credited for a major drop in participation in the marches.

(continued)

According to Glass, "The real danger people face is state-sponsored
genocide, like Stalin, like Hitler, like Pol Pot." TRT tactics "drive
that point home, to show them how fascist their agenda is." The
grassroots TRT is remarkably effective: using a tight personal
network and the power of the Internet they are able to muster
hundreds to gather at protests on very short notice.

The TRT has not confined itself to protest marches. They are very
effective Internet warriors and have breached the walls of the
regular media as well, with TRT Radio on several Colorado talk radio
venues and regular newspaper and magazine mentions.

The Tyranny Response Team claims no party affiliation. However, their
mission statement reads like a paleo-libertarian tract:

"The Tyranny Response Team is the embodiment of mans' desire for
freedom. We believe in the fundamental rights of all human beings.
Our rights do not come from a majority vote, from politicians, or
even from the Constitution - and they are not subject to infringement
by a government which ignores the Supreme Law of this land."

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights."

"We pledge our commitment to the absolute restoration of our Bill of
Rights, and further, to strict adherence to the legal and moral
principles of the Declaration of Independence, upon which this nation
was founded. We will rise against any assault on the unalienable
rights granted by our Creator."

"If you believe in Liberty, and in the Truths upon which this nation
was founded, you are a member of the Tyranny Response Team."

I'm a member of the Tyranny Response Team and I've never been to a
meeting. I bet most reading this are as well.

If the ADL is truly concerned with preventing the horrors of the
holocaust from reoccurring, I'm puzzled as to why they aren't the
TRT's biggest boosters. If instead of wanting to prevent a holocaust
they are actually desirous of one, only this time with themselves
wearing the jackboots, their actions are logical. Which is it ADL?


Jeff Elkins is a freelance consultant and writer living in North
Central Florida. His personal website is located at
www.elkins.org.

Copyright © 2001 LewRockwell.com

ADL is going to get sued for the shirt off their
back if they keep this up. They should know
better because they have successfully sued
for the same behavior.

Many TRT members are also Freepers, I believe. One of my good friends has a TRT T-shirt, and is quite active on Free Republic. Me thinks we should get a NY TRT squad together. Lord knows, that with She-beast Klinton, Schumer, and Elmer Pataki, we would probably be busy.

sounds like a good idea.

sign me up!

The ADL is NUTs.