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.