Chicago anti-gun panelist compares crowd reciting Pledge of Allegiance to Nazis’ beer hall conduct
Also inaccurately accuses veteran of seeking to take over the government by force and crowd of hurling racial insults
Lee Goodman of Stop Concealed Carry was one of the panelists at the Chicago-area anti-gun forum featured in my prior post, Veteran stands up for 2nd Amendment at Chicago anti-gun forum.
During that event Goodman and Iraq war veteran Kevin Tully had a back-and-forth discussion of the 2nd Amendment. In a video I took, which now has over 160,000 YouTube views, Tully is seen calling for an end to partisan divide in the country, and giving an impassioned defense not only of the 2nd Amendment, but of 1st Amendment rights.
After the event, Goodman wrote a blog post titled “Overthrowing the Government” in which he analogized the audience standing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to Nazi beer hall conduct (emphasis added):
The Illinois State Rifle Association had asked their people – who love their guns more than they care about other people’s lives – to go to the forum. They showed up and, on a pre-arranged signal, interrupted the moderator’s introductions by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s nothing wrong with pledging allegiance, but this demonstration was designed to take control of the meeting and display their power. You may have seen something like it in movies like Cabaret and The Sound of Music, which chronicle how Nazis would intimidate patrons of beer halls and other public events by singing, saluting, scowling, taking names, and following up with beatings.
I was not there when the crowd stood for the Pledge of Allegiance, as there was a delay at the door getting in, but to compare this crowd of patriotic Americans standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to a Nazi beer hall Putsch is pretty outrageous.
It was that type of demeaning rhetoric, including another speaker who compared 2nd Amendment supporters to Nazis and racists, which led the crowd to start to speak up after an hour or more of verbal insults.
In his blog post, Goodman did not stop with the Nazi analogy. Goodman accused Tully of advocating violent overthrow of the government. Goodman placed his accusations against Tully soon after the Nazi beer hall language in the blog post, obviously suggesting that Tully was one of such people (emphasis added):
So it was shocking when one man stood up, wearing what appeared to be military patches on his jacket, announced that he had served in our military, and then went on to say that the reason he needed to be allowed to own assault weapons was so that he could take over the government by force if he decided it was tyrannical.
As I mentioned, I was there recording, and the footage shows Goodman’s description is not accurate. Tully never mentioned “assault weapons,” or taking over the government, or force. To the contrary, Tully forcefully objected to the politics of pitting American against American, admonishing the crowd that “we are all Americans.”
Tully’s exact words (watch the video here):
Veteran: Sir, sir. While you’re standing up. I’ve sat here [inaudible] and I’d like to agree with the professor. Everyone standing in this room right now, especially the veterans in the room right now, know, that we are all Americans. The problem with this country right now is it’s us and it’s f***ing them. We need to stop this crap.
Now, the thing I would like you to answer, sir. And I did go to war for this country. Whether it was for everyone in here’s ability to have oil and gas in their cars, or the banks, or whatever. I went to war for my country.
And I went to war for your ability to have the First Amendment, to say what you stood up there and said today, to write what you want to write in your newspaper, and have whatever opinion you want to have. You can practice whatever religious freedoms you want. I would like you to answer the question, since you just said that one of the rights that I went to war over to defend, that is inalienable, to every American citizen. If this discussion was going on, about your First Amendment rights, would you still have the same opinion that we don’t need that any more either.
Goodman: You didn’t hear my answer….that’s not what I said…I said it doesn’t matter what their reasons are, what matters is whether or not it’s relevant today.
Audience member: It’s an eternal truth, an eternal truth….
Goodman: When they consider any part of the Constitution, any law, they’re going to say, “what does it mean today?”
Audience: NO!
Veteran: The threat of tyranny, today, is no less than at the turn of the century in 1900, in 1800, or in 1700!
Tully made a historically accurate statement about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, but never said anything about wanting to take over the government or using force. Quite the opposite.
In his blog post, Goodman also accused the crowd of engaging in racist rhetoric against people in the South Side of Chicago:
At a forum a couple of days ago in a suburb of Chicago, one guy shouted out that he needs his guns to protect himself from people who live on the south side of Chicago. I wonder who he had in mind?
That never happened.
I was there for all but the very start of the event, and never heard any racist comments. I also scoured the footage of the event for evidence of Goodman’s accusation and could find none.
I did find points at which the South or West sides of Chicago were mentioned, at 0:20, 0:31, 1:24, 2:02,3:49, 3:57, and a third where racism was mentioned, at 4:33. I have included those segments below, including my own exclamation, “it’s racist to defend black,it’s racist to deny black people the right to defend themselves”:
It is clear that no one shouted out they needed guns to protect themselves from people who live on the South side. To the contrary, they were defending the right of the people in the South Side to bear arms to protect themselves from gangs. No one was casting racial aspersions, and for Goodman to suggest there was some sort of racial animus coming through the crowd is wrong.
The rest of Goodman’s blog post is worth perusing to capture the tenor of his presentation, including this:
The reasons people give for owning guns have changed over time. It has been a long time since most people would say they needed guns to keep their African slaves from rebelling or fleeing, and it has been quite a while since people said they needed to be able to defend themselves from native American savages.
And this:
When most people think of modern armed insurrectionists they probably think of kooks living in a cult compound somewhere in the hills out west. But there they were, right in the middle of a prosperous Midwestern suburb, in a meeting that was being held in the public assembly room of the local police station.
Below are a few responses to the anti-gun panel I recorded from the so-called alleged kooks and racists in the crowd, as Goodman would characterize them:
Goodman wasn’t content to treat his audience with contempt on Sunday, but he felt the need to smear the crowd, including the veteran who stood up and went to war to protect Goodman’s 1st Amendment rights, with baseless claims.
This event shows the importance of bringing a video camera to record public events. And consider submitting your videos to Legal Insurrection.
(WAJ adds — Maybe it’s time for a Video Insurrection? What do you think?)
Update — A Reader Writes:
Goodman writes, “They showed up and, on a pre-arranged signal, interrupted the moderator’s introductions by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s nothing wrong with pledging allegiance, but this demonstration was designed to take control of the meeting and display their power. You may have seen something like it in movies like Cabaret and The Sound of Music, which chronicle how Nazis would intimidate patrons of beer halls and other public events by singing, saluting, scowling, taking names, and following up with beatings.”
Nothing like that happens in The Sound of Music. What happens is nearly the opposite.
Specifically, the Nazis attend the Salzburg Musical Festival so that they can take Captain Von Trapp as soon as the performance is over. They sit in the audience and occasionally do a Heil Hitler.
But the “disruptive” moment at the festival is when the Von Trapps sing Edelweiss . If you skip to 1:10, that’s about where the entire crowd joins in with the Von Trapp’s Edelweiss as a show of defiance to the Nazis in their midst.
Also:
“The Lindsay and Crouse script provides a metaphor of the edelweiss flower, as a symbol of the Austria that Captain von Trapp, Maria and their children knew would live on in their hearts despite the Nazi Anschluss (annexation of their homeland.)”
I think it’s revealing that Lee Goodman mis-remembers what happens in The Sound of Music so comprehensively that he has the good guys and the bad guys mixed up.
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Nothing is surprising, when you consider the venue. Why would anyone show up at this event? It’s clear that the Left want’s an “incident” and what better way to create one than set up an emotionally-charged anti-gun forum and let the gun-rights folks attend? Then, to whip up the crowd, you throw bits of bloody meat to them, in the form of lies, generalizations and half-truths.
The “incident” didn’t materialize, so the people controlling the even just make up provocative statements and positions and attribute them to the pro-gun crowd.
The only way to combat this is to boycott such events and hold counter-events.
Hell, they own the media. Don’t give them more grist for their liars-mill.
I respectfully disagree. When events like these are documented and distributed, the public gets to see for themselves the sleazy, creepy unmasked face of the Left, as well as the ability of individuals to stand and say “No More”.
This video of this event has given a HUGE shot in the arm to individuals that, because of intense media pressure to isolate and dispirit those on the Right, may have felt alone in their opinions and overwhelmed.
The national media has abdicated their responsibility to bring truth to light. Those who attend these functions and speak truth to power, and those who document and distribute the actions of the leftist cockroaches, are doing the noble job that the press was meant to do.
Truth to power, via cellphone video. New media FTW 😉
The anti-gun crowd gets caught up inside their own prejudices, preconceptions and unrealistic expectations, where those of us out in “fly-over country” are concerned.
Yes, this venue was no-doubt set up to create an incident. It’s an old technique that dates back to the Russian Revolution. However, the effete and elite are so far removed from reality, this thing didn’t materialize as envisioned in their fetid little brains.
Instead, it morphed into something real and authentic, just as you alluded. But again, they are incapable of seeing it for what it is, because their perspective is so skewed. We speak the Founders’ words, and they just hear a bunch of blue-collar, neck-bearded, rednecks. Hence, the attempt to add provocations, pronouncements and outcomes that are outright lies.
By its very nature, the Left is narcissistic. The trouble with narcissism is that it always eventually undoes the narcissist.
As my friends did attend this meeting – I couldn’t because of scheduling conflict, one thing entered my mind – These anti-gun organizations have something in common: The Klu Klux Klan – very few people know that the Klan started out as a ANTI-gun organization targeting minorities like Blacks. The Klan had help from Southern Democrats like Bull Conner, Governor Wallace and their ilk. Now these anti gun groups – TA-DA! is affiliated with Washington D.C. Democrats. To me, no difference…….
“This event shows the importance of bringing a video camera to record public events. And consider submitting your videos to Legal Insurrection.”
Being Breitbart. Good!
“The Illinois State Rifle Association had asked their people – who love their guns more than they care about other people’s lives – to go to the forum.”
I have carried a firearm anytime in the past that I felt I should, regardless of its legality. There was one reason for that; my family. I never carried when I was alone, but I would not abide the idea of standing helpless where my wife or kids were under a threat.
Guns are tools to me. Because I love people, I learned the skillful and safe use of the tools I might need to protect them. Happily, it has never been necessary to use a gun in that extremity, and hopefully it never will be. But nobody will strip me of that ability. Regardless of legality.
“who love their guns more than they care about other people’s lives
The pompous arse, and the disconnect!
American Thinker: 3500 black babies are aborted (killed) every 72 hours.
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Goodman “You may have seen something like it in movies like Cabaret and The Sound of Music, which chronicle how Nazis would intimidate patrons of beer halls and other public events by singing”
I would need to watch the Sound of Music again but to correct Goodman when the Von Trapps sang Edelweiss near the end of the movie it was in defiance of the Nazi’s and the Austrian audience that believed Austria should remain free joined in chorus to rebut the Nazi’s.
> “when the Von Trapps sang Edelweiss near the end of the movie it was in defiance of the Nazis”
I don’t know about that scene, but there’s definitely this, which is a bit more like reciting the Pledge of Allegiance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM
I remember the scene with Edelweiss. It’s sort of pivotal to the movie.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/26/video-milwaukee-country-sheriffs-psa-on-self-protection/
Listen and read, and then compare the reaction of the Collectivists.
Thank you Anne! You have too much class to explicitly call out Goodman for being a lying smear merchant. But you have thoroughly documented that’s exactly what he is. I am proud of you and sick of disgusting liars like Goodman who falsely smear good people like Mr. Tully (and others at the event) to achieve a political objective.
Gun rights advocates and Constitutional patriots are Nazis like the TEA Party are terrorists…to the upside-down, inside-out minds of the fascist leftists.
They are PROJECTING.
They live in an alternate universe, practicing alternate lifestyles, based on alternate reality.
To them good is evil and vice versa.
You cannot reason with them and you cannot give them an milimeter.
NEVER back down, never argue, never surrender truth.
Mock them back. Laugh at them.
Present your evidence with civility, clearly, concisely, coherently, compassionately and courageously.
Tell them exactly what they are doing, state the consequences of their agenda and don’t stop or stand down despite their response.
Use the ACLJ and every other truth-advocacy resource you can find. Make your case well and make it public. Publish or perish is a matter of life or death in this case.
In other words, be a William A. Jacobson, a Breitbart, a Sarah Palin…
So the guy who opposes gun rights is a liar who looks down on people who disagree with him?
Who could have predicted that?
Cabaret and The Sound Of Music were documentaries that chronicled Nazism? I had no ideer.
… and “The Miracle of the White Stallions” was a pro-Nazi documentary about denying our poor, hard-pressed Soviet allies some much-needed protein for their field kitchens.
Pig.
Sounds more like the scene in ‘Casablanca’ in which the French citizens sing Marseillaise in the presence of the German officers.
But weren’t the Germans singing their anthem first? I need to watch that movie again!
Yes, the French sing over the Germans.
The Germans were singing “Die Wacht Am Rhein” (The Watch on the Rhine), which is essentially a song of German militarism and nationalism.
Mr. Goodman was so condescending that I wanted to just wipe his face off his skull. He positively dripped with loathing. All those “rubes” in the house – I bet he felt like he needed a shower afterward.
My dog, Aqua Velva, would love to hump his leg in those tony gaberdine slacks. 😆
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” ― William F. Buckley Jr
When the charge of Nazi is made against you, you know you have won the argument.
Perhaps we should not recite the Pledge of Allegiance but rather sing Edelweiss at these meetings.
Try this one. Everybody on both sides sang it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgb2PnwwPg
[…] And this is the Chicago brain trust… […]
Accusing patriotic americans of being nazis? Simply a Alinsky tactic, “Accuse others of what you yourself do.”
What Anne missed when she was late for the group’s Pledge of Allegiance: I
“… one nation, under Limbaugh, with guns and ammo for all”
(Go ahead and borrow it and tweak it as need be, Mr. Goodman. Just like you tweaked The Sound of Music.)
LukeHandCool (who, at a goodbye party for Luke when he was leaving Japan, had to listen without laughing as a room full of adults sang “Edelweiss” in his honor. Luke didn’t know if this meant they thought Luke was like Baron von Trapp, or like a delicate alpine flower they would miss … a couple of them started to cry … but Luke could only keep repeating in his head, “Don’t laugh. They’re serious about this. It would be so uncool to laugh right now.” It was sheer agony … the mixture of being touched by their earnest innocence and feelings of affection for Luke … and the compulsion to laugh out loud uncontrollably)
Progressives, Like Goodman, live in an elaborate fantasy land where logic and facts are not allowed to intrude. Thankfully, the rest of us aren’t required to live in their heads.
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The post he follows with seriously stunned me.
http://commoncourier.blogspot.com/2013/01/who-owns-constitution.html
Their group does have a facebook page, so one might feel free to head over there and give the 2nd amendment a little support.