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Toys
WERE Us:
Death of a Household Name
by Angel Shamaya
Director, KeepAndBearArms.com
Letter to the Chairman of the Board and all Directors sent by certified mail with
signature request:
Dear Mr. Chairman and Board of Director Members of Toys-R-Us,
This letter is about the massive reduction of your bottom line. I suggest you read and
consider every word. By the time you get this message, no less than 20,000 gun owners have
already read every word, seen every picture, and told ten of their friends to read it as
pass it on. (Isn't the internet wonderful?!)
This letter is about your having left yourselves wide open to scrutiny, criticism,
scorn, and rejection by a large and growing number of people who have been Toys-R-Us
customers for many, many years--but will no longer be shopping in your stores, effective
immediately.
I have been shopping at Toys-R-Us as my EXCLUSIVE source for toys for what seems like a
lifetime. Need something for a young friend, nephew, cousin, neighbor's kid? Toys-R-Us.
Need a few board games for the upcoming party? Toys-R-Us. Et cetera. In the past, that was
our way. Get your toys from Toys-R-Us.
But I cannot and will not give you another dime of my money, and neither will millions
of other lawful, peaceable Americans.
It's sad. Really sad. Toys, after all, were us.
You took a
stand against gun freedoms, and in so doing, you have just spelled your demise. Not
only that, you've left your Achilles heel so wide open, only a miniature IQ could miss it.
We intend to make sure your weakness is revealed to millions of gun owners.
Allow me to give you a heads up on just how foolish your move against the NRA was and
is. I'll also tell you: we're not dumping you like last week's garbage because you sought
to use your political and financial power against the NRA's proposed restaurant in
crime-ridden New York City. Not hardly. We're going to rip your bottom line to shreds
because WE LOVE FREEDOM. While the NRA is too busy (calling
for the enforcement of 20,000+ unconstitutional gun laws) to stop and respond to your
assault, somebody needs to warn you to prepare to explain to your investors why your
precious dividends just bottomed out and will most assuredly continue to drop. This
message is a mirror for your ignorance and a heads up about your coming decimation.
I took my LAST walk through the Toys-R-Us aisles today--with my digital camera.
Technology is so amazing, isn't it? A picture does in fact paint a thousand words, just
like that fellow said.
I was met with an entryway FILLED with guns. Water-blasting H20 rifles,
projectile-throwing pellet launchers, noise-making blam-blammers--guns to train your
customers' children TO POINT AND SHOOT. Guns that pay your wages and dividends. Guns you
market to kids. That in itself was amusing, but I wasn't even interested in getting my
camera out for such nonsense. We could point to your Rosie-like hypocrisy with that one,
of course, but the real AMMO was further back in the store, where I scored some really
insightful pictures of your Program-Children-to-Be-Violent "Games".
Interesting business you're in. I knew the current trend to program children with
violence was quite a lucrative endeavor, but you're quite the leader in this business! You
sell HUNDREDS of these "games" to children who, according to one of your
employees "start as young as 4 years old." (Your employees were very helpful in
directing me to the most violent games you market to children; your managers have trained
them to be very polite and helpful. It's a shame you'll be laying some of them off before
closing some of your stores altogether.)
Attached are the images broadcast far and wide through the internet and as handouts.
We've also granted reprint permission for this entire letter and all images to every gun
owner in America. Thought you might like to know that as you peruse the evidence.
- Duke
Nukem: Time to Kill (141K, for clarity's sake) From a child development standpoint,
this doesn't seem like the kind of thing responsible parents would program into their
child's impressionable mind. But you market it so well, I suspect they just get reeled in.
The burly wrestler-type pointing a gun at me sure does rub up against your stand for a
peaceful society, guys. Time to kill? Whom, may I ask, do you think children learn it is
"time to kill"? The veil over the "it's just a game" farce is very,
very thin, and it is time to pierce it intelligently.
- Sword
of Berserk - Guts' Rage (116K) Did you know that the Columbine perpetrators played the
violence-rich "games" from which you fund your mortgages and vacations? The evil
eye on the cover of this interactive game of destruction is very clever. I'm sure it
appeals to the best in our young minds, wouldn't you say? "Guts' Rage"? Is this
your youth-supportive method of helping young, impressionable children get in touch with
their frustrations of adolescence? You must be very proud. I wonder if the unarmed woman who was gang-raped by 4 men is feeling a "Guts'
Rage" about now--considering the fact that the perpetrators are all still at large
and that she was such easy prey.
- Mayhem
(83K) "Mayhem"? This must be your manner of assisting our future leaders in
creating balance and harmony in their lives as they go about the process of maturing. You
might consider suggesting to the compliance-free manufacturers of this skills-developing
"game" that they change the name to "Destructive, Violent Mayhem" as
I'm sure such a move would sell even more of these socially-beneficial child-development
tools. I wonder if the women and men who were just accosted in New York City felt MAYHEM
as they were unable to defend themselves against violent attacks because they had no means
to defend themselves in the criminal safety zone that was at one time a fine city. Does it
bother you that there were no criminally-misused guns to blame in that incident? Wouldn't
it have been just dreadful if those poor marauders had met an armed citizen and been shot?
Of course, if they had, they'd have gone to prison for defending their own lives and honor
with the most efficient, effective, affordable self-defense tool available. And you
support these victims being easy prey. Congratulations.
- Legacy of
Kain - Soul Reaver (83K) Fascinating. I looked up the word "reave" to make
sure I knew what its meaning. To "reave" is to: deprive; seize and carry off
forcibly; rob, plunder or pillage; break or tear apart. (Dictionary.com is quite useful for we
who frequent the computer.) The "Legacy of CAIN" was, biblically speaking,
murder. You sell, to children of all ages, a "game" the legacy of which is
MURDER and the mere title of which refers to the plundering and forcible taking of souls.
Interesting. Especially so considering the fact that women who get raped and families who
lose someone to murder feel just that: SOUL REAVED. Nevermind the fact that the
disarmament laws were signed by bodyguarded politicians who are wholly immune to the laws
their police forces enforce. That is immaterial, right?
A quick look at the Nintendo "game"-player you market to young children revealed
the $99 price tag, and I wondered how many of these items you've sold to our future
leaders. That would be fascinating to know, and we will find that piece of information,
most certainly. (You must know you have American gun owners in your midst.)
I captured many more pictures which we will cover in future reports to our growing membership--to keep the
topic of your demise alive and well.
One of our more active and studious members published a letter (widely read across
America over the weekend) detailing the number of emergency-room visits each year, broken
down by the method of injury. It is most interesting to note how many of these emergency
room visits to which you cater. Allow me to share his finding with you:
Most Common Reasons for Emergency
Room Visits
1. Baseball/softball 404,000
2. Dog bites 334,000
3. Playground 267, 000
4. ATV's, mopeds 125, 000
5. Volleyball 98, 000
6. In-line skating 76, 000
7. Horseback riding 71, 000
8. Baby walkers 28, 000
9. Skateboards 25, 000
(Note: There is no mention of firearm related activities)
[Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]
Not only do you sell items from all but three of the above categories, firearms
aren't even on the list.
I'm almost done.
It appears, from the perspective of an average citizen going about living in America,
that you have: 1) not considered just how open to attack Toys-R-Us is, and 2) you have
bought into a political agenda that doesn't even make sense. Allow me to elaborate on the
second point, and you can finish reading this note so many gun owners have already read.
1) It doesn't make sense to support the disarming of the GOOD GUYS when the BAD
GUYS can readily get guns even the GOOD GUYS cannot buy--in every major city in America,
no exceptions. In other words, it doesn't make sense to make the BAD GUYS have an
easier time at REAVING.
2) It doesn't make sense that you're now taking a public stand against your very
own, long-time-loyal customers and thus sending them off to get their "toys"
elsewhere.
3) It doesn't make sense that a Violence Profiteer is squeaking and squawking
about stopping violence--when you TRAIN violence into the minds of the people most
susceptible to mental programming--America's youth. (Showing your hypocrisy on this one
reveals exceptionally poor judgment.)
4) It doesn't make sense that you have sided with anti-gun politicians who have
bodyguards. (Are you so hypocritical that you cannot see irrefutable hypocrisy?)
5) It doesn't make sense that you support women being disarmed and thus unable
to defend their own children from juvenile criminal gangs whose minds you feed with
messages such as "Mayhem", "Soul Reaver", and "Guts' Rage".
You're working against our fair citizens from two debilitating angles, doubling the damage
done. To put that more simply, it doesn't make sense that you make women rapeable,
beatable, killable....reave-able.
6) It doesn't make sense that you rebuke and defy the single largest gun safety
organization on the planet to promote gun safety.
7) It doesn't make sense to blame guns for their criminal misuse just like it
doesn't make sense to blame cars for the tens of thousands of people killed in car
accidents each year. (MANY more people die in cars each year than die by gunshot.)
Your decision-making process has run amuck. It just doesn't make sense.
There is a way out of the tremendous financial shortcomings Toys-R-Us will now begin to
experience. Just do what makes sense. Briefly, for your consideration, are a few
suggestions, and then you can get on to your busy day:
1) It makes sense to champion the lawful, peaceable citizens who are victimized
by the criminal misuse of guns. You can do this first by supporting the individual right
to self-defense by the most affordable, effective, and efficient method available: the
handgun. Good people DESERVE access to self-defense against knife and gun-wielding thugs.
2) It makes sense to challenge the political hogwash being fed to you through a dreadfully
biased media by simply doing your own quick research. I say QUICK because you can find
out in less than 5 minutes just how deceptive the media and anti-self-defense politicians
ARE. I urge you to do so unless you simply enjoy being SUCKERED.
3) It makes sense to focus your ire on CRIMINALS rather than on lawful,
peaceable citizens who simply choose to be UNvictimizable, self-empowered,
self-determinant human beings.
4) It makes sense to stop your anti-self-defense train immediately. You can do
this by retracting your visibly-illegal tactics against the NRA's planned introduction
into the New York City marketplace. You can do this by telling the "leaders" in
your city and state and nation that their restrictive gun laws aren't working--as
evidenced by higher rates of violent crimes amidst highly-restrictive gun laws in, as
simple examples: NYC, DC, LA, and Chicago. (Someone on your Board surely must have the
sense to put two and two together!)
5) It makes sense to look at the larger picture of "gun control" and
to uncover the obvious (to all who are rigid in their inquiry): gun control is about
people control.
Should you choose to revert to being sensible about the realities of the gun
situation--about which you clearly know little--feel free to give me a jingle. I'd be
happy to assist you in your process of discovery.
Until then, Toys-Were-Us.
Most Sincerely,
Angel Shamaya
Executive Director
KeepAndBearArms.com
Email Toys-Were-Us
Angel Shamaya is the Executive Director of
KeepAndBearArms.com, an internet grassroots organization dedicated to stopping the assault
on American Liberty being perpetrated by political tyrants, self-proclaimed television
gurus, misguided mothers, history-ignorant sheeple, and the general lack of understanding
of the fundamental right to Keep And Bear Arms. Reprint permission granted provided
attribution is given including the following link: http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com .
Copyright 2000. All ownership rights reserved, but spread this one far and wide through
all channels; you don't even need to ask. |
Nickelodeon—the
Brainwashing Network
by Officer Curt Bolding -
Posted: 06.19.00
From: Sierra Times |
Curt Bolding is a 16-year police veteran with
experience spanning four jurisdictions in Illinois. Still active in his chosen profession,
he currently serves as both a street officer and as a police control and arrest tactics
instructor.
On Father’s Day this year, June 18, 2000, I was
enjoying a quiet morning with the kids, who were watching their favorite channel for
cartoons, Nickelodeon. While I was lazing with a cup of coffee, thinking about things like
picnics and puttering in the yard, something on TV caught my attention. During their usual
commercial programming, Nickelodeon was attempting another kind of programming—aimed
at my kids’ minds.
Several kids, ages about seven to nine, were
pictured on the screen. All were holding cardboard signs, with either a red star or a blue
star. Then the announcer spoke up, and said, "Do you think adults should have guns in
a house if a kid lives there? Seven out of ten kids said no." Seven smiling kids were
holding signs with red stars, three holding blue stars. I caught the next question, after
doing the obligatory Danny Thomas style spit take. "Should adults own guns at all?
Eight out of ten kids said no." Eight red stars. "Should guns be sold with
safety locks on them? Seven kids said yes." You get the idea. To be fair, I may not
have the numbers exactly right as far as how many kids said what. It was about a
two-thirds majority in favor of the gun control agenda. If there was another question
asked, I missed it because by this point I was too busy gnawing on my ankle.
In my apoplexy, I have crafted this article on my
Father’s Day, before going out and doing my duty for America by sending my share of
the fifty million rounds downrange. I must apologize to my regular readers who are more
used to information-based articles from the standpoint of the professional police officer.
Yet it is also my duty to point out to citizens the lower, more base, elements of society
wherever they rear up.
The anti-civil-rights movement has clearly been
channeling money to Nickelodeon to get that network to promote their political ideas. Now,
wouldn’t you think that a network that provides kids’ programming would have
some sense of responsibility as far as what kind of stuff they filled kids’ heads
with? When the hell did pushing political issues on children become the right thing to do?
I must have missed Nickelodeon’s ads pertaining to abortion, Kosovo, and the security
lapses at Los Alamos. What’s next? Elian Gonzalez hosting a green slime game show?
This is by far the lowest level that the
anti-civil-rights movement has sunk to yet. If they’re willing to brainwash all our
children, they’ll stop at nothing. The Less-Than-A-Million Moms have proven that
they’re not interested in discussion. The conversations that go on in their
relatively few Internet message boards show that without exception they run and hide when
presented with the facts. They are careful not to let reality intrude into their vision of
a self-contained world filled with puppies and butterflies. Not that this is surprising;
they are perfect examples of the timid, overly sensitive weaklings this society has bred
in recent years. Wealthy hypocrites like Rosie O’Donnell and Diane Feinstein do their
talking for them, so that the sheep may remain in their pens. In the rabid pursuit of
their agenda, there are no rules. They have no honor. They have no integrity. Not content
to try to disarm you, Ladies and Gentlemen of America, they’re now going after the
minds of your children. Using the safety of their own children as their premise, yours are
now expendable.
Watch Nickelodeon. See this travesty for yourselves,
and come to your own conclusions. Should you have an opinion on the matter, you can
express it at www.nick.com. Feel free to drop my name
and refer them this article. Tell everybody you know about it and post it on your favorite
newsgroups. Every organization that is sympathetic to gun control, or more accurately,
their money, needs to get the same message that Smith & Wesson’s been getting.
To paraphrase Walter Cronkite, the very idea that
they’re trying to implant thoughts in your children’s minds ought to scare you
to death.
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