Oliver North is merely just another Charlton Heston.
All situations can be distilled down into 2 principles: Money, and/or ‘Power’. As NRA President, North gets both. He gets some $ (although I don’t know how much). He gets a ‘Power’ trip by being NRA’s anointed. exulted leader, being in the public eye (he certainly enjoyed playing that role during the Iran-Contra hearings), and being able to hobnob with politicians to endorse/rebuff legislation (‘wheeling and dealing”).
Mao had it almost right:
“Power flows from the barrel of a gun, AND FROM AN ACCOUNT AT A BANK.”
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May 8th, 2018 at 6:50 pm
Nuge don’t look so bad now, huh?
May 9th, 2018 at 2:43 pm
Oliver North is merely just another Charlton Heston.
All situations can be distilled down into 2 principles: Money, and/or ‘Power’. As NRA President, North gets both. He gets some $ (although I don’t know how much). He gets a ‘Power’ trip by being NRA’s anointed. exulted leader, being in the public eye (he certainly enjoyed playing that role during the Iran-Contra hearings), and being able to hobnob with politicians to endorse/rebuff legislation (‘wheeling and dealing”).
Mao had it almost right:
“Power flows from the barrel of a gun, AND FROM AN ACCOUNT AT A BANK.”
[copyright renounced; consider this quote to be in the public domain]