Update for 6/23/2000: Last
Saturday, June 20, Utah Business Revival hosted a "Blue
Rally" at Washington Square in downtown Salt Lake
City. Several hundreds showed up to celebrate police and
challenge Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other
organizations calling to defund and/or effectively
eliminate police departments.
Organizers had hoped for
thousands to show up, and had boasted that, by their
estimates, "over 100 cops from across the state" would
attend. If correct, and assuming most of these officers
brought some of their immediate family and friends, they
may have accounted for a sizeable portion of those in
attendance.
In a comatose State like Utah,
getting hundreds of people to do something political is
something. But given the gravity of these issues,
why wasn't this crowd augmented by many thousands of
additional supporters?
A myriad of factors could have
hampered attendance, including Father's Day weekend, fear
among those of weak constitution of catching a virus, fear
that the counter-protest might spark violence, and
insufficient marketing.
Another significant factor may be
that few organizations focused on the
right-to-keep-and-bear-arms (RKBA) promoted it. When
gun owners really put their mind to something, they can
attract impressive crowds to rallies all by themselves, as
was
demonstrated earlier this year.
Word of the event certainly
reached these organizations, yet they chose to remain
quiet and on the sidelines. Why? And what, if
anything, can be done to improve relations?
Topics:
1. Long Track Record of Abusing Gun Owners
Utah's Sheriffs & Police Chiefs
Betray "Constitutional Carry"
Leading Utah's Gun Control
Star Chamber
Facilitating & Promoting
Federal Atrocities
Covering Up Grotesque Human
Rights Abuses
2. Promoting Known
Political Thugs
Con Artist Sean "Rambo" Reyes'
Gun Control Bully Greg Hughes
1. Long Track Record of
Abusing Gun Owners
As UT Gun Rights has reported for
many years, Utah's Statute Enforcement Agents (SEAs) have
a long, abysmal track record of abusing innocent gun
owners.
Utah's Sheriffs & Police
Chiefs Betray Constitutional Carry
Every session, SEAs lobbies
undermine and attack gun owners, whittling away at their
rights by a thousand cuts.
Never forgotten was the combined
efforts of the Utah Sheriffs Association and and Utah
Police Chiefs Association of lobbying the legislature and
Gary "Fudd" Herbert to kill a constitutional lite bill in
2003.
Leading Utah's Gun
Control Star Chamber
Gun owners are increasingly aware
of the Utah Law [sic] Enforcement Legislative Committee
(ULELC), comprised of the... meets in secret to discuss
and vote on bills and other public matters. Each
Facilitating & Promoting
Federal Atrocities
Matthew Shepherd
Covering Up Grotesque
Human Rights Abuses
2. Promoting Known
Political Thugs
Another turn-off to the RKBA
community is watching repeat violators of their rights
being held up as faux champions to the public.
Con Artist Sean "Rambo"
Reyes'
Moutsos has promoted the very
criminal elements that have exacerbated the strife between
gun owners and their government.
He has, for example,
celebrated photo ops with Utah AG Sean "Rambo" Reyes.
In his comments, Moutsos shared a
text AG Reyes had apparently sent him that he could not
attend because of a family commitment. That was ok.
The crowd was then encouraged to vote for Reyes.
Ironically, Moutsos soon
afterward castigated SLC Police Chief Mike Brown for not
attending because he, too, had a family commitment.
That was NOT ok. Moutsos called for Brown to be
fired.
Reyes had showed up to the recent
event hosted by Utah Business Revival in rural Washington
County. And made a complete, pandering fool of
himself. He was safe there, being far away from the
Democrats of Salt Lake City who have registered en masse
to vote in the June 30th Republican primary. Of
course he wouldn't show up, because he doesn't want to
rock their boat.
Reyes DID show up to a
similarly-themed rally right there in SLC in 2017, hosted
by the same shrill voices taking center stage today.
After attempting to pander to them, he was booed and made
a hasty retreat, and he hasn't forgotten it.
Gun Control Bully Greg
Hughes
Moutsos with Greg Hughes and
Victor Iverson at Washington County event:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157383520409352&set=pcb.10157383525409352&type=3&theater&ifg=1
Moutsos even received a "2020 Get
It Done" award from Greg Hughes at the pro-police rally.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157388311104352&set=gm.310381683459505&type=3&theater&ifg=1
