American Quitter
I quit two all-American organizations today: Gun Owners of America and the American Bar Association. Readers of this blog know why I quit GOA, but GOA itself doesn’t since the GOA rep didn’t bother to ask. Too bad. I guess they figure they don’t need my help to enjoy 30 more years of no compromise, and about as much in the way of results. I must admit, however, that quitting two organizations in a single day that both have the word “America” in their names does make me feel a tad unpatriotic. What am I going to give up next, Mom and/or apple pie?
For his part, the ABA rep did ask why I was quitting his organization, and then specifically asked if the reason was ideological. I confirmed that it was, but did not elaborate as to what my ideological differences with the organization were. He responded by cracking wise about the ABA being part of some international communist conspiracy. Funny how that works: an organization that purports to be neither left nor right, but the one true voice of all attorneys (so much so that they didn’t even feel the need to bother asking me if I wanted to join in the first place), somehow manages to figure out that anyone with an ideological bone to pick with them must be coming from the right rather than the left. Apparently, these guys are like their fellow Chicagoan, Barack Obama: centrists with no one to their left.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:56 am
And after the douchbag “cracked wise,” what was your response to him? This ought to be good.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:31 am
My only response was to blog about the incident later. Sorry to disappoint.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:25 am
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March 6th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
You could have also quit the anti-gun astroturf group “American Hunters and Shooters” and gone for the trifecta – that is if you had joined them. ;-) They of course would have not admitted the loss in membership.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Give up apple pie. The TRUE American pie is coconut cream. This apple pie nonsense was foisted on us by a conspiracy of communist-organized grandmothers.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Well, I can’t see myself ever rejoining the GOA, but I did just rejoin the ABA. Of course I had real reasons to. They were about to attack my client on the policy front and I managed to get a subcommittee chairmanship out of rejoining (and promises for publication of articles) out of joining.
Its amazing what you can do when they are desperate for members.