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March 28th, 2024
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larry phillips mugshotGUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet

 

It’s been really disturbing that the great American tradition of kids’ baseball has been taken over by progressive “One-World” leftists. Specifically, I’m speaking of the Little League World Series International Board of Directors.

The organization teamed up this year with one of the worst anti-Second Amendment corporations in the country: One which despises lawful gun owners in America. 

Why the LLWS Board would take money from this company that hates America’s Constitution is beyond belief and sickening. 

They partnered with Dick’s Sporting Goods to allow Dick’s to be the major sponsor of this year’s LLWS.

Why?

Is the LLWS Board of Directors anti-Second Amendment as well?

They must be. The board gleefully took the money Dick’s offered to sponsor the entire 10-day event.

Would they gleefully take money from Fidel Castro if he was alive? How about Hugo Chavez? Both those dictators also despised citizen ownership of guns – and forbade it.

Dick’s is one of the corporations that blame the horrible Florida school shooting murders on the NRA, gun manufacturers, gun dealers and 6 million lawful members of the NRA. 

It’s sponsorship of the Little League World Series is a blatant attempt to brainwash the American people into thinking the company supports “some” American traditions – though legal gun ownership is not one that garners their support.

Dick’s uses its front, the Sports Matter Foundation, which has donated $50 million to youth sports programs, to blind the public to what it’s really doing. 

Is it worth $50 million to look the other way when the company giving it is fully dedicated to destroying your Second Amendment rights to own and bear arms?

Of course not. 

I ask you the reader, “Would your church take donations from Planned Parenthood?”

Of course not. 

It is sheer insanity to take money from – or support through purchases – Dick’s, a company that is overtly striving to eradicate your rights to gun ownership. Period.

And Dick’s doesn’t want to end up like Angie’s List, where owner and CEO Angie Hicks tried to blackmail the state of Indiana when it passed a law protecting Christian rights. 

Angie stopped a $40-million expansion in Indiana because she supported the LGBT’s attack on Christians and demanded the bill be killed.

She blew her company into the sewer with her anti-Christian attacks, threats and extortion. In June 2013, Angie’s List reported revenue of $72.8 million, down 12 percent from a year earlier. It also had a net loss of $8.1 million. 

It was soon bought out by HomeAdvisor. Hundreds of people lost their jobs at Angie’s, too.

It’s promising when we see the majority fight back against the anti-Constitutional menace from big leftist companies. Look at what the Louisiana State Legislature did last week. 

Led by Louisiana’s Attorney General, Jeff Landry, the legislature denied CitiGroup Inc. and Bank of America any chances of financing a $600-million deal in the state.

Why?

Because those two banks decided to stop financing gun manufacturers who make AR-15 style rifles – and dealers of those rifles – and other banking services to those groups. More anti-American, gun-hating attacks on lawful gun owners and dealers of the country.

“They’re trying to restrict our citizens’ rights to legally purchase firearms,” AG Landry said in an interview.

Exactly, they’re trying to destroy gun sellers and manufacturers. And it’s refreshing to see the State of Louisiana fighting back. That’s what we all need to do.

Numerous gun sellers and pawn shops across the nation are now saying they will no longer accept any CitiBank or BofA credit cards. Hooray. 

Why didn’t the Little League World Series Board tell Dick’s to stick it? They could’ve took a stand for the Second Amendment and got the sponsorship from a company that supports our Constitution and not tarnish the tradition and image of Little League Baseball. 

Shame on them.

I personally will never spend another dime with Dick’s or carry any CitiBank or BofA credit card. If you have one, burn it. Then send the remains to the bank, you’ll feel better.

I also stayed my last day in any Wyndham Hotel. That chain, too, quit giving NRA members any discounts they had been previously doing for years. They openly hate NRA members.

Here’s more companies that have dropped NRA deals:

  • Delta Air Lines
  • United Airlines
  • Enterprise
  • Hertz
  • Avis and Budget
  • Symantec
  • TrueCar
  • MetLife
  • SimpliSafe
  • First National Bank of Omaha

Boycott them all, and urge your state legislators to stop doing business with CitiBank or Bank of America – it’s your tax dollars. 

Those banks definitely discriminate against citizens of America – citizens that believe in the Constitution. Citizens who know local law enforcement can’t always be there when it calls for a life or death decision.

Also, let the LLWS Board know how you feel about their partnership with Dick’s. I did. Email them at the Kansas region contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

I’m personally tired of being discriminated against for being a lawful gun owner and one who believes in every amendment of our Bill of Rights. Let’s all fight back.

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