Seeing the strange name (from yesterday's report), I wondered if NY Rep. Major Owens may have had anything to do with this organization. So I looked up their officers list and chased them down.

Drum Major is just another Democrat-run front organization for gun control, like the Million Mommies. Here's the rogue's gallery exposed:

• William B. Wachtel: New York lawyer, can't find much more about him.
• Andrew Young: former Democratic mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the UN
• John McConnell: Too common a name, but could be the founder of Earth Day
• John Marino: common name, but probably the NY state Democratic Party chair
• Andrea Young: lawyer, daughter of Andrew Young, above
• Leslie Huell Di Mitri: Absolutely zero information found
• Matthew Goldstein: common, but probably the one who is Chancellor of CUNY
• Bernard W. Nussbaum: Clinton White House Counsel

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world. -- MARK TWAIN

Hi Angel,

I don't know if you are aware but one of the directors of Drum Major is the infamous Berny Nussbaum, White House Counsel and the Clinton lawyer that lied to congress with unbelievable arrogance. Regards, Warren McQuiggan Marana, AZ

KABA: 3 of the email addresses of the Drum Major folks are conveniently no longer receiving email. From the above shall we consider them a waste of time, or an extremely tough sell? Barry Bright of Free Kentucky suggested that they'd best understand when presented with a rope tied into a tight noose. Most responses to the note yesterday about setting them straight suggested that they were a waste of time and that energies are best invested going after the HUD "gun buyback" itself. If you agree, use our auto emailer to say your piece to U.S. Congress. But if they do have a mind left in their Left minds, perhaps by some miracle this letter may get through.

June 7, 2000

Mr. Andrew Young, Chairman
The Drum Major Institute
110 E. 59^th St., 28^th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Mr. Young,

Seeing your recent ad in USA Today reminded me of just how naive and gullible some people are. When you do not agree with the facts just make them up. Doctor Goebbels would be proud of you, especially your, “13 children a day die from guns”. I am more than slightly bemused as you must include 19 year old drug dealers who elect to use a firearms to settle business disputes as a children in order to reach your 13 a day figure. I guess is was “children”, who landed at Normandy on D-Day and help end real tyranny.

Maybe HUD Secretary Cuomo would settle for just having his bodyguard give up his weapon as his guard keeps misplacing it any ways. Perhaps you should call on President Clinton to set another example by having the White House Secret Service Detail go unarmed. Especially since Agents assigned to Mrs. Clinton also have a weapons retention disability. After all firearms are banned in Washington D. C. so why do these government officials require armed bodyguards in a gun free city?

Of course you would not care to admit that firearms are used for lawful purposes such as sport and self-defense. There are experts (whose math ability I trust much more than yours I might add) who are able to document defensive uses of firearms as many as 2 million times annually. How many lives saved does that equate to? You totally ignore the fact that major cites with the strictest gun control laws also have the highest crime and violence rates. But then your hedonistic mind set and group think which has given us the latch-key kids, no discipline in either home or school, single parents and a gender-integrated military would not really care to deal with any real facts that would conflict with your simplistic view of things.

Your advertisement has accomplished one thing. As a new NRA member I will stand next to Charleston Heston and likewise say, “from my cold dead hands.”

Sincerely

John B. Godwin

Angel:

My take on this is that "Drum Major" is just a pathetic attempt by Andrew Young to remain relevant.

Why waste our time writing to him or his supporters? Our efforts should be focused on our congressmen, the folks who have the power to end this charade by defunding HUD's budget by the amount of money they waste on their gun "buy-back" programs.

Incidentally, am I the only one offended by the term "buy-back", as if the guns involved were originally issued by or obtained from the government, who is now buying them back?

In conclusion, I suggest we focus our efforts where they'll do the most good - toward getting a "bullet-proof" (or at least veto-proof) Republican majority into the legislative branch both in Washington and at home, and letting them know what we want.

For the Second Amendment,

Robert Chafin

Robert,

You're right.

Angel

C'mon Angel. I just read the action item about Drum Major or whatever these pieces of Marxist rat dung call themselves.

Re-read their intro statements and chairman's letter. These people are Marxists. the only persuasion they'll "understand" is a bullet or a rope, which means none.

It's nice to convince people who are simply misled. This bunch has been around for decades, and was probably originally funded by some other Marxist foundation.

To top it off they try to seem "fair" by quoting Dennis Hastert(what a joke) and the NRA(another joke).

This all fits the mold too well. They don't even try to cover their propaganda tracks.

think about it...

Barry Bright, Free Kentucky

Barry,

You're right, too. Apologies for suggesting an investment of time or energy in attempting to convert Clinton-level weasels. Won't happen again. I should have waited a day and checked them out or had someone else do it. It just irked me to see such slimey lies being told in USA Today with such refined-but-empty statements. Thank you and the many others who rattled my cage.

Angel

If anyone wants to wrap all of this information about "Drum Major" up into a polished article, we'll post it and get it out far and wide. If anyone wants to create an advertisement exposing these...people...we'll approach USA Today about printing lies and ask them to print it as a rebuttal. Use our Contact Us page to get through.