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Picture of rugar
Registered: October 23, 2005
Posts: 417
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I was not sure wher to put this and I wasn't sure if anyone else has said anything about it.
Well, I pretty sure alot if not all of you have heard that the former NRA president and actor has died Charlton Heaston.
On April 5, 2008 he passed away.

I will always remember him as Moses and also the president of the NRA. But mostly Moses.

Here is some things about him:

Volunteered his time and effort to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and even marched alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a number of occasions, including the 1963 March on Washington. In the original (uncut) version of King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970), he appears as a narrator.

His professional name of Charlton Heston came from a combination of his mother's maiden name (Lila Charlton) and his stepfather's last name (Chester Heston).

Heston is a popular actor in Greece, where his name is written as "Charlton Easton" due to "Heston" having scatological connotations in the Greek language.

His real name is John Charles Carter

In 1981, Heston was named co-chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Task Force for the Arts and Humanities. He served on the National Council for the Arts and was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild six times.

He turned down the role of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) because he felt the film was an insult to World War II veterans.

His answer to a statment George Clooney said about his condition. I have no idea what George Clooney said, but this is one of the answers he gave.

"I don't know the man - never met him, never even spoken to him. But I feel sorry for George Clooney - one day he may get Alzheimer's disease. I served my country in World War II. I survived that - I guess I can survive some bad words from this fellow."

Some statments he made:

"I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton's cultural shock troops participate in homosexual rights fund raisers but boycott gun rights fund raisers - and then claim it's time to place homosexual men in tents with boy scouts and suggest that sperm-donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served."

"Mainstream America is depending on you - counting on you - to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other."

"The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of those wise old, dead, white guys who invented this country. It's true - they were white guys. So were most of the guys who died in Lincoln's name, opposing slavery in the 1860s. So, why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is Hispanic pride or black pride a good thing, while white pride conjures up shaved heads and white hoods?"

And here is one of his famous statments made

"You can take my rifle ... when you pry it from my cold dead hands!"


"Here's my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people."


If you want to know or about Charlton Heston or another actor, actress, singer, or dancer you can go to imdb.com and find out more, if you did already know about it.
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Registered: November 05, 2004
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That's because he's more famous for his film roles than his NRA activism.


The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: September 19, 2001
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It is indeed a sad thing to lose such a great man, actor, and citizen. My prayers go out to his friends and family and so should yours. It is interesting that none of his "obits" that I have read from the dominant liberal media have mentioned his service in the fight for civil rights. Not really interesting, just expected.


"Freedom is not Free"-Korean War Memorial, Washington DC.
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