Charlton Heston: "Bloodline of Freedom" Individual Responsibility. NRA Patriots - Second Amendment

My hero, Mr. Heston.

Charlton Heston was not just a man of words, he was a man of actions. That's why when he saw the lose of liberty looming, he jumped in to save it no matter what the cost would be to his own reputation.




This man was a true Patriot. Freedom of the individual. Governments derive their just power from the governed (the people). People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people.

He believed in personal freedom so much that he gave the last good years of his life to freedoms cause. He was basically spat on by the far left, and ridiculed by the media. He definitely served his country well; he was a true Patriot.

High court strikes down gun ban.

District of Columbia v. Heller

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Gregory Scalia

"Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security and where gun violence is a serious problem," Scalia wrote. "That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct."



Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 -- April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater and television. Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Initially a liberal Democrat, he later supported conservative politics and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.

Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Reportedly when an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie El Cid was segregated, he joined a picket line outside in 1961. Heston makes no reference to this in his autobiography, but describes traveling to Oklahoma City to picket segregated restaurants, much to the chagrin of Allied Artists, the producers of El Cid. During the civil rights march held in Washington, D.C. in 1963, he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr. In later speeches, Heston said he helped the civil rights cause, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable."

Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Heston and actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart issued a statement calling for support of President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968. He opposed the Vietnam War and in 1969 was approached by the Democratic party to run for the U.S. Senate. He agonized over the decision and ultimately determined he could never give up acting. He is reported to have voted for Richard Nixon in 1972, though Nixon is unmentioned in his autobiography.

By the 1980s, Heston opposed affirmative action, supported gun rights and changed his political affiliation from Democratic to Republican. He campaigned for Republicans and Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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[FeeFinger666]

Wow, really amazing! Charlton Heston was a really good speaker. This speech must make people think about their chance to live in a country of Freedom...!

from a citizen of Switzerland (who'd'like to be an american one!)

[jbranstetter04]

@FeeFinger666 From the internet I get the impression that everyone hates us Americans. Am I wrong?

[FeeFinger666]

@jbranstetter04 I laugh because every country in this world has an history, and there's blood in every history of the world. A lot of people (not everybody) see, when they hear "USA": war, violence, capitalism, "new world order", criminals, etc... I'm not agree with that! Me, when I hear "USA", I see: dream, possibilities, FREEDOM, big places, nice people, patriotism, conscience that FREEDOM is important. Patriotism is dead in Europe, but still alive in the USA, and I admire that! :-)

[jbranstetter04]

@FeeFinger666 Republican or democrat in this country, we are not bad. We only want what is best for everyone. We only disagree on how to achieve it.

[FeeFinger666]

@jbranstetter04 I agree. You know, it's egal which party you prefer, when you love freedom, and when you're ready to defend your country against the real bad things (people and nation who hate freedom - they unfortunatly exist...), that's the most important. Americans should all be proud to be citizen of the USA, and should all realise how precious freedom is. Europeans have forgotten what freedom really means but the USA still know :-)

[jbranstetter04]

@FeeFinger666 "Americans...should all realise how precious freedom is."

I do. I put this video up that kind of represents it. It is on youtube under this name:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - "Liberty is too Precious a thing to be buried in books"

[Synthesised]

If only we had someone of his passion, and of his caliber here in the UK, willing to stand up and be counted for freedom of the individual. God bless.

[geargemartin]

when the last real american leaves Hollywood don't forget to bring the flag.

[jimfocus69]

Heston became more reactionary conservative and shallow in his thinking as his dementia slowly progressed. That should tell you something.

[MrAlGator]

Heston is right. But the tragic is he does not recognize that he does not recognize that those secret societies who once founded the US now work to create the One World which will enslave all nations on this planet

[franzfaramir]

what a scumbag!

[JuanMacready]

Bogart was a left-wing Democrat who opposed the Korean War.

[FeeFinger666]

@jbranstetter04 I'm afraid that you're not exactly wrong... I mean, a lot of people, here in Europe, think that the USA wants to be the Big Boss of the World and that USA are just killing people, with war in Irak, Afganistan, etc.... People have the impression that USA want to "dominate" the World, and that there's a lot of secret society, like Illuminati, who control the US politic. Personaly, I laugh everytime when I hear that