From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: FCC Public File Auto-FAQ Date: 01 Mar 2000 09:39:34 PST This "FAQ" is auto-posted once a month via cron triggered script, and may be triggered off by hand from time to time in between if the info is requested by someone, such as when the House recently voted down the AW Ban and the Media threw a hissy fit. The purpose of this FAQ is to inform people what they can do about Media generated lies and misinformation. While the FCC only handles Broadcast Media, (TV and Radio), some of these techniques will work for magazines and newspapers too. If I've missed something, or you find errors, let me know and I'll add/fix it. 1.a. Send letters of complaint to the Station Manager every time it happens with all the time, details, other info, and your complaint(s). 1.b. Send an additional copy for their FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Public file. 1.c. Send an additional copy to the FCC itself, in case they don't put it in their Public file. 2.a. Send a letter of complaint to their Station Owner as per above, with copies as per above (1.b and 1.c). 3. Send copies of their replies to you along with yours to them to their FCC Public file, so that it gets nice and fat, again, with copies to the FCC itself. 4. If you can afford it, send all corespondence by Certified Mail with Return Receipt Requested. Send a copy of the Return Receipt with everything that goes to the FCC itself, so that they will have additional evidence if the Station is cheating on their Public File. 5.a. Go to the Public Library and look up "Standard Rate and Data Services" (SRDS) "Directory of National Advertisers." It is found in many major Libraries (in the business/reference stacks), and lists EVERY current advertiser, who the players are at both the company and advertising agency(s), and the appropriate telephone and fax (and probably E-Mail by now) addresses. If your Library doesn't have it, it can be requested. Otherwise you can watch their commercials for a few days to a week, listing all their advertisers. There are other references that have the addresses for the nation's business headquarters too. look them all up and pass the addresses and phone/FAX numbers etc., around so that everyone can bitch to the sponsors. IF enough people do that, it'll get back to the Station. Tell them if the Station continues their nastiness you'll _consider_ changing to brand(X), (otherwise they'll just write you off as a loss). 5.b. The above, (5.a.), can be a lot easier and less time consuming if you're dealing with a newspaper's or a magazine's ads, as they are right in front of you for the listing. 6. If they put on something good or even just more reasonable, call and compliment them on it, but do _not_ send any kudos to their FCC file, or write to them about it. That way they have to keep it up and hope, as there is nothing good in the file or in writing that they can show the FCC to justify their Station's License. 7. Federal Communications Commission, Complaints and Compliance Division Room 6218, 2025 M Street NW Washington, D.C. 20554 FAX: 202-653-9659 FCC Attn: Edythe Wise -- An _EFFECTIVE_ | The _only_important_difference_ between Nazi-ism, Fascism, weapon in every | Communism, Communitarianism, Socialism and (Neo-)Liberalism hand = Freedom | is the _spelling_, and that the last group hasn't got the on every side! | Collective brains to figure it out. -- Bill Vance - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] Fwd: SOUTHERN OREGON MILITIA CHARGED AS HATE GROUP (fwd) Date: 01 Mar 2000 10:20:30 PST On Mar 01, Charles F. Nawrocki wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] /////// SENT FYI ONLY////////// Cleaning house, one sweep at a time.//// >Reply-To: "Carl Worden" >From: "Carl Worden" >To: , "Tom Adkins" >Subject: SOUTHERN OREGON MILITIA CHARGED AS HATE GROUP >Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:04:32 -0800 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 > >Ladies & gentlemen: > >Just as the state Government Standards and Practices Commission >investigator arrived in Southern Oregon to begin his detailed >investigation into the alleged official misconduct of Medford Airport >Director Bern Case, his assistant Craig Baldwin and Operations Manager >Robert Russell, an obscure group calling itself The Northwest Coalition >For Human Dignity announced that the Southern Oregon Militia was named as >a "Hate Group" in it's annual report. > >What an amazing coincidence. > >Also amazing is the fact this defaming organization named two other groups >in Southern Oregon that may not exist. One is the Oregon Knights of The >Ku Klux Klan in Grants Pass, and the other is the Medford Citizens' Bar >Association, a group that was disbanded ten years ago. Although the SOM >suspects the existence of an Ayran Brotherhood group in or near Grants >Pass, the Ku Klux Klan group faded into obsurity many years ago. That >leaves just us. > >Everyone familiar with the Southern Oregon Militia knows that we are >largely a group of mainstream Christians dedicated to uphold and defend >the Constitution of the United States. Locally, we are known for rooting >out local corruption and exposing it, which we have done with >gusto. Looks like we stepped on a few toes. > >Thankfully, we have cultivated an honest and forthright relationship with >the local media, and Channel 5 News has reported that when pressed for >documentary proof of their allegations, Northwest Coalition For Human >Dignity "researcher" Jonn Lunsford of Vancouver, Washington charged that I >had "posted articles on Web sites with anti-Semitic statements." When >pressed further for documentary proof of such statements, Lunsford was >unable to produce a single article of that nature. > >Lunsford also said the entire militia movement was founded by Aryan Nation >and Ku Klux Klan leaders, so Worden should divorce himself from militia >principles or change the group's name. > >"If he doesn't stand for the principles the militia was founded with, he >should change," Lunsford says. "Then we'll take him off the list." > >Well, well, well. If we change our name from "militia", we will suddenly >emerge from our cocoon as non-racist and non-anti-Semitic and be taken off >their list? How does that happen, and who is the real bigot here? > >The full article that appeared in the 2/29/00 Medford Mail Tribune article >follows. I am in the process of securing legal counsel for the purpose of >bringing a libel and slander suit against The Northwest Coalition For >Human Dignity. Not only did these buffoons name the SOM as a hate >group/white supremacist organization, but they also named me >personally. I intend to eat them alive in a court of law. > >Those of you who have followed my writings concerning racism and >anti-Semitism, including my expose's on Christian Identity, know very well >that we have consistently and thoroughly condemned those ideologies. Had >this so-called "researcher" made any effort to search the Internet news >groups and web pages containing my articles, he'd have no doubt about my, >and our, position on this issue. Obviously, he did not, and it appears he >never intended to. In fact, it appears the Northwest Coalition For Human >Dignity set about to deliberately vilify the Southern Oregon Militia as >racist and anti-Semitic. In terms of journalistic legal jargon, that act >is deemed to be malicious, and subjects the offender to both compensatory >and punitive damages to the parties injured. > >Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League >have routinely vilified militia organizations with apparent impunity, and >I vowed long ago to prosecute a civil suit against those, or any similar >organizations, who might paint our own group with the same broad >brush. Just because a group of concerned citizens identifies itself as a >militia does not necessarily mean that group espouses racist and >anti-Semitic beliefs, and I am confident that a local jury will secure >that principle with their verdict. > >We'll keep you posted as this lawsuit progresses to it's rightful conclusion. > >Carl F. Worden > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Hate list tags 3 local groups > >Coalition labels 13 Oregon organizations racist, anti-Semitic > >By MARK FREEMAN > >A Seattle-based coalition charting hate groups across the West labels >three Rogue Valley groups as harboring white-supremacist views, a charge >one local militia leader vehemently denies. > >The Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity says the Southern Oregon >Militia, the Medford-based Citizens Bar Association and the Oregon Knights >of the Ku Klux Klan in Grants Pass are all extremist groups whose views >include anti-Semitic or racist views. > >In its first annual "Hate by State" report, the coalition drew a regional >map, using iron crosses as symbols, showing 52 white supremacist groups. > >They range from several chapters of the World Church of the Creator and >other religious entities to Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi organizations to >militias. > >Seventeen of the groups were in Washington and 13 in Oregon, all but a few >arrayed along I-5. There also were 11 in Idaho -- all but one in the >Panhandle -- five in Montana and three each in Wyoming and Colorado. > >Southern Oregon Militia spokesman Carl Worden, of Eagle Point, says making >Monday's "Hate by State" list will lead to a lawsuit against the coalition. > >"They shouldn't flag us, because it's going to cost them a hell of a lot >of money," Worden says. > >"I'm getting a little tired of being vilified just because we use the term >`militia,"' Worden says. > >But Jonn Lunsford, the Vancouver, Wash., researcher to helped create the >coalition's report charges that Worden has posted articles on Web sites >with anti-Semitic statements. > >Worden denies the anti-Semitic labeling, and says his group does not >tolerate anti-Semitic or racist members. > >Lunsford also says the entire militia movement was founded by Aryan Nation >and Ku Klux Klan leaders, so Worden should divorce himself from militia >principles or change the group's name. > >"If he doesn't stand for the principles the militia was founded with, he >should change," Lunsford says. "Then we'll take him off the list." > >Neither members of the Grants Pass KKK group nor members of the Citizens >Bar Association could be reached for comment Monday. > >These groups, Lunsford contends, keep an extremely low profile. > >"They, like many other groups, have been a little more stealthy, more >guarded at putting out things for public consumption," Lunsford says. > >The coalition says Jackson County's militia and tax groups are "not of the >extreme end" of the hate-group spectrum that includes the Aryan Nations >and KKK. But militia actions behind the Oklahoma City bombing and other >actions show militia groups "still have an agenda that harbors extremism," >Lunsford says. > >"There are a lot of people in Southern Oregon who still have patriotic, >constitutional and racist views," Lunsford says. "They're just more >unaffiliated than they were in the past." > >Terre Rybovich, coalition executive director, said the numbers for each of >the 52 groups are likely small, since those in the white supremacist >movement have learned the best way to avoid detection is to work locally, >using small meetings and e-mail. > >Where they do show up, she said, is at public schools or other places they >believe are ripe for recruiting. > >"Whenever a racial disturbance breaks out at a high school there seems to >be a member of the World Church of the Creator or neo-Nazi skinheads who >are at the ready to leaflet white kids at the school," she said. > >Rybovich said some of those attracted to the white supremacist movement >are from economically disadvantaged ranks. But while economics explains >part of it, "some white people feel we have lost our culture, our nation, >and that really resonates with people of all ages and all economic >backgrounds.' [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: McGehee's News & Comment SPECIAL EDITION - March 1, 2000 (fwd) Date: 01 Mar 2000 15:59:14 PST On Mar 1, The McGehee Zone wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] McGEHEE'S NEWS & COMMENT * SPECIAL EDITION * (c) 2000 KEVIN McGEHEE Newnan, Georgia mail@mcgeheezone.com http://www.mcgeheezone.com/ Permission granted to anyone wishing to forward, redistribute, or broadcast this article WITH FULL ATTRIBUTION. ================================================================ THANK YOU, SENATOR McCAIN In his effort to deny the Republican presidential nomination to Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Arizona Sen. John McCain has done a tremendous service to the Republican Party and the American voter. Perhaps the most striking thing he has done is to bring to the surface the previously unseen degree of intolerance held by members of his wing of the Republican Party for the so-called "Religious Right." So hysterical has McCain become in denouncing Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, that he has actually begun to alienate Catholic voters in New York, the very same voting bloc he was trying to win over. Perhaps if the Senator had first stopped to wonder how Catholics feel about "holy wars," he might have realized that he was going to get in trouble. He has also driven some of his more prominent supporters into the Bush camp. McCain also caught himself in the kind of predicament only Bill Clinton could survive, the sudden substantive one-eighty. While campaigning in Michigan he declared that he would accept votes from anyone -- conservatives, liberals, moderates, Trotskyites -- and less than a week later he makes it clear that there is indeed one type of voter whose support he doesn't want: the Christian conservative. Although this was clearly intended to paint Gov. Bush into a corner that would leave the whole rest of the Republican base to Senator John McCain, it instead cast McCain himself in a bad light, making him look the opposite of how he had previously been perceived: tolerant and inclusive. The Senator will undoubtedly seek to repair this damage over the next few days as Super Tuesday looms, but it will be difficult because the new negative perception of him is closer to the mark than the older one that he recently demolished -- and because the attempt to portray Bush as intolerant and exclusive strains even the credulity of the certifiably insane. Bush, who won two gubernatorial elections in a state far more diverse than Arizona, did so with a diverse support base that McCain never had any hope of carrying in November, in the unlikely event that he had won the nomination. There has long been a divide between McCain's wing of the GOP and the more conservative coalition that rallied around Ronald Reagan in 1980. Gov. Bush's father was, and today is regarded by many as still being, a member of that other wing despite his eight years as vice-president under Reagan -- and it was by making the elder Bush his running mate that Reagan was able to bring that other wing onboard for his 1980 victory. But the divide remains, as any involved Republican can testify from the like-clockwork efforts to remove the party's abortion plank. These efforts have been ongoing since the plank was first put in, and the plank is still there. Naturally those who want the abortion issue to go away completely, have become somewhat frustrated. To some extent their embrace of McCain represents for them what the liberal Democrats' embrace of Bill Clinton represented: a pact with a devil whom they mistakenly regard as lesser in comparison to the "barbarians" who not only brought about twelve unbroken years of Republican presidency, but a Republican-led House of Representatives. Nor do they realize that the article of faith on which they base their promise to "save the GOP" is 180 degrees out of whack. They have been trying for two decades to exclude movement conservatives from having any substantive input to the party -- to relegate them to fund-raising and bloc-vote delivery in the way the Democrats count on African-Americans -- by arguing that even if the movement types get mad, they'll have no choice in November but to vote Republican because they couldn't stand to let the Democrats win. Yet it is the country-clubbers who have demonstrated that they have nowhere else to go. Every time they try and fail to remove that hated abortion plank, they nevertheless troop faithfully to the polls in November and vote Republican, something that many movement conservatives *didn't* do in 1998 because of the rudderless 105th Congress -- with the result that the GOP came entirely too close to losing its congressional majority. Why would moderates be so much more loath to let the Democrats win, than are their more conservative counterparts? This is the dirty little secret about many moderate GOP voters: they detest "those people" who make up the Democrats' support base at least as much as they detest movement conservatives. That's why, even if the nomination goes to the candidate supported by the hated Pat Robertson, these blueblood country-club moderates will stampede to the polls and vote for him, so that Al Gore and "those people" don't get another four years. By contrast, many movement conservatives openly regard a Gore presidency as undesirable, but no less survivable than eight years of Clinton. McCain's hysteria is perfectly in harmony with the moderates' desperation. Thank you, Senator McCain. -30- March 1, 2000 ================================================================ **Visit the McGEHEE'S NEWS & COMMENT archives** http://www.mcgeheezone.com/news&comment/ The views expressed herein are entirely those of the author(s), and do not reflect those of any person or group with whom the author(s) may be affiliated, unless explicitly labelled as doing so. --... ...-- -.. . -.- .-.. ----- - -.-- [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: David Horowitz: Racial Killings & Gun Control (fwd) Date: 05 Mar 2000 13:11:10 PST On Mar 5, ataylor@NMSU.Edu wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] -- DAVID HOROWITZ Racial Killings & Gun Control A SIX-YEAR-OLD African American shoots and kills a six-year-old white girl in Michigan. The six-year-old shooter has been suspended before for stabbing another child with a pencil. Police discover that he lives in a crack house with his criminal uncle with outstanding warrants for arrest. The boy's father is in jail. His mother is a drug addict. The President of the United States responds to the tragedy by summoning leaders of Congress to the White House to pass a new law, requiring trigger locks on guns. If ever there was a case revealing the moral bankruptcy (or is it idiocy?) of liberalism, this is it. Of course, Clinton and Democratic leaders are calling for trigger locks on guns because they are planning to make this a major Democrat issue in this year's political campaigns. But that only makes the point stronger. So far not a single liberal has publicly dissented from the idea that gun control is the lesson to be drawn from this tragedy, let alone questioned the Democrats' sick exploitation of it for political ends. Since the point is evidently not obvious to liberals, let me make it clear: Clinton might as well be calling a conference to develop a Voodoo spell to stop incidents like the Michigan tragedy as propose a new gun law. Why would a family of criminals, like the one actually responsible for the murder of Kayla Rolland observe a trigger-lock law if it was passed? The inhabitants of this crack house do not observe laws. They live to break laws. Child abuse is against the law. The little emotionally disturbed six-year-old who committed the murders was abused by his mother, his criminal father, his criminal uncle, and every adult that entered that crack house. That is already against law. Calling for a law to require parents who stash their kids in crack houses to put trigger locks on the stolen guns lying around is a sick joke. An even sicker joke would be to expect liberal Democrats or the liberal press to acknowledge this obvious fact. Democrats' use of the inter-racial killing of a six-year-old to attack lawful gun owners and to beat up on the National Rifle Association is obscene. But better than that, it is an exercise in the very denial that provides liberalism with a reason to exist. The purpose of the cry for gun control is to allow liberals once again to close their eyes (and the nation's) to the serious moral problems in the inner city that create these tragedies, and to avoid holding the individuals responsible accountable for their crimes. We don't want to blame the "victims" do we? If there are important lessons in the Michigan killing that need to be looked at, they are these: 1) Why were authorities unable to rescue the six-year-old murderer from his abusive environment, particularly since he had already shown himself to be a severely disturbed child? 2) Why were the felons in the crack house able to have guns at all, including a shotgun that was stolen? 3) Why did it take the press days to reveal that the shooter was black and his victim white? This last question applies with a slight twist to the shooting that occurred days later in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, where a black racist named Ronald Taylor went on a rampage that took the lives of three people. After three days of investigation, the FBI finally charged the racist killer with a "hate crime." What took so long? Why did the media, which normally promote not only the idea of "hate crimes," but of hate-crime legislation, have to wait for the FBI to make this designation? Why is the White House silent about this racial outrage? Why has no black leader denounced this hate crime? Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and their racially sensitive friends Bradley and Gore? The answer is they're too busy calling for a new gun law to add to the 20,000 already on the books, which the Justice Department refuses to enforce. They're too busy making political hay out of a Confederate flag which may be offensive to some, but which hasn't killed anyone so far. Mr. Sharpton is too busy persuading black Americans that a New York jury, whose foreman was black, administered "no justice" in the trial of four police officers acquitted of all counts of criminal misconduct in the case of Amadou Diallo. If any individual in America could be reasonably held responsible for the distrust and hatred of whites manifested in the Wilkinsburg rampage it is Al Sharpton. But it will be a long time before any "liberal" in the media or in the Justice Department makes that point. Instead, Justice Department officials in charge of racial issues are meeting with delegations of black leaders and deliberating among themselves as to whether they should invoke the civil-rights laws to re-try the acquitted New York policemen. Why is the Justice Department even looking at this case? Is there a shred of evidence that the acquitted policemen were racist? Is there the slightest indication that a jury, which included four African Americans, was prejudiced? How unbelievably insulting it is to those four jurors that the Justice Department (backed by the President) should even agree to consider this case. What the Justice Department is, in effect, saying to those four African-American jurors is that "the United States Government thinks you may be too stupid, too brainwashed, too weak to stand up for your race. Even if you believed that four white cops murdered a black man in cold blood, you would not have the brains, the balls, or the racial self-esteem to say so." Think about that for a moment. This, my friends, is the only really rampant racism in America. It is what liberalism has come to. That said, the decision of the FBI to declare the killing in Wilkinsburg a black-on-white hate crime is a courageous act. The decision of the press to report the race of the six-year-old killer in Michigan, however belated, is a step in the right direction. The honesty of the jury in the Amadou Diallo case is to be applauded. Perhaps the tide has begun to turn. The next step would be for Jesse Jackson to step forward and publicly denounce the racism of blacks like Ronald Taylor. Perhaps a day will come when academic leftists will no longer teach that "blacks can't be racist." Perhaps Harvard will announce a policy dissociating itself from evil doctrines like this that are taught in its classrooms. But don't hold your breath. This battle is a long way from over. http://www.frontpagemag.com/dh/2000/default.htm [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: Man Caused Global Warming a Hoax - new scientific study (fwd) Date: 07 Mar 2000 07:25:27 PST On Mar 7, The McGehee Zone wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 2:41 PM Holes In Sun's Corona Puts A Hole In Climate Science Brooklyn - March 2, 2000 - An unusual interdisciplinary study by astronomers and climatologists has found a striking correlation between holes in the outermost layer of the sun--or the corona--and the globally averaged temperature of the Earth, suggesting that the Earth's atmospheric temperature may be strongly linked to solar magnetism changes over months or years. In a paper that appears in the February 28 issue of the journal New Astronomy, climatologist Eric Posmentier of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, solar physicists Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and physicist Pius Okeke of the University of Nigeria chart temperature anomalies seen in the Earth's lower troposphere (i.e., the region of atmosphere in which we live) using Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) radiometers aboard weather satellites. The scientists compared the Earth's temperature with the size of coronal holes reported on the Sun during a two-decade period, starting in January 1979 and ending April 1998. Results show a clear drop in terrestrial atmospheric temperature after the Sun's magnetic field activity is most intense. At this point, there is a dropping off of magnetic activity and an enlargement of the coronal holes. "This is the first time anyone has combined these modern, reliable data sets to link solar activity and climate, and to cite several alternative mechanisms that might explain this link," Posmentier explained. Coronal holes are, literally, gaps in the Sun's outer atmosphere through which the stream of hot, supersonic particles known as the solar wind pours out into space to engulf the entire planetary system. At Earth, this hot bath of charged particles produces the aurorae (i.e., the aurora borealis), interferes with electrical and radio transmissions, and may threaten passengers aboard high-flying airliners or astronauts aboard unshielded spacecraft. The solar wind has also been long suspected as a possible indirect contributor to terrestrial climate change. Posmentier and colleagues think that the connection between the solar wind and climate may be more direct, suggesting that the charged particles hitting the Earth's atmosphere may affect the properties of terrestrial water clouds, particularly the percentage of those clouds covering the Earth. In turn, significant changes in the cloud cover influence the temperature of the lower troposphere, with temperatures falling with increased cloud cover. Another possibility is that the charged particles change ozone chemistry in the upper atmosphere, in turn affecting the dynamics of the climate. The scientists note, however, that the charged particles hitting the Earth could come from either the Sun, or from galactic cosmic rays that are modulated by the solar wind. Or, from a combination of both sources. Regardless, the percentage of the Sun's surface covered by coronal holes seems to be a fairly accurate indicator of temperature in the Earth's troposphere over months or years. The correlation comes with some caveats. As Posmentier and colleagues note, other major climate factors are also at work concurrently, thus complicating attempts to correlate Sun-Earth phenomena. Most notable in the past two decades have been the warming effects of the 1997-98 El Nino and the general cooling that followed the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. According to Posmentier, their results do not rule out the possible climate influence of man-made fossil fuels, which have caused the atmosphere's CO2 levels to rise. "During some parts of the last century, as the amount of CO2 increased, the temperature increased," he explained. "I don't dispute that, and I'm not saying that CO2 can't have significant effects in the future. "What I am saying is the data do not unambiguously support the contention that CO2 increases are the dominant cause of climate variability," he added. "There are other reasons for climate variations that are significant. In fact, we've found that the strongest correlation is the one between the area of the Sun's surface covered with holes and the globally averaged temperature of the Earth." Support for this research came from the Mount Wilson Institute and the Electric Power Research Institute, with additional funding from the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, the Smithsonian Institution, the Richard C. Lounsbery Foundation, and NASA. http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/weather-00c.html [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Citibank caves in--Gun owners should use economic muscle more Date: 07 Mar 2000 08:21:26 PST On Mar 7, David Hannon wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >If gun owners needed an effective wakeup call about how to push back, >rather than shoot back, this is it. > >Public pressure, threatened (and actual) boycotts, as well as an >unreasonable banking policy, got Citibank to 'review' it policies. >Review? The 'review' comment was nothing more than an effort by the >minions of Citibank to cover their horrendous public relations blunder. >Citibank wanted to buy into the leftist/liberal claptrap of the world, >the Klintonistas especially, and decided to do their share. To say a >little, the policy was 'misguided' and Citibank was being hurt >economically. The Citibank management wisely decided to avoid a pending >economic and public relations disaster, which was brought on, almost >entirely by the international publicity given the issue by >WorldNetDaily.com. > >How many are the millions of gun owners? Many, many known. Many more, >unknown. All gun owners should consider themselves brothers and sisters >and use their economic clout to push back. The economic vote works. > >Charles > >=20 TUESDAY >MARCH 7 >2000 =20 > >Citibank kills >firearms policy >Gun businesses to be treated >like others, says spokesman > > > By Jon E. Dougherty >=A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com > >After intense public pressure and a threatened boycott, following a=20 >series of WorldNetDaily reports exposing Citibank's practice of=20 >denying banking services to firearms business, the global financial=20 >giant has now reversed its "longstanding" policy. > >Yesterday, Mark Rodgers, a public relations specialist for the New=20 >York-based mega-banking firm told WND the corporation "went out and=20 >looked at our policies across (all Citibank branches) and found that=20 >(they) were inconsistent." > >After reviewing several policy "areas," Rodgers said, "we decided we=20 >must have uniform policies across the U.S." Consequently, he said,=20 >Citibank "decided that moving forward the practice of assessing a=20 >small business account will apply uniformly in small businesses,"=20 >including those "engaged in the manufacture or sale of small=20 >firearms." > >Rodgers said the firm would rate firearms businesses "the same as=20 >any other small business, using the same standards such as=20 >creditworthiness, the number of years in business, and so on." > >Rodgers faxed a confirmation copy of the new policy to WorldNetDaily. > >The policy reversal comes on the heels of a controversy that began=20 >Feb. 7, when a Las Vegas branch of Citibank closed a three-day-old=20 >checking account opened by the Nevada Pistol Academy, a local=20 >shooting club. At that time, local area branch managers told the=20 >academy's director, Chris Lorenzo, in a letter, "Due to Citibank not=20 >maintaining accounts for businesses that deal in weapons," the=20 >account would have to be closed. > >Lorenzo, who spoke with WorldNetDaily after the closure, said that=20 >while the corporate banking giant was "free to do business with=20 >whomever they choose," he also felt it was important to let other=20 >gun-business owners "know where they stand." > >Lorenzo could not be reached for comment Monday. > >However, the Second Amendment Foundation, a Washington state-based=20 >pro-gun group, is calling the decision a "sweet victory for all=20 >law-abiding gun owners." The group had called for a nationwide=20 >boycott of Citibank because of the policy. > >Alan Gottlieb, the group's founder, said the decision "ends more=20 >than a decade of silent discrimination" against lawfully licensed=20 >firearms-related businesses. > >"I couldn't be more pleased," Gottlieb said. > >In the early 1980s, Rodgers said, Citibank began buying a large=20 >number of independent banks all over the country, noting, "for many=20 >years, they operated pretty much independently, with their own=20 >policies, services and products." > >In the past few years, he said, "we've been bringing those together=20 >so that we are consistent and uniform across the business units and=20 >geography" at all Citibank branches. > >What the treatment of the Nevada Pistol Academy proved, Rodgers=20 >said, "is that we had an inconsistency in the policy in business=20 >units, so we moved to bring those together so that they were in=20 >agreement." > >On Feb. 24, WND reported a major inconsistency in Citibank's policy=20 >in that the firm conducts business with and has close corporate ties=20 >to major military contractors that produce jet fighters and other=20 >defense equipment, while refusing -- until now -- to offer services=20 >to small gun businesses. > >Jon E. Dougherty is a staff=20 >reporter for WorldNetDaily. =20 > >=A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: I was a teenage communist. (fwd) Date: 08 Mar 2000 10:32:06 PST On Mar 7, The McGehee Zone wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] I don't consider the Libertarian Party a significant force in electoral politics by any means, but philosophically they are certainly the vanguard of the glorious counterrevolution -- so it makes sense to pay attention to articles like this. Kevin McGehee Newnan, Georgia mail@mcgeheezone.com http://www.McGeheeZone.com/ --... ...-- -.. . -.- .-.. ----- - -.-- ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:52 PM March 2, 2000 Tale of a teen-age communist by Peter Orvetti I was a teenage communist. Well, that is a slight exaggeration. But by the time I enrolled at an oh-so-liberal college in all-too-lefty Amherst, Massachusetts, I was prepared to join the revolution and make the world safe for redistributionism. Instead, I received an unexpected four-year lesson in the insidious nature of leftism that led to my discovery of libertarianism by graduation. That wasn't the lesson my professors intended me to learn. As early as matriculation -- before classes even began -- dean after dean told the assembled first-year class how to vote in the coming 1992 presidential election. That first semester, one professor told the class she considered herself an "activist" and not an educator; though I supported her cause, it irked me that she took pay from an ostensibly objective institute of education to support partisan action. And, on the day before Election Day, one professor took half an hour of class time performing a strange, quasi-mystic ritual, complete with burning candles, to secure the gods' support for the Clinton-Gore ticket. Through all this, I kept my mouth shut and went about my daily affairs. Though hardly poor, I was unable to afford the school's $25,000 annual tuition and so I worked a job on campus to pay my way. It was because I knew how hard it was to earn that much cash that I indulged in liberal politics. But I discovered that others, with more money and much farther to the left than I'd ever dream go, had no such work ethic. One student "revolutionary" decided to subvert the dominant paradigm through a campaign of guerrilla graffiti. Straight out of the 'hood of Greenwich, Connecticut, this Caucasian Communist could be seen strutting around campus in African colors, clutching a black permanent marker and scrawling collectivist slogans on dormitory doors, library walls, and everywhere the ink would take. Her revolutionary act set janitors to work scrubbing away, and gave less-advantaged work-study students more to do for their meager wage. When she was finally punished, how did she defend herself? "I pay full tuition," she said. This Neiman-Marcus Marxist proved her true colors at that point, not Red but old-money green. Despite her rantings about the revolution, in her heart she felt that because she'd been born rich she had a right to trash the campus, and that the poorer students should be glad to have the financial aid scraps that were provided by her tuition. This was not an isolated case. Each day I'd walk past students in Castro fatigues toting fancy new laptop computers, Mercedes cars in the student parking lot bearing "Eat the Rich" bumper stickers, and organizers of left-wing cells wearing $300 sneakers. There was a schizophrenia to it; this would-be Red Army saw no contradiction. Even the campus distributor of the New York Times, who made a healthy profit, had a poster of Mao on his door. I started to question the prevailing tide, but was met with blank stares. I noted that a popular professor made admittedly well-reasoned arguments for socialism in class each day, but then retired to a comfortable suburban home in a town with a sizable homeless population. Why, I wondered aloud, wasn't he down at the shelter dishing out food or offering his couch to a street person with no place to sleep? If he believed in redistribution, why wasn't he redistributing his own salary, which was far above the national average? "But this isn't a socialist country," came the reply. The implication: There's no need for leftists to engage in voluntary charity; the government will coerce it when we win. In another class, I said it bothered me that Newt Gingrich, then Speaker, would not be permitted to present his views on campus. "I wouldn't mind," more than one student replied. I noted that it is important to respect divergent views. "I don't think about 'respect,'" I was told. That was certainly true. One night, a mob of activists flanked the campus and chalked violent anti-rape slogans on every sidewalk, words that called every man a suspect, guilty until proven innocent. I was used to this sort of thing by that point, and I only took offense at the aesthetic crudity of the action. But others were not so milquetoast as I, and responded the next night with a wave of "anti-anti" chalkings, condemning the Inquisition mood the activists had set. Controversy erupted, and, as colleges are wont to do, a campus-wide discussion forum was called. At this meeting, I pointed out that, regardless of one's feelings about the second wave, the students had the right to express their views. The school clearly had a policy that allowed political chalkings. I said they'd broken no rule, to which one of the anti-rape activists shot back, "Don't be so sure." They had the "anti-antis" called up on hate crimes charges before the school tribunal, and they were penalized. I found it harder and harder to have a serious political dialogue. I was once called a racist because I accidentally mispronounced a Hispanic name; I was called "evil" for arguing in support of free trade. Interestingly, the campus itself provided a microcosm that proved communism a failure, despite the views of its inhabitants. Most students lived in on-campus houses of five or six students. They shared cooking, cleaning, and financial arrangements. While some were autonomous, most were collectivist. And importantly, they were voluntary -- everyone chose to live under a collective system. Still, they failed miserably. I lived with four other people. We agreed to share the cost of food and to take turns cooking and cleaning. But each week, the funds came up short as one person or another failed to ante up. At least twice a week there was no food. Only two people ever cleaned up. And by the end of the year, a self-described "radical socialist" resident had seceded, refusing to contribute any more money because she had not received a share of the purchased goods commensurate to her financial contribution. So much for "to each according to their need." By the end of college, I realized that the goals I had striven for -- more goods for all, a society of free expression and free will -- could only be achieved under free markets and never under collectivism. Quite simply, socialism is about acquiring the ability to get more stuff, just like capitalism. But socialism is about getting more stuff through government coercion -- picking your pocket through taxation. Leftism's methods made little sense for the children of hippies and pacifists. In their socialist "utopia," if you don't pay up, big goons with guns will come to your house and drag you away. This is pacifism? And how could these flower children who lionized Kent State want to seize guns from law-abiding owners, letting only the military and the cops have them? No wonder they felt the need to create a campus where dissent was not tolerated. Their ideology was built on sand. Only fear could keep it standing -- while just a hint of freedom would knock it all down. While it wasn't what I'd expected, I finished my four-year immersion course in political ideology with honors. And I left my campus comrades to happily fly their red flag from atop their ivory tower, where they play at "liberating" the world. --30-- Peter Orvetti is the Deputy Director of Communications for the national Libertarian Party, has written for National Journal, and authors the daily Orvetti Political Report. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Message from Senator John Ashcroft (fwd) Date: 10 Mar 2000 16:09:00 PST On Mar 10, john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Dear Friend: During my tenure as a U.S. Senator, you have been gracious enough to share, via the Internet, your concerns and ideas about legislation pending before Congress. Thank you very much. Because of your interest and past communication, I wanted to let you know about a new poll question that I have recently put up on my website. The poll asks: Rather than having federal education dollars be controlled by the federal government, should these funds be directed by local schools, parents, and teachers to programs they believe will boost academic achievement for their students? I invite you to visit the website and register your response to the poll. You can simply visit http://ashcroft.senate.gov/poll.htm. You may also feel free to respond to the poll question by replying to this e-mail. To respond via e-mail, type either "Education Poll Yes" or "Education Poll No" as the subject line and do not include any text in the body of the e-mail. I also wanted to let you know the results of the previous poll asking: Would you favor a plan that ensures the Social Security taxes you pay would only be used to pay for Social Security benefits? 98% responded YES 2% responded NO I hope that you are able to stay in touch this year. I am grateful for your advice and counsel. Sincerely, John Ashcroft http://ashcroft.senate.gov Want to know what Washington is doing with your tax dollars? Sign up to receive e-mail updates from Senator Ashcroft at http://ashcroft.senate.gov/update.htm. Since John Ashcroft is standing for election this year, his website will not be updated from June 8 to August 8 and from September 7 to November 7. Senate Rules require that a Senate website not be updated during the 60-day period before a primary or general election. If you have any questions or need current information please contact John Ashcroft's office at (202) 224-6154. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Patrick J. Fields" Subject: Response to your request for opinion. Date: 11 Mar 2000 10:20:42 -0500 Senator Ashcroft, Having soberly reviewed our precious national Constitution, I find NO authority for the Union government to involve itself in the education of youth. This is the proper duty of the States and/or their Citizens, falling strictly within their authority ONLY! Now, I have discovered that while government's creation of FICTITIOUS PERSONS, principally through the nefariously misrepresented Social(ist) Security system, yields the legal(istic) means to carry out such Union 'authority', it wholly lacks moral rectitude when understood in reality. Therefore, in light of the above, I can not only stand diametrically opposed to federal control of education funds, but to the existence of such classification of monies and 'justification' for their collection, at all! In regard to your prior question of Social(ist) Security, ABOLISH IT! Any representative elected to any public office, who supports this Marxist institution without FULL DISCLOSURE of the abominable slave trap that it presents, is committing the very pinnacle of treason against the American People, every man and woman who has ever been called to the duty to protect sweet Liberty and the Founders of our (formerly) Free Republic themselves! A Son of Liberty, devoted to Mr. Locke's Glorious Revolution, I steadfastly remain ... Pat Fields Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, uSA packfields@worldnet.att.net All Constitutional Rights Reserved, Without Prejudice UCC 1-207 PS: We are free, ONLY if We choose to be. pps: The original 13th Amendment is Law On Mar 10, john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov wrote: > >Dear Friend: > > During my tenure as a U.S. Senator, you have been >gracious enough to share, via the Internet, your concerns and ideas >about legislation pending before Congress. Thank you very much. > > Because of your interest and past communication, I wanted >to let you know about a new poll question that I have recently put >up on my website. The poll asks: > > Rather than having federal education dollars be controlled >by the federal government, should these funds be directed by local >schools, parents, and teachers to programs they believe will boost >academic achievement for their students? > > I invite you to visit the website and register your response >to the poll. You can simply visit >http://ashcroft.senate.gov/poll.htm. You may also feel free to >respond to the poll question by replying to this e-mail. To respond >via e-mail, type either "Education Poll Yes" or "Education Poll >No" as the subject line and do not include any text in the body of >the e-mail. > > I also wanted to let you know the results of the previous >poll asking: > > Would you favor a plan that ensures the Social Security >taxes you pay would only be used to pay for Social Security >benefits? > > 98% responded YES > > 2% responded NO > > I hope that you are able to stay in touch this year. I am >grateful for your advice and counsel. > > > > Sincerely, > > > John Ashcroft > http://ashcroft.senate.gov > > >Want to know what Washington is doing with your tax dollars? >Sign up to receive e-mail updates from Senator Ashcroft at >http://ashcroft.senate.gov/update.htm. > >Since John Ashcroft is standing for election this year, his website >will not be updated from June 8 to August 8 and from September 7 >to November 7. Senate Rules require that a Senate website not be >updated during the 60-day period before a primary or general >election. If you have any questions or need current information >please contact John Ashcroft's office at (202) 224-6154. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Patrick J. Fields" Subject: The Price of Freedom Date: 11 Mar 2000 13:17:43 -0500 Friends, Here's a simple example, which anyone can do with a $3.00 calculator, of what freedom costs when We allow socialist governments to 'provide for Us' in our old age. Presuming, at 20, that one plans to retire at 50, working at a decent lower class job or profession yielding (without government's Social(ist) 'Security' and resulting legal means to levy 'income' tax) savings of $50.00 per week ($2,600.00 per year) invested in 5 equity mutual funds yielding only the historic annual average of 10%. This humble waiter or bicycle mechanic should be able to settle down with about $437,236.36 or $14,574 per year of retirement if he lives to 80. Now, for those with a nice lower middle class office job who can reliably stick away $100.00 each week, they'll kick back with about $932,657.00 (and, with a 'free' spouse separately following the same wise course, just multiply by 2) or $31,088 of annual retirement through age 80. If you're curious about slogging through a full career (43 years), or a greater savings capacity, the formula is (S+Y)*1.1, where S is the sum total of savings, Y is the yearly total of savings and 1.1 is the multiplier to compound at 10%. (If you can program a spreadsheet, it's much easier to play around with lots of variables and is even more sobering than the two above examples) The point being, that when some ignorant friend, or a company manager whose savings could net in the millions, reverently defends government and it's iron pyrite Social(ist) 'Security', you might use this little illustration to help him see the chain on his leg and the other side of the hill where the 'Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' exists. Pat Fields Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, uSA packfields@worldnet.att.net All Constitutional Rights Reserved, Without Prejudice UCC 1-207 PS: We are free, ONLY if We choose to be. pps: The original 13th Amendment is Law - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [newsucanuse] March 5 columns -- blame schools, not guns (fwd) Date: 12 Mar 2000 12:50:43 PST On Mar 11, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA EDITORS NOTE: A SHORTER VERSION, AT 850 WORDS, ALSO MOVES THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Government schools: a deadly experiment It isn't really about race. It hardly suffices for the "multiculturalists" that the children of successful black judges and movie stars now go peacefully to school with wealthy white kids (for which equality under capitalism, let us give thanks.) Nor have they ever much cared that the main victims of their racial quotas (at least here in the West) turned out to be not "sons of slave-owners," but rather deserving Asians, whose forebears were also an oppressed minority. No, the goal of the "multiculturalist" movement -- a goal so dominant that even basic literacy is happily sacrificed -- is to infiltrate the American middle class with the offspring of the liberals' "new plantation," the fatherless welfare homes of our crime-infested inner cities. The result? A six-year-old boy -- passed from hand to hand since his father was jailed for a home invasion and finally living in a fatherless crack house full of drugs, stolen guns, and other loot -- shot a first-grade classmate to death in Michigan this week. Such crimes occur only in the mandatory government schools. In private schools -- where admission is selective and voluntary, and kids who stab each other with pencils are expelled -- such horrors are virtually unknown. Nor do we see home-schoolers committing such crimes (though the statists never tire of warning us home-schooled children will not be "properly socialized"!) This tiny killer is not some innocent who picked up an unfamiliar object and brought it to "show-and-tell." While on parole in December, his father, Dedric Owens, asked the child why he had committed violent offenses that led to his earlier suspensions from school -- suspensions at the age of six. According to Genessee County Sheriff Robert Picknell, "He said that the kid told him he did it because 'I hate them.' " Gee, where could the kid have copped that attitude, in a society where whites who victimize blacks because of their skin color receive "hate crime sentence enhancements," while racism is hardly ever mentioned in the prosecution of black murderers who declare "You're all white trash, racist pigs" (this week's guest quote courtesy of one Ronald Taylor, charged in Wilkinsburg, Pa. in the shooting deaths of three white males -- two others critically wounded -- after he apparently grew upset that white workmen worked too slowly repairing his broken door.) In the real world, tens of thousands more parents of children now interned in these squalid government camps -- operated more and more on the model of penal institutions, complete with body searches and metal detectors, properly preparing their little inmates for the police state of our future -- will now quietly move their kids into private schools, or finally resolve to homeschool their children, regardless of the financial sacrifice required. But since it's "politically incorrect," don't expect to hear about this swelling tide on TV. Instead, the national whining will be the usual, "Whatever can we do to rid ourselves of these dreaded guns?" The standard lie is that guns are more readily available and accepted these days, when in fact child gunshot deaths have been dropping for decades, and our nation is currently seized in a paroxysm of paranoia about these tools of freedom: Airport police now seizing the little plastic guns that come with Christmas G.I. Joe sets; while our banks (I mean Citibank, subject of a national boycott by the Second Amendment Foundation after closing the account of the Nevada Pistol Academy for being a "gun-related business"), insurance companies (like the ones that now refuse fire and liability coverage to Las Vegas pawn shops that deal in guns), fire marshals (I refer to the guys who now seek to ban "Cheaper Than Dirt" for selling ammo via mail-order out of Fort Worth, Tex., as that company has done for years), and even national shipping firms (let's hypothetically call one of them "UPS") either raise rates, cut off service, or threaten to arrest legal, licensed firearms dealers as though they were spreading the bubonic plague. Imagine the public sitting similarly silent if such a full-court press were now being applied to the First Amendment, making it progressively harder for private churches or newspapers to stay in business. This in distinct contrast to the peaceful 1950s, when fewer than half our kids finished high school (no "dropout crisis" perceived) and when -- as recalled by retired Las Vegas auctioneer Robert Deiro -- the basement of Frazier Hall held an armory full of M-1 Garands and a rifle range used for authorized practices and matches of Las Vegas High School's award-winning rifle team. Gun control has been tried. In Australia, criminals now more confident their victims will be disarmed have increased armed robberies by 44 percent. In England, where they finally finished banning civilian ownership of handguns completely last year, staid London newspapers now dub industrial Manchester "Gunchester," and the once proudly unarmed British bobbies complain they're completely outgunned by youth gangs who now simply stock up on fully-automatic AK-47 assault rifles, fresh out of the containers in which they arrive daily from Eastern Europe. To the extent that they do work, civilian gun bans lead to genocide, as Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership have exhaustively demonstrated. But apparently guns still make a handy voodoo doll in which our statist media can stick their pins, in preference to focusing on the real problem: the fact that fruitcake bureaucrats now control our children's lives from ages 6 to 18. There, in keeping with the flawed 1930s notion that there exist "a limited number of jobs" which must be protected for adult male heads of household (the same justification employed to pressure "Rosie the Riveter" out of the workforce in 1946, and to set earnings limits on Social Security beneficiaries, which goofiness the House of Representatives finally voted to overturn only this week) our children are rounded up, bored to tears, and increasingly treated like dangerous inmates until they end up acting like dangerous inmates. Take, for example, the reason I found myself talking to Mr. Deiro this week. He called to explain how his son, Guy Robert Deiro, who now runs the family auction business (and who just finished a two-year stint as president of the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson) decided to do a good deed recently, hiring a 17-year-old kid from a fatherless Las Vegas home to work as a runner -- driving contracts around town -- in his after-school hours, at $9 per hour. Because he hired the lad 28 days prior to his 17th birthday, the younger Mr. Deiro relates, the state Labor Department fined him $2,800 and threatened to add penalties of 6 percent per day for any additional days he employed the young man, unless the lad took a mandated $3,000 commercial driving course. "I had to let him go," Guy Robert Deiro explains. "He can't afford $3,000 to go to some dumb driving school. In addition to the $9 an hour, I was paying his car insurance, plus 21 cents a mile. I thought I was doing the kid a favor -- frying hamburgers and french fries is more dangerous than this job, and it was a way for him to learn the business, work his way up. It's absolutely absurd. It's big government getting in the way of people trying to hire kids and show 'em a work ethic." Yet let some such lad eventually turn to a life of crime as the only option left him by our meddlesome government masters, and what will we hear? "How could this have happened? It must be the guns." Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. *** - If you have subscribed to vinsends@ezlink.com and you wish to unsubscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your OLD address, including the word "unsubscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. 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To Post a message, send it to: newsucanuse@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: newsucanuse-unsubscribe@eGroups.com [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: Vote and repost NOW!!! (fwd) Date: 12 Mar 2000 12:49:52 PST On Mar 11, Weldon Clark wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] ----- Original Message ----- Cc: Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:10 PM Go to www.msjama.org and vote in their quick poll. Pass it on to your friends. This is a AMA poll and the anti-gunners like to quote their results. Let's win this one. **************************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson Hamline University School of Law tel. (651) 523-2142 St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 fax (651) 523-2236 [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: msnbc.com survey - please vote (fwd) Date: 15 Mar 2000 09:49:33 PST On Mar 15, Nramancpe@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] <<< Please Vote in the survey >>> Question of the Day: The NRA says Clinton and Gore are playing politics with guns. The administration says the gun-rights group is without shame. The NRA's attacks on Clinton-Gore: A smear campaign or Fair game. http://www.msnbc.com/news/313533.asp [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: OT?: CLinton Disbarment news (fwd) Date: 17 Mar 2000 09:09:31 PST On Mar 17, Bob Mueller wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000316/pl/clinton_scandal_2.html Clinton Asks to Delay Disbarment Consideration Reuters Photo By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton has asked that consideration of his disbarment from the legal profession in Arkansas in connection with the Monica Lewinsky scandal be delayed until after he leaves office, his private lawyer said on Thursday. Clinton lawyer David Kendall made the request in response to a complaint by the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Conduct, which called for Clinton's disbarment as an attorney over misleading statements he made about his affair with the former White House intern during a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit. ``We have filed today with the Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct an application for an extension of time for the President to respond, until 30 days after he leaves office,'' Kendall said in a statement. Clinton leaves office on Jan. 20, 2001. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: rkba-list: Internet Tax Threat to Gun Owners (fwd) Date: 17 Mar 2000 19:12:02 PST On Mar 17, AkaGUNNUT@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Message to Gun Owners: If you use the Internet, you have a direct financial stake in the developing battle to save the Internet from unnecessary government taxes on all purchases, including firearms, ammunition and related supplies. In the next few days a national commission will recommend to Congress whether the current ban on new Internet taxes should be extended. Powerful political forces are pushing to end this ban and tax the Internet. The commission members must hear from as many people as possible who oppose Internet taxation before they conclude their meeting on March 21, 2000. We have made it as easy as possible for you to do this. Our site, www.NoInternetTax.org (hot link) allows you to easily send a prepared message to all 19 members of this commission individually with a single click of your mouse. The site is filled with background information to help you more fully understand this issue. Please visit our site and e-mail the commissioners. It just takes a minute or two. It would also be a great help if you forward this message to everyone on your list who would also help defend the Internet. Thank you! Alan Gottlieb Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep & Bear Arms Founder, Second Amendment Foundation President, www.NoInternetTax.org [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fwd: [AZ-RKBA] KABA 4-Minute Gun Report PM Edition 3-20-2000 (fwd) Date: 20 Mar 2000 15:51:54 PST On Mar 20, C. D. Tavares wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >From: KeepAndBearArms.org >March 20, 2000 -- 4 Minute Read >POLL: >Did Smith & Wesson do the right thing by bowing to government pressure and >agreeing to more safety measures for the guns the company produces? >http://www.desnews.com [Thanks, Bruce B.] Right now it's running 51-45-4 for No, with a little over 800 votes. Too close -- help out. -- Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! What's the difference between the person who hits you and the person who ties your hands so that someone else can hit you? Whoever takes away your ability to defend yourself needs to be defended against. --RICHARD ROBERTS [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: Re: 50 Gun Bills in 6 Months ?! (fwd) Date: 20 Mar 2000 22:25:57 PST You know the drill, check it out, pass it around, raise hell. On Mar 20, Huck wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] READ this and tell me they don't want our guns. When the guns go, so will our freedom. Huck spiker wrote: > From: KeepAndBearArms.org > > KEEP AND BEAR ARMS .ORG REPORT > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Subscription email broadcast available > from: http://www.KeepAndBearArms.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 50 GUN BILLS IN 6 MONTHS ! > Below, you will see a digest of 50 federal bills before the > house or senate in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. > They were all introduced within a 6 month period. > I've had my ear to the ground full time during this same > time period. I didn't know about most of these bills. > But America is the land of freedom. > And full confiscation could never happen here. > And clinton doesn't lie. > angel > > Gun bills introduced in Congress > (50 of them in the last 6 months) > ---------------------------------- > You can look them up at: http://thomas.loc.gov > 1. Gun Show Accountability Act > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.443.IS] > 2. Gun Show Accountability Act > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.902.IH] > 3. Gun Show Accountability Act > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1903.IH] > 4. Nationwide Gun Buyback Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.3255.IH] > 5. Nationwide Gun Buyback Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2813.IH] > 6. Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2122.IH] > 7. Gun Buy Back Partnership Grant Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.724.IH] > 8. To better regulate the transfer of firearms at gun shows. > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.109.IH] > 9. Firearms Rights, Responsibilities, and Remedies Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1233.IH] > 10. Firearms Rights, Responsibilities, and Remedies Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.686.IS] > 11. American Handgun Standards Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2009.IH] > 12. American Handgun Standards Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.193.IS] > 13. American Handgun Standards Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2003.IH] > 14. Designating October 21, 1999, as a "Day of National > Concern About Young People and Gun Violence." > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.RES.158.IS] > 15. Designating October 21, 1999, as a "Day of National > Concern About Young People and Gun Violence." > (Agreed to by the Senate)[S.RES.158.ATS] > 16. The Youth Gun Crime Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.995.IS] > 17. The Youth Gun Crime Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1768.IH] > 18. Targeted Gun Dealer Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.1306.IS] > 19. Targeted Gun Dealer Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2443.IH] > 20. Gun Industry Accountability Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.560.IS] > 21. Gun Industry Responsibility Act > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1086.IH] > 22. Children's Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.735.IS] > 23. Children's Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1342.IH] > 24. To amend the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to require a > local educational agency that receives funds under the > Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to expel > a student determined... > (Placed on the Calendar in the Senate) [S.44.PCS] > 25. Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 902) to > regulate the sale of firearms at gun shows. > (Introduced in the House)[H.RES.193.IH] > 26. To prohibit the possession or transfer of junk guns, > also known as Saturday Night Specials. > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.35.IH] > 27. Child Safety and Youth Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2037.IH] > 28. Youth Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1726.IH] > 29. To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act > and the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to authorize schools to > apply appropriate discipline measures in cases where students have... > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.969.IS] > 30. Stop Gun Trafficking Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.407.IS] > 31. To encourage States to require a holding period for any student > expelled for bringing a gun to school. (Introduced in the House) > [H.R.1723.IH] > 32. To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission to regulate > gun safety, and to ban the importation or manufacture of handguns which > do not have certain safety features. (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2008.IH] > 33. Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1501) to provide grants > to ensure increased accountability for juvenile offenders, and for > consideration of the bill (H.R. 2122) to require... (Reported in the House) > [H.RES.209.RH] > 34. Gun Kingpin Penalty Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1080.IS] > 35. Gun Kingpin Penalty Act > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.3057.IH] > 36. Gun Crime Prosecution Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2081.IH] > 37. Juvenile Gun Loophole Closure Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.891.IS] > 38. Juvenile Gun Loophole Closure Act > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2048.IH] > 39. To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission > to regulate gun safety, to ban the transfer of a firearm > to, or the possession of a firearm by, a person who has been > convicted of... > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2007.IH] > 40. Gun Retention Act of 1999 (Introduced in the House)[H.R.735.IH] > 41. Military Sniper Weapon Regulation Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2127.IH] > 42. Military Sniper Weapon Regulation Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1774.IS] > 43. Gun Dealer Responsibility Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1101.IS] > 44. Internet Gun Trafficking Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1245.IH] > 45. Internet Gun Trafficking Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.637.IS] > 46. Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.407.IH] > 47. Concealed Firearms Prohibition Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.967.IS] > 48. Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability > and Rehabilitation Act of 1999 > (Engrossed Senate Amendment)[H.R.1501.EAS] > 49. Child Safety Lock Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.149.IS] > 50. States' Rights and Second and Tenth Amendment Restoration Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.3444.IH] > > Ah, yes. Special Bonus Bill -- S2099, FULL GUN BAN ! ! ! ! ! > > [Thank you to Papa Canuk for sending in this atrocious list.] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Angel Shamaya > Editor, Webmaster, List Administrator > #1 - Webmaster@KeepAndBearArms.org > #2 - KABADirector@home.com > H. S. "Gunnie" Reagan, Ph.D., D.D. > Web Site Inspiration > Gunnie@amug.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Feedback and Support are welcome at our web site. > See our revised plan for a Super Pro-Freedom Web Site at > http://www.keepandbeararms.org/concept_for_unity.htm [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: larry ball Subject: HUD Prefers Gun Purchases from Companies Adhering to Code of Conduct, Date: 21 Mar 2000 11:56:44 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------30A246FF794320BF1D1AD906 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr00-57.html --------------30A246FF794320BF1D1AD906 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name="pr00-57.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline; filename="pr00-57.html" Content-Base: "http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr00-57.ht ml" Content-Location: "http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr00-57.ht ml" HUD Prefers Gun Purchases from Companies Adhering to Code of Con= duct, Calls on Mayors To Unite in Preference for the Companies
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HUD PREFERS GUN PURCHASES FROM COMPANIES ADHERING TO CODE OF CONDUC= T, CALLS ON MAYORS TO UNITE IN PREFERENCE FOR THE COMPANIES

WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo tod= ay announced he will direct the nation's 3,200 public housing authorities= to give preference in their gun purchases to any gun makers that adopt a= new code of responsible conduct. The new code, agreed upon Friday by Smi= th & Wesson and the Clinton Administration, will make guns safer and keep= them out of the hands of children and criminals.

In addition to covering gun purchases by housing authorities, Cuomo's = directive - to be implemented by regulation - will encourage the authorit= ies to apply the same requirement to private subcontractors that provide = security at housing developments.

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The agreement was signed Friday by state and local governments along w= ith Smith & Wesson and the Clinton Administration. Purchases by housing a= uthorities will have to be made consistent with all local, state and fede= ral procurement laws and regulations.

In addition, Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex= Penales, and Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell today joined Cuomo in calling o= n local governments around the nation to issue the same directive to thei= r police and sheriff's departments.

Action by local law enforcement departments to prefer gun purchases fr= om gun manufacturers that adopt the design and distribution standards wou= ld have a major impact. More than a quarter of all firearms sales in the = nation are to law enforcement agencies.

"It's in the interest of housing authorities, local governments and th= e American people to reduce gun violence and save lives, and our agreemen= t with Smith & Wesson will achieve these goals," Cuomo said. "Any company= that signs this agreement deserves our support and our business for acti= ng responsibly and in the public interest."

Local and state governments joined Smith & Wesson - America's largest = gun manufacturer - and the Clinton Administration in approving the code o= f conduct Friday. The local governments and the Clinton Administration ag= reed to drop pending lawsuits against Smith & Wesson as part of the agree= ment.

The following local governments have so far approved the agreement: Mi= ami-Dade County, FL; Los Angeles, Inglewood, San Francisco, West Hollywoo= d, Sacramento and Berkeley in California; Bridgeport, CT; Atlanta, GA; Ca= mden, NJ; St. Louis, MO; Detroit, MI; Gary, IN; New Orleans; Newark, NJ. = More of the 30 local governments with pending lawsuits against gun maker= s soon could decide to sign the agreement.

As a result of its approval of the code of conduct, Smith & Wesson wi= ll undertake a series of actions. Among these, the company will: 1) Inst= all mandatory gun locks and other child-safety devices on all guns. 2) In= troduce "smart gun" technology in all newly designed handguns. 3) Bar gun= sales - including gun show sales - without a background check of the buy= er. 4) Limit multiple handgun sales. Sixteen local governments and two st= ates have also approved the landmark agreement.

Kevin Marchman, Executive Director of the National Organization of Afr= ican Americans in Housing, said his group supports the code of conduct ag= reement and actions that encourage compliance with the code.

"By this brave action, Smith &Wesson has singled itself out for attack= by those who choose to shield themselves behind false arguments, rather = than accept common sense practices that both protect our children from ha= rm and our rights," Marchman said. "By enforcing new sales practices, Smi= th and Wesson is acting as a responsible corporate citizen and gun consum= ers should reward them for this action. We look forward to working with = the Administration and HUD in making this gun safety agreement universal.= "

The agreement was signed for the Clinton Administration Friday by Cuom= o and Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. In addition, the agreement = was signed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Att= orney General Richard Blumenthal on behalf of their states. Smith & Wess= on President and CEO L.E. Shultz signed the agreement for the company.

The U.S. government will require any additional gun manufacturers join= ing in the agreement to meet all the requirements set for Smith & Wesson,= with the possibility of some additional concessions.

The agreement is the product of negotiations between HUD, the Treasury= Department and local governments with Smith & Wesson that were designed = to settle lawsuits already filed against Smith & Wesson and to make new o= nes unnecessary.

The agreement is designed to reduce the toll of gun violence, which an= nually claims over 30,000 lives and injures another 100,000 people in cri= mes, accidents and suicides around the nation.

A commission made up of two representatives from local governments, on= e from states, one from Smith & Wesson and one selected by the U.S. Burea= u of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will oversee the agreement.

The Oversight Commission will have the power to notify Smith & Wesson = of any gun dealer violations. This notification will trigger penalties ag= ainst gun dealers by Smith & Wesson and the Commission that could include= barring dealers from selling Smith & Wesson products.

Smith & Wesson will also take action, including suspension or terminat= ion, against dealers responsible for a disproportionate number of crime g= un traces. This provision is designed to focus industry attention on the = relatively small number of current dealers that are the source of many gu= ns used in crimes. An estimated 57 percent of guns used in crimes are sol= d by just 1.2 percent of dealers.

Under the agreement, all guns must have child safety devices, include = internal locks, hidden serial numbers and pass stringent performance test= s.

Smith & Wesson will also devote 2 percent of revenues to develop "smar= t gun" technology and will equip all newly designed guns with such techno= logy within three years. "Smart guns" can only be fired by an authorized= person, making them useless in the hands of thieves or children who coul= d get hold of guns.

Other provisions of the agreement, which apply to Smith &Wesson and it= s dealers include requirements that:

  • No sales can be made until the buyer passes a background check.
  • Guns cannot be marketed to appeal to children or criminals.
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  • No sales can be made at a gun show unless background checks are p= erformed for all sales.
  • A purchaser can take home only one gun at the time of purchase an= d must wait two weeks to pick up additional guns. This is designed to pr= event illegal traffickers from buying large quantities of guns.
    • Within six months, packaging of new guns must include a warning o= n the risk of having a firearm in the home and suggestions for safe stora= ge.
    • Gun stores must have a security plan and guns and bullets must be= kept locked and separated.
    • Gun dealer employees must complete annual training and pass an ex= am.
    • Distributors can only sell to other distributors or dealers that = agree to abide by the agreement.
    • Smith & Wesson agrees to work with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco= and Firearms (ATF) to establish a system for firing each gun it makes an= d entering digital images of the casings into the National Integrated Bal= listics Identification (NIBIN) system and accessible by ATF. This will ma= ke it easier for law enforcement to trace bullet casings used in crimes b= ack to the guns that fired them.
    • Establishment of a trust fund by Smith & Wesson to implement a pu= blic service campaign to inform people about the risk of firearms in the = home, proper home storage, the importance of proper disposal and need to = reduce gun violence.

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--------------30A246FF794320BF1D1AD906-- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Living Drech Date: 23 Mar 2000 22:26:31 PST >From now on, if anyone tries to tell you that the Constitution is not an Absolute Contract, but rather a, "Living Document", whose meaning is subject to change, blow them out of the water with the following Legal Referent. The reference comes thanks to: C. D. Tavares Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now. -- SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: skip Subject: Re: Living Drech Date: 24 Mar 2000 10:17:44 -0800 Bill Vance wrote: > > >From now on, if anyone tries to tell you that the Constitution is not an > Absolute Contract, but rather a, "Living Document", whose meaning is subject > to change, blow them out of the water with the following Legal Referent. > > The reference comes thanks to: C. D. Tavares > > Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! > > The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning > does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it > means now. > -- SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) > And we could (and should) add to that quote, for the benefit of the "living document" crowd, "If you don't agree with what the constitution says, amend it - if you can - but we won't stand for ignoring it or regarding it as a ball of fluff to be shaped to support passing fancies." Skip - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: more gun poll (fwd) Date: 24 Mar 2000 10:54:43 PST On Mar 24, pukanecz@exchange.vt.edu wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] http://news.excite.com/news/poll/ [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] Fwd: Upcoming Vote on WTO Withdrawal! (fwd) Date: 24 Mar 2000 10:56:13 PST On Mar 24, Charles F. Nawrocki wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] //// SENT FYI ////// Please read and write your letters to Congress. Lets get rid of the WTO./////////// /////// REMEMBER SEATTLE////////// Let your voice be heard,///////// >To: alerts@jbs.org >Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:37:28 -0500 >Subject: Upcoming Vote on WTO Withdrawal! >From: alerts@jbs.org > >The John Birch Society Action Network Alert! >March 23, 2000 > >Upcoming Vote on WTO Withdrawal! > >Action Needed: Write to your representative and both of your senators >demanding that they vote in favor of H.J.Res. 90, a bill to get the U.S. >out of the dangerous World Trade Organization. Also, get your friends, >neighbors and associates to do the same. > >Status: A floor vote before the full House and Senate is a virtual >certainty by the first week of June. Under rules set up by the original >WTO agreement, the House and Senate must consider legislation under >privileged procedures that all but guarantee a vote within (approximately) >90 days of introduction of the bill. > >Summary: If passed, this bill would get the United States completely out >of the World Trade Organization. Like most good legislation, H.J.Res. 90 >is short. Here is the entire text of the bill: > >"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States >of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress withdraws its >approval, provided under section 101(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements >Act, of the WTO Agreement as defined in section 2(9) of that Act." > > >Resources: >1. Interview of Rep. Ron Paul on H.J.Res. 90 in upcoming April 24, 2000 >issue of The New American: >http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/04-24-2000/vo16no09_wto.htm > >2. "Trading Away Our Sovereignty" by Thomas R. Eddlem: >http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1994/vo10no05.htm > >3. For a complete analysis of the WTO please go to: >http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/trade/index.htm > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this email network go to: >http://www.jbs.org/emailfrm.htm >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >The John Birch Society >http://www.jbs.org [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: Living Drech Date: 24 Mar 2000 11:14:02 PST On Mar 24, skip wrote: >Bill Vance wrote: >> >> >From now on, if anyone tries to tell you that the Constitution is not an >> Absolute Contract, but rather a, "Living Document", whose meaning is subject >> to change, blow them out of the water with the following Legal Referent. >> >> The reference comes thanks to: C. D. Tavares >> >> Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! >> >> The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning >> does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it >> means now. >> -- SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) >> > >And we could (and should) add to that quote, for the benefit of the >"living document" crowd, "If you don't agree with what the constitution >says, amend it - if you can - but we won't stand for ignoring it or >regarding it as a ball of fluff to be shaped to support passing >fancies." > >Skip AMEN! -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [newsucanuse] VIN -- hairdressers as snitches (fwd) Date: 24 Mar 2000 23:08:32 PST On Mar 24, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Watch what you tell your hairdresser Hairdressers "are often confidantes for many people," explains Veronica Boyd-Frenkel, Nevada's "domestic violence ombudsman" ... whatever that is. "They may hear things even someone's best friend may not hear and they might notice injuries," Ms. Boyd-Frenkel continues, explaining why the state of Nevada -- which licenses hairdressers through the Board of Cosmetology -- is now launching a series of training seminars designed to help hairdressers recognize the signs of domestic abuse, and even hopes to "integrate the training into beauty school classes" required by state law. In addition to listening closely, the hairdressers would now be expected to watch for those telltale signs -- a bump, a bruise, a missing clump of hair -- and heaven help the husband of a woman who banged her head in a fender-bender yesterday. "They don't necessarily have to be counselors," explains Ms. Boyd-Frenkel, soothingly, "but we're trying to help them be a referral source for these victims." With training being provided by the state attorney general's office? The last time I checked, bartenders used to hear a lot of complaints about marital troubles, too. Shall they now be required to take government courses on how to "snitch out" their customers to those enforcing the domestic abuse laws -- hey, maybe even the child support laws? Domestic battery is a serious matter. Mind you, it can be just as potent a threat to the sanctity of our families when "child welfare" snoops start pre-emptively pulling children out of homes because the baby-sitter reported "unexplained bruises." I grow a bit tired of "dad" always be presumed guilty. But of course a real victim of abuse and battery should be urged to remove herself from such an environment, and then to seek legal assistance. Beating people up is a crime. Nonetheless, one suspects Nevada's state Board of Cosmetology -- which heretofore has been nothing but an unnecessary protection racket, limiting unwelcome, lower-cost competition for the state's existing beauty salons -- is merely hunting here for another way to justify its existence. Once we start down this road, shall we also require garage mechanics to report any sign that a car has been driven above the speed limit -- threatening to "pull their mechanics' licenses" if they don't comply? Yes, yes, everything will be "according to their judgment." But look at the FDIC regulations which call for bank employees to "use their judgment" in reporting to the IRS or DEA any large cash transaction which "looks suspicious." Rather than risk the appearance of complicity, the "default setting" in our banks is now to require everyone making a $5,000 cash withdrawal to "fill out the forms." Isn't it? This latest "turn in your customer" program is modeled after one in Connecticut, we're told. Oh, good choice. Connecticut, the only state in the union that now encourages anonymous callers to turn in their neighbors for owning firearms -- perfectly legal firearms -- whereupon the police will go to that gun-owner's home, seize the weapons, and hold them while investigating the neighbor's worries that the law-abiding gun-owner "might be dangerous." (A Bridgeport man who lives with his mother became the first victim of the new law, last fall. The weapons seized included heirlooms that had been in the family for generations.) If Ms. Boyd-Frenkel wants to urge hair salons to put up signs with the state's domestic violence "800-number" help line, well and good. But we do not need state agencies training citizens after the model of the East German Stasi, which ended up with fully one third of the nation snitching on the other two-thirds. Let us not forget the "well-meaning experts" who interviewed children with the aid of anatomically correct dolls, refusing to take "no" for an answer and eliciting from those reluctant children bizarre tales of animal sacrifice and sex abuse, with the result that dozens of innocent day care workers were jailed in rampant child-abuse witch hunts in this very country, not 20 years ago. Though hardly infallible -- see above -- police psychologists and domestic violence counselors are called professionals because they've received hundreds of hours of intensive training, been subjected to rigorous examinations, and hopefully even been taught about "look-alike" symptoms which may result from little-known medical conditions, or situations in which the courts have ruled the state simply has no right to interfere with a family's privacy. Hairdressers are fine people, but very few have had this kind of training. They should not be encouraged to assume this role, based on some ill-considered quickie "course" forced on them by a government board that holds the power to suspend their "license" to make a living. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement," is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. *** - If you have subscribed to vinsends@ezlink.com and you wish to unsubscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your OLD address, including the word "unsubscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution. The Vinsends list is maintained by Alan Wendt in Colorado, who may be reached directly at alan@ezlink.com. The web sites for the Suprynowicz column are at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm, and http://www.nguworld.com/vindex. The Vinyard is maintained by Michael Voth in Flagstaff, who may be reached directly at mvoth@infomagic.com. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] IRS cooperates for global taxation (fwd) Date: 25 Mar 2000 09:38:14 PST On Mar 24, lecapra8@centurytel.net wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] First paragraph of instruction form for IRS Form 8822 (Change of Address) "Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act Notice We ask for this information to carry out the Internal Revenue Laws of the United States. We may give the information to the Department of Justice and to other Federal agencies, as provided by law. We may also give it to cities, states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. commonwealths or possessions to carry out their tax laws. And we may give it to foreign governments because of tax treaties they have with the United States." Excuse me! Foreign governments? Tax treaties? For a planned UN tax maybe?, to support global occupation/intervention troops, maybe? (Expletive deleted) Disturbed citizen. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [newsucanuse] VIN-- Eisenhower (fwd) Date: 25 Mar 2000 11:20:17 PST On Mar 25, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MARCH 24, 2000 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz The Eisenhower enigma When Robert A. Taft stepped aside (more's the pity) in 1952 and allowed Dwight David Eisenhower to claim the GOP presidential nomination unchallenged, it was only on Eisenhower's personal promise, man-to-man, that Eisenhower would keep GOP platform promises (dating back to '36) to roll back the Roosevelt welfare state, and especially that he would trim back the harmful misallocation of resources to the massive peacetime military-industrial complex. Eisenhower broke those promises with a sneer. Though no one would have taken the general for a member of the Psychic Friends Network, he did have sufficient military experience -- with an emphasis on production capacity and logistics -- to have applied at least (start ital)some(end ital) skepticism to the vastly overblown CIA estimates that Russia (by then a slave state held together with baling wire and patch-welds) was about to become more economically powerful than the U.S. Yet Eisenhower remains a curiously ominous figure, passively stroking his putter (at best) while red-baiters like Nixon and Tailgunner Joe McCarthy savaged the First Amendment, and the Dulles brothers busied themselves overturning elected regimes and installing puppet tinpot dictators from Tehran to Managua. This is not to minimize the evils of communism -- that regime of mass slavery and organized murder now stands hideously exposed, and with it every fellow traveler who ever grabbed for the fig leaves of "socialism," "progressivism," and "modest agrarian reform." But who can yet measure the long-term results of turning this country, in the minds of an (initially) disbelieving world, from the Font of Freedom into The Cloaked Assassin in the Night? At the very least, I believe we can thank Ike for today's familiar and oppressive regime of airport metal detectors and strip-searches, fobbed off as "protection" against the hobgoblin of "international terrorism." Has anyone bothered to simply ask these (rare) rascals why they hate us? Most importantly, Eisenhower made no efforts (that I've been able to discern) to roll back the Roosevelt New Deal and implode some of its most counterproductive agencies, at precisely the time that a booming post-war economy and a public desire "to get back to normal" created the best historical opportunity to do so. I blame Nixon and Ford and even Reagan for not doing more to roll back Washington City's burgeoning and extraconstitutional welfare/police state. But at least they had the excuse that "These agencies have been entrenched for 40 years. Their unionized employees now elect congressmen. Get real." Eisenhower had no such excuse. Why should we assume Americans wouldn't have (start ital)welcomed(end ital) an announcement, shortly after the end of the Korean War, from Ike the calm and reassuring father-figure, that "The Great Depression is over. The Second World War is over. Even granting that our late, great leader President Roosevelt meant well and did the best he could in our time of trial, the voters have now rejected his faction and its collectivist, interventionist legacy. Just as we returned to normal in 1919, let us now systematically close down most of these dated Depression-era federal agencies of Messrs. Hoover and Roosevelt, with all their taxes and regulations so foreign to a free, peacetime America ..." If Harding and Coolidge deserve credit for rolling back many of the dangerous and unconstitutional usurpations of the "Progressive" Wilson era (I recently asked historian Jeff Hummel, author of "Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men," who lists Eisenhower among the nation's 10 greatest presidents) why not hold Eisenhower responsible for failing to do the same in 1953-1956, when the best opportunity presented itself? This week, Mr. Hummel replied: "Taft indeed would probably have been a much more libertarian president than Eisenhower (though the comparison of Jefferson out of office and in office reminds us that our expectations can always be disappointed). I give Eisenhower high marks nonetheless primarily for his foreign policy, which you know I weight heavily. He ended the Korean war, as he promised. Less well known is his impact on real military spending. ... "There are other ways in which Eisenhower moved to ease Cold War tensions (such as Summit meetings), all of which were reversed under Kennedy. Eisenhower also refused to get the U.S. too involved in Vietnam at the time of the French defeat. "Yes, with respect to domestic policy, Eisenhower didn't do enough to roll back the New Deal. But at least there were few new statist initiatives, as there had been under Truman and would be again under Kennedy-Johnson. (The two worst exceptions are the acts creating the Interstate highway system and federal aid to education, both passed as Cold War defense initiatives)," Mr. Hummel continued. "Remember finally that these ratings are relative. Whom besides those I've put in the top 9 would you rank above Eisenhower? Your previous suggestion of Andrew Johnson is actually a strong one, because he did preside over significant post-Civil War demobilization. Yet he had almost no influence on that, while at the same time he encouraged the southern states to set up their heinous system of Black Codes for the freed slaves. Not only was that a gross violation of civil liberties in and of itself, but it also fostered the backlash of Republican Reconstruction." Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at $24.95 postpaid by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken * * * To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution. The Vinsends list is maintained by Alan Wendt in Colorado, who may be reached directly at alan@ezlink.com. The web sites for the Suprynowicz column are at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm, and http://www.nguworld.com/vindex. The Vinyard is maintained by Michael Voth in Flagstaff, who may be reached directly at mvoth@infomagic.com. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: AMERICAN FREEDOM QUIZ (fwd) Date: 25 Mar 2000 11:19:22 PST On Mar 25, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] > From: "Victor Forsythe" > > AMERICAN FREEDOM QUIZ > > 1. Which one of the following countries recently voided an election and > threatened to arrest local officials who attempt to implement voter approved > initiatives? > > A. North Korea > B. China > C. Russia > D. United States of America > > 2. Which of the following countries is the ONLY country that allows > police to jail sick people and keep their property? > > A. China > B. Somalia > C. Cuba > D. United States of America > > 3. Which of the following countries is the ONLY country that sends > police into schools to indoctrinate students and urge them to turn in > parents who may be using unapproved medicines? > > A. China > B. Afghanistan > C. Iran > D. United States of America > > 4. Amnesty International recently identified which country as a major > violator of human rights and one of the worst countries in the world > with respect to abuse of women prisoners. > > A. China > B. Somalia > C. Cuba > D. United States of America > > 5. Current U.S. drug policy is failing, drugs are cheaper and more > plentiful than ever, our jails are at 200% occupancy and sick people are > being persecuted and for what reason? > > A. Our drug laws were written by drunks. > B. The Alcohol Industry spends $1.5 billion per year on advertising. > C. Partnership for a Drug Free America is a PAC for the liquor lobby. > D. All of the above. > > 6. The official U.S. policy towards sick and dying people who use > medical marijuana includes which tactics? > > A. Arrest and treat as criminals, regardless of medical documentation. > B. Seize all medicine and assets; destroy all plants. > C. Use high bails and conspiracy charges to coerce plea bargains. > D. All of the above > > 7. It's been 2 1/2 years since the passage of Prop. 215; what has > changed? > > A. Marijuana arrests have gone UP. > B. Sick and dying patients are being arrested in record numbers. > C. Not one county or state agency has implemented Prop. 215. > D. All of the above. > > 8. How does the War on Drugs differ from all other wars? > > A. The goal isn't territory or property but behavior control. > B. It's a war without end, against our own citizens. > C. Sick and dying people are denied humanitarian rights and jailed > instead. > D. All of the above. > > 9. Separation of Church and State has been interpreted by U.S. officials to > mean that government can do what? > > A. Adopt Puritanism as the official state religion > B. Decide what substances are good and which are bad. > C. Jail, rob and humiliate anyone who uses any substance deemed harmful. > D. All of the above. > > 10. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew over 100 acres of > hemp. > How would these two Founding Fathers be punished today for growing this much > hemp? > > A. No punishment, since hemp is has very little THC and won't get you > high. > B. No punishment, since growing a plant in an inalienable right. > C. Some punishment since it violates the Controlled Substances Act. > D. Life in Prison > > 11. Although President Clinton and many prominent U.S. officials have > admitted to trying marijuana, how many Americans have been arrested, > strip-searched, finger-printed and publicly humiliated for the same > thing? > > A. None > B. Some > C. 100,000 > D. Over 1 million > > 12. According to estimates from various human rights organizations, how many > children have been legally orphaned from their incarcerated parent(s) by > America's War on Drugs? > > A. None > B. Some > C. 100,000 > D. Over 1 million > > Answers: The correct answer to each of the questions is "D" > > > Angelmans Heaven: > www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/4124/index1.html > My homepage > http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/AquariusAve/angelman3/index.html > My newsgroup. To subscribe, send blank email to: > 1wonderswhy-subscribe@onelist.com > > Help Stop Domestic Violence - Get the government out of our bedroom. 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[------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: FWD: -3- Tax-free Education Savings for K-12; GrandParents can Date: 25 Mar 2000 11:37:49 PST On Mar 25, by way of Josephine Lindsay Bass wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >From: Concerned Women for America >Reply-To: ean@www.cwfa.org >To: "TheBridger@hotmail.com" >Subject: Education Savings Accolunts >Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:29:56 -0500 > >C o n c e r n e d W o m e n f o r A m e r i c a >the nation's largest public policy women's organization > >Friday, March 24, 2000 > > >Dear Friends, > >We have several important items to bring to your attention: > > >2. Education Savings Accounts > >The House is expected to vote on H.R. 7, The Education Savings and >School Excellence Act of 1999 (ESA), as early as Wednesday, March 29. >H.R. 7 would expand current education IRA contribution limits from >$500 to $2000 per year. > ESAs would allow families to save their own hard-earned money >in a tax-free IRA to pay for their children s educational expenses >for grades K-12 at public, private, religious and home schools. This >bill would also allow grandparents, mentors, concerned citizens, >corporations and non-profits to contribute as well. > >Please contact your representative and urge him or her to >vote for H.R. 7. You can do this at: >http://congress.nw.dc.us/cgi-bin/alertpr.pl?dir=cwfa&alert=5 > >Thank you! > >CWA's Legislation Department >http://legislation.cwfa.org/ > >__________ >__________ Current News >A direct correlation exists between the quality of education and >student behavior. Legislators, school board members and administrators are >taking great strides to become proactive; they are anticipating and >monitoring behavioral problems and preventing violence in our schools. >http://cwfa.org/library/education/2000-03-15_s-safety >_____ > >Attention Students: Come to Washington for an Internship, or compete >for a scholarship! Find out more: >http://cwfa.org/about/student > > >Concerned Women for America >1015 15th St. NW >Suite 1100 >Washington, DC 20005 >http://cwfa.org/ [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] Fwd: Great News! (fwd) Date: 25 Mar 2000 23:32:06 PST On Mar 25, DBuhlman@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Dear David Buhlman, Great News! The Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct has made April 21, 2000 the deadline for Bill Clinton to respond to the Southeastern Legal Foundation's charges that he is unfit to be a lawyer. It looks like President Clinton's stonewalling on his Arkansas ethics proceeding could finally come to an end. Southeastern Legal Foundation first filed the complaint with the Arkansas ethics committee in September of 1998. Bill Clinton's friends and cronies in Arkansas sat on the complaint until SLF went to the Arkansas Supreme Court last December and asked for and received a court order directing the state ethics committee take action. Absent this SLF action, the ethics committee would not have proceeded. Because of this court order obtained by Southeastern Legal Foundation, the committee eventually initiated the disciplinary process against the President and ordered him to respond to the allegations against him. Predictably, the President asked that the ethics committee doing nothing until after he left office. But now the Committee on Professional Conduct has denied the President's request and ordered that he must respond to Southeastern Legal Foundation's allegations by April 21st. This could be the first time in Bill Clinton's presidency that he pays a tangible price for his illegal behavior. For once, the rules that apply to every other lawyer will also apply to William Jefferson Clinton. But I know that Bill Clinton won't take this lying down. That's why the Southeastern Legal Foundation must be ready to continue to fight Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton has always regarded himself as considerably more equal than the rest of us when it comes to having to obey the rule of law. He will certainly fight any disciplinary action. So far, SLF has spent more than $120,000 to get the case this far. We are going to need at least $48,000 to cover the legal expenses through the important April 21 deadline. And I need your help at this crucial time. Do you think you could send a contribution at this time, David Buhlman? If you could send $50, $100, $250, $500 or even $1000, it would go a long way toward paying the high costs of making sure that Bill Clinton obeys the same rules as every other lawyer. Money is urgently needed and that is why I'm asking that you reply immediately to this email appeal. What ever amount you can give, $100, $250, $500 or $30 or $50 if that is all that is possible right now, will be gratefully accepted. Please reply right now - while you are thinking about it. Sincerely yours, Matthew J. 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Religious Wars! Why are we refighting the battles won/lost in the 15th century? I suspect We the People aren't, however, there are certain politicians among us trying to rekindle the flames of hatred. And I suspect, they have a lot of help in the mass media. Rich Martin Editor of Slick > THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BIGOTED > > By J. Peter Mulhern > > > The House of Representatives has a new chaplain and he's a > Catholic priest. For months Democrats have been attacking the > House Republican leadership for passing over a Catholic in favor > of a Presbyterian. This, they claimed, was proof of bigotry in > high places. This week the Presbyterian withdrew his name from > further consideration and Father Daniel Coughlin was sworn in as > the new House Chaplain. > > Democrats reported that some members of the selection committee > that vetted applicants for the chaplaincy said they would be > "uncomfortable" with a chaplain who dressed as a Roman Catholic > priest. They also allege that someone on the committee wanted to > know how an unmarried Catholic priest could "show that he was > moral," > > On these extremely thin grounds, Democrats tried to whip up > sectarian hostility to use as a weapon in their war for control > of the House. Father Andrew Greeley, the left-wing Catholic > priest, academic, and best-selling author revealed the political > purpose of fighting over the religious affiliation of the House > chaplain when he was interviewed on a National Public Radio > call-in chat show. When a caller asked what citizens could do to > fight against benighted attitudes toward the Catholic Church and > its faithful Father Greeley said "vote Democratic," > > John McCain's campaign field tested the bigotry theme for > Democrats. That theme crashed and burned in Republican > primaries, but Democrats plainly haven't given up on it yet. > They hope it can help them win back the House majority they still > believe to be theirs by divine right. > > This is not the politics of personal destruction. It is the > politics of societal destruction. > > Mutual suspicion and hostility have marked relations between > Catholics and Protestants since the schism that separated them in > the Sixteenth Century. The wounds run very deep; the scars can > still be seen in the new world. > > Enlightenment anti-clericalism was part of this country's > founding philosophy. American Protestants come by a certain > discomfort with Catholic clergy honestly. Nobody can entirely > transcend their roots. > > The suggestion that a reluctance to appoint Catholic clergy to > the House chaplaincy reveals bigotry is absurd. At most > Democrats have shown that some powerful Republicans are also > Evangelical Protestants who are conscious of the cultural and > historical rift that divides them from the Catholic Church. The > flap over a new Chaplain for the House is nothing but an > opportunity for Democrats to send a coded message to American > Catholics -- "You don't really like these Evangelicals and they > don't really like you. The Republican Party is their party and > you should have no part of it," > > There is nothing righteous about this message. It is a form of > hate speech, an unvarnished appeal to primitive tribal prejudice. > Democrats are betting that the embers of sectarian strife can be > fanned into flame even in a nation as placid as the United > States. Their bet probably won't pay off, but the fact that they > are placing it at all is revealing. > > Any winning Republican coalition will depend on a strong vote > from Americans who take their religion seriously. The Republican > Party is at least slightly less eager to embrace social > deterioration than is the Democratic Party. Religious people > tend toward social conservatism. Social conservatives may not > find a happy home with the Republicans, but there is no room for > them at all in Democrat ranks. > > In the United States people who take their religion seriously > fall into one of two groups. They are either Protestant or > Catholic. (Let's stipulate that our gorgeous mosaic includes > Jews, Muslims, Hindus etc. No non-Christian religious group is > large enough to be worth pursuing in a general election > campaign). If Democrats can drive a wedge between Protestants, > particularly Evangelicals, and Catholics so that neither group is > comfortable in a political alliance with the other, the > Republican Party will cease to be a serious competitor for > national leadership. The House would once more be in Democrat > hands and likely to remain so. > > This end seems to Democrats good enough to justify flirting with > the sort of religious division that has made Northern Ireland > such a happy place. It isn't just the Republican Party that > depends on a truce between Evangelicals and Catholics. The > entire country depends on that truce. The American willingness > to leave religious blood feuds in the Old World has contributed > greatly to our happiness and prosperity. Democrats are messing > about with powerful forces they understand dimly if they > understand them at all. > > The great irony in all this is that Evangelicals and Catholics > have every reason to unite in the face of a common enemy. The > Democratic Party comes close to being the institutional > embodiment of that enemy. Protestants who are annoyed by > "popery" pose no threat to the Catholic Church. Secular > modernity, on the other hand, poses a serious threat to the > Catholic Church and to every other religious institution. The > Democratic Party proudly acts as the political arm of secular > modernity in America. > > This is apparent in a range of social issues. From abortion to > homosexual rights the Democratic Party is arrayed against > religious and moral orthodoxy. It is also hostile to most forms > of cooperation between spiritual and civil authority. This is > most apparent in connection with education policy. > > Close allies of the Democratic Party make their antipathy for the > Catholic Church quite explicit. Several loyally Democratic > organizations that exist to promote abortion are agitating to > have the Vatican expelled from the United Nations in an effort to > muffle Catholic moral teachings and reduce the Church's influence > on international institutions. > > Catholics who care about their faith and their Church should > reject the Democrat effort to exploit ancient sectarian > hostilities. There's far more at stake here than a sinecure at > the House of Representatives. > > > J. Peter Mulhern can be reached at jpmulh@aol.com > > > > Published in the Mar. 27, 2000 issue of The Washington Weekly > Copyright 2000 The Washington Weekly. > Now Free Access to All Stories at http://www.federal.com [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] 17th Amendment (fwd) Date: 27 Mar 2000 13:26:55 PST On Mar 27, Charles F. Nawrocki wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] From The Desk Of Grandmothers For Honest Government P.O. Box 6934 Tyler, Texas 75711 Working for better government today and all of tomorrow's. Asking nothing for ourselves. PLEASE RE/POST THE 17th AMENDMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION Was it Valid? Was it Constitutional? Addressed to all State Legislators: The United States Constitution was ratified in 1787. For the following 125 Years through 1912 we had a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC; whereby, each State Legislature selected their two U.S. Senators. The House of Representatives, on the other hand was selected by direct popular vote. The basic premise was interded to give checks and balance in the Federal Legislature, making laws coming from two distinctly different points of view, maintaining State's Rights with a balance of influence between the States and the Federal Government. This Legislative check and balance were destroyed in 1913, (eighty-six years ago). The appointment of U.S. Senators by State Legislators was replaced by popular vote. This change was made in a period when force s were moving our Nation toward a more dominant central government. In the same year, 1913, this movement also brought Federal Reserve Banking and the FEDERAL INCOME TAX. With Unlimited taxing power and limitless spending, we have a Federal Government that is "out of control." This is the opinion of most Democrat and Republican State Legislatures. YOU can take an important step in bringing the Federal Government back in control while at the same time restoring much of the original structure of our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, with equal partnership between Federal and State Governments. James,Madison expressed in the Federalist Papers, "The State Legislature is the 'Voice of the State'and must be the vehicle for implementing States' Rights through selection of the U.S. Senators; ONLY THEN, shall the balance of power between the State and Federal Government be MAINTAINED in the U.S. Legislature." Was this basic structure of our Constitution altered? The last sentence of Article V of the Constitution clearly specifies, "NO STATE, WITHOUT ITS CONSENT, SHALL BE DEPRIVED ITS EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN THE SENATE." This is the key to States' Right's and States'Sovereignty! Each State Legislature has the right to choose their two U.S. Senators regardless of how other States select theirs. You will then hold your two U.S. Senators accountable to your State through State Legislature thereof. Article 1, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution, states, "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, CHOSEN BY THE LEGISLATURE THEREOF, for six years, and each Senator shall have one vote." In 1931 an Archive Research Study (U.S. Senate Document # 240) was made by the U.S. Senate in all forty-eight states. This study was to verify proof of the validity of the ratification of all the Constitutional Amendments. In 191 3 when three fourths or thirty-six of the then forty-eight States were needed to ratify an Amendment. The U.S. Senate Study in 1931 indicated 31 States ratifying the 17th Amendment in 1913, instead of the necessary 36 States. The State Archive Search in 1996 came to the same conclusion. The records do not confirm ratification in seventeen states. Following are the results of this Archive Research. - Five States (Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, and Alabama) were not in session in 1913 and never considered the 17th Amendment. - Georgia and Rhode Island (issue died in Committee) - South Carolina (postponed the issue) - Florida (never reached the State Senate) - Utah and Delaware (rejected the 17th Amendment) - Maine and New Hampshire's votes and procedure were questionable (voice vote only). Maine's record of voting in either chamber is nonexistent. New Hampshire's record of State Senate vote is nonexistent. - The States of North Carolina, Connecticut, and Massachusetts show no record of a vote in one or both Legislative Chambers. Louisiana passed in May 1914 (one year after the facts) Regardless, the political pundits did not have the commission for changing our Basic form of Government. THE CONCLUSION-IS -- THE 17TH AMENDMENT WAS NEVER PROPERLY RATIFIED. You may ask, "Why hasn't this question of validity been addressed through the Federal Courts?" The answer is, it has been addressed several times. However, the usual court answer, "It is too late to do anything about this Amendment because it is already built into our System of Government." This issue was set aside, by the 7th Federal Circuit Court over a decade ago. (Law of Prescription) As for the American people they are mostly honest and hard working. They are our nation's taxpayers and they know right from wrong-The problem with this amendment is :ust a simple math problem in addition and it is never too late to correct a problem most especially when it completely changes the intent of our Founding Fathers who gave us the most perfect government the world has ever known. Since this amendment was never properly ratified, it is the duty of each State Legislature to select two of their members to represent their respective State in the United States Senate as set forth in the United States Constitution ratified in 1787. Let us live up to the intention of our Country's Founders and take action on this part of our Constitution; whereby, you, the State Legislators may select your two U.S. Senators. It's up to YOU -not the Federal Courts to bring back what we yearn for -- a Federal Government under better control, whereby, you in the State Legislature may have a say in Federal Taxation and spending. Now is your opportunity to take immediate action on this important issue by returning to our Constitutional Republic. FOLLOWING IS THE BILL OR RESOLUTION TO BE INTRODUCED IN EACH STATE FOR ACTIVATIND STATE LEGISLATIVE SELECTION OF THE TWO UNITED STATES SENATORS THEREOF 1. Continuation or curtailment of the terms of the present U.S. Senators to be left to the discretion of the State Legislatures thereof. 2. The wages of a U.S. Senator appointed by a State Leciislature shall be paid by that State, and that Senator shall be accountable to the State Legislature thereof. 3. The last clause of Article V of the U.S. Constitution specifies; "...THAT NO STATE, WITHOUT ITS CONSENT SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF ITS EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN THE SENATE." (This is the key to the very existence of States' rights in the U.S. Senate) 4. States choosing to implement Article V shall activate Article 1, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, CHOSEN BY THE LEGISLATURE THEREOF, for six years, and each Senator shall have one vote." 5. The Federal Courts shall have no commission in this basic structure of our Government. (The Constitutional Republic) 6. The States built and implemented our basic Constitution form of Government including the Federal Courts -- It's the Commission of the States -- not the Federal Courts -- to maintain this basic Governmental structure -- the product of the constitutional convention in 1787. 7. There shall be NO ATTEMPT to use this Resolution as a vehicle to open up a Constitutional Convention. It is not a question of altering this excellent form of Government, but it is.a question of adhering to the basic premises of this important document -- THE CONSTITUTION. Submitted by, Grandmothers for Honest Government Working for better government today and all of our tomorrows asking nothing for ourselves. Myra Davis-Dippel, President P.O. Box 6934 - Tyler, Texas 75711 NOTE: Myra and I have been working on this for several years. This letter was sent to all of the State Legislatures of the 50 States United. It needs to be done again. Myra has had a stroke and can not do any work on this for the time being or may never be able to. In my opinion it would be nice if a group from every state would pick up the work and carry it through your State Legislature and get the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution voided and give States control over their Senators in Washington, D.C. again. If you have time please send Myra a Get Well Card. Rocky [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: McGehee's News & Comment - March 27, 2000 (fwd) Date: 27 Mar 2000 20:00:56 PST On Mar 27, The McGehee Zone wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] McGEHEE'S NEWS & COMMENT (c) 2000 KEVIN McGEHEE Newnan, Georgia mail@mcgeheezone.com http://www.mcgeheezone.com/ Permission granted to anyone wishing to forward, redistribute, or broadcast this article WITH FULL ATTRIBUTION. ================================================================ HERE THEY COME -- AGAIN They're back, and they're coming for the abortion plank in the GOP platform. They've come for it every four years since 1980. They've failed every time. And they keep voting Republican, giving lie to their dire warnings that the abortion plank drives their ilk away from the party of Lincoln and Reagan. Each time they come, they argue that eliminating the plank won't hurt the party's chances on Election Day, because the pro-lifers "have nowhere else to go." In truth, pro-lifers and others -- who watch the GOP's stance on abortion as a bellwether of what the party will do on other movement issues -- have demonstrated effectively, and repeatedly, that they don't have to go anywhere at all to make their point -- including to the polls. Insanity has often been defined as "doing the same thing over and over, again and again, each time expecting a different result." So what does that make this quixotic splinter group that keeps trying, and failing, to remove the abortion plank? The fact is that in recent years, abortion has not been on anybody's front burner. Since President Clinton and the Democrats, with the help of the four divisions of the U.S. Ministry of Propaganda (ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN), turned aside efforts to ban partial-birth abortions, elected officials have by and large left the issue alone. "Pro-choice" activists have been virtually invisible in the popular "news" media, and if it weren't for "moderate" Republicans bashing their pro-life brethren during the run-up to the national convention you might not even know there was such a thing as an abortion "issue." This is not to say, though, that *nobody* cares about it. Obviously there are still activists out there who support the unregulated availability of abortion at any time for any reason (or none whatsoever), and some of them are obviously bent on making their quadrennial mischief in the Republican Party in order to get their faces on television and their names in the newspapers. And there are also pro-lifers, nearly all in the GOP, whose votes will turn on whether the party stays true to its longstanding (and long politically beneficial) position on abortion. The idea that millions of single-issue "pro-choicers" will suddenly abandon the party of sexual abandon to vote Republican, if only the GOP will drop its pro-life platform plank, is lunacy at its maddest. "Pro-choice" Republicans may argue that the plank costs the GOP more votes than it gains, but that is so obviously untrue that any rational person who uttered it would have to be engaging in farce. Plank opponents claim to fear that abortion, and other movement issues such as gun rights and substantive education reform, could marginalize the Republican Party in the way that the movement issues of the Left marginalized the Democrats. But there are differences that these "moderates," in their homage to moral equivalence, are ignoring. For one thing, as an example, law-abiding gun owners number in the tens of millions, making them a potential voting bloc of monumental proportions, if the typical gun owner should ever become as mobilized as are the few million who actively belong to gun-rights organizations. What potential voting bloc exists supporting gun control? According to the most scientific polls, there is none. Education reform is an issue that the Democrats have been trying to co-opt for years because of both its tremendous power as an issue and the long-term havoc they could suffer if substantive reform were ever implemented. The Left's movement issues include -- besides abortion -- "gay rights," radical environmentalism, and animal "rights." In almost every case, when mainstream Americans have these issues explained to them, overwhelming majorities reject the Left's position. Voters have rejected "gay marriage," for example, in liberal Hawaii, libertarian Alaska, and diverse California, all by huge margins. Obviously the Democrats have a serious movement-issue gap. It's only right that they should have become marginalized because of the looney positions that movement voter blocs have imposed on their platform. The GOP's movement issues, though, are far more mainstream than even those of *non-movement* Democrats! In contrast, hard-core abortion voters on both sides do seem fairly evenly matched, with a sizeable middle segment whose views lie in between, on the one hand, supporting abortion on demand regardless of need and, on the other, opposing all abortions all the time. This makes abortion an excellent defining issue for both parties, and all things being equal neither party should back away from its position until the middle begins to move decisively in one direction or another. Of course, all things are not equal -- when the issue is defined in the terms that resonate best with typical voters, the pro-life position tends to draw more support than does its opposition. "Pro-choice" activists can only hold off public opinion by obfuscating the issue with confusing jargon that conceals the cruel reality behind the soothing rhetoric. And that is undoubtedly what motivates the "pro-choice" Republicans. So long as the GOP stands in opposition to a practice that victimizes the most innocent, there is the risk that its stand will eventually turn America against the practice. And so the "pro-choice" handful tries, and tries, and tries yet again, to marginalize the much larger and -- within the GOP -- much more mainstream pro-life multitude. Perhaps if the GOP's "pro-choice" splinter group ever realized that the so-called "mainstream" media isn't, they might realize that a strategy that resonates with Peter, Dan, Tom and Bernie is pretty well doomed -- not only in the Republican Party but in America as a whole. Meanwhile, they'll just keep coming. And losing. And coming back again... -30- March 27, 2000 ================================================================ McGehee's News & Comment will not appear on April 3 or 10. I'm taking the next couple of weeks off to consider a new direction for this project. Watch for the next distribution on Monday, April 17, 2000. ================================================================ This article can also be read online at http://www.mcgeheezone.com/news&comment/2000/0327.htm The views expressed herein are entirely those of the author(s), and do not reflect those of any person or group with whom the author(s) may be affiliated, unless explicitly labelled as doing so. --... ...-- -.. . -.- .-.. ----- - -.-- [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: Peace Officer (fwd) Date: 28 Mar 2000 09:53:41 PST On Mar 28, Margi Crook wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Dear Peace Officer: I don't want to kill you. I don't even want to wound you. I admire your courage and the commitment you've made to help others, often at the risk of your own life. I hope you won't come for me, because if you do, one of us will die. It may be you. I've done nothing wrong. I don't intend to. But the government that you serve has passed too many laws. I am sure to accidentally break one, some day. And that same government is systematically destroying the unalienable rights which our Constitution says may not be infringed - very specifically, my right to keep and bear arms. I am not some wacko lunatic, but I can no longer stand idly by, while decent people are systematically enslaved by an out-of-control government. I cannot allow a corrupt judiciary to use its power to destroy my rights and my country. That government and that judiciary has begun to use you to arrest and kill people just like me - people who believe that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean what they say. You don't know me, but you see me every day. I may be a businessman, a truck driver, an executive. I could be a housewife or a salesman. But I am armed, as Americans have been for over 250 years, and I am determined to keep the freedoms that only an armed people may retain. With a rifle, I can hit a man-sized target at 800 yards. At shorter distances, in the blink of an eye, I can hit a head-size target with a handgun. I don't wear a uniform. I don't drive a marked car. I don't wear camouflage. I could be your own secretary, or your barber. I might be the guy who delivers your bottled water, or the parcel delivery lady. You don't know who I am, or what arms I have, and you never will. I am millions. I am America. But I know you. I know your uniform, your car, and your work schedule. I know where you work, and where you live. And that is good for you, because not only am I no threat to you, so long as you do the job for which you are hired, I am also prepared to assist you when you are threatened. There aren't many of me left, you may think, but believe me, there are many, many more than you can imagine. When the chips are down, we are the ones who are truly on your side. On your side, that is, so long as you honor your Oath. We are on your side if you are one of the majority of peace officers who are not corrupt and who have not sold out to the socialists and communists who will do anything, say anything to destroy the America our fathers and grandfathers bequeathed us. No, I am no threat to you, but your bosses in government don't see it that way. They think that I, and my arms, are a threat to them, and they are planning to send you for me, just as they've sent armed, dangerous officers on select little missions for years, taking out targeted individuals. On their orders, you may succeed in murdering me for my beliefs. Or you may not. Whether or not you succeed in murdering me, as federal agents murdered Vicki Weaver in Idaho; or as those same federal agents murdered 81 men, women and children at Waco, Texas; there will be others who will rise up in my memory, as I now rise up in honor of the innocent lives taken by the jack-booted thugs and black-clad imitation ninjas who think it is fun to murder Americans -who have somehow become convinced that it is their job to murder Americans. I am prepared to die, honoring my sacred Oath as an American, to defend and protect the Constitution of the united States of America. Are you prepared to die to violate the Oath you took? You see, our government is out of control. You know it. You've seen it. But you, like many others, have been too concerned with your job, your family, and your pension, to say or do anything about it. Deep down, you know I am right. But you think you must follow orders. Or must you? Are you going to murder me for having the courage to stand up for the country and the principles in which you believe? Are you going to go along with unconscionably illegal, unconstitutional orders, just as the "good" German soldiers followed their orders? Are you going to be a peace officer or a jack-booted thug? There is little difference between a street outlaw who murders and robs; and a uniformed thug who murders and robs under color of law. The result is the same. Property confiscated, lives ruined, families ripped apart, murder committed, and a free nation destroyed. Look at history. Look around the world. As we move toward a lawless society, our country moves closer and closer to anarchy and then some form of fascism. Are you going to enforce unconstitutional laws? Are you going to be the private army of fascist dictators masquerading as democratic representatives? Or are you going to do your part to recapture America? Are you going to keep your eyes and ears open? Will you let me know when the jack-booted thugs in the SWAT teams have targeted me? Will you let your fellow officers know that they are being sold down the river by their corrupt masters? Don't come to kill me. Because I don't want to kill you. If you do come, you may succeed - if you get lucky. But don't count on luck, because it will probably be hard - damned hard. Like millions of other Americans, I am the son or daughter of a nation of riflemen - citizen-soldiers who have a rich heritage of beating the best the enemy can send against us. We are resourceful. We understand weapons and tactics. You are foolish if you intend to be our enemy. If you don't succeed in the long run, and you won't, here's what you can expect: Ambushes of SWAT teams; the wholesale slaughter of all the jack-booted thugs who have murdered innocent Americans on the orders of their socialist masters; targeted assassinations and kidnappings of anti-Constitution judges; assassinations of anti-American, anti-gun politicians. By your willingness to be a good little Nazi, you will have unleashed a civil war. It doesn't have to be that way. You can do something about it. It's easy. Read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Although you took an Oath to defend them, you don't see much of them in your training, do you? Today, these documents are considered dangerous by the government, just as King George found them dangerous over 200 years ago. Why do you suppose your leaders lead you to oppose the very rights you swore to protect? Why do they want a disarmed public? You know the reason. It has nothing to do with controlling crime. It has everything to do with using you to disarm, fine and control your fellow American Citizens. Don't fall for it. Don't force me to kill you. (Signed, 100 Million Real Americans) [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fwd: Help Rep. Hostettler Overturn Clinton And Wesson (fwd) Date: 30 Mar 2000 16:34:55 PST On Mar 30, David W Shuee wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Reply-To: Gun Owners of America Rep. Hostettler needs your help to overturn the Clinton & Wesson sell-out -- Prospects for passage are good; but your Rep. must hear from you! Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org (Wednesday, March 29, 2000) -- Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) is leading the charge against the latest unholy alliance to rear its ugly head. As most activists know, the Clinton administration struck a deal with Smith & Wesson almost two weeks ago -- an agreement that not only affects the company itself, but would also inflict gun control restrictions on private gun buyers and impose massive red tape on ALL gun sales by retailers that carry S & W products. To enforce the Clinton & Wesson deal, an Oversight Commission that has the force of law will make sure the gun control restrictions agreed to by S & W are being followed by all dealers doing business with the company -- restrictions that apply to ALL brands carried by the dealer, not just the S & W guns that they sell. But Rep. Hostettler is working to get pro-gun language put in the budget this year that will put a stop to this insanity. His language will not only defund the Oversight Commission, it will deny funds for any future lawsuit by the Clinton administration that would seek to extort more companies to follow Smith & Wesson's lead. This Battle Is Definitely Winnable Two years ago, Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) succeeded in defunding the FBI's plan to tax gun owners. Smith boldly went to the floor of the Senate -- where fellow colleagues told him his measure could not pass. But he ignored the naysayers, forced a vote on his measure, and accomplished his goal of getting an provision in the budget withholding funds for an FBI gun tax -- a provision that is still there to this day. This budget battle is similar, although it will take a little bit more work on the part of the grassroots. The House is not like the Senate; it's not as easy to get amendments put into legislation. But it can be done! URGENT ACTION: Please take the time to contact your Representative. This is super important! If Clinton gets his way and bankrupts the American firearms industry through lawsuits, how easy will it be for you to get new firearms? How easy will it be for your children and grandchildren to buy new firearms in the future? The future of the Second Amendment is on the line here. Please contact your Rep. right away! You can use the text below to fax, email or call your Representative. Ph) 888-449-3511 (toll-free). ----------- Pre-written message ------------ Dear Representative: Rep. John Hostettler is trying to get a very important amendment into the Treasury budget this year. In order to get support from various Representatives, he is circulating a letter addressed to appropriations subcommittee Chairman Jim Kolbe. This letter asks Rep. Kolbe to insert language defunding the Oversight Commission that was created in the recent Clinton & Wesson agreement. This Commission has the force of law to make sure the gun control restrictions agreed to by Smith & Wesson are being followed by anyone who does business with the company. I hope you will take the time to sign this very important letter and support his efforts 100 percent! The recent Clinton & Wesson agreement is disgusting, and it is completely out of line with what Americans want. A recent Zogby poll found that 2/3 of the people say it's illegitimate to bring lawsuits against gun manufacturers or to hold them liable for the criminal misuse of guns. And despite what the media seems to think, people don't want more gun control. Zogby also found that only 29 percent of people would be likely to support a candidate that is a "supporter of stronger gun controls." The President's recent deal is nothing but an end-run around the Constitution. Congress has power to enact laws -- not the President through the extortion of American businesses. Again, I hope you will sign the Hostettler letter and do everything you can to stop this back-door attempt at gun control. I would also request that you speak to Rep. Kolbe personally and ask him to put the pro-gun language in the budget. Thank you. 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[------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] -- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- -