From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #36 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Tuesday, December 30 1997 Volume 02 : Number 036 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 13:37:50 -0800 From: Liberty or Death Subject: You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd To everybody (and their buffalo) - The Idaho Observer printed a story in our December edition that we stumbled across on the web whilst looking for other UN information. The story concerned a UN soldier being trampled to death by a herd of buffalo in Nebraska during training exercises. The story has turned out to be a hoax, and we're printing a retraction in January. Personally, it really irks me that people would present bogus stories as "news" on a website, and there was nothing in the article to suggest that it wasn't real. Virtually all of our newspaper comes from sources that we know and trust; this goes to show you (and us) the importance of verifying information received from people/sources you don't know. Since the story is starting to be forwarded around the net, I hope this will help stop it. I'm sure the idiots that own the webpage the story came from are giggling in their beer; probably a couple of college nerds. Anyway, my apologies. - - Monte -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Maybe freedom's just one of those things that you can't inherit." - Peter Bradford, in the film "Amerika" -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Idaho Observer http://www.proliberty.com/observer - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 20:45:30 -0600 From: jim bohan Subject: Re: You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 20:47:54 -0600 From: jim bohan Subject: Re: You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd Liberty or Death wrote: > The story concerned a UN soldier being trampled to death by a herd > of buffalo in Nebraska during training exercises. Aw man, the first rule of the universe got you. "If it sounds too good to be true, it is." - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 97 11:15:39 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: SAFAN NO. 914. Take Back Tennessee! (fwd) Looks like, "Take Back", is starting to pick up momentum. Is your State involved? On Dec 28, Donald Walker wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_01BD1324.E2872520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So what do you think ? Take Back New Hampshire ? Don - ---------- > From: SBurton3 > To: walkerd@worldpath.net > Subject: Fwd: SAFAN NO. 914. Take Back Tennessee! > Date: Friday, December 26, 1997 6:06 PM > > > @@@@ > @ O O @ > @ ( > ) @ STOP ALL FEDERAL ABUSES NOW!!! > \ 0 / SAFAN Internet Newsletter, No. 914, Dec. 7, 1997 > / \ > * > TAKE BACK TENNESSEE > by Joe Burton (SBurton3@aol.com) > > A Steering meeting was held yesterday, Dec. 6, 1997, in Knoxville, > at the old WNOX Auditorium to forge out a structure in which to work. > A very highly successful organization meeting was held Dec 3 in > Knoxville. At that meeting 68 patriots signed up to Take Back > Tennessee!!! > > WHAT IS TAKE BACK TENNESSEE? > Take Back Tennessee is a coalition of organizations that have come > together on the issues of today. By coming together as a coalition we > have a greater voice in the efforts of preserving our God-given freedoms. > Freedoms that millions of Americans have shed their blood around the > world for. This blood should not have been shed in vain. > > WHY IS TAKE BACK TENNESSEE NEEDED? > Individuals and small organizations are often lost and/or not heard > in today's fast-paced regulatory and/or legislative world. By networking > (coming together) with each other our voices of concern will be > amplified. By coming together we can pool our resources, share legis-lative > contacts, share information, form common goals, objectives and > strategies with greater chances of being successful in the quest to > achieve our goals. > > HOW CAN DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS 'COME TOGETHER' AS ONE? > The Take Back Tennessee individuals and groups have agreed on > the following as guidelines: > * Each group will remain as an independent organization and > function as always. > * No organization is required to participate on an issue that it > does not wish to. > * Each organization shares information on the issue of its > concern thus helping everyone to be better informed. > * Each group has agreed to work together on the issues we > agree on. > * We have agreed to leave each other alone when issues > arise that we disagree on. Each group retains its right to > work on its own issues as it sees fit. > > HOW ARE OFFICERS CHOSEN? > We have no officers. We will have an individual to moderate > the meetings. We have agreed to have an Oversight Committee > but we have no officers as such. > > HOW IS THIS 'OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE' MADE UP? > The organizations have agreed that three (3) individuals from around > the state; one from Eastern Tennessee, one from Central Tennessee, > and one from Western Tennessee will serve along with one representa- > tivive from each agreed committee. > At this time, our committees are: Education, Property Rights, Free > Speech and Media, Morality and Decency, and the Second Amendment. > Each of these committees have a representative along with the three > state-wide members for an eight member Oversight Committee. Should > future committees be set up they will have a representative of their > choice seated on the Oversight Committee. > The functions of the Oversight Committee are to merely fine tune > and organize the functions that are agreed upon by the member organi- > zations. When a committee's work is finished and the committee is > dissolved there will no longer be a representative from this committee. > > WHAT DOES TAKE BACK TENNESSEE STAND FOR? > We believe in freedom as intended by the founders of this nation. > We are working not only to preserve today's freedoms but to institute > those that have been lost. > We are working to have the intended separation of powers between > the federal and state governments reinstituted as was intended by the > Founding Fathers. > We are working to protect the rights of property owners. We are > finding that our private property rights are being threatened not only > by zoning but by environmental extremists and their agendas. Our > property rights are being infringed upon by treaties, agreements and > executive orders. These things must be stopped. > Our children are falling behind the rest of the world in educational > skills. We are working to reinstitute programs that are proven while > eliminating those experimental learning techniques that don't work. > Our children are our future and they deserve the best we can offer. > > Our society has become plagued with total moral corruption. We > are working together to bring people together to have a voice in > correcting this. The concept of separation of church and state was > not the intent of the higher moral founders of this nation. Their intent > was only that no religion would be state-sponsored. They were firm > in their belief of freedom OF religion and the right to worship our > Creator. > > Finally, we are working on the right to keep and bear arms as > intended. The reasons for the Second Amendment are unfortunately > becoming more and more clear. > > Your participation in "Take Back Tennessee" is desired. If you are a > freedom-loving individual and want to help, please feel free to > contact us. > > The Chairman in East Tennessee is > > Joe Burton (SBurton3@aol.com) > 316 Market St., #3 > Clinton, TN 37716 > PH (423) 457-2268 > FAX (423) 463-9843 > > Central and West Tennessee will also be joining Knoxville's success > and will hold organization meetings. > > A "TAKE BACK TENNESSEE NEWSLETTER" will be published soon. > Anyone wishin to form a Take Back Coalition in their state, please > feel free to contact us OR Take Back Kentucky - %Norm Davis at > PH/FAX (502) 242-6497. > > APPLICATION TO JOIN 'TAKE BACK TENNESSEE" > > Name__________________________________________[Last - First - Middle] > Address [mailing address]__________________________________________ > City/State/Zip _____________________________________________________ > Phone__________________FAX_______________EMail___________________ > > Will you be participating as: > Individual_______or as an organization's representative_____ > Name of Organization:______________________________________________ > Phone No. of Organization________________________________ > > Group Affiliation(a):_________________________________________________ > > Area(s) of Political Interest:_____________________________ > > Want to be contacted on Pending Legislation?____ Subject:__________ > > Will Work on Committee______________________(Name of Committee). > > Have computer?_____ On Internet?______ > > Other Skills:_____________________________________________________ > > Yes____I would like to help elect candidates who feel the way TBT does. > > Yes___I have experience helping in elections. or NO____ I do not. > > Does the Candidate's Party Affiliation (Rep. or Dem) make a difference > to you?_______ Comments:_______________________________________ > > Please send your replies to SBurton3@aol.com or SafanNews@aol.com. > > If you are in Tennessee, please reply and let us know where you are > and you will be contacted by the appropriate area coordinator to > help get you organized. > > \\\\|//// > ( o o ) > --oO0o------U------oO0o--- > "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson > Project to Restore the Republic http://www.sbacenter.com/proj-1.htm > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dot Bibee (SafanNews@aol.com) Ph/FAX (423) 577-7011 > Index of Newsletters are available upon Request > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> > > - ------=_NextPart_000_01BD1324.E2872520 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: SafanNews Return-path: To: SafanNews@aol.com Subject: SAFAN NO. 914. Take Back Tennessee! Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:26:13 EST Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit @@@@ @ O O @ @ ( > ) @ STOP ALL FEDERAL ABUSES NOW!!! \ 0 / SAFAN Internet Newsletter, No. 914, Dec. 7, 1997 / \ * TAKE BACK TENNESSEE by Joe Burton (SBurton3@aol.com) A Steering meeting was held yesterday, Dec. 6, 1997, in Knoxville, at the old WNOX Auditorium to forge out a structure in which to work. A very highly successful organization meeting was held Dec 3 in Knoxville. At that meeting 68 patriots signed up to Take Back Tennessee!!! WHAT IS TAKE BACK TENNESSEE? Take Back Tennessee is a coalition of organizations that have come together on the issues of today. By coming together as a coalition we have a greater voice in the efforts of preserving our God-given freedoms. Freedoms that millions of Americans have shed their blood around the world for. This blood should not have been shed in vain. WHY IS TAKE BACK TENNESSEE NEEDED? Individuals and small organizations are often lost and/or not heard in today's fast-paced regulatory and/or legislative world. By networking (coming together) with each other our voices of concern will be amplified. By coming together we can pool our resources, share legis-lative contacts, share information, form common goals, objectives and strategies with greater chances of being successful in the quest to achieve our goals. HOW CAN DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS 'COME TOGETHER' AS ONE? The Take Back Tennessee individuals and groups have agreed on the following as guidelines: * Each group will remain as an independent organization and function as always. * No organization is required to participate on an issue that it does not wish to. * Each organization shares information on the issue of its concern thus helping everyone to be better informed. * Each group has agreed to work together on the issues we agree on. * We have agreed to leave each other alone when issues arise that we disagree on. Each group retains its right to work on its own issues as it sees fit. HOW ARE OFFICERS CHOSEN? We have no officers. We will have an individual to moderate the meetings. We have agreed to have an Oversight Committee but we have no officers as such. HOW IS THIS 'OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE' MADE UP? The organizations have agreed that three (3) individuals from around the state; one from Eastern Tennessee, one from Central Tennessee, and one from Western Tennessee will serve along with one representa- tivive from each agreed committee. At this time, our committees are: Education, Property Rights, Free Speech and Media, Morality and Decency, and the Second Amendment. Each of these committees have a representative along with the three state-wide members for an eight member Oversight Committee. Should future committees be set up they will have a representative of their choice seated on the Oversight Committee. The functions of the Oversight Committee are to merely fine tune and organize the functions that are agreed upon by the member organi- zations. When a committee's work is finished and the committee is dissolved there will no longer be a representative from this committee. WHAT DOES TAKE BACK TENNESSEE STAND FOR? We believe in freedom as intended by the founders of this nation. We are working not only to preserve today's freedoms but to institute those that have been lost. We are working to have the intended separation of powers between the federal and state governments reinstituted as was intended by the Founding Fathers. We are working to protect the rights of property owners. We are finding that our private property rights are being threatened not only by zoning but by environmental extremists and their agendas. Our property rights are being infringed upon by treaties, agreements and executive orders. These things must be stopped. Our children are falling behind the rest of the world in educational skills. We are working to reinstitute programs that are proven while eliminating those experimental learning techniques that don't work. Our children are our future and they deserve the best we can offer. Our society has become plagued with total moral corruption. We are working together to bring people together to have a voice in correcting this. The concept of separation of church and state was not the intent of the higher moral founders of this nation. Their intent was only that no religion would be state-sponsored. They were firm in their belief of freedom OF religion and the right to worship our Creator. Finally, we are working on the right to keep and bear arms as intended. The reasons for the Second Amendment are unfortunately becoming more and more clear. Your participation in "Take Back Tennessee" is desired. If you are a freedom-loving individual and want to help, please feel free to contact us. The Chairman in East Tennessee is Joe Burton (SBurton3@aol.com) 316 Market St., #3 Clinton, TN 37716 PH (423) 457-2268 FAX (423) 463-9843 Central and West Tennessee will also be joining Knoxville's success and will hold organization meetings. A "TAKE BACK TENNESSEE NEWSLETTER" will be published soon. Anyone wishin to form a Take Back Coalition in their state, please feel free to contact us OR Take Back Kentucky - %Norm Davis at PH/FAX (502) 242-6497. APPLICATION TO JOIN 'TAKE BACK TENNESSEE" Name__________________________________________[Last - First - Middle] Address [mailing address]__________________________________________ City/State/Zip _____________________________________________________ Phone__________________FAX_______________EMail___________________ Will you be participating as: Individual_______or as an organization's representative_____ Name of Organization:______________________________________________ Phone No. of Organization________________________________ Group Affiliation(a):_________________________________________________ Area(s) of Political Interest:_____________________________ Want to be contacted on Pending Legislation?____ Subject:__________ Will Work on Committee______________________(Name of Committee). Have computer?_____ On Internet?______ Other Skills:_____________________________________________________ Yes____I would like to help elect candidates who feel the way TBT does. Yes___I have experience helping in elections. or NO____ I do not. Does the Candidate's Party Affiliation (Rep. or Dem) make a difference to you?_______ Comments:_______________________________________ Please send your replies to SBurton3@aol.com or SafanNews@aol.com. If you are in Tennessee, please reply and let us know where you are and you will be contacted by the appropriate area coordinator to help get you organized. \\\\|//// ( o o ) --oO0o------U------oO0o--- "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson Project to Restore the Republic http://www.sbacenter.com/proj-1.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dot Bibee (SafanNews@aol.com) Ph/FAX (423) 577-7011 Index of Newsletters are available upon Request +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - ------=_NextPart_000_01BD1324.E2872520-- [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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 - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 16:10:33 -0600 From: jim bohan Subject: [Fwd: Ron Paul supports us - Please help him] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------FD5EFB01F8E489B289FB4524 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------FD5EFB01F8E489B289FB4524 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from simba.safari.net by ICSI.Net (8.8.5/SMI-SVR4) id NAA02318; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 13:38:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from rigby.safari.net (rigby.safari.net [206.96.248.7]) by simba.safari.net (8.8.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA24475; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 14:19:38 -0500 (EST) Sender: dr.suter@rigby.safari.net Errors-To: EdgarSuter@aol.com Reply-To: EdgarSuter@aol.com Message-Id: <7c1df4b4.34a6a057@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Precedence: Bulk X-Listserver: Macjordomo - A Macintosh Listserver by Michele Fuortes Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 13:54:10 EST From: EdgarSuter To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Ron Paul supports us - Please help him - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 12:39:53 -0800 From: Mike Schrader To: ca-firearms@lists.best.com Subject: Tex. Rep Ron Paul Letter / Reelection - ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 18:59:46 -0800 To: pgb@padrak.com (BCC: All_Send_Lists) From: pgb@padrak.com (Patrick Bailey) Subject: An Important Recent Letter from Congressman Ron Paul An Important Recent Letter from Congressman Ron Paul (Texas): Please forward freely! - ---------------------- Congressman Ron Paul House of Representatives 203 Cannon Washington D.C. 20515 TEL 202-225-2831 FAX 202-226-4871 Dear Friend: The other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV: I told the truth about the crimes of the U.S. government. As you can imagine, the ceiling fell in, and a couple of walls too. Congressmen are supposed to support the government, I was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize around the edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House of Representatives is not supposed to bring up. But I touched the real "third-rail" of American politics, and the sparks sure flew. I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning "Washington Journal," and I used the opportunity, as I do all such media appearances, to point out how many of our liberties have been stolen by the federal government. We must take them back. The Constitution, after all, has a VERY limited role for Washington, D.C. If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no Nafta, Gatt, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; and no income tax. We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited. That system is called liberty. It's what the Founding Fathers gave us. Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most decent country on earth. It's no coincidence that the monstrous growth of the federal government has been accompanied by a sickening decline in living standards and moral standards. The feds want us to be hamsters on a treadmill -- working hard, all day long, to pay high taxes, but otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive, and out-of-control leviathan that we call the federal government wants to run every single aspect of our lives. [Page 2] Well, I'm sorry, but that's not America. It's not what the Founders gave us. It's not the country you believe in. It's not the country I believe in. So, on that TV interview, I emphasized not only the attacks on our property, but also the decline of our civil liberties, at the hands of the federal police. There are not supposed to be ANY federal police, according to the Constitution. Then I really went over the line. I talked about the Waco massacre. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno claim those 81 church members, including 19 children, burned down their own church and killed themselves, and good riddance. So they put the few survivors on trial, and threw them in prison for 40 years. We're not supposed to remember that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms -- talk about an unconstitutional agency -- rather than arrest David Koresh on his regular morning jog, called in the TV stations for a big publicity bonanza, and sent a swat team in black masks and black uniforms to break down his front door, guns blazing. They also sent in a helicopter gunship, to shoot at the roof of a church full of innocents. The Branch Davidians resisted, and after a heartless siege of almost two months, and after cutting off food, water, and electricity, and playing horrible rock and roll through huge speakers 24 hours a day, the feds sent in the tanks to crush the walls of the church, and inject poisonous CS gas. Now, CS gas is banned under the Paris Convention on Chemical Warfare. The U.S. could not use it in a war. But it could and did use it against American civilians. After the tanks did their work on the church, the place burst into flame, and all 81 people -- men, women, children, and babies--were incinerated in a screaming horror. Did some feds set the fire? Did the flammable CS gas ignite, since without electricity, the parishioners were using lanterns? Did a tank knock over a lantern, striking one of the bales of hay being used against the thin walls as a "defense" against bullets? or did the Davidians, as Clinton and Reno claim, kill themselves? A new documentary -- Waco: The Rules of Engagement -- may show, through FLIR infrared photography, FBI snipers killing the Davidians by shooting through the back of the church, where no media cameras were allowed. This film won a prize at the famed Sundance Film Festival. It was made by people who took the government's side, until they investigated. Whatever the truth, there's no question that an irresponsible federal government has innocent blood on its [Page 3] hands, and not only from Waco. And the refusal of corrupt and perverse liberals to admit it means nothing. In my TV interview, in answer to a caller's question, I pointed out that Waco, and the federal murders at Ruby Ridge -- especially the FBI sniper's shot that blasted apart the head of a young mother holding her baby -- caused many Americans to live in fear of federal power. Then I uttered the sentiment that caused the media hysteria: I said that a lot of Americans fear that they too might be attacked by federal swat teams for exercising their constitutional rights, or merely for wanting to be left alone. Whoa! You've never seen anything like it. For days, in an all-out assault, I was attacked by Democrats, unions, big business, establishment Republicans, and -- of course -- the media, in Washington and my home state of Texas. Newspapers foamed at the mouth, calling me a "right-wing extremist." (Say, isn't that what George III called Thomas Jefferson?) I was even blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing! And by the way, I don't believe we've gotten the full truth on that either. All my many opponents were outraged that a Congressman would criticize big government. "If you don't like Washington, resign!" said a typical big-city newspaper editorial. But the media, as usual, were all wet. (Do they ever get ANYTHING right?) The average Congressman may go to Washington to wallow in power, and line his pockets with a big lobbying job for a special interest (so he can keep ripping-off the taxpayers). But that's not why I'm in Congress. It's not why I left my medical practice as a physician. It's not why I put up with all the abuse. It's not why I refuse a plush Congressional pension. I'm in this fight for a reason. I want to hand on to my children and grandchildren, and to you and your family, a great and free America, an America true to her Constitution, an America worthy of her history. I will not let the crooks and clowns and criminals have their way. I'm in Congress to represent the ideas of liberty, the ideas that you and I share, for the people of my district, for the people of Texas, for the people of America. That's why I'm working to stop federal abuses, and to cut the government: its taxes, its bureaucrats, its paramilitary police, its spending, its meddling overseas, and every single unconstitutional action it takes. And not with a pair of nail scissors, but with a hammer and chisel. Won't you help me do this work? Not much of the federal leviathan would be left, if I [Page 4] had my way. But you'd be able to keep the money you earn, your privacy would be secure, your dollar would be sound, your local school would be tops, and your kids wouldn't be sent off to some useless or vicious foreign war to fight for the UN. But Jefferson and the other Founders would recognize our government, and our descendants would bless us. By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with NOTHING. Recently, I asked a famous Republican committee chairman -- who's always talking about getting rid of the IRS -- why he engineered a secret $580 million raise for the tax collectors. "They need it for their computers," this guy told me. So the IRS can't extract enough from us as it is! The National Taxpayers Union says I have the highest pro-taxpayer rating in Congressional history, that I am the top "Taxpayer's Best Friend." You know I won't play the Capitol Hill games with the Capitol Hill gang, denouncing the IRS while giving the gestapo more of your money. or figuring out some other federal tax for them to squeeze out of you. I also want to abolish the Federal Reserve, and send Alan Greenspan out to get a job. The value of our dollar and the level of our interest rates are not supposed to be manipulated by a few members of the power elite meeting secretly in a marble palace. The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, pure and simple. The only Constitutional money is gold and silver, and notes redeemable in them. Not Fed funny money. Without the Federal Reserve, our money could not be inflated, at the behest of big government or big banks. Your income and savings would not lose their value. Just as important, we wouldn't have this endless string of booms and busts, recessions and depressions, with each bust getting worse. They aren't natural to the free market; they're caused by the schemers at the Fed. President Andrew Jackson called the 19th-century Fed "The Monster" because it was a vehicle for inflation and all sorts of special-interest corruption. Let me tell you, things haven't changed a bit. I also work to save our schools from D.C. interference. Thanks to the feds, new curriculums not only smear the Founders as "racist, slave-owning elitists," they seek to dumb down our students so they will all be equal. "Look-say" reading and the abolition of phonics has the same purpose, and so does the new "fuzzy" math, in which there are no right and no wrong answers. That must be what they use in the U.S. Treasury! It's certainly what they use in the U.S. Congress. [Page 5] But ever since the beginning of federal aid to education and accelerating with the establishment of the rotten Department of Education, SAT scores have been dropping. Schools, with few exceptions, are getting worse every year. To save our kids, we must get the sticky fingers of the feds off our local schools, and let parents rule. That's what the Constitution says, and the Bible too. And then there's my least favorite foreign topic, the UN. World government is obviously unconstitutional. It undermines our country's sovereignty in the worst way possible. That's why I want us out of the UN, and the UN itself taking a hike. After all, the UN is socialist and corrupt (many votes can be bought with a "blonde and a case of scotch," one UN ambassador once said). It costs many billions, and it puts our soldiers in UN uniforms under foreign commanders, and sends them off to unconstitutional, undeclared wars. When Michael New, one of the finest young men I've ever met, objected to wearing UN blue, he was kicked out of the American Army. What an outrage. Not one dime for the UN, and not one American soldier! Not in Haiti, not in Bosnia, not in Somalia, not in Rwanda. I know it's radical, but how about devoting American military efforts to defending America, and only America? Such ideas, said one newspaper reporter, make me a "maverick who will never go far because he won't 'go along to get along.'" Darn right. What does "go far" mean? Get a big government job? The heck with that. And I won't sell my vote for pork either. When I walked through the U.S. Capitol this morning, I got angry. The building is filled with statues and paintings of Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founders. Those great men sacrificed everything to give us a free country, and a Constitution to keep it that way. When I was first elected, I placed my hand on the Bible and swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. That's exactly what I'm fighting for. But such ideas drive the liberals crazy. That's why I badly need your help. I've been targeted nationally for defeat. The Democrats, the AFL-CIO, the teachers union, big business PACs, the trial lawyers, the big bankers, the foreign-aid .lobbyists, the big media, and the establishment Republicans want to dance on my political grave. The Fed, the Education Department, and the UN are anxious to join in. They can't stand even one person telling the truth. And they're terrified when that truth gains the people's support. Right now, four well-funded Democrats are competing to try to beat me, and a Republican is rumored to have been [Page 6] offered money at a secret meeting in Mexico(!) if he would try to knock me off in a primary. Won't you help me stay up here to fight? Frankly, I'm in trouble if you don't. My Texas district has 22,000 square miles (not a misprint). I've got to travel all over it, set up small offices to be manned by volunteers, advertise, pay phone bills, and distribute video and audio tapes to the people to get around the big-media lies. As I know from my last election, which I won by the skin of my teeth, the media will carry any smear, repeat any libel, throw any piece of mud, no matter how untrue. In fact, the less true, the more they like it. They are determined to silence me. But you can help me overcome all this. Together, we can beat the bad guys arrayed against our country and our freedom. We can support the Constitution. We CAN win. Your generous contribution of $25 or $50 would be great. $100, $250, or even $500 or $1,000 would be magnificent. Of course, any amount would help, and in return, I will keep you up-to-date on this fight as a member of my "kitchen cabinet." What great men founded this country. What great people have carried on their fight. That fight is not lost, not if you will join it. Washington, D.C., is a loser, but among the people, our ideas are gaining EVERY SINGLE DAY. Keep the tide turning in our direction. Please make your most generous contribution. Join this fight for the Constitution, and stop those who want to rip it up, and throw it in the Potomac. Together, we can join the Founders, fight. Together, we can make history. Sincerely, /s/ - Ron Ron Paul U.S. Congressman P.S. Without you, I may be lost, and they'll be breaking out the champagne in D.C. PLEASE, DON'T LET THIS FIGHT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND LIBERTY FALTER. HELP ME WIN IT. - --------------FD5EFB01F8E489B289FB4524-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 14:00:21 -0700 From: "E.J. Totty" Subject: Re: You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd At 13:37 -0800 12/27/1997, Liberty or Death wrote: >To everybody (and their buffalo) - > >The Idaho Observer printed a story . . . -etc- Ah, but Monte, it's the thought! The thought! ET - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 16:07:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Ferris Subject: Massachusetts "Gun Buy Back" Backfires Re-entered from THE BOSTON HERALD 12/30/97 (Page 5) Authorities Allege "Captain Good" Turned Bad By Joe Heaney Things went very bad for Taunton Police Capt. Richard "Captain Good" Pimental yesterday when 13 years in the slammer became possible. The veteran lawman and television personality was indicted and later suspended for allegedly swiping a lousy "Saturday Night Special" handgun from a city gun buy-back program he once administered. Also indicted in companion cases involving Pimental was John Colton, former assistant clerk magistrate in Taunton District Court. But the gloom kept coming on the captain's bad Monday - quicker than you could say: Who dropped the dime? Besides liberating the tin horn Jennings .22 semi-automatic and allegedly "giving it to a family friend", Pimental was charged with filing a false written report, interfering with a witness, obstruction of justice and soliciting a bribe. The bribe charge involves allegedly using his badge against a bar unless the owners gave him free booze and a baseball jacket. "The owner of that gun took it off the street for safety and a police officer put it back in circulation," said Assistant Attorney General John Grossman after the Bristol Superior Court indictment. "It's a sad case." Prosecutors said Pimental also interfered with a witness in an unrelated case against his nephew, August Pimental, Jr., who was accused of beating a man during a 1992 barroom brawl. The charges were allegedly dismissed because, according to a court document signed by Colton, "the victim states this is the wrong defendant." Pimental was suspended by Taunton Police Chief David Westcoat. Pimental was not in court yesterday and faces arraignment Jan. 8. If convicted of all charges, Pimental faces 13 years in prison. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No comment is necessary. This "gun buy back" story deserves wide re-publication in appropriate media. Best regards, Christopher C. Ferris Litchfield NH USA ferriscc@mainstream.net - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 15:40:36 -0800 (PST) From: Boyd Subject: Re: Massachusetts "Gun Buy Back" Backfires Sorry, I guess I'm not "getting it". It appears to me that an otherwise corrupt official with a history of abuse of power saved an inanimate object from expensive destruction. At best it's a mixed message. I would'nt want someone who cheeses local businesses for freebies representing rkba and I seriously wonder about a locale where businesses need fear a -lone- LEO. But the gun didn't do anything wrong and by not destroying it the taxpayer was saved money. Bad guy does good, n'est ce pas? Please elucidate. >Re-entered from THE BOSTON HERALD 12/30/97 (Page 5) > >Authorities Allege "Captain Good" Turned Bad > >By Joe Heaney > >Things went very bad for Taunton Police Capt. Richard "Captain Good" >Pimental yesterday when 13 years in the slammer became possible. > >The veteran lawman and television personality was indicted and later >suspended for allegedly swiping a lousy "Saturday Night Special" handgun >from a city gun buy-back program he once administered. > >Also indicted in companion cases involving Pimental was John Colton, >former assistant clerk magistrate in Taunton District Court. > >But the gloom kept coming on the captain's bad Monday - quicker than you >could say: Who dropped the dime? > >Besides liberating the tin horn Jennings .22 semi-automatic and allegedly >"giving it to a family friend", Pimental was charged with filing a false >written report, interfering with a witness, obstruction of justice and >soliciting a bribe. > >The bribe charge involves allegedly using his badge against a bar unless >the owners gave him free booze and a baseball jacket. > >"The owner of that gun took it off the street for safety and a police >officer put it back in circulation," said Assistant Attorney General John >Grossman after the Bristol Superior Court indictment. "It's a sad case." > >Prosecutors said Pimental also interfered with a witness in an unrelated >case against his nephew, August Pimental, Jr., who was accused of beating >a man during a 1992 barroom brawl. > >The charges were allegedly dismissed because, according to a court >document signed by Colton, "the victim states this is the wrong defendant." > >Pimental was suspended by Taunton Police Chief David Westcoat. > >Pimental was not in court yesterday and faces arraignment Jan. 8. > >If convicted of all charges, Pimental faces 13 years in prison. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >No comment is necessary. This "gun buy back" story deserves wide >re-publication in appropriate media. > > >Best regards, > >Christopher C. Ferris >Litchfield NH USA >ferriscc@mainstream.net > > >- - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #36 ************************