From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #113 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Friday, April 17 1998 Volume 02 : Number 113 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:52:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: http://www.not4irs.org (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: http://www.not4irs.org Circulate the Petition Via E-Mail Hundreds of thousands of individuals across the country have added their signatures to the petition calling on Congress and the president to replace the current code, but we want to ensure that no taxpayer's voice goes unheard. Please encourage your friends, family and associates to "sign" the Campaign petition via e-mail. All you have to do is: (1) Copy and paste the message below into the body of an e-mail. (2) Add your own personal message (optional). (3) Send the message to everyone in your e-mail address book. Thank you for your support of the Campaign. Remember, "It's Our Money, Not THEIRS!" copy and paste the message below into an e-mail On June 17, the National Federation of Independent Business will present one million petition signatures on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The petition reads: "I call upon the President and the Congress of the United States to Abolish the IRS Code as of December 31, 2000, and to propose to the American People for our consideration a simpler, fairer tax code which will reward work and savings." I hope that you will join me in this effort. Add your name to the petition by typing your name into the body of an e-mail message and sending it to: petition@not4irs.org And, I hope you will forward this message to your friends and colleagues who might also want to sign the petition. If you would like to learn more about this Campaign, visit www.not4irs.org. The IRS will never have access to names or addresses placed on the NFIB campaign petition. - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:06:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: http://www.not4irs.org Key Points - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:57:04 -0700 Key Points On: The Campaign to Abolish the IRS Code Abolish the IRS Code The IRS Code is beyond repair. It is therefore time to wipe the slate clean, to end the IRS code which is too complex and confusing for all Americans. The Campaign to Abolish the IRS Code is a grassroots effort to mobilize small business owners and supporters to abolish the IRS code. On September 22, in Independence, Missouri, NFIB President Jack Faris started a nationwide petition drive that encourages small business owners, their employees, families, patrons -- anyone who is touched by small business -- to sign a petition calling upon the President and Congress to Abolish the IRS Code as of December 31, 2000, and to replace it with a simpler, fairer tax code which will reward work and savings. Why Abolish the IRS Code? Small business owners are overwhelmed by a tax code that is complex, confusing, and disproportionately biased against the people who run small businesses. The current tax code is seven million words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is 269 words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,337 words. The IRS' "simplest" return, the EZForm 1040, has 33 pages of instructions. The IRS Form 1040 has 76 pages of instructions. American business will spend 3.4 billion hours, and individuals will spend 1.7 billion hours, simply trying to comply with the tax code. That's equivalent to a "staff" of 3 million people working full time, year round, just on taxes. Taxes are too high. The current solution to this problem is lowering them, but even those positive steps involve modifying the tax code... which makes it even longer and more confusing. The IRS code is the core of the distrust of government that Americans feel. Campaign Kickoff Jack Faris, NFIB President, traveled across Missouri, the "Show Me State," during the week of September 21-26. Faris met with small business owners and NFIB members in stops across the state and officially launched the national grassroots effort to replace the IRS code by December 31, 2000. On Monday, September 22, Faris spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 people in Independence, the home town of President Harry Truman. A famous sign on Truman's Oval Office desk said "The buck stops here." Faris told the small business owners who gathered in Independence that day that "the code stops here." Harold Thornton, NFIB Leadership Council Chairman, a small business owner from Independence, became the first in the nation to sign the petition calling for the abolition of the IRS code. The Goals: NFIB will gather one million signatures on petitions by June 17, 1998: the opening of the Congressional Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C. At that time, the petitions will be presented to Congress as "one million reasons to stop talking about the code and to actually do something." The Campaign to Abolish the IRS Code is designed to create a sense of urgency across the country and in Congress. It is a way to let elected officials know that the time to end the IRS code has come. NFIB will not be promoting a specific replacement tax plan, but will present Congress with the following Seven Points of Principle that must be considered when developing a new tax code in order for it to be fair to small business: Lower Taxes -- to create jobs and opportunities Fosters Growth -- encourages work and savings Fair -- for all taxpayers Simple Enough -- all taxpayers can understand Neutral -- no "social engineering" Visible -- no hidden taxes Stable -- difficult to change NFIB will be taking the lead on the following actions: Present one million signatures to Congress by June 17, 1998; Urge Congress to pass legislation that will end the IRS code by December 31,2000; Support a National Advisory Referendum on a new tax code. Results: Congress, through a mechanism to be determined by the Congress, develops and completes a replacement tax code for consideration by the American people; The current IRS Code is abolished; The new century begins under transition to a new tax system for our children and grandchildren. Time Line June 17, 1998 - Present one million signatures to Congress at NFIB's Congressional Small Business Summit. July, 1998 - Congress passes legislation to sunset the IRS Code, effective December 31, 2000. April 15, 2000 - Draft of a replacement tax code (or two) is complete. November, 2000 - National Advisory Referendum: America chooses between the old code and the new code. December, 2000 - A special session of Congress is held to vote on the new code. President signs the new code into law. January, 2001 - Transition to fairer, simpler system that encourages work and savings NFIB will be the catalyst to urge Congress to sunset the IRS code and will provide a framework for a national debate regarding a replacement system. For more information, call our toll free number: 1-888-NOT-4-IRS (1-888-668-4477). - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:39:34 -0500 (CDT) From: pwatson@utdallas.edu Subject: http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm (fwd) You will love this is a must read: http://jya/stoa-atpc.htm - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm 6 February 1998: Add link to Bibliography (85K); zipped version (32K) 4 February 1998 Source: Hardcopy from STOA, Luxembourg Thanks to Axel Horns, Ulf M=F6ller and STOA EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT _________________________________________ SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS ASSESSMENT STOA AN APPRAISAL OF TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL CONTROL Working document (Consultation version) Luxembourg, 6 January 1998 - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:09:02 -0700 From: Boyd Kneeland Subject: Pol Pot Dead? Never Forget. Pol Pot, genocidal leader and self styled "little Mao" is once again rumored to be dead. In the past rumors like this have floated, probably in attempts to protect him from international trial. Such a rumor covered his escape into the hills of his childhood. But wether or not this latest one is true, we owe it to ourselves and to the approximately 2 million Cambodians (fully 25% of his citizens) he murdered to -never-forget-. Commemorate the passing of one of histories infamous genocidal murderers by telling a friend about gun control today. http://www.jpfo.org/genocide.htm The Khmer Rouge he started in what was then called the Communist Party of Kampuchea still retains power, it's now known as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea and as part of the government of Cambodia has a voice in the UN. Any web search engine will give you more information with "+khmer +rouge", here are a few sites: http://www.milnet.com/milnet/tgp/data/khmer.htm http://www.itn.co.uk/World/world0727/072704w.htm http://the-tech.mit.edu/V111/N53/hersch.53o.html http://www.yale.edu/cgp/dccam/kr.htm - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:29:26 -0400 From: Tom Cloyes Subject: Clinton in Africa - Thomas Sowell >Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:09:17 -0400 >From: E Pluribus Unum >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) >To: E Pluribus Unum Email Distribution Network >Subject: Clinton in Africa - Thomas Sowell > >Thomas Sowell > >Clinton in Africa > >PRESIDENT CLINTON IN AFRICA was like Clinton in the United States --- as >phony as a three-dollar bill. > >His apology for slavery while in Uganda was a complete farce. Most >people of African ancestry in the United States originated in West >Africa, not in Uganda, which is much farther east. It is doubtful >whether anyone from Uganda was ever brought to the United States. > >The idea that people in Africa are owed an apology ignores history as >much as Clinton ignored geography. It was the people of Africa who >captured and sold the slaves who ended up in the Western Hemisphere. > >White men died like flies in Africa during the era of slavery. They were >not about to linger around trying to capture Africans, even if the local >rulers had let them. Europeans brought their ships to the West African >coast, bought slaves that were already available and got out of there as >soon as possible, before they caught malaria or some of the many other >African diseases, for which they had neither immunity nor medicine. > >Africans, like most other non-Western peoples, saw nothing wrong with >slavery. Only within Western civilization, and within the past two >centuries, did the idea arise and spread that slavery was a moral >abomination. > >Neither Africans, Asians, Arabs nor the indigenous peoples of the >Western Hemisphere shared this Western view of slavery. All of them >resisted and evaded attempts to stamp out slavery. Only the fact that >the West had overwhelming military power and worldwide empires in the >nineteenth century caused slavery to be destroyed. > >Where the West did not have direct control, their influence, money and >threats caused other governments to ban slavery. But no other >civilization derived from within itself a moral revulsion against >slavery. > >Yet innumerable writings, movies and television specials create and >perpetuate the notion that the West in general -- or the United States >in particular -- has some special guilt for an evil that the entire >human race participated in for thousands of years, and which only the >West belatedly recognized as morally intolerable. > >Children are still being bought and sold by the thousands in Nigeria and >Benin, and 30,000 African slaves are at this very moment being held >under brutal conditions in Mauritania. > >If anything, Clinton should have been listening to apologies for slavery >from his African hosts. > >Politically, of course, none of this matters. > >None of what happened on Clinton's Africa trip was really about history, >geography or morality. It was about Clinton's appeal to his political >supporters back home in the United States, especially black politicians, >whom he will need if special prosecutor Kenneth Starr starts indictments >or the House of Representatives starts impeachment. > >In a more subtle way, Clinton was playing the race card as surely as >O.J. Simpson's lawyers. And for the same reason -- to escape the >consequences of his own actions. > >Although there is loose talk in the media about "Clinton-haters," what >ultimately happens to Bill Clinton is of minor importance in the grand >scheme of things, and I doubt if many of his critics are really focussed >on him, as such. > >What matters infinitely more is preserving the rule of law that has >spared us the tragic fates of so many other countries, all around the >world. We should never forget that, even today, the rule of law is the >exception -- not the rule -- among the nations of the world. > >Our great blessings as Americans come not from our personal merits but >from our having the good fortune to live under a rare form of >government, with a constitution dedicated to preventing concentrations >and abuses of power. Preserving that far outweighs any of the so-called >"real issues" that people want to get to, like another social program or >another tax break. > >It is not Clinton himself who is dangerous -- at least not now, as a >lame-duck president. What is dangerous is letting any president get away >with flaunting the law, for others are certain to follow in his >footsteps and continue dismantling the barriers against abuses of power. >Those barriers are our only protection and the only protections for our >children and our children's children. That is the real issue. >-- >****************************************************************** > E Pluribus Unum The Central Ohio Patriot Group > P.O. Box 791 Eventline/Voicemail: (614) 823-8499 > Grove City, OH 43123 > >Meetings: Monday Evenings, 7:30pm, Ryan's Steakhouse > 3635 W. Dublin-Granville Rd. (just East of Sawmill Rd.) > >http://www.infinet.com/~eplurib eplurib@infinet.com >****************************************************************** > > - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:32:28 CST From: 1911a1@gte.net Subject: NRA's Gun Control in PA PLEASE READ, FORWARD, CROSS-POST, PRINT OUT, AND SHOW TO YOUR FRIENDS! POST AT GUN STORES, CLUBS AND RANGES! PLACE IN YOUR MAILINGS. SPREAD THE WORD! THE MEMBERS' MEETING IS IN PHILADELPHIA ON TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, BEGINNING AT 10 AM. ALL CONCERNED MEMBERS SHOULD PLAN TO BE THERE! CALL MEMBER SERVICES AT 1-800-672-3888 FOR INFORMATION. NRA's Gun Control Law Snares an Innocent Pennsylvanian by Chris BeHanna NRA Life #CPC7725J A few days ago, I circulated an article outlining the subterfuge by which NRA-ILA ramrodded a gun control bill through the Pennsylvania legislature in 1995. This bill put into place an instant background check (which ILA loves for some reason, and will fall all over itself to get) and a host of ways that people can be disqualified from gun ownership -- a list so comprehensive that it won praise from Sarah Brady, and so comprehensive that HCI also endorsed the bill. What follows are some articles about one man who was bit by the "mental health" language. Russ Laing is a CPA who was having some family difficulties, and who slept through his alarm one morning. Someone feared that he'd harmed himself, so the police entered his home, seized his firearms, and sent him to a mental hospital for an evaluation. EVEN THOUGH MR. LAING WAS DEEMED SANE AND RELEASED, HE CANNOT GET HIS FIREARMS BACK, AND IS FORBIDDEN BY NRA-ILA'S ACT 17 FROM OBTAINING ANY MORE. This is, of course, a complete outrage, brought to you by the "Winning Team." Please consider that when you cast your ballot, and please come to Philadelphia for the Members' Meeting on June 6th at 10AM to help reform NRA so that this injustice can be redressed. Contents: * Posting by Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association head Harry Schneider to PRN, in which Mr. Schneider takes "Winning Team" apologist (and NRA Director) Ernie Padgette to task. Mr. Schneider included some letters in his posting from Russ Laing. For ease of reading, I've separated them out and removed the quote characters. * Russ Laing's letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (first letter separated from Mr. Schneider's post). * Russ Laing's letter to Senators Specter and Santorum (second letter separated from Mr. Schneider's post). - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----- Begin Harry Schneider's PRN Post ----- From: Harry Schneider To: "PRN Multiple Recipients \(E-mail\)" , "Pa-Rkba List \(E-mail\)" Subject: PA-RKBA! FW: The Basic Issue: Due Process Date sent: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:49:51 -0500 Organization: PSA Send reply to: pa-rkba@listbox.com Mr. Padgette, Until now I have not participated in the debates with you on PRN - I have been too busy trying to clean up the mess in Pennsylvania and stop an anti gun roving wiretap bill that has already passed the House. What follows are letters which Mr. Russ Laing copied to me. They bothered me so much that I just had to share them and ask you some follow up questions. This will force us to look at the human costs of the Whining Team's most infamous victory: Act 17 in Pennsylvania. Mr. Laing, MBA, CPA is a member of the NRA. Act 17 mandates lifelong loss of gun rights for any person falsely or erroneously accused by any person of being a danger to themselves or to others and involuntarily detained for observation under section 302. That's right: no judge, no jury, no day in court - just lifelong loss of gun rights based upon suspicion or mistake or innuendo. Act 17 originally denied people like Mr. Laing even a right of appeal for five -- yes five -- years! We dissidents objected, the law was slightly modified to allow Mr. Laing an immediate right of appeal and he has been appealing for 18 months and it has gotten him nowhere and drained him financially. He has been pleading with NRA for financial help in getting him out of the mess that NRA got him (and many others) into. Months ago he even wrote a direct letter to God, er ah Heston. All the help that Mr. Laing got from NRA was an open letter from the NRA employee who claims he wrote most of Act 17 saying (I'm paraphrasing) that the NRA-backed judge didn't understand that an NRA-backed statute mandating lifelong loss of gun rights for all who are accused should not apply to innocents like Laing. Could you explain to me why NRA would write, endorse, lobby for, and lie to the legislature and to members to obtain passage of a bill that provides for lifelong loss of gun rights for every person who is detained for psychological observation even if (as in Mr. Laing's case) the detention is based upon a disproved suspicion or false accusation? Why should you believe or expect anyone else to believe anything that the Whining Team says if they won't do anything to help innocent NRA members (like Russ Laing) whose lives are being destroyed by the legislative errors of the Whining Team? Is the Whining Team doing anything to pressure Congress to refund the provision in federal law to allow innocents like Mr. Laing to apply for relief from disability? When Sarah Brady personally lobbies for passage of an NRA-backed bill (as happened with Act 17), shouldn't that be cause for concern? Isn't the damage to Mr. Laing and the many other victims of Act 17 too high a price to pay for instant check? Harry Schneider, PSA Chairman Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association Inc. - ----- End Harry Schneider's PRN Post ----- - ----- Begin Russ Laing's Letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ----- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 18:30:43 To: letters@post-gazette.com From: Russ Laing Subject: Re: The Basic Issue: Due Process Cc: activist@sgi.net Editor: You have here, below, a very ironic and interesting counterpoint to the Johnny Gammage case. I am a white, conservative male who was subjected to a frightening, "dynamic" invasion of my unlocked home by gun-waving officers of a local (West Deer Twp) police department who, without a warrant, permission, or justifiable cause stormed into my unlocked home after surrounding it SWAT-style for some 40 minutes (by the reckoning of my many neighbors who watched), pounced on me while I slept in my bedroom, and forced me to accompany them to a local hospital where I was detained against my will for six days -- and then discharged, never having been given any hearing or other adjudication process of any kind. I have no criminal record (I don't even have points on my traffic record), no history of violence or threats; I hold a responsible position in senior management for the largest health care provider in Pennsylvania, and I was creating no disturbance, made no threats of any kind, etc. How did this happen...why? Johnny Gammage and I share exactly one common element: we both posed a seeming threat to law enforcement personnel because of their own personal predjudice: Johnny Gammage because he was black, [and] myself because it was known that I owned a gun collection. And just like Johnny Gammage, I was violated by a police force that exercised unrestrained power because it felt it was immune to accountability (when was the last time the P-G ever reported anything via the West Deer Police Department?). They siezed my gun collection, which by their own testimony was: (1) locked away and secure upon their entry, and (2) had never even been an issue in any way in their actions in entering my home. By virtue of their detaining me - without a warrant or any other adjudication process at any point - I have been branded as "mentally ill" under recent Pennsylvania firearm legislation (Act 17 of 1995) , meaning that I can never again own a firearm, and my valuable siezed property has been forfeited without any compensation. I would have had far more legal protections and rights had I been accused of committing a felony...or even a traffic ticket. I am alive today, and in part I attribute this to having fully cooperated with the outrageous and illegal actions of these police officers, offering no resistance. As a white, male, formerly a strong law & order/police advocate, I can now begin to understand the sense of powerlessness and anger that the black community (and much of the white population) feels over the Johnny Gammage situation - and the countless other less sensational and usually untold stories such as mine. An attempt to seek return of my siezed property is slowly - and expensively - winding its way through an indifferrent, sometimes hostile court system. This has included four different hearings a year ago in front of Common Pleas Judge David Cerone whose only question to me personally was to ask why I bought the particular models of firearms included in my gun collection. It included a court-ordered psychological examination that I passed with flying colors and was accepted by the court, and ended in a hearing in which the Assistant District Attorney Dan Fitzsimmons declared that the right of ownership of firearms under the constitution was reserved for the National Guard. Three different prosecuting attorneys of the DA's office were involved in my case -- a case which involved no crime (other than perhaps the actions of the local police officers). Among them, Kim Clark, recently expressed her intense grief and frustration at the tragic Ryan Hacke shooting. She should know that when, out of predjudice, the DA's office devotes as much time and attention as it has to prosecuting someone such as myself, who has never committed - and is not accused of committing - a crime, it is naturally deflecting valuable resources from the problems posed by the Vaughn Mathis's of this world. And those who administrate law enforcement should now realize that when police officers act out of unjustified predjudice, or emotion, with unrestrained force and no fear of accountability -- a crime is being committed. Like the barber who was maced after complaining about a (Ross Twp) police car blocking his parking lot, or the off-duty (Shaler Twp) officer who tailgated a motorist on Route 28 creating an incident in which he drew his service pistol (his chief dismissed the actions of this officer in cavalier fashion: "some people drive a little to the left, some a little to the right -- he drives too close", and then this same officer caused an accident with severe injuries to others while on vacation). Or City of Pgh's own "Easter Seals Poster Child" George Trosky, who has been reported to have had involvement in a series of incidents of domestic and public violence. Or what happened to Johnny Gammage, and now even me. Unless we can, through public oversight and accountability, defuse the incredible absolute power of law enforcement agencies from the local police department up through national agencies such as the IRS, it will fall to the legislature to pass laws providing protections of due process guaranteed by our state and federal constitutions, and the courts to fairly adjudicate these cases. But no matter what the decision of the court - it came much too late for Johnny Gammage. At least I'm alive to dream about the justice that we all seek, but never find. - ----- End Russ Laing's Letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ----- - ----- Begin Russ Laing's Letter to Senators Specter and Santorum ----- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 16:25:40 To: senator@santorum.senate.gov From: Russ Laing Subject: Re: The Basic Issue: Due Process Cc: crkeenan@dmcpc.com groots@nra.org Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 16:23:02 To: Senator_Specter@specter.senate.gov (Senator Specter) From: Russ Laing Subject: Re: The Basic Issue: Due Process In-Reply-To: <00340E4B.1946@specter.senate.gov> Dear Senator Specter: Per the attached acknowledgement from your office, I would indeed be interested to hear your view on this issue. My mailing address and phone number: [...deleted for privacy...] The issue broadly involves: 1. My being personally violated by recent firearms legislation passed in Pennsylvania (Act 17 of 1995, amending the Uniform Firearms Act) -- which allows for confiscation of property and forfeiture of basic rights guaranteed under both the federal and state constitutions ---without the need for ANY formal hearing before a judge or other lawful authority, nor any other adjudication process. While the subject legislation is a Pennsylvania State statute, your attention is asked in the matter of the serious precedent that has been set in which the basic right to due process under the federal constitution is being undermined by actions of the state legislature. 2. That a Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania, Judge David S. Cercone, would erroneously invoke this Pennsylvania statute (Act 17) by way of defining the application of FEDERAL regulations of possession of firearms by citizens of the Commonwealth. By doing so, Judge Cercone has inappropriately allowed the Pennsyvlania legislature to effectively over-rule federal due process protections of rights under the constitution, and specifically, as provided by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) in regulations published in the Federal Register in September, 1996. It is of particular concern that Judge Cercone has made such an expansionist (and just plain technically/legally incorrect) ruling while concurrently being considered as an active candidate for a position on the federal judiciary system. The issues presented in my case actually affect a large nuber of citizens of Pennsylvania, most of whom are unaware of the loss of their rights (and the forthcoming confiscation of their legally-owned property) due to delays in the implementation of the administrative/notification process attendant to Act 17. While the issues are little-known, and initially complex, they can be summarily reduced to this: a law-abiding citizen who is in the privacy of his home, making no disturbance or threat of any kind, has been: 1. Subjected to having his home invaded by law enforcement officers who possess neither a warrant nor any other permission/justification for their dynamic, gun-waving entry into his unlocked home while the individual slept in his bedroom; 2. Personally detained for six days without a warrant, hearing or any other legal protection - being discharged without ever having had any adjudication of this unlawful detention; 3. Legally-owned valuable property permanently confiscated without compensation, or even the need to show legal justification; and 4. Compelled to forfeit fundamental rights under both the state and federal constitutions. 1-4: all without any formal hearing, warrant or court adjudication process of any kind, at any point in time! If you find this situation alarming and outrageous, as I have through personally being violated as described above, I hope you become involved. Many other similarly affected citizens, and an even larger number of those otherwise simply interested in the matter of basic constitutional rights: (1) to be free from unreasonable search & siezure, (2) to own firearms, and (3) to the right to due process under the law --- have already taken an interest. I hope you will, too. I look forward to hearing from you Russell G. Laing At 11:23 AM 12/9/97 -0500, you wrote: > Thank you for contacting my office through the internet. > > I am very concerned about the issues that are facing my constituents > of Pennsylvania. Please continue to keep me apprised of your views > and concerns. > > Should your message necessitate a response, please be sure to include > your Postal address and telephone number so that I will be able to > respond to you promptly. > > Again, thank you for your email message. > > Sincerely, > > > > Arlen Specter - ----- End Russ Laing's Letter to Specter and Santorum ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Please VOTE FOR THE FAITHFUL Second Amendment Action candidates: Jerry L. Allen David M. Gross* Robley T. Moore Michael J. Beko* John Guest Larry R. Rankin James A. Church Fred Gustafson Albert C. Ross* William Dominguez Don L. Henry* Frank H. Sawberger Howard J. Fezell* William B. Hunt Thomas L. Seefeldt Daniel B. Fiora* Phillip B. Journey* Kim Stolfer Arnold J. Gaunt Michael S. Kindberg* John H. Trentes Fred Griisser Jeff Knox Glen I. Voorhees Jr.* Wesley H. Grogan Jr.* John C. Krull Those with an asterisk have been deliberately targeted to be PURGED as "extremists." What's "extreme" about demanding your rights? Help NRA help you and support these candidates! 2. Visit their web sites for further information: http://www.2ndamendment.net (contains candidate statements) http://www.mcs.net/~lpyleprn/home.html http://www.nealknox.com/ (contains Heston interviews) U.S. mail point-of-contact: Second Amendment Action, 100 Heathwood Drive, Liberty, S.C. 29657 ------------------------------------------------------ | If guns cause crime, | If you want my | | crime, all of mine are | guns, then you | | defective. | want a war. | |----------------------------------------------------- | Support the Chinese | If Charles Schumer didn't | | Underground! 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(414) 769-0760 Fax (414) 483-8435 http://www.JPFO.org Against-Genocide@JPFO.org 04/16/98 -------- ITS PAYBACK TIME: DESTROY THE CAREERS OF EVERY GUN PROHIBITIONIST BY EXPOSING THEIR RACIST POLICIES! Dear JPFO Member & e-mail subscriber, You hold in your hand the most explosive intellectual ammunition ever created to destroy American "gun control." This booklet, which your support made possible, changes the terms of the debate in our favor. Never forget, we're in a public relations war to win hearts and minds. This new booklet boldly exposes the ugly secret of "gun control." It firmly plants the pro-liberty position on the moral high ground. How? By telling the truth. "Gun Control" is not just another modem, misguided policy idea. The debate over "gun control" is not about personal opinions where "reasonable minds can differ." "Gun Control" is no more debatable today than is Negro slavery - because the slavery culture created American "gun control." You must seize this opportunity to push "gun control" advocates into their evil corner. Challenge them to explain why they support laws that, in origins and effects, are racist. If a gun prohibitionist refuses to address the issue, then you can "tar and feather" him or her in newspapers, magazines, talk shows, flyers, town meetings, and the Internet. You have the truth - you have the sledgehammer - have the courage to use it now. "Gun Control Is Racist" smashes the deceitful arguments about permits, "sporting purposes," waiting periods, licensing, registration, "Saturday Night Specials, " and ammunition limits. The evil spawn of slavery, oppression and racism, "gun control" laws arose for one purpose: to keep Black people defenseless, so that they could be enslaved and oppressed. The truth is out, and we must act now! For years the gun prohibitionists ridiculed us peaceful, non-violent gun owners. Remember? They called us racists, cultists, Neanderthals, macho wannabes, stupid hicks, extremists, gun nuts, fascists, etc. They smeared us just to discredit our views and disarm us. But the opposite is true - - yesterday's draft-dodgers, college protesters and hippies have become today's racist pigs! It's payback time: Here is what you must do. 1. Order 100 copies of the "Gun Control Is Racist" booklet. Go to: http://www.jpfo.org/books.htm 2. Send a copy to every African American (Black) legislator, reporter, business person, newspaper, and radio station. 3. Send copies to all "gun control" supporters (of all races) in your area. 4. Challenge all of these folks to oppose racist "gun control" laws. 5. If they refuse, then you publicly point out that they intentionally support racist policies. You can't lose this argument! Time is short! Take action today to safeguard the future of firearms ownership! Your future, and that of your kids, is in your hands. Please, go to http://www.jpfo.org/books.htm and order a bundle of Gran'pa Jack booklets to give out! In the battle against "gun control" we have the numbers, but time is our enemy. Every owner of firearms must get a copy of "Gun Control is Racist. " Every gun owner must gain the courage that comes from knowing that we are morally right. And every gun owner must act - either personally or by financially helping others do it - those who have the courage to fight for liberty must have your full support. Now that the Clinton Administration is highlighting the lingering problem of racism in America, there is not a better time to destroy "gun control" by exposing its racist roots. (The people who most owe an apology to Black Americans are the "gun control" advocates) Act now! Do it for yourself, for your loved ones, for liberty itself. Order 100 booklets today. Yours for Liberty, Aaron S. Zelman P.S. If you are not able to order booklets for a local effort, then please send a generous donation to help JPFO print and nationally circulate "Gun Control Is Racist" - the truth must get to all Americans! the right to keep and bear arms must be saved! Right now, if you become a member of JPFO, you will receive all 4 Gran'pa Jack booklets, and receive the latest JPFO Firearms Sentinel magazine. This is an $18.00 value. Not bad, since membership to JPFO is only $20.00 annually. But it does not stop here. You will continue to receive your subscription to the JPFO Firearms Sentinel, and receive our anticipated NEW releases of Gran'pa Jack booklets. Time would fail to tell you of our "Gran'pa Jack" cartoon booklet series. For more info on Gran'pa Jack booklets, go to: http://www.jpfo.org/books.htm TO BECOME A JPFO MEMBER, go to: http://www.jpfo.org/member.htm There you will see a printable member application, along with info on membership. If you wish, you can become a member using our on-line application as well. Membership IS open to ALL Law abiding citizens (..if you obey the Bill of Rights, you are "Law Abiding" in JPFO's books!). Join us in this battle against the Racist Roots of "Gun Control"! **************************************************************** Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) Chris W. Stark - Director of Electronic Communications 2874 So. Wentworth Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53207 Ph. (414) 769-0760 Fax (414) 483-8435 Against-Genocide@JPFO.org Visit our Web Page at: http://www.JPFO.org MEMBERSHIP IS OPEN TO ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS. 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