From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #266 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Friday, August 6 1999 Volume 02 : Number 266 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 99 08:21:43 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: FCC Public File Auto-FAQ 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 - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Aug 99 08:11:14 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Gun Control Advocates Regroup (http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt1x.htm) (fwd) On Aug 2, Michael Jones wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BEDCA9.2A8B2B60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Listmembers, The article below has Josh Sugarman of the Violence Policy Center letting the cat out of the bag as to his true intentions: the banning of all handguns. http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt1x.htm Michael ================================== Only the exhaustive can be truly interesting. --Thomas Mann ================================== - ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BEDCA9.2A8B2B60 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Gun Control Advocates Regroup (2).url" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Gun Control Advocates Regroup (2).url" [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt1x.htm Modified=008C823ECADCBE01B1 - ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BEDCA9.2A8B2B60-- [------------------------- 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: Mon, 2 Aug 99 08:12:12 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: The Miami Herald - Should Lawyers Run For Nonjudicial Office? No: Reject tyranny (fwd) On Aug 2, ZOBOLI@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] The Miami Herald Tuesday, July 6, 1999 Should Lawyers Run For Nonjudicial Office? No: Reject tyranny Ronald Bibace is a Fort Lauderdale businessman and constitutional scholar. Lawyers who are members of the Florida Bar are barred legally from running for public office in the executive and legislative branches. The Constitution prohibits them from running for mayor, commissions, school board, sheriff, the Legislature or any other elected office that is not part of the judicial branch of government. The language of the Florida Constitution's separation-of-powers clause, Article II, Sect. 3, is unambiguous. It states: "No person belonging to one branch shall exercise any powers appertaining to either of the other two branches unless expressly provided herein." In 1949 the Florida Bar was "unified" with, and became a part of the Supreme Court. (See Petition of Florida State Bar Assn. 40 So. 2d 902.) That made every state Bar member/lawyer a person "belonging to the judiciary branch of government." They are, therefore barred from holding public office in the other two branches of government. This prohibition is not an "unintended consequence" of the 1949 action by Florida's lawyers. The prohibition lies at the very heart and the soul of both the Florida and the US constitutions. Nonlawyer James Madison's Constitution had one principal goal: to create a government that had sufficient power to govern, but insufficient power to oppress. To do so, he neutralized the first four known sources of tyranny, which he identified as the monarchy, the aristocracy, the military and the church. Madison then addressed the last source of tyranny, which he defined as: "a same-hands group or faction that had a common interest adverse to the Nation as a whole." Lawyers and every other professional group fit this definition. To protect the state against this "same hands" tyranny, Madison implicitly instituted the separation-of power principle in the US Constitution. In Florida, Article II, Section 3, is the explicit state equivalent. Florida lawyers and the judges have ignored this prohibition. What is true in Florida is also true all over the land. From this abuse of power by the legal profession, this nation now suffers from what Madison, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton called, "the very definition of tyranny." That tyranny arises when a single "same-hands" group makes the law, enforces the law and interprets the law. That tyranny, whether or not perceived, is at the heart of most of the nation's problems in the areas of crime, education, health, welfare, frivolous lawsuits, devastating divorces and countless other problems. That tyranny has undermined the Constitution and fundamentally flawed all government. It has resulted in enormous harm to people, both in dollars and emotional distress. Historically tyrants neither acknowledge their tyranny nor voluntarily give up their power. That explains why the members of the legal profession are in a state of denial. That is why the people must correct the situation by voting all lawyers out of office outside the judicial branch. Until that occurs, very little substantial and permanent improvement will occur anywhere. If the situation is not corrected, the nation likely will go down to chaos, revolution and, perhaps, even civil war in the near future. Further information on this and other constitutional matters is available at www.constitutionalguardian.com [------------------------- 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: Mon, 2 Aug 99 14:32:45 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: Re: Congress' Dirty Tricks to Eliminate Patent Protection (fwd) On Aug 02, Huck wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] > From: Eagle Forum > Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 01:54:53 -0500 > EAGLE FORUM CAPITOL ALERT -- July 31, 1999 > > Don't Fall for Phony "Patent Reform" > > EMERGENCY ALERT FROM PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY AND EAGLE > FORUM. ACTION URGENTLY NEEDED BEFORE NOON ON > MONDAY AUGUST 2 by all who care about constitutional rights and > America's future. Help us stop Congress from giving away the rights > of independent inventors. > > At 4 p.m. on Friday, July 30, after most offices had closed for the > weekend, Rep. Howard Coble took the Patent bill, H.R. 1907 > (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.01907:), away > from Rep. Dan Burton (who was going to hold hearings), dropped out > Title VI, gave the bill a new number, H.R. 2654, referred it to the > Judiciary Committee, got it out of Judiciary, and placed it > number-three on the Suspension Calendar for Monday, August 2. > > This is a sneaky way to pass the bill without the American people > knowing about it until it is too late. Why can't the American people > have advance notice that such an important bill is to be voted on? > Why don't we have a chance to voice our opinions publicly about the > dangers lurking in the bill before it is rushed to a vote? > > Why was it put on suspension of the rules, which precludes floor > debate on specifics of the bill and means it can't be amended? Is Mr. > Coble afraid of amendments? Is he afraid of a floor debate on the > dangers of the bill? > > Doing this deed at 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon, and prearranging to > have his own letter to the editor in favor of the new bill printed in a > Washington, D.C. newspaper on Saturday morning, was an > underhanded method of precluding any debate, ad or news story > about the bill. This is not the way our government should work. > > This bill is called the American Inventors Protection Act, but > should be called the Inventors Elimination Act. The independent > inventors would be squeezed out and their inventions stolen from > them, all for the benefit of the foreigners and the giant corporations. > > Who is behind this Patent bill? This bill is a blatant attempt by the > Clinton Administration and the Democrats in Congress to legislate a > deal made by Ron Brown with the Japanese Ambassador and with > the Chinese who were providing political money for Clinton's > reelection. This is also a blatant attempt by Republicans to pay off > the multinational corporations who have donated so much political > hard and soft money. > > We urgently need your help to defeat this terrible bill by calling your > Member of Congress over the weekend or the very first thing Monday > morning. Powerful special-interests are determined to change (in the > phony name of "reform") our enormously successful patent system, > the keystone of America's technological superiority and economic > success. > > America has produced more major inventions than all the rest of the > world combined. This is because our Founding Fathers set up the > U.S. Patent Office to protect the constitutional right of independent > inventors to the "exclusive" ownership of their inventions for a limited > number of years, after which the inventions belong to the public. > > Phony "reform" of the U.S. system is aggressively sought not only by > the foreigners, whose motive is to steal U.S. intellectual property, but > also by the multinationals that want to control all innovation. If you > are DaimlerChrysler or IBM, for example, you certainly don't want an > independent inventor working in his garage to develop a new product > that you don't control and which might cut in on your market share. > > A lot of lies are being told about this bill. You will be told that it's > very > different from the Omnibus ("Ominous") Patent bill that Congress > refused to pass last year. Don't be fooled. It's not very different, it's > only slightly different. The bill's wording has changed a little, but the > goal of the sponsors remains the same. Even more important, the > backers of this bill plan to restore all the bad stuff when it goes to > the > Conference committee. > > You will be told that the 25 Nobel Laureates, who signed a > remarkable joint letter opposing last year's bill, have changed their > views. That's a lie. It says: "It will prove very damaging to American > small inventors and thereby discourage the flow of new inventions > that have contributed so much to America's superior performance in > the advancement of science and technology." The burden of proof is > on Mr. Coble to prove that his current bill has eliminated all the > objections that the Nobel Laureates made to last year's bill, and he > hasn't met that burden. Milton Friedman (one of the Nobel Laureates) > wrote Dana Rohrabacher, telling him, "you have been taking my > name in vain in connection with the patent reform bill." > > You may be told that Phyllis Schlafly has approved this bill. That's a > lie. I oppose it and believe it is the most dangerous bill in the current > Congress. > > You will hear that the new bill is OK because Rep. Dana > Rohrabacher is for it, and he was a big opponent of the bill in the last > session. The fact is that Dana is the one who has changed. > > The chief argument we hear in behalf of patent "reform" legislation is > that we should "harmonize" with other countries. But why should > America harmonize with unsuccessful systems? Let other countries > harmonize with us! > > Title II of this bad bill will undermine the rights of independent > inventors by providing for "prior user rights." This will enable > corporations to claim a "prior use right" and thereby steal the > independent inventor's constitutional right to "exclusive" ownership of > his discovery. > > Title V, which allows third parties to participate in an expanded > reexamination process, gives infringers the opportunity to delay an > inventor's effective use of his patent rights. Because it will encourage > litigation, it should be called the "patent lawyers' full employment > act." > > Information available at www.eagleforum.org includes the > important letter from the 25 Nobel Laureates, Phyllis Schlafly's > other articles, a strong letter from MRI inventor Dr. Raymond > Damadian, an excellent article by national security expert Frank > Gaffney, and links to a letter from Hawaii Governor Benjamin > Cayetano. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Get free e-mail you don't need Web access to use -- > Or get full, reliable Internet access from Juno Web! > Download your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagh. [------------------------- 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: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:14:22 -0700 From: Kenneth Mitchell Subject: Re: Gun Control Advocates Regroup (http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt1x.htm) (fwd) At 08:11 AM 8/2/1999 PST, you wrote: > >Listmembers, > The article below has Josh Sugarman of the Violence Policy Center >letting the cat out of the bag as to his true intentions: the banning of all >handguns. > No cats out of any bags here! Sugarman has NEVER made any secret of his ultimate goal, or the fact that each individual gun control measure was merely one step along the way. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Mitchell Citrus Heights, CA kmitchel@gvn.net 916-955-9152 (vm) 916-729-0966 (fax) - --------------http://www.gvn.net/~creative/------------------------ Please check the Computer Incident Advisory Capability web site at http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html before forwarding virus warnings. Remember; 98% of all virus warnings are false. - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 99 21:26:45 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [richslick] S L I C K Year 4, Issue #35 (fwd) On Aug 3, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] =A9 1999 Rich Martin Permission to repost in part or in full is granted. You are encouraged to pass this message on to anyone=20 who might be interested in its contents. Better yet, print a=20 copy for a friend who is not on-line. Any and all comments=20 on the subject matter are always welcome. Do not use your reply button if you want everyone to read them. Send them=20 to: =20 Slick-d@egroups.com From the Desk of Rich Martin P O Box 531918 972/263-6631 Grand Prairie, TX 75053 RichSlick@aol.com "...And to preserve their independence, we must not let our=20 rulers load us with perpetual debt." Thomas Jefferson=20 _____________________________________________ Happy Back to School, 1999 Trivia for the day. Only one president in this century has=20 left office with fewer civilians on the fedl payroll than=20 when he took office. Who was he? Today people ask, including yours truly, how much more=20 is the public going to take before saying enough is enough?=20 It's easy to forget that one of the underlying symbols that=20 brought the Republican Party to majority in the US Congress=20 was the 55 mph natl speed limit. This "minor" infraction of=20 the Constitution became a symbol of excessive fedl power and=20 regulation, in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party. Well, today we=20 in Texas have the freedom to speed 80 mph on our interstate=20 spewing the federally mandated carcinogen, MTBE, out our=20 tail pipes.=20 The feds which once coerced states to enforce the double=20 nickel speed limit by threatening to withhold fedl highway=20 funds, are today saying that if the 4-county area that makes=20 up the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex doesn't pump gas laced=20 with MTBE, we will not be permitted to build houses, roads,=20 etc. All construction would be banned by fedl fiat.=20 This same pattern is being duplicated throughout the=20 nation. MTBE is required in many of our largest urban areas,=20 including the state of Calif. (Want to bet there's a=20 carcinogen in Chgo's air, which becomes lethal in hot=20 weather?)=20 "We must make our election between economy and liberty=20 or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as=20 that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our=20 necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our=20 amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people=20 of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor=20 sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of=20 fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily=20 expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us=20 bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and=20 potatoes; have not time to think, no means of calling the=20 mismanager's to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence=20 by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of=20 our fellow sufferers..." =20 Thomas Jefferson THE MAKING OF AMERICA, p. 395 The more things change, the more they stay the same. The=20 answer is: profusion and servitude. There is no limit as to what=20 We the People are willing to endure---as long as the trains are=20 on time. Or, as Kathie might say, pray for a depression. While the press is watching Mark McGuire close in on 500=20 HRs and Tony Gwynn become the umpteenth player to get his=20 3,000 hit, no one outside of Texas seems to know that Ranger=20 Ivan "Pudge" Rodriquez is about to become the first catcher in=20 the history of baseball to join the 20 - 20 club, 20 HR's and 20=20 stolen bases. Ne'er been done b/4. And there's 2 months to=20 go. Do I hear 30 - 30?=20 How Slick is Slick? Well, now Slick has his wife explaining why it isn't=20 his fault when he rapes and/or sexually harrasses interns.=20 This is so clever, I ain't got the foggiest notion how they=20 think this will help them. Blaming 2 strong women (mother & grandmother) for screwing him up, is not going to make his=20 Lesbian constituency happy. Hillary may get a few points=20 from her core of NY divorcees, but they were going to vote=20 for their queen any way. All I can fathom is: they planted=20 the story to keep the focus on their soap opera and keep=20 something else off the front page. =20 MATT DRUD= GE=20 // DRUDGE REPORT '99=AE=20 TAX REFORM If you listen to the pols "debating" the tax cut, they=20 all agree that 1% of the richest taxpayers pay 90% of the=20 taxes, so what I propose is: let's cut taxes 10% and 99% of=20 us won't have to pay any taxes. Seems to me with a 99% base=20 of approval, this would be a shoe-in politcally, right? What=20 do you imagine is wrong with this picture? Why aren't all=20 those pols climbing on to my band wagon?=20 TARGETED TAX CUTS Targeted tax cuts aren't really tax cuts. They are=20 hidden new fedl spending programs, but they aren't=20 necessarily bad. Clintons' plan to finance day care with tax=20 credits is an example of a bad plan. An example of a=20 successful targeted tax cut would be Pres Gerry Ford's $200=20 cut for every family. At the time, the economy was stalled=20 because of excess inventory. We the People took our $200 to=20 the store, reduced the inventory, and manufacturers called=20 their employees back to work. Not surprising, Gerald Ford is=20 the answer to today's trivia question.=20 PAYING DOWN THE DEBT I could accept a "no tax cut plan" under one condition=20 and with one exception. In order to make sure than all the=20 money went to "paying down the deficit", I'd expect a freeze=20 on all spending. No "emergency spending" to pay for the=20 census, for instance. No increases in spending whatsoever.=20 The exception would be to eliminate the Marriage Penalty Tax=20 by passing a law allowing married citizens to file as "single"=20 instead of using the punitive rates of the "married, but filing=20 separately" IRS schedule.=20 THE CLEAN FUEL The Dallas Area Rapid Transit service has stopped using=20 clean fuel, and gone back to MTBE gasoline. The truly clean=20 fuel they were using, natural gas, has only one draw back.=20 There aren't a lot of gas stations that sell it. Why the=20 D.A.R.T. fleet can't be fueled every morning before leaving=20 the station is a mystery to our beloved masters.=20 CAMPAIGN REFORM With no controlling authority to bring charges vs pols=20 from calling prospective donors from fedl offices charged to=20 govt calling cards, or using nuns to launder political=20 contributions (how low can you go?) from nations like China, Indonesia and God knows who else, who contribute $10's of=20 mil in exchange for military secrets and/or trade favors, don't=20 you think we should return that $6 mil fine to that poor sap in=20 Mass who may be the only person ever punished for violating=20 a campaign law. The poor dummy re-imbursed his employees for=20 contributing to the GOP. If he were smart as Algore, he=20 would have used nuns to launder the funds.=20 ALGORE "As president...I will fight for a national requirement=20 that every state issue photo licenses for anyone who wants=20 to buy a handgun. ... Unless you obtain a license and pass a=20 background test and pass a gun safety test, you could not=20 buy a handgun under this law. ... (W)e should require a=20 license to own a handgun..."=20 Al Gore, Washington Times Weekly, 7/19/99 LINDA TRIPP What's the logic of a "2-party phone tap law"? Is it so=20 that if Person A tells/threatens Person B on the phone,=20 Person B can't prove it with physical evidence? Prosecuting=20 someone for obtaining supporting evidence of a crime isn't=20 any more logical than pumping carcinogens into the air.=20 Sorta like Mass going after a citizen who has the gaul to=20 contribute to the GOP. LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Air Force is having a war game exercise called Red=20 Flag. What does Red Flag and Kosovo have in common? They=20 both blow up fake targets. Remember when people came to America to be Americans? Recd from < pontiacs@bellsouth.net > 2000 CENSUS A decade or two ago, the Library Board of a small=20 midwest Chgo suburb I know, decided to build a brand new=20 sparkling state-of-the-art building, complete with the=20 latest electronic equipment. Their budget set nothing aside=20 for books. They had spent all their money on their supreme=20 bookless ediface, "knowing" full well, that if they built=20 it, the City Council would have no choice but to fill the=20 shelves. I recall this story because our fedl govt is now=20 playing those same stupid games with our money when they=20 failed to include the cost of doing the 2000 Census in their=20 budget that doubles the salary for the prez. Now they say=20 they must ignore the caps and pay for the Census with=20 "emergency" funding. Tell me, do they think we just got off=20 the turnip truck? They show us less respect than the Library=20 Board showed the City Council. Throw the bums out. MEDIACRATS Isn't it neat to watch the media squirm while they take=20 the popular Jesse over the coals for being a wrestler, while=20 singing the praises of their liberal basketball player=20 candidate. Would they howl if Bradley accepted an offer to=20 referee an exhibition BB game? I think not. AN INTERESTING ITEM Clark Fired. General Wesley Clark was retired 3 months=20 early, removed from his SACEUR post, and nominated as an=20 ambassador. Although everyone involved denied that this was=20 anything other than a promotion, most of us with military=20 experience view it as a pretty blunt, and brutal firing. =20 Clark was a Clinton political appointee, a Rhodes Scholar,=20 Friend of Bill, and ran the unsuccessful war against=20 Yugoslavia. Successful Generals are not removed in this=20 manner. Generals who win stunning military victories are not=20 removed in this manner either. Perhaps there is some hope=20 for the Pentagon after all.=20 More Interesting Items can be now be found on Rod Martin's=20 (no relation) "Vanguard" at Interesting Items by Alex=20 Gimarc=20 TOBACCO DEAL If the govt was really interested in fighting tobacco=20 addiction, you'd think they'd issue Nicoderm stamps to the=20 poor, instead they tax the cure and restrict sales as if=20 they were a tobacco product. KATHIE'S KORNER A lot of what seems confusing when some bureaucrat tries=20 to explain it becomes crystal clear if you substitute one=20 thing for a similar thing. The federal government's budget=20 leaps to mind. "Instead of swallowing the belief that we can=20 spend our way out of a depression," substitute not your=20 family budget but that of a local school board. Both are=20 alike in that both are allowed to tax their constituents,=20 whereas your family can't do that. Now, analyze. Ever hear=20 of a school board spending itself out of a depression? Good,=20 you're catching on. Now substitute a non-endangered species for an=20 endangered one, to see whether "protection" is a good idea=20 or not. Take corn, for example. (It's endangered in MY=20 garden this year.) If the government were to "protect" corn=20 the way they protect salmon, for example, we would=20 eventually run out of corn. If no one were allowed to pick=20 it, to eat it, or to go anywhere near where it was growing=20 wild, there would also be no incentive to plant more. And=20 its listing would become self-fulfilling. Soon, no corn on=20 the cob, and oldtimers would talk about the good old days=20 when every back yard had a stand of corn. Pray for wisdom,=20 and pray for the country.=20 Reply to: Kathie < fishrap@netdex.com > EDUCATION Last issue I told you Allen ISD was spending a $mil of=20 their educational budget on security; this week they=20 announced that it includes security cameras that will=20 automatically activate when an exterior door opens---and,=20 oh yeah, they need to hire a "Director of Security." REMEMBER THE GOOD OLE DAYS... when you felt sorry for the parochial students, because they=20 went back to school before labor Day? when the only place that had air conditioning in Chgo was=20 the movie theaters? when nickel cigars were. THIS SPACE FOR RENT Reliable Internet Access for only $14.95 a month. Over 550 access numbers in 21 States and growing. =20 Cyber77-ISP, web hosts, unlimited=20 access, high-speed servers=20 If you have your own web site, you know it's not enough=20 to be on the internet with 30,000,000 geeks. 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All of the above. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MyPoints-Free Rewards When You're Online. = Start with up to 150 Points for joining! http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/630 eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/richslick http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications [------------------------- 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: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 19:30:31 -0500 From: linzellr@datastar.net (Robert Linzell) Subject: Fwd: Statistics for Australia, one year after the gun ban and gun grab Here's a follow-up to a query posted here a few weeks ago. Read 'em and weep; don't let it happen here. Bob in Mississippi - State Motto: Virtute et Armis ("By Valor and Arms") Get my PGP Public Key(s) at One year after gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, a program costing the government over 500 million dollars, the results are in. A dramatic increase in criminal activity has been experienced. Gun control advocates respond "Just wait... we'll be safer... you'll see...". OBSERVABLE FACTS, AFTER 12 MONTHS OF DATA: * Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2% * Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6% * Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT) * In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300% * Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months) * Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months) * There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of-the-elderly * At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said "self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm" * From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia had averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe society by any standard. * The ban has destroyed Australia's standings in some international sport shooting competitions * The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has risen to 112,000, a 200% increase, in response to the ban and as an attempt to organize against further controls, which are expected. * Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement in "safety" has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns". Their response has been to "wait longer". source: http://glock.missouri.edu/glock/ban.shtml - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find out about rec.guns at http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/rec.guns - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Aug 99 07:45:09 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Lawyers, not law, now control Nation (fwd) On Aug 6, ZOBOLI@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Lawyers, not law, now control Nation Linda Bowles: a principled conservative shining the=20 spotlight of truth on Lyers In the early days of this country, most of the people in=20 Congress were ordinary citizens - businessmen, farmers,=20 teachers, shopkeepers and the like. Today, most of the=20 people in Congress are lawyers ... career politicians. This is not an improvement. Before I explain why, let me=20 hasten to say that there are some lawyers who are wonderful=20 people. However, they are exceptions to the general rule. As a group, lawyers run America. As legislators, they make=20 the laws; as judges, they interpret the laws; and as public=20 administrators and private practitioners, they implement the=20 laws. We have said of ourselves that we are a nation governed by=20 laws, not by men. While that once may have been true, it no=20 longer is. Theoretically, the Constitution controls laws and lawmakers.=20 In practice, however, the Constitution has been rendered largely=20 irrelevant by legal sophistry and selective interpretation. For example, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which=20 limits the power of the federal government, was not repealed -=20 it was simply abandoned. At the other extreme, a simple clause=20 in the Constitution dealing with interstate commerce was expanded=20 to mean the federal government could do essentially anything it=20 wanted to do. In a review of M. Stanton Evan's brilliant book, "The Theme Is=20 Freedom," Archie P. Jones writes of the "pagan theory of kingship,=20 which claimed that the monarch should be accountable to no man,=20 that he should rule without limits on his power and that he should=20 be free to make the law whatever he willed it to be." Thanks to the legal profession, an ominous parallel to the "pagan=20 theory of kingship" has developed in America, where the collective=20 will of the people is ignored, limits on federal power have disappeared=20 and the law is what our lawgivers say it is. Consistently, Americans have voted for change, but nothing=20 changes. The people want term limits, but they can't have them.=20 They want a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution,=20 but it is denied. They want an end to government-mandated racial=20 discrimination, but it continues. They want smaller government,=20 genuine tax relief and campaign reform - but to no avail. They want control of children returned to parents, they want prayer=20 in school, they want a rest from open borders and open families,=20 and they want an end to government sanctioned infanticide - but=20 nothing changes. They did not want NAFTA and GATT or the World Trade Organization,=20 but they got them anyway. They did not want American troops sent=20 to Haiti or Somalia or Bosnia, but they were sent nevertheless. They=20 wanted less involvement with the United Nations, but they got more. The American people have been lawyered into abject submission.=20 They are alienated from the government, no longer believing it belongs=20 to them. Cynicism is widespread. Lawyers, as a rule, never tilled a field, repaired an automobile, built=20 a product, managed a profit-and-loss business, competed in=20 international markets, planned a manufacturing facility or, generally=20 speaking, added anything of tangible value to the gross national=20 product. They are power brokers who deal in abstractions and theories. They=20 are schooled in closed systems of logic that have no touch points=20 with reality. They speak a strange language that they themselves=20 do not understand. All signs of common sense have been thoroughly=20 hammered out of their minds by years of intensive training. These are the people who make our economic decisions, handle=20 our budgets, negotiate our trade deals, oversee our military strategy,=20 design our social programs, regulate our businesses, mandate our=20 private behavior and redistribute our wealth. Taken as a whole, the legal profession benefits from what laws=20 are written and the way they are written. The more unintelligible=20 the laws are and the more bereft they are of common sense, the=20 more they serve the financial interests of lawyers. The conflict of=20 interest is palpable. Trial lawyers are the worst of the sorry lot. Our courts have become=20 nothing more than games of winning and losing, played at the expense=20 of justice. Spare me the sophisms about the beauty of adversarial proceedings.=20 Our system of justice has been perverted by a group of unaccountable,=20 irresponsible, preening and strutting, publicity-driven, money-grubbing,=20 egomaniacal, swell-headed lawyers playing king-of-the-hill. Jesus judged legalists harshly. He blasted the whole group of them=20 in Luke 11:46: "Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! For ye lade men with=20 burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens=20 with one of your fingers." Jesus was so upset that a few verses later, he added this: "Woe unto=20 you, lawyers! For ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered=20 not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." We were warned. ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY DON'T VOTE FOR LAWYERS [------------------------- 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 - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #266 *************************