From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #355 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Friday, June 16 2000 Volume 02 : Number 355 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 00 15:29:38 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Emerson (fwd) On Jun 12, CJE wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Things are heating up, a bit. I would surely enjoy being a fly on the wall during the arguments before the panel in NO..... Cliff 06/11/00- Updated 11:17 PM ET Texas case could affect gun ownership By Richard Willing, USA TODAY It began as a marital dispute in western Texas and became a debate over Timothy Emerson's right to keep a gun after a court told him to stay away from his estranged wife, Sacha. Now, courtesy of an unusual ruling by a Texas judge, it has blossomed into a gun-rights case that could have enormous impact on gun-control policy in the USA. When gun-rights advocates and gun-control supporters square off Tuesday before a federal appeals panel in New Orleans, the issue will be: Does the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantee individuals the right to possess firearms? Or does it, as courts have indicated previously, provide that right merely to state militias? If the right is guaranteed to individuals, both sides agree that many gun-control laws might be invalid, or at least might have to be rewritten. "This is a case with some real potential consequences," says Akhil Reed Amar, constitutional law scholar at Yale University Law School. The case, U.S. vs. Emerson, is an appeal of a federal judge's ruling that invalidated a federal firearms law in 1999 because it conflicted with what the judge called the "individual right to bear arms." Judge Sam Cummings' ruling marked the first time that a federal judge had interpreted the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right. The case involved a doctor in San Angelo, Texas, who was charged with violating a restraining order. If the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the ruling, it is likely to inspire challenges in that circuit, which comprises Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and elsewhere. The case likely would be appealed to the Supreme Court, where at least two justices seem to favor the individual-rights argument. Gun-control advocates are concerned. "Right now, virtually any gun-control law with a rational basis passes muster," says Dennis Henigan, general counsel of Handgun Control Inc., based in Washington. The group has filed a friend-of-the-court brief that argues against the individual right. If gun possession is found to be a constitutional right, he says, gun laws would be held to "a completely different standard" that could weaken some and cause others to be struck down. Gun-rights advocates also are leery but for different reasons. Without a comprehensive decision to contradict them, the advocates, especially the National Rifle Association, have argued that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to keep weapons. An adverse ruling, especially from the Supreme Court, would rob them of that rhetorical weapon. "Everybody (on the gun-rights side) is expressing some anticipation and hesitation," says Stephen Halbrook, a lawyer in Fairfax, Va., who has filed a brief that argues for the individual right. But, he says, "I think we might as well get it on. The law's a building block; you win some, and you lose some. But the idea is to establish some kind of right." The case began in 1998, when a Texas court placed a restraining order on Emerson during his divorce. This meant that Emerson, who legally owned a 9-mm pistol, automatically was in violation of a federal law from 1994 that aimed to protect women in divorce cases by denying guns to their spouses. In April 1999, Cummings struck down the federal law. He said it violated an individual's right to possess guns. In New Orleans, the arguments are likely to focus on the Second Amendment's phrasing: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The amendment was approved in 1791. William Mateja, an assistant U.S. attorney in Lubbock, Texas, will argue that the "plain text" demonstrates that the Constitution's framers intended the right to apply only to state militias, the 18th century equivalent of today's National Guard. Timothy Crooks, a public defender who represents Emerson, will focus on the way the amendment singles out the right "of the people." "The Constitution clearly distinguishes between 'the people' and 'the States,' " Crooks wrote in a court brief . The Supreme Court has considered the Second Amendment only once, in 1939. Then, it returned a case to a lower court to decide whether a sawed-off shotgun owned by a bootlegger could be deemed a militia weapon. The bootlegger was killed in a business-related dispute before the case was completed. Gun-control foes have argued that this decision placed the court squarely on the side of favoring a militia right, not an individual one. Gun-rights advocates, joined by some scholars, say they are reading too much into the 1939 case. Appeals courts in other federal circuits have not held that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right. A three-judge panel will hear the case, with the loser having the option of seeking another hearing before the full appeals court. After that, the case could head to the Supreme Court. 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On Jun 13, InTheRiver wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Honor System Virus This virus works on the honor system. Please forward this message to everyone you know and then delete all the files on your hard disk. Thank you for your cooperation. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jun 00 19:56:47 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Emerson Case- Circuit Court Asks Great Questions (fwd) On Jun 13, R. Lunn wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >From Neal Knox. Sounds like good news! - -------------FORWARD-------- >From neal@nealknox.com Tue Jun 13 21:50:54 2000 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:46:48 EDT From: Neal Knox Reply-To: chris@nealknox.com To: fco@lists.best.com Subject: Circuit Court Asks Great Questions 5:30 p.m. June 13 Neal Knox Report -- "The Court really beat up on the government" Linda Thomas of Houston ecstatically told me a few minutes ago. She was on a cell phone, standing on the steps of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. A three-judge panel had just heard oral argument in the Emerson case, in which Lubbock, Texas, Federal Judge Sam Cummings struck down part of the 1996 Lautenberg Amendment prohibiting persons under a restraining order from possessing firearms. The government prosecutor said the Second Amendment only applied to arms issued to militia members, in Dr. Timothy Emerson's case either the Texas National Guard or Texas State Guard. Judge Harold R. DeMoss, Jr., a George Bush appointee, told him he was misreading the 1939 Miller case. The court held in Miller that there had been no evidence that Miller's sawed-off shotgun was a militia-type arm. Nothing was said about the gun having to have been issued. Judge DeMoss asked the prosecutor if Dr. Emerson's Beretta 92 9mm pistol isn't the type used by armies. Of course, it's the standard U.S. sidearm. Judge DeMoss also raised a critical question that addresses the Tenth Amendment. "I have a 12 gauge and 16 gauge shotgun, and a .30 caliber deer rifle in my closet at home. Can you tell me how those affect interstate commerce." All Federal gun laws are based on the power of the Congress to regulate interstate commerce. The present Supreme Court has struck down several laws in a series of narrow decisions based on the Tenth Amendment's stipulation that powers not specifically delegated to Congress "are reserved to the states and the people, respectively." Judge Robert M. Parker, appointed by President Carter, and to the appellate court by President Clinton, told the government: "I don't want you to lose any sleep over this, but Judge Garwood (the senior judge) and I between us have enough guns to start a revolution in most South American countries." Linda, a gun rights activist who has just finished law school and is preparing for the bar exam, said the folks on our side of the aisle "are all smiles." Unlike most firearms-related court cases, there was no reluctance to discuss the Second Amendment, and, Linda said, the judges had done their homework. "It was like sitting in on a Gun Rights Policy Conference legal seminar." One thing about it, Timothy Emerson's case is going to have a full and fair hearing. And so will the Second Amendment. If the Fifth Circuit concurs with the trial judge that the Second Amendment protects gun ownership as an individual right -- which now seems quite possible -- there would be a conflict between the circuit courts, almost guaranteeing a Supreme Court hearing after the next election. That's just one more reason to make certain that Al Gore isn't in a position to appoint Supreme Court justices. ^Z - -- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Firearms Coalition Alerts list. To unsubscribe send mail to fco-request@lists.best.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. Archives of these messages are stored at http://www.nealknox.com/alerts/. Copyright (c) 2000 Neal Knox Associates. All Rights Reserved. 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Miller wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FBI Agent Ruled Immune in Idaho SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The FBI agent who killed the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver during the Ruby Ridge standoff is immune from state prosecution in Idaho, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. Sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi shot Vicki Weaver in 1992 while she held her baby. At the time, federal agents had converged on the family's cabin to arrest Randy Weaver on a weapons trafficking charge. Horiuchi said he did not see Vicki Weaver when he fired at an armed associate of Randy Weaver. Idaho prosecutors pursued a manslaughter charge against Horiuchi, but the charge was dismissed by a federal judge. A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal, ruling that Horiuchi was acting in his official duty as a federal law enforcement officer. The Weavers' 14-year-old son and a U.S. marshal were also killed during the standoff. AP-NY-06-14-00 1616EDT< [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 00 20:34:33 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] A Flag of Conviction: "Don't Tread On Me" (fwd) On Jun 14, Bard wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] CNS: Opinion Time: 5:30 PM,Wednesday, June 14, 2000 A Flag of Conviction: "Don't Tread On Me" By Matthew Robinson CNS Commentary 14 June, 2000 Christopher Gadsden's face and name may not be immortalized on any bill or coin, but this firebrand designed a symbol which, even through the swirling mists of time, is a reminder of the birth of the nation and the spirit that carried it to freedom. June 14 is Flag Day. On that day, of course, we remember the Stars and Stripes and the men who fought under that banner for freedom. Gadsden gave us another great flag, one that flew prominently during the American Revolution, under which many men fought and died. Gadsden's was the blazing yellow banner that sports the ominous coiled snake and revolutionary warning, "Don't Tread on Me." Today we don't take the time as we once did to remember those iron men who fought the Revolution. And, worse, we seem to have forgotten the principles, energy, and sacrifice they poured into defending freedom and the rule of law. South Carolina's Christopher Gadsden is as much a symbol of the spirit of the American Revolution as his flag. When Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, Gadsden helped rally opposition to that oppressive law. He argued that taxation without representation in Parliament violated the most basic laws of the English constitution and the natural rights of citizens. The Stamp Act, like many of the attempts to control the colonies, would set an unlawful precedent. The taxes on tea, trade and even paper were modest. The real problem, the revolutionaries understood, is that the Stamp Act laid the groundwork for the unlimited and unrepresentative expansion of government. It was the thin edge of the wedge. As John Dickinson wrote, "If Parliament succeeds in this attempt, other statutes will impose other duties... and thus Parliament will levy upon us such sums of money as they choose to take without any other limitation than their pleasure." Gadsden was a man of principle who understood that government, unless held in check, grows slowly and inexorably. And a government that has no limits, no constitutionally drawn boundaries, soon becomes the master and the citizens become heavily-taxed workers little more than slaves. Without representation--the ability to fight for their interests--the colonies would be subject to the whim and will of politicians ever in search of more revenue and swag to grant the "court locusts" who buzz around institutions of power expecting a handout. When the Stamp Act was passed the British envoy who was set to enforce the new law tried to land in Charleston. But Gadsden led the Sons of Liberty against the tax-collecting functionary. The patriots would not let his ship anchor to enforce the illegal act. Then, the captain of the British ship turned back through the mouth of the Charleston harbor to anchor at Fort Johnson. The Sons of Liberty, no doubt alcohol-fueled and intoxicated with raucous songs of their victory, heard of this and decided to show Parliament just how much they hated oppressive taxes. They traveled to the fort, took it over, and aimed the British guns at the Stamp Act collector's ship. Outmatched and obviously outgunned, the captain set to sea never to return. Gadsden and his men then went home. Through legal channels, the patriots continued their resistance to the Stamp Act and eventually had it overturned. Eight years later, America was in full rebellion against British rule, which had become more capricious and still threatened unjust and burdensome taxation. It was then that Gadsden became a colonel in the Revolutionary Army and presented his unique ensign as the flag of the Cause. The coiled snake might seem a strange symbol today. But it was and is effective. No American who ever sees it forgets -- and that's just the kind of message the revolutionaries wanted to send. For those early Americans, the rattlesnake had special significance. Like liberty, the rattler was found only in America. But that wasn't all. That wily serpent was usually just a harmless, humble creature. But aroused, angered, and prodded, first it warned with violent rattle then it struck with a deadly bite. Gadsden emphasized this by printing the legend "Don't Tread On Me" on his flag. The words swept the nation. It became the banner of minutemen militias. The Culpeper Minutemen chose the coiled snake ready to strike and the words from Gadsden's flag, but then raised another defiant fist at England by adding the words: "Liberty or Death." At sea, the first flag of the Continental Navy carried Gadsden's warning, this time with a sea snake slithering across the 13 red-and-white stripes. Early Americans saw the tremendous opportunities of a land born of liberty where men were free to innovate, invent and explore. They could reap the rewards of freedom without government meddling and were safe because they answered to God, family and their local communities. Most of all, those early Americans understood that liberty is fragile. To give any distant body of elites the power to tax and spend to stay in power promises corruption and a Leviathan government more interested in concentrating power for itself than in protecting the rights of its citizens. Flag Day may be about the Stars and Stripes, a banner that symbolizes freedom and justice to Americans and the world. But Gadsden and his flag are a still a symbol that liberty needs friends who can fight for the rule of law and principle for the good of the generations to come. Matthew Robinson is the 1999 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and an adjunct fellow of the Claremont Institute. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewOpinion.asp?Page=\Opinion\archive\OPI20000614b.ht ml Bard Pro Libertate - For Freedom BUCHANAN-Reform http://gopatgo2000.com/default.htm "Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man" (Psalm 43:1). [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 00 11:33:51 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [harpazo] The Clinton-Gore crime syndicate (fwd) On Jun 16, FrizBMG@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FRIDAY JUNE 16 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Clinton-Gore crime syndicate=20 Exclusive: WND readers' guide to the Freeh and LaBella memos=20 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com=20 WASHINGTON -- Over the past three-and-a-half years, without exaggeration,=20 I've watched the biggest presidential scandal in American history merge int= o=20 the biggest Washington cover-up ever.=20 All the while, I've seen the national media report the evidence of this=20 monstrous story, perhaps the biggest of our time, in fits and starts.=20 It's a story ripe with corruption and foreign intrigue, yet they've nibbled= =20 around the edges. A constellation of dots, yet they've failed to connect=20 them.=20 Their failure to burrow into the Chinagate scandal as they did Watergate an= d=20 Iran-Contra, pinning down culpable White House officials, has allowed them= =20 the intellectual cover, tenuous as it is, to keep writing off the probe as= =20 just another "Republican witch hunt." A donkey is being Gored this time, so= =20 they're not interested.=20 In observing up close such a glaring double standard, I've become extremely= =20 disillusioned with my profession, even ashamed of it. It can no longer with= =20 any credibility call itself the Fourth Estate, watchdog of government=20 corruption.=20 But then earlier this month, Congress offered the media a chance at=20 redemption.=20 On June 6, a House panel dropped in their laps hundreds of pages of proof=20 from career FBI agents and federal prosecutors of what even the most casual= =20 observer has probably suspected all along:=20 * The '96 fund-raising abuses weren't random and unconnected, but organiz= ed=20 from the top by the White House.=20 * The culprits weren't just a loose-knit band of hustlers and opportunist= s,=20 but a team recruited and coached by White House and Democratic National=20 Committee officials with the knowledge, if not participation, of the=20 president, vice president and first lady.=20 * The '96 Clinton-Gore campaign enlisted communist Beijing bagmen to help= =20 finance it, jeopardizing national security in the process.=20 * And it cheated to win. By defrauding voters, it may have illegitimately= =20 assumed power.=20 Taking a powder=20 Despite the compelling evidence -- straight from prosecutors -- the old med= ia=20 gatekeepers have, once again, taken a powder on the Chinagate story.=20 The TV networks, with the exception of Fox, have virtually blacked out the= =20 story on the nightly news. Of the Big Three, only NBC touched the story --= =20 for 35 seconds. Even CNN, despite 24-hour coverage, passed. Nothing on PBS,= =20 either.=20 Even the big papers -- with the notable exception of the Washington Times,= =20 which deserves a Pulitzer for exposing the Clinton corruption -- couldn't b= e=20 bothered.=20 Los Angeles Times printed not a word (although it ran a story in April afte= r=20 being leaked parts of the so-called LaBella memo). Wall Street Journal? Zip= .=20 New York Times? Buried on A26.=20 USA Today thought it worthy of a brief on 6A. In a refreshing surprise,=20 though, the Washington Post ran an above-the-fold story on its front page.= =20 But like other media that managed to cover the release of the LaBella and=20 Freeh memos, the Post couldn't resist mentioning fund-raising abuses by the= =20 Republican National Committee and the '96 Dole-Kemp campaign.=20 Yet, you'd have to use a fine-toothed comb, a high-powered microscope and=20 tweezers to turn up any reference to Republicans in the combined 121 pages = of=20 the Freeh and LaBella memos. The White House and the DNC plainly are the=20 targets of this investigation, languid though it's been.=20 Both parties pushed limits?=20 The 27-page Freeh report contains a total of just four words, wrapped in=20 parentheses, about Dole. In 94 pages, LaBella cites the RNC or Dole in all = of=20 one parenthetical statement and two paragraphs -- one of which declares RNC= =20 abuses "not on par" with the DNC's.=20 The media elite, borrowing a line from the White House, claim the memos are= =20 "old news," and therefore not worth covering.=20 But the most important aspect of the fund-raising abuses now is not the=20 stories themselves, many of which have been told before, but that the FBI a= nd=20 task-force prosecutors thought the evidence against President Clinton, Vice= =20 President Al Gore and other top officials compelling enough to turn the cas= e=20 over to an independent counsel.=20 (Attorney General Janet Reno turned them down, over and over, telling them= =20 that there's not enough evidence to investigate, so no one can investigate = to=20 see if there's enough evidence. Talk about your Catch-22s.)=20 In his own words, FBI Director Louis Freeh -- a Clinton appointee who's=20 hardly part of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" -- notes the evidence is=20 "compelling" and "reliable." Former task-force prosecutor Charles LaBella=20 says the sum of the evidence against White House officials shows a "pattern= =20 of conduct worthy of investigation."=20 Yet to this day, no White House official has been charged, or is even a=20 target of the ongoing probe. Only small-fry donors so far have been charged= .=20 What's more, the new documents are the first with details of prosecutors'=20 doubts about Gore's honesty regarding his role in the illegal fund-raising= =20 "scheme," as Freeh called it. Some wanted to investigate Gore for allegedly= =20 making false statements to the FBI.=20 The memos also reveal a new national security wrinkle. It turns out Freeh m= ay=20 be holding back intelligence on China from Clinton because it conflicts wit= h=20 the task force's investigation of "Chinese government efforts to influence"= =20 his campaign.=20 And that's not news?=20 Enter the new media. As a public service, WorldNetDaily has made the entire= =20 Freeh and LaBella memos available on this Internet news site for easy=20 viewing.=20 Every American concerned about the rule of law and national security should= =20 read them. Their findings are shocking, alarming and leave little wonder wh= y=20 the Clinton administration has suppressed them for years.=20 White-collar criminal enterprise=20 You won't find any of the salacious tidbits dished out in the Starr report.= =20 No thongs, no cigars, no stained dresses. Just hard-core analysis of a=20 white-collar criminal conspiracy orchestrated at the highest level of=20 government.=20 LaBella's narrative, in particular, reads like a road map to likely White=20 House felonies involving Clinton and Gore.=20 It also documents the concentrated effort among Justice Department brass,=20 from Reno on down, to keep a lid on the crimes, ostensibly to protect Reno'= s=20 boss and keep voters in the dark about what he and Gore did.=20 Here are some of the bombs in the Freeh and LaBella memos the Clinton=20 administration and their media apologists don't want you to see:=20 * Freeh, p. 6: "The task force has also been investigating a number of=20 activities of a sixth covered person -- Peter Knight, the chairman of the=20 Clinton-Gore campaign."=20 He added: "Among other things, Knight coordinated VP Gore's fund-raising=20 calls from the White House and was present when the calls were made. The=20 [Justice] Department has not yet triggered an independent counsel review as= =20 to Knight."=20 * Freeh, p. 11: "The task force has obtained substantial evidence that th= e=20 president and his key advisers controlled virtually all aspects of the DNC= =20 fund-raising efforts."=20 * Freeh, p. 25: "With respect to the investigation of Chinese government= =20 efforts to influence U.S. elections, DOJ [Department of Justice] and the FB= I=20 have conflicting duties to (1) keep the president informed about significan= t=20 national security matters, and (2) simultaneously keep from the White House= =20 certain national security information that may relate to the ongoing crimin= al=20 investigation."=20 He added: "DOJ and the FBI have faced this conflict several times during th= e=20 course of the investigation, most recently in early November 1997."=20 LaBella bombshells=20 * LaBella, p. 7: "The campaign-finance allegations [involving senior Whit= e=20 House officials and key DNC and Clinton-Gore officials] do not present the= =20 typical criminal matter. Rather, they present the earmarks of a loose=20 enterprise employing different actors at different levels who share a commo= n=20 goal: Bring in the money."=20 He added: "Everyone who has worked on these investigations has noted that t= he=20 overlaps and crossovers deserve investigation. And yet, the task force has= =20 never conducted an inquiry or investigation of the entire campaign-finance= =20 landscape."=20 * LaBella, p. 8: "When viewed in context, events develop into a pattern=20 running through the separate investigations. This is especially true with=20 respect to the conduct of senior White House officials and key DNC and=20 Clinton-Gore officials."=20 * LaBella, p. 33: "In light of statements made by [Johnny] Chung in his=20 debriefing concerning [Yah Lin "Charlie"] Trie acting as a conduit for PRC= =20 [People's Republic of China] money into the presidential election, this=20 transfer [$100,000 gift to Clinton] in August 1996 -- like the other Trie=20 'donations' and solicitations -- takes on greater significance as does the= =20 true source of the Trie PLET [President's Legal Expense Trust]=20 'contributions' [of $639,000]."=20 * LaBella, p. 51: "There are several incidents that suggest the president= =20 and senior White House officials knew or had reason to know that foreign=20 funds were being funneled into the DNC and the reelection effort."=20 * LaBella, p. 79: "If the [Loral-China export waiver) matter is=20 sufficiently serious to commence a criminal investigation, it is sufficient= ly=20 serious to commence a preliminary inquiry under the ICA [Independent Counse= l=20 Act], since it is the president who is at the center of the investigation."= =20 * LaBella, p. 81: "Senior White House officials, working with senior DNC= =20 and Clinton-Gore personnel, were the architects of a=20 'contributions-for-access-and-perks' system."=20 * LaBella, p. 82: "[Deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold] Ickes, [the= ]=20 first lady [and the] White House counsel [were] aware of donations collecte= d=20 by Trie, which were comprised of foreign funds in violation of PLET rules a= nd=20 regulations."=20 * LaBella, p. 89: "The magnitude of these abuses can alter the outcome of= a=20 particular election."=20 'Anyone other than the president'=20 * LaBella, p. 14: "If these allegations involved anyone other than the=20 president, vice president, senior White House or DNC and Clinton-Gore '96=20 officials, an appropriate investigation would have commenced months ago=20 without hesitation."=20 Stunning stuff. So why wasn't Reno forced out long ago, as was John Mitchel= l=20 during Watergate? Why hasn't Clinton had to go on TV to declare he's not a= =20 crook?=20 Why isn't Gore hounded by reporters everywhere he goes? How is Hillary able= =20 to mount a credible run for the U.S. Senate?=20 Because the establishment press has bottled up the dirt on them and kept it= =20 from the public.=20 But no more. The cat's out of the bag. Now it's up to citizens to demand=20 lawmakers exercise their duty under the Constitution and check these=20 executive-branch abuses.=20 Their next step should be to investigate the foot-dragging investigators at= =20 Justice to see if they took any marching orders from the White House.=20 Before they can do that, though, Congress must remove Reno, the prime=20 obstacle of justice, from power. The House Judiciary Committee should now=20 move to draft impeachment papers against her and hold hearings.=20 Waiting to send a criminal referral, in the hopes likely GOP presidential=20 hopeful George W. Bush takes over, assumes he 1) will win and 2) will have= =20 the guts to prosecute Reno. And by then it would be too late anyway. Reno=20 could easily cover her tracks.=20 Then, after Reno is removed, Congress should force Justice to turn the=20 Chinagate probe over to a special outside prosecutor, where it's belonged a= ll=20 along.=20 Congress needs also to get quickly to the bottom of the Project X e-mail=20 scandal. It may shed some light on any collusion between Justice and the=20 White House.=20 The White House has kept hidden from investigators more than 246,000=20 subpoenaed e-mails sent mostly to Clinton and his top aides from outside th= e=20 White House from 1996 to 1998.=20 Did any of the e-mail come from Reno or her Chinagate bottleneckers in the= =20 Public Integrity Section?=20 See WND's news report on the Freeh and LaBella memos.=20 Go to the Freeh memo.=20 Go to the LaBella memo.=20 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily.=20 =A0=A0 E-mail to a friend=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0 Printer-friendly version =A0 Every American concerned about the rule of law and national security should= =20 read them. Their findings are shocking, alarming and leave little wonder wh= y=20 the Clinton administration has suppressed them for years. LaBella's narrative, in particular, reads like a road map to likely White=20 House felonies involving Clinton and Gore. It also documents the concentrated effort among Justice Department brass,=20 from Attorney General Janet Reno on down, to keep a lid on the crimes,=20 ostensibly to protect Reno's boss and keep voters in the dark about what he= =20 and Gore did. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 00 11:34:57 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [newsucanuse] VIN -- close down the DOE (fwd) On Jun 16, SlickEditor@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Hose out the ant farm The federal Department of Education, which disposes of a budget of more than $32 billion and manages billions more in student loans, has paid grant winners twice and forgiven loans to fraudulent borrowers, federal officials discovered last month. This year, the agency sent duplicate checks to contractors and grantees totaling about $150 million. For good measure, the investigators also uncovered a $1 million "employee theft ring" dealing in stolen equipment and falsely reported overtime, The Associated Press reports. And that probe wasn't even a thorough audit by the General Accounting Office -- a sensible step finally proposed by Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., and OK'd by the House Tuesday on a lopsided vote of 383-19. That new probe is likely to focus on student loans; will examine all transactions instead of a small sample; and will check documents for forgeries, rather than "just accepting documentation at face value," says Gloria Jarmon, who handles education matters for the GAO. Only Democrats opposed the Hoekstra bill, presumably at the behest of DOE officials who said a special probe is not warranted because its internal auditors have already cooperated with the FBI. "It is our position that the inspector general, whenever there is any question raised of wrongdoing or fraud, has thoroughly and promptly investigated," said Erica Lepping, spokeswoman for Education Secretary Richard Riley. This despite the fact that independent auditors hired by the department to review the DOE's Fiscal Year '98 records concluded they "could not offer an opinion on the agency's accounting" -- a polite accountant way of saying the books are such a mess no one can make head nor tail of them. For once, in this case, the Democrats and their incompetent Education secretary are correct. A GAO audit of the Department of Education is not necessary, and is unlikely to do much good. Why? Because the very process of an audit assumes there is some correct and constitutional way for the DOE to spend that $32 billion a year, when in fact one may search Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to the point of exhaustion without finding any delegated power for the federal congress to meddle in the schooling of the nation's youth -- clearly a matter for the states or for the people in their private capacity as parents, under the unambiguous terms of the 10th Amendment. The republic got along just fine -- in fact, the average high school graduate was far better educated than today's -- for nearly two centuries without any federal "Department of Education." George Washington had none; Abe Lincoln had none; even Lyndon Baines Johnson didn't see a need for one. Yes, education is important. So is sunlight. Do we therefore need a Federal Department of Sunlight? The Department of Education, created 25 years ago as a patronage hand-out to the teachers unions by a grateful Jimmy Carter, has never educated a single child. It operates no schools. It has never instituted a single innovation to make local education in America cheaper or more effective. Quite the opposite, in fact -- it has done little but inundate our local school districts in a blizzard of federal paper, requiring them to enlist massive new cadres of overpriced bureaucrats who never set foot in a classroom, who do nothing but shovel up the federal paperwork and mail it back to Washington, either proving their "compliance," or seeking waivers from mandates of "compliance," or simply enclosing checks to pay our fines for "noncompliance." Oh, happy days. Ronald Reagan, who at least talked like a constitutionalist, promised repeatedly to "zero out," to eliminate, to close the DOE. The excuse for the GOP's failure to do so in the '80s was always that a Democratic congress controlled the purse strings. Then, aiming to capture Congress from the Democrats in 1994, the GOP again promised to shut down the DOE -- and won election on the strength of that promise, as well as a similar promise to roll back federal gun control (score to date on the two promises: zero.) Well, the GOP controls both houses of Congress now, while the White House is occupied by a disgraced and discredited lying lecher. When does the Republican Party think there will be a better time to pass legislation ordering the immediate closure of the federal Department of Education, with its current functions to be taken up by no one at all; the sum total of its authorizing legislation to be summarily repealed; its offices to be vacated and offered up for sale or lease to private parties no later than Jan. 20 of the year 2001? Let them do so now, and if Bill Clinton chooses to veto such eminently sensible and constitutionally required legislation, then let President Bush sign it as his first act in office next year. Why wait another day? Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken * * * To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. 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[------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #355 *************************