From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #362 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Sunday, July 2 2000 Volume 02 : Number 362 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 00 07:55:46 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Ark. Court Sues To Disbar Clinton (fwd) On Jun 30, Jurist wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] RKBA Defenders, There is no doubt that this has been and remains the most corrupt and anti-Constitutional, anti-RKBA White House in recent U.S. history. Nor can there be little doubt that the threats to our Fundamental right to self-defense/keep and bear arms stem largely from Clinton himself. But even as he seeks to criminalize a fundamental right, he himself is under fire for lying under Oath (normally called "perjury," but this time gently called "contempt.") Here is recent news indicating that the Arkansas Supreme Court is suing Clinton for disbarment. Now did I just miss this, or was this released after COB on a Friday, like much of Clinton's other bad news? Nor have I seen this emblazoned across tabloids, newspapers or trumpeted by CNNABCNBCCBS. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - In an unprecedented rebuke of a sitting president, an Arkansas Supreme Court committee on Friday sued President Clinton to strip him of his law license and declared he lacked "overall fitness" to be a lawyer. Read more about it at: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000630/18/news-clinton-disbarment - -- Guns Are Tyranny Control [URL moving soon!] http://www.freeyellow.com/members8/iurist - --------------------------------------------------------------- The Right to Self Defense is a Fundamental Human Right - RKBA - --------------------------------------------------------------- [------------------------- 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: Sat, 1 Jul 00 07:59:16 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 - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Sat, 1 Jul 00 07:57:45 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: VOTE.COM "Should Clinton Resign as Pres. of Boy Scouts of America (fwd) Now ain't this just the icing on the cake. On Jun 30, Bard wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Should Clinton Resign as President of the Boy Scouts of America? GO FOR IT, at: http://www.vote.com/category/4075633/ Bard No more rapists in our White House...... "You have the right to remain silent..." The man should have been aborted upon conception! [------------------------- 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: Sat, 1 Jul 00 21:24:05 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [Fratrum] FW: Guns of Our Freedom (fwd) On Jul 1, Jim Moore wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Read and remember! - -----Original Message----- From: GOA-Texas [mailto:Director@goa-texas.org] Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 1:11 PM To: email-subscribers@goa-texas.org Subject: Guns of Our Freedom GUN OWNERS ALLIANCE !!ALERT!! Chris W. Stark - Director P.O. Box 1924 Crosby, Texas 77532-1924 Ph. 1-281-787-4111 Fax 1-281-328-7505 http://www.GOA-Texas.org email: Director@GOA-Texas.org 01 July 2000 +++++++++++++++++ Guns of Our Freedom ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Copyright © 2000 by Gun Owners Alliance (GOA-Texas). Republication permitted ONLY if this e-mail alert is left intact in its original state. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/history/history-kopel070100.shtml by David Kopel Shortly after the Constitution was sent to the people for ratification, anti-federalists warned that the Constitution would make the federal government too strong in relation to the people. Not so, replied the Federalists. Tench Coxe-an ally of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who would later serve in the Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison administrations-explained: "The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for THE POWERS OF THE SWORD ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE YEOMANRY OF AMERICA FROM SIXTEEN TO SIXTY. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? are they not ourselves. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. What clause in the state or [federal] constitution hath given away that important right. . . . [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the foederal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." [A Pennsylvanian, To The People of the United States, Philadelphia Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.] What were those weapons, so recently used in the American Revolution, which Coxe and rest considered "the birthright of an American"? At the start of the war, the most common musket, in both Patriot and Redcoat hands, was the Brown Bess, an iron-barreled musket which fired a .75 caliber ball. The "Brown" part of the name may have come from the walnut stock, or from the barrel's color, once it had been rust-proofed. "Bess" was probably chosen because it sounded good with "Brown," and because fighting men have often given their weapons female nicknames. (Note: this is not the same as calling your mother-in-law "that old battle-axe.") When the French intervened on America's side in 1778, they brought their Charleville Muskets-named for the town near Belgium which hosted the Royal Manufactory of Arms. The French model fired a slightly smaller ball: .70. It was distributed copiously to the Americans, and later became the pattern for the federal army's Springfield Musket of 1795. Muskets took a while to reload, so army formations typically deployed musket-men in two or three lines. The first line would fire in unison, then drop to their knees to reload, while the lines behind them fired. Muskets were not accurate, and musketmen were not even expected to aim at particular targets. Rather, the objective was to deliver a mass of musketballs into the enemy line. The muskets were an ideal weapon for the kind of fighting man that the British used. Life in any European standing army was brutal. Soldiers were drilled and disciplined until they could no longer think. They were expected to obey unquestioningly, and to move in precise lock-step formations. Only people who had no other choice joined the army, and the army was composed of "the dregs of society" rounded up from gin mills and gaols. The British troops were drilled and drilled until they could perform coolly and automatically in the heat of combat, and did not question whether orders made sense. Several volleys of disciplined musket fire, followed by a screaming bayonet charge (the Brown Bess had a 17 inch bayonet), was often sufficient to carry the day for the British-as at Lexington, Manhattan or Camden. Muskets (like today's shotguns) have smooth barrels. In contrast, rifles have twisting grooves in the barrel, which give the bullet its spin. This stabilizing spin helps the rifle bullet travel much further, and more accurately, than does the musket ball. It was the rifle-which utilized the American virtue of individual initiative, which would become the quintessentially American weapon of the Revolution. America's first great rifle-makers were Germans who settled in Pennsylvania (the "Pennsylvania Dutch"). Around 1720, the Germans began adapting their German rifle designs to American conditions, by lengthening the barrel to 40-45 inches (producing longer-range accuracy), and using maplewood stocks. The typical caliber was .60. Like the muskets, all these rifles were flintlocks, meaning that the gunpowder was ignited by a spark from metal striking flint. All of the guns used loose gunpowder made from salt-peter ("blackpowder"); modern smokeless powder did not come until the latter part of the nineteenth century. During the Revolution, there was neither the time nor the inclination to decorate the rifles with the kind of engraving that was often seen on later versions, including today's replicas. The Pennsylvania Rifle had a shattering effect against British Redcoats. The British musketeers could fire and reload three times as fast as the American rifleman, and knew how to march in disciplined linear formations in open terrain. Although there were plenty of open-terrain battles during the war, there were also plenty of guerilla actions, in which Patriots hid behind rocks and trees and sniped at small enemy patrols. While muskets were easy to use, the Pennsylvania rifle was effective only in the hands of a skilled marksman, who could hit a target the size of a man's head from 200 yards away. A lucky shot could travel 400 yards. Whether in open combat or in a guerilla context, the American riflemen specialized in sniping at the British officers, causing them considerable apprehension, and distracting them from command. Some of the gunmakers of the Pennsylvania Rifles eventually moved to Ohio, Tennessee, and other parts. After the rifles figured prominently in the great American victory at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, at the end of the War of 1812, the rifles became universally known as "Kentucky Rifles," since the popular song celebrating the great battle was "The Hunters of Kentucky." ("For Jackson he was wide-awake, and not afraid of trifles. Full well he knew the aim we'd take with our Kentucky Rifles.") The superior range of the Pennsylvania Rifle had allowed the Americans to engage the Redcoats beyond musket range during the first part of the War. But at the battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, the British deployed a special 100 man company firing a new rifle invented by Scotsman Andrew Ferguson. The innovative breech-loading design (as opposed to muzzle-loading, in which the gun is loaded by ramming the bullet down the muzzle, and through the full length of the barrel) allowed the Ferguson rifles to fire 4-5 shots per minute, and the gun could even be reloaded while a soldier marched towards the enemy. Although the British won at Brandywine, and captured Philadelphia as a result, Ferguson was wounded, and the British Army foolishly lost interest in rifles for the rest of the war. Not until 1819 would a nation adopt a breechloader as its standard military weapon, when the United States selected the Hall Carbine. While some people believe that handguns did not exist when the Patriots were fighting for their right to arms, handguns were actually hundreds of years old by then. Handguns had grown common enough in the early sixteenth century so that proposed legislation as early as 1518 (by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian) addressed them. By the latter part of the 1500s, handguns were standard cavalry weapons. When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, state militia laws requiring most men to supply their own firearms required officers to supply their own pistols. The Revolutionary handguns were mostly very large .50 caliber single-shot pistols, often built by the same gunsmiths who made the Pennsylvania Rifles. Colonel Samuel Colt's multiple-shot revolver lay decades in the future-although there were predecessors available, such as "pepperbox," which used revolving barrels, each containing its own bullet. Today, only two of Ferguson's breechloading rifles are still in existence, and the pepperbox proto-revolvers are found only in museums or the homes of wealthy collectors. But the kinds of muskets and rifles with which the American Revolution was fought are still in common use. Many hobbyists build old-fashioned rifles or muskets from kits, and many others buy manufactured blackpowder arms, to take advantage of the special blackpowder-only hunting seasons in many states. Some of these guns incorporate new technology (such as in-line loading), while others are remarkably faithful to the old designs. Whether you're shooting an old-fashioned replica of a Brown Bess, or high-tech polymer pistol from Glock, you're exercising the freedoms that great Patriots such as "the Swamp Fox" Francis Marion helped win for us two centuries ago. To celebrate Independence Day, why not exercise the right you still have (and which the Redcoats' descendants don't) by taking a niece or a neighbor to a target range, or by buying your first gun, or by sending an extra contribution to one of the groups who are continuing humanity's long-running battle against tyranny and disarmament. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Help Support the work of Gun Owners Alliance! Go to: http://www.goa-texas.org/members.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Copyright © 2000 by Gun Owners Alliance (GOA-Texas). Republication permitted ONLY if this e-mail alert is left intact in its original state. 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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!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 00 21:22:44 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Heads Up #188 (fwd) On Jul 01, Doug Fiedor wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Heads Up A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia July 2, 2000 #188 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Editions at: http://www.uhuh.com/reports/headsup/list-hu.htm - --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONGRESS: KEEP "DOING NOTHING" Even if we just woke up from a long coma and didn't know for sure what year it was, we could tell this is an election year just by listening to the politicians on the news. The silly season is ramping up and will soon be going full force. The political action is funny, really, in a sickening sort of way. It's funny because the far-left politicians and their sycophants in the national media are intentionally creating socialistic issues designed to give big government yet more complete control over the people. It's sickening because all of these issues are totally unconstitutional and not the business of the central government. Yet, some groups around the country are falling for this claptrap again. For instance, Al Gore is out there offering social programs that will cost nearly as much as Johnson's terribly defective Great Society Program and rob us of just about as much liberty. He proposes a government controlled program of free prescription drugs for nearly a third of the American population and a progressive system for matching retirement funds similar to the sliding income tax scale. These are massive redistribution of wealth schemes straight from the socialism textbook. It's no better on Capitol Hill, either. Democrats are hoping to portray Republicans as the ineffective, "do nothing" party. Republicans only hold a majority in the House of a mere five votes. So, Democrats larded up the bill hopper with proposals that would create "affordable" prescription drugs to elderly people, mandate federal control over treatment from health maintenance organizations, raise the minimum wage again, overhaul the campaign finance system, toughen gun control laws, and get more federal control over local school systems. It's all a political trick, of course. Proposing all these social programs puts the Social-Democrats in a win / win situation with all the gimmie groups waiting in the wings with their grubby hands out -- the socialist's core constituency. There's another little incidental that must be considered, though: Not one of these programs is even remotely authorized to the federal government by the Constitution in any way whatsoever. Therefore, anyone voting in favor of any of these programs would be in direct violation of their oath of office. The federal government should stay out of medical care completely. Else, we will find the American medical system in the same sorry shape as the public school system 20 years after the federal government started to "help." Same with federal gun laws. Nothing in the Constitution gives the federal government any authority whatsoever to regulate personal weapons owned or carried by citizens. And another thing: Many of us would like to see a "do nothing" Congress for a few years. In fact, a lot of us would like to see a Congress with enough commonsense and love of country to actually be a "negative" law making body. That is, a Congress that will actually repeal a few dozen unconstitutional laws. After all, the federal government has been passing laws for well over 200 years. If they don't have more than enough by now, perhaps it is time that We the People reexamine the powers we authorized the federal government and seriously consider removing a few. We also need an effective legal mechanism for quickly removing anyone in government who violates any part of our Constitution. Meanwhile, let's hope Congress does not pass any more stupid bills this session. A "do nothing" Congress sounds just great on this end. Compliment them on that. LAWBREAKING OFFICIALS Last Tuesday, Attorney General Janet Reno again stated her decisions not to put Vice President Al Gore under investigation by an independent counsel for campaign fund raising violations and perjury. There is more than enough information available to get a conviction, and some of the players in two of the money laundering schemes were, in fact, convicted. Al Gore and his aides committed the very same crimes as those who were convicted, but they have the protection of the attorney general. So do Bill and Hillary Clinton and their aides. Same crimes, no charges. What happens with public officials who break the law? Nothing happened when a number of government people gave dozens of our military secrets to China in return for large donations to the Democratic National Committee and a few key Democratic candidates. Apparently the socialists in Washington think it's just fine to receive illegal campaign cash from the communists in China in return for a few favors. They must believe that, because conclusive evidence is there but no one in government is doing anything about it. The FBI and CIA were no help, either. As readers may remember, the FBI had its own major scandal when agents were caught falsifying evidence and lying in court to get convictions. Nothing was ever done about that, either. Those agents caught lying in court were never arrested. Those people who were convicted on false information are still in prison. No one in the Judicial branch, Congress or the Justice Department seems to care. Things were not any better over at the CIA, either. People involved with the CIA have been smuggling heroin into the United States since Vietnam. After Vietnam, they started smuggling in the occasional ton of cocaine for sale on American streets. Apparently they justified that with the excuse that the money was used for good causes. Our prisons are jam-packed full of people convicted of "drug crimes." None of them are prior CIA workers, though. The law is applied differently for government workers. Generally speaking, if an American business person conspired with all others in the same business around the world to dramatically increase the price of their product in the United States, government would quickly send men with guns to arrest the person. Why, then, are public officials not culpable when they do exactly the same thing? Do laws only apply sometimes? Or, perhaps there are two classes of laws for two or more classes of people. Back in 1918, the federal government wanted to regulate the sale of a legal product: alcohol. However, those in Washington realized that the Constitution gave the government no such authority. So, they went about things the correct way and passed an amendment to the Constitution. After the amendment was properly ratified, the federal government then had authority to go after the alcohol industry. Last year, the federal government went after the tobacco industry and, through legal trick and manipulation, caused cigarette prices to skyrocket. Yet, there was no amendment to the Constitution authorizing such action. That was, therefore, an illegal act. Well, it is if the Constitution still applies to the federal government, that is. This year we find that the Clinton administration conspired with oil producing countries to drastically increase the price of oil sold to the American people. The reason: to enable certain poorly run countries (Russia, Indonesia and Mexico) to pay part of their huge debts held by American and international banks, and to funnel extra cash into Iran so Iran can make major arms purchases from communist China. That's why gas prices increased: Clinton and Gore told OPEC to raise oil prices. Is that conspiring against the people of the United States, or what? Does anyone care? Nope! Laws only apply to people, not public officials. They go after Microsoft, accusing them of milking the software business. Then the administration causes the American people to pay billions of dollars more in fuel prices. Again, there is no such authority available to the administration. That act was devoid of any Constitutional protection. And, if anyone cares anymore, it was also a violation of the President's oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." So, we must ask again: If the Constitution is the supreme law of our nation, what, then, is the penalty for violation of the Constitution? When do the separation of powers apply and who is to supervise what public officials do? Obviously, the federal government needs some strong adult supervision and major policing. It's time we tell them that they better get to cleaning their own house up before they come telling us what to do. THE RIGHT, THE WRONG AND THE LAW When morality butts up against the law, the law wins. There's a simple reason for that: The "law" has the firepower. When serf-citizens disobey, government will send men with guns to arrest and/or kill them. But, quite often the "law" is clearly wrong. And, we're not just talking morally wrong here, but stupid, ignorant and mean type wrong. Personally, I do not feel that I have the right to say that I am publishing a newsletter in support of the Constitution and then go forth preaching on morality. So, I won't. I do, however, have a right to consider the stupid, ignorant and mean aspects of the United States Supreme Court's opinion in the Stenberg v. Carhart (99-830) case on partial-birth abortion. In a 5-4 decision, the Court said the Nebraska law against partial-birth abortion (dilation and extraction, or D&X) violates women's Constitutional right to choose by imposing an undue burden on their decisions to end their pregnancies. That's the stupid part. The procedure involves partially extracting an almost full term fetus, legs first, through the birth canal, cutting the skull and draining its contents. The key points there are the words "almost full term" and "partially extracting." In truth, the baby is three quarters born before it is killed. Furthermore, because of autonomic muscle contractions, etc., often the babies are completely born before they are killed. That's because, once the birthing process begins, there is no physiological "wait right there" switch the physician can push to make it stop. Furthermore, it would be much easier on the mother if instruments were not used to turn the baby and it was delivered head first. But, all that is just the mechanical aspects of the problem. The fact that the baby must first be three- quarters born brings us to a blend of ignorant and mean. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written in defense of the "certain unalienable rights" which the Founding Fathers found in their law book of the day, "Blackstone's Commentaries on The Law." And, as all of the Founders knew perfectly well, Blackstone identified our trinity of rights as "Life, Liberty and Property." Our Founding Fathers called these absolute rights unalienable -- incapable of being given up, taken away, or transferred to another. The protection of Life, Liberty and Property -- our natural, absolute and unalienable rights -- became the underlying reason our country was formed. This presents a bit of a problem in this instance. The baby is three-quarters born and, generally speaking, would live if cared for as all other normally delivered babies are cared for. Blackstone, therefore, would call "aborting" that baby murder. So would the Founding Fathers. And yet today, so do many Americans. Furthermore, Court approval of partial-birth abortion presents a very interesting precedence for extrapolation down that slippery-slope of law. That is, if we can kill an inconvenient baby just two seconds before it is completely born, why, then, can we not practice retroactive abortion to get rid of all unwanted kids when they become inconvenient? After all, that would certainly make the teenage population start behaving in a hell of a hurry and do a lot for the mental health of the parents. All it takes is five liberal justices in black robes to make that legal, too. And, if it's all right to kill a baby that is three-quarters born, shouldn't it also be permissible to kill an older adult who has lost one, two or three quarters of their physical or mental faculties? Of course, the obvious answer to all of those question should be "no, absolutely not." The first in our trinity of rights is our right to Life. That is our American way. Therefore, there must be a bright legal line here somewhere that cannot be crossed for any reason. For this immediate argument, I propose that we must draw that bright line at birth -- when any part of the baby is born, which would include two to four inches from complete birth. When a baby is born, it should be nurtured, cared for and allowed to live. Therefore, in the matter of Stenberg v. Carhart, I must agree with at least a hundred-million Americans across our nation: Five Justices on the Supreme Court made a dreadful error. Nonetheless, there is a glimmer of hope buried in the text of that case and all of it is worth reading as it foreshadows what is to come. Find the full text at: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-830.ZS.html ~ End ~ [------------------------- 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: Sun, 2 Jul 00 08:07:18 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Anti-Anti-RKBA Boycott Sites (fwd) On Jul 02, Jurist wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Chris, Judge Velek, Outstanding new addition to the RKBA information cloud. Smith & Wesson has felt the wrath of a gunner's boycott, and K-Mart, quietly, begrudgingly, fired Rosie in response to gunners boycotting their stores. As far as I am concerned, until they make an open and public apology to gun owners, the boycott remains in full force. Judge Velek has an outstanding way of targeting businesses who put up "no guns" signs on their doors. Thanks to the both of you. Here are two more boycott sites. Anyone have one for PAX/Levi's? GTE Cellular? Regards, Rick V. Chris Meissen wrote: > Found this on alt.politics.usa.constitution.gunrights. The guy has a nice site and an idea well worth emulating. Judge Velek's Outstanding Anti-RKBA Business Boycott Page > If you're Pro-Gun: http://www.velek.com/bill/boycott/1.htm > If you're Anti-Gun: http://www.velek.com/bill/boycott > Please let me know what you think. Thanks. > Bill Velek Women Against Gun Control Sara Lee Boycott Page http://www.wagc.com/boycott/saralee.html Dave Wizniewski's K-Mart/Rosie Boycott Page http://rosie.acmecity.com/happy/365/rosie.html How Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizen's Defense League turned around the "Car Quest" No Guns policy on a **National basis.** Way to go Phil! http://iurist.freeyellow.com/DOCKET.HTM#VA (http://www.exploiters.org/goa.htm) Guns Are Tyranny Control http://www.freeyellow.com/members8/iurist - ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Right to Self Defense is a Fundamental Human Right - RKBA - ------------------------------------------------------------------ [------------------------- 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: Sun, 2 Jul 00 08:57:35 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports] (fwd) On Jul 02, Margi Crook wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 03:22:19 -0700 From: American Patriot Friends Network Subject: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports "WE ARE APT TO SHUT OUR EYES AGAINST A PAINFUL TRUTH... FOR MY PART, I AM WILLING TO KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH; TO KNOW THE WORST; AND TO PROVIDE FOR IT." ---- Patrick Henry Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports By Walter J. Burien, Jr. http://www.financialprivacy.com/comprehe.htm Forward by Al Adask - Anti-Shyster - http://www.antishyster.com/ As editor of the AntiShyster, I ve seen so many unbelievable stories over the last eight years, that I ve become jaded, cynical and worldly. There are no surprises left for me. I m sure that I ve seen it all. I ve thought so for several years. And generally speaking, about every two or three months, life proves me absolutely wrong by showing me another story so awesome that I m left (almost) speechless. This article introduces another one of those stories so awesome that it s right off the Richter Scale. Walter Burien Jr. worked as a Wall Street commodity trader for fifteen years, but now resides in Arizona. According to Mr. Burien, every state, county and major metropolitan city is keeping two sets of books. One set (the Budget ) is commonly available and tracks each governmental entity s casts and tax revenue. The Budget is the financial record that s seen by the public and used by politicians to justify new governmental services and higher taxes. However, there is a second set of books (called the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, or CAFR) which is virtually unkown to the public but contains the real record of total governmental income. According to Mr. Burien, although the Budget gives an accurate account of government costs, only the CAFR gives an accurate account ot government s income. For example, while a particular state budget might report receiving $20 billion in taxes (just barely enough to sustain its $20 billion in costs) - the CAFR might reveal the state s real income is in the neighborhood of $60 billion - three times as much as reported on the budget. If these allegations are accurate, the particular state could stop charging all the taxes we are familiar with and, not only survive but, either double the amount of reported government services or give every citizen a huge tax rebate. The implications are mind-boggling. They d mean our world is so different from what we are led to believe, so much more corrupt than even I suspect, that we are left with three choices, either; 1) government agrees to end the deception and stop overtaxing us, or 2) the American people agree to accept their status as slaves, or 3) both sides refuse to agree and precipitate a shooting revolution. The issue is that big. But are Mr. Burien s allegation correct? How could any governmental entity dare to routinely overcharge its citizens by 200%, underreport its income by 2/3rds, and knowingly press for higher taxes based on an inaccurate budget? Worse, how could such a fraudulent system become widespread among all states, counties, cities and the Federal Government? When you stop to think about it, Mr. Burien s allegations are too fantastic to be credible. Nevertheless, I talked to Mr. Burien by phone for several hours and found him to be articulate, knowledgable, and apparently sincere. I asked a retired professor of economics to interview Mr. Burien and evaluate his allegations. The professor s assessment? Burien is probably correct. I steered an Alaskan M.D. (who is also a dedicated constitutionalist researcher) to Mr. Burien. The Doctor subsequently found evidence supporting Mr. Burien s claims: The State of Alaska and the city of Anchorage both use Budget/CAFR accounting systems that conceal a breathtaking difference in reported revenue. Another researcher in Wyoming claims that a comparison of his state s budget and CAFR also support Mr. Burien s arguments. In every case, there are two sets of books and the income reported on the budget is millions or billions of dollars less than is reportedon the CAFR. Does this support prove Mr. Burien s extraordinary allegations? No. But they lend enough credence to publish his allegations to a broader audience who will do more research to confirm, refute or refine those allegations. What follows is an amalgam of statements or implications raised by Mr. Burien on our telephone conversation, Tom Valentine s radio interview, Mr. Burien s Email, and an article on Mr. Burien written by "Betsy Ross". 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