From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #368 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Friday, July 21 2000 Volume 02 : Number 368 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 00 13:25:58 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [newsucanuse] VIN -- racist gun-grabbers (fwd) On Jul 16, SlickEditor@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JULY 16, 2000 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Gun-grabbers: masters of the New Plantation Last time we dug into Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar's impressive 1998 tome "The Bill of Rights" (due out in paperback this month), the good professor -- neither a gun owner nor in any sense a "right-wing militia nut" -- demonstrated through historical research that the gun-grabbers are wrong: The Second Amendment does not merely protect firearms ownership by active duty members of the National Guard. Rather, it conveys the right to own and carry weapons of military usefulness to all Americans. But now that this undead golem of those who despise our Bill of Rights is down, let's proceed to stake it through the heart. For you see -- while the Second Amendment is sufficient to guarantee the right of citizens to own machine guns (not to mention rifles, pistols, "assault weapons," and shoulder-launched missiles) -- it's not even the best guarantee of this right. The whole debate over the Second Amendment, professor Amar points out, has largely distracted us from considering a pair of enactments even more directly on point: the 14th Amendment and the original, 1866, Civil Rights Act. We rejoin professor Amar at page 258: "At the Founding, the right of the people to keep and bear arms stood shoulder to shoulder with the right to vote; arms bearing in militias embodied a paradigmatic political right. ... But Reconstruction Republicans recast arms bearing as a core civil right, utterly divorced from the militia and other political rights and responsibilities. Arms were needed not as part of political and politicized militia service but to protect one's individual homestead. Everyone -- even nonvoting, nonmilitia-serving women -- had a right to a gun for self-protection. ... "The Creation vision was public, with the militia muster on the town square. The Reconstruction vision was private, with individual freedmen keeping guns at home to ward of Klansmen and other ruffians. ... "Alongside ...the Civil Rights Act of 1866 ... Congress passed the Freedman's Bureau Act, a sister statute introduced the same day by the same sponsor. ... The Freedman's Bureau Act affirmed that 'laws ... concerning personal liberty, personal property, personal security, and the acquisition, enjoyment and disposition of estate, real and personal, including the constitutional right to bear arms shall be secured to and enjoyed by all citizens. ...' Thus, the Reconstruction Congress expressly repudiated Dred Scott's claim that because free blacks could never be citizens, they lacked many of these basic rights." Allow me to interrupt the good professor to point out that the opposite also holds true. Though modern-day black Americans tend to despise antebellum Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney for ruling in Dred Scott that black Americans were neither citizens nor men, they might want to go back and re-read his logic. They will find the devil unintentionally gave them their due. Taney said blacks could not be considered men or citizens, because if they were so considered, there would be no option but to allow them to own and carry arms without restriction. Quick, now: which side won the Civil War? Can a law-abiding black citizen today buy a 30-caliber machine gun and drive it home in the back of his pickup truck without seeking massa's "permission"? Why was the 14th Amendment -- darling of the left when it appears to justify the expansion of federal power -- enacted? Professor Amar explains: "Southern states, ever fearful of slave insurrections, enacted sweeping antebellum laws prohibiting not just slaves but free blacks from owning guns. In response, antislavery theorists emphasized the personal right of all free citizens -- white and black, male and female, northern and southern, visitor and resident -- to own guns for self-protection." Really? But what chance does a law-abiding citizen of any color have today, of carrying his self-defense pistol with him if he chooses to visit the collectivist metropolises of Los Angeles, Washington or New York City? "In the 1846 case Nunn vs. Georgia," professor Amar continues, "the proslavery contrarian Chief Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin proclaimed not only that the Second Amendment bound the states but also that 'The right [is guaranteed to] the whole people, old and young, men, women, and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not merely as are used by the militia.' ... "Roger Taney and [prominent abolitionist] Joel Tiffany hardly saw eye to eye in the 1850s, but they both agreed on this: if free blacks were citizens, it would necessarily follow that they had a right of private arms bearing. According to Dred Scott, the 'privileges and immunities' of 'citizens' included 'full liberty of speech in public and in private ... and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.' ... "One of the core purposes of the Civil Right Act of 1866 and of the Fourteenth Amendment was to ... outlaw the infamous Black Codes [by which the southern states sought to ban firearms for freed blacks], and affirm the full and equal right of every citizen to self-defense. ..." Professor Amar quotes Sen. Samuel Pomeroy, declaring on the floor of the Senate in 1866, "Every man ... should have the right to bear arms for the defense of himself and his family and his homestead. And if the cabin door of the freedman is broken open and the intruder enters for purposes as vile as were known to slavery, then should a well-loaded musket be in the hand of the occupant." Even Rep. Henry Raymond, a founder and editor of the New York Times, declared that the black freedman "has a country and a home; a right to defend himself and his wife and children; a right to bear arms." "Today's NRA," professor Amar concludes, "pays far too much attention to 1775-91 and far too little to 1830-68." But is this curious forgetfulness about the original meaning of "Civil Rights" merely an accident? Where do the modern forces of "gun control" -- including the nation's largest gun-control organization, the National Rifle Association, which endorsed the federal gun control acts of 1934 and 1968 and the "compromise" Brady Law with its national gun-buyer registry -- now focus their energies? What race predominates among the subsidized housing projects where HUD now claims it needs no search warrants to root out and seize "dangerous firearms" -- while the cheerleader NRA urges the government to "rigorously enforce the gun laws already on the books"? Where are most of the "gun buy-back" stunts conducted? Among the racial minorities of the inner cities, of course. What is the derivation of "Saturday Night Special" -- describing the inexpensive self-defense handgun which the NRA says it's OK to go ahead and ban as long as we rich white folk are allowed to keep our engraved fowling pieces? Cover your ears if you like, but the origin of this term for the inexpensive handguns most useful for self-defense to a black or Hispanic resident of the inner city is the old, derogatory police slang "Niggertown Saturday Night," referring to inner city weekend violence not meriting much attention, since it mainly occurred among the black folk. When handgun "licenses and permits" require expensive safety courses and the OK of the local sheriff, and one-third of our young black men today have experienced some kind of run-in with the legal system and are thus blocked from even applying, what percentage of these "permits" end up issued to black folk? And when gun-grabbers try to terrify the soccer moms with visions of "inner-city street gangs armed with fully-automatic AK-47s," what color skin do you imagine those soccer moms are picturing on Ernesto, Raoul, Dante and Ahmad? You see, those who would ban the private ownership of weapons of military usefulness to individual American today are not just liars ... they're also racists. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers" is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224. *** 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. 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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: Fri, 21 Jul 00 10:22:17 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [Fratrum] FW: Alert/"Know Your Customer" is back! (fwd) On Jul 21, Jim Moore wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] These people NEVER give up!!!! From: Distribution@libertystudy.org Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 5:52 PM Subject: Alert/"Know Your Customer" is back! July 20, 2000 Dear friend of liberty, "Know Your Customer" monitoring of your bank account is back! Politicians, federal bureaucrats and institutional elites are, once again, working to make your local bank teller their snitch. Two years ago, Congress passed a bill directing federal banking regulators to issue the infamous "Know Your Customer" regulations. Those regulations would have required your local bank teller to: 1. Determine your identity - not for the bank's purposes, but for the government's purposes. 2. Determine the source of your deposit. 3. Determine your profile of "regular and expected" transactions that is based, not on your actual banking history, but on what your banking history should be according to racial, economic, geographic guidelines. 4. Report your "suspicious" transactions to the federal government. Your "suspicious" transactions will be those that don't fit with the government's profile of "regular and expected" transactions for you. The opposition to "Know Your Customer" was overwhelming. Over 300,000 Americans from coast-to-coast told the banking regulators in Washington to stop "Know Your Customer" regulations. The federal bureaucrats did back down last year - but they're back. "Know Your Customer" (version 2) regulations are included in H.R. 3886. H.R. 3886 will implement the "Know Your Customer" regulations for international transactions. In addition, H.R. 3886 will give the U.S. treasury department (IRS, Customs Service, Secret Service) the power to: 1. Make new requirements on financial institutions at their discretion. 2. Prohibit whole classes of international transactions at their discretion. 3. Prohibit international transactions with certain financial institutions at their discretion. 4. Prohibit international transactions with certain countries at their discretion. H.R. 3886 will decimate privacy between you and the financial institutions with which you do business. Politicians, federal bureaucrats and institutional elites desperately want H.R. 3886 to become law. They will tell you not to worry. "These 'Know Your Customer' regulations will only be used to catch criminals. These regulations will only be used for international transactions." The people who are telling us not to worry today are the same people who tried last year to quietly pass regulations that would have forced your local bank teller to become a government snitch. There are only six weeks of legislative business remaining this year. During those six weeks, many bills will be quietly pushed through the U.S. House in the hope of not being noticed during the year-end flurry of votes. H.R. 3886 is one of those bills. If we fall for "Know Your Customer" for international transactions today, we'll have to suffer from "Know Your Customer" for local transactions tomorrow. That's what they were after in the first place. Please urge your U.S. representative to vote against H.R. 3886. You can send an E-mail by going to http://www.libertystudy.org and click on Communicate at the top of the page. Please tell your representative to vote "no" on H.R. 3886. To call your representative, dial the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121. Also, tell your local bank that you are opposed to H.R. 3886 and ask them to oppose it as well. Last year, many banks helped stop "Know Your Customer" (version 1) after they heard from their customers. Wired News Article http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,37566,00.html Orange Leader (opinion) - "Know Your Customer tries the back door" http://www.orangeleader.com/display/inn_opinion/opinion1.txt Ron Paul Press Release http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2000/pr071900bank.htm Kent Snyder Liberty Study Committee http://www.libertystudy.org ***** To contribute to the Liberty Study Committee, please go to http://www.libertystudy.org and click on Contribute at the top of the page. To send a question or comment, please mailto:mail@libertystudy.org. 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On Jul 20, aplsauce@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] *************** FECInfo www.FECInfo.com www.tray.com ***************** LOBBYING EXPENDITURES JUMP 10% TO $128 MILLION PER MONTH Washington, DC =E2=80=93 (July 20, 2000) Federal lobbying by organizations= and=20 lobbyists exceeded $772 million for the last six months of 1999, according = to=20 a report by FECInfo (www.FECInfo.com), an online disclosure service about=20 money in politics. FECInfo reported that the federal lobbying community=20 spent over $128 million per month lobbying the legislative and executive=20 branches of government from July 1999 through December 1999, the most recen= t=20 period for which reports have been filed. For the first six months of 1999= =20 the lobby spending was at the rate of $116 million per month, totaling $697= =20 million. Lobbying for the first six months of 2000 are due in August 2000. The Healthcare industry, the top spender for the second sixth month period = in=20 a row, increased to $117 million from $95.5 million. The Communications an= d=20 Technology sector rose to $98.7 million in spending from $94.6 million.=20 The Finance and Insurance sector was third with spending of $95.6 million, = up=20 from $89.8 million. The Energy/Natural Resources sector spent $77.6 millio= n.=20 The Transportation spent $63.8 million. Inside the Healthcare sector, pharmaceutical manufacturers were the leaders= =20 with $38.8 million in spending for the July 2000 to December 2000 period.=20 The second largest sector was Communication/Technology sector, increasing=20 $4.1 million, with the help of telephone companies spending $31 million. Another fast growing sector was Finance and Insurance, jumping $5.8 million= ,=20 with the help of insurance carriers spending $32 million. Top organizations spending money on federal lobbying were: Chamber of Commerce of the US $9,780,000 American Medical Assn $9,220,000 Philip Morris $7,240,000 American Hospital Assn $6,900,000=20 Schering Corp $6,572,000* SBC Communications $6,140,000 Edison Electric Institute $6,000,000 Business Roundtable $5,640,000 Abbott Laboratories $5,539,000 United Services Automobile Assn $5,120,000 *This is the official reported amount. A spokesperson for Schering today has indicated to one reporter that they may have reported an incorrect amou= nt. It may be amended to a lower amount. Top Lobbying firms were: Cassidy & Assoc $10,855,000 Patton Boggs $9,305,000 Verner Liipfert $9,020,000 Akin Gump $$7,080,000 Pricewaterhousecoopers $5,310,000 Preston Gates $$5,125,000 Washington Counsel $4,460,000 Williams & Jensen $4,445,000 Van Scoyoc Assoc $4,130,000 Barbour Griffith $4,085,000 The full report is available on the FECInfo web site (www.FECInfo.com). Reports for the previous two six-month periods are also available on the we= b=20 site for comparison purposes. The detailed listings, rankings and searches are available via FECInfoPro, = a=20 subscription service. Information on subscriptions is available on the site= .=20=20 If you would like to view the report and specialized searches, you may obtain a temporary user name and password from our sales staff by calling 202-737-2277 or 800- 282-8450. Tony Raymond Kent Cooper FECInfo =E2=80=93 a product of Votenet Solutions To: APLsauce@aol.com FECInfo www.FECInfo.com www.tray.com=20 *************** NEW SOFT MONEY REPORTED BY DCCC AND NRCC July 20, 2000 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the National=20 Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC) recently reported their= =20 soft money donations for the period April 1 through June 30, 2000. The DCC= C=20 raised $10,085,867 in soft money compared to the NRCC raising $5,108,659=20 during the same period. Listed below are the donations of $100,000 or more.= A=20 separate listing of some communication /technology donors is also included. The April 1 through June 30th soft money fundraising for the DNC($24,353,60= 0)=20 and the RNC ($37,537,895) can be found in our previous e-mails. Reports fro= m=20 the senatorial campaign committees have not been made public yet. Subscription information for access to detailed databases and on-linesearch= es=20 of soft money, lobby registrations and reports, as well as profiles of=20 corporate money in politics can be found on our home page at www.fecinfo.co= m Highlights: Service Employees Union gives $1.5 million to DCCC Other large donors move $250,000 or more to the DCCC: Ness Motley law firm, Food & Commerical Workers Union, and David Shimmon. Charles Ergen (Echostar) gives heavily to both parties, $150,000 to DCCC an= d=20 $50,000 to NRCC. Details: Fannie Mae, Washington, DC $50,000 6/22 to DCCC; $50,000 6/29 to DCCC Freddie Mac, McLean, VA $100,000 6/30 to DCCC; $3,000 5/12 to NRCC American Int'l Group, NY, NY $100,000 6/13 to DCCC GNYHA Management Corp, NY, NY $100,000 6/12 to DCCC Ness Motley Loadholt Richardson & Poole, Providence, RI $ 250,000 6/27 to=20 DCCC; $2,500 5/31 to DCCC HD Vest Financial Services, Irving, TX $100,000 5/15 to NRCC KPMG LLP, Washington, DC $100,000 4/19 to NRCC L Needham Corp, Las Vegas, NV $100,000 5/31 to NRCC Nat'l Assn of Convienence Stores, Alexandria, VA $100,000 6/30 to NRCC;=20 $1,000 4/10 to NRCC RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, Washington, DC $100,000 6/30 to NRCC; $3,000 4/20 t= o=20 NRCC; $700 5/25 to NRCC SBC Communications Inc, Washington, DC $100,000 5/11 to NRCC; $6,000 6/22 t= o=20 NRCC; $25,000 4/21 to DCCC Local 1199, Service Employees Int'l Union State Political Action Fund, NY, = NY=20 $500,000 6/8 to DCCC Local 1115, New Jersey Division of 1199 SEIU, Westbury, NY $250,000 6/8 to= =20 DCCC SEIU COPE PEA Int'l US, Washington, DC $375,000 4/26 to DCCC; $125,000 4/28= =20 to DCCC; $250,000 6/8 to DCCC United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union, Washington, DC $250,000 5/10 = to=20 DCCC; $200,000 6/30 to DCCC American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC $100,000 6/27 to DCCC Darlyn M Davenport, San Diego, CA (Pres, Seawest Corp) $100,000 6/30 to DCC= C Charles W Ergen, Englewood, CO (CEO, Echostar) $50,000 5/12 to DCCC; $50,00= 0=20 6/12 to DCCC; $50,000 6/30 to DCCC; $25,000 5/5 to NRCC; $25,000 6/30 to NR= CC John A Kornreich, Roslyn Heights, NY (Sandler Media) $100,000 6/12 to DCCC John M O'Quinn, Houston, TX (attorney, O'Quinn, Kerensky McAninch & Laminack) $100,000 5/8 to DCCC Bernard L Schwartz, NY, NY (exec, Loral Corp) $50,000 4/17 to DCCC; $100,00= 0=20 6/19 to DCCC David J Shimmon, Los Altos Hills, CA (CEO, Kinetics Group) $250,000 4/7 to= =20 DCCC George Soros, NY, NY (exec, Soros Fund Management) $100,000 6/6 to DCCC Communication/Technology donors: Allegiance Telecom Service Corp $25,000 6/30 to DCCC America Online $25,000 4/19 to NRCC AMFM Inc $10,000 6/30 to DCCC AT&T $80,000 6/30 to DCCC Beacon Communications $5,000 6/30 to DCCC Bell Atlantic $35,000 6/30 to DCCC BellSouth $22,500 6/30 to DCCC Bernard Schwartz (Loral) $100,000 6/19 to DCCC; $50,000 4/17 to DCCC Cellular Telecommunications Industry $10,000 6/27 to DCCC; $500 6/21 to DCC= C Compaq $50,000 6/22 to NRCC Cable & Wireless $9033 5/16-6/29 to NRCC Charles Ergen (Echostar) see above Competitive Telecommunications Assn $10,000 6/30 to DCCC; $1,000 5/23 to DC= CC Computer & Communications Industry $50,000 5/10 to DCCC Excite@Home $5,000 5/17 to DCCC EDS $20,000 4/20 to NRCC=20 Fileamerica.com Inc $10,000 4/11 to DCCC Focal Communications Corp $8,000 6/30 to DCCC Fox Sports Net $1,500 5/126 to DCCC in kind Robert Glasser ( Real Networks) $10,000 6/13 to DCCC Global Crossing Development Co $25,000 6/19 to DCCC Leo Hindrey (Global Crossing) $40,000 6/12 to DCCC Hispanic Broadcasting Corp $10,000 6/29 to DCCC Intuit Inc $20,000 5/10 to DCCC Level 3 Communications $25,000 6/30 to DCCC Lockheed Martin Corp $50,000 6/22 to NRCC; $50,000 5/3 to DCCC; $10,000 5/19 to DCCC; $10,000 6/6 to DCCC Loislaw.com $15,000 6/30 to NRCC; $10,000 5/10 to DCCC MCI Worldcom $45,000 5/3 to DCCC; $5,000 6/13 to DCCC; $1933 6/1 to DCCC;=20 $5,000 6/30 to DCCC Microsoft $47,500 6/30 to NRCC; $2,500 6/22 to NRCC; $15,000 4/17 to DCCC Eric Koenig (Microsoft) $10,000 6/29 to DCCC NASDAQ $2,500 6/30 to NRCC; $3,150 4/28 to NRCC; $700 5/16 to NRCC Nat'l Assn of Broadcasters $3,000 5/12 to NRCC; $32,500 6/30 to DCCC Network Solutions $ 25,000 6/28 to NRCC; $350 6/29 to NRCC Nortel Networks $25,000 4/25 to NRCC Oracle Corp $50,000 4/20 to NRCC PanAmSat Inc $25,000 6/30 to DCCC PG&E $25,000 4/25 to NRCC; $25,000 5/5 to NRCC; $5,000 6/15 to NRCC; $25,00= 0=20 4/7 to DCCC Philip Levine (On Board Media) $25,000 6/29 to DCCC Norman Pattiz (Westwood One) $50,000 6/30 to DCCC SBC (see above) Sun Microsystems $5,000 5/4 to DCCC Telecommunications Industry Assn $10,000 6/30 to DCCC Teligent $10,000 5/16 to NRCC; $10,000 6/30 to NRCC; $10,000 6/30 to DCCC; = $50 0 6/12 to DCCC Time Warner Communications $3,637 4/25 to DCCC Thomas E Unterman (Times Mirror) $5,000 4/11 to DCCC US West $50,000 6/30 to NRCC; $350 5/22 to NRCC; $10,000 5/16 to DCCC; $50,000 6/30 to DCCC Barry Baker (USA Networks) $9,000 6/7 to DCCC Westinghouse $25,000 6/30 to DCCC Winstar Communications $10,000 6/30 to NRCC ****** Tony Raymond Kent Cooper FECInfo a product of Votenet Solutions *************** FECInfo www.FECInfo.com www.tray.com=20 *************** NEW SOFT MONEY REPORTED BY DCCC AND NRCC July 20, 2000 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the National=20 Republican Congressional Campaign Com-mittee (NRCC) recently reported their= =20 soft money donations for the period April 1 through June 30, 2000. The DCC= C=20 raised $10,085,867 in soft money compared to the NRCC raising $5,108,659=20 during the same period. Listed below are the donations of $100,000 or more.= =20 Aseparate listing of some communication/-technology donors is also included= . The April 1 through June 30th soft money fundraising for the DNC($24,353,60= 0)=20 and the RNC ($37,537,895) can be found in our previous e-mails. Reportsfrom= =20 the senatorial campaign committees have not been made public yet. Subscription information for access to detailed databases and on-line=20 searches of soft money, lobby registrations and reports, as well as profile= s=20 of corporate money in politics can be found on our home page at=20 www.fecinfo.com Highlights: Service Employees Union gives $1.5 million to DCCC Other large donors move $250,000 or more to the DCCC: Ness Motley law firm, Food & Commerical Workers Union, and David Shimmon. Charles Ergen (Echostar) gives heavily to both parties, $150,000 to DCCC an= d=20 $50,000 to NRCC. Details: Fannie Mae, Washington, DC $50,000 6/22 to DCCC; $50,000 6/29 to DCCC Freddie Mac, McLean, VA $100,000 6/30 to DCCC; $3,000 5/12 to NRCC American Int'l Group, NY, NY $100,000 6/13 to DCCC GNYHA Management Corp, NY, NY $100,000 6/12 to DCCC Ness Motley Loadholt Richardson & Poole, Providence, RI $ 250,000 6/27 to=20 DCCC; $2,500 5/31 to DCCC HD Vest Financial Services, Irving, TX $100,000 5/15 to NRCC KPMG LLP, Washington, DC $100,000 4/19 to NRCC L Needham Corp, Las Vegas, NV $100,000 5/31 to NRCC Nat'l Assn of Convienence Stores, Alexandria, VA $100,000 6/30 to NRCC;=20 $1,000 4/10 to NRCC RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, Washington, DC $100,000 6/30 to NRCC; $3,000 4/20to= =20 NRCC; $700 5/25 to NRCC SBC Communications Inc, Washington, DC $100,000 5/11 to NRCC; $6,000 6/22to= =20 NRCC; $25,000 4/21 to DCCC Local 1199, Service Employees Int'l Union State Political Action Fund, NY, = NY=20 $500,000 6/8 to DCCC Local 1115, New Jersey Division of 1199 SEIU, Westbury, NY $250,000 6/8 to= =20 DCCC SEIU COPE PEA Int'l US, Washington, DC $375,000 4/26 to DCCC; $125,000 4/28= =20 to DCCC; $250,000 6/8 to DCCC United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union, Washington, DC $250,000 5/10 = to=20 DCCC; $200,000 6/30 to DCCC American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC $100,000 6/27 to DCCC Darlyn M Davenport, San Diego, CA (Pres, Seawest Corp) $100,000 6/30 to DCC= C Charles W Ergen, Englewood, CO (CEO, Echostar) $50,000 5/12 to DCCC; $50,00= 0=20 6/12 to DCCC; $50,000 6/30 to DCCC; $25,000 5/5 to NRCC; $25,000 6/30 to NR= CC John A Kornreich, Roslyn Heights, NY (Sandler Media) $100,000 6/12 to DCCC John M O'Quinn, Houston, TX (attorney, O'Quinn, Kerensky McAninch & Laminack) $100,000 5/8 to DCCC Bernard L Schwartz, NY, NY (exec, Loral Corp) $50,000 4/17 to DCCC; ,$100,0= 00=20 6/19 to DCCC David J Shimmon, Los Altos Hills, CA (CEO, Kinetics Group) $250,000 4/7 to= =20 DCCC George Soros, NY, NY (exec, Soros Fund Management) $100,000 6/6 to DCCC Communication/Technology donors: Allegiance Telecom Service Corp $25,000 6/30 to DCCC America Online $25,000 4/19 to NRCC AMFM Inc $10,000 6/30 to DCCC AT&T $80,000 6/30 to DCCC Beacon Communications $5,000 6/30 to DCCC Bell Atlantic $35,000 6/30 to DCCC BellSouth $22,500 6/30 to DCCC Bernard Schwartz (Loral) $100,000 6/19 to DCCC; $50,000 4/17 to DCCC Cellular Telecommunications Industry $10,000 6/27 to DCCC; $500 6/21 to DCCC Compaq $50,000 6/22 to NRCC Cable & Wireless $9033 5/16-6/29 to NRCC Charles Ergen (Echostar) see above Competitive Telecommunications Assn $10,000 6/30 to DCCC; $1,000 5/23 to DCCC Computer & Communications Industry $50,000 5/10 to DCCC Excite@Home $5,000 5/17 to DCCC EDS $20,000 4/20 to NRCC=20 Fileamerica.com Inc $10,000 4/11 to DCCC Focal Communications Corp $8,000 6/30 to DCCC Fox Sports Net $1,500 5/126 to DCCC in kind Robert Glasser ( Real Networks) $10,000 6/13 to DCCC Global Crossing Development Co $25,000 6/19 to DCCC Leo Hindrey (Global Crossing) $40,000 6/12 to DCCC Hispanic Broadcasting Corp $10,000 6/29 to DCCC Intuit Inc $20,000 5/10 to DCCC Level 3 Communications $25,000 6/30 to DCCC Lockheed Martin Corp $50,000 6/22 to NRCC; $50,000 5/3 to DCCC; $10,000 5/19 to DCCC; $10,000 6/6 to DCCC Loislaw.com $15,000 6/30 to NRCC; $10,000 5/10 to DCCC MCI Worldcom $45,000 5/3 to DCCC; $5,000 6/13 to DCCC; $1933 6/1 to DCCC; $5,000 6/30 to DCCC Microsoft $47,500 6/30 to NRCC; $2,500 6/22 to NRCC; $15,000 4/17 to DCCC Eric Koenig (Microsoft) $10,000 6/29 to DCCC NASDAQ $2,500 6/30 to NRCC; $3,150 4/28 to NRCC; $700 5/16 to NRCC Nat'l Assn of Broadcasters $3,000 5/12 to NRCC; $32,500 6/30 to DCCC Network Solutions $ 25,000 6/28 to NRCC; $350 6/29 to NRCC Nortel Networks $25,000 4/25 to NRCC Oracle Corp $50,000 4/20 to NRCC PanAmSat Inc $25,000 6/30 to DCCC PG&E $25,000 4/25 to NRCC; $25,000 5/5 to NRCC; $5,000 6/15 to NRCC; $25,00= 0=20 4/7 to DCCC Philip Levine (On Board Media) $25,000 6/29 to DCCC Norman Pattiz (Westwood One) $50,000 6/30 to DCCC SBC (see above) Sun Microsystems $5,000 5/4 to DCCC Telecommunications Industry Assn $10,000 6/30 to DCCC Teligent $10,000 5/16 to NRCC; $10,000 6/30 to NRCC; $10,000 6/30 to DCCC;= =20 $500 6/12 to DCCC Time Warner Communications $3,637 4/25 to DCCC Thomas E Unterman (Times Mirror) $5,000 4/11 to DCCC US West $50,000 6/30 to NRCC; $350 5/22 to NRCC; $10,000 5/16 to DCCC;$50,0= 00=20 6/30 to DCCC Barry Baker (USA Networks) $9,000 6/7 to DCCC Westinghouse $25,000 6/30 to DCCC Winstar Communications $10,000 6/30 to NRCC ****** Tony Raymond Kent Cooper FECInfo a product of Votenet Solutions [------------------------- 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, 21 Jul 00 12:23:01 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Gumbel Fumble (fwd) On Jul 21, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] From the Home of Rich & Peggy Martin Grand Prairie, TX 75050 RichSlick@aol.com It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice. _______________________________________________ INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY Personally, I think Gumbel's fumble, if that is what it was, has gone a long way in revealing the true character of the network to a lot of people who never believed their news stories were slanted. All Gumbel was doing was: his master's bidding. Rich Martin Editor of Slick ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CONTACT: Sharon Sampson, (202) 393-2100 CBS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO PROVIDE TAPE OF 'GUMBEL FUMBLE,' SAYS FRC "In order to avoid a Gumbel-gate, CBS must provide the broadcast tape," says FRC's Donovan. WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than two weeks after CBS "Early Show" anchor Bryant Gumbel defamed Family Research Council's (FRC) Senior Director of Cultural Studies Robert Knight, FRC is calling on CBS to obey broadcast regulations and provide a tape of the interview. "Because Mr. Gumbel made an attack upon the 'character, integrity, and personal qualities' of Robert Knight during a live broadcast, CBS is legally required under federal broadcasting regulations to provide a videotape of the broadcast," said Chuck Donovan, Executive Vice President for FRC. "As we await the videotape from CBS, we also continue to await an apology from Bryant Gumbel for his crude and uncalled for characterization of Mr. Knight before millions of viewers." In a July 18 letter to Vice President Tony Petitti of WCBS- New York, New York's CBS broadcast licensee, Donovan makes a formal request for CBS to provide Mr. Knight with a videotape of the June 29 broadcast without further delay. Donovan writes: "Under the Code of Federal Regulations Section 73.1920, CBS should have provided Mr. Knight with a videotape of [the June 29] program no later than one week after the attack." CBS, a broadcast licensee, has additional obligations under the code. "CBS officials have tried to buck all accountability for Mr. Gumbel's obscene comment, contradicting themselves by saying they don't know what Mr. Gumbel's comment was but that it bears no relevance to the just concluded interview with Knight," Donovan said. Viewers of the program clearly saw Gumbel mutter the words "What a f---ing idiot" as Knight exited the set. Bryant Gumbel himself has also failed to make any public or private apology to Robert Knight. "In the weeks since Mr. Gumbel's totally objectionable slur against Mr. Knight, there has been a groundswell of protest from the media and the public about the intolerance often directed against conservatives who make any argument based on religious precepts," Donovan said. "The Media Research Center and the American Family Association have both called for Mr. Gumbel's ouster, saying it is inconsistent for CBS to have fired sports anchor Jimmy 'The Greek" Snyder in 1988 for making racially bigoted comments, but not to fire Mr. Gumbel for making religiously bigoted comments. Americans are tired of conservatives being treated with a double standard and slurred for making thoughtful, moral arguments. FRC now formally demands the videotape from CBS and an apology from Bryant Gumbel," Donovan said. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR INTERVIEWS, CALL THE FRC PRESS OFFICE. Family Research Council is located at 801 G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 Phone: 202-393-2100 Fax: 202-393-2134 http://www.frc.org >> [------------------------- 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, 21 Jul 00 15:17:38 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: DNA Junk? (fwd) On Jul 21, House, David Alan wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] If there's more than Junk 'in them thar' hills' of presently perceived 'gibberish', then our current level and bias of science is destined to leave something critically important behind, much as the hundreds of so-called unnecessary 'vestigial organs' which now have come down to a small hand full, and still shrinking. Is it design, which would provide a purpose for everything except maybe for that which could have become damaged over the passage of a few thousand years, or is it happenstance and 'survival of the fittest', which would allow and encourage the glossing over of many most likely critical and hazardous realizations on the way towards creating a 'Moderan Man', or perhaps more accurately, a 'Frankenstein's Monster'? With suppositions such as these on which to found our science and thereby most directly our medicine and physicians procedural options, we may be certain of many unnecessary failures and much sorrow, grief, and frustration due to a failure and refusal to include one primary and very critical ingredient. David House housed@indiana.edu BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #000721 - 07/21/2000 DNA Junk or God's Design?: Unraveling the Human Genome It wasn't the sort of talk that makes biologists comfortable. "We are learning the language in which God created life," said President Clinton two weeks ago as he announced completion of the map of the human genome -- the 3.1 billion units of genetic information stored in our chromosomes. The President's words were right on, but to scientists they had a surprising ring. As polls of scientists indicate, the majority of biologists these days think natural selection -- not God -- created the information in the human genome, over billions of years of evolution. But as Phillip Johnson argues in his new book, THE WEDGE OF TRUTH, biologists need to approach the origin of genetic information with new eyes. Because, behind the news about completion of the genome map are many other mysteries. For example, are the undirected forces of natural selection (acting on random variation) really able to explain how strange and irregular genetic information arises? And how could a blind evolutionary process write the vast encyclopedia of biological data that we carry around in our cells? What gives Johnson's questions such urgency is the genome map itself. Although biologists have finished sequencing the genes, determining the order of the individual letters in the genetic text, they don't understand most of it. "It's written in a foreign language," says geneticist Gerald Rubin, adding, "It's a very complicated problem." Why? Think of it this way. Suppose you found a stone slab covered with strange marks. Some seem to be words in an unknown language, while others are simply random scratchings or gibberish. Well, this is how modern evolutionary biologists view the information in our genome. In their view, the "gibberish" is simply "junk DNA" - -- functionless, meaningless scraps and left-overs, which we have inherited from our animal ancestors. And as they see it, only two forces could explain the origin of our genome: natural laws and blind chance, which come together in the process of natural selection. So if there's gibberish, you just dismiss it. After all, the author was a blind natural process whose only goal was survival. But this is a cop-out. What if natural law and chance are incapable of creating such complex information? Even the most ardent Darwinian biologists agree that our genome, despite its vast poorly understood regions, contains tens of thousands of fantastically intricate meaningful sequences. As Johnson argues, "meaningful information-bearing sequences require some THIRD FORCE that works against both repetitive order on the one hand and chaotic chance on the other." And that, he says, would be a designing mind: The mind of God. And if God, not a blind natural process, designed the human DNA, then don't we have good reasons to think that the so-called "junk DNA," so puzzling to biologists, may have important functions as well -- like leading to medical breakthroughs? In fact, the view that our genome is not just junk, but an intricate language we have yet to understand, holds vast promise -- something Darwinian evolution can never offer. ===================== You can order your own copy of Phillip Johnson's The Wedge of Truth from BreakPoint Online at . ===================== Copyright (c) 2000 Prison Fellowship Ministries. Reprinted with permission. "BreakPoint with Chuck Colson" is a radio ministry of Prison Fellowship Ministries. http://www.breakpoint.org/ http://www.pfm.org/ http://www.angeltree.org/ http://www.justicefellowship.org/ http://www.neighborswhocare.org/ [------------------------- 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 #368 *************************