From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #450 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Saturday, July 7 2001 Volume 02 : Number 450 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:12:57 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: "American Sovereign Restoration Act" (H. R. 1146) - ----- Forwarded message from "RJK.Sr" <2a.rkba@mail.riverview.net> ----- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:13:53 -0400 From: "RJK.Sr" <2a.rkba@mail.riverview.net> To: Multiple-Recipients-noban@mainstream.net Subject: "American Sovereign Restoration Act" (H. R. 1146) In a surprising announcement, Rep Henry Hyde (R-IL), chairman of=20 the House International Relations Committee and former chief=20 impeachment manager, has stated that he would vote for Rep. Ron=20 Paul=92s (R-TX) "American Sovereign Restoration Act" (H. R. 1146),=20 which calls for U. S. withdrawal from the United Nations. This tacit=20 endorsement of the bill will give it momentum for more co- sponsors, possible committee hearings and eventual floor action.=20 This legislation is the best way to protect American sovereignty=20 and our billions in tax dollars from greedy and corrupt globalists. In=20 the states of Utah, New Mexico and Washington, several towns=20 and localities are already taking up their own anti-U. N. council=20 measures. CIC urges supporters to contact their Congressman and=20 demand his or her support of =20 H.R.1146. Click to=20 http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html - ----- End forwarded message ----- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:22:17 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: Ace needs to hear from you (fwd) Subject: Ace needs to hear from you Date: Mon, 2 Jul 01 19:19:25 -0400 From: Charles Riggs K-Mart recently dumped Rosie O'Donnell in response to a boycott by gun owners. Why is Ace Hardware risking the same? http://www.acehardware.com/paintbrand/paint/PaintRosie.asp Why don't you write to Ace from their web page at the URL above, and let them know how you feel about their error? I did - Charles. *********************************** I'm sorry to see that Ace has fallen into the trap that Kmart pulled itself out of, namely that of using Rosie O'Donnell as a spokeswoman or pitch-person. As one who values my civil rights, I stopped going to Kmart when she spoke out against firearms owners while secretly hiring armed guards for her OWN children. Her hypocrisy is intolerable to me. I started going back to Kmart when they terminated they contract with her. Now it seems I'm going to have to stop going to Ace hardware, and to pass this sorry news on to my friends and associates. Too bad, I've bought a lot of stuff from your stores over the years. Fortunately, WalMart and Lowe's and others haven't made the mistake of lining themselves up with Rosie the Hypocrite and I can still buy what I need in those stores. I might miss Ace hardware sometimes, but not much, not as long as that woman is working for you. Good day - good bye - Charles Riggs, Frankfort, Ky. Charles Riggs - Orange Gunsite - DVC! "Stop Crime-Be Armed-Fight Back!" ************************************ 1st VP KC3 - IDPA(KY) - GOA - NRA ************************************ http://www.kc3.org/sheep.htm (a parable for our times) ************************************ The Kentucky IDPA Studies Group is at: http://www.electricrain.com/~tyler/IDPASG - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 4 Jul 2001 15:45:48 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: McCain Recall Poll (fwd) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:25:16 -0700 From: "C. D. Tavares" Subject: Fwd: McCain Recall Poll What do ya say, give us a hand out here? :-) >Status: U >Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 18:57:59 -0700 >From: RDeStep >Subject: McCain Recall Poll >Sender: Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Arizona >To: AZRKBA@asu.edu >X-To: Angel Shamaya , > anti-antigun , > TUG Announce >Reply-to: Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Arizona >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-Accept-Language: en > >I rarely do internet polls, but this one is too juicy. > >Please chime in.... > >Should McCain be recalled? > >http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/ > >Today's poll > >Should Sen. John McCain be recalled? > >Yes: 63.24% >No: 36.76% > >Total votes: 1050 - -- Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. - --LARRY ELDER - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 4 Jul 2001 15:47:16 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: [govtwatch] Politician Winners List - Rep Henry Hyde (fwd) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:02:49 -0400 Subject: [govtwatch] Politician Winners List - Rep Henry Hyde From: semperfidave@juno.com This is HOT! Get YOUR congressman to sign on! Semper fi; Dave From: "gpp" Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:32:54 -0700 Subject: [govtwatch] Politician Winners List - Rep Henry Hyde Politician Winners List Rep Ron Paul Rep Henry Hyde Henry Hyde: In a surprising announcement, Rep Henry Hyde (R-IL), chairman of the House International Relations Committee and former chief impeachment manager, has stated that he would vote for Rep. Ron Paul's (R-TX) "American Sovereign Restoration Act" (H. R. 1146), which calls for U. S. withdrawal from the United Nations. This tacit endorsement of the bill will give it momentum for more co-sponsors, possible committee hearings and eventual floor action. This legislation is the best way to protect American sovereignty and our billions in tax dollars from greedy and corrupt globalists. In the states of Utah, New Mexico and Washington, several towns and localities are already taking up their own anti-U. N. council measures. CIC urges supporters to contact their Congressman and demand his or her support of H.R.1146. Click to http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html Incense Every able bodied man is a member of the militia by constitutional law. Join Today! http://www.icvmmilitia.homestead.com/links.html - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:21:23 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: HUMOR: America (fwd) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:54:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Martin Subject: [slickplus] HUMOR: America From: Jim Buchenau America When white man found this land, Indians were running it. No taxes... No debt... Plenty buffalo... Plenty beaver! Women did most of the work; Indian men hunted and fished all the time! White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:33:13 -0700 From: "Kenneth Mitchell" Subject: Toward Tradition 7:30 PM, July 5: Any of you in the Sacramento, CA area, please turn IMMEDIATELY to KFBK Radio. Mark Williams is interviewing Rabbi Daniel Lapin, founder of Toward Tradition, a new interfaith group devoted to combatting the new state religion of secular liberalism/humanism in America. You'll like what you hear. Everybody else, check out www.towardtradition.org. You'll like what you see. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Mitchell Citrus Heights, CA ken@creativemindssacramento.com 916-955-9152 916-729-0966 (fax) - -------http://www.creativemindssacramento.com---------------------- "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?" James Madison - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:24:21 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: THE FIFTH OF JULY - by L. Neil Smith (fwd) From: Swftl@aol.com Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:05:07 EDT Subject: {slick-d} THE FIFTH OF JULY - by L. Neil Smith THE FIFTH OF JULY By L. Neil Smith Special to _The Libertarian Enterprise_ Independence Day is over for another year, and once again, I've failed to write the definitive essay about it, far enough in advance, to have it appear online upon the Very Day itself. I chose to write instead, this time, about the importance of getting rid of driver and automobile licenses, concealed carry permits, and Social Security numbers. So I guess it wasn't a total loss. The Fifth of July deserves attention, too, in its way. The smell of nitrates lingers in the cool morning air, and the sidewalks and streets are littered festively with the cardboard carcasses of dead whizbangs. It appears to be fully as traditional, in 20th and 21st century America, for the round-heeled socialist mass media to be all agog on the Day After -- with bloody and grotesque tales of seven-year-old fireworks victims sporting ruptured eardrums, exploded eyeballs, and blown-off fingers, with teary operatics featuring housefires, forest fires, and river fires, and with a plethora of veritable Icelandic sagas filled to brimming with pyrotechnic crime and punishment -- as it is for the same low, crawling, parasitic scum to moisten their vile, mildewed crotches in perverted sexual ecstacy the Day Before, passing along the usual ration of government admonitions against the peasantry enjoying, in the time-honored chemical manner, what pitiful rags have been left to us of our individual freedom and national independence. The problem -- for government and media alike -- is that what's being celebrated here is the stunning and spectacular success, a couple of centuries ago, of open, violent rebellion against ... oops, _government_! Every year, the sorry suckups on radio and TV inform us that this year (as opposed to last year and possibly next year, once the facts have been officially made up and released) X number of miscreants were arrested for illegal possession and deployment of 14th century Asian technology. Sometimes the number of arrests is higher than last year, and we receive a collective tongue-lashing. Other times, the number they've been ordered to use is smaller, and they condescendingly praise us for humbly kneeling to gratefully accept the Clintonian insertion. What I've noticed, however, is that the number of arrests for the largest settlement in my immediate locality -- the reeking, pustulent, collectivist abcess on the backside of the pristine Great American Desert known as the City and County of Denver -- is usually in the hundreds. To get the real picture, you must multiply that totally amazing and happy number of free souls who have intransigently defied the Lords of Altruism for the sheer joy of making pretty colored sparks, smelling the good smoke patriots smelled at Lexington and Concord, and hearing things go _bang!_ -- and passing that joy to their innocently delighted (or pantswettingly terrified) offspring -- you must multiply the number of arrests by somewhere between a thousand and infinity to account for the times the Blue Gang simply steal some little kid's sparklers and Roman candles without writing a citation, so they can sneak away and shoot their ill-gotten loot in some deserted alleyway, themselves. Altogether it makes a perfect, heartwarming portrait of today's America worthy of Norman Rockwell. Or would that be George Lincoln Rockwell? Whichever it may be, I've now reached that detestable stage where I can tell all of you whippersnappers, with a straight face, that I recall a very different America. For example, I remember an absolutely splendid custom called "shooting (or sounding) the anvil", generally an undertaking performed by one's reprobate uncle while the womenfolk stood around wringing their hands in their aprons, clucking their tongues, awaiting in secret glee an event that they wouldn't have missed for all of the apple pies left burning in their wood-fired ovens. In my case, it wasn't an uncle (I had one of those, a pathetic wussie who believed that if he voted for Barry Goldwater, his bosses would find out somehow and he'd lose his cushy civil service job), but my Dad's best friend Chuck, a gunsmith from Alamosa, Colorado, who, on ordinary days, was the kind of Klingon who crushed beer cans on his forehead. Back when they were made of steel. Chuck would persuade somebody -- he had a bad back, himself (no, really) to haul a 50-pound anvil out of his garage for the occasion to a spot reserved for the sacred event halfway down his driveway. There, in a hollow worn in the asphalt by years of this hallowed observance, he'd deposit a handful of black powder and have the anvil placed over it. Then my dad's friend Chuck would either lead a yard or two of cannon fuse away or (depending on his humor and the amount of Old Turkeywattle he'd consumed that evening) talk some gullible young candidate for natural selection into shoving a smoldering twig under the anvil, and _BAHHHHMMM!_, the anvil would leap into the air on a flaming cloud of aromatically sulphrous air-pollution to the delight of everybody, ringing like a great bell all the way up and all the way down. Those were simpler days, long before cable television. But the whole point to this remembrance is that we kids got plenty of chances to blow things up, ourselves, and if anybody ever got more than a scorched pinky or a ringing in his ears out of it, I never heard of it -- maybe because my ears were still ringing. Fireworks were just another kid's-toy, and they weren't only for the Fourth of July. My younger brother and I, having grown up in the shadow of World War II, would spend half a day sculpting elaborate Nazi bunkers and pillboxes out of snowbanks around our house, and staffing them with what are now known as Green Army Men. We'd then plant Black Cats -- carefully unravelled from their long, noisy, wasteful strings -- as expertly as the guys using plastique to destroy the Guns of Navarone, and contentedly spend the rest of the day demolishing these enemy fortifications. In the house, our mom -- usually overprotective bordering on the Norman-Bate's-Mother level -- must have heard our explosions. If so, she never said anything. We were just kids having a good time, and as long as we didn't blow up the propane tank or one of the cats, we were fine. Today all three of us, plus Dad (apprehended later at his office, film at 11), would be treated to Thorazine, therapy, and the wet sheet treatment, while Paul Harvey -- Goodday! -- made exactly the same kind of noises about us on the radio, from coast to coast, that the womenfolk made waiting for my dad's best friend Chuck to shoot the anvil. In an era when small, helpless schoolchildren are routinely bludgeoned by their principal and teachers, tear-gassed, wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and bellychained, and frogmarched off to the Bastille in a Black Maria for having drawn pictures of knives on paper, I know that all of this must seem insane to the bleeding-heart, bedwetting, afraid-of-every-known-phenomenon socialists who call themselves liberals and stumbled onto this website by some terrible accident. But while you're here, let me tell you more about those times. My grandmother, living in a small city, left her doors unlocked in perfect safety all her life. I, myself, could walk a mile to school in the first grade without worrying my parents or enticing some genetic cull to kill me and eat me. Later on, at the age of 11, I could make the harrowing 13-mile trek into town after a blizzard had closed the roads, to operate the radio panel for the weekly church broadcast that was a requirement for my receiving the God and Country Award in Boy Scouts. It gets better. In my youth, children roamed the countryside with rifles, and nobody thought anything of it -- adults would go out of the way to tell them where they'd seen rabbits or deer. Sometimes kids smoked cigarettes, and no one had the right to say a thing about it but their parents. Kids started fires in the woods and roasted hot dogs or marshmallows. In the city, it was potatoes. A generation earlier, kids got real live jobs and helped feed their families, before Marxoid intellectuals persuaded unions and politicians to "humanely" condemn "child labor", sentencing millions of innocent kids to 12 worthless, nonproductive years of daytime concentration-camps and socialist indoctrination. What you didn't see, back when kids handled more of their own lives than most adults do today, was public schools being shot up by homicidal mutants, gangs murdering each other over drug-selling turf, or national epidemics of unwed motherhood. Kids learned Latin and Greek, knew how to spell, and passed tests that college students fail today. Now you tell me: have six or seven decades of the calculated infantilization of American children led to anything resembling progress? Now that the process has started on adults, are we going to fight? If your answer is yes, the symbolic place to begin is with the laws against the possession and use of fireworks. These laws must be repealed, nullified, or otherwise disposed of. For several reasons, fireworks should be given the protection of a fully-enforced Second Amendment. At their most innocent, fireworks laws are nothing more than another example of the so-called liberal's primitive hatred and fear of fire that I wrote about years ago in the much-crossposted "Prometheus Bound and Gagged" (included in my recent book of essays, _Lever Action_). These laws must be repealed, nullified, or otherwise disposed of. At their least innocent, they represent a conscious attempt, mostly on the part of those who call themselves Democrats -- and who would be happier living under Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot -- to flush the American Revolution, and everthing it was fought to achieve, down the Memory Hole. These laws must be repealed, nullified, or otherwise disposed of. But don't look for any help from Republicans. The only thing that conservatives can be trusted to do, once liberals have shoved their metaphorical umbrella up our collective posterior, is to open it for them. To solve this and a thousand other American problems permanently, however, it would be best to rely upon Cato the Elder's policy toward Carthage: the public schools must be razed to the ground, so that not one stone is left standing on another, and salt sown on the ruins. On nightly TV "news" reports, the Jennings, Brokaws, and Whatevers love to make snotty propaganda over the charming and ebullient way of celebrating Arabs have, of firing their AK47s and their pistols into the air, just as we once fired our muskets and Kentucky rifles. (They give their children guns, as well, exactly as we used to do.) Most of us no longer recognize that joyous urge, let alone commend it, as we ought to. (Please don't give me a load of crap about the safety of the practice, either; read _Hatcher's Notebook_, if you can still find a copy in this hive of political correctness, and then we'll talk.) That urge is the very wellspring of traditional American Independence Day festivities. Whenever you hear, sometimes for several days before and after the Glorious Fourth, itself, and maybe half a city away, the wonderful snap, crackle, and _pop!_ of illicit firecrackers, occasionally punctuated by the lovely _wheeeee!_ of contraband pop bottle rockets, what you're hearing (although the distant rocketeers are probably unaware of it, themselves) is the _real_ celebration of American independence. What follows -- the inevitable sirens -- remind us who the enemy is, and who they have always been, since that other summer day in 1776. ********************************************************************** L. Neil Smith is the award-winning author of more than 20 novels about individual liberty and the right to own and carry weapons. To read more than 80 articles like this one, buy his _LEVER ACTION: ESSAYS ON LIBERTY BY L. NEIL SMITH_, available for $21.95 plus shipping and handling from http://www.webleyweb.com/lneil/leveraction.html To order Neil's latest novel, _HOPE_ (with Aaron Zelman), receive free goodies and a special offer, click on: http://www.jpfo.org/hope.htm To read about MAKING A MOVIE OF _THE MITZVAH_ the action-adventure thriller by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith -- and maybe even help us do it! -- click on http://www.webleyweb.com/lneil/mitzvahmovie.html - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 7 Jul 2001 14:34:33 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: Fiedor Report on the News (fwd) From: Doug Fiedor Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:58:55 -0400 Subject: {NewsUCanUse} Fiedor Report on the News Fiedor Report on the News A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia July 7, 2001 #235 by: Doug Fiedor dfiedor@home.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ZERO TOLERANCE FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS I still remember their shouts of "Down With the Establishment." Sure, that was many years ago and most of their drug soaked minds didn't have much idea why they were saying that, anyway. Apparently, though, some of the more avid pinkos in the "flower children" set really meant it. Today, we address part of that group as either journalists or teachers. We pounded on journalists enough for a while, so let's move over to the group who have never yet even had a job. Today, we address some of those in that group as "professor." Follow the teaching establishment's own statistics. When the hippy movement graduated college and stuck around the campuses to become teachers, something very important happened: The scholastic ability of our children began a steady decline and the kids started being indoctrinated with communist/socialist/fascist ideology. I have a test I like to give to the nay-sayers in the education community. The test was graded by my eighth grade home-room teacher. I received an 83 on it back in 1954. About four years ago I had a conversation with a few education students at a local college watering hole that was just a nice walk from my home. The conversation began because some of them wanted to read a paper I wrote titled "State of the Union." As I remember, their far-left professor was so incensed about my providing that paper that she even hinted that I should be arrested. The fact that everything was documented apparently did not matter. Along the way, the discussion turned to the decline of standards in education. I had proof, I said. And, as sometimes happens, we made a few bets: Ten of them, including two teacher/professors, would take the test. None would match the score I received as a mediocre student in junior high. The highest score was a 74, by a girl who was home schooled and then working on her master's degree. The liberal professor got 46%, which was about typical for the rest of the group. Three weeks later, I gave that test to another group, many from the law school. Same dismal results. Back in 1954, it was mandatory that every child pass that test before being promoted to high school. Today, college students cannot pass it. What happened? Right. "Down with the establishment!" The far left took over the "education" of our children. Indoctrination is more like it. A while back, the Heritage Foundation published a Backgrounder paper (#801) by Jeanne Allen titled "A Businessman's Guide to the Education Reform Debate."(1) Part of the paper describes the results of a National Assessment of Education Progress survey of students. Most interesting to me was what the 17 year olds did not know -- and the misinformation taught them. For instance, 47 percent believe that Karl Marx's rule "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is from the U.S. Constitution. Now, how in the world would they ever learn something like that? Apparently, American kids are not only taught that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle and that society has zero tolerance for everything the socialists do not like, but they are also being taught communism. The report shows that almost 60 percent of high school seniors were unable to understand and summarize relatively complicated reading material. Almost 94 percent of high school seniors were unable to solve multi-step math problems or use basic algebra. Over 50 percent of high school seniors were unable to understand specific government structures and functions -- 43 percent did not know that presidential candidates are nominated by party conventions. That was the 17 year olds. Over one-quarter of all 13 year-olds were unable to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers or solve one-step math problems. And, 68 percent could not place the Civil War in the correct half-century -- 26 percent believed it occurred before 1800. This means that neither the 13 year olds or the 17 year olds in government schools would have any chance whatsoever of passing the test we all had to pass before attending high school. Most parents are starting to realize there is a major problem with government schools. In a recent Lou Harris poll sponsored by the Ford Foundation and Washington Mutual, nearly three-quarters of respondents agreed "the unions are a roadblock to removing incompetent teachers." Fewer than 20% of the 2,501 adults polled thought teachers in their communities were highly qualified -- and more than one-third thought teachers nationally are only minimally competent or unqualified -- 89% support removing unskilled teachers. They found that the vast majority of people polled cited improving teacher quality as the key to reform. Now that both the problem and the cause are defined, what do we do about it? - ----------------------------- 1. http://zeus.townhall.com/heritage/library/archives/backgrounder MONTICELLO IS STILL UNDER THE UN What would your reaction be if bureaucrats in the federal-government conspired to give away control of one of our states to the United Nations? And no, we're not necessarily talking about a big state, like California, Texas, Alaska, or New York, either. Just one of the medium states -- like maybe Pennsylvania or Colorado. The basic take-over would not include anything as brash as a blue-helmeted UN Army invasion of the state. That's not necessary. Nor would the UN necessarily get into the actual day to day operation of the state. Rather, the socialists in power at the United Nations would only write regulations and directives -- you know, laws -- as to how the land and infrastructure of the affected state would be allowed to be used. So all in all, it would be a peaceful takeover. One which would not be immediately perceptible to many of the state's citizens. Well . . . that is, the change would not be immediately apparent until citizens tried to change something in their neighborhoods. Then they would find they needed permission from some UN regulator. And, just think of the potential problems involved with that! For instance, some unelected bureaucrat -- maybe from Asia, Africa or South America -- would be calling the shots on what American citizens could or could not do in their own home town, or even with their own property! Heck, American citizens might even need a translator to speak to the regulator dude. Not acceptable, you say? Right! The whole concept is ridiculous. Well then, let's scale it down some. How about if our federal government only relinquishes domain over a few tracts -- of a few hundred-thousand acres each -- to UN control? For instance, let's say that they start with forty-seven such tracts called "Biosphere Reserves" -- like the Great Smoky Mountains Biosphere Reserve, for instance. Then add another eighteen properties labeled "Heritage Sites." These would include places like Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, The Grand Canyon National Park, The Statue of Liberty Park, Independence Hall, and such. Still unacceptable? Yeah, it sure seems that way. But, these are all federal properties. So, can't the federal government give them away if it wishes? No? Well then, you had better get on the horn and tell them so. Cause it's already a done deal! These areas are already under "protection" of the United Nations. Look for the UN and UNESCO signs. They are there to inform you that you tread on UN regulated property. You see folks, the bipolar thinkers in Washington are not giving away whole states, like Rhode Island or Delaware, to UN and UNESCO control. No, they know they probably couldn't get away with that. But, in total area of United States land, they gave away a lot more of our country than those two States combined. Actually, the total land mass involved in the U.S. and UNESCO Man in the Biosphere program exceeds the land mass of the State of Colorado. A considerable amount, in other words. And you didn't even notice. . . . Well, did you? Few Americans have. That was part of the plan. If the United Nations sent an army in here, a few of us might notice. And a few million of us might become rather upset. Therefore, they used a whole mixed gobbledygook of agreements, treaties and laws to get it done. That way they can control us by bureaucratic regulation. Anyway, don't go looking for a UN director's office in The Great Smoky Mountains or at Yellowstone, or even at Monticello or Mammoth Cave National Park. You won't find one. Such an office would be trashed in a heartbeat if Americans saw it. The UN knows that. So, everything happens stealthily. We were not supposed to notice -- that is, until later, when the flurry of UN regulations start. If you question the reason behind the UN and UNESCO signs, you will be told that the area is simply a "registered" area to be "protected" by the UN. Sure it is! Complete with use regulations, and a few dozen other restrictions. And that's just for starters. Why would America need some rinky-dink third world bureaucrats from wherever to protect our land anyway? The fact is, we do not. And that should be your primary hint: There is much, much more to this than what they will tell you publicly. It's a control thing. They're the controllers. We're the controllees. That's the way of the "Third Way." And we had better start understanding that concept quickly. Because, whether you noticed or not, we are now living it. Outrageous, isn't it! So, tell Congress. After all, we elected them. FEDERAL BIOSPHERES ARE STILL ILLEGAL Today, over 68% of public land -- land belonging to the people of the United States -- the land in our National Parks, Preserves and Monuments, is designated as a United Nations World Heritage Site, Biosphere Reserve or both. Worse yet, United Nations' land designations, such as UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites, currently take place without the approval of Congress and with no Congressional oversight. Nor are State and local officials, or even private landowners, usually consulted. By allowing these international land designations, the U.S. is indirectly agreeing to terms of international treaties, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, to which the U.S. is not a party or which the U.S. Senate has refused to ratify. That is, by agreeing to form UNESCO biospheres in the United States, federal bureaucrats allow a group of foreigners to make land-use regulations for our property and the federal bureaucracy uses the guns of the federal government to force the American people to obey the foreign regulations. So, although the United Nations has no direct enforcement of land management -- they have no police here yet -- decisions in the use and operation of Biosphere Reserves or World Heritage Sites are set in accordance with UNESCO rules and regulations. There is no treaty or agreement. Some federal bureaucrats(1) took this power upon themselves. Which means, they unlawfully gave the international community an open invitation to interfere in U.S. domestic land use decisions -- decisions which often limit the use of privately owned property, and thereby negatively impact on its value. For instance, the actions of the World Heritage Committee in condemning a proposed mining development on privately-owned land outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, a World Heritage Site, provides an example of the havoc these foreign programs can create. A member of the World Heritage Committee, Adul Wichiencharoen from Thailand (of all places), requested that a 12 million acre (18,750 square mile) buffer zone be created around the 2 million acre Yellowstone National Park. Federal bureaucrats are attempting to work that foolishness in, but the pesky people living in the area won't cooperate. One bureaucratic suggestion is that the people be removed so the weeds, bugs and wild animals can live in peace. According to the U.S. National Committee MAB, as adopted on July 26, 1995: "The mission of the United States MAB Program is to explore, demonstrate, promote, and encourage harmonious relationships between people and their environments building on the MAB network of Biosphere Reserves and interdisciplinary research. The long-term goal of the U.S. MAB Program is to contribute to achieving a sustainable society early in the 21st Century. The MAB mission and long term goal will be implemented, in the United States and internationally, through public-private partnerships and linkages that sponsor and promote cooperative interdisciplinary research, experimentation, education and information exchange on options by which societies can achieve sustainability."(2) Another mission statement is available by the Department of State.(3) Their Environmental and Scientific Affairs office also posted a page of informative links.(4) Back in the Carter Administration there was an international agreement which many countries signed onto. The United States agreed, in part. And, as always, the American taxpayer got stuck paying big bucks for something that had zero benefit for the American public. The key word there was "agreement." It was not an international treaty. President Carter agreed to participate only in part, and implemented that part of the agreement through an executive memoranda. The administration then secured minimal program funding from Congress. President Reagan saw the fallacy in the program and cancelled the whole thing. However, federal bureaucrats did not conform and continued making more biospheres. On April 24, 1997, Rep. Coburn offered an amendment to the National Science Foundation budget stating that: "No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be used for the United States Man and Biosphere Program, or related projects." Coburn spelled out the law for the House: "It is important that the people recognize that the Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage sites are under the guidance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization also known as UNESCO. The United States withdrew from that Organization in 1984 because of gross financial mismanagement. "Over 68 percent of our national parks, preserves, and monuments have been designated as United Nations World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves or both. There are currently 47 of those sites [97 actually] in the United States, covering an area the size of Colorado. Under the relative agreements, the United States is promising to manage lands in accordance with international guidelines. "Many times local governments, [and] private property [owners] are never consulted in these management plans. This is a clear violation of private property rights. The biosphere programs, including the United States Man and Biosphere Program, have never been authorized by any Congress, never been authorized, but still received [funds] this past year and this year will receive over $700,000 of taxpayers' money. The National Science Foundation distributed more than $400,000 in grants to this unauthorized program despite the fact that the program has never had a consideration or vote in Congress and has never been approved by a body of the Congress." That amendment easily passed, as did a number of subsequent amendments to various budget bills specifically defunding the biosphere project -- even though the project never had authorization. Yet, the biosphere reserves are still with us and third-world foreigners from UNESCO are still wandering our nation with the intent of directing our land usage. Still today, the U.S. and UNESCO Man and Biosphere Program (MAB) seems to be chugging along like the Little Engine that Could. No matter what, it will not quit. Legally, the Man and the Biosphere program does not exist. Yet, an American citizen can still get arrested for entering one of their many restricted zones. Congress never funded the program, and even stated in a number of bills that no money may be spent on it. Yet, the program is still in full operation. For more on exactly what a biosphere is, as per UNESCO, and what they have planned for the American People, see the Biospheres in a Nutshell FAQ.(6) Clearly, this is a gross misappropriation of funds. Stealing of taxpayer money, in other words. That being so, a few dozen bureaucrats should be fitted up with some prison uniforms. That's the only way this nonsense will ever be stopped. - ----------------------------- 1. http://www.euromab.org/general_information/nat_comm.html 2. http://www.euromab.org/home2.html 3. http://www.state.gov/www/global/oes/fs_mab.html 4. http://www.state.gov/www/global/oes/mab.html 5. http://refuges.fws.gov/specialareas/index.html#biosphere 6. http://www.unesco.org/mab/nutshell.htm ~ End ~ - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 #450 *************************