From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #451 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Tuesday, July 10 2001 Volume 02 : Number 451 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:48:45 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: All Is NOT Quiet On The Bill Front! (fwd) Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 01:48:42 -0400 From: Brad3000 Subject: SRA - All Is NOT Quiet On The Bill Front! FYI - Be Aware and Forwarned: these are cooking on the front burner. 59 GUN-RELATED BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS By Melissa Seaman, Newslinks Director, KeepAndBearArms.com https://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=1660 Below are links to 59 gun-related bills before the U.S. Congress.There are 50 anti-gun bills and 9 pro-gun bills. Various types of contact inform- ation is contained in this message in hopes you'll reach out and do your part to voice your thoughts on these matters.Thanks for doing your part to stave off our legislators gone awry. TO CONTACT: FEDERAL REPS, SENATORS, AND COMMITTEES... http://capwiz.com/kba/dbq/officials (committees can be found under "Congressional Record") U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT... http://www.usdoj.gov/ag CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD TOLL-FREE HOTLINES... 800-648-3516, 877-778-9001, 877-762-8762 Make sure you contact the specific committee where each bill is now (listed under "Bill Status") to either support or reject each bill, and your reps or senators to either co-sponsor the bill or not, depending on if it is anti- or pro- gun. Make sure you read the significant parts of the bills (listed under "Text of Legislation") so you know exactly what is going on. Let me know if you have any questions, additions, or further information. - ------------------ ANTI-GUN (50 Bills) - ------------------ H.CON.RES.129 : establishment of Million Mom March Day http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.con.res.00129: H.R.1 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00001: H.R.70 : Gun Access Prevention Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00070: H.R.114 : Handgun Licensing and Registration Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00114: H.R.138 : to require persons to obtain a State license before receiving a handgun or handgun ammunition (Handgun Licensing Act) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00138: H.R.139 : To provide incentive funds to States that have in effect a certain law (Handgun Registration Act) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00139: H.R.218 : to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00218: H.R.225 : Anti-"Gunrunning" Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00225: H.R.233 : mandatory "safety"-locks http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00233: H.R.255 : To provide grant funds to local governments that comply with certain requirements and to amend certain Federal firearms laws. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00255: H.R.278 : To assist State and local governments in conducting community gun "buy back" programs. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00278: H.R.340 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools (PART E--RELATED PROVISIONS; GUN-FREE SCHOOLS) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00340: H.R.408 : gun ballistics fingerprint registration http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00408: H.R.422 : gun ballistics fingerprint registration of imported firearms http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00422: H.R.534 : To establish a grant program that provides incentives for States who enact Project Exile http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00534: H.R.671 : To expand the powers of the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of firearms and ammunition, and to expand the jurisdiction of the Secretary to include firearm products and non-powder firearms http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00671: H.R.693 : To ban the manufacture of handguns that cannot be "personalized" http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00693: H.R.726 : to ban using the Internet to obtain or dispose of a firearm http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00726: H.R.731 : To prohibit the discharge of a firearm within 1000 feet of any Federal land or facility http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00731: H.R.891 : To prohibit the possession of a firearm by an individual who has committed an act of juvenile delinquency that would be a violent felony if committed by an adult http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00891: H.R.958 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00958: H.R.998 : prohibiting bulk purchases of handguns http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00998: H.R.1014 : anti-gun bill under the guise of "preventing child injury" http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01014: H.R.1112 : To make Federal law apply to antique firearms in the same way it applies to other firearms http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01112: H.R.1247 : Handgun Licensing and Record of Sale Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01247: H.R.1248 : To prohibit the possession of a firearm in a "hospital zone" (w/in 1000ft of a hospital) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01248: H.R.1396 : To "encourage" States to report students they "suspect to be or has been" in possession of a firearm while in or on the premises of a school building http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01396: H.R.1397 : includes banning the manufacture of handguns without locks http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01397: H.R.1922 : To ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and to extend the ban on transferring such devices to those that were manufactured before the ban became law. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01922: H.R.1990 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01990: H.R.1922 : To ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and to extend the ban on transferring such devices to those that were manufactured before the ban became law. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01922: H.R.2221 : To ban the import of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, to promote the safe storage and use of handguns by consumers, and to extend Brady background checks to gun shows http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02221: H.R.2377 : To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at events that provide a venue for the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange of firearms, and to provide additional resources for gun crime enforcement. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02377: S.1 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00001: S.16 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding civilians and police http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00016: S.25 : Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00025: S.79 : to "encourage" drug-free and "safe" schools. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00079: S.134 : Large Capacity Ammunition Magazine Import Ban http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00134: S.330 : To expand the powers of the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of firearms and ammunition, and to expand the jurisdiction of the Secretary to include firearm products and non-powder firearms http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00330: S.406 : prohibiting bulk purchases of handguns http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00406: S.436 : mandatory "safety" locks http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00436: S.437 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00437: S.442 : A bill to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00442: S.505 : to regulate certain .50 caliber sniper weapons in the same manner as machine guns http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00505: S.609 : to regulate manufacture, assembly, shipment, & transportation of firearms & firearm parts http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00609: S.619 : incentives for States that use Project Exile http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00619: S.649 : to modify provisions relating to the Gun-Free Schools Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00649: S.767 : anti-gun gun show bill (Reed) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00767: S.890 : anti-gun gun show bill (McCain) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00890: S.940 : includes anti-gun initiatives regarding schools http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00940: - ---------------- PRO-GUN (9 Bills) - ---------------- H.CON.REright of all Americans to keep and bear arms in defense of life or liberty and in the pursuit of all other legitimate endeavors. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.con.res.00119: H.R.31 : To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00031: H.R.123 : To prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages resulting from the misuse of their products by others. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00123: H.R.950 : To amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.00950: H.R.1455 : To repeal section 658 of Public Law 104-208, commonly referred to as the Lautenberg amendment. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01455: H.R.1460 : To amend section 922 of chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to protect the rights of citizens under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01460: H.R.1762 : To restore the second amendment rights of all Americans. http://thomas.loc S.514 : A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00514: S.906 : A bill to provide for protection of gun owner privacy and ownership rights, and for other purposes. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00906: - ------------------------------------------------- Source: http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d107query.html - ------------------------------------------------- in Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness... Melissa http://profiles.yahoo.com/Skypod ICQ#58058555 "No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim." ~ W. Emerson Wright. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 8 Jul 2001 17:29:16 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: [ParanoidTimes] Spread far and wide: Call WalMart (fwd) From: "Jessica Robinson" Subject: rkba-list: Fw: [ParanoidTimes] Spread far and wide: Call WalMart Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:51:01 -0500 The Anti-Gun people are putting pressure on Walmart to stop selling guns = and ammunition. So Walmart is making a tally of all who call in to their Customer Service Relation Department at 1-800-925-6278 who are opposed = to the Anti-Gun pressure on Walmart, Call the above number and go to a selection to hear their position on the sale of firearms and ammunition. Contact Wal-Mart on their Web Site and send them an e-mail at http://www.walmart.com/ Tell them your support for their position to continue to sell firearms and ammunition. Then pass this information on to all those you know to be Pro-Gun people and hunters. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 8 Jul 2001 18:07:43 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY (fwd) From: Archibald Bard Subject: {SD-2} FW: GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 08:10:11 -0700 "I have described [the BATF] properly as JACKBOOTED AMERICAN FASCISTS. They have shown no concern over the rights of ordinary citizens or their property. They intrude without the slightest regard or concern." - --Rep. John Dingell (D-16th/MI), Congressional Record, 02/08/1995 AB - -----Original Message----- From: Chris Page [mailto:christi1225@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:42 PM To: PlantLady@sulphurcanyon.com Subject: GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Pass this around, Please!!! PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE ITEMS MADE IN CHINA! BEWARE OF THE FEDERAL CONSUMPTION TAX TRAP! _____________________________________________________________ - ----- Original Message ----- From: JACK MCLAMB Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 00:01 To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@terry3.cybrquest.com Subject: Re: Government criminal activity can be stopped if Lawmen and soldiers will say NO! IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU! The following report is outrageous but is 100 % correct. Many of our peers in uniform are following orders and therefore committing crimes in a belief that good will come from their acts. They have been conditioned to believe that - The end justifies the means! Much more criminal activity of our fellow government agencies and agents are committed than that particular area exposed here - i.e. "dealing with unlawful government seizures". The public is just not allowed to hear about these other activities by their government "leaders" and the controlled media. I hear from fellow lawmen every few weeks about the crimes and immoral acts that they are ordered to participate in that cause them to lose sleep at nights and faith in their own government. These very distraught, honorable sworn peace officers (men and women) are in a tough position...If they say anything or complain about participating in these immoral or unlawful acts they are listed as untrustworthy and are considered "not a team player" and their career potential ends. (This old retired cop knows about this personally - having been fired twice for speaking out and writing to my fellow colleagues about some of these criminal activities.) Some very brave souls call our police and military association (for any help, moral support, and hoping to talk to another peer that will understand) after they have said NO to these orders and been fired or placed on administrative leave pending "internal" investigations into their lives and career. Our volunteer association do what we can for our very honorable colleagues throughout this life altering crisis in their lives. When a fellow officer needs financial support or an attorney, etc. many times what we, their peers, can do for them is not enough. I say the above, to make the reader aware of the following criminal activity committed by our peers in law enforcement; so that the reader will understand that not all of our fellow lawmen and women are willing participants in these immoral and unlawful activities. Please remember that as you read the very important report below. If, after reading the report below, you wish to help us educate and advise, and motivate our peers on the front lines to take a stand for righteousness and honor, please contact us at Aid & Abet Police and Military News or Police Against the New World Order, at HC-11, Box 357 Magnum, Kamiah, Idaho, 83636 - Officer Jack McLamb, (Ret) - --------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Government Property Seizures out of Control http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/27/191414.shtml Government Property Seizures out of Control Jarret Wollstein Saturday, June 30, 2001 Across America, the Drug Enforcement Administration is seizing the luggage, cash and cars of hapless travelers. Mere possession of a large amount of cash or a drug dog barking at your luggage is sufficient probable cause for police to legally seize everything you are carrying under America's new civil forfeiture laws. In Albuquerque, N.M., in February 2000, DEA agents detained Sam Thach, who was traveling on Amtrak from Fullerton, Calif., to Boston, and seized $147,000 in cash he was carrying. Thach had no drugs. His crime? He had bought a one-way ticket for cash and didn't give Amtrak his phone number. (1) The DEA seized $640,000 from Jennifer Leigh Ames while she was traveling on Amtrak on April 5, 2001. Agents say she looked nervous and had refused permission to search her luggage. (1) Former Newark, N.J., policeman Carlos Hernandez discovered police searching his Amtrak sleeper cabin and demanding to search his luggage on July 22, 1999. Hernandez's crime? He's Hispanic and paid for his $694 ticket in cash. (2) At Houston's Hobby Airport, police stopped 49-year-old Ethel Hylton and seized her luggage because a drug dog had scratched it. Agents searched her bags and strip-searched her but found no drugs. They did find $39,110 in cash from an insurance settlement and her life savings, accumulated through over 20 years of work as a hotel housekeeper and hospital janitor. Ms. Hylton completely documented where she had gotten the money and was never charged with a crime. But the police kept her money anyway. Destitute, she had no way to fight them. These outrageous seizures are completely legal and have been upheld by the highest courts in the land, including the U.S. Supreme Court. The DEA's Web site claims, "Property is seized by the DEA only when it is determined to be a tool for, or the proceeds of, illegal activities such as drug trafficking, organized crime, or money laundering." But the above examples show the reality. Under civil asset forfeiture, your property - not you - is charged with a crime. Hence the bizarre title of civil forfeiture cases: "United States vs. one 1998 Mercedes Benz," "California vs. 1711 Main Street," and so forth. Once your property is charged with a crime, it can be seized and kept by police, even if you are never convicted of anything. An appeals court in Florida even ruled that police can personally receive bounties of 25 percent of the value of anything they seize from you, such as your car, bank accounts or home. There are now more than 400 federal offenses and thousands of state and local offenses for which your cash, car, bank accounts and home can be seized - including shoplifting, hiring an illegal alien such as a maid (California), playing a car stereo too loud (New York), transporting illegal fireworks, gambling, having illegal drugs on your property, and merely discussing violating any law ("conspiracy"), such as underpaying your taxes. More than $1 billion in property is now seized without trial each year from innocent Americans, according to the national forfeiture defense organization FEAR (Forfeiture Endangers American Rights) (3). Seizures range from the pocket cash of poor street people ... to the cars of men accused of soliciting prostitutes ... to multimillion-dollar apartment buildings. Once police seize your property, the burden of proof is on you to prove your property's innocence. Any suspected illegal actions of your relatives, guests, friends and employees on or even near your property are sufficient grounds to seize it. In Montgomery, Ala., police seized the home of 69-year-old Gussie Mae Gantt after videotaping police informants buying drugs in her yard. Ms. Gantt had previously called the police, complaining about drug-dealing in her neighborhood, and had posted no-trespassing signs. The drug dealers wouldn't stop - so police set up a drug deal and confiscated her home. Easy Money for the Government Once your home, car, and bank accounts are seized under civil asset forfeiture laws, you can pretty much forget about ever getting them back. It's you versus the police and courts, who divide up the proceeds from your property according to formulas such as "80 percent for police, 20 percent for the court." If you want to fight seizure of your property, expect to spend at least $15,000 just to hire a competent asset defense attorney. Also expect the police to introduce hearsay evidence and to go through trial after trial, because the normal constitutional protections afforded criminal suspects don't apply to civil forfeiture of your property. (4) With all of this easy confiscated money, asset confiscation is now big business across America. In Volusia County, Fla., police seized more than $8 million worth of cars from motorists stopped for minor traffic violations along Interstate 95. (5) In Alameda County, Calif., police auction off hundreds of seized cars and boats every month. The latest wrinkle in civil asset forfeiture is police working with Amtrak, Greyhound, airlines and hotels to seize cash from travelers. The Albuquerque Journal reports that Amtrak gave the Drug Enforcement Administration access to its booking system in exchange for 10 percent of any monies seized by police. The DEA has similar deals with airlines at major airports and many hotel and motel owners in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other large cities. DEA agents are now permanently stationed at major airports and hotels. So, the next time you pay for an Amtrak ticket, airline flight or hotel room in cash, don't be surprised if you get a knock on your door from machine-gun-armed DEA agents. Sources: (1) "Railway Bandits," Reason, July 2001, p. 14. (2) "Railway Bandits," Reason, July 2001, p. 15. (3) Forfeiture Endangers American Rights, www.fear.org. (4) An analysis of U.S. asset forfeiture laws, with extensive legal citations, can be found in the book "Your House is Under Arrest," by Brenda Grantland, one of America's leading asset defense attorneys. Copies are available from ISIL, 707/726-8796, www.isil.org. Another excellent source is "Forfeiting Our Property Rights," by U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill. (5) Orlando Sentinel, Aug. 2, 1992. "We didn't love freedom enough. And even more-we had no awareness of the real situation." (Gulag Archipelago) - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:51:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Paul Watson Subject: THE FIFTH OF JULY (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:32:45 -0600 From: L. Neil Smith To: 000 L. Neil Smith Subject: THE FIFTH OF JULY 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. 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Carter" Subject: Rural Cleansing From: "quixote" Subject: Rural Cleansing=20 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:15:47 -0700 News - Sierra Times.com An Internet Publication For Real Americans Orick CA: The Rural Cleansing of America (Joining The Ranks With Klamath Falls) Donald C. Amador - Blue Ribbon Coalition 07.07.01 ORICK, CA. July 1, 2001 -- "It isn't about threatened and endangere= d species. It isn't about water for the fish. It's about control," He= len Franklin told a crowd of patriotic Americans gathered in protest of= the National Park Service during an Independence Day rally in Orick, California. "Whoever controls food production and water usage in th= is country will control the people." Franklin, founder of United Coalitions for a Constitutional Governm= ent, added, "What has happened in Orick is not an isolated event. There = is an effort to put an end to the production of all natural resources in = this country. Ranchers are losing their grazing rights. Farms are withou= t water, and timber harvest is at a minimum. Two years ago Will Steel= e, former director of the National Marine Fisheries Services said, 'We= will control who raises a garden and who raises livestock.'" Speakers ranging from book authors, local fishermen, landowners and pro-recreation activists, made their way across the stage one by on= e, decrying how NPS has treated the community of Orick and its citizen= s and how the Green agenda is destroying this country from within. Judy Schmidt, the president of the Orick School Board, cited variou= s studies including a recent 1999 Humboldt State University report th= at showed the population of Orick had decreased from about 1500 reside= nts before the Park was established to about 300. She also said that th= e school population had dwindled from a high of 255 students before t= he timber industry was shut-down to about 50 pupils today. Holly Swanson, noted author of "Set Up and Sold Out" and battle har= dened land-rights advocate didn't pull any punches with her articulate explanation of how our country is being taken over by radical environmentalists and the Green Party. Swanson said, "They guarantee people a job, food, shelter and healt= h care. The Green objective is to convince the American masses the only way= to achieve these goals and save the environment is to abandon capitali= sm and let the government take control of their lives." Don Amador, western representative of the Blue Ribbon Coalition and facilitator of the protest rally, added, "It bothers me greatly tha= t the Green Party appears to have placed its supporters into some very hi= gh positions in our federal land agencies and it is for that reason th= at the NPS has chosen to sign an economic death warrant for the town of Or= ick by closing down the beaches to RV camping, tourism, and surf fishermen= ." Having witnessed the devastation of Orick as a community, locally e= lected officials have joined in the fight against a heavy-handed federal government agency. "My participation at Orick has brought a benefit= to Coos County, (Oregon)," Coos County commissioner John Griffith told= the crowd. "A Bureau of Land Management proposal to request a National Park Se= rvice grant was forwarded to me for my endorsement. I strongly refused th= e request and said that if BLM goes forward with it, to expect me to = be a persistent, loud and aggressive opponent. There is absolutely no wa= y I want NPS or any potential nexus to NPS to be established anywhere I= go now that I've seen what a terrifying neighbor it is to the community of= Orick, California," Griffith said. Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA) who was unable to attend said, "I r= egret that I am unable to be there with you at your Freedom Flag Brigade,= and I commend you for coming out to this peaceful demonstration against r= adical environmentalism." "As I've said on numerous occasions, we are at war with radical environmentalists across the country who are doing everything in th= eir power to abridge our individual rights as citizens...While ours is = an uphill fight, we can never give up, because protecting the environm= ent and providing for our communities need not be mutually exclusive goals.= " Herger concluded. Local grocery store owners, commercial fishermen, wood carving busi= nesses, and war veterans joined forces with members of the Klamath Bucket B= rigade to say with a loud voice that they are not going to stand by and allow the NPS to destroy a rural comm= unity. Amador continued the program with a story about his dad serving in = General George Patton's 3rd Army in WWII. He said, "I believe that General = Patton at the end of the war correctly identified socialism and communism = as the new enemies of the United States of America. " Swanson offered a quote from her book, "If we are too afraid to dis= cuss the 'C' word, the Communists have successfully made it politically = correct to submit to their program. This is not about environmental protect= ion. We all support that. This is about making distinctions and choosing ou= r future." A local commercial fisherman who will not be able to pass on his fi= shing permit to his sons said the NPS will not honor a transfer that woul= d allow his family members to access the beach wave-slope. Norm Carr, the president of the California Beach Fisherman's Associ= ation, told the assembly that the NPS has continually lied and tried to de= ceive him through the public process associated with the new closure-orie= nted General Plan. During the comment period, Carr had obtained an "inte= rnal memo" that basically said it was the Park's intention all along to = close the beach and put the local commercial wood gatherers and fishermen= out of business. When Carr confronted the Park Superintendent with this memo, he was= told "not to worry about any closures" and that the memo was not meant t= o be seen by the public. As Carr continued to talk, he said the he had been very discouraged= but that the crowd today who gathered to rally for support and to ask President Bush to reopen the beach was a real boost for his spirits= . He said he appreciated the folks who had traveled down from Oregon and= over from the Sierra to attend the event. Barry Clausen, author of "Burning Rage," climbed up on the stage an= d offered up a joke or two before settling into the very serious subj= ect of eco-terrorism in this country. Clausen, a Vietnam veteran, spoke ab= out how members of Earth First! and the Animal Liberation Front have declar= ed war on corporate America. Clausen then told about how media giant, Ted Turner, has given mill= ions of dollars to radical environmental groups and how Turner's Foundation= with an endowment of nearly $500 million is the largest eco-charity in t= he country. In fact, journalist and Earth First! sympathizer Dan Oko r= eferred to Turner as "Daddy Greenbucks." The presentation was closed with a description about Habitat Conser= vation Plans and how they do not protect the property owner from excessive government oversight and regulation. In fact, HCPs invite environme= ntal groups and all other members of the public to play a major role in = how you manage your own lands. Griffith also said, "Citizens have a moral, constitutional, and hum= an right to hold elected officials accountable. They have the same rig= hts to hold bureaucrats accountable as well. The citizens of Orick have be= en visited with every insult, assault and lie a federal government cou= ld create, a government that has shown it has no respect for them and wants to see their town gone." "State, federal and county governments make private property develo= pers live up to often expensive and exhaustive requirements before grant= ing land use permits. The citizens of Orick should be afforded that sam= e thoroughness of expectation, review and detail when the 'developmen= t' is introduced by the federal government. If a private developer does n= ot fulfill the requirements placed on his permit, it is revoked. The s= ame standard should apply to the federal government," Griffith continued. "The National Parks Service so far has failed on all its promises t= o the people of Orick. It must explain why. I have not made my three visi= ts to Orick to create trouble for the Humboldt County Board of Supervisor= s. But I say that the residents of Orick are entitled to answers from thei= r elected officials, just as the citizens of my county are entitled t= o the same from me," Griffith stated. During the program, Amador held up a T-shirt that a number of women= were wearing. The shirt had a multiple-choice questionnaire imprinted on= the front. It said, "Who lives in Orick according to the NPS? -- 1. A crack-whore, 2. A low-life scum, 3. none of the above, 4. all of th= e above. " This shirt was made in response to a recent incident where a local = female hiker was on a NPS trail when she encountered a park ranger and ask= ed the agency representative why there were so few tourists in the area. I= n response to her question, the ranger said, "The reason why there ar= e so few visitors is because they have heard that anyone who lives in Or= ick is either a crack-whore or a red-neck." The young lady who told Amador= her story said that even her 85 year-old grandmother is wearing one of = those T-shirts as a sign of protest. Amador said, "No wonder the town of Orick feels betrayed by this government agency." Larry Toelle, a field director for the People for the USA, was the = last speaker and he explained about how rural communities have been conf= ronted with an agonizing barrage of county, state, and federal regulations= the are quite literally strangling the life out of ranchers, farmers, a= nd other multiple-use interests. Toelle urged everyone to become S.O.B.s. After telling folks that m= ost people thought he was one, he said that those of us fighting back a= gainst the socialization of our natural resources by the radical environme= ntal movement have to become tough and take on the persona of a S.O.B. Toelle said, "Our enemies in the Green Party who are seeking to des= troy this country are tough customers and we have to become even tougher...become one mean and tough S.O.B." The great French philosopher, Alexis De Tocqueville, once said, "De= mocracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But no= tice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialis= m seeks equality in restraint and servitude." The town of Orick has asked President Bush to help them reopen the = beaches and to save their community in a letter sent to him several months = ago. To date, the President has ignored their requests. However, the Sav= e Orick Committee and others are determined to fight the NPS's attempt to p= erform "rural cleansing" on this small coastal town where so much has been promised... and so little delivered. 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