It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
~Robert H. Jackson, former US Supreme Court Justice
He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these.
~Thomas Jefferson
Since the end of 2000, we've lost about 2.5 million manufacturing jobs.... Companies have no loyalty to the country. Their loyalty is to the bottom line. Executives are making huge profits, and companies are detaching from this nation. The American way of life doesn't matter anymore.
~Jim Schollaert, Director of Strategic Outreach for the American Manufacturing and Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC)
China has somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 front companies in the US, their sole reason for existing is to steal, exploit US technology. China has an aggressive military modernization program and we're concerned...and that's probably going to be one of the biggest challenges in the combination of the counterintelligence and technology security world in the next 5 or 10 years.
~Lisa Bronson, Pentagon Technology Security Director
Free trade is a dimbulb British idea and those who believe it should be considered enemies of the country - Torys with an allegiance to a philosophy of a foreign power. From now on, we should spell "traders" as t-r-a-i-t-o-r-s so as not to confuse anyone. Free traitors are, in the end, enemies of democracy. If they were not, they would welcome an open debate on the issues, not try to pass their legislation on a "fast track" in the darkness of secrecy.
~Jonathan Larson, writer and historian
The US has lost 3,000,000 private sector jobs in 3 years with no signs of a let up. In 2003, the payroll jobs were down to 130.3 million, the lowest in 4 years. The average hours worked was 34; the lowest number since the government started keeping track in 1964. There are over 15,000,000 unemployed. The number of under employed is also huge. Not since the depression have we lost jobs 3 years in a row. This was caused by Free Trade.
~Robert Davis, plant manager
Saturday, April 28, 2007
MUSTANG REPORT # 4
WITHOUT SMOKING GUN: The Untimely Death of LCDR William Bruce Pitzer, A Book Review
By LTC Daniel Marvin, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
Without Smoking Gun, a nonfiction work by Kent Heiner, should get your blood boiling and, unless you are a mild-mannered Mr. Milquetoast, your body functioning in whatever way you so decide to do your part in helping bring those to justice who not only inspired and developed, but perpetrated some of the most heinous political crimes of the past century including the cold-blooded murders of President John F. Kennedy, Lt. Cmdr. William Bruce Pitzer and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What would you do if you knew that our government was lying about the greatest crime of your time and a dear friend who had shown you proof of this government’s cover-up died violently and without warning? Would you tell anyone? Meet retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Dennis David who recalls the day in 1963 that U.S. Navy officer and beloved mentor Bill Pitzer showed him a film taken by a remotely controlled camera of the actual autopsy of President John F. Kennedy’s dead body and some still photographs of that same autopsy. These images, the two men agreed, made it clear that the President had been shot from the front, not the rear, despite what the American public was being told.
Meet the late Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer, who in 1966 was found shot and killed in his office at the National Naval Medical Center, where the President’s autopsy had been performed after the tragedy in Dallas.
What would you do if you realized you had almost been an unwitting pawn in the murder of an important witness? Meet the author of this review: I am retired U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin. I am a combat veteran of two wars, and I am willing to testify before Congress that I was asked to kill Lieutenant Commander Pitzer, "a man who was going to give secrets to the enemy" or so the CIA agent told me in a secret meeting under the pines in the first week of August in 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Is such a scenario possible? Yes and I am willing to testify to that fact before Congress, tell them why I am known as "Dangerous Dan" and why I feel obligated to tell the truth to this nation - to this world.
Read of retired Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel James "Bo" Gritz's having admitted his role (then a captain) as an instructor at the Special Warfare School, writing in an e-mail to Kent Heiner, "We were teaching assassination and terrorism as part of the UW [unconventional warfare] fields of Direct Action missions and GW [guerrilla warfare].
Meet other retired military and CIA officers who agree that there was indeed a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that the United States does indeed use assassination and terrorism as a tool of statecraft.
Fasten your seatbelts for a devastating journey through recent history. Read eye-witness testimony that I believe, if presented in a court of law, would prove that the President’s body was tampered with before being autopsied. Find out why there is reason to suspect that LCDR Pitzer recorded that alteration on film and was killed in order to find and destroy that evidence. Go behind closed doors to see the infighting and prejudices which plagued the Presidential Commission charged to investigate the assassination. Go back in time to 1966, when private doubts about the Commission’s findings snowballed into a public demand for answers, and the Kennedy family was preparing to turn over JFK’s autopsy photos to the National Archives. Watch the drama of Pitzer’s final days unfold as a 1963 FBI report is discovered which describes “surgery” on the President’s body prior to autopsy, sending the Establishment into panic.
The author, Kent Heiner, is the founder and president of Mem Research, a non-profit organization supporting research into state-organized crime. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in International Relations. His work can be seen at www.MemResearch.org.
Without Smoking Gun can be purchased through Trine Day Press for $14.95 including postage. Please call 1-800-556-2012 and have your credit card ready. If you want to order by check - make it payable to Trine Day and mail to P.O. Box 577, Walterville, Oregon 97489.
© 2007 Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
By LTC Daniel Marvin, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
Without Smoking Gun, a nonfiction work by Kent Heiner, should get your blood boiling and, unless you are a mild-mannered Mr. Milquetoast, your body functioning in whatever way you so decide to do your part in helping bring those to justice who not only inspired and developed, but perpetrated some of the most heinous political crimes of the past century including the cold-blooded murders of President John F. Kennedy, Lt. Cmdr. William Bruce Pitzer and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What would you do if you knew that our government was lying about the greatest crime of your time and a dear friend who had shown you proof of this government’s cover-up died violently and without warning? Would you tell anyone? Meet retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Dennis David who recalls the day in 1963 that U.S. Navy officer and beloved mentor Bill Pitzer showed him a film taken by a remotely controlled camera of the actual autopsy of President John F. Kennedy’s dead body and some still photographs of that same autopsy. These images, the two men agreed, made it clear that the President had been shot from the front, not the rear, despite what the American public was being told.
Meet the late Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer, who in 1966 was found shot and killed in his office at the National Naval Medical Center, where the President’s autopsy had been performed after the tragedy in Dallas.
What would you do if you realized you had almost been an unwitting pawn in the murder of an important witness? Meet the author of this review: I am retired U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin. I am a combat veteran of two wars, and I am willing to testify before Congress that I was asked to kill Lieutenant Commander Pitzer, "a man who was going to give secrets to the enemy" or so the CIA agent told me in a secret meeting under the pines in the first week of August in 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Is such a scenario possible? Yes and I am willing to testify to that fact before Congress, tell them why I am known as "Dangerous Dan" and why I feel obligated to tell the truth to this nation - to this world.
Read of retired Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel James "Bo" Gritz's having admitted his role (then a captain) as an instructor at the Special Warfare School, writing in an e-mail to Kent Heiner, "We were teaching assassination and terrorism as part of the UW [unconventional warfare] fields of Direct Action missions and GW [guerrilla warfare].
Meet other retired military and CIA officers who agree that there was indeed a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that the United States does indeed use assassination and terrorism as a tool of statecraft.
Fasten your seatbelts for a devastating journey through recent history. Read eye-witness testimony that I believe, if presented in a court of law, would prove that the President’s body was tampered with before being autopsied. Find out why there is reason to suspect that LCDR Pitzer recorded that alteration on film and was killed in order to find and destroy that evidence. Go behind closed doors to see the infighting and prejudices which plagued the Presidential Commission charged to investigate the assassination. Go back in time to 1966, when private doubts about the Commission’s findings snowballed into a public demand for answers, and the Kennedy family was preparing to turn over JFK’s autopsy photos to the National Archives. Watch the drama of Pitzer’s final days unfold as a 1963 FBI report is discovered which describes “surgery” on the President’s body prior to autopsy, sending the Establishment into panic.
The author, Kent Heiner, is the founder and president of Mem Research, a non-profit organization supporting research into state-organized crime. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in International Relations. His work can be seen at www.MemResearch.org.
Without Smoking Gun can be purchased through Trine Day Press for $14.95 including postage. Please call 1-800-556-2012 and have your credit card ready. If you want to order by check - make it payable to Trine Day and mail to P.O. Box 577, Walterville, Oregon 97489.
© 2007 Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
NYPDS - 4/28/07
US, EU agree to cut red tape to boost trade
Reuters
Barroso, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President George W. Bush will sign an economic integration framework agreement on Monday to re-energize the world's largest trade and investment relationship by cutting red tape and other business impediments on both sides of the Atlantic.
http://tinyurl.com/27bdya
U.S. announces capture of senior al Qaeda member
By Kristin Roberts and David Morgan
Kind of convenient, isn't it? While Congress voted this week for a timetable to pull out of Iraq, the military, and one assumes, the Bush administration pulls a rabbit out of their hats.
http://tinyurl.com/2ju8wh
US to fund 'man-made lightning' raygun tech
The Register
In a release dated yesterday, Arizona-based company Ionatron announced that it had won a contract worth $9,839,094 to develop its Laser Induced Plasma Channel™ (LIPC) technology. The funds were supplied by the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, Crane division. NSW-Crane is well-known as a supplier of gadgets and weapons to the elite, secretive Navy SEALs among others.
http://tinyurl.com/2tjdfu
Governor signs bill defying U.S. ID law
By The Associated Press
"The federal government has never been popular with Montanans. The federal Patriot Act was a common whipping boy on the campaign trail last year, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle lined up this year against the Real ID Act. Montana's lawmakers had two bills opposed to the Real ID Act to consider this session: one opposing it, another to nullify it."
Nullification....that's a nice word...now where have I heard it before?
http://tinyurl.com/25zom5
US LAW IN THE BALANCE
By Niki Raapana
NewsWithViews.com
We have a whole war named for Terrorism, and yet we have never been taught the word "terrorist" comes from the Jacobin freemasons who established the usefulness of terror tactics to achieve sweeping political goals in 1789 France. We surely have never been told the term "civil society" originated with the Jacobin's revolutionary idealists. Would it come as any surprise to hear the term "ideology" also originated in 18 th century France?
http://tinyurl.com/2a4y2p
THE PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION HOAX
By David Brownlow
NewsWithViews.com
http://tinyurl.com/yo3n5k
George and Richard
BY Charley Reese
President Bush will accomplish the same thing Richard Nixon accomplished. He will get more Americans killed, and eventually we will pull out of Iraq. It's not just the casualties that will drive us out; it is the enormous expense, the wear and tear on the Army, the necessary neglect of important domestic problems, and the political divisions at home, which will only grow more exacerbated.
http://tinyurl.com/ytl25z
The Cops Only Come When You're Dead
How Can Women Defend Themselves Against Stalkers?
By EVA LIDDELL
"Politics is not like the nursery," wrote Hannah Arendt. As we sit around waiting for the next shooting rampage we must admit that neither is the United States. It has always been brutal and violent. Taking away fire arms would not remove its inherent character. Outlawing language would not remove its racism or its sexism. Our attempt to be "normal" in the American environment, our political correctness, our trust that the State will save us in times of personal peril may be our greatest ill.
http://tinyurl.com/yv9pzo
Reuters
Barroso, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President George W. Bush will sign an economic integration framework agreement on Monday to re-energize the world's largest trade and investment relationship by cutting red tape and other business impediments on both sides of the Atlantic.
http://tinyurl.com/27bdya
U.S. announces capture of senior al Qaeda member
By Kristin Roberts and David Morgan
Kind of convenient, isn't it? While Congress voted this week for a timetable to pull out of Iraq, the military, and one assumes, the Bush administration pulls a rabbit out of their hats.
http://tinyurl.com/2ju8wh
US to fund 'man-made lightning' raygun tech
The Register
In a release dated yesterday, Arizona-based company Ionatron announced that it had won a contract worth $9,839,094 to develop its Laser Induced Plasma Channel™ (LIPC) technology. The funds were supplied by the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, Crane division. NSW-Crane is well-known as a supplier of gadgets and weapons to the elite, secretive Navy SEALs among others.
http://tinyurl.com/2tjdfu
Governor signs bill defying U.S. ID law
By The Associated Press
"The federal government has never been popular with Montanans. The federal Patriot Act was a common whipping boy on the campaign trail last year, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle lined up this year against the Real ID Act. Montana's lawmakers had two bills opposed to the Real ID Act to consider this session: one opposing it, another to nullify it."
Nullification....that's a nice word...now where have I heard it before?
http://tinyurl.com/25zom5
US LAW IN THE BALANCE
By Niki Raapana
NewsWithViews.com
We have a whole war named for Terrorism, and yet we have never been taught the word "terrorist" comes from the Jacobin freemasons who established the usefulness of terror tactics to achieve sweeping political goals in 1789 France. We surely have never been told the term "civil society" originated with the Jacobin's revolutionary idealists. Would it come as any surprise to hear the term "ideology" also originated in 18 th century France?
http://tinyurl.com/2a4y2p
THE PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION HOAX
By David Brownlow
NewsWithViews.com
http://tinyurl.com/yo3n5k
George and Richard
BY Charley Reese
President Bush will accomplish the same thing Richard Nixon accomplished. He will get more Americans killed, and eventually we will pull out of Iraq. It's not just the casualties that will drive us out; it is the enormous expense, the wear and tear on the Army, the necessary neglect of important domestic problems, and the political divisions at home, which will only grow more exacerbated.
http://tinyurl.com/ytl25z
The Cops Only Come When You're Dead
How Can Women Defend Themselves Against Stalkers?
By EVA LIDDELL
"Politics is not like the nursery," wrote Hannah Arendt. As we sit around waiting for the next shooting rampage we must admit that neither is the United States. It has always been brutal and violent. Taking away fire arms would not remove its inherent character. Outlawing language would not remove its racism or its sexism. Our attempt to be "normal" in the American environment, our political correctness, our trust that the State will save us in times of personal peril may be our greatest ill.
http://tinyurl.com/yv9pzo
Friday, April 27, 2007
What's all the commotion about?
ODN has received a number of hits today, and most seem to be coming from a link that was posted on a forum recently. The post seems to be a very negative review of ODN. But, that doesn't bother me, because a good many are checking out ODN! Some of those may find something that interests them, or they agree with.
If I can help someone find out about a particular topic that they are looking for, then I am happy to have helped them. If a visitor reads something that ticks them off, well, good for them! I cannot make everyone happy, and I'll never try to do something that is absolutely unattainable.
If you enjoy what you read here, a particular post, etc, let me know about it by clicking the comment link at the end of each post/article. If something angers you, we;ll, I'll be glad to read that as well.
Editor/RP
If I can help someone find out about a particular topic that they are looking for, then I am happy to have helped them. If a visitor reads something that ticks them off, well, good for them! I cannot make everyone happy, and I'll never try to do something that is absolutely unattainable.
If you enjoy what you read here, a particular post, etc, let me know about it by clicking the comment link at the end of each post/article. If something angers you, we;ll, I'll be glad to read that as well.
Editor/RP
Attention North Carolina Gun Owners!
Back-door Gun Control Imminent - Important vote set for Monday!
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, April 27, 2007
The two federal alerts you have received from GOA this week detailed the problems with Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's bill (HR 297) - in that the Attorney General could require states to hand over ALL RECORDS that might help the FBI deny gun sales even to law-abiding Americans.
Well, there are many North Carolina state representatives who are more than willing to help the feds in any way they can.
Which brings us to HB 1287 (scheduled for a vote by the full House in Raleigh this coming Monday).
At first glance, the bill might appear to some to be just another layer of bureaucracy and another government database. It is certainly that, but with very ominous implications.
You see, if HB 1287 passes, sheriffs all across the state would be required to enter a record into the new database every time they deny a pistol purchase permit. You probably know that a permit to purchase a pistol is different from a concealed carry permit. And the difference is important here, because while a concealed carry permit
is "shall-issue" in NC, sheriffs have broad discretion whether or not to issue a purchase permit. They can deny you for something as simple as having applied for more purchase permits than they decide you need, or even arbitrarily deciding that you are not of "good moral character."
Once the denial is in the database, it stays there for eight years, must be "easily accessible and available" and the denial must be included on all subsequent record checks.
But the there is NO restriction on sharing the information in the database! Do you really think that the Attorney General isn't going to decide that these records are "relevant" for FBI purposes or that North Carolina isn't going to hand them over when ordered to do so by federal law?
And remember, although the records stay in the state database for eight years, the feds will keep them forever. That could get you "flagged" on Brady checks even if you move to another state... have fun trying to buy another gun!
All because a county sheriff doesn't like you personally.
As you can see, this is a very real danger. We only have until Monday before this crucial vote, so even though it is the weekend, PLEASE take the time to contact your state representative right away.
You can identify your rep. by plugging in your zip code at: http://tinyurl.com/aklw
When you have done so, click on his or her name and contact info will be provided - usually e-mail address and phone number.
Below is a sample letter to guide you in your contacts.
------ Sample Letter -----
Dear Representative:
I strongly urge you to oppose HB 1287.
Because sheriffs have broad latitude in denying pistol purchase permits - including arbitrarily deciding applicants are not of "good moral character" -- under HB 1287, gun buyers who have committed no crime could find themselves enshrined in a State Bureau of Investigation database.
Worse, although the SBI is required to expunge permit denials after eight years, ZERO protections exist on where they may send the data. And if new legislation passes at the federal level in response to the VA Tech shootings, those records will certainly be sent to the FBI and probably other alphabet-soup agencies who have no obligation to expunge the data... ever.
I will consider any vote for HB 1287 to be an anti-gun vote. Please tell me what you intend to do. I'll be watching this bill very closely.
Sincerely,
****************************
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, April 27, 2007
The two federal alerts you have received from GOA this week detailed the problems with Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's bill (HR 297) - in that the Attorney General could require states to hand over ALL RECORDS that might help the FBI deny gun sales even to law-abiding Americans.
Well, there are many North Carolina state representatives who are more than willing to help the feds in any way they can.
Which brings us to HB 1287 (scheduled for a vote by the full House in Raleigh this coming Monday).
At first glance, the bill might appear to some to be just another layer of bureaucracy and another government database. It is certainly that, but with very ominous implications.
You see, if HB 1287 passes, sheriffs all across the state would be required to enter a record into the new database every time they deny a pistol purchase permit. You probably know that a permit to purchase a pistol is different from a concealed carry permit. And the difference is important here, because while a concealed carry permit
is "shall-issue" in NC, sheriffs have broad discretion whether or not to issue a purchase permit. They can deny you for something as simple as having applied for more purchase permits than they decide you need, or even arbitrarily deciding that you are not of "good moral character."
Once the denial is in the database, it stays there for eight years, must be "easily accessible and available" and the denial must be included on all subsequent record checks.
But the there is NO restriction on sharing the information in the database! Do you really think that the Attorney General isn't going to decide that these records are "relevant" for FBI purposes or that North Carolina isn't going to hand them over when ordered to do so by federal law?
And remember, although the records stay in the state database for eight years, the feds will keep them forever. That could get you "flagged" on Brady checks even if you move to another state... have fun trying to buy another gun!
All because a county sheriff doesn't like you personally.
As you can see, this is a very real danger. We only have until Monday before this crucial vote, so even though it is the weekend, PLEASE take the time to contact your state representative right away.
You can identify your rep. by plugging in your zip code at: http://tinyurl.com/aklw
When you have done so, click on his or her name and contact info will be provided - usually e-mail address and phone number.
Below is a sample letter to guide you in your contacts.
------ Sample Letter -----
Dear Representative:
I strongly urge you to oppose HB 1287.
Because sheriffs have broad latitude in denying pistol purchase permits - including arbitrarily deciding applicants are not of "good moral character" -- under HB 1287, gun buyers who have committed no crime could find themselves enshrined in a State Bureau of Investigation database.
Worse, although the SBI is required to expunge permit denials after eight years, ZERO protections exist on where they may send the data. And if new legislation passes at the federal level in response to the VA Tech shootings, those records will certainly be sent to the FBI and probably other alphabet-soup agencies who have no obligation to expunge the data... ever.
I will consider any vote for HB 1287 to be an anti-gun vote. Please tell me what you intend to do. I'll be watching this bill very closely.
Sincerely,
****************************
NYPDS - 4/27/07
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
The Guardian
Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become as unfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.
http://tinyurl.com/yqhznn
ON THE PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION RULING
By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
NewsWithViews.com
At the end of the day, I wonder if we are really as concerned about ending abortion on demand as we are about raising money and promoting a political agenda?
http://tinyurl.com/2vaxna
Vote for Rudy, or You’re All Going to Die
by Bill Barnwell
Giuliani’s level of fearmongering exceeded even that of the Bush administration, which is a tough feat. He finally crossed that line when he suggested that America would be more vulnerable to a terrorist attack if Democrats win in 2008 rather than the Republicans. And who out of all the many candidates will keep us safest from the terrorists? Rudy, of course.
http://tinyurl.com/345apt
TAKE ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BECOME A DEMON POSSESSED KILLER
By Greg Ciola
NewsWithViews.com
If you have some extra time on your hands, make a list of antidepressants and go to a Borders or Barnes and Nobles book store. In there you can reference all of these drugs in a pharmaceutical drug guide and see for yourself what the adverse reactions and side effects are that are associated with the use of the drug. You will be amazed to see that suicidal tendencies, anxiety, exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, hallucinations, and other mind-altering symptoms can manifest.
http://tinyurl.com/3bfyht
CRITIQUING MASS MURDER AFTER THE FACT
By Jim R. Schwiesow
NewsWithViews.com
The simple fact is that the same idiot politicians and social reformists, who decry these awful acts, have paved the way for such lunatics to populate the country. They have dismantled a system that was put into place by men far wiser than they will ever have any hope of being.
http://tinyurl.com/ysz48h
The Guardian
Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become as unfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.
http://tinyurl.com/yqhznn
ON THE PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION RULING
By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
NewsWithViews.com
At the end of the day, I wonder if we are really as concerned about ending abortion on demand as we are about raising money and promoting a political agenda?
http://tinyurl.com/2vaxna
Vote for Rudy, or You’re All Going to Die
by Bill Barnwell
Giuliani’s level of fearmongering exceeded even that of the Bush administration, which is a tough feat. He finally crossed that line when he suggested that America would be more vulnerable to a terrorist attack if Democrats win in 2008 rather than the Republicans. And who out of all the many candidates will keep us safest from the terrorists? Rudy, of course.
http://tinyurl.com/345apt
TAKE ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BECOME A DEMON POSSESSED KILLER
By Greg Ciola
NewsWithViews.com
If you have some extra time on your hands, make a list of antidepressants and go to a Borders or Barnes and Nobles book store. In there you can reference all of these drugs in a pharmaceutical drug guide and see for yourself what the adverse reactions and side effects are that are associated with the use of the drug. You will be amazed to see that suicidal tendencies, anxiety, exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, hallucinations, and other mind-altering symptoms can manifest.
http://tinyurl.com/3bfyht
CRITIQUING MASS MURDER AFTER THE FACT
By Jim R. Schwiesow
NewsWithViews.com
The simple fact is that the same idiot politicians and social reformists, who decry these awful acts, have paved the way for such lunatics to populate the country. They have dismantled a system that was put into place by men far wiser than they will ever have any hope of being.
http://tinyurl.com/ysz48h
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Call Your Congressmen to Oppose HR 1592
Action Alert
American Family Association
American Family Association
Democrats to deliver on campaign promise to homosexuals this week
H.R. 1592 dangerously lays groundwork for silencing Christian viewpoint on homosexuality
Did you know your constitutionally guaranteed “First Freedoms” to free speech and religious expression as an American are under attack as never before?
It’s true. Thanks to the new and unabashedly pro-homosexual Democrat leadership in Congress, Bible-believing Christians and Jews face an onslaught of bills that will inevitably create federally protected “class status” for homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites, “transgender” and “transsexual” persons.
Specifically, I’m talking about the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act (H.R. 1592) and the “Employment Nondiscrimination Discrimination Act” (ENDA).
Please don’t be deceived: while “hate crimes” and “nondiscrimination” laws sound noble and high-minded, they aim to normalize homosexuality and “transgenderism” in all arenas of society – and to silence and punish all opposing viewpoints. Read the excellent article by Peter Sprigg of Family Research Council, “What's Wrong with Thought Crimes ('Hate Crimes') Laws?”
Of immediate concern is H.R. 1592 – the “hate crimes” bill that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in March. This bill establishes a new federal offense for “hate crimes” and adds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes in the U.S. criminal code. These classes are based solely upon unverifiable self-identification and/or sexual behavior.
Ominously, this bill mandates a separate federal criminal prosecution for state offenses – with the possibility of life imprisonment – for crimes motivated by actual or perceived “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Significantly, H.R. 1592 doesn’t even define what the term “sexual orientation” means!
Obviously, we have many concerns with a bill like this – including the fact that it is constitutionally suspect, unfair, dangerous, indefinable, unnecessary and un-American.
And not only does H.R. 1592 violate the concept of equal protection under the law by granting more government protection to certain classes of people, it is a clear overreach of federal power – allowing the federal government to intervene in local and state affairs.
But even more chilling is the fact that H.R. 1592 paves the way to religious persecution – with “hate crimes” laws inevitably leading to “hate speech” laws targeted specifically at Christians and other faith groups who hold traditional beliefs on homosexuality.
Already this has happened in Canada, Sweden, Belgium, France, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, England, and New Zealand. Even here in the United States in Philadelphia, Christians have been arrested and jailed under a state “hate crimes” law.
Let’s face it: homosexual and transgender activists know full well that the church is one of last bastions in Western culture that has yet to cave in to the demands of a radical agenda that seeks to redefine fundamental concepts such as marriage, family and gender.
Here’s the bottom line: If this Thought Crimes law passes, your right to share politically incorrect parts of your Christian faith could, in fact, become a federal crime.
Clearly, a grave threat to our civil liberties and the liberties of our children and grandchildren is now upon us.
Take Action
Join us today in the fight to stop the Thought Crime bill known as H.R. 1592. The vote could come as early as Thursday, April 26. Take a few moments now to enter your zip code and click “GO” to call your U.S. Representative and urge him or her to against H.R. 1592 and preserve the “First Freedoms” of all Americans. A telephone number and talking points will appear when you enter your zip code and click “GO.” The main switchboard number for your House member is 202-224-3121.
Homosexual activists say they can “taste victory” now that their liberal allies in Congress control the majority. Let’s make our voices heard today. Please click on the "Tell-A-Friend" link below to forward this alert to all your friends and family.
Thank you for caring enough to get involved.
Sincerely,
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
NYPDS - 4/26/07
Security and Liberty
by Ron Paul
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.
http://tinyurl.com/2o5txg
Will Ron Paul Be the Candidate of the Christian Right?
by Laurence M. Vance
As a Christian, I admire Dr. Paul’s principled stand on many issues, but I don’t believe the leadership of the Christian Right will embrace him. I think they love centralization more than federalism. I think they love political power more than liberty. I think they love war more than peace. I think they love politicians more than principles. I think they love faith-based socialism more than the free market. And I think they love the state more than God Almighty.
http://tinyurl.com/3xaf97
U.S. government quarantines hogs fed tainted pet food
Andrew Bridges, Canadian Press
Salvaged pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was sent to hog farms in as many as six states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/2vs4gr
After a cancer diagnosis: Crucial questions to consider about chemotherapy vs. naturopathic cancer treatments
It is interesting how conventional medicine can so strongly motivate people to check out alternatives because most of the therapies in conventional medicine simply do not work. Even worse, they actually cause tremendous harm to patients even while promising to help them.
http://www.newstarget.com/021813.html
by Ron Paul
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.
http://tinyurl.com/2o5txg
Will Ron Paul Be the Candidate of the Christian Right?
by Laurence M. Vance
As a Christian, I admire Dr. Paul’s principled stand on many issues, but I don’t believe the leadership of the Christian Right will embrace him. I think they love centralization more than federalism. I think they love political power more than liberty. I think they love war more than peace. I think they love politicians more than principles. I think they love faith-based socialism more than the free market. And I think they love the state more than God Almighty.
http://tinyurl.com/3xaf97
U.S. government quarantines hogs fed tainted pet food
Andrew Bridges, Canadian Press
Salvaged pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was sent to hog farms in as many as six states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/2vs4gr
After a cancer diagnosis: Crucial questions to consider about chemotherapy vs. naturopathic cancer treatments
It is interesting how conventional medicine can so strongly motivate people to check out alternatives because most of the therapies in conventional medicine simply do not work. Even worse, they actually cause tremendous harm to patients even while promising to help them.
http://www.newstarget.com/021813.html
FDA war on health liberty
FDA WANTS TO ELIMINATE NATURAL HEALTH CARE
By Tom DeWeese
NewsWithViews.com
If the FDA adopts this proposal, all natural health care would be illegal even for medical doctors; all natural health care would be criminal in one way or another. Anyone else who advises, advocates, counsels, distributes, markets, recommends or suggests anybody use "medicine" is practicing medicine without a license. This is a felony in the USA punishable by fines and incarceration.
http://tinyurl.com/3c5j4y
US HEALTH FREEDOM ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
NewsWithViews.com
A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.
http://tinyurl.com/2nbknt
FDA's attempts to slip its CAM Guidelines under the radar fail; deadline for public comment extended to May 29
We have also been told by some health freedom activists that the CAM Guidelines can be safely ignored and pose no threat whatsoever to health freedom. Common sense, however, dictates otherwise. Any document in which the FDA openly states its intention to regulate vegetable juice as a drug is clearly and unquestionably a threat to health freedom, regardless of the noise level in the current health freedom debate.
http://www.newstarget.com/021810.html
By Tom DeWeese
NewsWithViews.com
If the FDA adopts this proposal, all natural health care would be illegal even for medical doctors; all natural health care would be criminal in one way or another. Anyone else who advises, advocates, counsels, distributes, markets, recommends or suggests anybody use "medicine" is practicing medicine without a license. This is a felony in the USA punishable by fines and incarceration.
http://tinyurl.com/3c5j4y
US HEALTH FREEDOM ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
NewsWithViews.com
A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.
http://tinyurl.com/2nbknt
FDA's attempts to slip its CAM Guidelines under the radar fail; deadline for public comment extended to May 29
We have also been told by some health freedom activists that the CAM Guidelines can be safely ignored and pose no threat whatsoever to health freedom. Common sense, however, dictates otherwise. Any document in which the FDA openly states its intention to regulate vegetable juice as a drug is clearly and unquestionably a threat to health freedom, regardless of the noise level in the current health freedom debate.
http://www.newstarget.com/021810.html
Congressional Leaders Moving To Pass Gun Control Without A Vote!
- McCarthy bill would treat gun owners even worse than terrorists
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
"Another gun rights group, the Gun Owners of America, is adamantly opposed to the [McCarthy-Dingell] legislation. It said the measure would allow the government to trample privacy rights by compiling reams of personal information and potentially bar mentally stable
people from buying guns." - Associated Press, April 24, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
This is going to be a knock-down, drag-out fight. GOA continues to stand alone in the trenches, defending the rights of gun owners around the country. It's not going to be easy.
Gun control supporters want to pass gun control within the next couple of weeks. And that's why, even if you took action earlier this week, you need to do so once again.
All the gun haters (who have been keeping silent for a while) are now coming out of the closet and into the open. Take the notoriously anti-gun senator from New York - Chuck Schumer. He has been very, very excited this week. Recent events have given him a platform, and the excuse, to push legislation that he had sponsored years ago - legislation that never got through Congress.
You see, Senator Chuck Schumer has been, in past years, the Senate sponsor of the McCarthy bill (HR 297). And the recent murders at Virginia Tech have given Senator Schumer the pretext he has been looking for. Appearing on the Bill O'Reilly show earlier this week, Schumer did his best to make a reasonable-sounding pitch for more gun control.
He told O'Reilly on Monday that while he and Rep. McCarthy had previously worked together on this legislation, he now wants Congress to take up HR 297 quickly. "The Brady Law is a reasonable limitation," Schumer said. "Some might disagree with me, but I think certain kinds of licensing and registration is a reasonable limitation. We do it for cars."
Get the picture? First, he wants the Brady Law strengthened with the McCarthy-Dingell -Schumer legislation. Then it's off to pass more gun control - treating guns like cars, where all gun owners are licensed and where bureaucrats will have a wonderful confiscation list.
In the O'Reilly interview, Schumer showed his hand when he revealed the strategy for this bill. Because it could become such a hot potato -- thanks to your efforts - Senator Schumer is pushing to get this bill passed by Unanimous Consent in the Senate, which basically means that the bill would get passed WITHOUT A VOTE.
This is a perfect way to pass gun control without anyone getting blamed... or so they think. We need to tell every Senator that if this bill passes without a vote, then we hold ALL OF THEM
responsible. (Be looking for a future GOA alert aimed at your Senators.)
On the House side, the Associated Press reported this past Monday that "House Democratic leaders are working with the National Rifle Association to bolster existing laws blocking" certain prohibited persons from buying guns. Of course, there are at least three problems with this approach:
1. It's morally and constitutionally wrong to require law-abiding citizens to first prove their innocence to the government before they can exercise their rights - whether it's Second Amendment rights, First Amendment rights, or any other right. Doing that gives bureaucrats the opportunity to abuse their power and illegitimately prevent honest gun owners from buying guns.
2. Bureaucrats have already used the Brady Law to illegitimately deny the Second Amendment rights of innocent Americans. Americans have been prevented from buying guns because of outstanding traffic tickets, because of errors, because the NICS computer system has crashed - and don't forget returning veterans because of combat-related stress. You give an anti-gun bureaucrat an inch, he'll take a mile - which we have already seen as GOA has documented
numerous instances of the abuses mentioned above.
3. Finally, all the background checks in the world will NOT stop bad guys from getting firearms. As we mentioned in the previous alert, severe restrictions in Washington, DC, England, Canada, Germany and other places have not stopped evil people from using guns to commit murder. (Correction: In our previous alert, we incorrectly identified Ireland as the location of the infamous schoolyard massacre. In fact, it took place in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996 - a country which at the time had even more stringent laws than we have here.)
McCARTHY BILL TREATING GUN OWNERS WORSE THAN TERRORISTS
HR 297 would require the states to turn over mountains of personal data (on people like you) to the FBI -- any information which according to the Attorney General, in his or her unilateral
discretion, would be useful in ascertaining who is or is not a "prohibited person."
Liberal support for this bill points out an interesting hypocrisy in their loyalties: For six years, congressional Democrats have complained about the Bush administration's efforts to obtain personal information on suspected terrorists WITHOUT A COURT ORDER.
And yet, this bill would allow the FBI to obtain massive amounts of information - information which dwarfs any records obtained fromwarrantless searches (or wiretaps) that have been conducted by the Bush Administration on known or suspected terrorists operating in the country.
In fact, HR 297 would allow the FBI to get this information on honest Americans (like you) even though the required data is much more private and personal than any information obtained thus far by the Bush administration on terrorists.
And all of these personal records would be obtained by the FBI with no warrant or judicial or Congressional oversight whatsoever!!!
Get the picture? Spying on terrorists is bad... but spying on honest gun owners is good. After all, this horrific intrusion on the private lives of all Americans is presumed to be "okay" because it's
only being used to bash guns, not to go after terrorists andcriminals who are trying to kill us.
As indicated in earlier alerts, this information could include your medical, psychological, financial, education, employment, traffic, state tax records and more. We don't even know the full extent of what could be included because HR 297 -- which can be viewed at http://thomas.loc.gov by typing in the bill number - is so open-ended. It requires states to provide the NICS system with ALL RECORDS that the Attorney General believes will help the FBI determine who is and who is not a prohibited person. Certainly, an anti-gun AG like Janet Reno would want as many types of records in the system as possible.
The provision that would probably lead to the greatest number of 'fishing expeditions' is that related to illegal aliens. Federal law prohibits illegal aliens from owning guns. The bill requires all
"relevant" data related to who is in this country illegally. But what records pertaining to illegal aliens from the states would be relevant? Perhaps a better question would be, what records are not relevant?
ACTION:
1. Please take a moment to communicate your opposition to HR 297 - even if you already sent your Representative a note earlier this week. We have provided a new letter (below) which provides updated information relating to the battle we are fighting.
House leaders are talking about bringing up this bill soon. And Sen. Schumer (in his interview with O'Reilly) even hinted at the fact that the bill could come up WITHOUT the ability to offer pro-gun amendments - such as a repeal of the DC gun ban or reciprocity for concealed carry holders - provisions that could potentially serve as killer amendments.
Also - oh yeah, this is going to upset you - Senator Schumer told O'Reilly, "I got to tell you, a lot of NRA people, they support this." Can you believe that? Senator Schumer is claiming to speak
for you! That's why it's so important that you once again tell your congressman that Schumer is wrong...that you're a supporter of gun rights who OPPOSES the anti-gun McCarthy-Dingell bill.
2. Please circulate this e-mail and forward it to as many gun owners as you can.
CONTACT INFORMATION: You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Representative the pre-written e-mail message below. And, you can call your Representative toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Representative:
As a supporter of Second Amendment rights, I do NOT support HR 297, the NICS Improvement Act. I hope that you will OPPOSE this bill and urge your party leadership to either kill it outright or to allow other pro-gun amendments to be offered (repeal of the DC gun ban, reciprocity for concealed carry holders, etc.).
In its current form, HR 297 will treat gun owners even worse than terrorists, giving the FBI a mountain of private information on law-abiding Americans like me.
How is it that, despite all the criticism over the Bush administration's attempts to obtain personal information on suspected terrorists without a court order, this bill would allow the FBI to obtain massive amounts of information on ME - information which dwarfs any warrantless searches (or wiretaps) that have been conducted by the Bush Administration on known or suspected terrorists operating in the country.
And all of this personal information would be obtained by the FBI with no warrant or judicial or Congressional oversight whatsoever!!!
How is it that spying on terrorists is bad, but spying on honest gun owners is good?
Again, I hope that you will oppose HR 297. Gun Owners of America will continue to keep me informed on the progress of this bill. Thank you.
Sincerely,
****************************
Streaming Video Update
It's an ongoing process of getting permissions, obtaining source discs, and formatting files, but we are continuing to post videos of GOA spokesmen on television as they become available. Please stop by our streaming video section at http://www.gunowners.org/svtb.htm to
see what's new this week.
****************************
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
"Another gun rights group, the Gun Owners of America, is adamantly opposed to the [McCarthy-Dingell] legislation. It said the measure would allow the government to trample privacy rights by compiling reams of personal information and potentially bar mentally stable
people from buying guns." - Associated Press, April 24, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
This is going to be a knock-down, drag-out fight. GOA continues to stand alone in the trenches, defending the rights of gun owners around the country. It's not going to be easy.
Gun control supporters want to pass gun control within the next couple of weeks. And that's why, even if you took action earlier this week, you need to do so once again.
All the gun haters (who have been keeping silent for a while) are now coming out of the closet and into the open. Take the notoriously anti-gun senator from New York - Chuck Schumer. He has been very, very excited this week. Recent events have given him a platform, and the excuse, to push legislation that he had sponsored years ago - legislation that never got through Congress.
You see, Senator Chuck Schumer has been, in past years, the Senate sponsor of the McCarthy bill (HR 297). And the recent murders at Virginia Tech have given Senator Schumer the pretext he has been looking for. Appearing on the Bill O'Reilly show earlier this week, Schumer did his best to make a reasonable-sounding pitch for more gun control.
He told O'Reilly on Monday that while he and Rep. McCarthy had previously worked together on this legislation, he now wants Congress to take up HR 297 quickly. "The Brady Law is a reasonable limitation," Schumer said. "Some might disagree with me, but I think certain kinds of licensing and registration is a reasonable limitation. We do it for cars."
Get the picture? First, he wants the Brady Law strengthened with the McCarthy-Dingell -Schumer legislation. Then it's off to pass more gun control - treating guns like cars, where all gun owners are licensed and where bureaucrats will have a wonderful confiscation list.
In the O'Reilly interview, Schumer showed his hand when he revealed the strategy for this bill. Because it could become such a hot potato -- thanks to your efforts - Senator Schumer is pushing to get this bill passed by Unanimous Consent in the Senate, which basically means that the bill would get passed WITHOUT A VOTE.
This is a perfect way to pass gun control without anyone getting blamed... or so they think. We need to tell every Senator that if this bill passes without a vote, then we hold ALL OF THEM
responsible. (Be looking for a future GOA alert aimed at your Senators.)
On the House side, the Associated Press reported this past Monday that "House Democratic leaders are working with the National Rifle Association to bolster existing laws blocking" certain prohibited persons from buying guns. Of course, there are at least three problems with this approach:
1. It's morally and constitutionally wrong to require law-abiding citizens to first prove their innocence to the government before they can exercise their rights - whether it's Second Amendment rights, First Amendment rights, or any other right. Doing that gives bureaucrats the opportunity to abuse their power and illegitimately prevent honest gun owners from buying guns.
2. Bureaucrats have already used the Brady Law to illegitimately deny the Second Amendment rights of innocent Americans. Americans have been prevented from buying guns because of outstanding traffic tickets, because of errors, because the NICS computer system has crashed - and don't forget returning veterans because of combat-related stress. You give an anti-gun bureaucrat an inch, he'll take a mile - which we have already seen as GOA has documented
numerous instances of the abuses mentioned above.
3. Finally, all the background checks in the world will NOT stop bad guys from getting firearms. As we mentioned in the previous alert, severe restrictions in Washington, DC, England, Canada, Germany and other places have not stopped evil people from using guns to commit murder. (Correction: In our previous alert, we incorrectly identified Ireland as the location of the infamous schoolyard massacre. In fact, it took place in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996 - a country which at the time had even more stringent laws than we have here.)
McCARTHY BILL TREATING GUN OWNERS WORSE THAN TERRORISTS
HR 297 would require the states to turn over mountains of personal data (on people like you) to the FBI -- any information which according to the Attorney General, in his or her unilateral
discretion, would be useful in ascertaining who is or is not a "prohibited person."
Liberal support for this bill points out an interesting hypocrisy in their loyalties: For six years, congressional Democrats have complained about the Bush administration's efforts to obtain personal information on suspected terrorists WITHOUT A COURT ORDER.
And yet, this bill would allow the FBI to obtain massive amounts of information - information which dwarfs any records obtained fromwarrantless searches (or wiretaps) that have been conducted by the Bush Administration on known or suspected terrorists operating in the country.
In fact, HR 297 would allow the FBI to get this information on honest Americans (like you) even though the required data is much more private and personal than any information obtained thus far by the Bush administration on terrorists.
And all of these personal records would be obtained by the FBI with no warrant or judicial or Congressional oversight whatsoever!!!
Get the picture? Spying on terrorists is bad... but spying on honest gun owners is good. After all, this horrific intrusion on the private lives of all Americans is presumed to be "okay" because it's
only being used to bash guns, not to go after terrorists andcriminals who are trying to kill us.
As indicated in earlier alerts, this information could include your medical, psychological, financial, education, employment, traffic, state tax records and more. We don't even know the full extent of what could be included because HR 297 -- which can be viewed at http://thomas.loc.gov by typing in the bill number - is so open-ended. It requires states to provide the NICS system with ALL RECORDS that the Attorney General believes will help the FBI determine who is and who is not a prohibited person. Certainly, an anti-gun AG like Janet Reno would want as many types of records in the system as possible.
The provision that would probably lead to the greatest number of 'fishing expeditions' is that related to illegal aliens. Federal law prohibits illegal aliens from owning guns. The bill requires all
"relevant" data related to who is in this country illegally. But what records pertaining to illegal aliens from the states would be relevant? Perhaps a better question would be, what records are not relevant?
ACTION:
1. Please take a moment to communicate your opposition to HR 297 - even if you already sent your Representative a note earlier this week. We have provided a new letter (below) which provides updated information relating to the battle we are fighting.
House leaders are talking about bringing up this bill soon. And Sen. Schumer (in his interview with O'Reilly) even hinted at the fact that the bill could come up WITHOUT the ability to offer pro-gun amendments - such as a repeal of the DC gun ban or reciprocity for concealed carry holders - provisions that could potentially serve as killer amendments.
Also - oh yeah, this is going to upset you - Senator Schumer told O'Reilly, "I got to tell you, a lot of NRA people, they support this." Can you believe that? Senator Schumer is claiming to speak
for you! That's why it's so important that you once again tell your congressman that Schumer is wrong...that you're a supporter of gun rights who OPPOSES the anti-gun McCarthy-Dingell bill.
2. Please circulate this e-mail and forward it to as many gun owners as you can.
CONTACT INFORMATION: You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Representative the pre-written e-mail message below. And, you can call your Representative toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Representative:
As a supporter of Second Amendment rights, I do NOT support HR 297, the NICS Improvement Act. I hope that you will OPPOSE this bill and urge your party leadership to either kill it outright or to allow other pro-gun amendments to be offered (repeal of the DC gun ban, reciprocity for concealed carry holders, etc.).
In its current form, HR 297 will treat gun owners even worse than terrorists, giving the FBI a mountain of private information on law-abiding Americans like me.
How is it that, despite all the criticism over the Bush administration's attempts to obtain personal information on suspected terrorists without a court order, this bill would allow the FBI to obtain massive amounts of information on ME - information which dwarfs any warrantless searches (or wiretaps) that have been conducted by the Bush Administration on known or suspected terrorists operating in the country.
And all of this personal information would be obtained by the FBI with no warrant or judicial or Congressional oversight whatsoever!!!
How is it that spying on terrorists is bad, but spying on honest gun owners is good?
Again, I hope that you will oppose HR 297. Gun Owners of America will continue to keep me informed on the progress of this bill. Thank you.
Sincerely,
****************************
Streaming Video Update
It's an ongoing process of getting permissions, obtaining source discs, and formatting files, but we are continuing to post videos of GOA spokesmen on television as they become available. Please stop by our streaming video section at http://www.gunowners.org/svtb.htm to
see what's new this week.
****************************
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Alert: New $1 Copper Liberty to be issued soon
Pre-issue announcement for all Liberty Dollar Supporters...
WOW... new... big... heavy... One Dollar Copper Liberty!
In our fight to defend your right to use gold, silver or anything of choice in commerce, we will issue a new $1 Copper Liberty within the next 100 days. Each One Dollar Copper Liberty will feature the same designs, contain one ounce of pure copper and be the same size as the $20 Silver Liberty (39 mm). For commodity money purists this is another big step. For the numismatists, this is similar to the old "Large Cent" authorized by the Mint Act of 1972 and minted from 1793 to 1857. The Large Cent contained one "cent" worth of copper. My, how times and our money has changed. This says a lot! Now we are barely able to make and distribute a dollar copper for a buck!
Our first order is for only 10,000. We are not sure if a re-order will be possible due to wild copper prices, which were almost double the current level just a few months ago. But we have the opportunity to produce this unique Copper Liberty and invite you to place your pre-orders now, please. All Liberty Associates can get the new $1 Copper Liberty for $0.90 each on a minimum of 10 Dollars. Maximum order is 100 Coppers Libs at this pre-issue discounted price.
This Special Offer is limited to one week only! Expires at midnight (PDT) Monday, April 30.
LAWSUIT UPDATE: Meanwhile, we are halfway through the 60 days the US government has to reply to our complaint. They have until May 25th to reply. Many thanks for all the donations, good wishes and prayers. Please keep all three coming as we draw near to knowing the government's reasoning behind the US Mint warning.
Please call the office 888.LIB.DOLLAR or 888.421.6181 to make a donation or to order Copper Libertys, as it is so new, it is not yet available on the Shopping Cart.
Thanks again for all your support.
Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect
LibertyDollar.org
WOW... new... big... heavy... One Dollar Copper Liberty!
In our fight to defend your right to use gold, silver or anything of choice in commerce, we will issue a new $1 Copper Liberty within the next 100 days. Each One Dollar Copper Liberty will feature the same designs, contain one ounce of pure copper and be the same size as the $20 Silver Liberty (39 mm). For commodity money purists this is another big step. For the numismatists, this is similar to the old "Large Cent" authorized by the Mint Act of 1972 and minted from 1793 to 1857. The Large Cent contained one "cent" worth of copper. My, how times and our money has changed. This says a lot! Now we are barely able to make and distribute a dollar copper for a buck!
Our first order is for only 10,000. We are not sure if a re-order will be possible due to wild copper prices, which were almost double the current level just a few months ago. But we have the opportunity to produce this unique Copper Liberty and invite you to place your pre-orders now, please. All Liberty Associates can get the new $1 Copper Liberty for $0.90 each on a minimum of 10 Dollars. Maximum order is 100 Coppers Libs at this pre-issue discounted price.
This Special Offer is limited to one week only! Expires at midnight (PDT) Monday, April 30.
LAWSUIT UPDATE: Meanwhile, we are halfway through the 60 days the US government has to reply to our complaint. They have until May 25th to reply. Many thanks for all the donations, good wishes and prayers. Please keep all three coming as we draw near to knowing the government's reasoning behind the US Mint warning.
Please call the office 888.LIB.DOLLAR or 888.421.6181 to make a donation or to order Copper Libertys, as it is so new, it is not yet available on the Shopping Cart.
Thanks again for all your support.
Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect
LibertyDollar.org
NYPDS - 4/24/07
Ranger Alleges Cover-Up in Tillman Case
By SCOTT LINDLAW and ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writers
In earlier testimony, Kevin Tillman accused the military of "intentional falsehoods" and "deliberate and careful misrepresentations" in portraying Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of friendly fire.
http://tinyurl.com/2n8fj9
McAfee: RFID chips exposing users to danger
As use expands, the technology becomes a very tempting target for hackers
Marc L. Songini
The report found that the rapid spread of RFID technology is making it very attractive to hackers, who can clone chips and steal authentication information to gain access to a users' personal information. Some researchers have warned that a virus placed on an RFID chip can infect other networked chips, and ultimately assault vulnerable databases.
http://tinyurl.com/2l48lk
23 Members of ‘Angel’ Worshipping Sect Gunned Down in Mosul
By Ray Perdue
Yazidis say the reason why they have been persecuted and discriminated over the centuries is because of religion. The Yazidi religion is built around an angel that they believe is the manifestation of God. Muslims and many Christians do not view the Yazidi object of worship as just any angel, but rather as actually being Satan.
http://tinyurl.com/2qlklz
U.S. had emergency plan for attacking Israel in 1967
By Amir Oren, Haaretz Correspondent
For some time, the United States had had an emergency plan to attack Israel, a plan updated just prior to the 1967 war, aimed at preventing Israel from expanding westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank. In May 1967, one of the U.S. commands was charged with the task of removing the plan from the safe, refreshing it and preparing for an order to go into action. This unknown aspect of the war was revealed in what was originally a top-secret study conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington.
http://tinyurl.com/ywqb6x
By SCOTT LINDLAW and ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writers
In earlier testimony, Kevin Tillman accused the military of "intentional falsehoods" and "deliberate and careful misrepresentations" in portraying Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of friendly fire.
http://tinyurl.com/2n8fj9
McAfee: RFID chips exposing users to danger
As use expands, the technology becomes a very tempting target for hackers
Marc L. Songini
The report found that the rapid spread of RFID technology is making it very attractive to hackers, who can clone chips and steal authentication information to gain access to a users' personal information. Some researchers have warned that a virus placed on an RFID chip can infect other networked chips, and ultimately assault vulnerable databases.
http://tinyurl.com/2l48lk
23 Members of ‘Angel’ Worshipping Sect Gunned Down in Mosul
By Ray Perdue
Yazidis say the reason why they have been persecuted and discriminated over the centuries is because of religion. The Yazidi religion is built around an angel that they believe is the manifestation of God. Muslims and many Christians do not view the Yazidi object of worship as just any angel, but rather as actually being Satan.
http://tinyurl.com/2qlklz
U.S. had emergency plan for attacking Israel in 1967
By Amir Oren, Haaretz Correspondent
For some time, the United States had had an emergency plan to attack Israel, a plan updated just prior to the 1967 war, aimed at preventing Israel from expanding westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank. In May 1967, one of the U.S. commands was charged with the task of removing the plan from the safe, refreshing it and preparing for an order to go into action. This unknown aspect of the war was revealed in what was originally a top-secret study conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington.
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VA Tech Shootings Spur Far-reaching Gun Control
Your Gun Rights Could Soon Hang In The Balance -- VA Tech shootings now spurring the most far-reaching gun control in a decade
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
ACTION: Now that Congress is moving to restrict YOUR rights in response to the VA Tech shootings, please make sure to take the following three actions after you read this alert:
1. Urge your Representative to OPPOSE HR 297, the Dingell-McCarthy legislation that is designed to take the Brady Law to new heights, turning it into a law on steroids which could one day keep even YOU from buying a gun. (Contact information and a draft letter to your
Representative are provided below.)
2. Gin up the e-mail alert systems in your state and forward this e-mail to as many gun owners as you can.
3. Please stand with Gun Owners of America -- at http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm -- and help us to continue this fight, as right now, we are combating this latest onslaught ALONE in our nation's capital. GOA spokesmen spent all of last week doing radio and TV debates, interviews for newswires, and opinion
editorials for newspapers. This week, we begin the battle in Congress to defeat legislation that could block millions of additional, honest gun owners from buying firearms.
Monday, April 23, 2007
The biggest gun battle of the year is about to erupt on Capitol Hill. Fueled by the recent Virginia Tech shootings, an odd coalition is forming to help expand the number of honest people who now won't be able to buy a gun.
The legislation has been introduced by none other than the Queen of Gun Control herself, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). But she has picked up a key ally, as the bill (HR 297) is being pushed by a powerful gun group in Washington, DC.
On Friday, The Washington Post reported on the strange coalition. "With the Virginia Tech shootings resurrecting calls for tighter gun controls," the Post said, "the National Rifle Association has begun negotiations with senior Democrats over legislation to bolster the
national background-check system."
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), who was once on the NRA Board of Directors but resigned when he supported and voted for the Clinton semi-auto ban in 1994, is reported to be "leading talks with the powerful gun lobby in hopes of producing a deal [soon]," Democratic aides and lawmakers told the newspaper.
Rep. McCarthy admitted to the Post that her "crusades" for more gun control have made her voice "toxic" in gun circles. "So Dingell is handling negotiations with the NRA," the newspaper reported. "Dingell is also in talks with Sens. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (Wis.), the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee."
Despite all this bad news, the Post article does go on to explain that there are some potential pitfalls.
First, you will remember that this is the bill you helped kill last year, when an avalanche of postcards was dumped on Congressional desks by thousands upon thousands of GOA activists. That's why the Post says there is one huge obstacle -- the members of Gun Owners of America.
"The NRA must balance its desire to respond to the worst mass shooting by a lone gunman in the nation's history with its competition with the more strident Gun Owners of America, which
opposes any restriction on gun purchases," the Post reported.
SO WHAT DOES HR 297 DO?
Well, the rest of this alert will answer this question. This alert is long, but it is important to read it in its entirety. We need to "arm" ourselves with the facts so that we can keep pro-gun
Congressmen from being duped into supporting a bill that, as of now, is being unanimously cosponsored by representatives sporting an "F-" rating by GOA.
HR 297 provides, in the form of grants, about $1 billion to the states to send more names to the FBI for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System [NICS]. If you are
thinking, "Oh, I've never committed a felony, so this bill won't affect me," then you had better think again. If this bill becomes law, you and your adult children will come closer to losing your gun rights than ever before.
Are you, or is anyone in your family, a veteran who has suffered from Post Traumatic Stress? If so, then you (and they) can probably kiss your gun rights goodbye. In 1999, the Department of Veterans Administration turned over 90,000 names of veterans to the FBI for inclusion into the NICS background check system. These military veterans -- who are some of the most honorable citizens in our society -- can no longer buy a gun. Why? What was their heinous "crime"?
Their "crime" was suffering from stress-related symptoms that often follow our decent men and women who have served their country overseas and fought the enemy in close combat. For all their patriotism, the Clinton administration deemed them as mentally "incompetent," sent their names for inclusion in the NICS system, and they are now prohibited from owning guns under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(4).
HR 297 would make sure that more of these names are included in the NICS system.
But, of course, Representatives Dingell and McCarthy tell us that we need HR 297 to stop future Seung-Hui Chos from getting a gun and to prevent our nation from seeing another shooting like we had on Virginia Tech. Oh really?
Then why, after passing all of their gun control, do countries like Canada and Germany still have school shootings? Even the infamous schoolyard massacre which occurred in Ireland in 1997 took place in a country that, at that time, had far more stringent gun controls than we do.
Where has gun control made people safer? Certainly not in Washington, DC, nor in Great Britain, nor in any other place that has enacted a draconian gun ban.
IMPORTANT TALKING POINTS FOR CAPITOL HILL
Regarding Cho's evil actions last Monday at Virginia Tech, your Representative needs to understand three things:
1. If a criminal is a danger to himself and society, then he should not be on the street. If he is, then there's no law (or background check for that matter) that will stop him from getting a gun and acting out the evil that is in his heart. (Remember that Washington, DC and England have not stopped bad guys from getting guns!) So why wasn't Cho in the criminal justice system? Why was he allowed to intermix with other college students? The justice system frequently passes off thugs to psychologists who then let them slip through their fingers and back into society -- where they are free to rape, rob and murder.
2. Background checks DO NOT ULTIMATELY STOP criminals and mental wackos from getting guns. This means that people who are initially denied firearms at a gun store can still buy one illegally and commit murder if they are so inclined -- such as Benjamin Smith did in 1999 (when he left the gun store where he was denied a firearm, bought guns on the street, and then committed his racist rampage less than a week later).
NOTE: In the first five years that the Brady Law was in existence, there were reportedly only three illegal gun buyers who were sent to jail. That is why in 1997, a training manual produced by Handgun Control, Inc., guided its activists in how to answer a question regarding the low number of convictions under the Brady Law. The manual basically says, when you are asked why so few people are being sent to jail under Brady, just ignore the question and go on the
attack. [See http://www.gunowners.org/fs0404.htm -- GOF's Gun Control Fact Sheet.]
3. Background checks threaten to prevent INNOCENT Americans like you from exercising your right to own a gun for self-defense. No doubt you are familiar with the countless number of times that the NICS system has erroneously blocked honest Americans from buying a gun, or
have heard about the times that the NICS computer system has crashed for days at a time, thus preventing all sales nationwide -- and effectively shutting down every weekend gun show.
Perhaps the most pernicious way of denying the rights of law-abiding gun owners is to continuously add more and more gun owners' names onto the roles of prohibited persons. Clinton did this with many military veterans in 1999. And Congress did this in 1996, when Sen.
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) successfully pushed a gun ban for people who have committed very minor offenses that include pushing, shoving or merely yelling at a family member. Because of the Lautenberg gun ban, millions of otherwise law-abiding Americans can never again own
guns for self-defense. HR 297 will make it easier for the FBI to find out who these people are and to deny firearms to them.
GOA has documented other problems with this bill in the past. In our January alert on HR 297 we pointed out how this bill will easily lend itself to bureaucratic "fishing expeditions" into your private records, including your financial, employment, and hospital records.
HR 297 takes us the wrong direction. The anti-gun Rep. Dingell is trying to sell the bill to the gun owning public as an improvement in the Brady Law. But don't be fooled! The best improvement would be to repeal the law and end the "gun free zones" that keep everyone defenseless and disarmed -- except for the bad guys.
CONTACT INFORMATION: You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Representative the pre-written e-mail message below. And, you can call your Representative toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.
----- PRE-WRITTEN LETTER -----
Dear Representative:
I am a Second Amendment supporter who strongly opposes HR 297 -- the NICS Improvement Act of 2007 -- and I strongly agree with Gun Owners of America that this bill should be defeated.
The minor improvements this bill makes to the Brady instant check are insignificant when compared to the outrageous invasions of our privacy it would permit.
Gun Owners of America has posted an analysis of HR 297 at http://www.gunowners.org/110anatb.htm on its website, showing how the bill will target millions of law-abiding gun owners, including thousands of combat veterans who served our country bravely.
Supporters of this bill say we need it to stop future Seung-Hui Chos from getting a gun and to prevent our nation from seeing another shooting like the one at Virginia Tech. But honestly, what gun law has stopped bad guys from getting a gun? Not in Canada, where they recently had a school shooting. Certainly not in Washington, DC or in England!
I think we've got to stop treating criminals like medical patients, thus allowing them to slip through the cracks. If we are not going to incarcerate dangerous people, then all the gun laws in the world will never stop them from getting firearms.
Don't be misled into thinking that this is a bill that gun owners endorse. Most gun owners want Brady repealed, not "fixed." The law has done nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns, but it has violated the Second Amendment rights of millions of law-abiding Americans.
Sincerely,
****************************
GOA In The Media
As you know, GOA spokesmen have been all over the airwaves in recent days. We hope to have a number of television appearances posted to our streaming video section at http://www.gunowners.org/svtb.htm shortly -- most likely by Wednesday.
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
ACTION: Now that Congress is moving to restrict YOUR rights in response to the VA Tech shootings, please make sure to take the following three actions after you read this alert:
1. Urge your Representative to OPPOSE HR 297, the Dingell-McCarthy legislation that is designed to take the Brady Law to new heights, turning it into a law on steroids which could one day keep even YOU from buying a gun. (Contact information and a draft letter to your
Representative are provided below.)
2. Gin up the e-mail alert systems in your state and forward this e-mail to as many gun owners as you can.
3. Please stand with Gun Owners of America -- at http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm -- and help us to continue this fight, as right now, we are combating this latest onslaught ALONE in our nation's capital. GOA spokesmen spent all of last week doing radio and TV debates, interviews for newswires, and opinion
editorials for newspapers. This week, we begin the battle in Congress to defeat legislation that could block millions of additional, honest gun owners from buying firearms.
Monday, April 23, 2007
The biggest gun battle of the year is about to erupt on Capitol Hill. Fueled by the recent Virginia Tech shootings, an odd coalition is forming to help expand the number of honest people who now won't be able to buy a gun.
The legislation has been introduced by none other than the Queen of Gun Control herself, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). But she has picked up a key ally, as the bill (HR 297) is being pushed by a powerful gun group in Washington, DC.
On Friday, The Washington Post reported on the strange coalition. "With the Virginia Tech shootings resurrecting calls for tighter gun controls," the Post said, "the National Rifle Association has begun negotiations with senior Democrats over legislation to bolster the
national background-check system."
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), who was once on the NRA Board of Directors but resigned when he supported and voted for the Clinton semi-auto ban in 1994, is reported to be "leading talks with the powerful gun lobby in hopes of producing a deal [soon]," Democratic aides and lawmakers told the newspaper.
Rep. McCarthy admitted to the Post that her "crusades" for more gun control have made her voice "toxic" in gun circles. "So Dingell is handling negotiations with the NRA," the newspaper reported. "Dingell is also in talks with Sens. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (Wis.), the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee."
Despite all this bad news, the Post article does go on to explain that there are some potential pitfalls.
First, you will remember that this is the bill you helped kill last year, when an avalanche of postcards was dumped on Congressional desks by thousands upon thousands of GOA activists. That's why the Post says there is one huge obstacle -- the members of Gun Owners of America.
"The NRA must balance its desire to respond to the worst mass shooting by a lone gunman in the nation's history with its competition with the more strident Gun Owners of America, which
opposes any restriction on gun purchases," the Post reported.
SO WHAT DOES HR 297 DO?
Well, the rest of this alert will answer this question. This alert is long, but it is important to read it in its entirety. We need to "arm" ourselves with the facts so that we can keep pro-gun
Congressmen from being duped into supporting a bill that, as of now, is being unanimously cosponsored by representatives sporting an "F-" rating by GOA.
HR 297 provides, in the form of grants, about $1 billion to the states to send more names to the FBI for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System [NICS]. If you are
thinking, "Oh, I've never committed a felony, so this bill won't affect me," then you had better think again. If this bill becomes law, you and your adult children will come closer to losing your gun rights than ever before.
Are you, or is anyone in your family, a veteran who has suffered from Post Traumatic Stress? If so, then you (and they) can probably kiss your gun rights goodbye. In 1999, the Department of Veterans Administration turned over 90,000 names of veterans to the FBI for inclusion into the NICS background check system. These military veterans -- who are some of the most honorable citizens in our society -- can no longer buy a gun. Why? What was their heinous "crime"?
Their "crime" was suffering from stress-related symptoms that often follow our decent men and women who have served their country overseas and fought the enemy in close combat. For all their patriotism, the Clinton administration deemed them as mentally "incompetent," sent their names for inclusion in the NICS system, and they are now prohibited from owning guns under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(4).
HR 297 would make sure that more of these names are included in the NICS system.
But, of course, Representatives Dingell and McCarthy tell us that we need HR 297 to stop future Seung-Hui Chos from getting a gun and to prevent our nation from seeing another shooting like we had on Virginia Tech. Oh really?
Then why, after passing all of their gun control, do countries like Canada and Germany still have school shootings? Even the infamous schoolyard massacre which occurred in Ireland in 1997 took place in a country that, at that time, had far more stringent gun controls than we do.
Where has gun control made people safer? Certainly not in Washington, DC, nor in Great Britain, nor in any other place that has enacted a draconian gun ban.
IMPORTANT TALKING POINTS FOR CAPITOL HILL
Regarding Cho's evil actions last Monday at Virginia Tech, your Representative needs to understand three things:
1. If a criminal is a danger to himself and society, then he should not be on the street. If he is, then there's no law (or background check for that matter) that will stop him from getting a gun and acting out the evil that is in his heart. (Remember that Washington, DC and England have not stopped bad guys from getting guns!) So why wasn't Cho in the criminal justice system? Why was he allowed to intermix with other college students? The justice system frequently passes off thugs to psychologists who then let them slip through their fingers and back into society -- where they are free to rape, rob and murder.
2. Background checks DO NOT ULTIMATELY STOP criminals and mental wackos from getting guns. This means that people who are initially denied firearms at a gun store can still buy one illegally and commit murder if they are so inclined -- such as Benjamin Smith did in 1999 (when he left the gun store where he was denied a firearm, bought guns on the street, and then committed his racist rampage less than a week later).
NOTE: In the first five years that the Brady Law was in existence, there were reportedly only three illegal gun buyers who were sent to jail. That is why in 1997, a training manual produced by Handgun Control, Inc., guided its activists in how to answer a question regarding the low number of convictions under the Brady Law. The manual basically says, when you are asked why so few people are being sent to jail under Brady, just ignore the question and go on the
attack. [See http://www.gunowners.org/fs0404.htm -- GOF's Gun Control Fact Sheet.]
3. Background checks threaten to prevent INNOCENT Americans like you from exercising your right to own a gun for self-defense. No doubt you are familiar with the countless number of times that the NICS system has erroneously blocked honest Americans from buying a gun, or
have heard about the times that the NICS computer system has crashed for days at a time, thus preventing all sales nationwide -- and effectively shutting down every weekend gun show.
Perhaps the most pernicious way of denying the rights of law-abiding gun owners is to continuously add more and more gun owners' names onto the roles of prohibited persons. Clinton did this with many military veterans in 1999. And Congress did this in 1996, when Sen.
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) successfully pushed a gun ban for people who have committed very minor offenses that include pushing, shoving or merely yelling at a family member. Because of the Lautenberg gun ban, millions of otherwise law-abiding Americans can never again own
guns for self-defense. HR 297 will make it easier for the FBI to find out who these people are and to deny firearms to them.
GOA has documented other problems with this bill in the past. In our January alert on HR 297 we pointed out how this bill will easily lend itself to bureaucratic "fishing expeditions" into your private records, including your financial, employment, and hospital records.
HR 297 takes us the wrong direction. The anti-gun Rep. Dingell is trying to sell the bill to the gun owning public as an improvement in the Brady Law. But don't be fooled! The best improvement would be to repeal the law and end the "gun free zones" that keep everyone defenseless and disarmed -- except for the bad guys.
CONTACT INFORMATION: You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Representative the pre-written e-mail message below. And, you can call your Representative toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.
----- PRE-WRITTEN LETTER -----
Dear Representative:
I am a Second Amendment supporter who strongly opposes HR 297 -- the NICS Improvement Act of 2007 -- and I strongly agree with Gun Owners of America that this bill should be defeated.
The minor improvements this bill makes to the Brady instant check are insignificant when compared to the outrageous invasions of our privacy it would permit.
Gun Owners of America has posted an analysis of HR 297 at http://www.gunowners.org/110anatb.htm on its website, showing how the bill will target millions of law-abiding gun owners, including thousands of combat veterans who served our country bravely.
Supporters of this bill say we need it to stop future Seung-Hui Chos from getting a gun and to prevent our nation from seeing another shooting like the one at Virginia Tech. But honestly, what gun law has stopped bad guys from getting a gun? Not in Canada, where they recently had a school shooting. Certainly not in Washington, DC or in England!
I think we've got to stop treating criminals like medical patients, thus allowing them to slip through the cracks. If we are not going to incarcerate dangerous people, then all the gun laws in the world will never stop them from getting firearms.
Don't be misled into thinking that this is a bill that gun owners endorse. Most gun owners want Brady repealed, not "fixed." The law has done nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns, but it has violated the Second Amendment rights of millions of law-abiding Americans.
Sincerely,
****************************
GOA In The Media
As you know, GOA spokesmen have been all over the airwaves in recent days. We hope to have a number of television appearances posted to our streaming video section at http://www.gunowners.org/svtb.htm shortly -- most likely by Wednesday.
This is our best chance to Pardon the Agents
From Steve Elliott
President
Grassfire.org
For more than three months H.R. 563, legislation calling for the pardon of former U.S. Border Agents Jose Compean and "Nacho" Ramos has been sitting idly in various committees...
During that same time Jose Compean and "Nacho" Ramos have been sitting in isolated jail cells--hoping that the horrible injustice perpetrated against them will be righted...
These men have unjustly suffered long enough. It is time to take this bill and get it to the floor for a vote!
Introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA-52), the Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act (H.R. 563) has 95 co-sponsors, but is currently gathering dust in two different House committees, The House Judiciary, and the House Homeland Security.
I believe Ramos and Compean’s best chance for freedom is for a massive grassroots push to do two things:
rally co-sponsors for H.R. 563,
move House leadership to bring this bill to a vote.
Our Capital contact has identified a number of key House targets who are feeling intense pressure to support such a measure.
Click here to see the list of key members of the House:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
With your help, I believe we can mount a massive push to motivate these key members of the House to co-sponsor and support the bill pardoning agents Ramos and Compean.
Can I count on you to help me win freedom for these dedicated lawmen that have been betrayed by their government?
I am asking all members of our team to schedule EMERGENCY FAXES to these key members of the House who are already feeling pressure to support H.R. 563. Your help right now could be
the push needed to get them to take action!
Go here to see the list of targets, and to schedule your faxes urging members of the House to co-sponsor H.R. 563, this important bill to Pardon Agents Ramos and Compean:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
If you'd prefer not to use our Faxfire service and would rather send the faxes on your own, please feel free to use our letters. The fax list and letters can easily be downloaded simply by visiting the Faxfire page.
Just a few days ago, I received an email from Mrs. Compean who pleaded with me not to forget about her husband and "Nacho." Through this grassroots effort, I hope to flood House, and Judiciary offices with thousands of faxes from citizens like you Donnie, who like me, refuse to forget!
I believe with your help, we can rally critically needed support for H.R. 563, the Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act, and see it brought to the floor for a vote. But I need an outpouring of grassroots support.
Please schedule your faxes today by clicking here:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org Alliance
PS: After scheduling your FaxFire faxes (or sending the faxes on your own) for agents Ramos and Compean forward this message to your friends urging them to take action as well!
+ + Schedule your faxes:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
President
Grassfire.org
For more than three months H.R. 563, legislation calling for the pardon of former U.S. Border Agents Jose Compean and "Nacho" Ramos has been sitting idly in various committees...
During that same time Jose Compean and "Nacho" Ramos have been sitting in isolated jail cells--hoping that the horrible injustice perpetrated against them will be righted...
These men have unjustly suffered long enough. It is time to take this bill and get it to the floor for a vote!
Introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA-52), the Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act (H.R. 563) has 95 co-sponsors, but is currently gathering dust in two different House committees, The House Judiciary, and the House Homeland Security.
I believe Ramos and Compean’s best chance for freedom is for a massive grassroots push to do two things:
rally co-sponsors for H.R. 563,
move House leadership to bring this bill to a vote.
Our Capital contact has identified a number of key House targets who are feeling intense pressure to support such a measure.
Click here to see the list of key members of the House:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
With your help, I believe we can mount a massive push to motivate these key members of the House to co-sponsor and support the bill pardoning agents Ramos and Compean.
Can I count on you to help me win freedom for these dedicated lawmen that have been betrayed by their government?
++ Blitzing the House in support of H.R. 563
I am asking all members of our team to schedule EMERGENCY FAXES to these key members of the House who are already feeling pressure to support H.R. 563. Your help right now could be
the push needed to get them to take action!
Go here to see the list of targets, and to schedule your faxes urging members of the House to co-sponsor H.R. 563, this important bill to Pardon Agents Ramos and Compean:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
If you'd prefer not to use our Faxfire service and would rather send the faxes on your own, please feel free to use our letters. The fax list and letters can easily be downloaded simply by visiting the Faxfire page.
+ + We cannot forget!
Just a few days ago, I received an email from Mrs. Compean who pleaded with me not to forget about her husband and "Nacho." Through this grassroots effort, I hope to flood House, and Judiciary offices with thousands of faxes from citizens like you Donnie, who like me, refuse to forget!
I believe with your help, we can rally critically needed support for H.R. 563, the Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act, and see it brought to the floor for a vote. But I need an outpouring of grassroots support.
Please schedule your faxes today by clicking here:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org Alliance
PS: After scheduling your FaxFire faxes (or sending the faxes on your own) for agents Ramos and Compean forward this message to your friends urging them to take action as well!
+ + Schedule your faxes:
http://www.grassfire.org/6142/offer.asp?rid=12054821
IMMIGRATION ACTION ALERT
This is from a North Carolina Immigration Group, but all Americans can take action on this issue. -Editor/RP
Immigration Reformers and Concerned Citizens,
Our immigration events in DC are going well, BUT WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE to make it a true success. Please read.
The "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" immigration reform event in Washington[DC] to move forward with "enforcement first, then real immigration reform" is going on. We are lobbying members of Congress this week and need you to call your US Congressman or Congresswoman and our two Senators from North Carolina to tell them we want NO amnesties for illegal immigrants [any provision that would allow illegals to stay in America is an amnesty], NO more guestworker programs, fine employers who knowingly hire illegals [they can use the SAVE system to verify the status of new hires], Control our borders, and no Social Security benefits for illegal immigrants. WE WANT ENFORCEMENT MEASURES FIRST.
PLEASE CALL AND NOT EMAIL, AS EMAILS ARE SOMETIMES NOT READ.
CALL SENATOR ELIZABETH DOLE AT 202-224-6342
CALL SENATOR RICHARD BURR AT 202-224-3154
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN OR CONGRESSWOMAN. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO YOUR CONGRESSMAN IS OR THEIR CONTACT INFO, GO TO: http://www.house.gov In the top left corner of that webpage, type in your zip code and it will take you to a link for YOUR Congressman. On their website find their Wash, DC phone number and call them.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR ASSOCIATES. THANKS.
Regards,
Ron Woodard
Director
NC LISTEN
919-460-8156
www.nclisten.com
Immigration Reformers and Concerned Citizens,
Our immigration events in DC are going well, BUT WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE to make it a true success. Please read.
The "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" immigration reform event in Washington[DC] to move forward with "enforcement first, then real immigration reform" is going on. We are lobbying members of Congress this week and need you to call your US Congressman or Congresswoman and our two Senators from North Carolina to tell them we want NO amnesties for illegal immigrants [any provision that would allow illegals to stay in America is an amnesty], NO more guestworker programs, fine employers who knowingly hire illegals [they can use the SAVE system to verify the status of new hires], Control our borders, and no Social Security benefits for illegal immigrants. WE WANT ENFORCEMENT MEASURES FIRST.
PLEASE CALL AND NOT EMAIL, AS EMAILS ARE SOMETIMES NOT READ.
CALL SENATOR ELIZABETH DOLE AT 202-224-6342
CALL SENATOR RICHARD BURR AT 202-224-3154
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN OR CONGRESSWOMAN. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO YOUR CONGRESSMAN IS OR THEIR CONTACT INFO, GO TO: http://www.house.gov In the top left corner of that webpage, type in your zip code and it will take you to a link for YOUR Congressman. On their website find their Wash, DC phone number and call them.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR ASSOCIATES. THANKS.
Regards,
Ron Woodard
Director
NC LISTEN
919-460-8156
www.nclisten.com
Monday, April 23, 2007
NYPDS - 4/23/07
THE CRY TO IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY
By: Devvy
© 2007 - NewsWithViews.com
The pain America will experience in the next few years is going to be excruciating. I wish it were going to be different, but because of America's indifference and blind loyalty to the Democrat and Republican parties, forsaking truth and accountability, the situation has escalated to a dangerous level...
http://tinyurl.com/3ddjcg
DOWNPLAYING ACTIVITIES THAT DICTATE CERTAIN GEOPOLITICAL GOALS
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
NewsWithViews.com
Thus, while it is all right to look at events on the surface level, I always recommend that people not just take incidents at face value, but should also analyze them in terms of how they further the power elite's "downplayed certain geopolitical goal" of a World Socialist Government.
http://tinyurl.com/yoc83s
Bloomberg’s World
by A.D Lelong
Imagine a world where all adults are put into a giant playpen, and guarded by adolescent babysitters. Welcome to the world of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It is a world where all adults are treated like children. Where dangerous things are labeled, "keep out of reach of children." It is a world where they are not permitted to exercise responsibility. It is a world where only "experts" can be trusted.
http://tinyurl.com/ysq4hx
Former Russian president Yeltsin dies
Boris Yeltsin, who clambered on to a tank to bury the Soviet Union, then led Russia falteringly through its first years of independence, died on Monday aged 76.
http://tinyurl.com/27xbyn
Lawmakers want to close gaps in gun laws
By BEN FELLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Grappling with the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, lawmakers said Sunday they want to eliminate a gap between state and federal laws that can allow someone with a history of mental illness to buy guns.
http://tinyurl.com/244gms
By: Devvy
© 2007 - NewsWithViews.com
The pain America will experience in the next few years is going to be excruciating. I wish it were going to be different, but because of America's indifference and blind loyalty to the Democrat and Republican parties, forsaking truth and accountability, the situation has escalated to a dangerous level...
http://tinyurl.com/3ddjcg
DOWNPLAYING ACTIVITIES THAT DICTATE CERTAIN GEOPOLITICAL GOALS
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
NewsWithViews.com
Thus, while it is all right to look at events on the surface level, I always recommend that people not just take incidents at face value, but should also analyze them in terms of how they further the power elite's "downplayed certain geopolitical goal" of a World Socialist Government.
http://tinyurl.com/yoc83s
Bloomberg’s World
by A.D Lelong
Imagine a world where all adults are put into a giant playpen, and guarded by adolescent babysitters. Welcome to the world of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It is a world where all adults are treated like children. Where dangerous things are labeled, "keep out of reach of children." It is a world where they are not permitted to exercise responsibility. It is a world where only "experts" can be trusted.
http://tinyurl.com/ysq4hx
Former Russian president Yeltsin dies
Boris Yeltsin, who clambered on to a tank to bury the Soviet Union, then led Russia falteringly through its first years of independence, died on Monday aged 76.
http://tinyurl.com/27xbyn
Lawmakers want to close gaps in gun laws
By BEN FELLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Grappling with the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, lawmakers said Sunday they want to eliminate a gap between state and federal laws that can allow someone with a history of mental illness to buy guns.
http://tinyurl.com/244gms
Sunday, April 22, 2007
A former INS agent speaks out
BUSH'S ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS: A GRAND ILLUSION
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
Meanwhile, there are many criminal aliens among us, hiding in plain sight, plying their respective trades and harming our citizens and lawful immigrants. Among those fugitives may well be terrorists or those who support terrorism and have managed to embed themselves in our country because of the lack of resources and leadership from the administration to make the enforcement of the immigration laws a true priority.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cutler/michael1.htm
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
Meanwhile, there are many criminal aliens among us, hiding in plain sight, plying their respective trades and harming our citizens and lawful immigrants. Among those fugitives may well be terrorists or those who support terrorism and have managed to embed themselves in our country because of the lack of resources and leadership from the administration to make the enforcement of the immigration laws a true priority.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cutler/michael1.htm
NYPDS - 4/22/07
Archbishop of Canterbury: Conservative Christians Misread the Bible
The Archbishop of Canterbury stated that conservative Christians often misread portions of Romans chapter 1 in order to condemn the practice of homosexuality. He said that the passage is really meant to warn Christians not to have self-righteous attitudes when others fall into sin, and have very little, if anything, to do with homosexuality.
http://tinyurl.com/yv4uaw
Pulitzer Prize Photo Star Beaten Seconds Afterwards
by Hillel Fendel
The prize-winning photo shows a long line of helmet-clad, black-uniformed, club-wielding policemen facing off against a young woman protestor; she is leaning heavily upon the large thick-plastic shield held by one of the policemen, as if to try and stop the entire line of policemen from advancing.
http://tinyurl.com/ywmwc9
How Hitler cheated death in 1943 coup... thanks to the Allies
MURDO MACLEOD
DER Führer Adolf Hitler ist tot. These six words, announcing the death of the Nazi leader, should have brought the Second World War to an end in November 1943. The sentence was part of a press release drafted by disaffected German officers who hatched an audacious plot to kill Hitler and then use a secret army to seize control of key sites before suing for peace with the Allies.
http://tinyurl.com/yq24pz
FDA: Pet food tainting might be intentional
Plastics chemical can make feed appear more protein-rich
Imported ingredients used in recalled pet food may have been intentionally spiked with an industrial chemical to boost their apparent protein content, federal health officials suspect.
http://tinyurl.com/2ldzuo
TRANSFORM GUN-FREE ZONES INTO GUN-CRIME-FREE ZONES
By Dr. Patrick Jonston
NewsWithViews.com
According to the Bible, you punish crime by punishing criminals with a means sufficient to discourage the crime. If you want to stop the next shooting, don’t disarm the citizens and victims, encourage them to defend themselves and execute convicted murderers. Turn the bullet-ridden, blood-stained “gun-free zones” into “gun-crime-free zones” by letting law-abiding citizens carry concealed weapons.
http://tinyurl.com/ypmcgw
V-Tech Killings Have Scientists Looking At GM Mind Control
Strides in understanding human brain chemistry and genetics are giving scientists hope they may be able to defuse violent behavior to avoid tragedies like last week's university massacre in Virginia, neurologists say.
http://tinyurl.com/2l2oxr
Twisted Silhouette Government: Why The World Is Where It Is
By Gianni DeVincent Hayes, Ph.D
"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us are totally disarmed." -- Sara Brady, Chair, Handgun Control Wife of Jim Brady, Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan. The National Educator, Jan 1994; pg 3
http://tinyurl.com/2nzzjs
Chinese make first artificial snowfall
By Richard Spencer in Hong Kong
China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather. Officials in the meteorological bureau in Tibet said they had used "rain-seeding" techniques to trigger a snowfall over the city of Nagqu last week.
http://tinyurl.com/39cw3h
The Archbishop of Canterbury stated that conservative Christians often misread portions of Romans chapter 1 in order to condemn the practice of homosexuality. He said that the passage is really meant to warn Christians not to have self-righteous attitudes when others fall into sin, and have very little, if anything, to do with homosexuality.
http://tinyurl.com/yv4uaw
Pulitzer Prize Photo Star Beaten Seconds Afterwards
by Hillel Fendel
The prize-winning photo shows a long line of helmet-clad, black-uniformed, club-wielding policemen facing off against a young woman protestor; she is leaning heavily upon the large thick-plastic shield held by one of the policemen, as if to try and stop the entire line of policemen from advancing.
http://tinyurl.com/ywmwc9
How Hitler cheated death in 1943 coup... thanks to the Allies
MURDO MACLEOD
DER Führer Adolf Hitler ist tot. These six words, announcing the death of the Nazi leader, should have brought the Second World War to an end in November 1943. The sentence was part of a press release drafted by disaffected German officers who hatched an audacious plot to kill Hitler and then use a secret army to seize control of key sites before suing for peace with the Allies.
http://tinyurl.com/yq24pz
FDA: Pet food tainting might be intentional
Plastics chemical can make feed appear more protein-rich
Imported ingredients used in recalled pet food may have been intentionally spiked with an industrial chemical to boost their apparent protein content, federal health officials suspect.
http://tinyurl.com/2ldzuo
TRANSFORM GUN-FREE ZONES INTO GUN-CRIME-FREE ZONES
By Dr. Patrick Jonston
NewsWithViews.com
According to the Bible, you punish crime by punishing criminals with a means sufficient to discourage the crime. If you want to stop the next shooting, don’t disarm the citizens and victims, encourage them to defend themselves and execute convicted murderers. Turn the bullet-ridden, blood-stained “gun-free zones” into “gun-crime-free zones” by letting law-abiding citizens carry concealed weapons.
http://tinyurl.com/ypmcgw
V-Tech Killings Have Scientists Looking At GM Mind Control
Strides in understanding human brain chemistry and genetics are giving scientists hope they may be able to defuse violent behavior to avoid tragedies like last week's university massacre in Virginia, neurologists say.
http://tinyurl.com/2l2oxr
Twisted Silhouette Government: Why The World Is Where It Is
By Gianni DeVincent Hayes, Ph.D
"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us are totally disarmed." -- Sara Brady, Chair, Handgun Control Wife of Jim Brady, Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan. The National Educator, Jan 1994; pg 3
http://tinyurl.com/2nzzjs
Chinese make first artificial snowfall
By Richard Spencer in Hong Kong
China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather. Officials in the meteorological bureau in Tibet said they had used "rain-seeding" techniques to trigger a snowfall over the city of Nagqu last week.
http://tinyurl.com/39cw3h
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