"It would not be unreasonable, by analogy with a motor vehicle license, that a permit to reproduce should also be needed with a minimum age of, for example, twenty-five, and a proof required that the parents are of sufficient maturity and financial resource to take proper care of the child. Young, sexually active, but emotionally immature teenagers would need help."
~Sir Roy Calne, Too Many People, Calder publications and Riverrun Press, 1994, p. 113
"Consequently, any activity that is potentially harmful to others and requires certain demonstrated competence for its safe performance, is subject to regulations that is, it is theoretically desirable that we regulate it. ...In fact, I dare say that parenting is a paradigm of such activities since the potential for harm is great (both in the extent of harm any one person can suffer and in the number of people potentially harmed) and the need for competence is so evident. Consequently, there is good reason to believe that parents should be licensed."
~Hugh LaFollette, "Licensing Parents", Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter 1980
"The denial or revocation of a parenting license would be expected to be a painful experience, particularly for mothers. The overall importance of protecting innocent children from incompetent parenting justifies the inconvenience to a few parents and the inevitable imperfection of a licensing system."
~Jack C. Westman, Licensing Parents: Can We Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect?, Plenum Press, 1994, p. 243
"The government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order."
~Benito Mussolini, in a speech before the Italian Senate, June 8, 1923
Saturday, June 23, 2007
MUSTANG REPORT # 10
U.S. Army Special Forces: Psychological Operations
We were taught the fundamentals of psychological warfare operations by military instructors on Smoke Bomb Hill at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in the spring of 1964 using their own personal experience and Department of the Army Field Manual 31-21 Guerrilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations, dated 29 September 1961 as relevant references.
“Unconventional warfare,” we read in chapter 9 of FM 31-21, “involves ideological, religious, political and social factors which promote intense, emotional partisanship. Resistance organizations tend to attract personnel who accept violent change as a means of social action; they are motivated by hope for change. But, the fluid nature of resistance activity, the alternate periods of isolation and combat, the surreptitious life make resistance personnel particularly susceptible to propaganda affects.
“In peace or war special forces units, by their very presence in a particular country, have a psychological impact on select military or paramilitary elements and on informed elements of the population. The image created by special forces personnel is molded by a multitude of factors which bear heavily on the successful outcome of the operation. These factors include tangible evidence of United States interest and support of the people by the presence of special forces personnel, the results of day-to-day, face-to-face meetings and an intelligent understanding of the objectives and problems of the indigenous guerrilla force.”
Department of the Army Field Manual 31-15 Operations Against Irregular Forces dated 31 May 1961 was used to teach us that “Propaganda is planned and employed in the [counter-guerrilla warfare] campaign to achieve the following immediate goals:
1. Divide, disorganize, and induce defection of irregular force members.
2. Reduce or eliminate civilian support of guerrilla elements.
3. Dissuade civilians from participating in covert activities on the side of the irregular force.
4. Win the active support of noncommitted civilians.
5. Preserve and strengthen the support of friendly civilians.
6. Win popular approval of the local presence of friendly military forces.
7. Obtain national unity or disunity as desired.”
The results of our assimilation of the many hours of classroom instruction and the effective employment of actual psychological warfare techniques in a real situation can be readily ascertained on the ground in the operational area by the level of loyalty and active support by the local population of government forces and policies, whether those forces be irregular, paramilitary or regular forces. In An Phu District of Chau Doc Province, where I commanded an independent operation with irregular forces supported by paramilitary and regular forces in 1966, we realized the total support of the 64,000 indigenous people in our area. We did first show the local people that we were loyal to them and to their government and would put our lives on the line for them before we expected any show of support or loyalty from them.
In my book, Expendable Elite – One Soldier’s Journey into Covert Warfare, I tell in Appendix 9, Psychological Operations Report: 1-31 May 1966, the actual results of on-the-ground application of what we had learned from those experienced instructors at Fort Bragg. To be available to the public in the spring of 2003, Expendable Elite should prove to be an excellent reference for future training of those who would go into a counter-insurgency situation to organize and direct irregular forces against a strong, third power backed insurgent force. Some information to ponder:
In my May 1966 Psychological Operations Report I told of the courageous effort made by the Vietnamese Information Service (VIS) that was above and beyond the call of duty, to the extent of infiltrating enemy-held areas of our district, quietly appealing to the people to move out of danger, assisting in the evacuation of wounded civilians and helped to organize the more than 8,000 refugees fleeing south into more secure areas.
During that month of record fighting in our area more than 8,000 newspapers and 260,000 leaflets were distributed, 1250 posters were placed on bulletin boards and 125 personal messages were delivered to bereaved families by LLDB or CIDG officers. The VIS made a total of 215 loudspeaker appeals, reaching an estimated 20,200 local people. Face-to-face contacts included 141 group meeting reaching approximately 10,900 persons, 27 movies seen by 15,000 irregulars and villagers and 14 personal meetings. In addition 552 villagers were treated by our medical patrol when it was temporarily freed from war casualty duty to maintain our medical support of people in our area. Although overwhelmed by an awesome load and short of personnel, we managed to send out three CA/PO patrols to put together a timetable and requirements list for future projects, wanting to keep ahead of the curve while reassuring the people of An Phu that their security and their well being was our top priority. It was a good thing!
© Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired)
Author of Victory Edition - Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare
We were taught the fundamentals of psychological warfare operations by military instructors on Smoke Bomb Hill at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in the spring of 1964 using their own personal experience and Department of the Army Field Manual 31-21 Guerrilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations, dated 29 September 1961 as relevant references.
“Unconventional warfare,” we read in chapter 9 of FM 31-21, “involves ideological, religious, political and social factors which promote intense, emotional partisanship. Resistance organizations tend to attract personnel who accept violent change as a means of social action; they are motivated by hope for change. But, the fluid nature of resistance activity, the alternate periods of isolation and combat, the surreptitious life make resistance personnel particularly susceptible to propaganda affects.
“In peace or war special forces units, by their very presence in a particular country, have a psychological impact on select military or paramilitary elements and on informed elements of the population. The image created by special forces personnel is molded by a multitude of factors which bear heavily on the successful outcome of the operation. These factors include tangible evidence of United States interest and support of the people by the presence of special forces personnel, the results of day-to-day, face-to-face meetings and an intelligent understanding of the objectives and problems of the indigenous guerrilla force.”
Department of the Army Field Manual 31-15 Operations Against Irregular Forces dated 31 May 1961 was used to teach us that “Propaganda is planned and employed in the [counter-guerrilla warfare] campaign to achieve the following immediate goals:
1. Divide, disorganize, and induce defection of irregular force members.
2. Reduce or eliminate civilian support of guerrilla elements.
3. Dissuade civilians from participating in covert activities on the side of the irregular force.
4. Win the active support of noncommitted civilians.
5. Preserve and strengthen the support of friendly civilians.
6. Win popular approval of the local presence of friendly military forces.
7. Obtain national unity or disunity as desired.”
The results of our assimilation of the many hours of classroom instruction and the effective employment of actual psychological warfare techniques in a real situation can be readily ascertained on the ground in the operational area by the level of loyalty and active support by the local population of government forces and policies, whether those forces be irregular, paramilitary or regular forces. In An Phu District of Chau Doc Province, where I commanded an independent operation with irregular forces supported by paramilitary and regular forces in 1966, we realized the total support of the 64,000 indigenous people in our area. We did first show the local people that we were loyal to them and to their government and would put our lives on the line for them before we expected any show of support or loyalty from them.
In my book, Expendable Elite – One Soldier’s Journey into Covert Warfare, I tell in Appendix 9, Psychological Operations Report: 1-31 May 1966, the actual results of on-the-ground application of what we had learned from those experienced instructors at Fort Bragg. To be available to the public in the spring of 2003, Expendable Elite should prove to be an excellent reference for future training of those who would go into a counter-insurgency situation to organize and direct irregular forces against a strong, third power backed insurgent force. Some information to ponder:
In my May 1966 Psychological Operations Report I told of the courageous effort made by the Vietnamese Information Service (VIS) that was above and beyond the call of duty, to the extent of infiltrating enemy-held areas of our district, quietly appealing to the people to move out of danger, assisting in the evacuation of wounded civilians and helped to organize the more than 8,000 refugees fleeing south into more secure areas.
During that month of record fighting in our area more than 8,000 newspapers and 260,000 leaflets were distributed, 1250 posters were placed on bulletin boards and 125 personal messages were delivered to bereaved families by LLDB or CIDG officers. The VIS made a total of 215 loudspeaker appeals, reaching an estimated 20,200 local people. Face-to-face contacts included 141 group meeting reaching approximately 10,900 persons, 27 movies seen by 15,000 irregulars and villagers and 14 personal meetings. In addition 552 villagers were treated by our medical patrol when it was temporarily freed from war casualty duty to maintain our medical support of people in our area. Although overwhelmed by an awesome load and short of personnel, we managed to send out three CA/PO patrols to put together a timetable and requirements list for future projects, wanting to keep ahead of the curve while reassuring the people of An Phu that their security and their well being was our top priority. It was a good thing!
© Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired)
Author of Victory Edition - Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare
Invasion News 06/23/07
Momentum Building Against Senate Immigration Plan
By Nicholas JohnstonBloomberg
Momentum is building against immigration legislation among Senate Republicans, said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who is opposing his old ally, President George W. Bush, on this issue.
http://tinyurl.com/2thydc
Bush: Plan has permanent ban for illegals
Uses radio address to lobby for Senate's 'amnesty' idea
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Bush has visited Capitol Hill in his efforts to revive the plan that died in the Senate when supporters could not muster the votes to put it on a fast-track.
http://tinyurl.com/283j82
Ignacio Ramos reported in 'emaciated' condition
Congressional aide says Border Patrol agent 'languishing in solitary'
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A congressional aide who visited Ignacio Ramos in prison said the convicted Border Patrol agent appeared emaciated, losing more than 30 pounds in solitary confinement.
http://tinyurl.com/yvh9jt
Illegals Being Given Red Bull, Ephedrine
Smugglers tell them it will give them the 'stamina' for dash across brush country
By Jim Forsyth WOAI News Radio
http://tinyurl.com/2yb28z
By Nicholas JohnstonBloomberg
Momentum is building against immigration legislation among Senate Republicans, said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who is opposing his old ally, President George W. Bush, on this issue.
http://tinyurl.com/2thydc
Bush: Plan has permanent ban for illegals
Uses radio address to lobby for Senate's 'amnesty' idea
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Bush has visited Capitol Hill in his efforts to revive the plan that died in the Senate when supporters could not muster the votes to put it on a fast-track.
http://tinyurl.com/283j82
Ignacio Ramos reported in 'emaciated' condition
Congressional aide says Border Patrol agent 'languishing in solitary'
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A congressional aide who visited Ignacio Ramos in prison said the convicted Border Patrol agent appeared emaciated, losing more than 30 pounds in solitary confinement.
http://tinyurl.com/yvh9jt
Illegals Being Given Red Bull, Ephedrine
Smugglers tell them it will give them the 'stamina' for dash across brush country
By Jim Forsyth WOAI News Radio
http://tinyurl.com/2yb28z
NYPDS 06/23/07
FBI Knowingly Allowed Bin Laden To Personally Charter Flight After 9/11
Newly released documents prove agency let Osama's family go at his request without even questioning them
Steve Watson
Prison Planet
The FBI were aware that Osama Bin Laden may have chartered one of the flights that took Bin Laden family members out of the U.S. in the days after the 9/11 attacks, yet allowed the planes to depart without even questioning them, new Agency documents reveal.
http://tinyurl.com/yo3do9
China says cancels debt owed by Iraq
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday forgave Iraq's debt owed to the Chinese government and pledged to help rebuild the country's war-shattered economy.
http://tinyurl.com/2584l2
The Martyr of Mosul
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Since 2003, an immense tragedy has befallen the Iraqi Christians. In 2000 [various Christian sects] numbered 1.5 million. Today, perhaps 500,000 remain.
http://tinyurl.com/23jatb
Atlanta officials declare Constitution-free zone
'Your message is not congruent,' so leave public property or be arrested
By Jennifer Carden
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The city of Atlanta has created a Constitution-free zone on public property for this weekend's 2007 Atlanta Pride festival, according to pastors and lawyers who have been trying to secure an assurance that Christians' free-speech rights will be protected.
http://tinyurl.com/2kyoj8
Newly released documents prove agency let Osama's family go at his request without even questioning them
Steve Watson
Prison Planet
The FBI were aware that Osama Bin Laden may have chartered one of the flights that took Bin Laden family members out of the U.S. in the days after the 9/11 attacks, yet allowed the planes to depart without even questioning them, new Agency documents reveal.
http://tinyurl.com/yo3do9
China says cancels debt owed by Iraq
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday forgave Iraq's debt owed to the Chinese government and pledged to help rebuild the country's war-shattered economy.
http://tinyurl.com/2584l2
The Martyr of Mosul
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Since 2003, an immense tragedy has befallen the Iraqi Christians. In 2000 [various Christian sects] numbered 1.5 million. Today, perhaps 500,000 remain.
http://tinyurl.com/23jatb
Atlanta officials declare Constitution-free zone
'Your message is not congruent,' so leave public property or be arrested
By Jennifer Carden
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The city of Atlanta has created a Constitution-free zone on public property for this weekend's 2007 Atlanta Pride festival, according to pastors and lawyers who have been trying to secure an assurance that Christians' free-speech rights will be protected.
http://tinyurl.com/2kyoj8
Friday, June 22, 2007
Freedom Quotes Vol. XVIII
All and everybody, this is my claim, fifty feet on the gulch, cordin to Clear Creek District Law, backed up by shotgun amendments.
~Quoted in "Might Makes Rights: A Theory of the Formation and Initial Distribution of Property Rights", Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19, January 1981, p. 50, from C. Shinn Land Laws of Mining Districts, John Hopkins University Press, 1984, p. 558
"[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of only her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom."
~John Quincy Adams in a speech before the House of Representatives on July 4, 1821; quoted in The Idea of America, edited by William bonner and Pierre Lemieux, p. 237
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then."
~Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787; reproduced in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 911.
"God forbid that we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion [the War for Independence]...what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
~Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William Smith, November 13, 1787; reproduced in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 911
"If the rest of the country had adopted right-to-carry concealed handgun provisions in 1992, about 1,500 murders and 4,000 rapes would have been avoided."
~John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, University of Chicago Press, 1998, p. 159.
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
~Lysander Spooner, 19th century anarchist, The Constitution of No Authority, Boston, 1870, p. 28
"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."
~Lysander Spooner, The Constitution of No Authority
~Quoted in "Might Makes Rights: A Theory of the Formation and Initial Distribution of Property Rights", Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19, January 1981, p. 50, from C. Shinn Land Laws of Mining Districts, John Hopkins University Press, 1984, p. 558
"[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of only her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom."
~John Quincy Adams in a speech before the House of Representatives on July 4, 1821; quoted in The Idea of America, edited by William bonner and Pierre Lemieux, p. 237
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then."
~Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787; reproduced in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 911.
"God forbid that we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion [the War for Independence]...what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
~Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William Smith, November 13, 1787; reproduced in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 911
"If the rest of the country had adopted right-to-carry concealed handgun provisions in 1992, about 1,500 murders and 4,000 rapes would have been avoided."
~John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, University of Chicago Press, 1998, p. 159.
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
~Lysander Spooner, 19th century anarchist, The Constitution of No Authority, Boston, 1870, p. 28
"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."
~Lysander Spooner, The Constitution of No Authority
Invasion News Updates 06/22/07
From Americans for Legal Immigration -
VOTE PUSHED BACK
The Cloture Vote has now been pushed back to Tuesday of next week after 11:30am Eastern Time. This bodes well for our side! This means they are having trouble getting the 60 CLOTURE votes they need. Also, each day that passes, more Americans wake up and join our cause and the support levels for these Sellout Senators and the bill decrease!
RATS LEAVING THE SINKING SHIP ?
We are pleased to announce that the following Senators have announced they will now oppose this bill.
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) !!!
Breaking News! TN Senator Lamar Alexander will vote NO on Cloture on AMNESTY bill
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas
Texas! Hutchison refuses to back immigration bill!
Also make sure you call GA Senators Isackson and Chambliss to thank them for their opposition to the bill and call NH Senator John Sununu to thank him for his opposition to the bill.
KEY BILL SUPPORTERS WAVERING AND CRACKING UP.
Senators Trent Lott (R - Miss.) and Mitch McConnel (R-KY) have become the point Senators for the Republicans supporting this bill over the last week. They are feeling your heat! How about turning the heat up higher? They are starting to crack and crumble!
Senator Trent Lott is cracking UP! Feeling the heat and talking bout goats !?!?
Senator Mitch McConnell Wavering on Immigration Bill!
WHO TO HIT HARD TODAY THROUGH MONDAY ???
The following Senators are identified in National Review magazine as being key to the success of the Amnesty Supporters.
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Kit Bond (Mo.)
Gordon Smith (Ore.)
Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Norm Coleman (Min.)
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Bob Bennett (Utah)
Bunning, Jim (R-KY)
Gregg, Judd (R-NH)
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us
Oppose S. 1639!
The controversial immigration reform bill (S. 1348) has been given a new life under a new bill number - S. 1639. Click the link to write your senators.
http://tinyurl.com/3cylen
VOTE PUSHED BACK
The Cloture Vote has now been pushed back to Tuesday of next week after 11:30am Eastern Time. This bodes well for our side! This means they are having trouble getting the 60 CLOTURE votes they need. Also, each day that passes, more Americans wake up and join our cause and the support levels for these Sellout Senators and the bill decrease!
RATS LEAVING THE SINKING SHIP ?
We are pleased to announce that the following Senators have announced they will now oppose this bill.
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) !!!
Breaking News! TN Senator Lamar Alexander will vote NO on Cloture on AMNESTY bill
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas
Texas! Hutchison refuses to back immigration bill!
Also make sure you call GA Senators Isackson and Chambliss to thank them for their opposition to the bill and call NH Senator John Sununu to thank him for his opposition to the bill.
KEY BILL SUPPORTERS WAVERING AND CRACKING UP.
Senators Trent Lott (R - Miss.) and Mitch McConnel (R-KY) have become the point Senators for the Republicans supporting this bill over the last week. They are feeling your heat! How about turning the heat up higher? They are starting to crack and crumble!
Senator Trent Lott is cracking UP! Feeling the heat and talking bout goats !?!?
Senator Mitch McConnell Wavering on Immigration Bill!
WHO TO HIT HARD TODAY THROUGH MONDAY ???
The following Senators are identified in National Review magazine as being key to the success of the Amnesty Supporters.
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Kit Bond (Mo.)
Gordon Smith (Ore.)
Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Norm Coleman (Min.)
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Bob Bennett (Utah)
Bunning, Jim (R-KY)
Gregg, Judd (R-NH)
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us
Oppose S. 1639!
The controversial immigration reform bill (S. 1348) has been given a new life under a new bill number - S. 1639. Click the link to write your senators.
http://tinyurl.com/3cylen
Pro-gun Amendment To The Anti-gun Immigration Bill
Immigration Bill Update - Montana Senator offering amendment that has benefit for gun owners
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, June 22, 2007
If you've been listening to the news, you know that the immigration bill may soon be back on the U.S. Senate floor for consideration. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts has reintroduced his immigration bill (along with Senator Specter of Pennsylvania). The new bill, S.1639, contains both of the concerns that GOA alerted you to last month:
* First, section 205 of the bill could, in the hands of an anti-gun administration, PUT EVERY MAJOR GUN SHOP OUT OF BUSINESS. (Please see our alert, dated May 23, for more information on this.)
* Second, the immigration bill could deny many gun owners their right to find a job or buy a gun.
In regard to the latter concern, Montana Senator Max Baucus (D) is sponsoring an amendment that will delete all references to "driver's licenses" and "identification cards" under the REAL ID Act.
This is a good thing which will have ramifications for gun owners nationwide.
Baucus is only a D rated Senator by GOA, but he clearly has more than gun rights on his mind - he is directly representing the interests of his state.
In April, the state of Montana enacted GOA-supported legislation that ordered state agencies to REFUSE to implement the REAL ID (a.k.a., National ID) card. Currently, there are about a dozen states that have joined Montana either in blocking the implementation of this law or in sharply criticizing it. Altogether, about three dozen states have introduced legislation to deal with this act in one way or another.
Gun Owners of America has been concerned about the REAL ID law - which has yet to be implemented - because of the threat it poses to gun owners' privacy. The National ID Card is an $11 billion boondoggle enacted by Congress in 2005, ostensibly as an anti-terror measure. But, of course, there was not a single 9/11 terrorist who would have been prevented from boarding a plane because of the lack of an American driver's license - or who would be blocked from doing so today.
NATIONAL ID CARD POSES DANGERS FOR GUN OWNERS
What the National ID Card requirement will do, instead, is to give an Attorney General (such as, for instance, former Attorney General Janet Reno) the unfettered discretion to make it dramatically more difficult and time consuming to get a driver's license. This would apply equally to new applicants and to Americans who have had their drivers' licenses for fifty years.
Thus, if an anti-gun administration determined that members of the militia constituted a threat to national security - and placed them on one of its "watch lists" - many gun owners could soon lose the ability to travel, open a bank account, drive, check into a hotel, cash a check, get a job, or PURCHASE A GUN from a dealer.
Seniors who could not locate their fifty-year-old Social Security cards or birth certificates (or persons who had had those documents lost or stolen) could face the same fate.
The law would also allow the federal government to determine the information which must be digitally encoded on the license. Therefore, an anti-gun administration could theoretically require that your license contain information about your concealed carry status. This will make it, to say the least, "interesting" when you
are traveling in parts of the country which are antagonistic to gun rights.
Further, all of this personal information on you will be available nationally and internationally on a computer database LEGALLY accessible to millions of people... and illegally accessible to virtually anyone.
The good news is that a single non-compliant state - such as Montana - is probably enough to destroy the entire National ID Card system. But the immigration bill increases the consequences for a state like Montana by threatening to deny every citizen the opportunity to find a job.
IMMIGRATION BILL THREATENS JOBS AND GUNS
Here's how. S. 1639 will require all private sector employees to be screened by an "electronic employee eligibility verification system" (Section 1(a)(5)(A)). And Title III of the bill stipulates that no employer will be able to hire you unless you possess identification that amounts to a National ID card.
Get the picture? No National ID card...no job.
The fact that section 302(c)(6) asserts that the required identification is not a "national identification card" is more a testimony to the lack of honesty of the supporters than it is to the actuality of federal requirements under the 2005 REAL ID Act. (We have seen these promises before. Remember when Social Security Cards used to explicitly state the number and card were never to be used for identification purposes?)
So Congress is threatening to retaliate against Montana, Washington, New Hampshire, South Carolina or any other state which has the temerity to resist its will. That's why the Baucus amendment is so important. A vote for the Baucus amendment is a vote for privacy - especially the privacy of gun owners.
ACTION: Please use the letter below to contact your Senators. While GOA supports the Baucus amendment, we still OPPOSE the entire bill. As such, it is important to ask each Senator to vote AGAINST CLOTURE - that is, to oppose any limits on debating the bill, thus perpetuating a filibuster of S. 1639.
You can use the pre-written message below and send it as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and fax numbers are also available).
-----Pre-written letter-----
Dear Senator:
The revised immigration bill (S. 1639) currently up for consideration would:
* Bar employment by residents of any state that has had the temerity to block the REAL ID Act (including Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington or any other state that delays the implementation of this law); and
* In the hands of an anti-gun administration, allow gun shops to be classed as "criminal gangs." (See the analysis of the "criminal gang" provision at http://www.gunowners.org/a052307.htm on the website of Gun Owners of America.)
The Baucus amendment would help with the first problem, and I support it.
But the wise course is to VOTE AGAINST CLOTURE - and resist the temptation to assume that this mess will be cleaned up sometime in the legislative process. The sponsors have had ample opportunity to remove the anti-gun and anti-constitutional provisions of the bill, and have thus far refused to do so.
Again, while I support the Baucus amendment, I oppose this entire bill and encourage you to vote against cloture.
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, June 22, 2007
If you've been listening to the news, you know that the immigration bill may soon be back on the U.S. Senate floor for consideration. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts has reintroduced his immigration bill (along with Senator Specter of Pennsylvania). The new bill, S.1639, contains both of the concerns that GOA alerted you to last month:
* First, section 205 of the bill could, in the hands of an anti-gun administration, PUT EVERY MAJOR GUN SHOP OUT OF BUSINESS. (Please see our alert, dated May 23, for more information on this.)
* Second, the immigration bill could deny many gun owners their right to find a job or buy a gun.
In regard to the latter concern, Montana Senator Max Baucus (D) is sponsoring an amendment that will delete all references to "driver's licenses" and "identification cards" under the REAL ID Act.
This is a good thing which will have ramifications for gun owners nationwide.
Baucus is only a D rated Senator by GOA, but he clearly has more than gun rights on his mind - he is directly representing the interests of his state.
In April, the state of Montana enacted GOA-supported legislation that ordered state agencies to REFUSE to implement the REAL ID (a.k.a., National ID) card. Currently, there are about a dozen states that have joined Montana either in blocking the implementation of this law or in sharply criticizing it. Altogether, about three dozen states have introduced legislation to deal with this act in one way or another.
Gun Owners of America has been concerned about the REAL ID law - which has yet to be implemented - because of the threat it poses to gun owners' privacy. The National ID Card is an $11 billion boondoggle enacted by Congress in 2005, ostensibly as an anti-terror measure. But, of course, there was not a single 9/11 terrorist who would have been prevented from boarding a plane because of the lack of an American driver's license - or who would be blocked from doing so today.
NATIONAL ID CARD POSES DANGERS FOR GUN OWNERS
What the National ID Card requirement will do, instead, is to give an Attorney General (such as, for instance, former Attorney General Janet Reno) the unfettered discretion to make it dramatically more difficult and time consuming to get a driver's license. This would apply equally to new applicants and to Americans who have had their drivers' licenses for fifty years.
Thus, if an anti-gun administration determined that members of the militia constituted a threat to national security - and placed them on one of its "watch lists" - many gun owners could soon lose the ability to travel, open a bank account, drive, check into a hotel, cash a check, get a job, or PURCHASE A GUN from a dealer.
Seniors who could not locate their fifty-year-old Social Security cards or birth certificates (or persons who had had those documents lost or stolen) could face the same fate.
The law would also allow the federal government to determine the information which must be digitally encoded on the license. Therefore, an anti-gun administration could theoretically require that your license contain information about your concealed carry status. This will make it, to say the least, "interesting" when you
are traveling in parts of the country which are antagonistic to gun rights.
Further, all of this personal information on you will be available nationally and internationally on a computer database LEGALLY accessible to millions of people... and illegally accessible to virtually anyone.
The good news is that a single non-compliant state - such as Montana - is probably enough to destroy the entire National ID Card system. But the immigration bill increases the consequences for a state like Montana by threatening to deny every citizen the opportunity to find a job.
IMMIGRATION BILL THREATENS JOBS AND GUNS
Here's how. S. 1639 will require all private sector employees to be screened by an "electronic employee eligibility verification system" (Section 1(a)(5)(A)). And Title III of the bill stipulates that no employer will be able to hire you unless you possess identification that amounts to a National ID card.
Get the picture? No National ID card...no job.
The fact that section 302(c)(6) asserts that the required identification is not a "national identification card" is more a testimony to the lack of honesty of the supporters than it is to the actuality of federal requirements under the 2005 REAL ID Act. (We have seen these promises before. Remember when Social Security Cards used to explicitly state the number and card were never to be used for identification purposes?)
So Congress is threatening to retaliate against Montana, Washington, New Hampshire, South Carolina or any other state which has the temerity to resist its will. That's why the Baucus amendment is so important. A vote for the Baucus amendment is a vote for privacy - especially the privacy of gun owners.
ACTION: Please use the letter below to contact your Senators. While GOA supports the Baucus amendment, we still OPPOSE the entire bill. As such, it is important to ask each Senator to vote AGAINST CLOTURE - that is, to oppose any limits on debating the bill, thus perpetuating a filibuster of S. 1639.
You can use the pre-written message below and send it as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and fax numbers are also available).
-----Pre-written letter-----
Dear Senator:
The revised immigration bill (S. 1639) currently up for consideration would:
* Bar employment by residents of any state that has had the temerity to block the REAL ID Act (including Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington or any other state that delays the implementation of this law); and
* In the hands of an anti-gun administration, allow gun shops to be classed as "criminal gangs." (See the analysis of the "criminal gang" provision at http://www.gunowners.org/a052307.htm on the website of Gun Owners of America.)
The Baucus amendment would help with the first problem, and I support it.
But the wise course is to VOTE AGAINST CLOTURE - and resist the temptation to assume that this mess will be cleaned up sometime in the legislative process. The sponsors have had ample opportunity to remove the anti-gun and anti-constitutional provisions of the bill, and have thus far refused to do so.
Again, while I support the Baucus amendment, I oppose this entire bill and encourage you to vote against cloture.
Sincerely,
****************************
Ron Paul Updates 06/22/07
The Iowa Crime of '07 by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Thomas Woods rips apart the so-called Iowans For Tax Relief, and the misnamed Iowan Christian Alliance.
http://tinyurl.com/3czctx
Iowa Tax Group Banning GOP's Ron Paul Seeks Loopholes for Special Interests FreeMarketNews.com
GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) has been banned from a debate forum sponsored in part by Iowans for Tax Relief. But suprising facts are emerging about IFTR that call into question the substance of its mission and even its positioning as an anti-tax organization.
http://tinyurl.com/2wtcxv
Ron Paul in Kansas City
Kansas City enthusiastically welcomed Congressman Ron Paul last Friday, June 15th.
http://tinyurl.com/32srom
NYPDS 06/22/07 Part II
Your doctor could put you on no-gun list
Congress fast-tracks plan to let physicians ban weapons ownership
By Naomi Laine
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The plan allows names to be entered into the NICS system based solely on a physician's diagnosis or prescription of a medication: adults who have taken Ritalin and soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder would be classified as mentally ill and given the same opportunity to own firearms as convicted felons: None.
http://tinyurl.com/3bf9w4
Texas governor clears way for NAFTA superhighway
Vetoes legislation to delay big transportation corridor
WorldNetDaily
http://tinyurl.com/2oo8np
Cops look for bear in High Point
By Amy Dominello, Greensboro News & Record
Mr. Yogi Goes To Town - the inspiring story of one bear determined to make a difference...oh, wait, today they aren't treating the bear like a celebrity. City folks are so fickle. "He's really scared," Joyce said. "He wants to get out of the city." He ain't the only one, lady. At least the bear has the sense to get out of the city.
http://tinyurl.com/3yhcsd
Newborn left outside hospital
By Amy Dominello, Greensboro News & Record
One thing that I do not understand is why thousands of good Christian couples are dying to have a child of their own, and cannot, while there are thousands who do not want children and dump them at hospitals, garbage cans and abortion clinics. Well, at least she didn't kill the child by abortion or otherwise.
http://tinyurl.com/2neopz
Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
William M. Arkin, Washington Post
The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for "homeland defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special operations command for domestic missions. The request, reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on American soil.
http://tinyurl.com/yv8kom
Congress fast-tracks plan to let physicians ban weapons ownership
By Naomi Laine
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The plan allows names to be entered into the NICS system based solely on a physician's diagnosis or prescription of a medication: adults who have taken Ritalin and soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder would be classified as mentally ill and given the same opportunity to own firearms as convicted felons: None.
http://tinyurl.com/3bf9w4
Texas governor clears way for NAFTA superhighway
Vetoes legislation to delay big transportation corridor
WorldNetDaily
http://tinyurl.com/2oo8np
Cops look for bear in High Point
By Amy Dominello, Greensboro News & Record
Mr. Yogi Goes To Town - the inspiring story of one bear determined to make a difference...oh, wait, today they aren't treating the bear like a celebrity. City folks are so fickle. "He's really scared," Joyce said. "He wants to get out of the city." He ain't the only one, lady. At least the bear has the sense to get out of the city.
http://tinyurl.com/3yhcsd
Newborn left outside hospital
By Amy Dominello, Greensboro News & Record
One thing that I do not understand is why thousands of good Christian couples are dying to have a child of their own, and cannot, while there are thousands who do not want children and dump them at hospitals, garbage cans and abortion clinics. Well, at least she didn't kill the child by abortion or otherwise.
http://tinyurl.com/2neopz
Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
William M. Arkin, Washington Post
The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for "homeland defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special operations command for domestic missions. The request, reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on American soil.
http://tinyurl.com/yv8kom
NYPDS 06/22/07 Part I
This dangerous U-turn decision
Dr Christopher Wood
SO the UK Government has decided it is time to do a U-turn over research using human-animal embryos. If this comes into effect it will mark the beginning of a very slippery slope that will end the human race as we know it. Creating chimera human-animal organisms will mean the creation of new species of intelligent life.
http://tinyurl.com/2z9skt
Fringe Science Yields 'Gay Bombs' and Psychic Teleportation
Pentagon Spends $78 Billion a Year on Weapons and Space Research, Some of it Whacky
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES ABC News
Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.
http://tinyurl.com/2trhvw
Russian general derides, warns U.S. on missile shield
By Dmitry Solovyov, Reuters
Russia's top general on Thursday ridiculed U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Europe as unworkable and warned Washington that Moscow could react with military force if it felt threatened.
http://tinyurl.com/yvry68
CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry
Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Somehow, I doubt that the CIA will tell EVERYTHING.
http://tinyurl.com/2fv3ym
A horror movie come to life
Three Fircrest families receive death threats via cell phone. Even when the phones are off. Even when they get new phones.
SEAN ROBINSON; The News Tribune
This is rather creepy. What is creepier is the fact that a twisted computer geek/hacker could easily do this. Cell phone technology is not protected that well, and is rather easy, according to many sources, to hack into.
http://tinyurl.com/35rt46
100-foot deep Andes lake disappears
Associated Press
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why.
http://tinyurl.com/2tsr9b
Gas at $6 per gallon? Get ready.
By Jim Wooten
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Get ready for Congress to solve the energy problem just as it has previously solved the illegal immigration problem. A bill being debated in the Senate this week is described by some of its supporters as “far from perfect” but “a good start.”
A good start, yes, to higher gas and food prices, to new taxes and to forcing consumers to pay for high-cost “renewable” energy sources — solar and wind, for example — that are to energy independence what bicycle trails are to traffic-congestion relief.
http://tinyurl.com/24chzl
Dr Christopher Wood
SO the UK Government has decided it is time to do a U-turn over research using human-animal embryos. If this comes into effect it will mark the beginning of a very slippery slope that will end the human race as we know it. Creating chimera human-animal organisms will mean the creation of new species of intelligent life.
http://tinyurl.com/2z9skt
Fringe Science Yields 'Gay Bombs' and Psychic Teleportation
Pentagon Spends $78 Billion a Year on Weapons and Space Research, Some of it Whacky
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES ABC News
Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.
http://tinyurl.com/2trhvw
Russian general derides, warns U.S. on missile shield
By Dmitry Solovyov, Reuters
Russia's top general on Thursday ridiculed U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Europe as unworkable and warned Washington that Moscow could react with military force if it felt threatened.
http://tinyurl.com/yvry68
CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry
Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Somehow, I doubt that the CIA will tell EVERYTHING.
http://tinyurl.com/2fv3ym
A horror movie come to life
Three Fircrest families receive death threats via cell phone. Even when the phones are off. Even when they get new phones.
SEAN ROBINSON; The News Tribune
This is rather creepy. What is creepier is the fact that a twisted computer geek/hacker could easily do this. Cell phone technology is not protected that well, and is rather easy, according to many sources, to hack into.
http://tinyurl.com/35rt46
100-foot deep Andes lake disappears
Associated Press
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why.
http://tinyurl.com/2tsr9b
Gas at $6 per gallon? Get ready.
By Jim Wooten
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Get ready for Congress to solve the energy problem just as it has previously solved the illegal immigration problem. A bill being debated in the Senate this week is described by some of its supporters as “far from perfect” but “a good start.”
A good start, yes, to higher gas and food prices, to new taxes and to forcing consumers to pay for high-cost “renewable” energy sources — solar and wind, for example — that are to energy independence what bicycle trails are to traffic-congestion relief.
http://tinyurl.com/24chzl
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Book Review – Economic Solutions
Economic Solutions The Incredible Story of:
How You and America Are Being Bankrupted &
What You Can Do To Avoid the Wipeout
By Peter Kershaw © Copyright 1994, 1997 Peter Kershaw
Economic Solutions is a small booklet with a major message: America’s economy built totally upon paper cannot hold out forever, and if you wish to avoid being caught up in the catastrophe, then you must act now!
Let’s face it; most of us know very little about money (really, how it works, or even how the stuff we call money exists), and even less about economics. In a very readable style, Mr. Kershaw delivers a startling array of facts as to how our current unit of money came to be, and how worthless it is.
Mr. Kershaw takes to task the Federal Reserve by using the Fed’s own documents and publications to expose its fraud.
Here are some of things you will learn by reading Economic Solutions:
The Fed creates money from debt. The Fed creates money from thin air. It is mathematically impossible to pay off the national debt. The Fed is not accountable to the government or the people. What is lawful money. The swindle of the Income Tax. The modern banks’ connection to the New World Order.
And that is just a brief sampling. There is much more than space here will allow.
If you are concerned about the future of this nation, not just in an economic viewpoint, but also in any viewpoint, then I urge you to get this booklet and read it!
Economic Solutions can be purchased from Quality Press, Inc. online at http://qualitypress-products.com or by sending $8.95, check or money order only, to
Quality Press, Inc.
3964 S. Mariposa
Englewood, CO 80110
Copies can also be purchased from LibertyDollar.org.
Editor/RP
Blogs For Borders Update 061907
Low protest turnouts, a bad thing?
100% Preventable!
Do deportations keep us safe?
We investigate in this weeks Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst.
Please remember the agents! Noe Aleman, Agents Ramos & Compean, Agent Gilmer.
Read more on the 'Deportation Joke" here.
100% Preventable!
Do deportations keep us safe?
We investigate in this weeks Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst.
Please remember the agents! Noe Aleman, Agents Ramos & Compean, Agent Gilmer.
Read more on the 'Deportation Joke" here.
Invasion News Updates 06/21/07
Lawmakers Probe Prosecution of Border Agents Who Shot Mexican Drug Runner
By Liza Porteus, FOX News
Pressure is growing on Capitol Hill to investigate the prosecution of two former Border Patrol agents doing prison time for their on-duty shooting of a Mexican man who was transporting drugs into the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/237wbj
INTERNET AND TALK RADIO SAVING AMERICA
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
If you’re a burglar and someone shines a light on your activities, sure enough, you must deal with the ‘problem’ of being caught. [Trent] Lott suffers distress from being exposed by talk radio. That illuminates his problems: lack of integrity and violation of his oath of office.
http://tinyurl.com/39bu2j
ZOGBY POLL: Only 3% of Americans Approve of how Congress is handling illegal immigration. Only 9% support what Bush wants.
http://tinyurl.com/23bexc
A small town in Pennsylvania says "no more" to the illegal alien invasion.
Hazleton Rally June 3, 2007 - Mayor Barletta's speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgki0W1j_Y
By Liza Porteus, FOX News
Pressure is growing on Capitol Hill to investigate the prosecution of two former Border Patrol agents doing prison time for their on-duty shooting of a Mexican man who was transporting drugs into the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/237wbj
INTERNET AND TALK RADIO SAVING AMERICA
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
If you’re a burglar and someone shines a light on your activities, sure enough, you must deal with the ‘problem’ of being caught. [Trent] Lott suffers distress from being exposed by talk radio. That illuminates his problems: lack of integrity and violation of his oath of office.
http://tinyurl.com/39bu2j
ZOGBY POLL: Only 3% of Americans Approve of how Congress is handling illegal immigration. Only 9% support what Bush wants.
http://tinyurl.com/23bexc
A small town in Pennsylvania says "no more" to the illegal alien invasion.
Hazleton Rally June 3, 2007 - Mayor Barletta's speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgki0W1j_Y
Ron Paul Update 06/21/07
From the Ron Paul 2008 Campaign -
Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa, pt. 2
June 20, 2007
Jan Mickelson of WHO News Radio 1040 in Des Moines interviewed Ron Paul 2008 chairman Kent Snyder today about Ron Paul being excluded from the upcoming candidates forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance. Ed Failor of Iowans for Tax Relief joined the interview later to explain why his group decided to keep Ron Paul out.
"Congressman Ron Paul isn't welcome at the Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance candidates forum. Oversight? Nope. Kent Snyder from Ron Paul's campaign and Ed Failor from ITR exchange words. Lotsa them." -- Wednesday, June 20, 2007, WHO News Radio 1040
Direct Download of MP3 File (interview starts at 1:01:16)
Background
Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa, pt. 2
June 20, 2007
Jan Mickelson of WHO News Radio 1040 in Des Moines interviewed Ron Paul 2008 chairman Kent Snyder today about Ron Paul being excluded from the upcoming candidates forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance. Ed Failor of Iowans for Tax Relief joined the interview later to explain why his group decided to keep Ron Paul out.
"Congressman Ron Paul isn't welcome at the Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance candidates forum. Oversight? Nope. Kent Snyder from Ron Paul's campaign and Ed Failor from ITR exchange words. Lotsa them." -- Wednesday, June 20, 2007, WHO News Radio 1040
Direct Download of MP3 File (interview starts at 1:01:16)
Background
NYPDS 06/21/07
Kids on lookout for possible bear
By Amy Dominello
Greensboro News & Record
City slickers spot a bear and think it is Hillary Clinton...or would it be a movie star...rock star...I don't know...regardless they're thinking of the critter as being a visiting celebrity. Aren't city folk just plain crazy! You don't treat a bear like it is a celebrity!
http://tinyurl.com/2brxbn
The Global Game of Chess
By Ray Perdue
RaidersNewsNetwork.com
The ongoing war against liberty and freedom throughout the world by the global elite is nothing more than an elaborate chess game.
http://tinyurl.com/ytj4nu
"REAL ID"-REAL REBELLION BOILING OVER
By Steven Yates
NewsWithViews.com
States and private citizens who stand firm against Real ID are doing the right thing, and should be encouraged as much as possible. By stopping Real ID and supporting maverick Republicans like Ron Paul we keep alive hope, even if just barely, that it might be possible to achieve a critical mass of Americans who will save this country!
http://tinyurl.com/2wjj8q
'This Is Not Right'
By By Kevin Reece, KOMO TV
On the trip home, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport found it deep in the outside pocket of a carry-on cooler. Beaman apologized and told them it was a mistake. "You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener announced. "And you're considered a terrorist." Beaman says she was told her name would go on a terrorist watch-list and that she would have to pay a $500 fine.
http://tinyurl.com/33zqyn
By Amy Dominello
Greensboro News & Record
City slickers spot a bear and think it is Hillary Clinton...or would it be a movie star...rock star...I don't know...regardless they're thinking of the critter as being a visiting celebrity. Aren't city folk just plain crazy! You don't treat a bear like it is a celebrity!
http://tinyurl.com/2brxbn
The Global Game of Chess
By Ray Perdue
RaidersNewsNetwork.com
The ongoing war against liberty and freedom throughout the world by the global elite is nothing more than an elaborate chess game.
http://tinyurl.com/ytj4nu
"REAL ID"-REAL REBELLION BOILING OVER
By Steven Yates
NewsWithViews.com
States and private citizens who stand firm against Real ID are doing the right thing, and should be encouraged as much as possible. By stopping Real ID and supporting maverick Republicans like Ron Paul we keep alive hope, even if just barely, that it might be possible to achieve a critical mass of Americans who will save this country!
http://tinyurl.com/2wjj8q
'This Is Not Right'
By By Kevin Reece, KOMO TV
On the trip home, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport found it deep in the outside pocket of a carry-on cooler. Beaman apologized and told them it was a mistake. "You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener announced. "And you're considered a terrorist." Beaman says she was told her name would go on a terrorist watch-list and that she would have to pay a $500 fine.
http://tinyurl.com/33zqyn
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
14 Reasons to Deport Illegal Aliens
I came across this information a couple of days ago. I hesitated posting because I first wanted to verify the legitimacy of the links. All of the links are legitimate, and are available for viewing. This contain some startling facts that are not being reported in the network and cable news networks, the newspapers or even many websites. The politicians, the political parties and the media - the power elite - do not want you to know this information about the tragedies of illegal immigration and the horrific effects it is having upon the citizens of our nation.
Editor/RP
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for
Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American
wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States .
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into
the U. S. from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
Editor/RP
14 Reasons to Deport Illegal Aliens...
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for
Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American
wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States .
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into
the U. S. from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
NYPDS 06/20/07 Part II
The Democracy Worshipper
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Democracy means rule by the people, and peoples can be as corrupt and bloodthirsty as tyrants and kings. Today in Moscow, Beijing and Hanoi, Lenin, Mao and Ho – mass murderers all three – lie in honor.
http://tinyurl.com/2be6mj
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Democracy means rule by the people, and peoples can be as corrupt and bloodthirsty as tyrants and kings. Today in Moscow, Beijing and Hanoi, Lenin, Mao and Ho – mass murderers all three – lie in honor.
http://tinyurl.com/2be6mj
Ron Paul Updates 06/20/07
Nonintervention: The Original Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul
Videos of Ron Paul at the Future of Freedom Foundation conference, June 1–4, 2007, in six parts.
http://tinyurl.com/398grb
Ron Paul Revolution Halftime Report
by James Ostrowski
In terms of his pursuit of the Republican nomination, it’s already halftime for the Ron Paul Revolution. He announced his campaign in January and by February the nomination will likely be decided.
http://tinyurl.com/2h8lm4
Earmark Victory May Be a Hollow One
by Ron Paul
While this is certainly a victory for more transparency and openness in the spending process, and as such should be applauded, I am concerned that this may not necessarily be a victory for those of us who want a smaller federal government.
http://tinyurl.com/3a3cb3
Excluding Ron Paul
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Maybe this is Iowans Who Are Only Marginally Unhappy With the Status Quo, or Iowans for Shell Games That Look Like Tax Cuts. Maybe it’s Iowans Who Want Guarantees that Absolutely Nothing Will Change.
http://tinyurl.com/2hhyx5
by Ron Paul
Videos of Ron Paul at the Future of Freedom Foundation conference, June 1–4, 2007, in six parts.
http://tinyurl.com/398grb
Ron Paul Revolution Halftime Report
by James Ostrowski
In terms of his pursuit of the Republican nomination, it’s already halftime for the Ron Paul Revolution. He announced his campaign in January and by February the nomination will likely be decided.
http://tinyurl.com/2h8lm4
Earmark Victory May Be a Hollow One
by Ron Paul
While this is certainly a victory for more transparency and openness in the spending process, and as such should be applauded, I am concerned that this may not necessarily be a victory for those of us who want a smaller federal government.
http://tinyurl.com/3a3cb3
Excluding Ron Paul
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Maybe this is Iowans Who Are Only Marginally Unhappy With the Status Quo, or Iowans for Shell Games That Look Like Tax Cuts. Maybe it’s Iowans Who Want Guarantees that Absolutely Nothing Will Change.
http://tinyurl.com/2hhyx5
NYPDS 06/20/07 Part I
A NEW "NIFONG" IN OKLAHOMA?
by NWV staff writer
© 2007 NewsWithViews.com
In the case of the Kelsey Smith-Briggs exposé, the US~Observer Oklahoma reports a "Nifong-style" prosecution occurring in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, that left unchecked would send another innocent to prison all for the sake of a political agenda.
http://tinyurl.com/2kevv8
THE LAW AND VACCINE-INJURY COMPENSATION
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO
NewsWithViews.com
Reporters from the major networks, newspapers and publications are making dismissive remarks they’ve have been told by pharmaceutical companies and the pro-vaccine medical community. The result is spin....
http://tinyurl.com/2rlybc
THE SECOND AMENDMENT AND MENTAL DISORDERS
By Lynn Stuter
NewsWithViews.com
In the aftermath of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a move is afoot nationwide to screen every man, woman and child for mental health.
http://tinyurl.com/2rt853
The Plan to Disappear Canada
By Murray Dobbin
But news of the scheme - formally called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) - is finally breaking out of the secret chambers of the ruling elite and the federal government. This is both good news and bad. It's good that ordinary citizens are finally getting a glimpse of the betrayal of their country. The news is bad because it reflects just how much of this scheme is already being implemented.
http://tinyurl.com/22vvkk
New fear in Mexico: Army soldiers fleeing for cartels
By MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
The most ruthless gang of drug-cartel hit men in Mexico are deserters from the army's elite. But the Zetas, as the ex-soldiers are known, may not be the only troops who abandoned their posts to work for the cartels.
http://tinyurl.com/3bkwau
Suicide Bombers Sent To US?
ABC News
According to Brian Ross of ABC News, suicide bombers are being recruited to be sent to the US & Europe. If this is true, then it would be easy for these terrorists to gain access to American cities and communities, giving our politicians lack of character in securing and protecting our border. Who knows? Among the 20 million plus illegals in this country, maybe thousands of terrorists waiting for the appropriate moment. -Editor/RP
http://tinyurl.com/2sa3xv
IS THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH BEING PHASED OUT OF POWER?
Nancy Levant
NewsWithViews.com
The treasonous voting records of “representatives” are extraordinary, documented, and anti-constitutional. Couple this with the brazen anti-constitutional actions of the Executive Branch, and one cannot help but wonder if Congress is being phased out of power.
http://tinyurl.com/yr9lc4
The Mother of All Scandals
by Eric Margolis
Anyone who wants to understand what really goes on in the Mideast should have a look at the scandal that erupted earlier this month over the outsized character of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia.
http://tinyurl.com/3a9xh3
The Great American Fascist
Joseph Sobran
I know of no indication that Roosevelt ever studied or even read The Federalist Papers. If he did, they certainly left no impression on him. He governed as if they had never been written. It is impossible to imagine him conversing intelligently with their authors. Their whole spirit was alien to him.
http://tinyurl.com/2e3dtd
by NWV staff writer
© 2007 NewsWithViews.com
In the case of the Kelsey Smith-Briggs exposé, the US~Observer Oklahoma reports a "Nifong-style" prosecution occurring in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, that left unchecked would send another innocent to prison all for the sake of a political agenda.
http://tinyurl.com/2kevv8
THE LAW AND VACCINE-INJURY COMPENSATION
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO
NewsWithViews.com
Reporters from the major networks, newspapers and publications are making dismissive remarks they’ve have been told by pharmaceutical companies and the pro-vaccine medical community. The result is spin....
http://tinyurl.com/2rlybc
THE SECOND AMENDMENT AND MENTAL DISORDERS
By Lynn Stuter
NewsWithViews.com
In the aftermath of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a move is afoot nationwide to screen every man, woman and child for mental health.
http://tinyurl.com/2rt853
The Plan to Disappear Canada
By Murray Dobbin
But news of the scheme - formally called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) - is finally breaking out of the secret chambers of the ruling elite and the federal government. This is both good news and bad. It's good that ordinary citizens are finally getting a glimpse of the betrayal of their country. The news is bad because it reflects just how much of this scheme is already being implemented.
http://tinyurl.com/22vvkk
New fear in Mexico: Army soldiers fleeing for cartels
By MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
The most ruthless gang of drug-cartel hit men in Mexico are deserters from the army's elite. But the Zetas, as the ex-soldiers are known, may not be the only troops who abandoned their posts to work for the cartels.
http://tinyurl.com/3bkwau
Suicide Bombers Sent To US?
ABC News
According to Brian Ross of ABC News, suicide bombers are being recruited to be sent to the US & Europe. If this is true, then it would be easy for these terrorists to gain access to American cities and communities, giving our politicians lack of character in securing and protecting our border. Who knows? Among the 20 million plus illegals in this country, maybe thousands of terrorists waiting for the appropriate moment. -Editor/RP
http://tinyurl.com/2sa3xv
IS THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH BEING PHASED OUT OF POWER?
Nancy Levant
NewsWithViews.com
The treasonous voting records of “representatives” are extraordinary, documented, and anti-constitutional. Couple this with the brazen anti-constitutional actions of the Executive Branch, and one cannot help but wonder if Congress is being phased out of power.
http://tinyurl.com/yr9lc4
The Mother of All Scandals
by Eric Margolis
Anyone who wants to understand what really goes on in the Mideast should have a look at the scandal that erupted earlier this month over the outsized character of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia.
http://tinyurl.com/3a9xh3
The Great American Fascist
Joseph Sobran
I know of no indication that Roosevelt ever studied or even read The Federalist Papers. If he did, they certainly left no impression on him. He governed as if they had never been written. It is impossible to imagine him conversing intelligently with their authors. Their whole spirit was alien to him.
http://tinyurl.com/2e3dtd
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
To Elect President Paul
From Freedom To Fascism & Restore The Republic -
Ron Paul spoke to supporters in Phoenix on Saturday and he briefly laid out the plan.
1. Sign up with the campaign at RonPaul2008.com
2. Get into your local meetup groups
3. Donate money for TV advertising, spread the message at grassroots
4. Vote in straw polls, then primary election
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M65QbTHpNU
Dr. Paul explicitly said that WE ARE THE CAMPAIGN so we have our initiative straight from the top. Given this, I'll embellish on Dr. Paul's list.
1. Sign up with the campaign at RonPaul2008.com, register as a Republican. [egad! I know, but it is a plan. - Editor]
2. Get you and a friend to join or start the local meetup group. This is important because it's our version of a local campaign headquarters.
3. Donate what you can to the Paul campaign. Derive profit from DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, etc. and use it to produce more Ron Paul promotional material and donations to the campaign.
4. Research how to become elected as GOP delegates in your state. If we don't get pro-Paul delegates he won't be nominated by the GOP and this show is over. We should start thinking about who we're going to tap for these roles by December. See the link below for more.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=020018
How to become a delegate in your state:
http://restoretherepublic.com/forum/index.php?board=99.0
5. Generate as many Ron Paul Republican voters as possible. Get your primary plan together. Get an advance look at your ballot and make sure everybody knows how to mark the stupid thing. Make sure everyone knows where to vote, make sure everyone has a ride.
6. The primaries begin in January with the early states Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Naturally, we'll want to focus all the national or regional power we have on those states because we'll make the most national impact. From there it's pretty much a train-wreck. I don't think the top-tier campaigns are going to be any better organized than we are this time. Not if we do our jobs now.
Special thanks to Trevor for composing this report!
In Freedom and Truth,
Gary Franchi
RTR National Director
www.freedomtofascism.com
www.restoretherepublic.com
All Your Freedoms, Inc.
P.O. Box #1213
264 South La Cienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills, California 90211
Ron Paul spoke to supporters in Phoenix on Saturday and he briefly laid out the plan.
1. Sign up with the campaign at RonPaul2008.com
2. Get into your local meetup groups
3. Donate money for TV advertising, spread the message at grassroots
4. Vote in straw polls, then primary election
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M65QbTHpNU
Dr. Paul explicitly said that WE ARE THE CAMPAIGN so we have our initiative straight from the top. Given this, I'll embellish on Dr. Paul's list.
1. Sign up with the campaign at RonPaul2008.com, register as a Republican. [egad! I know, but it is a plan. - Editor]
2. Get you and a friend to join or start the local meetup group. This is important because it's our version of a local campaign headquarters.
3. Donate what you can to the Paul campaign. Derive profit from DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, etc. and use it to produce more Ron Paul promotional material and donations to the campaign.
4. Research how to become elected as GOP delegates in your state. If we don't get pro-Paul delegates he won't be nominated by the GOP and this show is over. We should start thinking about who we're going to tap for these roles by December. See the link below for more.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=020018
How to become a delegate in your state:
http://restoretherepublic.com/forum/index.php?board=99.0
5. Generate as many Ron Paul Republican voters as possible. Get your primary plan together. Get an advance look at your ballot and make sure everybody knows how to mark the stupid thing. Make sure everyone knows where to vote, make sure everyone has a ride.
6. The primaries begin in January with the early states Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Naturally, we'll want to focus all the national or regional power we have on those states because we'll make the most national impact. From there it's pretty much a train-wreck. I don't think the top-tier campaigns are going to be any better organized than we are this time. Not if we do our jobs now.
Special thanks to Trevor for composing this report!
In Freedom and Truth,
Gary Franchi
RTR National Director
www.freedomtofascism.com
www.restoretherepublic.com
All Your Freedoms, Inc.
P.O. Box #1213
264 South La Cienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills, California 90211
No Amnesty, No Welfare
Press Release from the Ron Paul 2008 Campaign -
No Amnesty, No Welfare for Illegal Aliens
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2007
ARLINGTON, VA – As a congressman, Ron Paul has been a leader in the fight to end illegal immigration. He voted for a border fence, opposes the current Senate "compromise" bill, and introduced legislation to end birth right citizenship. Dr. Paul has consistently warned Americans about the looming menace of the North American Union and is the only presidential candidate calling for an end to welfare benefits, mandatory medical care and free education for illegal aliens.
"No leader in Washington has fought to end illegal immigration harder than Congressman Ron Paul," said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "Dr. Paul knows that America must never grant amnesty to those who are in our country illegally."
The following are statements Dr. Paul has made in the U.S. House of Representatives:
-- "The much-vaunted Senate "compromise" on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are."
-- "If we reward millions who came here illegally, surely millions more will follow suit. Ten years from now we will be in the same position, with a whole new generation of lawbreakers seeking amnesty."
-- "...real national security cannot be achieved unless and until our borders are physically secured. It's as simple as that. All the talk about fighting terror and making America safer is meaningless without border security. It makes no sense to seek terrorists abroad if our own front door is left unlocked."
No Amnesty, No Welfare for Illegal Aliens
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2007
ARLINGTON, VA – As a congressman, Ron Paul has been a leader in the fight to end illegal immigration. He voted for a border fence, opposes the current Senate "compromise" bill, and introduced legislation to end birth right citizenship. Dr. Paul has consistently warned Americans about the looming menace of the North American Union and is the only presidential candidate calling for an end to welfare benefits, mandatory medical care and free education for illegal aliens.
"No leader in Washington has fought to end illegal immigration harder than Congressman Ron Paul," said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "Dr. Paul knows that America must never grant amnesty to those who are in our country illegally."
The following are statements Dr. Paul has made in the U.S. House of Representatives:
-- "The much-vaunted Senate "compromise" on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are."
-- "If we reward millions who came here illegally, surely millions more will follow suit. Ten years from now we will be in the same position, with a whole new generation of lawbreakers seeking amnesty."
-- "...real national security cannot be achieved unless and until our borders are physically secured. It's as simple as that. All the talk about fighting terror and making America safer is meaningless without border security. It makes no sense to seek terrorists abroad if our own front door is left unlocked."
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Support a REAL Conservative for president. Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate that is actively working to save this nation from the disaster the others are bent upon creating. Ron Paul has consistently stood against stealing the citizens money via taxes, he has always stood against abortion by submitting the Right to Life Act EVERY YEAR, and he believes in OBEYING the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So what is stopping you from supporting him? -Editor/RPRon Paul Excluded in Iowa
From the Ron Paul 2008 Campaign -
Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, and Tom Tancredo will participate.
Ron Paul, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn’t invited.
We heard about this forum from numerous supporters in Iowa who asked why Dr. Paul was not going to participate. Those supporters assumed that Dr. Paul was invited.
The campaign office had not received an invitation so we called this morning; thinking we might have misplaced the invitation or simply overlooked it. Lew Moore, our campaign manager, called Mr. Edward Failor, an officer of Iowans for Tax Relief, to ask about it. To our shock, Mr. Failor told us Dr. Paul was not invited; he was not going to be invited; and he would not be allowed to participate. And when asked why, Mr. Failor refused to explain. The call ended.
Lew then called Mr. Steve Sheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, to talk with him. Mr. Sheffler did not answer so Lew left a message. He has yet to respond.
Why are the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance excluding the one Republican candidate who scored at the top of every online poll taken after the MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN debates? Why are they denying Iowans the opportunity to hear from the Republican presidential candidate whose popularity is growing by the day?
We couldn’t get answers to these questions from Messrs. Failor and Sheffler. Maybe you’ll have better luck. Their contact information is below.
It's ironic that on the same day we learned the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance excluded Dr. Paul from their candidates forum, we received a call from ABC News confirming Dr. Paul’s participation in its nationally broadcast August 5th debate to be held in Des Moines.
Kent Snyder, Chairman
Ron Paul 2008
Contact Information
Edward Failor
Iowans for Tax Relief
2610 Park Avenue
Muscatine, Iowa 52761
Phone: 563-288-3600 or 877-913-3600
Fax: 563-264-2413
E-mail: itr@taxrelief.org
Steve Sheffler, President
Iowa Christian Alliance
939 Office Park Road, Suite 115
West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
Phone: 515-225-1515
Fax: 515-225-1826
E-mail: slscheffler@iowachristian.com
Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, and Tom Tancredo will participate.
Ron Paul, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn’t invited.
We heard about this forum from numerous supporters in Iowa who asked why Dr. Paul was not going to participate. Those supporters assumed that Dr. Paul was invited.
The campaign office had not received an invitation so we called this morning; thinking we might have misplaced the invitation or simply overlooked it. Lew Moore, our campaign manager, called Mr. Edward Failor, an officer of Iowans for Tax Relief, to ask about it. To our shock, Mr. Failor told us Dr. Paul was not invited; he was not going to be invited; and he would not be allowed to participate. And when asked why, Mr. Failor refused to explain. The call ended.
Lew then called Mr. Steve Sheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, to talk with him. Mr. Sheffler did not answer so Lew left a message. He has yet to respond.
Why are the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance excluding the one Republican candidate who scored at the top of every online poll taken after the MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN debates? Why are they denying Iowans the opportunity to hear from the Republican presidential candidate whose popularity is growing by the day?
We couldn’t get answers to these questions from Messrs. Failor and Sheffler. Maybe you’ll have better luck. Their contact information is below.
It's ironic that on the same day we learned the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance excluded Dr. Paul from their candidates forum, we received a call from ABC News confirming Dr. Paul’s participation in its nationally broadcast August 5th debate to be held in Des Moines.
Kent Snyder, Chairman
Ron Paul 2008
Contact Information
Edward Failor
Iowans for Tax Relief
2610 Park Avenue
Muscatine, Iowa 52761
Phone: 563-288-3600 or 877-913-3600
Fax: 563-264-2413
E-mail: itr@taxrelief.org
Steve Sheffler, President
Iowa Christian Alliance
939 Office Park Road, Suite 115
West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
Phone: 515-225-1515
Fax: 515-225-1826
E-mail: slscheffler@iowachristian.com
Monday, June 18, 2007
NYPDS - 6/18/07
STRATEGIC NIGHTMARE
By Geoff Metcalf
NewsWithViews.com
Communist China, has been, is, and will remain an enemy of the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/3e4k3u
Wanted: A New Conservatism
Joseph Sobran
Will has also declared the Tenth Amendment to be “dead as a doornail,” so maybe anything written two centuries ago is now defunct under the Living Document doctrine. Or is the whole darned Constitution subject to some statute of limitations?
http://tinyurl.com/2fywl3
Are the Hitler Parallels Too Close for Comfort?
by John W. Whitehead
We'd better open our eyes soon, lest we wake up one morning and find that we live under a new regime. Only, this time, it will be one of our own making.
http://tinyurl.com/2oc642
Vietnamese leader on first state visit to US
BEN STOCKING, The Scotsman
THE president of Vietnam will today begin a historic first state visit to the United States, in a sign of the increasingly close ties between the former foes.
http://tinyurl.com/22vk7c
An Also-Ran in the GOP Polls, Ron Paul Is Huge on the Web
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
The presence of the obscure Republican congressman from Texas on a list that includes terms such as "Sopranos," "Paris Hilton" and "iPhone" is a sign of the online buzz building around the long-shot Republican presidential hopeful -- even as mainstream political pundits have written him off.
http://tinyurl.com/yurtrw
BUSH’S TROJAN HORSE FOR AMERICA
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
“Doing nothing is not a solution,” said President George W. Bush last Tuesday at his news conference. “We need to pass immigration reform now.”
Since he ‘did nothing’ before or after 9/11 to stop terrorists by leaving our borders open and he hasn’t done anything for the past six years to stop illegal aliens, now he offers to enforce our laws with $4.4 billion from money paid by illegal aliens as fines to gain citizenship.
http://tinyurl.com/35n784
By Geoff Metcalf
NewsWithViews.com
Communist China, has been, is, and will remain an enemy of the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/3e4k3u
Wanted: A New Conservatism
Joseph Sobran
Will has also declared the Tenth Amendment to be “dead as a doornail,” so maybe anything written two centuries ago is now defunct under the Living Document doctrine. Or is the whole darned Constitution subject to some statute of limitations?
http://tinyurl.com/2fywl3
Are the Hitler Parallels Too Close for Comfort?
by John W. Whitehead
We'd better open our eyes soon, lest we wake up one morning and find that we live under a new regime. Only, this time, it will be one of our own making.
http://tinyurl.com/2oc642
Vietnamese leader on first state visit to US
BEN STOCKING, The Scotsman
THE president of Vietnam will today begin a historic first state visit to the United States, in a sign of the increasingly close ties between the former foes.
http://tinyurl.com/22vk7c
An Also-Ran in the GOP Polls, Ron Paul Is Huge on the Web
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
The presence of the obscure Republican congressman from Texas on a list that includes terms such as "Sopranos," "Paris Hilton" and "iPhone" is a sign of the online buzz building around the long-shot Republican presidential hopeful -- even as mainstream political pundits have written him off.
http://tinyurl.com/yurtrw
BUSH’S TROJAN HORSE FOR AMERICA
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
“Doing nothing is not a solution,” said President George W. Bush last Tuesday at his news conference. “We need to pass immigration reform now.”
Since he ‘did nothing’ before or after 9/11 to stop terrorists by leaving our borders open and he hasn’t done anything for the past six years to stop illegal aliens, now he offers to enforce our laws with $4.4 billion from money paid by illegal aliens as fines to gain citizenship.
http://tinyurl.com/35n784
Battle Moves To The Senate
McCarthy Bill Moves To The Senate - "Compromise" bill represents the most far- reaching gun ban in years
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:
1. Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Sen. Chuck Schumer are the lead sponsors of this legislation! These two have NEVER once looked out for your Second Amendment rights!!!
2. Please use the contact information below - and the pre-written letter - to help direct your comments to them, and circulate this alert to as many gun owners as you can. It is imperative that we remind gun owners nationwide that gun control DOES NOT work to reduce crime; that, to the contrary, gun control HAS DISARMED millions of law-abiding citizens; and that the answer to tragedies like Virginia Tech is to REPEAL the "gun free zones" which leave law- abiding victims defenseless.
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Associated Press got it right last week when it stated that, "The House Wednesday passed what could become the first major federal gun control law in over a decade."
It's true. The McCarthy bill that passed will DRAMATICALLY expand the dragnet that is currently used to disqualify law-abiding gun buyers. So much so, that hundreds of thousands of honest citizens who want to buy a gun will one day walk into a gun store and be shocked when they're told they're a prohibited purchaser, having been lumped into the same category as murderers and rapists.
This underscores the problems that have existed all along with the Brady Law. At the time it was passed, some people foolishly thought, "No big deal. I'm not a bad guy. This law won't affect me."
But what happens when good guys' names get thrown into the bad guys' list? That is exactly what has happened, and no one should think that the attempts to expand the gun control noose are going to end with the McCarthy bill (HR 2640).
Speaking to the CNN audience on June 13, head of the Brady Campaign, Paul Helmke, stated that, "We're hopeful that now that the NRA has come around to our point of view in terms of strengthening the Brady background checks, that now we can take the next step after this bill passes [to impose additional gun control]."
Get it? The McCarthy bill is just a first step.
The remainder of this alert will explain, in layman's terms, the problems with what passed on Wednesday. Please understand that GOA's legal department has spent hours analyzing the McCarthy bill, in addition to looking at existing federal regulations and BATFE interpretations. (If you want the lawyerly perspective, then please go to http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm for an extensive analysis.)
So what does HR 2640 do? Well, as stated already, this is one of the most far- reaching gun bans in years. For the first time in history, this bill takes a giant step towards banning one-fourth of returning military veterans from ever owning a gun again.
In 2000, President Clinton added between 80,000 - 90,000 names of military veterans - who were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) - into the NICS background check system. These were vets who were having nightmares; they had the shakes. So Clinton disqualified them from buying or owning guns.
For seven years, GOA has been arguing that what Clinton did was illegitimate. But if this McCarthy bill gets enacted into law, a future Hillary Clinton administration would actually have the law on her side to ban a quarter of all military veterans (that's the number of veterans who have Post Traumatic Stress) from owning guns.
Now, the supporters of the McCarthy bill claim that military veterans - who have been denied their Second Amendment rights - could get their rights restored. But this is a very nebulous promise.
The reason is that Section 101(c)(1)(C) of the bill provides explicitly that a psychiatrist or psychologist diagnosis is enough to ban a person for ever owning a gun as long as it's predicated on a microscopic risk that a person could be a danger to himself or others. (Please be sure to read the NOTE below for more details on this.)
How many psychiatrists are going to deny that a veteran suffering from PTS doesn't possess a MICROSCOPIC RISK that he could be a danger to himself or others?
And even if they can clear the psychiatrist hurdle, we're still looking at thousands of dollars for lawyers, court fees, etc. And then, when veterans have done everything they can possibly do to clear their name, there is still the Schumer amendment in federal law which prevents the BATFE from restoring the rights of individuals who are barred from purchasing firearms. If that amendment is not repealed, then it doesn't matter if your state stops sending your name for inclusion in the FBI's NICS system...you are still going to be a disqualified purchaser when you try to buy a gun.
So get the irony. Senator Schumer is the one who is leading the charge in the Senate to pass the McCarthy bill, and he is "generously" offering military veterans the opportunity to clear their names, even though it's been HIS AMENDMENT that has prevented honest gun owners from getting their rights back under a similar procedure created in 1986!
But there's still another irony. Before this bill, it was very debatable (in legal terms) whether the military vets with PTS should have been added into the NICS system...and yet many of them were - even though there was NO statutory authority to do so. Before this bill, there were provisions in the law to get one's name cleared, and yet Schumer made it impossible for these military vets to do so.
Now, the McCarthy bill (combined with federal regulations) makes it unmistakably clear that military vets with Post Traumatic Stress SHOULD BE ADDED as prohibited persons on the basis of a "diagnosis."
Are these vets now going to find it any easier to get their names cleared (when the law says they should be on the list) if they were finding it difficult to do so before (when the law said they shouldn't)?
Add to this the Schumer amendment (mentioned above). The McCarthy bill does nothing to repeal the Schumer amendment, which means that military veterans with PTS are going to find it impossible to get their rights restored!
Do you see how Congress is slowly (and quietly) sweeping more and more innocent people into the same category as murderers and rapists? First, anti-gun politicians get a toe hold by getting innocuous sounding language into the federal code. Then they come back years later to twist those words into the most contorted way possible.
Consider the facts. In 1968, Congress laid out several criteria for banning Americans from owning guns - a person can't be a felon, a drug user, an illegal alien, etc. Well, one of the criteria which will disqualify you from owning or buying a gun is if you are "adjudicated as a mental defective." Now, in 1968, that term referred to a person who was judged not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity.
Well, that was 1968. By 2000, President Bill Clinton had stretched that definition to mean a military veteran who has had a lawful authority (like a shrink) decree that a person has PTS. Can you see how politicians love to stretch the meaning of words in the law...especially when it comes to banning guns?
After all, who would have thought when the original Brady law was passed in 1993, that it would be used to keep people with outstanding traffic tickets from buying guns; or couples with marriage problems from buying guns; or military vets with nightmares from buying guns? (See footnotes below.)
So if you thought the Brady Law would never affect you because you're a "good guy," then think again. Military vets are in trouble, and so are your kids who are battling Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Everything that has been mentioned above regarding military veterans, could also apply to these kids.
Do you have a child in the IDEA program - a.k.a., Individuals with Disability Education Act - who has been diagnosed with ADD and thought to be susceptible to playground fights? Guess what? That child can be banned for life from ever owning a gun as an adult. The key to understanding this new gun ban expansion centers on a shrink's determination that a person is a risk to himself or others.
You see, legislators claim they want to specifically prevent a future Seung-Hui Cho from ever buying a gun and shooting up a school. And since Cho had been deemed as a potential danger to himself or others, that has become the new standard for banning guns.
But realize what this does. In the name of stopping an infinitesimal fraction of potential bad apples from owning firearms, legislators are expanding the dragnet to sweep ALL KINDS of good guys into a permanent ban. It also ignores the fact that bad guys get illegal guns ALL THE TIME, despite the gun laws!
So back to your kid who might have ADD. The BATFE, in an open letter (dated May 9, 2007), said the diagnosis that a person is a potential risk doesn't have to be based on the fact that the person poses a "substantial" risk. It just has to be "ANY" risk.
Just any risk, no matter how slight to the other kids on the playground, is all that is needed to qualify the kid on Ritalin - or a vet suffering PTS, or a husband (going through a divorce) who's been ordered to go through an anger management program, etc. - for a LIFETIME gun ban.
This is the slippery slope that gun control poses. And this is the reason HR 2640 must be defeated. Even as we debate this bill, the Frank Lautenbergs in Congress are trying to expand the NICS system with the names of people who are on a so-called "government watch list" (S. 1237).
While this "government watch list" supposedly applies to suspected terrorists, the fact is that government bureaucrats can add ANY gun owner's name to this list without due process, without any hearing, or trial by jury, etc. That's where the background check system is headed ...if we don't rise up together and cut off the monster's head right now.
NOTE: Please realize that a cursory reading of this bill is not sufficient to grasp the full threat that it poses. To read this bill properly, you have to not only read it thoroughly, but look at federal regulations and BATF interpretations as well. For example, where we cite Section 101(c)(1)(C) above as making it explicitly clear that the diagnosis from a psychologist or psychiatrist is enough to ban a person from owning a gun, realize that you have to look at Section 101, while also going to federal regulations via Section 3 of the bill.
Section 3(2) of the bill states that every interpretation that the BATFE has made in respect to mental capacity would become statutory law. And so what does the federal code say? Well, at 27 CFR 478.11, it explicitly states that a person can be deemed to be "adjudicated as a mental defective" by a court or by any "OTHER LAWFUL AUTHORITY" (like a shrink), as long as the individual poses a risk to self or others (or can't manage his own affairs). And in its open letter of May 9, 2007, BATFE makes it clear that this "danger" doesn't have to be "imminent" or "substantial," but can include "any danger" at all. How many shrinks are going to say that a veteran suffering from PTS doesn't pose at least an infinitesimal risk of hurting someone else?
FOOTNOTES:
(1) The Brady law has been used to illegitimately deny firearms to people who have outstanding traffic tickets (see http://www.gunowners.org/ne0706.pdf).
(2) Because of the Lautenberg gun ban, couples with marriage problems or parents who have used corporal punishment to discipline their children have been prohibited from owning guns for life (see http://www.gunowners.org/news/nws9806.htm).
(3) Several articles have pointed to the fact that military vets with PTS have been added to the NICS system (see http://tinyurl.com/ytalxl or http://tinyurl.com/23cgqn).
CONTACT INFORMATION: You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the pre-written e-mail message below.
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
As a supporter of Second Amendment rights, I do NOT support the so-called NICS Improvement Amendments Act (HR 2640), which was snuck through the House last week.
This bill represents the most far-reaching gun ban in years. For the first time in American history, this bill would impose a lifetime gun ban on battle-scarred veterans and troubled teens - based solely on the diagnosis of a psychologist (as opposed to a finding by a court).
You can read more about the problems with this bill by going to the website of Gun Owners of America at http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm.
Gun owners OPPOSE this legislation, and I hope you will join the handful of Senators that have placed "holds" on this bill and object to any Unanimous Consent agreement.
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!
If you want to know some language that gun owners would support, then consider this:
"The Brady Law shall be null and void unless, prior to six months following the date of enactment of this Act, every name of a veteran forwarded to the national instant criminal background check system by the Veterans Administration or the Department of Veterans Affairs be permanently removed from that system."
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
ACTION:
1. Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Sen. Chuck Schumer are the lead sponsors of this legislation! These two have NEVER once looked out for your Second Amendment rights!!!
2. Please use the contact information below - and the pre-written letter - to help direct your comments to them, and circulate this alert to as many gun owners as you can. It is imperative that we remind gun owners nationwide that gun control DOES NOT work to reduce crime; that, to the contrary, gun control HAS DISARMED millions of law-abiding citizens; and that the answer to tragedies like Virginia Tech is to REPEAL the "gun free zones" which leave law- abiding victims defenseless.
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Associated Press got it right last week when it stated that, "The House Wednesday passed what could become the first major federal gun control law in over a decade."
It's true. The McCarthy bill that passed will DRAMATICALLY expand the dragnet that is currently used to disqualify law-abiding gun buyers. So much so, that hundreds of thousands of honest citizens who want to buy a gun will one day walk into a gun store and be shocked when they're told they're a prohibited purchaser, having been lumped into the same category as murderers and rapists.
This underscores the problems that have existed all along with the Brady Law. At the time it was passed, some people foolishly thought, "No big deal. I'm not a bad guy. This law won't affect me."
But what happens when good guys' names get thrown into the bad guys' list? That is exactly what has happened, and no one should think that the attempts to expand the gun control noose are going to end with the McCarthy bill (HR 2640).
Speaking to the CNN audience on June 13, head of the Brady Campaign, Paul Helmke, stated that, "We're hopeful that now that the NRA has come around to our point of view in terms of strengthening the Brady background checks, that now we can take the next step after this bill passes [to impose additional gun control]."
Get it? The McCarthy bill is just a first step.
The remainder of this alert will explain, in layman's terms, the problems with what passed on Wednesday. Please understand that GOA's legal department has spent hours analyzing the McCarthy bill, in addition to looking at existing federal regulations and BATFE interpretations. (If you want the lawyerly perspective, then please go to http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm for an extensive analysis.)
So what does HR 2640 do? Well, as stated already, this is one of the most far- reaching gun bans in years. For the first time in history, this bill takes a giant step towards banning one-fourth of returning military veterans from ever owning a gun again.
In 2000, President Clinton added between 80,000 - 90,000 names of military veterans - who were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) - into the NICS background check system. These were vets who were having nightmares; they had the shakes. So Clinton disqualified them from buying or owning guns.
For seven years, GOA has been arguing that what Clinton did was illegitimate. But if this McCarthy bill gets enacted into law, a future Hillary Clinton administration would actually have the law on her side to ban a quarter of all military veterans (that's the number of veterans who have Post Traumatic Stress) from owning guns.
Now, the supporters of the McCarthy bill claim that military veterans - who have been denied their Second Amendment rights - could get their rights restored. But this is a very nebulous promise.
The reason is that Section 101(c)(1)(C) of the bill provides explicitly that a psychiatrist or psychologist diagnosis is enough to ban a person for ever owning a gun as long as it's predicated on a microscopic risk that a person could be a danger to himself or others. (Please be sure to read the NOTE below for more details on this.)
How many psychiatrists are going to deny that a veteran suffering from PTS doesn't possess a MICROSCOPIC RISK that he could be a danger to himself or others?
And even if they can clear the psychiatrist hurdle, we're still looking at thousands of dollars for lawyers, court fees, etc. And then, when veterans have done everything they can possibly do to clear their name, there is still the Schumer amendment in federal law which prevents the BATFE from restoring the rights of individuals who are barred from purchasing firearms. If that amendment is not repealed, then it doesn't matter if your state stops sending your name for inclusion in the FBI's NICS system...you are still going to be a disqualified purchaser when you try to buy a gun.
So get the irony. Senator Schumer is the one who is leading the charge in the Senate to pass the McCarthy bill, and he is "generously" offering military veterans the opportunity to clear their names, even though it's been HIS AMENDMENT that has prevented honest gun owners from getting their rights back under a similar procedure created in 1986!
But there's still another irony. Before this bill, it was very debatable (in legal terms) whether the military vets with PTS should have been added into the NICS system...and yet many of them were - even though there was NO statutory authority to do so. Before this bill, there were provisions in the law to get one's name cleared, and yet Schumer made it impossible for these military vets to do so.
Now, the McCarthy bill (combined with federal regulations) makes it unmistakably clear that military vets with Post Traumatic Stress SHOULD BE ADDED as prohibited persons on the basis of a "diagnosis."
Are these vets now going to find it any easier to get their names cleared (when the law says they should be on the list) if they were finding it difficult to do so before (when the law said they shouldn't)?
Add to this the Schumer amendment (mentioned above). The McCarthy bill does nothing to repeal the Schumer amendment, which means that military veterans with PTS are going to find it impossible to get their rights restored!
Do you see how Congress is slowly (and quietly) sweeping more and more innocent people into the same category as murderers and rapists? First, anti-gun politicians get a toe hold by getting innocuous sounding language into the federal code. Then they come back years later to twist those words into the most contorted way possible.
Consider the facts. In 1968, Congress laid out several criteria for banning Americans from owning guns - a person can't be a felon, a drug user, an illegal alien, etc. Well, one of the criteria which will disqualify you from owning or buying a gun is if you are "adjudicated as a mental defective." Now, in 1968, that term referred to a person who was judged not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity.
Well, that was 1968. By 2000, President Bill Clinton had stretched that definition to mean a military veteran who has had a lawful authority (like a shrink) decree that a person has PTS. Can you see how politicians love to stretch the meaning of words in the law...especially when it comes to banning guns?
After all, who would have thought when the original Brady law was passed in 1993, that it would be used to keep people with outstanding traffic tickets from buying guns; or couples with marriage problems from buying guns; or military vets with nightmares from buying guns? (See footnotes below.)
So if you thought the Brady Law would never affect you because you're a "good guy," then think again. Military vets are in trouble, and so are your kids who are battling Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Everything that has been mentioned above regarding military veterans, could also apply to these kids.
Do you have a child in the IDEA program - a.k.a., Individuals with Disability Education Act - who has been diagnosed with ADD and thought to be susceptible to playground fights? Guess what? That child can be banned for life from ever owning a gun as an adult. The key to understanding this new gun ban expansion centers on a shrink's determination that a person is a risk to himself or others.
You see, legislators claim they want to specifically prevent a future Seung-Hui Cho from ever buying a gun and shooting up a school. And since Cho had been deemed as a potential danger to himself or others, that has become the new standard for banning guns.
But realize what this does. In the name of stopping an infinitesimal fraction of potential bad apples from owning firearms, legislators are expanding the dragnet to sweep ALL KINDS of good guys into a permanent ban. It also ignores the fact that bad guys get illegal guns ALL THE TIME, despite the gun laws!
So back to your kid who might have ADD. The BATFE, in an open letter (dated May 9, 2007), said the diagnosis that a person is a potential risk doesn't have to be based on the fact that the person poses a "substantial" risk. It just has to be "ANY" risk.
Just any risk, no matter how slight to the other kids on the playground, is all that is needed to qualify the kid on Ritalin - or a vet suffering PTS, or a husband (going through a divorce) who's been ordered to go through an anger management program, etc. - for a LIFETIME gun ban.
This is the slippery slope that gun control poses. And this is the reason HR 2640 must be defeated. Even as we debate this bill, the Frank Lautenbergs in Congress are trying to expand the NICS system with the names of people who are on a so-called "government watch list" (S. 1237).
While this "government watch list" supposedly applies to suspected terrorists, the fact is that government bureaucrats can add ANY gun owner's name to this list without due process, without any hearing, or trial by jury, etc. That's where the background check system is headed ...if we don't rise up together and cut off the monster's head right now.
NOTE: Please realize that a cursory reading of this bill is not sufficient to grasp the full threat that it poses. To read this bill properly, you have to not only read it thoroughly, but look at federal regulations and BATF interpretations as well. For example, where we cite Section 101(c)(1)(C) above as making it explicitly clear that the diagnosis from a psychologist or psychiatrist is enough to ban a person from owning a gun, realize that you have to look at Section 101, while also going to federal regulations via Section 3 of the bill.
Section 3(2) of the bill states that every interpretation that the BATFE has made in respect to mental capacity would become statutory law. And so what does the federal code say? Well, at 27 CFR 478.11, it explicitly states that a person can be deemed to be "adjudicated as a mental defective" by a court or by any "OTHER LAWFUL AUTHORITY" (like a shrink), as long as the individual poses a risk to self or others (or can't manage his own affairs). And in its open letter of May 9, 2007, BATFE makes it clear that this "danger" doesn't have to be "imminent" or "substantial," but can include "any danger" at all. How many shrinks are going to say that a veteran suffering from PTS doesn't pose at least an infinitesimal risk of hurting someone else?
FOOTNOTES:
(1) The Brady law has been used to illegitimately deny firearms to people who have outstanding traffic tickets (see http://www.gunowners.org/ne0706.pdf).
(2) Because of the Lautenberg gun ban, couples with marriage problems or parents who have used corporal punishment to discipline their children have been prohibited from owning guns for life (see http://www.gunowners.org/news/nws9806.htm).
(3) Several articles have pointed to the fact that military vets with PTS have been added to the NICS system (see http://tinyurl.com/ytalxl or http://tinyurl.com/23cgqn).
CONTACT INFORMATION: You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the pre-written e-mail message below.
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
As a supporter of Second Amendment rights, I do NOT support the so-called NICS Improvement Amendments Act (HR 2640), which was snuck through the House last week.
This bill represents the most far-reaching gun ban in years. For the first time in American history, this bill would impose a lifetime gun ban on battle-scarred veterans and troubled teens - based solely on the diagnosis of a psychologist (as opposed to a finding by a court).
You can read more about the problems with this bill by going to the website of Gun Owners of America at http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm.
Gun owners OPPOSE this legislation, and I hope you will join the handful of Senators that have placed "holds" on this bill and object to any Unanimous Consent agreement.
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!
If you want to know some language that gun owners would support, then consider this:
"The Brady Law shall be null and void unless, prior to six months following the date of enactment of this Act, every name of a veteran forwarded to the national instant criminal background check system by the Veterans Administration or the Department of Veterans Affairs be permanently removed from that system."
Sincerely,
****************************
Sunday, June 17, 2007
NYPDS - 6/17/07
The War Inside
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. ...But a "black shadow" had followed Cruz home from Iraq, he confided to an Army counselor. He was hounded by recurring images of how war really was for him: not the triumphant scene of Hussein in handcuffs, but visions of dead Iraqi children.
http://tinyurl.com/2hrbvq
EU allows more GM material into food products
By David Charter
THE definition of GM-free food was relaxed last night as EU ministers decided to allow a greater proportion of genetically-modified material into products that could still be labelled GM-free.
http://tinyurl.com/yqasa7
'Zombie crops' funded by British taxpayers to 'get round' GM ban
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, The Independent
"Zombie" GM crops - so called because farmers will have to pay biotech companies to bring seeds back from the dead - are being developed with British taxpayers' money.
http://tinyurl.com/2dt88m
British body backs inter-species clones
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor, Reuters
Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
http://tinyurl.com/2u7aan
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. ...But a "black shadow" had followed Cruz home from Iraq, he confided to an Army counselor. He was hounded by recurring images of how war really was for him: not the triumphant scene of Hussein in handcuffs, but visions of dead Iraqi children.
http://tinyurl.com/2hrbvq
EU allows more GM material into food products
By David Charter
THE definition of GM-free food was relaxed last night as EU ministers decided to allow a greater proportion of genetically-modified material into products that could still be labelled GM-free.
http://tinyurl.com/yqasa7
'Zombie crops' funded by British taxpayers to 'get round' GM ban
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, The Independent
"Zombie" GM crops - so called because farmers will have to pay biotech companies to bring seeds back from the dead - are being developed with British taxpayers' money.
http://tinyurl.com/2dt88m
British body backs inter-species clones
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor, Reuters
Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
http://tinyurl.com/2u7aan
Invasion News Updates - 6/17/07
Tancredo pulls plug on 'sanctuary cities'
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The amendment passed yesterday does not include a definition of "sanctuary city." The Homeland Security appropriations bill now goes to the Senate.
http://tinyurl.com/2n96wa
House rejects security fence at the border
The Business Journal of Phoenix
The U.S. House of Representatives shot down a proposal Friday by U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz, that would have built an 854-mile, double layered security fences along the Mexican border.
http://tinyurl.com/34xroo
Hispanic Leaders Blast Schwarzenegger's Advice to Turn Off Spanish TV
FOX News
http://tinyurl.com/2va34x
Mexican police arrest 70 illegal immigrants
People's Daily Online (China)
Mexican police on Friday arrested 70 illegal immigrants from Central American nations in the central state of Tlaxcala.
http://tinyurl.com/2k8c44
SEN. KENNEDY IGNORING US LAWS
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
What is truly amazing is that Kennedy was able to find enough ethically challenged "leaders" in the Senate to get that insane measure passed!
http://tinyurl.com/2f8tl7
COMBAT VETERAN ALLEN WEST AND BORDER SECURITY
John W. Slagle
NewsWithViews.com
I couldn't talk to an aide in English but had no problem speaking Spanish on the pro side of the issue, at a different telephone number.
http://tinyurl.com/2a49ts
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The amendment passed yesterday does not include a definition of "sanctuary city." The Homeland Security appropriations bill now goes to the Senate.
http://tinyurl.com/2n96wa
House rejects security fence at the border
The Business Journal of Phoenix
The U.S. House of Representatives shot down a proposal Friday by U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz, that would have built an 854-mile, double layered security fences along the Mexican border.
http://tinyurl.com/34xroo
Hispanic Leaders Blast Schwarzenegger's Advice to Turn Off Spanish TV
FOX News
http://tinyurl.com/2va34x
Mexican police arrest 70 illegal immigrants
People's Daily Online (China)
Mexican police on Friday arrested 70 illegal immigrants from Central American nations in the central state of Tlaxcala.
http://tinyurl.com/2k8c44
SEN. KENNEDY IGNORING US LAWS
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
What is truly amazing is that Kennedy was able to find enough ethically challenged "leaders" in the Senate to get that insane measure passed!
http://tinyurl.com/2f8tl7
COMBAT VETERAN ALLEN WEST AND BORDER SECURITY
John W. Slagle
NewsWithViews.com
I couldn't talk to an aide in English but had no problem speaking Spanish on the pro side of the issue, at a different telephone number.
http://tinyurl.com/2a49ts
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