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PA: Mayor marks anniversary of Safe Streets
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"Marking the one-year anniversary of his sweeping crackdown on open-air drug markets, Mayor Street yesterday vowed "to keep them closed forever.' " ...
"Yes, it was precisely a year ago when Street launched Operation Safe Streets, his costly and controversial program of assigning police officers to bring relief to residents who live near hundreds of the city's worst drug corners." |
The Forgotten Militia Amendment-The Real Collective Right Amendment
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"As shown above, the facts surrounding the forgotten militia amendment negate any assertion that the purpose of the Second Amendment was to grant the several States the 'collective right' to arm their militias. The failed 'collective right' militia amendment was unrelated to the one that became the Second Amendment and any attempt by organizations like the Brady Campaign to link the two is factually and historically dishonest." |
Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon
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"The proposal, which was beaten back, would have given the C.I.A. and the military the authority to issue administrative subpoenas — known as 'national security letters' — requiring Internet providers, credit card companies, libraries and a range of other organizations to produce materials like phone records, bank transactions and e-mail logs. That authority now rests largely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the subpoenas do not require court approval."
"The surprise proposal was tucked into a broader intelligence authorization bill now pending before Congress." ... |
CA: Officer in Videotaped Attack to Stay on Duty
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"The shaky, 90-second videotape, shot Monday and aired Wednesday on Spanish-language Telemundo 52, shows Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Alex Todd hitting Francisco Padilla, 18, while he was on the ground being handcuffed after a traffic stop."
"Padilla has since been deported, and Todd remains on active duty in the Southwest office in Temecula but faces an internal department investigation." |
Appetite for Authoritarianism Spawns an American Gulag
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"The camp's children are among 664 detainees from 42 countries. Some were captured in Afghanistan; others were rounded up elsewhere. Many have been held without trial for more than two years."
"The Bush administration has argued that these detainees are not 'people' under the Constitution but, rather, legal nonentities it may hold, release or even execute at its sole discretion. Recent reports indicate that the Justice Department has no intention of trying the vast majority of these prisoners. Rather, estimates on possible tribunal trials rarely exceed two dozen. The administration has simply decided to hold hundreds of people without trial or judicial review at the president's whim. There is a term for that type of prison: gulag." |
Project Exile cataloged
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"Some gun owners have bought into the Project Gestapo trap, banging the 'don't pass new laws, just enforce those we have now.' Much of Project Exile is an attitude about gun laws -- that violating these laws cannot be tolerated in any form. But banging that gong is dangerous, since it empowers bureaucrats to launch a witch hunt for gun owners."
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The beginnings of a catalog of the anti-gun messages of Project Gestapo. |
Homeowners Battle to Keep Their Property
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Yet another case of the government serving the elite to take away property from the peasantry. It cites numerous cases where the government has abused eminent domain. They take away our guns, our land and, in some cases, our lives if we chose to defend our liberty rather than go silently into the night. |
Kids and guns [blog]
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"Reader William Sulik e-mails, referring to this post about CBS's 'Kids and Guns' item including, in its first factoid, people up to age 24:"
"So according to CBS, President Clinton really did have sex with a 'Kid' -- since Monica was 23 when they had intimate relations."
"A kid and a juvenile, under the CBS approach." |
Report: Too Many Watch Lists
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"In a report released this week, the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, counted no less than 12 different government databases cataloging purportedly dangerous people, maintained by nine different federal agencies and accessed by 50 others -- a tangled web of largely incompatible systems that the GAO would like to see merged into one." |
Geoff Metcalf show
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"Geoff Metcalf brings his passionate connection to hundreds of years of American evolution to his own revolutionary radio program. He describes his program as 'news and analysis ahead of the mainstream…or more to the point, analysis of news the mainstream refuses to report.' Informing as well as provoking and stimulating his listeners is what gets Metcalf’s radio juices going." ... |
Court Strikes Most of New Campaign Finance Law
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"A federal court Friday struck down most of a ban on the use of large corporate and union political contributions by political parties, casting into doubt the future of the campaign finance law that was supposed to govern next year’s high-stakes presidential election."
"The court also ruled unconstitutional new restrictions on election-time political ads by special interest groups and others. It barred the federal government from enforcing them and all other parts of the law it struck down." |
The looters liberals ignore
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... "This power grab would not have been possible without a socialized government school system immune from private competition and sustained by a bottomless well of taxpayer funds."
"But hey, when it's done in the name of public schoolchildren, it isn't 'looting.' It's 'professional development.' " |
High court's freedom from religion
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"In the 45 words of this amendment do you see a so-called 'establishment clause' – a phrase that allegedly bans the display of religious symbols on public property? Me, neither."
"I do see this phrase: '... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof' – specifically recognizing the right of Americans to worship whom or whatever they please, wherever they please." |
The War On Drugs Now Threatens America's Neighbors
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... "Our neighbor to the north has now drawn the ire of the most powerful country in the world. Like the Province of British Columbia, all of Canada is now considering relaxing its laws against marijuana possession."
"The result: Threatened retaliation by the Unites States of America." |
A Real American for President in 2004?
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"Yes, we’re aware of all the buzz going around the net to draft a Texas Congressman. But what if there was someone else - someone from outside Washington willing to run a strictly, grassroots campaign outside of the two-party structure, would you consider joining the effort?"
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A Deadly Flaw In Our System Of Government
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"When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they probably didn't envision a time when a judge would be allowed to rule contrary to constitutional provisions, simply by making his own definition of the Constitution's meaning. But this is what judges are doing, right up to and including the Supreme Court. No more can we trust the judiciary to simply tell us whether or not a law conforms to the Constitution. Instead, they are redefining it and making law from the bench. A good example is the Texas judge who ruled, in a case where school and child protection people lined up a bunch of small children and forced them to submit to genital examinations without the permission or even notification of the parents, that 'When you drop your children off at school you give up all right to control what happens to them afterward.' Now, I'm not a constitutional scholar but even I know that cannot possibly be what the Constitution says. This is so obviously an example of a judge ruling according to his own prejudices that it shouldn't even be necessary for me to mention it. I would like for someone to show me where the Constitution allows school 'authorities' to strip and fondle our small children without our permission, and without even telling us." |
UT: Small Town, Big Guns
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"There is a law on the town books that requires every resident of Virgin to bear arms. The head of every household must own some sort of weapon."
"Mayor Jay Lee introduced the law three years ago. It's modeled after a law in the town of Kennessaw, Georgia." ...
"According to Lee, a local law is just another layer of protection. He says it will keep any federal or state agency from coming in and taking away their weapons -- without a fight." |
UK: Gun law review promised
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"Home Secretary David Blunkett has promised a review of firearms laws following the end of a month-long guns amnesty which police hailed as a success."
"During discussions with police and community leaders to discuss rising gun crime, Mr. Blunkett said the amnesty has taken an estimated 25,000 weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition out of circulation." |
GOA Denounces Lautenberg's Gun Ban And Registration Bill
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"Gun Owners of America today denounced Sen. Frank Lautenberg's so-called 'Homeland Security Gun Safety Act.' "
" 'This would be better known as the Purchase Ban and Registration Bill,' said GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt."
"The bill creates a huge loophole that allows federal officials to shut down all firearm sales in the country. Equally horrendous, the bill allows those same officials to register gun owners' names indefinitely." |
TX: Ashcroft joins anti-gun drive
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"Prosecutors and law enforcement officers from across Texas launched a publicity effort Friday that has one aim – letting criminals know that if they use a gun to break the law, they can expect to serve several years in federal prison, with no possibility of parole."
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IN: Closed in gun clubs become dangerous
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"But something went wrong Monday when a gun unexpectedly fired twice. The second bullet missed its target." ...
"Club officials are still investigating, but it appears the 45 caliber bullet traveled over the trees, over I-465, across Crawfordsville Road and through a car window near a Goodyear shop."
"Miller admits, 'That's a long ways for a little bullet to travel. But that was big enough and heavy enough, that it's what shattered window.' " |
CO: Official talked of carrying gun
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"In the statements obtained by The Post, city employees described Wotring as being outspoken about carrying a gun for protection." ...
" 'There's this misconception that people who suffer from a mental illness are violent. They are no more likely to be violent than anyone in the general public.' " |
UK: Stun gun teenager jailed for robberies
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"A teenage thug who used an electric stun gun on two garage workers during a robbery was jailed for five-and-a-half years this week."
"Violent Michael Fergus left the men in agony as he wielded the weapon to steal £749 from a safe and £40 from a till in Greenwich." |
Australia: New Research Shows Impact of Australia's Gun-Control Laws
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"California Fulbright Fellow Ellen Boneparth found that between 1987 and 1996, 100 people were killed in mass shootings in Australia. But after 1996, when new gun-control laws were enacted ...there has not been one mass killing."
"There have been shootings with multiple victims, but none where four or more were killed."
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UK: Man charged in police shooting case
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"A 22-year-old man has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life."
"The charges relate to an incident in which a 21-year-old man was shot dead by police in a car which failed to stop in County Antrim." |
Big Brother is still watching
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"In other words, the military officials and CIA agents could legally search through your telephone, credit card and bank records, and e-mail logs, without court approval. The wording came from the White House." ...
"Pretty scary stuff, I'd say. You don't have to be a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union to understand the implications of soldiers and spooks checking out you and your life minute-by-minute." |
Lautenberg Seeks To Exploit War On Terrorism
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"One of the most rabid anti-gun U.S. Senators has introduced legislation that would tie firearm transfers to our nation’s terror alert system. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), along with U.S. Senators Jon Corzine (D-N.J.), Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), introduced S. 969 this week, which would suspend many of the gun-owner protection portions of laws that regulate the transfer of firearms as long as the terror alert level is above Code Green, or the lowest level. As you know, America has been above Code Green since the alert system was put in place. Among the laws that would be suspended are those that limit law enforcement to three days for completing background checks on firearm purchasers, as well as the law that requires the destruction of records for anyone whose purchase is not denied." ... |
Ballistic "Fingerprinting" Study Bill
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"U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Zell Miller (D-Ga.) introduced on Thursday, May 1, S. 980, requiring the study of ballistic imaging technology to determine if it is an effective law enforcement tool. While several studies have already determined that existing ballistic imaging systems are flawed, anti-gun extremists continue to promote what they call ballistic 'fingerprinting' schemes—which are little more than an attempt to impose a nationwide registration system for all law-abiding gun owners." |
MD: 'Exile' applied to lawbreakers
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"Unfortunately, the General Assembly reacted rather blandly to what was an important Ehrlich campaign promise. The new governor's initiative was watered down: Lawmakers actually refused to increase penalties for some gun violations, thereby snubbing all law-abiding citizens who want gun-toting present and former criminals off the streets."
"But U.S. Attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio has found a way to bring the ramifications of Project Exile to his Maryland territory." ... |
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