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NY: Security bans rile tenants
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"The 'no trespass' signs that mark the entrance to public housing complexes in Yonkers, New Rochelle and Greenburgh have become standard equipment, and more may be on the way."

"A new policy at the Greenburgh Public Housing Authority prohibits visitors who have been convicted of crimes anywhere even far from the Greenburgh property from coming onto the premises. It is already having an impact on families there."
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Chipping away at peoples' rights, one "rule" at a time.

NC: Woman Armed With Pocketknife Sought For Robberies
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"Police say a woman with a pocketknife is responsible for at least three robberies of female shoppers."

" 'She put the knife to my stomach and told me not to scream. She took my credit cards and my checks,' said Sanchez. 'I was so scared I was shaking.' "
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So, what does this mean? Is there now going to be legislation for pocketknife registration, waiting periods, background checks, and carry permits? One day they will stop targeting the tools, and target the criminals.

NY: Protesters Say NYPD Used Excessive Force
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"Fifteen protesters from an anti-war march in February filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the city and Police Department, saying officers used excessive force."

"The suit, which seeks class-action status, contends the department knowingly created a hostile climate at the protest by undermining the logistics of the march, using excessive force, making arbitrary arrests and not providing access to portable bathrooms for the Feb. 15 event." ...

WA: County Commissioners split vote on "Patriot Act" resolution Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft Website: http://www.idcwebdev.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF SAN JUAN that the County affirms the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens and non-citizens living within the County in accordance with the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Rights of the State of Washington Constitution.

Australia: Unprecedented police-state measures passed by Australian parliament
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"With the support of the Labor Party, the Howard government last week succeeded in pushing through the Australian parliament an unprecedented piece of legislation giving the governments political police the sort of arbitrary power normally associated with fascist regimes or military juntas."

"Under the ASIO Terrorism Act, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation now has the power to detain and question people without charge or trial." ...

Fear Factory: The Bush administration's dangerous manufacturing of post-9-11 dread
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"The deputies of the Bush Terror Posse -- Donald Rumsfeld, Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft -- are conducting a deliberate campaign to frighten us. One facet of the campaign has, over the last 18 months, persuaded large portions of the population to rush to the stores for water, food, plastic sheeting and, of course, duct tape."

"This is just the latest and most egregious step in a fear campaign designed to prepare Americans to do whatever the administration wants us to do." ...

ID: Look whos revolting against Patriot Act?
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"I am cosponsoring the Freedom to Read Protection Act. I also am working on additional legislation with organizations interested in rolling back the Patriot Acts more egregious trespasses."

Is that a left-leaning Democrat?

Nope.

Its actually the July 4 statement of Idahos conservative Republican First District Congressman Otter, one of a growing number of Democrats and Republicans frightened by powers given to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in the so-called Patriot Act.

O'Connor makes catchphrase law of the land
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... "Whether or not you dig it as a personal philosophy, 'diversity' makes a poor legal concept. It was not intended to be precisely defined, but instead woozy and fluffy and soft-focus. It makes a fabulous bumper sticker: 'Celebrate Diversity.' But it makes a poor legal concept to enshrine at the heart of the U.S. Constitution, which is where Swingin' Sandra's vote put it last week."

"The correct term is 'racial quotas,' but that's too bald, too clear. So its proponents came up with the coy evasion of 'affirmative action.' But over the years that also became tarnished. Hence the invention of 'diversity.' Who could be against 'diversity'? Who wouldn't want to celebrate it? It's the perfect enlightened vapidity."

"But whoever thought it'd fly as a legal concept? Last week, the court had before it two models of University of Michigan diversity: In the first version--the undergraduate school's system--they give you 20 points for being black. You need 150 points to get in. So, by being born black, you're 13 percent of the way there." ...

How a Marxist views the Constitution Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
In an article in which he touts the values of Marxism and puts forth at least a couple of outright lies, this writer tells us: "But this brings us back to the original question: how appropriate is it for us to decide the question of weaponry using a two hundred year-old document? ... the Constitution wrong, and wrong for a very simple reason: it's old."

Terror charges called trumped up
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"Khan, whose alias is Abu Ibrahim, should remain in custody because he is 'a menace to the community' who had a small 'arsenal' in his home."

"FBI Special Agent Wade Ammerman testified that during the search of Khans three-story town home May 8, authorities found a .45-caliber handgun, a shotgun, a .22-caliber rifle and an AK-47-style assault rifle."
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That's an arsenal? Man, am I in trouble!

UK: Cop in gun terror Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft Website: http://www.idcwebdev.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
NOTE: The website address for this report is too long for our Newslinks system. Click Here for the full story. ------- "A road cop had a loaded pistol pointed at him as he was wrestled to the ground while trying to arrest a gun-toting thug, the Evening Mail can reveal today." ------- In the gun-free worker's paradise of the PRUK?

French remove Americans from D-Day memorial Submitted by: Bob Wolfley	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
This website shows pictures and offers commentary in English and French) -- the French have Removed America from the Normandy memorial. ------- Thousands of Americans are buried there. They died to liberate France. The page above contains email addresses for the Memorial Museum and the local Mayor. As General George S. Patton would say, "give 'em Hell."

MN: Gun-law misconceptions [4th letter]
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"I would like to point out some of the misinformation that those opposed to this law labor under."

"For example, Sandy Hilleshein said in a Monday Star Tribune article, 'This whole thing scares me. I don't see why people have to have them -- guns -- and now they can be concealed.' "

"Minnesota has had a conceal-carry law for almost 30 years, and before that you could just carry. This is nothing new, but the fearmongers have made this woman think it is." ...

UK: Let's end gun misery
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"The anguished mothers of Birmingham's New Year party victims will brief a powerful body of MPs on the problems of gun crime in Britain's inner cities."

"Six months to the fateful day their daughters were shot, Beverley Thomas and Marcia Shakespeare are to give evidence to the group." ...

ID: All pain and no gain
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ELK CITY, Idaho - "In a recent speech to Jesse Jackson's 32nd Annual Rainbow/PUSH convention, former Commander in Heat Bill Clinton asserted that the 'gains made under him' were quickly being erased by the Bush administration." ...

"Thanks again, Bill. We didn't need to defend ourselves from the lawless, for you were there to protect us ... from ourselves. By the way, when you spoke of 'feeling our pain' were you referring to the beatings, knifings and gunshot wounds received by the innocent civilians whose means of self-defense you tried to steal?" ...

FL: Ex-Officer Charged in Gator's Death
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"Alan Goolsby refused to run away while an alligator attacked his dog."

"He shot and killed the reptile. Now he is charged with a second-degree misdemeanor that could result in penalties up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine."

" 'I didn't run and hide -- that was my mistake,' Goolsby said. 'I'm supposed to be shivering in a corner somewhere while the gator eats my dog.' " ... [emphasis added]

MA: Officer alleges assault coverup Submitted by: Orange Fuzzy	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"A former head of the Boston Police Department's minority officer's association said the Randolph Police Department is covering up an incident in which a black, off-duty Boston officer was handcuffed, disarmed, and possibly pistol-whipped by Randolph police."

Suit Against Gun Maker Allowed on 'Hypothetical Facts'
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"A lawsuit filed against the maker of the gun allegedly used by the Washington, D.C., sniper suspects is being allowed to go forward based on 'hypothetical facts' presented by lawyers for the anti-gun Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a Pierce County, Wash., court ruled Friday. A statement by the weapon's manufacturer said: 'The Brady Center's attorneys are very loose with the facts.' "
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That's an understatement.

IA: Des Moines Teacher Faces Weapon Charge in connection with gang members
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"Five people are facing charges, including a Des Moines teacher, after an incident in Urbandale on Saturday night."

"Police said Amy Felton, 25, a teacher at Hiatt Middle School, is charged with carrying a concealed gun weapon within 1,000 feet of a school."

"Urbandale officers said Felton and four other people were driving west on Douglas Avenue near Karen Acres Elementary School on Saturday around 12:45 p.m. when Daniel Chavez, 19, pointed a loaded 9 millimeter handgun at a man in the car next to them." ...

Canada: Shop owner faces assault charge after burglar beaten
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"A Montreal-area convenience store owner who police say defended his business with an aluminum baseball bat, faces charges of aggravated assault."

"Police in Longueuil say the store owner, frustrated at three burglaries in as many weeks, camped out in his store with a friend and a bat Friday night."

"At about 3 a.m. Saturday, police say two men entered the store carrying garbage cans. They apparently planned to fill them with cigarettes and cash."

"Surprised by the owner, one of the burglars ran away. The other ended up in hospital, having been beaten with blows to the head, chest and legs, said Gaetan Durocher of Longueuil police." ...
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And this is wrong because...?

Sniper Case Judge Keeps Terrorism Charge
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MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - "A judge Monday rejected a defense request seeking dismissal of one of the indictments against sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad based on claims that the state's new anti-terrorism capital murder law is too vague."

" 'I believe it does provide a person of ordinary intelligence notice of the type of offense that may be prosecuted. ... I think the statute is in fact constitutional,' Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. said." ...

No media bias? Submitted by: MichiganShooter.cOm Website: http://www.michiganshooter.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"When the issue is gun control, you may have heard innumerable times that murder rates are much lower in countries like Britain or Germany, which have more restrictive gun control laws than ours. But how often -- if ever -- have you heard that murder rates are much higher than ours in some other countries like Russia or Brazil that also have more restrictive gun control laws than ours?" ...

Canada: Gun deadline up, 300,000 now 'criminals'
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"More than 300,000 Canadian firearm owners face the prospect of criminal charges following the expiry midnight Monday of a grace period to get registration certificates for their guns."

" 'July 1st will create a whole new class of criminal in this country, paper criminals I call them, hundreds of thousands,' said Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, who called it a 'mockery' of Canada's Criminal Code."
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Congratulations Canada! Your socialist leaders have just criminalized almost 1% of your population! They are potential prison inmates for owning inanimate objects.

Canada: Registry cost soars another $250M, says MP
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"New allegations surfaced yesterday that put the cost of the controversial gun registry $250 million above the original $1-billion price tag."

"The new number emerged as Solicitor General Easter insisted auditing procedures were put in place in April, and that the costs of the program are now being tracked."

"But Canadian Alliance MP Breitkreuz said the feds have failed to include the compliance costs of the gun-registry program, which he calculated to be a minimum of $252 million." ...
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NOTE:
Originally, Canada's lying politicians said the program would cost $1Million, not $1Billion.

Australia: Cheques in the mail after gun buyback glitch
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"Queensland gun owners who surrender their weapons under the national buyback scheme will not be compensated for several weeks because of computer glitches."

"Ten handguns, including one unregistered weapon, were handed to police in Brisbane yesterday on the first day of a six-month handgun buyback."

"But Police Minister McGrady said 'administration slip-ups' with the Federal Government's computer system meant on-the-spot cheques could not be given to gun owners turning in their weapons."
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QUESTION...

How can you tell when an Australian is considering giving his firearms to the government?

ANSWER...

The yellow stripe running up the middle of his back starts glowing.

MN: Or even a drip [3rd letter from bottom] Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft Website: http://www.idcwebdev.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
[Full text below] Pistol-packin' state? Wave of gun owners applying for permits? The total statewide number of applications (4,258) is less than one-tenth of 1 percent of Minnesota's population (Star Tribune, June 29). I'd call that more like a ripple.

824 weapons missing at federal agencies (follow-up)
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"Fifteen of 18 federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have reported more than 1,000 lost or stolen weapons since Sept. 30, 1998, a government study released Monday shows."

"Some of those missing firearms have been recovered, but 824 still are missing."

"The FBI and the Park Service recorded the largest number of missing weapons through July 2002, 458 and 196, respectively..."

CA: Californias Racial Iceberg
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"Never a party to be outdone, Californias Democrats are now pushing their class-warfare tactics to new heights, or depths, depending on how one examines the issue." ...

"The following quotes show these Democrats' true feelings." ...

"We're going to take over all the political institutions of California. California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave. If they [Anglos] don't like Mexicans, they ought to go back to Europe."

"...and those rednecks that are out there making decisions for the betterment of their communities will think twice before they push forward anti- immigrant legislation against our community."

etc.

Australia: Callers flood gun buyback hotline
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"THOUSANDS of calls from anxious gunowners jammed a police telephone hotline today."

"The problems on Queensland's 1800 358-312 hotline were reported shortly after it opened this morning when new national gun buyback laws came into force."

" 'People just have to be patient,' a police spokesman said."

"Queensland Police Minister Tony McGrady said police had been unprepared for the rush of calls which had diverted to message banks." ...

"Queensland police have also set up a dedicated centre at the former Clayfield police station and mobile compensation centres will visit 175 sporting shooting clubs across the state."

"The mobile booths will be able to crush weapons on the spot, when they start operating in around a month's time." ... [emphasis added]

Australia: Monash medic calls for gun ban
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"The handguns buyback is too little, too late, according to a doctor with experience in gunshot injuries, including the Monash shooting which sparked the crackdown."

"Treating another gunshot injury on Monday night was the last straw for Dr Tom Rechnitzer who believes only police and the military should possess firearms."

". . . we have no reason for anyone to have these weapons apart from law enforcement officers and the military," he said.
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That's a very similar quote to the ones promoted by Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia and by Josef Stalin's thugs his little Soviet utopia.

Congress Gun Control Nuts Are Working Overtime
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H.R. 24: This bill would require any licensee transferring any firearm to test fire the firearm and provide ballistics records to the AG. The AG would then be required to compile the information in electronic form.

H.R. 54 : This bill would authorize between $10,000,000 and $30,000,000 a year for various Project Exile-related expenditures, including sentencing enhancements involving firearms, while exempting similar crimes of violence committed with knives and similar implements.

MN: No easy answer to new gun law; Business owners weave through tough decisions
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"Anyone carrying a firearm who fails to leave a private establishment after a reasonable request has been made that he or she do so, is guilty of a petty misdemeanor."

" 'As a business owner, its frustrating,' said Duane Kropuenske of Riverview Community Bank, Otsego. 'It still wont prevent the person who has a grudge If the intent of the person coming in the door is to cause harm, no policy is going to help.' "
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Wait, you mean bad guys aren't going to pay attention to the law?

UK: Police raid flat after gun drama
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"Armed police officers stormed a flat after a man was spotted waving what was believed to be an Uzi machine gun in broad daylight."

"A total of 20 officers were involved in the drama last night."

" 'As a result of the information we had, we launched a full firearms operation on the flat.' he said. 'A ball bearing gun has been recovered and it actually looks like a small Uzi machine gun with a silencer.' "
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How long before they kill someone for the horrible crime of possessing a toy?

UK: Peace talks held in gun crimes district
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"Community leaders and parents in an area of Walsall where a 20-year-old man was gunned down have met for talks over action to keep teenagers off the streets after dark."

"Now the community which has been rocked by the tragic death of Mr Mohammed has organised a series of meetings to discuss what should be done to steer local youths away from crime and gun culture."
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To reduce gun crime try locking the little thugs up -- and removing the mystique surrounding firearms by bringing them back into society.

ME: Gun-schizo motorists sic police on driver "armed" with toy gun on I-95
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Alternate title:
Hoplophobe Motorists Precipitate Gun Horror
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"A 20-year-old man was ordered from his car on I-95 at gun point Sunday by a trooper of the Maine State Police after other motorists reported he had a handgun in the car."

"The gun turned out to be one of two plastic toy guns in the vehicle, but the situation was initially a tense one, the trooper said."

"Although the man did not point the gun at them, the motorists called police to report the sighting, Hayden said." ...

Canada: Many Canadians Fail to Register Guns
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"With the grace period for gun registration over, the federal government says about 1.6 million shotguns and rifles have not been registered for a national database."

"The government has no plans to track down and charge residents who have not registered their weapons."

"Government studies estimate 7.9 million long firearms in the country. To date, 6.3 million are registered with the Canadian Firearms Centre." ...
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That's quite a few new "armed criminals" -- many of whom surely hold the government in low regards.

800 U.S. guns issued to officials still missing (another report)
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"More than 800 firearms assigned to federal officials are still missing more than two years after the Justice Department brought the problem of unaccounted weapons to light, according to a report by the GAO released yesterday."

"The GAO report also found that federal law-enforcement agencies did not always report or report in a timely manner missing firearms internally or to the NCIC, a nationwide database of criminal justice information."
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How many is Bull's Eye in Washington missing?