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Showing posts with label 2nd Amendment Rights. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2009

The wealthy leave New York over taxes...

Now maybe you can a weapon and understand what the Second Amendment means.


Thursday, July 23, 2009

John Lott and Concealed Carry

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/21/john-lott-concealed-carry/

Monday, April 13, 2009

JPFOs target today is Diane Feinstein...She's like a spider in a lair...

She waits until another mass murder or other incident (you know how I feel about security and self-defense, and the personal defense of others)...then she'll throw the web.  (Sorry Spiderman - I don't mean to insult you.  My grandson would never forgive me.)


ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

April 13th 2009

JPFO ALERT: THE VOODOO HIGH PRIESTESS OF "GUN CONTROL"


This article can be read formatted on JPFO at -
http://www.jpfo.org/kirby/kirby-high-priestess.htm



Kirby Ferris

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Copyright JPFO 2009



"If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend
to be weak, that he may grow arrogant." Sun Tsu, "The Art of War"


Dianne Feinstein is quite a piece of work. Like some sort of
perverse Joan of Arc, she got her first real taste of the "gun
control" game when madman Patrick Purdy shot up a Stockton,
California school yard. She became the Queen Bee, the Big Mama, of
the so-called "assault weapons" ban.

She is completely aware of JPFO's meticulous research on "gun
control" laws, firearms registration, and firearms confiscation.
She knows full well the relationship behind "gun control" and mass
murder by governments-gone-bad.
( see -http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart )

I say this with one hundred percent confidence. Why? Because I
personally handed her the JPFO genocide material in a small café in
Stinson Beach, California years ago. You see, "DiFi" had a vacation
home on the ritzy stretch of beach in that little Northern
California town. I kept the JPFO material handy, as I'd met her on
several occasions, and knew my chance would come to deliver the
genocide message to her. Oh yeah, I did so with a witness standing
by, who later signed a sworn affidavit.

So what?

Yeah, so what? What difference did it, or does it, make? In
regards to the Brain of Feinstein? None whatsoever. She is a
betrayer of America and the Bill of Rights, matched only by some of
the other treacherous vermin that sit with her in Congress.

The Obama Administration has gone through "gun control"
spokespeople like a third rate NFL team goes through quarterbacks.
First Eric Holder, the Attorney General, piped up about more
draconian gun laws. Then that insufferable hag Nancy Pelosi stepped
in and countermanded Eric's pronouncements. ( Read - "Not Now Eric"
- http://www.jpfo.org/kirby/kirby-not-now.htm )

Then, like floundering rookies, Holder and Pelosi were benched, and
the "old pro" has now come into the game. I think we can safely bet
that Feinstein will remain Obama's Quisling Quarterback of Choice
for the duration of his fumbling stay in office.(Vidkun Quisling
was a Norwegian politician who helped the Nazis conquer his nation.
A "Quisling" is another word for traitor.)

And Dianne has certainly taken charge with an arrogance and egotism
that is truly stunning. In a recent interview with Leslie Stahl on
"Sixty Minutes" she made some remarkable pronouncements. ( See "60
Minutes" article -
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/09/60minutes/main4931769.shtml )

Asked of her plans for more "gun control" legislation, she told
Stahl: "I'll pick the time and place."

Oh yes, Your Highness! Please do exercise your Divine Right to
befoul our freedom even further! Do so whenever your tea leaves and
chicken entrails so instruct you!

I wonder how quacking Carolyn McCarthy, smirky Chuckie Schumer, and
sob sister Sarah Brady feel about Dianne acting like she's the new
leader of the Gun Ban Band?

Feinstein then went on to declare that: "The National Rifle
Association essentially has a stranglehold on the Congress."

This little tidbit of disinformation is why I opened this article
with Sun Tzu's famous quote. Please read it again and digest it
carefully.

Everyone from Barack Hussein Obama on down wants American gun
owners to actually believe that the Obama Administration and
Congress don't, right now, have the votes to pass just about any
anti firearms ownership laws they can come up with. The fact that
mainstream media shills like Leslie Stahl frown and pout the party
line should make every gun owner even more suspicious and cautious.

"The NRA is oh-so-mean and powerful!" Feinstein infers, but she
does so with the cunning of Brer Rabbit orchestrating his launch
into the briar patch!

The fact is that Feinstein knows full well that this present
corrupt Congress can, and will, do anything it damn well pleases!
Gun owners should curse, and, at the same time, ironically bless,
the Bank Bailout schemes that our "representatives" fell over
themselves to pass recently. Why? Because their slithering, vain
arrogance revealed, once and for all, what your "voice" really
means to them: NOTHING.

So, what is Feinstein's true plan? Well, she revealed it on "Sixty
Minutes": A culture war in America.

Feinstein agreed that further "gun control" schemes would incite
such a war. And then she declared that she, all by her little 'ole
self, would trigger this event by personally choosing the time and
place. Don't just believe me on this. Read her own words in the CBS
link -
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/09/60minutes/main4931769.shtml

So, until Darth Dianne snaps her fingers, the gun prohibitionists
in the Obama Administration and their bedfellows in Congress will
continue the verbal billowing and pontificating and posturing in
their dance of smoke and mirrors. But anyone with an ounce of
sense must realize that the writing is on the wall.


"You don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows." Bob
Dylan


It's really so obvious: Feinstein and Crew are waiting for a few
more gun massacres before leading Lemming America off the cliff.


Time and tide are in their favor. Millions of people in this
country are stuttering around under the influence of mind bending
prescription drugs. The economy has many people against the ropes
in desperation. And I will never back down from my assertion that
some of the more heinous mass shootings over the last few decades
were the work of programmed subjects ... especially Dianne's poster
boy Patrick Purdy.

Before labeling me a "conspiracy nut", please read my more detailed
explanation for this viewpoint: (see - "You Know it's Coming" -
http://www.jpfo.org/kirby/kirby-coming.htm ) . For those of you who
still balk at this realization, I also present you with a list of
clinical papers regarding the possibility of such psychological
manipulation: ( Refer to -
http://www.jpfo.org/pdf02/clinical-papers-hypnotic-induction-anti.pdf )

Meanwhile, you can't do much about Congress and their treasonous
schemes. The only way you can presently "vote" against the gun
prohibitionists is to buy (while you still can) a semi automatic
rifle and as much ammunition as you can afford.

Believe me, those hacks in D.C. do get reports on the burgeoning
guns and ammo sales. It "sends a message to Moscow". Power only
understands power.

However, before you mount either a philosophical or physical
resistance, you MUST educate yourself to the historical, moral
intent of the Second Amendment. Please make use of JPFO's free
downloadable documentary, "2A Today for the U.S.A." -
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/2a-today-download.htm . Please
circulate this video widely. You must recruit your friends, family,
and neighbors into the Freedom Fraternity.

I also strongly suggest you watch for JPFO's upcoming "No Guns For
Negroes" - http://www.jpfo.org/pdf02/jpfo-realize-letter.pdf , an
incisive documentary examination of the "racist card" as it is
played out by "gun control" pimps.

Feinstein and her ilk want an American people unarmed and
fundamentally subservient like the British, the French, or the
Germans. We can't let them do it.


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Thursday, April 9, 2009

A Brilliant Response to talk show host Michael Savage from Aaron Zelman of JPFO on the Second Amendment and cops being "outgunned".

ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

April 9th 2009

JPFO ALERT: AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL SAVAGE


This letter can be read on JPFO at -
http://www.jpfo.org/articles-assd/zelman-open-letter-msavage.htm



Dear Michael,

I was alarmed at the recent opinion brief you posted on your
website -
http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=5193 -
advocating the outlawing of so-called "assault rifles". (JPFO
archive copy -
http://www.jpfo.org/articles-assd/michael-savage.wnd.htm )

I doubt that I'm the only American who was perturbed by your point
of view. While loudly decrying and condemning the political
trickery of the insidious socialists and authoritarians in our
midst, you have now written and published an influential piece to
further their agenda.

As an American Jew, and the founder of "Jews for the Preservation
of Firearms Ownership" (JPFO), I believe that I can offer a unique
perspective on the dangerous fallacies of "gun control". I would
hope that I might get you to reconsider your present stance.

You seem to be, as are many well meaning Americans, ignorant of
certain aspects of world and U.S. history. You are, as are many,
also significantly misinformed of some critical facts of life
within the present day U.S. law enforcement community.

Most disturbingly, you seem to also misunderstand the true intent
of the Second Amendment, the very cornerstone of The Bill of
Rights. Perhaps more than anyone in this nation, you make full use
of the First Amendment every day you are on the air, and every time
someone accesses your web page. That you seem to have failed to
make a connection between the Second and the First is
disheartening. I invite you to view a JPFO production: "2A Today
for the U.S.A." -
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/2a-today-download.htm. It is a
free download. It is perhaps the best explanation of the Second
Amendment available to Americans today.

So, herein, I would like to counter your ill conceived assertions
and, at the same time, make my case for why high capacity semi
automatic rifles must remain available to Americans.

First, I must chide you on your use of the phrase "assault rifle".
It betrays either an ignorance of firearms, or you are knowingly
using one of the gun prohibitionists' pet deceptions.

Please realize that every time you use the term "assault rifle" you
are using an emotionalized buzz word that has been purposefully
mutated and distorted, and then injected into mainstream media
jabber and political parlance by the likes of your close friends
Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton,
Michael Bloomberg, William Jefferson Clinton, Sarah Brady, Eric
Holder, and legions of their socialist ilk.

In fact, the present day purposeful mis-usage of the term "assault
rifle" was the 1988 brainchild of venal gun prohibitionist and
propagandist Josh Sugarmann. He openly declares in his own book
why the deceptive nomenclature is so effective. Sugarmann says:

"The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion
over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault
weapons--anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a
machine gun--can only increase the chance of public support for
restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision
a practical use for these weapons."
-Josh Sugarmann, Assault Weapons and Accessories in America, 1988

For all intents and purposes, American citizens CANNOT own actual
assault rifles. An assault rifle is a firearm that has a select
fire option that allows it to operate as a fully automatic machine
gun.

You may chalk this up as nick picking, but it is not.

Why? Because here is an important question: Can the police arm
themselves with fully automatic rifles, actual assault rifles?

Of course! And they now do so with increasing regularity.
Absolutely no one is stopping them!

Can the huge majority of Americans arm themselves with fully
automatic rifles?

No, they cannot. Fully automatic rifles were made, for all intents
and purposes, pragmatically illegal by the Firearms Act of 1934.

Yes, you can own a machine gun if you are willing to pay a $200
tax, and then find a pre 1986 full auto machine gun, and then shell
out the exorbitant price for such a hard to find gun. So even
licensed machine gun owners can't get their hands on the hardware
that your local cop shop can locate and easily acquire with a
direct query to an agency like Homeland Security and/or BATFE.

Next in your opinion brief, you go on to infer that the police are
"outgunned". This is simply not true. In fact, it is a blatant
lie that you have been duped into believing.

I repeat, the federal government, especially since 9-11, stands
ready to fund the supply of both semi automatic and fully automatic
rifles to police authorities. Many cops now drive around with semi
automatic rifles within arms reach in their patrol cars. Chicago
has instituted this policy. Read -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/25/police-using-semi-automat_n_178958.html

Every cop on the seven man Jasper, Florida police department packs
a fully automatic AR-16 in the patrol car! If the little town of
Jasper can do it, no other municipality in America should find it
difficult to follow suit. Read -
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=25609

The transition to semi automatic rifles is really no more complex
or difficult than the transition from revolvers to semi automatic
pistols the police have almost universally made over the last two
decades. Give the cops the guns. Teach them how to use them. It is
being done all over America. Los Angeles was way ahead of the curve
on this trend.

So "outgunned" is a red herring, Michael. Don't be suckered.

The next important correction to your opinion brief: You infer that
there is a "flood" of illegal semi automatic weapons being smuggled
across our inarguably porous borders. Wrong. They are being made in
America at this very moment. As fast as American factories can turn
them out! Why? Because Americans by the millions NOW WANT THEM.

Maybe visions of Korean-Americans standing guard on their Los
Angeles rooftops with AK-47 type semi auto rifles put some ideas in
our minds. Ravaging looters were held at bay (and some killed) and
many of the Korean stores were the only buildings left un-plundered
in entire blocks. Other than the fact that Koreans are notorious
for not messing around, I wonder why.

With America and the world in the first stages of a global
financial meltdown, is such civil unrest likely to be repeated in
America in the near future? Do you even need to answer that one?

These guns (semi auto rifles) aren't being smuggled into America in
any great numbers. The AR-15 style semi auto is legally
manufactured by at least ten different firms in the U.S. Smith &
Wesson makes one, Remington makes one, and Colt has been making
them for decades. The AK style semi autos are mostly made abroad,
but legally imported. However, there are also several U.S.
manufacturers of the AK style semi auto. (Keep that image of the
defiant Korean store owner in your head.)

Next, you use a deceptively simplistic quote: "Well, Mike, if we're
armed with these weapons, the government can't possibly take our
rights away."

Nothing guarantees our freedom with complete assurance. Nothing.
Our task as Americans is to make the theft of our freedom an
extremely risky and bloody task for would-be tyrants. Nothing has
changed in the more than two hundred years we've operated under the
Bill of Rights. Human folly and deceit remains the same ... it's just
being televised.

You are correct that a single person can't make a successful stand
against a corrupted government.

However, I should remind you that there are an estimated 65 MILLION
gun owners (owning more than 200 million firearms) in America. Some
quite neutral authorities estimate there may be a firearm in almost
every other house in the United States. Read -
http://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/165476.txt

Suppose the state of affairs in this nation became so intolerable
that "They" came to get YOU? (For that matter, wouldn't you be the
VERY FIRST guy on their list?)

Having said that, you would obviously want us in the streets loudly
protesting. Unarmed, at first.

But at what point during your incarceration and "re-education"
would you appreciate the fact that many of us were willing to take
up arms to see you released? Men have been lynched by armed mobs ...
and men have been freed by armed mobs.

Or, in another not-so-unlikely event, what if house-to-house gun
searches and confiscations (as were conducted by malicious
governments throughout the entire 20th Century) start up here in
America, in the land of the free? Michael, it has already happened,
during Hurricane Katrina.

What do gun confiscations far too often lead to? Genocide. Mass
murder. Please take a moment to study the easy-to-understand
"Genocide Chart" that JPFO carefully researched and compiled. Trust
me, it is a wake up call. Reference -
http://www.jpfo.org/../filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart

The first few victims of American gun sweeps would be hauled off
for hiding their firearms or not meeting the registration check
lists, but word of such events would spread like wild fire. Maybe
the nation would hear about it from you first.

At some point, the jack boots would be met with force ... quite
likely a very significant force, from all directions. That is the
key point you overlook in your blithe dismissal: FROM ALL
DIRECTIONS. To be more accurate, from potentially 65 MILLION
directions.

What if the American government ever "goes bad" and becomes a
police state? That tyrannical government, IF it could enlist the
willing support of every American soldier and every American cop
(which is thankfully doubtful), could field perhaps a total of 1.5
million armed personnel. These duped soldiers and cops would have
to go to their jobs each day facing a bare minimum of 10 MILLION
very, very motivated and angry armed American citizens. The other
55 million would sit on the fence waiting, with their guns, to see
which way the tide was flowing.

Additionally, you must logically ask WHY the present government is
so obsessively committed to "gun control". If our government has
become so overpowering, so omnipotent, and it's a waste of our time
to even imagine resisting tyranny, then why do "They" even worry
about the citizens being armed?

And why did the political regimes that committed genocide though
the history of the 20th Century, first REGISTER and then CONFISCATE
firearms before marching unarmed masses off to killing fields?

If an armed government is so omnipotent, why have so many armed
governments gone to the effort and expense of gun confiscation?

The Turks did it to the Armenians. Lenin did it to Russians. Hitler
did it to many Germans and all Jews. Stalin gave Russians a
horrific double dose. And Mao, the world record holding mass
murderer, did it to Red China.

Michael, I understand that you support the police in America. So do
I. But don't let your loyalty to the men and women in blue cloud
your thinking.

Police are "public servants". That makes us, in the final
analysis, their masters. This is a somber realization, but
Americans must face this responsibility. We are their masters. They
work for us. Let them have their semi auto rifles. Gladly. Let them
even have their fully automatic machine guns. But that doesn't mean
they can dictate public policy, and deny us the same right to
personal self defense. Your or my life is NOT less important than
the life of a police officer.

When the police make the laws, it's call a "Police State".

A huge and overwhelming majority of American gun owners salute the
incredibly difficult job our police officers perform each day. But
if we allow laws that result in the registration and confiscation
of significant self defense weapons, and misguided cops march out
to enforce those laws, you will see Americans turn on those police
officers with a resentment that you cannot even imagine. Then we
can talk about "outgunned".

Sincerely,

Aaron Zelman - Founder and Director JPFO


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Sunday, January 18, 2009

GOOD GUY SHOOTS BAD GUY. Go Montana!

ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP

America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

January 18th 2009

JPFO ALERT: GOOD GUY SHOOTS BAD GUY.
WE ASSUME SARAH BRADY IN TEARS


Confirmed: There was a shooting incident in Glasgow, Montana on
Saturday afternoon. Besides the shooter, one person was killed
and two were injured. Police locked down the community, warned
people to lock doors and stay inside, and followed a blood trail
which eventually led to the deceased shooter.

Unconfirmed but probable: The shooter made his attack at a local
hospital and killed a female Emergency Medical Technician. Scott
Billingsly was present because his wife works at the hospital.
Scott has a Montana concealed weapon permit, was armed, and engaged
the shooter in defense of himself and others. Scott was injured in
the hand and Scott's wife was also injured. The shooter was
seriously injured and was driven off by Scott's armed engagement of
the shooter. The seriously wounded shooter sought shelter, leaving
the blood trail that law enforcement followed, where they found the
shooter dead of a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The people of Glasgow who know these details are highly thankful
that an armed citizen was present and able to interdict the killer
before he could kill more than the one person murdered, possibly
saving the lives of many other hospital employees.


Gary Marbut, President Montana Shooting Sports Association -
http://www.mtssa.org/
Author, Gun Laws of Montana - http://www.mtpublish.com/
406-549-1252



The Liberty Crew
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Saturday, November 8, 2008

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY: a global travesty!

The terrorist in our midst is our government, no matter where we live on this earth.

To the left of this entry is a poll which should read "Will you resist gun confiscation under Obama", and you may have to click on the line below, "A Little Gun History". I am curious to see your answers. It runs to November 11. I don't know how to move it here...yet. I'll learn.

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY


Dear Obama, if you have ANY sense at all . . .

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about

20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

------------------------------

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million
Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of
13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded
up and exterminated.

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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan
Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million
educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because
of gun control: 56 million.

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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new
law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own
government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million
dollars. The first year results are now in:


List of 7 items: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent Australia-wide, armed robberies
are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300
percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the
criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed
robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12
months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.

There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the
ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety
has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in
successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience
and the other historical l f acts above prove it.

You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of
this history lesson.

With guns, we are 'citizens'.

Without them, we are 'subjects'.

In RECENTLY RELEASED documents, an astonishing fact has come to light: During WWII the Japanese had a DISTINCT and URGENT plan to bomb and invade the U.S., and decided not to invade America because they knew
most Americans were ARMED! TERRORISTS, so banner Obama: TAKE NOTE!








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Does anyone remember the Luby Cafeteria massacre in Texas?

Let me refresh your memory with this video.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=9jqtl25z2y

Monday, October 27, 2008

Brownell's Gun Owner's Political Backup Plan

The following is from Brownell's, a sporting arms/sporting goods store in Iowa.



A Gun Owner's Political Backup Plan


It's barely a week before the election that determines the direction of our country for the next four years. If you believe the polls, the presidential race appears to favor an anti-gun candidate, and gun owners have good reason to be concerned. What's our backup plan? As head of the federal government, the President has a lot of power, but remember that Congress actually makes the laws we live by.

The outcomes of critical U.S. House and Senate races on Nov. 4 will be as important for the future of our Second Amendment rights as who wins the White House. Our votes-and our dollars-make a much larger impact in these races than the run for President. Even if the Presidential race doesn't go the way you want, you can still have plenty of influence on how our country is governed in the coming years. This also means that a crucial Congressional race in a different state may also have a huge impact on your Second Amendment rights.

A great example of a candidate who will vigorously represent gun owners everywhere is Jim Gilmore, running for U.S. Senate from Virginia. From his deep commitment to the NRA and fantastic service on its Board, we can tell you Jim will be a strong Second Amendment Senator. If Jim gets elected, we all win, regardless of where we live. We need people like Jim Gilmore in Congress - regardless of who wins the White House.

Many other good pro-gun House and Senate candidates are fighting tough races, as they put on a full-court press this week into the late hours of next Monday. They need our help. Something you can do today is make small donations to some of these Senate and House candidates (up to $2,300 for federal races). Pick the ones that represent your values and the way of life you want protected. They can accept donations from anyone anywhere in the country, and all of them have websites, like Jim Gilmore's www.jimgilmoreforsenate.com, where you can make your donation today. This is how we do it:

1. Review the Electoral Vote website to find close races.

a. Senate Races

b. House Races


2. Check the NRA's ranking of the candidates at www.NRAPVF.org

3. Find Senate and House candidates who will represent our firearms rights, and donate to their campaigns.

Please join us in taking positive action right now, while there's still time, before next Tuesday. Support pro-gun candidates for Congress, and help defend our gun-owning rights against possible negative fallout from the Presidential election.

Frank & Pete Brownell

Monday, October 20, 2008

Your First Amendment Rights and Obama by Michael Barone

The Coming Obama Thugocracy
Attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals.

By Michael Barone

‘I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people’s faces. They seem determined to shut people up.

That’s what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign emails, did when conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program in Chicago. Kurtz had been researching Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago — papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.

Obama fans jammed WGN’s phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Rosenberg’s example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.

Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that were “false.” I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama's ties to Ayers.

These attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals. Congressional Democrats sought to reimpose the “fairness doctrine” on broadcasters, which until it was repealed in the 1980s required equal time for different points of view. The motive was plain: to shut down the one conservative-leaning communications medium, talk radio. Liberal talk-show hosts have mostly failed to draw audiences, and many liberals can’t abide having citizens hear contrary views.

To their credit, some liberal old-timers — like House Appropriations Chairman David Obey — voted against the “fairness doctrine,” in line with their longstanding support of free speech. But you can expect the “fairness doctrine” to get another vote if Barack Obama wins and Democrats increase their congressional majorities.

Corporate liberals have done their share in shutting down anti-liberal speech, too. Saturday Night Live ran a spoof of the financial crisis that skewered Democrats like House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and liberal contributors Herbert and Marion Sandler, who sold toxic-waste-filled Golden West to Wachovia Bank for $24 billion. Kind of surprising, but not for long. The tape of the broadcast disappeared from NBC’s Website and was replaced with another that omitted the references to Frank and the Sandlers. Evidently NBC and its parent, General Electric, don't want people to hear speech that attacks liberals.

Then there’s the Democrats’ “card check” legislation, which would abolish secret ballot elections in determining whether employees are represented by unions. The unions’ strategy is obvious: Send a few thugs over to employees’ homes — we know where you live — and get them to sign cards that will trigger a union victory without giving employers a chance to be heard.

Once upon a time, liberals prided themselves, with considerable reason, as the staunchest defenders of free speech. Union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s made the case that they should have access to employees to speak freely to them, and union leaders like George Meany and Walter Reuther were ardent defenders of the First Amendment.

Today’s liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.

Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.

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