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NJ: Gun "Safety" Bills Before NJ Legislature
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"The New Jersey Assembly is scheduled to vote Monday on two measures aimed at promoting gun safety and making weapons easier to track."
"New Jersey could become the first state in the nation to require that only handguns outfitted with personalized anti-firing technology could be sold in the state." ... |
Bush Official Defends Post-9/11 Treatment of Civil Liberties
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"As the Bush administration and congressional allies continue to ramp up its efforts to thwart terrorism, civil libertarians are appealing to the courts and public opinion to roll back government's new and enhanced police powers."
"In the face of criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and civil libertarians, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff defended administration policies, ranging from detaining immigrants suspected of terrorist links to trying civilians in military courts and withholding certain information from the public." ... |
CRISIS: Midnight Land Grab
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"S. 990 - The 'Son of CARA' - a version of CARA - the Condemnation and Relocation Act - is on the fast track and moving through Congress! This discredited land grab bill had not moved for eleven months, until the dark of night in the wee hours of Friday morning."
"ONCE AGAIN, selected members of Congress have moved legislation - S. 990 - in the dead of night that will"
"1) Make the Endangered Species Act EVEN WORSE,"
"2) Permit SEIZURE of private property, and"
"3) Hand out cash to environmental extremists and animal rights outfits!"
"Oh yes, and 4) it hands out up to $25 million to foreign countries for land acquisition. We couldn't make this up, folks!" ... |
Canada: Gun owners urged to fight
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"An Alberta-based group opposing gun control legislation hopes gun owners rally together to break the law by not registering their firearms."
"Bruce Hutton, founder of the Law-Abiding Unregistered Firearms Association, said there is 'no gun problem in Canada.' " ... |
NY: Deepening Shadows
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"SOMETHING in the air seems to be changing. Once again, it's not uncommon to feel a vague sense of dread when walking down a shadowy street. Strangers look slightly menacing. The sound of footsteps provokes a sense of unease."
"It's not as bad as it was a decade ago, when crime was every New Yorker's waking nightmare. But New Yorkers are more fearful these days, and that is odd, given the city's dropping crime rate."
"Police statistics show that crime is the lowest it has been in four decades. For the first time since the early 60's, the annual murder rate is on pace to fall below 600." ... |
FL: Experts question gun verdict
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"It was a landmark decision, but legal experts say it likely won't hold up on appeal."
"On Thursday, a Palm Beach County jury found Sunrise-based gun distributor Valor Corp., responsible, if only minimally, for the shooting death of Lake Worth Middle School teacher Barry Grunow, who was shot in the face two years ago by a 13-year-old student." ... |
AZ: "Changing orders for police shootings"
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... "A) The shooting of citizens should, if at all possible, be mainly restricted to poor minorities. It should be fairly obvious that the general population has a much harder time relating to, say, a strung-out junkie than they do a nice, blond-haired mother of two, living in suburbia. Not to suggest public pressure doesn't exist when the victim is Black or Latino, but it is not as effective." ... |
"Militias May Again Save the Republic"
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"We are at war and every one of us has a responsibility and a right to defend each other and ourselves. This is not hyperbole. It is not fear mongering. It is FACT."
"Item #1 in a list of �Rules for a gunfight� is, 'Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.' " ...
"Militias SHOULD be local people. Militias should be neighborhood watch programs with guns as well as telephones." ... |
Canada: Ganging up on guns
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"Colin McDonald pulls out a package hidden under the nylon bag containing his police-issue shotgun. The veteran Toronto detective with the Gun Task Force and his team have targeted Bay Mills Blvd., in the Sheppard Ave.-Birchmount Rd. area, on a miserable Thursday in the first week of Project Redirect and the package lists 13 identified members of the so-called Bay Mills Crips gang." ... |
Why We Need Guns
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"What was and is the main reason the Founding Fathers - all of them - wanted us to have guns, guns we would bear (carry) on our persons? Why did they say so, again and again? Hunting. Yes, hunting certainly was one reason. Even today, many Americans still go hunting to put fresh kill on the table. Some even have organized to express their joyful dominion, and call themselves P.E.T.A., People Eating Tasty Animals. What about sport? Yes, there are many gun sports, such as skeet, or even plinking at cans, which offer wholesome recreation. But neither sport nor hunting is even remotely the main reason. Well, what about self-defense? Surely self-defense is the reason we seek. No. It's important, yes. Sometimes, regrettably, we do need to protect ourselves and our families from private criminals who are armed, and a gun is the best way to do that, unless you happen to be Chuck Norris or Steven Segall, which most people are not. Then what is it?" ... |
Nameless Juries Are on the Rise in Crime Cases
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"The Wisconsin Supreme Court will soon decide whether Sherrie S. Tucker is so dangerous that her case required an anonymous jury."
"Ms. Tucker would not strike most people as particularly scary. When she was arrested on cocaine charges in 1998, she was 16 years old and six months pregnant. She was just over four feet tall and weighed 90 pounds." ...
"Judge Mueller and other Wisconsin judges who share her philosophy are not alone in using anonymous juries in everyday cases. Begun 25 years ago in a notorious drug case in New York to guard against jury tampering, the practice has spread in state and federal courts, sometimes in cases that are quite routine." ... |
Australia: Thieves steal more guns
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Yes, stringent gun control is certainly keeping guns out of the hands of criminals in Australia.
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"Police are investigating another firearms theft in Northern Tasmania."
"Two rifles, a shotgun and ammunition were stolen from a property at Mowbray last night."
"Launceston police say thieves broke into the home in Bill Grove around six o'clock, prised [sic] open a locked cabinet and escaped with three registered guns."
"Police says they are looking for more than one suspect." ... |
UK: Boy shot in face by street robbers
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"A teenager was shot in the face with an air rifle at point blank range and two of his friends were clobbered over the head by attackers who stole a mobile."
"The gun was put against the 17-year-old's cheek and fired directly into his face, just missing his left eye." ...
"The two offenders then turned on the victim's pals - one aged 17, the other 15 - hit them over the head with the rifle and punched them in the face, before stealing a mobile phone from one of them." ... |
PA: Anti-gunners in Philly paper urge Gov.-elect Rendell to follow New Jersey ignorance
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"NEW JERSEY is about to take an important step in making children's lives safer from gun violence - despite Gov. Jim McGreevey's apparent betrayal of his own campaign rhetoric."
"State reps in Trenton are expected to vote today on a bill that would eventually require all handguns sold in New Jersey be equipped with safety features that would prevent children from being able to use the weapon." ...
blah blah blah... Rendell should be so stupid as to push for mandatory technology that doesn't even exist yet... blah blah blah |
BATF Fighting Proposal to Import Old, American-made Weapons
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"The federal gun control bureau is strongly opposing a proposal to let gun sellers and owners import as many as two million World War II era infantry weapons that were made in the United States and exported to the world's armies decades ago."
"The objections from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms come as the State Department is considering the proposal, which is being pressed by a trade association that lobbies for gun importers. The bureau says the idea, which would lift a 50-year-old ban, would flood the market with outdated but deadly weapons that could fall into the hands of criminals and would be hard to regulate." ...
"A letter from the firearms bureau, part of the Treasury Department, warned that the change would prevent it from stopping the criminal use of 'particularly dangerous' old guns: pistols that are readily concealed and carbines and Garand rifles, which can be easily converted into automatic weapons. Moreover, the letter warned, the carbine and Garand can fire bullets capable of piercing the soft body armor worn by police officers." ...
CONSIDER...
These fascist anti-gun public swervants are basically saying that age of a firearm should help justify a ban. They are also saying that firearms less lethal than many found in a local gun store should be banned because they are "deadly weapons." And they are saying that "concealable" American-made handguns shouldn't be allowed back into the country even though the market in new and used concealable handguns is wide open and flourishing.
With all due respect to BATF, we are rather curious as to what kind of anti-gun moron is running their public relations campaign. The only people who could actually buy into these flaccid arguments are people who don't have a clue. |
Justice Deptartment Wins Wiretap Ruling
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"A secretive appeals court ruled today that antiterrorism legislation approved last year gives the Justice Department broad authority to conduct wiretaps and other surveillance on terrorism suspects within the United States."
"The order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review [???] represents a legal triumph for Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who had pushed for the broader powers, and a clear setback for civil libertarians who said the new measures would jeopardize the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens." ...
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Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers (another report)
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"...the three-judge appeals court panel said the Patriot Act gave the government the right to expanded powers."
"In the May ruling, the seven judges that comprise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court unanimously told the government it had gone too far in interpreting powers to conduct surveillance under the Patriot Act."
"The court, which took the unprecedented action of making its ruling public in August, implemented an oversight requirement for the surveillance."
"The Justice Department appealed, saying the court's order limited the kind of coordination needed to protect national security." ... |
OK for armed airline pilots seen likely on Capitol Hill
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"Congress is poised to give thousands of commercial pilots the right to carry guns in the cockpit after more than a year of debate amid fierce opposition from the airline industry."
"A bill expected to clear Congress this week will allow airline pilots to carry pistols on the flight deck after undergoing a training course tailored by the FBI. More than half of the nation�s 80,000 to 100,000 passenger-airline pilots could participate, according to experts." ... |
NY Police Commissioner vs. Chicago Police Chief over gunowner privacy
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"New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has squared off against Chicago's police chief over whether gun data should be made public - and their spat has now reached the U.S. Supreme Court."
"Gun-control watchdogs have long sought access to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm's national gun-tracing database because it can identify licensed gun dealers who sell firearms to criminals." ... |
Grounded - "an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people"
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"A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people. Peace activists and civil libertarians fear they're on it." ...
"Barbara Olshansky was at a Newark International Airport departure gate last May when an airline agent at the counter checking her boarding pass called airport security. Olshansky was subjected to a close search and then, though she was in view of other travelers, was ordered to pull her pants down. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may have created a new era in airport security, but even so, she was embarrassed and annoyed."
"Perhaps one such incident might've been forgotten, but Olshansky, the assistant legal director for the left-leaning Center for Constitutional Rights, was pulled out of line for special attention the next time she flew. And the next time. And the next time. On one flight this past September from Newark to Washington, six members of the center's staff, including Olshansky, were stopped and subjected to intense scrutiny, even though they had purchased their tickets independently and had not checked in as a group. On that occasion, Olshansky got angry and demanded to know why she had been singled out." ... |
IL: Homeschoolers get knock on door from police, ordered to appear at 'pre-trial hearing'
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"A public school superintendent has sent police in squad cars to the houses of homeschooling families to deliver his demand that they appear for a 'pre-trial hearing' to prove they are in compliance with the law."
"Bruce Dennison, regional superintendent of schools in Bureau, Stark, and Henry counties in Northeastern Illinois, has contacted more than 22 families, insisting that they need his approval to conduct education at home." ... |
TX: Judge sentences rancher for harassing illegal Mexican national
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"United States District Court Judge James M. Simmonds on Sunday found Coy T. Brown guilty of assaulting Mexican immigrant Juan Mauricio Gonzalez with a fire arm and sentenced him to five years in prison, Notimex reported."
"After a two-year investigation spearheaded by the Foreign Relations Secretariat, Brown was found guilty of firing a pistol on April 10, 2000, at Gonzalez, a native of Tasquillo, Hidalgo." ... |
TN: No charges in shooting, police decide
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"Authorities will not press charges in a bizarre incident in which a suspicious wife was shot after breaking down the door of a Norcross apartment."
"Karen Inthirath, 34, thought she was shooting an intruder, not her ex-husband's current wife, said Gwinnett police Cpl. Ray Dunlap."
" 'The woman was defending her home,' Dunlap said. 'And she has every right to defend her home and her children.' " ... |
America�s Transformation from Liberty to Democracy
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"If we were able to go back to the time of the Revolutionary War and ask the typical American to describe, in one word, the underlying principle of the new American government, that one word would have been liberty. If we were to ask the typical American citizen today to describe, in one word, the underlying principle of American government, that one word would be democracy." ... |
South Africa: Plans afoot for giant Mandela statue
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"A waving figure of the country's first post-apartheid president will tower 65 metres (210 feet) above the city's harbour mouth, if the planners get the necessary funding. Critics dismiss the idea as 'blatant exploitation' of the Mandela legend but backers say the project would act as both a monument to freedom and peace and a major tourist attraction."
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Guns: Call renewed for print registry
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Same old boring parrot, with a different name. ...
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... "But, without a national registry of guns and their bullet markings, similar to that for human fingerprints, investigators were powerless to identify the exact weapon or its owners - until all were found together Oct. 24 in a Chevrolet Caprice parked at a Maryland rest stop." ... |
Rancher Gets Five Years in Prison for "Harassing" Immigrant with Firearm (another report)
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"United States District judge James M. Simmons found Coy T. Brown guilty of assaulting Mexican immigrant Juan Mauricio Gonzales with a firearm and sentenced him to five years in prison, Notimex reported. In addition to his prison sentence, Brown, a Texas rancher was denied bail and assessed a $10,000 fine, the SRE said."
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Judge orders Alabama to remove Ten Commandments Monument
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- "A Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of Alabama's judicial building violates the constitution's ban on government promotion of religion, a federal judge ruled Monday."
"U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson gave Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had had the 5,300-pound granite monument installed in the state building, 30 days to remove it."
"A lawsuit seeking removal of the monument argued that it promoted the judge's faith in violation of the constitution's ban on government establishment of religion."
" 'This is a question of whether the politically powerful can impose their views on others,' Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Danielle Lipow argued during the trial before Thompson." ... |
Ultra Orthodox US Jews accused of 'cleaning' Colombian coke cartel cash
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"British and American drug-busting authorities claim to have smashed one of the most bizarre money-laundering services ever operated for Colombian cocaine cartels: a circle of ultra-religious Hassidic Jews in New York."
"The ring is said to be one of the biggest to be 'cleaning' profits amassed by the Colombian coke barons." ...
"This is not the first time the Hassidim have been exposed as involved in the big-time drug trade..." ... |
UK: Prince Charles wins order against book - his privacy allows censorship
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LONDON -- Prince Charles got a court to keep The Glasgow Sunday Mail from printing details of "The Housekeeper's Tale" by Wendy Berry. A 1995 British court banned the book; it was released in the U.S. The court ruled the article would infringe the prince's privacy and serve no public interest. Editor Allan Rennie plans to appeal the ban: "It is ridiculous that Americans have had the chance to read these revelations and we have not."
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Many Great Libertarian Ideas, But it Still Comes Down To The One
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... "We Libertarians know and have the proof that in states that have the least restrictions on gun ownership that rates of crimes involving gun violence and overall rates of crime are greatly reduced, and places like Washington DC that have the greatest restrictions on gun ownership have the highest rates of gun violence, but this is not enough to alleviate their fears. They have been sold a bill of goods and they are convinced." ... |
WA: Lawful selling of guns caught on tape - Sheriff Sounds Off!
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Newslinks Reader Lee Mathews introduces this one:
KIRO TV News (Seattle) has been heavily promoting a "Team 7 Investigation" that was scheduled to air Monday evening at 5 PM. The reporter, accompanied by a spy cam, purchased a rifle at a "local" gun show "in 15 minutes and w/o any paperwork." The purchase was legal... but it was not "local." Sheriff John McCroskey explains in this op-ed. Also see:
http://www.seattleinsider.com/partners/kirotv/
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�Let me be sure I understand what we have here,� I replied. �You have a video, of a lawful transaction, by law-abiding citizens, and wonder if that concerns me?�
Nope.
�But Sheriff, he bought the rifle in five minutes! He didn�t have to fill out any paperwork! Surely that is a concern.�
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MD: Police officer's badge saves his life
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BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- A Baltimore police officer has his badge to thank for deflecting a bullet during a scuffle last night.
Police said Officer James Howard was treated last night and released.
Police Commissioner Edward Norris said Howard was patrolling in Northwest Baltimore at about 6 p.m. when he got out of his car and began searching the area on foot. A few minutes later, the officer noticed a large man in the alley, and called dispatchers.
The man attacked Howard, grabbing his service gun and firing it at him.
Norris said Howard is "very lucky." The badge, he said, is going in the police museum. |
Jamaica: Five killed in Jamaica shooting spree
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Jamaica -- where armed self-defense is banned, and crowds of shoppers are sitting ducks. ...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) -- "A group of gunmen opened fire on crowds of shoppers in three sections of Jamaica's capital, killing five, wounding 15 and spurring authorities to send more than 100 police and soldiers into the streets to prevent reprisals, police said Sunday."
"Police said there was no clear motive for the shooting spree late Saturday, when the gunmen first hit shoppers in the Beckford Street area of downtown Kingston."
"The gunmen then scattered to nearby Matthews Lane and Hannah Town, where they again shot into crowds. Police said three people died on the streets and 17 were rushed to a hospital, where two others later died."
"None of the victims have been identified publicly. Kingston Public Hospital officials said three of the 15 wounded were in critical condition."
"The Caribbean nation of 2.7 million people has one of the world's highest murder rates, and much of the violence is attributed to inner-city gangs linked to drug- and gun-trafficking. Police said 921 people have been murdered so far this year, compared to a record 1,139 people in all of last year." ... |
Ruling: Cybercops need a hack warrant
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"A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement officials went too far when they tried to use evidence gathered by a known hacker to convict someone of possessing child pornography."
"The decision, handed down earlier this month, is believed to be the first to say that hacking into an Internet-connected home PC without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures." ... |
The Free State Project: A Project for Idaho
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"What is a 'free state'? Whatever a free state is, it's certainly not being served and protected by regimes posing as constitutionally authorized state and federal governments. Our current government has all the trappings of a police state; they are managed through emergency proclamations, executive orders, bureaucratic mandates and judicial fiat." ... |
Court to Hear Campaign Finance Case
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"The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take a new look at federal limits on campaign contributions to candidates."
"The court will decide whether certain advocacy groups can contribute to candidates' campaigns." ...
"At issue is in this case is whether ... groups that raise money not through business ventures but through donations from supporters � can make campaign contributions. Such groups have neither business interests nor shareholders." ... |
MI: MCRGO to File Suit Against Detroit
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"The Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners announced today its intention to file suit against the City of Detroit over the recently enacted ban on legally concealed firearms in public buildings. 'We expect to have the lawsuit filed within the next several days', said Jeff Lemon, Chairman of the Wayne County Chapter of MCRGO. 'We have no qualms at all about suing when recalcitrant elected officials enact ordinances that violate state law.' " ... |
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