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Canada: Gag on gun registry
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"Justice Minister Martin Cauchon's office has issued a gag order forbidding anyone to discuss how many people have been fired over the bungled firearms registration program." ...
"Chretien said that some people have been demoted, and 'some lost their jobs.' "
"But yesterday Murphy refused to confirm the PM's comments that staff at the mismanaged firearms program had been fired." |
The Party of the Serious Center
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"Which Party works hard for defense welfare programs like anti-missile defenses and the new Stealth Fighter? Which Party champions corporate welfare programs for sugar and steel producers? Which Party gave us Internet censorship, the Communications Decency Act I and II? Which Party fought to retain conscription? Under which Party's President did social welfare programs grow (a) $51 billion in 1995-2000 and II?" |
A Peace With Greens?
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"But at every turn the Green solution is an empowerment of government, a collectivization of not only the means of production but of social institutions and a total disenfranchising of the individual. ... One is left to ponder then why anyone could suggest a 'joining of forces' with them? Though there are some superficial common goals, the means of achieving these could not be farther apart." |
CA: Ca. Attorney General gives his view of the 2nd.
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"Although I am sworn to uphold the law, the responsibilities of my office do not permit me to independently interpret the state and federal Constitutions or the statutes written pursuant to those Constitutions. In the system of separation of powers established by our forefathers, that role is properly performed by the state and federal Courts." |
Russia: Policeman killed as drunk opens fire from balcony
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"An alcoholic was shot dead in southeast Moscow after he opened fire with a hunting rifle at passers-by from the balcony of his apartment. During the operation to arrest the offender, a policeman of a special-purpose unit was also killed. It transpired that before going on the shooting spree, the gunman had been on a weeklong drinking binge." |
Former hijack suspect in Sweden sentenced to four months in prison
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"A Swedish court has sentenced a former hijacking suspect to four months in prison for weapons violations."
"The court says Kerim Chatty didn't mean to bring a gun to a Swedish airport in August, but it also says his explanations aren't entirely convincing."
"Chatty -- who has previous assault and weapons convictions -- says he found the gun in a borrowed car. He says he put it in his bag and forgot about it when he left for an Islamic conference in Britain." |
Canada: Gun registry just a fourth-rate policy
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"Even along the way, in 1999, Mr. Rock's successor, Anne McLellan, said in interviews that the gun registry 'investment is starting to pay off.' "
"But just who was it paying off for?"
"Was it paying off for the Liberal supporters who got the government contracts to work on the registry? Or was it paying off for the patronage appointees who were given well-paid jobs in the gun registry bureaucracy?" |
SC: Man carrying rifle downtown triggers sniper scare, search
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"A sniper scare raced through Charleston on Wednesday morning after construction workers spotted a man carrying a high-powered rifle walking into the stairwell of a downtown parking garage." ...
"Police finally closed the case ...when a man approached an officer in the area and explained ...he had received the .270-caliber rifle as a gift from a co-worker and was simply taking it to his car..."
"...the man was not wanted for any crimes and had the proper paperwork for the gun..." |
AZ: Union Defends Ariz. Officer in Assault
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"Officer David Lopez, 31, pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor assault charge Wednesday. His lawyer said Lopez was trying to keep the 17-year-old from spitting on him."
" 'Every officer in this department has a right to protect themselves,' Sgt. Rich Anemone, president of the Tucson Police Officers Association, said Thursday. 'We feel Officer Lopez protected himself in a fashion appropriate to the situation.' "
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NY: It's Safe City, U.S.A.
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"Kelly attributed the decline to a number of gun initiatives, including the expansion of the NYPD's firearms investigation unit, an elite squad that has taken 453 illegal guns off the streets this year."
"Operation Gun Stop - a program that urged New Yorkers to turn in illegal gun carriers - led to 273 arrests and the seizure of 193 weapons. Operation Cash for Guns, where civilians could turn in weapons for $100, took in 1,787 firearms." |
VT: Does Patriot Act Compromise Reader's Rights?
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"In the past, probable cause and judicial oversight were required, if federal agents wanted to monitor someone, but the Patriot Act changed that."
"Basically any book you check out of your local public library can be put under scrutiny by the federal government."
"Some Vermonters feel that it's eroding their personal freedoms guaranteed by the 1st Amendment." |
Crossing Swords With General Ashcroft
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"What can town and city councils across the country actually do to rein in the FBI, the CIA, and all the other intelligence agencies now interconnected through the homeland security act? "
"A useful way to answer this pivotal question was reported on November 26 in the Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard: 'Eugene city councilors [voted unanimously] ...to make Eugene the 15th city in the United States ... to formally seek reform or repeal of the USA Patriot Act.' " |
UK: Sporting gun sale links with Sikh dynasty
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"A sporting gun made for, and used by, a son of Maharajah Duleep Singh, the last of the Sikh rulers, has been sold in a London auction for 23,500 pounds. The case in which it was kept sold for 2,115 pounds."
"The gun, a 12-bore side-lock ejector gun, was built in 1895 by the famous London gun-maker, James Purdey and Sons, for Duleep Singh's eldest son, Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, who, with his brother Victor, followed the Maharajah in maintainng a famous sporting dynasty." |
Debate Clouded (letter)
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Another amateur implants foot firmly in mouth, while practicing the age-old art of hand-wringing.
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"The modern-day militia is the National Guard. It has its own facilities to house and protect its weapons. Thus, home storage is no longer the problem." ...
"I suggest that ownership and possession of weapons (outside of the 'common defense') is not a constitutional issue but one of morality - man's inhumanity to man." |
Western Union Fined Over Money Transfers
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"New York bank regulators fined money transfer giant Western Union Financial Services Inc. $8 million for violating laws meant to guard against terrorist financing and money laundering, officials said on Friday."
"The penalty represents the largest-ever fine against a money transfer company by New York regulators and comes after last year's enactment of the USA Patriot Act -- a broad law that requires financial companies to beef up their oversight of customer activity." |
Critics say detention of Middle Eastern men harms terrorism fight
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"A federal policy that led to the detention of hundreds of Middle Eastern immigrants was a blunder that may have caused more harm than good in the battle against terrorism, lawmakers and community leaders charged Friday."
"The arrest of some immigrants who showed up to register under a new security policy drew comparisons to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II." |
Guns and Freedom
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"Last week, I posted a query to my readers: How would you argue with someone who advocates gun control (not registration and trigger locks, but the illegalization of guns)? There are now 240 comments to that post, many of which are excellent and thoughtful and helpful. Some are downright fantastic and address the core issue, which is freedom."
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Lock Step: The Hazards of "Smart Guns"
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"Instead of having a choice between expensive, newfangled guns that may not always work properly and cheaper, old-fashioned models with known capabilities, New Jersey residents will be forced to test the beta version, with potentially deadly results." |
UK: Armed raids on two town stores
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"A major hunt was launched last night after two stores in Ipswich were held up at gunpoint by an armed robber."
"Firearms officers and dog units were scrambled following robberies at the Victoria Wine shop in Bramford Road and the Co-op store in Ulster Avenue." |
UK: First-time burglars to avoid prison
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"The average first-time non-professional and non-violent domestic burglar will no longer be sent to prison, following a ruling by the Lord Chief Justice.
Lord Woolf said the sentencing 'starting point' of up to 18 months in prison no longer applied and courts should impose a community sentence in the first instance."
"But that must be an effective punishment which would tackle the offender's underlying problems, such as drug addiction, he added."
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. � Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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