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We Condemn "Project Exile" [NOTE: Firearms Rights Leaders and Citizens
have two different methods of showing support for this document, and each are
spelled out clearly below this document. New additions of Leaders will
be added to the end of this document ongoingly.] [NOTE: The signers of this statement support any reasonable law-enforcement
program that removes violent repeat-offender felons from our cities and
neighborhoods, but only if the laws utilized to convict and to punish such felons
are constitutional. We condemn any program that involves enforcing unconstitutional
"laws", even if such "laws" are enforced only against
violent criminals. Unconstitutional "laws" are illegal, harmful to
public safety, tyrannical, and are inevitably enforced against ordinary,
non-criminal citizens. The "Project Exile" supported by the current NRA management calls
for enforcing all existing gun laws, regardless of their unconstitutionality
and regardless of their being enforceable against non-criminals. Furthermore,
the current NRA management's quoted remarks (see below) indicate a disregard
for our public safety, our heritage, our freedom, and our Constitution.] To All Americans:
The current NRA management’s "Project Exile" program demands
"zero tolerance" enforcement of all existing federal gun laws. But
most—if not all—of these laws are unconstitutional violations of
the Second Amendment. American firearm owners and supporters of the Bill
of Rights have invested countless millions of dollars and man-hours to
prevent these same laws from ever being passed. Clear-thinking Americans
continue to work tirelessly to repeal them.
Enemies of the right of self-defense and the Second Amendment, such as
Handgun Control Inc., Bill Clinton, and Charles Schumer, all strongly support
"Project Exile, because "Project Exile" is an official endorsement
of these onerous gun laws – including the infamous 1994
"Crime Bill" which outlawed "high capacity" magazines and
banned perfectly Constitutional militia rifles.
The NRA’s current management says that "Project Exile" is aimed
at convicting violent felons. But of course these laws can be—and will
be—used against any citizen who breaks them. "Project
Exile" demands enforcement, with Zero Tolerance and minimum 5-year
prison terms, of current federal laws enforceable against any
American man or woman who, for example:
Should Americans go to prison for the acts described above? "Project
Exile" says YES.
There is no connection between supporting the Bill of Rights and supporting
federal laws that are un-American. Moreover, the agencies that enforce
such laws slaughtered over eighty people in Waco, shot to death a young boy
and his mother at Ruby Ridge, and continually commit brutal acts against
citizens under the guise of "gun control". The "legal"
excuse behind the Waco massacre was the unproved suspicion of
"illegal" machine gun possession. The "legal" excuse
behind the Ruby Ridge killings was a shotgun that may have been ¼ inch
too short. Both are examples of "zero tolerance".
As for the issue of crime, dissatisfaction regarding the removal of
criminals from our streets should be directed toward state and local lawmaking
bodies—the same entities which often refuse to reduce crime by
respecting our right to bear arms for self-defense.
Governments have murdered tens of millions of their own citizens in the
last century alone—mass murders that were often greatly facilitated by
civilian disarmament aided by firearms registration. Conventional criminals
continue daily to add to their terrible toll of victims. Therefore we call
upon legislators to repeal ALL LAWS which infringe upon the right of Americans
to freely carry arms in defense of self, family, and country. And we call on
the NRA’s management to repudiate "Project Exile", which, by
supporting such laws, is a grotesque betrayal of the eighty-three million
American firearm owners who conduct peaceable lives every day; a betrayal of
the Second Amendment; and a betrayal of the entire Bill of Rights, the
Constitution, and the freedoms Americans hold dear.
Read DIRECT
QUOTES from the "Winning
Team" about Project Exile Anti-"Exile",
Pro-Second Amendment Coalition Organizers Brian Puckett Angel Shamaya Russ
Howard
Larry Pratt
Aaron Zelman Leroy Pyle
Steve Silver
Albert Ross
Nancy Herrington Sarah Thompson, M.D.
Kevin Starrett
Reginald Shinn
Harry Schneider
Gary S. Marbut
Larry Farrell Tom Chandler Ed Kelleher Paul Valone Dudley Brown Bill Duff Jack Iannantuono John Harris Barry Bright Jeff Chan Larry R. Rankin Arthur "Art" Nichols David Gross Andrew E. Barniskis John Birch Geoff Metcalf, Chairman, VetoTheGovernor.org,
Statement
on Exile/NRA Nancyann Rutledge Bernie Oliver Bob Glass Mark Call, Co-Founder, Tyranny
Response Team A. Nathan Zeliff Jerry F. Phillips Ari Armstrong, Pro-Second
Amendment Writer and Activist, CO-Freedom.com President Claire Wolfe, author of books on freedom, proprietor of Wolfe's
Lodge,
armed and free female David Codrea, Founder
& Director, Citizens
of America; Founder, GunTruths.com,
Second Amendment Writer Weldon Clark Melissa & Neal Seaman Dave Edmondson H.S. "Gunnie" Reagan (M/Gny. Sgt., Retired-USMC) L. Neil Smith J. R. Nyquist J.J. Johnson Arnold Gaunt
Chris BeHanna
Frank J. Brady, President, The
People United
Robert T Fanning, Jr., Founder of hunters rights group 4000 members
strong, NRA member since 1962 Charles Curley, Founder, Wyoming Arms Rights Coalition; author;
Second Amendment legal scholar; webmaster,
Wyoming
Libertarian Party Clarence Lovell, NRA Board Member for
1980-1993, 1995 John Taylor, Editor, The
Libertarian Enterprise
J. Neil Schulman, author,
Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns & Self Control Not Gun
Control webmaster, The
World Wide Web Gun Defense Clock Donald E. J. Kilmer, Jr., California
Attorney specializing in gun-related cases, Co-Sponsor and Author for California
Coalition on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Richard E. Vaughn, Esq., Author, Second
Amendment Attorney's Page Tom Minsel, Ph.D., Board Member, Rocky
Mountain Gun Owners, Pro Second Amendment Writer Jeff Garvas, Founder & President, Ohioans
For Concealed Carry, Inc., GunSafetyOhio.ORG,
Author George Russum, President/Founder, Second
Amendment Coalition of Florida John A. Bennett, D.O., Libertarian
Candidate for Congress in the 6th District of Washington State, and
the Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Clallam County, WA Sandi Moscicki, Past President (1998-1999) and first woman president of the
Federated RI Sportsmen's Clubs, Past President, Rhode Island Firearms Liberty and Education Ron Cowan, Editor, Faith
& Freedom Sentinel Brian Wilson, Radio
Talk Show Host, Author Winton Clark Aposhian, Chairman, Utah
Self Defense Instructors Network Tina Terry, Editorial Board Member, Sierra
Times Peter E. Hendrickson, President, Lost
Horizons Robert D. Butler, D.C., J.D., Legislative Director, Grass
Roots SC; Legislative Liaison, Mid Carolina Rifle Club Rick DeStephens, Brassroots Thomas P. Cloyes, President, Waynce County
Federation of Conservation Clubs, Ohio Bengt Lindblad, Chairman, Citizens for Equal Access to Effective
Self-Defense Don Loucks, Co-Founder, Peaceable Texans for Firearms Rights, NRA
(life), Running for Office Todd Richert, Chairman, Washington State affiliate of the
Constitution
Party Paul Zimmerman, Sierra
Times Writer William A White, Executive Committee, Maryland Reform Party Jack Gilbert, Chairman,
Founder, Firearms Legal
Defense Fund Richard
L. Carone, Former NRA Finance Committee Chairman; co-founder, Californians
Against Corruption, On
Exile Paul Velte, Peaceable
Texans for Firearms Rights Judge
Paul Heath Till (ret.), Justice of the Peace for 22 years; NRA: former
Director, ByLaws Committee Chairman & Firearms Civil Rights Legal Defense
Fund Trustee. "Truth
is Treason in the Empire of Lies." Charles Hardenbrook, CEO,
CW Cases Harry Browne, Libertarian
Candidate for President of the United States Ed Hubel, President, Shooting
Express Television J.
Anthony Brian, Attorney at Law. Trial attorney; former NRA Director; former
member, CCRKBA Firearms Civil Rights Cmttee; accomplished speaker and
debater. (661) 861-8050
Sgt. Jim Ramm (Reynoldsburg, Ohio Police Department, retired), Member NRA
Board of Directors, immediate Past-Chairman, People's
Rights Organization, Chairman, Ohio Citizens Advancing Personal Safety
(O.C.A.P.S.) [a committee of the Ohio Constitution Defense Council], Director
of Marketing for SafetyOn
- The Comprehensive, Interactive Software Guide to Firearm Safety and
Responsible Gun Ownership Rep. Scott J. Orr, Montana Legislature Norman Davis, President of Kentuckians for
the Right to Bear Arms (KRBA), Take
Back Kentucky Colleen
Hyden, Ph.D. Former NRA
Director, Sociologist
Kevin Shannon, Associate Director, The
Welch Report, Talk Radio Host
Jeremy Bowen, Director, Truth
In Politics
Michael Z. Williamson, President, Cloak
& Dagger
Alan Lundy, Co-Founder/Creator, SafestCrime.com
Gregory E. McAulay, Founder/President LibertyTorch.com
Jack H. Stuart, Charter member
of Sonoma County NRA Member Council, Founder and First President of
Cloverdale American Legion Gun Club, Life member of NRA Fred Aydelotte, Vice President
& Defensive Handgun Instructor, Towanda
Rifle & Pistol Club Douglass M. Renfrow, President/CEO,
American Freedom Alliance, Statement
on Project Exile
Grady Miller, Author, ConservativeDigest.net,
Project Exile
Article
James R. Hall, Board of Directors, Kentucky
Coalition to Carry Concealed Diane McKeough, New York Director, Armed
Females of America (NY) John Bender, Executive Director, Seniors
United Supporting the Second Amendment RKBA Organization Executives and Officers:
We welcome your
endorsement of this statement. To add your name and/or that of your
organization, please email Director@KeepAndBearArms.com
with your name, title, organization name, web site address, contact phone
numbers, and a brief statement about your concerns regarding Project Exile.
Please also include any data or web site links you have regarding this
dangerous program. Pro-RKBA Citizens: You can go and sign your public agreement
with this denunciation here: http://www.petitiononline.com/exile/petition.html |
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