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What if Bush were as eager to control guns as WMD?
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"Stanching the flow of firearms in America would be a crucial first step in this direction. And yet the Bush administration - though ready to go to war to disarm rogue nations - allows itself to be outgunned by rogue citizens in its own backyard." ... |
Personal Protection Handbook Sales Top the Hundred Thousand Mark
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"The Education and Training Division of the National Rifle Association announced today that sales of its most recently published training handbook, the NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection in the Home, have surpassed the 100,000-mark. The volume of sales for a training publication is unprecedented in the 130-year history of the organization." ... |
Welcome to the Police State; Now shut up and do as you're told.
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"How can anyone doubt it anymore?"
"Federal checkpoints in downtown Detroit."
"A secret appellate review courts determines that an acknowledged violation of the Bill of Rights is legally acceptable."
"USA PATRIOT."
"Official acknowledgment that the feds have created a list of people - not accused of crimes - who are not allowed to fly. Another list - again, of people not accused of a crime - to be singled out for harassment if they're foolish enough to try flying." ... |
FL: Widow: Teacher thought gun was toy
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"The weapon was so small and so light that Pam Grunow doubts her husband knew he was staring into the barrel of a loaded pistol." [So, he was gun ignorant -- that's not the manufacturer's fault.]
"Nathaniel Brazill had hidden the gun in the pocket of his shorts before he knocked at the classroom door of Barry Grunow, his favorite teacher. The 13-year-old raised the silver pistol and fired when Grunow wouldn't allow him to speak to two girls in his class in May 2000." ... |
MN: An 89-year-old deer hunter cannot use a gun for a year after accidentally...
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"An 89-year-old deer hunter cannot use a gun for a year after accidentally shooting a horse that was being ridden by a 12-year-old girl in western Minnesota."
"Clinton Hurlbut, of Browns Valley, pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor reckless use of a gun."
"He fired a shotgun slug from his property on Nov. 9, the opening day of deer-hunting season, at what he said he thought was a deer. The slug struck a white horse that Lindsey Duffield was riding about 200 yards away." ...
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CA: La-La Land Grab
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"The House is scheduled to vote today on a bill that could create federal recreation area in the Rim of the Valley Corridor."
"The Senate late Wednesday approved the Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act, which calls on the Department of the Interior to study the feasibility of adding parts of the Santa Monica, Santa Susanna, San Gabriel and Verdugo mountains, plus the San Rafael Hills and Arroyo Seco, to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area." ... |
IA: BB gun ordinance does not pass
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"The second reading of an ordinance allowing the use of BB guns and air rifles in city limits with immediate adult supervision failed to pass at the regular meeting of the Minburn City Council."
"The vote died in a tie with two votes for and two votes against. One council member was absent from the meeting." ... |
AZ: Geek 'Vigilantes' Monitor Border
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"A group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States."
"Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border." ... |
MA: Cops gun still missing
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Brookline, Massachusetts, the town the Kennedy Brothers were born in, and Mike Dukakis lives in, where you get a handgun only at the personal whim of the police chief, has a gun lifted from the police station by a custodian who turns out to have a criminal record.
Meanwhile, the citizen is disarmed. Of 54,000 citizens, there are about 400 legally registered handguns. Nuff Said! |
UK: Crime squad detectives face jail for running drugs ring
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Two police officers attached to the elite National Crime Squad are facing jail after admitting their involvement in a drugs ring.
"Det Sgt David Redfern and Det Con Heather Bossart, who had been seconded to the NCS for their 'dedication and integrity' were caught on surveillance equipment as they took cocaine."
"Their secret lives as members of a group that took and dealt in drugs were exposed when fellow officers bugged the house of Redfern's girlfriend, Nicola Bladen, where the pair ran a drugs den."
"On one occasion Redfern was recorded as he and Bladen had a 'domestic row' over who should 'chop' a line of cocaine."
"On another the policeman snorted cocaine with a drug dealer he had once helped to jail for six and a half years, a court was told." ...
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Hong Kong: Brits 'not protecting basic freedoms of Hong Kong' as guaranteed
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"Jack Straw and the Government are not doing enough to defend Hong Kong's basic freedoms, guaranteed by the British at the time of the colony's handover to China, according to its leading opposition politician."
"Martin Lee, chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, said the Government was acting like a 'disinterested observer' as the Hong Kong authorities prepare to implement sweeping new anti-subversion laws."
"Britain, as co-signatory of the 1984 agreement to return Hong Kong to China under a 'One Nation Two Systems' banner, should be the prime guarantor of its freedom from interference from the communist government in Beijing, he said." ... |
Harvard Law School is considering a ban on 'offensive' speech
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"Harvard Law School is considering a ban on offensive speech after a series of racially charged incidents, raising fears that the rules will inhibit the kind of sharp-edged intellectual combat so famously depicted in the movie 'The Paper Chase.' "
"In the meantime, the school is also offering first-year students a new course to help them "manage difficult conversations" and learn how to speak with sensitivity on touchy issues such as race and gender." ... |
Dem. House leader Pelosi comes under fire from her own party
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"Her face is one we don't want shown in South Carolina," said state Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian. "She is liberal, far too liberal on issues such as Second Amendment issues. People in South Carolina own guns. The death penalty – even African Americans in South Carolina, the majority of them are in favor of the death penalty now. Gay marriages? I am sorry, now that may be an issue that's hot in San Francisco, but not in the rest of the country." |
VA: Campus firearms ban threatens civil liberties
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"Citizens of the state of Virginia are legally allowed to carry concealed handguns so long as they are at least 21 years old and a judge has decided that they do not have a history of violence or irresponsibility. Aside from having their right-to-carry explicitly granted in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, no one can dispute that Virginians use their firearms in numerous instances of self-defense and violent crime prevention each year. On the Grounds of our University, however, this individual right is blatantly denied by University regulations." ... |
UK: Armed robbers raid jewelry store - 'Everyone was on their mobile phones calling the police.'
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"Armed raiders held up a jewellery shop in Kingston town centre on Tuesday evening, terrifying staff and shoppers with a handgun and smashing through display cases with a hammer."
"Police say at least two men in balaclavas stormed into Ernest Jones jewellers in Clarence Street, opposite the Bentall Centre, at about 5.15pm, making off with Rolex watches worth thousands of pounds each."
"One eye-witness reported people screaming and running in panic as one of the raiders brandished a gun in the street outside the shop as he escaped." ...
"The manager of the T-Mobile store across the road said she saw a man in the jewellers pointing a gun at one of the assistants. She said there were 20 or 30 shoppers outside the store, and added: 'Everyone was on their mobile phones calling the police. I came back in the shop and shut the doors. I didn't want to stick around.' " ... |
AZ: MADD wants "more state regulation to purchase a keg of beer than to buy a gun."
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"Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants to have more state regulation to purchase a keg of beer than to buy a gun."
"Jan Blaser-Upchurch, the organization's state chair, said Thursday Arizona rates a B- for its efforts to get intoxicated motorists off the roads. She said the state gets good grades for its drunken driving laws and its law enforcement programs."
"But Blaser-Upchurch said the state needs to do more if it wants to improve. And one of those is a keg registration program."
"In essence, anyone who purchases a keg -- or actually the beer inside -- would have to provide identification to the retailer. That person's name would be linked to a serial number on the keg."
"The purpose, she said, is to help police if they find a keg at a party of teens they can track back who got it for them. It already is a crime to furnish alcohol to minors." ... |
HI: School suspends 6 seventh-graders after 2 guns taken on campus
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"A Big Island school suspended six seventh-grade boys this week after one of them took two guns on campus, but state officials said yesterday the rarity of such incidents in Hawaii means major security changes are not necessary."
"Janice Hiraoka, principal at Keaau Middle School, said there had never been a gun incident at the school in her five years there, and state Department of Education officials said it was the first time this year that a gun was taken into a school in Hawaii." ...
"Neither Knudsen nor Hiraoka would provide details on the types of guns, the source of the weapons and whether they were loaded. The identities of the boys involved and their disciplinary records were unavailable." ... |
UK: Woman "fights for tougher gun laws"
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"A woman has started a national fight for tougher gun laws after the cold-blooded murder of her son."
"Lucy Cope set up Mothers Against Guns in a bid to end the devastation caused to families across Britain."
"She has organised a march in London next week, and hopes to arrange another in Nottingham during January."
"Her 22-year-old son Damian was shot outside a nightclub in the capital in July. He will be remembered, along with hundreds of other victims, at the march on November 30." ...
She says, "The drugs, the gun culture, the gangs, that is not how we want to live." ... [Where guns are banned.]
Mrs Cope, who lives in Southwark, south London, is calling for:Ten years behind bars for anyone caught with a firearm
No bail for people charged with weapons offences
Life imprisonment, with no parole, for gunmen who kill
A ban on the sale of imitation weapons. |
WA: Officer pleads guilty to four federal drug-related offenses
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"A police officer has pleaded guilty to four federal drug-related offenses and been fired, and the police chief says his badge will be destroyed."
"Steven D. Slaughter, 27, of North Bend, pleaded guilty Wednesday to distribution and possession of heroin, illegal possession of a firearm and attempted extortion. U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly set sentencing for Feb. 7."
"Slaughter faces at least five years in prison for the firearms offense, as long as 20 years for each of the other three offenses and a fine of as much as $1 million."
"He promised to cooperate with investigators by revealing any other instances where he abused his police authority or other acts similar to the ones for which he was charged." ... |
UK: Patrols axed in face of intimidation by a rampaging gang of youths
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GENERAL MESSAGE: Street gangs defeat law enforcement in the place where firearms are banned
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"Up to 30 youngsters have made death threats against three Neighbourhood War-dens brought in to protect residents."
"The yobs warned they knew where the wardens lived and their homes would be torched if they carried on."
"The axing of patrols comes after months of trouble in Worsbrough which has seen wardens under siege in the local police station, calling police officers for back up."
"Only last week five people were arrested after a gang ran riot after police tried to arrest an alleged shoplifter - the third such incident in a month."
"At a public meeting this week a warden - who asked not to be named - stunned members of the public by revealing how one yob had threatened to blow off his kneecaps with a shotgun." ... |
UK: Wine store raided by gunmen
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"Two terrified members of staff at an off-licence in Derby were ordered to lie on the floor by a robber brandishing a handgun on Wednesday night."
"The armed man, aged between 18 and 20, burst into the Victoria Wine shop in Prince Charles Avenue, Mackworth Estate, at 8.50pm."
"As reported in yesterday's later editions, he threatened two members of staff with the gun and told them to lie down on the floor."
"The robber then jumped over the counter, opened the till and stole an undisclosed amount of cash before running out of the shop. No shots were fired and no-one was injured, although the staff members were said to have been "shaken" by the incident." ...
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Pentagon drops plan to curb Net anonymity
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"A Defense Department agency recently considered--and rejected--a far-reaching plan that would sharply curtail online anonymity by tagging e-mail and Web browsing with unique markers for each Internet user."
"The idea involved creating secure areas of the Internet that could be accessed only if a user had such a marker, called eDNA, according to a report in Friday's New York Times." ... |
PETA supports confessed sniper's right to veg meals
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"Malvo's lawyers had complained about a lack of privacy, a thin mattress and a lack of vegetarian meals at the Fairfax County jail. The animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urged yesterday that Malvo and other inmates be allowed vegetarian meals upon request."
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First PETA supports Earth Liberation Front terrorism. Now this. Strange compassion indeed. |
TX: SWAT team invades 'wrong house' - kicks, punches occupants
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Two people were injured when members of a San Antonio police SWAT team searching for guns and drugs entered the wrong apartment.
"We were kicked and punched at least 20 times. ... I was good and scared." - Salvador Huerta
After realizing they had the wrong address, police apologized to the cousins and went to another apartment.
"Everything was done by procedure. ... It was just an honest mistake made by SWAT officers at the location." -- Deputy Police Chief Rudy Gonzales |
OR: "Gun locks, a simple way to protect children"
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"The recent teen shootings prove kids and guns can be a dangerous combination."
"Still, many gun owners are choosing not to put their firearm under lock and key."
"Gun owner Steven Johns keeps his prized gun hidden at home without a gun lock on it." ...
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Many responsible parents simply keep a loaded handgun on their side -- hence, the term "sidearm". With home invasions on the rise around the nation, this is a prudent and responsible thing to do. |
UT: Utah anti-gun group angered over NRA letter
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"A letter posted on the California National Rifle Association's Web site citing Utah as an easy place to get a concealed-weapon permit is drawing criticism from a Utah gun-control group."
"The letter, posted Nov. 11, encouraged people to get their concealed-weapon permits in Utah, calling it one of the easiest places in the nation to obtain one." ...
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We share the anti-rights group's ire, but for different reasons: no lawful, peaceable citizen should be required to seek government permission to exercise a basic human right -- the right to self-defense. |
IN: Deputy dismissed in road rage case
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"The St. Joseph County sheriff's deputy who admitted to waving his gun and handcuffing another man in a fit of road rage in July has been fired.
"Patrolman Fred W. Zimmerman, who has been a full-time patrol officer since February 2001, was dismissed Thursday by the St. Joseph County Police Merit Board.
"It is the first time in recent history that the merit board has fired an officer." ...
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ID: Good Samaritan tackles robbery suspect
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"Paul Conger says he didn´t know he had it in him, but on Thursday he surprised himself ...when he nabbed a man police say robbed a 79-year-old woman in front of a Boise bank...
Boise police spokesman Rich Wright said the department discourages citizens from approaching suspects who are armed and considered dangerous. But because a gun was never displayed and the woman wasn´t threatened, Wright said Conger and the two other men did the right thing by trying to apprehend the suspect. ... |
UT: Firearms Prevent Tragedies (Letter)
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"Christina Gringeri (Forum, Nov. 7) wants a weapons-free education climate. How naive to think that sane, stable, legal concealed-carry permit holders pose any threat to education.
"It has been shown time and again that those who wish to harm others will do so. They can conceal a long gun, a handgun, a knife or whatever if they so desire. It is the unstable minds, the mentally disturbed, who are the perpetrators of the ugly, violent acts, not law-abiding citizens." ... |
UT: Guns, Kids Deadly Mix (Letter)
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"We lose one child a week in Utah (50 a year) from firearms, while the GOP legislature, dominated by the National Rifle Association, refuses to pass a child safety law that requires gun owners to lock up their firearms when they are absent from where the firearm is stored. The result is a scandalous number of suicides and accidents that could have been avoided." ...
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OK: Man arrested after shooting burglar
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"An Oklahoma City man was arrested after shooting a burglar who broke into his car early Thursday, police said...
"Donald Mayberry ...was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.
"Phillips said Mayberry was arrested because Pine did not physically threaten Mayberry.
" 'He was attempting to run away,' Phillips said. 'He was not posing a threat to the car's owner or anybody else at that point.' " ...
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DE: Council votes to register guns
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Opportunist Liberals Continue Their Quest for Tyranny
The Delaware constitution clearly states that municipalities "shall make no laws infringing the sale, transfer, or ownership of any firearms". This, of course, will not deter those opportunist liberal leftists who model their actions after that bastion of immoral behavior and depravity, Slick Willie Clinton. The sheeple are just too lackadaisical about entrusting our crap-for-brains politicians to "handle it, handle it!" when it comes to anti-social behavior. |
IL: Children flee homeschool cop
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"Channell refused to let Horwedel enter the house, asserting that he and his wife had been legally homeschooling for five years by offering a 'statement of assurance' to official inquiries. State's Attorney Hermann's letter says, however, that the Channells 'must allow the truant officer to visit with your children and review the educational materials you are using.' "
"Upon Channell's refusal, Horwedel warned that he could have the family's children taken away." ... |
DE: FBI agents search NCCo official's home
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"FBI agents found 34 guns, including a revolver reported stolen in 1993 from a Delaware State Police troop's evidence locker, in a Nov. 6 search of the home of New Castle County Chief Administrative Officer Sherry Freebery, according to U.S. District Court documents."
"The information about the search is contained in an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Kevin P. Shannon asking a U.S. District Court judge for a second warrant allowing agents to return to Freebery's home to seize the revolver as stolen property. That search was made Thursday morning."
"Freebery said Thursday that most, if not all, of the weapons belonged to her ex-husband, former state police Lt. Paul G. Sczubelek. The couple divorced in the early 1990s after they had been separated for several years, Freebery said. Sczubelek was convicted of bank robbery in 1994 and was sentenced to serve seven and a half years in prison. He has since been released." ... |
No answers from government, no taxes
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"Drawing on what he says is historical precedence, a noted tax-reform activist claims Americans should not pay taxes to the federal government until it addresses a series of 'grievances,' one of which concerns questions about the legality of the income tax.
"Bob Schulz, founder of ...We The People and planner of numerous tax-reform protests, says while government has a right to levy taxes, Washington is not entitled to them before addressing the people's angst." ... |
MD: Off-Duty Baltimore Cop Kills Man in Robbery Attempt
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"It happened in the 800 block of Lennox Street in the Reservoir Hill area. Police say 39-year-old officer Althaniel Dailey had driven there to pick up a friend when two men suddenly appeared in the darkness.
"According to police, one of the men put a gun to the Dailey's brother's head in an apparent robbery attempt. That's when Dailey drew his gun and the gunman ran off. But, police say the other man pulled out a gun, and Dailey responded by firing five shots." ... |
NJ: Gun Control Group Savors Assembly Vote
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"The effort to get the Childproof Handgun Bill passed into law was the focus of the Fifth Annual Harvest Moon Ball, the annual fundraising gala hosted by the North Jersey Chapter of Ceasefire New Jersey on this past Saturday at the Woman’s Club of Upper Montclair."
"Amid the hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, more than 300 supporters of the gun safety group hailed Ceasefire’s unwavering endorsement of the gun safety bill which was adopted two days later, on Monday, by the New Jersey State Assembly in a vote of 47 to 11. That vote came after a heated 90-minute debate that pitted legislators for gun control against those who support gun rights with less restrictions." ... |
CO: ACLU lobs spy charge against Springs police
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"Colorado Springs police have helped Denver cops secretly watch people who peacefully criticize some government policies, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday."
"The ACLU posted documents on its Web site that it said detail improper police surveillance in Denver and Colorado Springs of people attending protests and seminars about preventing the use of nuclear weapons." ... |
Border Patrol Advertises 'Rescue Beacons' for Illegal Aliens
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"Why do mapmakers bother to show U.S. boundary lines? Get this: The U.S. Border Patrol is using your tax money to advertise its 'rescue beacons' to abet illegal aliens."
"The one-minute commercial is expected to be broadcast next year on TV stations in Mexico and in the border city of Yuma, Ariz." ... |
CA: Turlock man survives mountain lion attack
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"Russell Souza of Turlock said he never heard the big cat coming. All he saw was something in the corner of his eye. And then he was in for the most terrifying experience of his life."
" 'As soon as I turned, I saw it take two steps and leap in the air,' the 35-year-old Souza said about the mountain lion coming at him."
" 'I remember her eyes and her canines coming at me and her paws waving,' he said. 'That's when I closed my eyes and bashed her as hard as I could with my gun.' " ... |
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"Re 'Widow wins gun suit,' by Jon Burstein: Here we go again, another stupid jury fooled by money-grubbing lawyers. The argument that a manufacturer or distributor of a legal product, sold to a legal buyer, is in any way responsible for its misuse 10 years later in a criminal act is patently absurd. Yet a Palm Beach County jury has decided to ignore all reason and hold against a gun distributor for the criminal action of a teen in shooting a teacher." ... |
OH: Woman says she has new evidence of troopers' wrongdoing
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"A woman says she has photographs and a videotape taken 12 years ago supporting her civil rights lawsuit alleging that state troopers killed her son by shooting him while he was on his back on the floor."
"The new evidence is contained in court papers served on the state Thursday as part of Shirley Kinge's lawsuit against four former and one current state trooper." ... |
"Resistance Rising!"
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"Despite the self-satisfaction of George W. Bush and John Ashcroft, and the somnolence of the press, there is rising resistance around the country to the serial abuses of our liberties. More Americans are becoming aware of what Wisconsin Democratic senator Russ Feingold prophesied from the Senate floor on October 11, 2001, when he was the only Senator to vote against Ashcroft's USA Patriot Act:""There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a country where people could be held in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover more terrorists or would-be terrorists, just as it would find more lawbreakers generally. But that wouldn't be a country in which we would want to live." "Some of that warning has come to pass." |
"Don't arm pilots"
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"The dumbest provision in the bill creating a new Department of Homeland Security is one that sets the stage for a new breed of gunslingers at 30,000 feet."
"The provision, odious even to the White House and strongly opposed by those who manage airlines, would permit firearms in the cockpits of American jetliners, even though pilots presumably would not be allowed to leave their place at the controls to conduct shootouts during a hijacking. Then why the need for a weapon in the first place?" ...
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