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China: Crackdown on 'unregistered churches'
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[Not directly RKBA related, except that the Chinese religon police remind me a lot of the anti-gun police in a lot of U.S. Cities!]
"China's communist government allows only state-monitored worship...The most prominent target has been the Falun Gong spiritual movement, banned in 1999 as a threat to public safety...The level of persecution aimed against unregistered Christians in China is high..."
--Does that sound vauglely familiar? |
AZ: HB2546 - Gun-free zones; liability; definitions
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"THIS STATE OR ANY AGENCY OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE OR ANY PERSON, ORGANIZATION OR ENTITY THAT ESTABLISHES A GUN-FREE ZONE IS LIABLE FOR DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM CRIMINAL CONDUCT THAT OCCURS AGAINST AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE GUN-FREE ZONE IF A REASONABLE PERSON WOULD BELIEVE THAT POSSESSION OF A FIREARM COULD HAVE HELPED THE INDIVIDUAL DEFEND AGAINST THE CRIMINAL CONDUCT." (sic) |
Australia: Spying On Its Own
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"The (Australian) federal government was today accused of spying on Australian citizens by intercepting private phone calls to the Norwegian ship involved in the asylum seeker crisis."
-- They have been doing this for years apparently, yet denied it. This was the logical companion to the gun ban there. What civil/human rights are to go next?
Background to story at:
http://www.theage.com.au/issues/stranded |
UN: Final court of appeal?
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"Two news stories from Europe two weeks ago ought to tilt Americans upright in their chairs. The reports strip away any illusions that remain about the growing threat of global interventionism by the United Nations..." |
Something Has Changed and It's Not The Guns
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"Guns haven't changed. Guns are pretty much the same as they were at the beginning of the century. They were easier to get then, but the mechanics have pretty much remained the same. Children haven't changed. They are still born without avarice, hatred, intolerance and bigotry. Could it be the parents who have changed?" - T.S. Eggleston |
H.R.380 - Congress to Vote on Limiting Speech of 2nd Amendment Groups
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Wednesday the 13th of February, Congress is going to vote on the "Shays-Meehan" Campaign Finance bill (H.R.380).
Shays-Meehan will make it illegal for organizations like the NRA, GOA, or any other non-profit group to communicate with its members about candidates 60 days before elections. That means your 2A group can't tell you what certain members of Congress are doing on issues that are important to you. That means you aren't allowed to be informed!
KABA NOTE: You can Contact Your Reps Here |
School Plots Raise Legal Issues
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School-attack plots, such as those at New Bedford High School, are raising difficult legal questions about whether students should be charged for something that never happened.
"The big banana is whether these kids really intended to kill; that is going to be problematic for the jury," said Franklin Zimring, professor of law at Berkeley. "It's going to be extremely difficult for a group of adults to tell the difference between bluster and rhetoric and serious intentions to do lethal harm." |
Anti-gun Poster Contest for kids by 'Co/Motion'
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Co/Motion Conducts National Student Poster Contest -- Asks Youth to "Draw the Line on Gun Violence"
KABA NOTE: This is really an anti-LIFE poster contest: They are pushing the ridiculous notion that lawful citizens don't have the right to defend their own lives, and criminals have the right to take them. |
Singapore: The folly of a 'security-first' society
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SINGAPORE WAS the first state to find and break up an al-Qaida cell -- another win for the tiny Southeast Asian power that is famous for valuing order above liberty and for putting the interests of the community ahead of the rights of the individual.
AND YET -- The Singaporean authorities first confessed to being "stunned" that terrorists had been operating for years in their tiny, thoroughly policed city-state. |
Feb. 12 Neal Knox Update
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* 'Campaign Finance Reform' On House Floor
* Bellesiles: careless, sloppy and biased
* Feb. 14 last day to get your comments to the FAA regarding armed pilots
* Kentucky legislators don't want to mess with gunowners |
Too quick to give up Rights for 'promises'
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"No one has ever bettered the core design of our U.S. Constitution: Individual liberty is our security; none of us is God; laws should be simple, few and obeyed; and most importantly, none of us can handle unchecked power. I like our president, but he's not God. When we reject what made us great and bow to anything or anybody else, we're repeating grim history." |
Arrest Made Under New Flight 'Rule'
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SALT LAKE CITY - An airline passenger who allegedly got up to go the bathroom less than 30 minutes before landing became the first person arrested under a new federal flight regulation adopted for the Olympics. |
Pilots' group wants crews to be armed
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A commercial airline pilots' group is pushing for Federal Aviation Administration guidelines that would allow pilots to be armed in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The Airline Pilots' Security Alliance says it is advocating "a controlled, well thought out, rational and safe program for arming carefully screened and trained airline pilots with firearms," according to the group's website. |
Turner: 9-11 Was 'Act of Desperation'
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Media mogul Ted Turner says the Sept. 11 attacks were an act of desperation, and the hijackers were "brave"... [he] also compared President Bush to Julius Caesar.
--Somebody once said that Ted Turner is living proof that you can be a multi-millionaire and still be an idiot.
KABA NOTE: Sounds like all the qualifications of the last several U.S. Presidents. Perhaps Turner will get elected and make Jane Fonda his "aide". |
MD: Police seize 41 guns, ammo, body armor in city apartment
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Patrick Aquia, 36, was arrested at the scene and charged with "weapons violations," including "possession of banned weapons, illegal interstate transport, reckless endangerment and failure to secure the weapons in the presence of a minor."
Assisted by agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and city housing authority detectives entered an apartment at 6:00am, because police had received a tip that large amounts of weapons and ammunition were being stored there. |
OH: Slain woman feared harm from husband
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--Another story of a dead woman who had nothing more than a "protection order" to protect herself.
Two days before she was shot and killed outside of her regular Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Joyce L. Chancey said in court documents that she was worried what her estranged husband might do if she showed up at the AA session. She received a protection order against Stephen G. Chancey from a Butler County court. |
PA: Rendell calls for 'stiffer gun penalties'
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed Rendell yesterday called for stiffer mandatory sentences for "crimes committed with guns." Campaigning in Beaver County, the former Philadelphia mayor offered the firearms proposals as part of a broader discussion of measures "to combat violent crime and terrorism." |
VT: NRA Champion lands mailing has environmentalists upset
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The mailing, which went out to between 10,000 and 12,000 Vermont members of the NRA last week, said that hunting could be banned on the state portion of the Champion lands and urged them to contact their lawmakers. “YOUR PUBLIC HUNTING AND SHOOTING LANDS ARE IN JEOPARDY!” the letter opened. “IF YOU DON’T ACT NOW THEY COULD BE TAKEN FROM YOU FOREVER.” |
Anti-gun 'Activists' To Gather in Washington DC
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This February 22nd and 23rd, the "Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence" is hosting the 8th Annual Citizens' Conference to "Stop Gun Violence." Activists from across the nation are coming to Washington DC to learn effective strategies to "reduce gun violence" following 4 themes:
* Participating in Elections
* Closing "Illegal" Markets
* Involving Youth
* Recruiting New Activists |
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