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Judaism, Nazis and Gun Control
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"First, let me say this: ANYONE WHO WANTS TO DISARM YOU IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER THEY USE DOCTORED STATISTICS, COMMUNIST RHETORIC OR RELIGIOUS DOGMA TO MAKE YOU VULNERABLE TO ARMED THUGS OR GOVERNMENT TYRANTS. THE TOOL DOESN’T MATTER. THE CRIME DOES. The crime is civilian disarmament, and the nature of said crime does not change with the tools used to perpetuate it, whether they be perversion of Judaic law or the socialist 'common good' mantra." ...
"The desire to disarm you isn’t endemic to Judaism. It isn’t endemic to Democrats. There are Christians, Republicans, Buddhists and socialists who cling to gun control and disarmament as a means to either subjugate you or vainly try to protect you from yourself. ..." |
Patently absurd editorial advocating gun control
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The author of this piece has taken every warped and manipulated statistic from the Brady Center and turned it into a simpering, clueless, "ban evil guns for the children" essay.
Disputing every whining piece of misinformation in this drivel would literally take all day, so we will just leave you with the last paragraph to give you a taste of how misguided this author truly is.
"I believe my policy proposal is better than the current policy because in a society full of hate, eliminating guns would be eliminating one more trigger for evil in the world." |
The Day I Learned To Shoot
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"Last summer, right around July 4th, it occurred to me I ought to support the Second Amendment. Not that I ever opposed it, per se. I just hadn't thought about it before. But I realized last summer the right to keep and bear arms is crucial in this era of post-9/11 'vigilance.' ..."
"All fine and good for a guy who, prior to that, had little more than experience with cap guns. Since then, however, I have paid closer attention to the gun-rights cause, and I have decided, once and for all, it's about much more than eating free meat and ending arguments. In fact, the cause isn't really about that at all. ..." |
Why I Avoid Airports
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"One of the consequences of 9/11 has been the across-the-board federalization of airport security. Security checkpoints have practically become owned subsidiaries of the federal government. The people working in them have a lot of leeway to do as they please. Vastly more than they should have, under any circumstances."
"Lately I’ve been checking out allegations of women and girls being 'searched' rather zealously, shall we say, at security checkpoints in airports. Incidents of overly intimate touching and fondling have been reported at Phoenix, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Portland, and elsewhere. Perhaps three dozen such cases have been reported. I don’t know that they happen everywhere. There is no way to know what hasn’t been reported, of course. A few of these cases involve children. In the Atlanta case, a 9-year old girl was frisked. In yet another, from Orlando, a 3-year old girl was patted down. There are related cases of absurd levels of paranoia among security personnel. At Kennedy Airport in New York City, a woman was forced by a security guard to drink from three bottles of her own breast milk to 'prove' that the white liquid posed no threat to anyone. The dominant news media have been mostly silent about these cases except for a tiny handful of local news stories. I’m surprised feminists haven’t had more to say about them. I guess they are still busy griping about all those dead white males in the textbooks." |
Man not guilty of terrorist threat for passing out video tapes
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Note from infowars.com April 13, 2004: In reversal of soviet-style police powers, Lyon County Kentucky Jury finds Kelly Rushing not-guilty of terroristic threats. You are still allowed to give public servants video tapes. What's incredible is that this even went to trial. So, the moral of the story is: some police would like to put citizens in jail for their political views.
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A National ID Card Wouldn't Make Us Safer
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"The potential privacy encroachments of an ID card system are far from minor. And the interruptions and delays caused by incessant ID checks could easily proliferate into a persistent traffic jam in office lobbies and airports and hospital waiting rooms and shopping malls."
"But my primary objection isn't the totalitarian potential of national IDs, nor the likelihood that they'll create a whole immense new class of social and economic dislocations. Nor is it the opportunities they will create for colossal boondoggles by government contractors. My objection to the national ID card, at least for the purposes of this essay, is much simpler:"
"It won't work. It won't make us more secure." ...
"It doesn't really matter how well an ID card works when used by the hundreds of millions of honest people that would carry it. What matters is how the system might fail when used by someone intent on subverting that system: how it fails naturally, how it can be made to fail, and how failures might be exploited." |
Move over George Orwell for B.P.L.
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"...George Orwell, whose real name was George Blair, could foresee into the future. The only thing he got wrong was the timing." ...
"This Broad Band Over Power Lines (BPL) technology has the potential of making George Orwell's prediction seem like nothing in comparison. Orwell portrayed a world in which the individual was helpless against the will of the superstate with 'thought police' and surveillance cameras watching our every move making us believe we are safe and this is to make us happy." |
Fortress America mans the ramparts (New Zealand's view)
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"I am not a number, I am a free man!"
"So cried 'Number 6' (Patrick McGoohan) in the 1967 cult TV classic The Prisoner as he fled Rover, the sinister white balloon that patrolled The Village - sort of Shangri-La meets the Gulag - in which he was contained."
"Fast forward to 2004. A husband, wife and their young daughter - numbers 19841016400042911666 ... 7 and ... 8 respectively - are arriving at LA airport en route to Disneyland. At immigration the family hand over their New Zealand passports. Each is photographed and then fingerprinted."
"The 8-year-old begins to cry. 'Mummy, are we going to prison?' "
" 'Don't worry, darling,' comforts the mother. 'This is how Americans welcome visitors.' " |
CO: Cops face nudity suit
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"She stood naked and shivering in the cold water while male firefighters and police officers watched, she told her lawyers months later." ...
"The officers ordered her to dip a cloth in the water in the child's wading pool they had set up, and to wipe her body with it. They ordered her to bend over to immerse her hair. Twice." ...
"The officers had raided her Adams County condo that morning in April 2002, breaking down the front door and smashing a window. They rushed upstairs to the bedroom where she was studying for an art class. They pointed guns at her."
"They were looking for a methamphetamine lab. While they searched her condo, she waited, handcuffed, in the garage." ...
"They took Adriaens outside to the parking lot, where they had filled the wading pool with water. They ordered her to undress." |
OH: Cop fined in gun case
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"The East Liverpool police officer accused of trying to cover up the accidental firing of his off-duty handgun received a fine instead of a jail sentence."
"Martin A. Ward, 35, was fined $1,000 on Monday by Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge C. Ashley Pike after previously pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of obstructing justice and criminal mischief."
"The sentences carried a maximum combined sentence of eight months in the county jail since they were misdemeanors, and Special Prosecutor William McGinnis had recommended Ward be placed on probation as agreed upon in the plea deal."
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UK: TV to show death under eyes of police
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"Footage showing a black former paratrooper choking to death on the floor of a police station as officers stand by laughing and joking is to be screened on prime-time television this week."
"Christopher Alder's death in police custody has been investigated by the team that made The Secret Policeman, a BBC1 documentary that led to the resignations of 10 Cheshire policemen after exposing racist behaviour."
"Alder suffocated to death in April 1998 in a Humberside police station as he lay face down and unconscious with his trousers and boxer shorts pulled down around his knees. His last 11 minutes, caught on CCTV and re-enacted in detail for the programme, show the father-of-two struggling for breath through his blood and vomit as he lies handcuffed at the feet of five police officers, who accuse him of play-acting." |
Namibia: Newly Weds Threatened At Gunpoint By Police Officer Abusing His Monopoly On Force
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"MEMBERS of a wedding party were threatened at gunpoint when they tried to take photos in the public garden outside the President's residence."
"The photographer was getting the couple and their guests together for a group photograph when a man in civilian clothes tried to stop them."
"According to the photographer the man said they were not allowed to take photographs of the old German State House."
"When I asked who he was, he said he was a policeman."
"I asked for his ID, which he quickly flashed at me, but refused to give his name and rank."
"Schreiber said he was not convinced of the man's authority."
"When he insisted that he wanted his name and rank, the man pulled out a 9 mm pistol and threatened the wedding party." |
FL: Microchip Would Ensure Only Police Fire Their Guns
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"A Florida company has come up with a computer chip that could keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands."
"The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun."
"If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless."
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FL: Federal ban on guns may end
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The federal ban on assault weapons could expire soon.
And while lawmakers believe the ban has significantly dropped violent crime, Pickett Weaponry store owner, Jack Pickett says the law gives a false sense of hope.
The law is due to expire on September 13th and will outlaw weapons like AK-47's and oozies [Shouldn't that be UZIs????]. Pickett believes extending the ban is pointless.
Pickett says all the ban has done is modify the manufacturing and marketing of assault weapons. Supporters of the bill claim 80% of all Americans and 50% of gun owners want the ban to continue. |
IL: TF South Declares code red
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"Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing was locked down for over an hour during a police drug search. Drugs in the school? Actually, no. This is the second year in a row no drugs were found."
"Exactly how the lockdown was triggered is in question. TF South students heard Principal Dr. Timothy Kilrea call a 'Code Red' over the intercom. Once the call went over the intercom, kids noticed a lot of police around the building. It's unclear which school administrator decided to use the term as part of the building search."
"Students know Code Red means an intruder may be in the building and a Columbine type shooting situation could exist. The alert requires classroom doors to be locked, shades drawn and students to gather away from the hallway window." ...
"There is plausible belief in the idea that a spur of the moment misjudgment prompted the use of the 'Code Red' procedure. Wilhite wanted complete secrecy about the impending building search. He asked McDevitt to schedule the search and tell him about it shortly before it was to occur. As a result, Kilrea received approximately five minutes warning and the teachers knew nothing until after the lockdown had begun."
"This is a more palatable scenario than the intentional misuse of a safety procedure intended to protect students from a Columbine style attack." |
MD: Nearly Two Million Dollars In Funding For Gun Crimes
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Governor Ehrlich and Baltimore State's Attorney, Patricia Jessamy, announced more than $1.7 million from the state budget will be used for gun violence prosecutions. Ehrlich says the money will make Baltimore's streets safer. Jessamy says the money will pay for 18 prosecutors to be assigned to the Firearms Division and Homicide Division and also supplements four prosecutors in the Homicide Division.
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MI: City lauds gun show
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"Branson said 4,500 attendees visited the April 3-4 show, with 700 as registered exhibitors or assistants. Another 80 volunteers helped with traffic control and neighborhood safety concerns."
"Branson said there were zero arrests, 11 traffic stops, seven verbal warnings, four traffic tickets, one parking ticket and four vehicles towed in relation to the show." |
MO: Bullock says he will continue to take conceal carry applications
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"Despite a statement by Gov. Bob Holden that he would veto any legislation that attempts to correct a constitutional flaw in the funding mechanism in Missouri's new concealed weapons law, Sheriff Dan Bullock said Monday his department will continue to process applications for the permit." ...
"Bullock, learning of the governor's statement, said his department is still taking applications and will do so until there is a legal reason to stop. He expressed confidence that the General Assembly will enact corrective legislation and, if necessary, again override a veto by the governor." |
NC: Why don't NICS background checks prevent crime?
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The answer to the title question is: Because thieves don't bother going through legal channels to obtain their firearms.
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Police are looking for thieves that stole more than $10,000 in guns from a home in northwest Mecklenburg County.
Kevin Rawlins is a gun collector and had the weapons stored in two safes.
Police say burglars stole the safes and 24 guns inside Monday morning while Rawlins was at work.
Police found the safes behind a Harris Teeter grocery store on Harris Blvd. Monday afternoon.
The thieves took all of the guns, including a record of serial numbers kept in the safe.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (704) 334-1600. |
NC: Officials expect crowd for hearing on gun rules
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"Brunswick County officials are expecting a full house late Monday afternoon for a public hearing on a proposed ordinance to limit the discharge of firearms."
"The hearing will mark at least the third time the issue has surfaced at a Board of Commissioners meeting since 1990, but the first time it has gotten as far as seeking public comment."
"If the draft ordinance were enacted, it would limit where guns can be fired but exempt hunters, charity turkey shoots, pistol ranges and a number of other uses. It would forbid indiscriminate gun firing within 1,000 feet of a residence or public buildings and from or across public streets and highways."
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NJ: Cops to get New Bulletproof Body Armor
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"Police agencies across New Jersey will get a share of a $3.7 million grant to purchase new bulletproof body armor, Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced Tuesday." ...
"All of the state's 481 full-time police departments, 21 county prosecutor's and sheriff's offices, college campus police and state police were eligible to apply for the money to purchase armor."
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NV: Metro Launches Project Safe Neighborhoods
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"If you suspect someone has an illegal gun, there's now a place to turn. Metro detectives unveiled a new program to educate the public on how to get illegal guns off the street."
"The project cost $30,000. The money comes from a federal grant. And it paid for posters that have been placed at bus stops around the city. It urges people to call 385-GUNS to report anyone with an illegal gun."
"The posters show chilling pictures -- children with guns and shots of a man in a prison uniform. The messages are in Spanish and English. The idea is to get illegal guns off the streets before they can be used in a violent crime. All you have to do is simply call the number with a tip, and police spring into action." |
OH: Cleveland lawyer shopping anti-self-defense op-ed
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Ohio's New Concealed Weapons Law Hastens Need for Workplace No Weapons Policy
"It used to be that employers thought they didn't need a handgun policy in their workplace. Who would bring a gun to work? But think again: Ohio's new concealed weapons law means employers should seriously consider whether to put a handgun policy in place."
"OFCC Comment: The question isn't 'who would bring a gun to work?' so much as it is 'who would seek to disarm law-abiding citizens while at work?', since for years violent criminals have ignored all office policies, prohibitions, and gun control laws when they decide to kill." |
OH: Gun ban lobby seeks to block Ohio Right to Carry in court
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"The Ohio media has finally caught up with what readers of this website have known since early Saturday - gun ban lobby are now trying to do in court what they could not do in the legislature - subvert the Ohio Constitution and the Will of the People (as expressed by the Ohio General Assembly) on the right to bear arms for self-defense."
"While the media treated the law-breaking by Cuyahoga Co. Sheriff Gerald McFaul, and subsequent submission of a writ of mandamus to force him to do his duty under the law, as a brief mention in other stories, Ohio's liberal media are trumpeting this news in headline stories across the state."
"A quick read-through will reveal that this suit is nothing but a political vendetta in the guise of mandamus." |
PA: NRA Has High Expectations for Pittsburgh
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"With a quarter of its members living within 300 miles of the site of its 133rd annual convention, the National Rifle Association is expecting a strong showing when the event convenes this Friday."
"If the five-day event draws 60,000 people to Pittsburgh, as the 4 million-member NRA expects, it will be the largest convention the city - let alone its new David L. Lawrence Convention Center - has ever hosted." ...
"The 'Freedom's Steel' convention, which runs Friday through April 20, could pump as much as $7 million into the Pittsburgh economy, Joseph R. McGrath, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Monday." |
PA: Opponents, supporters of gun ban descend on Pittsburgh
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"Opponents and supporters of a 10-year ban on assault-style weapons were beginning to arrive in Pittsburgh on Tuesday for the National Rifle Association's annual gathering, the organization's last major event before time runs out on the ban in September."
"Both sides say the NRA convention, which could be the largest on record, may be the best and final chance to get a message out to lawmakers, and perhaps more importantly, to the public." |
RI: No charges filed in gun scare incident
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"The lack of a pistol holster sent a Pawtucket man, briefly, to jail Monday."
"Police went onto a high and subtle alert after a bus driver called police to report seeing a man drop a pistol, pick it up and tuck it into his waistband before walking into the temporary Registry."
"...The driver was removed from the car in what is known as a felony car stop."
"The man was handcuffed and brought to the station."
" 'We brought him in and talked to him,' said Lt. Clarkson. 'We verified that he had a permit to carry the pistol.' "
"The Pawtucket man was released. His pistol is still in police custody."
" 'We held onto it,' Clarkson said.
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Cops held D.C. snipers' other gun
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"A story to be published in the April 20 issue of Gun Week suggests that the infamous Bushmaster rifle stolen from Bull's Eye Shooter Supply in Tacoma was not the first weapon of choice for 'D.C. Snipers' John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. They may have planned to use another rifle, more powerful and deadly, in their killing spree."
... "According to the upcoming story, by senior editor Dave Workman, the rifle the pair likely wanted to use wound up locked up in the Pierce County Sheriff's Department armory months before the sniper mayhem began."
"Their apparent weapon of choice was a Remington Model 700, equipped with a telescopic sight, bipod and, more troubling, a barrel that had been shortened by 6 inches and threaded to accept a silencer." ...
"But Muhammad and Malvo lost the Remington before it could be put to their terrible use, a loss that apparently spurred Muhammad and Malvo to steal the Bushmaster from Bull's Eye." |
UK: "Shots fired" at car tires
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"Armed police were called after reports of two men shooting a gun out of a car window."
"Witnesses said they saw the pair shooting at the tyres of cars travelling on Tritton Road, Lincoln, at around 6pm yesterday."
"Inspector Phil Parkinson from Lincolnshire Police warned that officers would respond to any sighting of a potential firearm in public."
" 'When we get these reports in, we don't know what type of weapon is involved and we may end up deploying officers with weapons when it may be an air pistol,' he said."
"The consequences of carrying something like that around can be quite serious."
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South Africa: Guards foil attempted heist with arms denied the "commoners"
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"Cash-in-transit guards foiled a heist at the Glenfair shopping centre in Pretoria."
"Police spokesman Inspector Anton Breedt said the attack occurred when a group of men in a Nissan Sentra opened fire on the guards of a Coin Security van that had stopped to make a delivery at the centre just before 9am."
"Inspector Percy Morokane said the attack started when one of the security guards, armed with an LM assault rifle, stepped out of the armoured vehicle to secure the premises for a delivery."
" 'He was overpowered by four or five men each armed with a pistol,' he said."
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Now You Can Fight Like Real Men!
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"The moral of the story is you'll only have to draw blood in defense of your liberty when you let others wrap their hands around it first. So guard your freedom like you'd guard your gym locker. And keep the establishment on its toes. You'll find in life, after all, that the status quo often suppresses youth and innovation, and failing that it tries to swallow them." |
NY: Hero ex-cop saves panhandler with a gun, something denied to the peasants
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What hero? The bad guy brought a knife to a gunfight.
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"A shooting outside a Rockaway Park restaurant Tuesday unfolded like something out of a B movie: a self-proclaimed black belt was shot by a retired cop rushing to the defense of a panhandler."
"Paul Friedl was in stable condition with bullet wounds to his chin and shoulder. He faces charges of menacing and weapons possession for allegedly trying to stab Joseph Manello."
"Police said it appears Manello, who was not charged, was acting in self-defense when he shot Friedl outside the Last Stop Gourmet Shop. Witnesses said Manello was trying to help John Trainor."
"Police said Friedl slapped Manello's glasses off, then threatened him with a knife, prompting the shooting." |
Australia: Seized drug cash to fight crime
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"NEW South Wales police can now use money seized from criminals to help pay for drugs and guns in undercover investigations."
"Police collected more than $19 million last year after seizing bank accounts, cash, cars and real estate from criminals and their associates."
"State Police Minister John Watkins said grants of up to $100,000 were now available from the Recovered Assets Pool (ReAP) to help fund criminal investigations."
"Applications for more money would be given special consideration, he said." |
Australia: Four arrested over stolen guns
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"FOUR men have been arrested after allegedly being caught overnight with stolen property including several weapons."
"Police said the men were stopped in a Holden Commodore at Two Wells, north of Adelaide at about 12.30am (ACST) about an hour after reports of a robbery at a nearby property."
"The car was towing a trailer which held two motorbikes, a mountain bike and several firearms."
"Guns were also found inside the car." |
Justice Antonin Scalia: Living in Another World
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"For Scalia, the Constitution that came into formal existence in 1789 is a normative island that must be fortified against eroding foreign and modernist influences. The infrequent invasions that the island experiences, and to which Scalia submits, are wrought through the upheavals of constitutional amendments. Otherwise, Scalia prefers that his constitutional island not be spoiled by interpretive engineers of the Constitution." |
Brunei: Ready With Biometric Passport By 2006
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"An official source from the Immigration Department is confident Brunei will be ready with the biometric passport by Nov 2006 - the proposed two-year extension deadline by the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security on biometric passport requirements for visa-waiver nations."
"Brunei along with 26 other visa-waiver nations are unlikely to meet the October 26' 2004 deadline to introduce biometrics - data on fingerprint and iris identification features, into their passport, which has led to the two-year extension."
"However, the official source told the Bulletin Weekend, meeting the Nov 2006 deadline would only be possible provided that I.C.A.O (International Civil Aviation Organisation) makes an endorsement on the biometric passport." |
UK: 'Big Brother' is watching your driving behaviour
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"CRACKDOWN on bad driving could see motorists fined up to £100 by Croydon Council."
"CCTV cameras will be used to catch drivers carrying out offences such as defying no-entry signs, wrongly driving into a box junction or performing illegal U-turns."
"The nine-month pilot scheme - due to start from August 2 - aims to help law-abiding motorists by eliminating unnecessary congestion that slows down their journeys." |
Man Sentenced for Carrying 32 Blades in Luggage
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"A man who arrived at the Dallas airport on a flight from Europe with 32 razor blades in his carry-on luggage has been sentenced to more than five years in prison."
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LA: Big Brother takes a seat: Cameras on school buses
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"Bus drivers hope that giving Big Brother a seat on Lafayette Parish school buses will stop unruly behavior and other drivers who speed past stopped buses."
"To do that, the board will spend $112,000 to purchase 50 sophisticated video cameras for the next school year and 125 cameras at a cost of $280,000 the year after that." |
MN: One year of conceal-carry (Letter)
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"I'm glad that fewer people requested concealed-carry permits than projected by a legislative research office last year."
"Everything that opponents actually predicted has come to pass. Because of incredibly low standards for granting permits, felons, wife-beaters and sex offenders are getting concealed-weapon permits. There are more guns in public places. Communities don't have the right to ban guns from public buildings. Public interactions are permanently changed for the worse. And our state now teaches kids that guns are a way to solve conflict."
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Of course, she industriously avoids the fact that there has been no blood in the streets or shootouts on street corners, like the gun banners predicted.
I don't know where Heather took her class, my permit instructor told all of us that the only reason to pull a gun is to save a life. But maybe irrational hoplophobes don't find that a good enough reason to carry one. |
Nambia: More Namibians Buy Firearms
Submitted by:
Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.krafft/
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"MORE and more Namibians are acquiring firearms to defend themselves. Namibia has a total number of 97 262 firearms, of which 92 632 are in private hands."
"The Institute for Public Policy and Research (IPPR), in a briefing paper entitled 'In Self Defence: Firearms Usage in Namibia', says that some people say they own firearms to hunt and protect their livestock but many give self defence as the reason for owning guns. Namibia emerged from war more than 10 years ago."
"The report gave the rampant violent crimes and the quick process of acquiring firearms from Windhoek as the reasons for the high figure in the capital compared to other regions."
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To say nothing of the 10 year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. |
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