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South Africa: Girl beats up burglar
Submitted by: John Fansler

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"A young hockey player and part-time waitress used her hockey stick on a would-be burglar and nearly beat him to a pulp on Thursday morning."

"Shortly after the attempted robbery, Leigh Fourie, 18, said she was terrified when she pounced on the would-be burglar. She threatened him, called him names and hit him with the hockey stick."

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And the police? 'The flying squad arrived about 40 minutes later.'
It's a good thing she didn't just call the cops.

Dr. John R. Lott Jr. to speak at St. Mary's University.
Submitted by: Students for the Second Amendment
Website: http://www.sf2a.org

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Dr. John R. Lott Jr. will speak on his new book, "The Bias Against Guns," on the campus of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.
This event is free and open to the general public.

Tuesday, April 15th
6:30 PM
Moody Life Sciences Bldg.
Room 101
St. Mary's University
One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, Texas 78228

The event is part of the Students for the Second Amendment's Heritage of Freedom Speaker Series.

For more information, contact:
Damaso Torres
(210) 674-5559

DE: Police raid wrong house
Submitted by: P. Jones

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"An elderly couple and their house guest were left shaken and angry Friday night after state troopers mistakenly burst through the door of their New Castle home with a battering ram during a raid."

"Walter Taplin, 83, his wife Patricia, 74, and guest Nancy Powers, 72, were awakened at 9:45 p.m. by the sounds of banging against the door. Moments later, troopers dressed in black came through the entrance and detained the residents before acknowledging their error and leaving the house shortly before midnight."

"Delaware State Police spokesman Maj. Joe Papili said Saturday that troopers had the wrong house."

NH: Items from police chiefs home seized
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"Acting on allegations that Wilton Police Chief Robert Maguire regularly smoked marijuana, state police seized 'two gold metal pipes' and a 'small (package) of vegetative matter' from his home last month, and later took samples of Maguires hair and urine, according to court documents."

"The marijuana allegations came from Christine Kelly-Rose, an employee of the Wilton Police Department who lived with Maguire and claimed in a March 18 domestic-violence petition that Maguire 'often threatened to kill me.' "

Life, Liberty and Barking
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"Amid all the violence and emotional turmoil of this new war that enters our homes and minds with the sterile click of a remote, it may be encouraging, even therapeutic, to ponder a recent decision on the free-speech home front. An Ohio appeals court has ruled that people may talk back to a dog, even a police dog."

VA: Show of force shows police don't get it
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"The historic trial of Richmond police Detective David Melvin didn't end with a verdict, or even the pounding of a gavel."

"Early Wednesday afternoon, Circuit Judge Margaret P. Spencer softly agreed to defense attorney David Baugh's motion for a mistrial."

"The night before, the jury foreman had been upset by her contact outside her home with Richmond police officers who questioned her nephews on the street as possible suspects in a robbery. (They apparently weren't involved in the crime.)"

It is All About Value Submitted by: LFA Editor Website: http://www.libertyforall.net	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"There is a fundamental difference between statists and non-statists, one which goes beyond the acceptance of the NAP (or ZAP if you prefer). This difference is the value which each places on human life. The non-statist values life highly--which is why the non-statist holds to the NAP. The statist does not value human life-except his own-which is why he does not subscribe to the NAP."

Geraldo Rivera goes too far in unethical reporting Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Indeed, it was not the content of Rivera's reporting, but his questionable journalistic methods that gained the most attention with regards to his coverage in Afghanistan. He carried a gun for the duration of his stay in the occupied country." ... ------- This particular columnist's definition of "unethical reporting" appears to be: carrying a gun while in a war zone.

NY: Bronx leaders against gun legislation Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Should gun manufacuters [sic] be held accountable for a person who's a victim of gun violence? Community leaders and the government aren't seeing eye to eye on the subject." "Gun control groups and Bronx Community leaders say their [sic] against legislation that would protect gun manufacturers from being sued."

UK: Ban for airgun used in dozens of murders
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"An airgun that has been illegally converted by criminals to fire a live .22 bullet and used in dozens of murders and shootings is to be banned..."

"The police have been campaigning for the Brocock pistol to be outlawed. A study by the Forensic Science Service has discovered that 50 unsolved murders and attempted murders were carried out with Brococks. The single-shot airgun has become particularly popular with crack cocaine dealers who are unable to obtain conventional firearms."

HI: Police Allocated $5.9 Million For Firing Range
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"The Honolulu Police Department is finally getting an indoor firing range. "

"Police began requesting the facility in the 1980s, but the city has now allocated $5.9 million for the project." ...

"Construction will take about 18 months, and the city plans to begin work by the end of the year."

"Officers currently use the outdoor Koko Head Shooting Complex, which is reserved for police officers two days a week."

UT: Who Are the Good Guys? (Letter)
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"Recent passage of a state law which allows concealed gun permit holders unlimited access to public schools is dangerous. According to its sponsor, Sen. Mike Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, it is justified because 'as long as the bad guys can take their guns into schools then the good guys should also be allowed to take their guns in.' " ...

"In a spontaneous, chaotic, unfamiliar, highly stressed life-and-death situation, how does one distinguish between 'good guys' and 'bad guys?' "

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Here's a clue: the "bad guys" are the ones threatening their disarmed victims.

Airline Pilots Train for Firearms
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"Agents from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration will train the pilots in legal and psychological aspects of firearm use, as well as defensive tactics, said TSA spokeswoman Suzanne Luber."

"The 50-hour seminar will start April 13. Pilots who complete the program will be deputized as federal law enforcement officers. As a security precaution, authorities won't reveal which airlines have pilots in the program, Luber said."

CO: Stalkers dont only make victims lives hell some take them away
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"Christina got bullets in the mail, letters describing torture and death, electronically altered voice mail warning her family would burn and nonstop phone calls nearly 600 in one month." ...

" 'I just need to get a gun and shoot myself,' she told her parents one night. 'Because thats the only way this is going to end.' " ...

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She'd be aiming at the wrong target. The only way it will end is with a bullet to his brain.

South Africa: Councillor faces teen rape case
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"A 15-year-old Limpopo primary school girl this week emotionally revealed how she was raped by a 43-year-old ANC councillor, who is also an anti-rape activist, in a 4x4 Nissan vehicle belonging to the Polokwane municipal council." ...

" 'When he was finished, he threatened to kill me if I reported the incident to my parents or to anybody. I was scared and did not tell anybody as he threatened to kill me with his gun,' the teenager said."

Police and Guns
Submitted by: J W Parsons

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"According to civilian disarmament advocates, only police and military personnel can be trusted with firearms. Gun prohibition activists quickly point to gun-related tragedies involving irresponsible civilian gun owners, such as crimes, suicides, and accidents. But relatively little attention is paid to incidents of this sort involving active duty or retired law enforcement and military personnel." ...

"Those who own firearms must act responsibly, particularly where children are involved. But these particular incidents, and many more like them, also illustrate that agents of the state are not magically immune to thoughtless or reckless behavior, and certainly shouldnt be entitled to a monopoly on the right to bear arms."

PA: Mandatory minimum sentences -- harsh or helpful?
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"When a Northampton County judge sent James Price to prison for robbery, the judge wasn't allowed to consider that it was Price's first serious offense, or that the robbery resulted from an out-of-control alcoholic episode."

"Judge Stephen G. Baratta sentenced Price to five to 10 years in prison on March 28 because that is the mandatory minimum sentence as determined by the state legislature for people who use a gun to commit a violent crime."

DC: Three Employees of Popular D.C. Restaurant Found Dead Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Three employees of a popular Brookland restaurant in Northeast Washington were found shot to death in a kitchen freezer this morning in an apparent robbery attempt that stunned community leaders and residents of a middle-class neighborhood near Catholic University." ------- Gun-free DC is sure doing wonders in stopping senseless gun violence and death.

LA: Citizens fired up about annual gun buyback event Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"A program to get guns off the street stopped abruptly Saturday when the money ran out after two hours." "More than 180 guns had been exchanged for $50 apiece or a $50 gift certificate during the Greater New Orleans Buy Back Committee's fourth annual effort at the Velocity Foundation, said the Rev. Norwood Thompson, committee chairman."

IA: Iowa Sued on Behalf of 5 Orphans Taught to Stutter Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The state of Iowa has been sued on behalf of five orphans who were 'taught' to stutter as part of research conducted by a renowned speech pathologist in 1939." ------- The state doing research on live subjects - defenseless children, no less. Reminiscent of Dr. Mengele.

OH: Laws should not make law-abiding citizens defenseless
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"For decades, gun control laws passed across the country, to the delight of our criminal element. While the crime rate rose, some communities and states recently eased some restrictions. In every case, stricter controls led to increases in violent crime while places that removed some laws preventing people from protecting themselves, experienced a decline in those same types of criminal activity. The statistics are absolutely indisputable."

NE: Concealed gun law won't increase safety
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"We doubt that the fathers of the Constitution intended for the general public to be able to walk down their streets with a loaded .38 special tucked in their jeans. Times were different in the 1780s. As a newly liberated federation of states, there was a high priority to provide as much national and personal defense as possible. It was important that people of that era be able to defend their farms and property because of the lack of organized militia or police to enforce the law."

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Considering, for example, that law enforcement authorities in Louisiana are still trying to find a serial killer, who has been linked to at least five deaths, the existence of law enforcement doesn't seem to be enough to protect the populace.

Doubt cast on Moussaoui trial Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, overseeing the stalled trial of admitted al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, said in an otherwise routine order issued Friday that she is 'disturbed by the extent to which the United States' intelligence officials have classified the pleadings, orders and memorandum opinions in this case.' "

TN: We're done with guns, 15 decide Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"As her 9-year-old son watched anxiously, Thelma Tate got rid of the concealed threat in her home Saturday morning." "She traded her P-380 handgun for Libertyland tickets at the Tickets for Guns exchange at the National Civil Rights Museum." ------- "Concealed threat?" So much for objective reporting.

LA: Southern Louisiana residents question search for killer Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"There is a serial killer out there somewhere in this area of southern Louisiana, and residents are growing increasingly fearful and anxious as a law-enforcement strike force seems no closer to finding the killer."

WV: Tommy Gun Nets New Martinsville Police $7,000
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"For the New Martinsville Police Department, a World War II-era Thompson sub-machine gun that has been collecting dust in the weapons room for more than four decades is a treasure for an Indiana gun collector."

"The collectible gun was hand-delivered by the NMPD to a Class III dealer in Indiana last week who will transfer it to collector Mike Hensley in Indianapolis. Hensley paid the department $7,000 for the weapon - and even at that price, he's thrilled to add it to his collection."

IL: Senate bill limiting guns might hurt deer hunting, businesses
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"The legislation, Senate Bill 1195, on the surface attempts to halt the manufacture and ownership of semi-automatic 'assault weapons.' "

"I use quotes because on the surface, one man's .22-caliber squirrel rifle is another man's assault rifle. With a few aftermarket products, such as a synthetic fold-up stock, a muzzle shroud and a bipod, my own .22 could resemble an assault rifle, and it does have a semi-automatic action."

Record 2 million in jails, prisons Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails last year topped 2 million for the first time, driven by get-tough sentencing policies that mandate long terms for drug offenders and other criminals, the government reported Sunday."

IL: Gun control reduces freedoms (Letter)
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Second Letter on the Page

"I find it ironic that while our servicemen and women are giving up their lives to bring freedom to the Iraqi people, our own elected representatives are trying to take away our freedom at home."

"Any nation where the government is armed and the people are not is a police state, no matter how benevolent it may seem to be. This is not the vision our founding fathers had for us."

FL: Bill would ban aid for students from terrorist nations Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"A bill before the Florida Legislature would ban state aid to university and college students who are citizens of countries on the State Department's list of nations that sponsor terrorism." "The proposal was drafted by state Rep. Dick Kravitz, who said he doesn't like the idea that the United States is educating people who will return to regimes that oppose America."

AZ: Store owner shoots bank bandits in Arizona Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Two men accused of robbing an Eastpointe bank are in an Arizona hospital after a pawn shop manager took justice into his own hands."

Libertarians struggle to reconcile security, privacy concerns
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"Times couldn't be more challenging for civil libertarians and privacy advocates as they struggle to arrest what they consider a dangerous, rising tide of government surveillance." ...

" 'People who are afraid will always choose security,' said Ira Glasser, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. 'The impulse to believe what the government is telling you when you are afraid is overwhelming.' "

CA: Renewed police surveillance of political groups challenged Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Even as civil libertarians challenge police surveillance of citizens, including anti-war organizers, judges and lawmakers across the nation are easing long-standing restraints on police in the name of homeland security." "The changes will help guard against terrorists, proponents said."

Why we may never regain the liberties that we've lost
Submitted by: Newslinks Admin

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"The fabled pendulum of liberty may not swing back this time. Why?"

"For one thing, the damage that one evil or deranged person or group can cause has grown. Even if America somehow persuades all Islamic radicals that we are a good and just society, there will still be some evil and deranged people who will try to wreck things and lives in spectacular ways. In other words, the 'war on terrorism' can't possibly end."

FBI faces legal, technical challenges in monitoring Internet voice calling
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"The increasingly popular "Voice over Internet Protocol," or VoIP, technology breaks phone conversations into data packets, sends them over the Internet and reassembles them at the destination." ...

"The technology creates gray areas in applying the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which required that then-emerging digital technologies include the same capabilities authorities had with analog phones."

AZ: Border Volunteer Moved To Maximum Security Prison; Denied Insulin And Bible
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... "Members have told USA Daily that, 'Casey Nethercott suffers from a pancreatic disorder yet his insulin has been taken away from him again.' He has about three days before the lack of insulin starts to kill him. Members also told USA Daily that Caseys insulin was denied to him during the first 48 hours of his incarceration which resulted in bleeding from the mouth and Casey had to be hospitalized for several days."

A nation disarmed! Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The fact is, this nation has already been effectively disarmed and politically overthrown by evil social fascism, a far cry from the independent thinkers who founded this nation, saying, as John Adams did, 'Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." ...

UK: Matt's shot in a million
Submitted by: John Fansler

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"A royal Marines sniper told yesterday how he felled an Iraqi gunman in a strong wind from more than half a mile with an astonishing shot in a million."

"Crackshot Corporal Matt Hughes, 28, was ordered to take out the Iraqi, who was firing at his pals and holding up an attack."

"Matt pulled off the incredible feat of marksmanship by perfectly gauging the wind speed to bend the bullet to its target."

FL: Ag Commissioner to carry gun Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Attention terrorists: Leave Charles Bronson alone. He might be packing heat." "Bronson, the state's agriculture commissioner, received permission from Capitol police to carry his guns in the Capitol to protect himself. Bronson, a rancher, holds a permit for his 9 mm and .40-caliber pistols."

A Letter to America
Submitted by: Newslinks Admin

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"You're gutting the Constitution. Already your home can be entered without your knowledge or permission, you can be snatched away and incarcerated without cause, your mail can be spied on, your private records searched. Why isn't this a recipe for widespread business theft, political intimidation, and fraud? I know you've been told all this is for your own safety and protection, but think about it for a minute. Anyway, when did you get so scared? You didn't used to be easily frightened."

South Africa: Murder accused got gun license
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"A Cape Town man has gone to court claiming police were negligent in giving a gun licence to his cousin, who at the time was out on bail for allegedly cutting a man's throat."

"Pedro de Lima, who has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in 1996, is suing the Minister of Safety and Security for R2.6-million."

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Lawyers make another move to justify the government disarming their citizens when the need for self defense increases there every day...

Ayn Rand and the Intellectuals
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"If you point out the fact that Objectivism is a 'philosophy of reason,' they deny the existence of reason. If you point to the logic of Objectivism, they say there is no logic. Then they go on to tell you that 'there are no absolutes.' Of course, they don't even notice the fact that their very statement is a 'statement of an absolute,' and negates not only their entire philosophy, but the very statement they have made as well." ...