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IN: Court Strikes Down Indiana's "Anti-Slating" Law
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"In a victory for the Madison Center for Free Speech, a United State District Court on Monday declared that the First Amendment was violated by an Indiana law that prohibited the printing or distribution of a list of candidates expressing support for the candidates without their prior written consent. Federal Judge John Tinder found that requiring candidate consent caused a candidate's supporters to 'lose the independent quality of their speech, as any slate they publish is now understood as having been licensed by the primary candidate in question,' and also 'deprives a candidate of the freedom to retain any neutrality or ambiguity with respect to his would-be supporters.' " |
If You Want Peace, Free The Slaves
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"The present regime is reluctant today to reinitiate the draft, which would probably cause rioting in the streets. It would rather finance its petropiracy through deficit spending and monetization of the resulting debt, than by direct taxation, which would cause similar problems."
"The day will come, however, when maintaining a worldwide empire will force this or successor regimes to begin conscription again. This time, they will draft our daughters, as well. Likewise, circumstances will compel them to raise taxes massively, if not simply to finance the military occupation of the whole Moslem world, then in a Keynesian attempt to absorb the runaway inflation brought about by their idiot policies." |
The Cure For The Patriot Act; Police Who Honor Their Oath
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"Any government that attempts to govern with contradictory laws will create a society of chaos. There cannot be a law that says you cannot rob a convenience store and another that says you can. There cannot be a law that prohibits murder and one that allows it. There cannot be a law that outlaws drunk driving and one that says it is legal. Any law that is adopted by government that lies in contradiction to the Constitution would by definition be null and void." |
MN: More Hoplophobic Responses
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Letter 1 - It's great that the Star Tribune decided to profile seven proud Minnesota gun owners on the front page ("Stereotypes Dog Gun Owners," April 27). Now I'd like the Star Tribune to profile the majority of Minnesotans -- those of us terrified and ashamed to live in a state that has regressed so far as to have put all of its residents in danger rather than protecting them. Next time I feel too afraid to walk into the Mall of America or a Twins game, I'll make sure to thank the governor.
Gretchen Jennie Wolf, St. Paul.
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Gee, Gretchen. If you're terrified, imagine how the criminals must feel!
Letter 2 - Your article intended to dispel myths and stereotypes about handgun owners served the opposite end. Not one of your interviewees provided a legitimate argument for urban handgun ownership (much less conceal-carry). The common thread among the conceal-carry proponents was fear. They share the misplaced belief that concealed handguns will make them and the rest of us safer. Do they not see the irony and shortsightedness of trying to curb violence by increasing gun prevalence?
Ben Seymour, Minneapolis.
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Has Ben ever heard of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution? One must wonder. |
WA: Wash. Bill Targets Violent Games Sold to Minors
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"The governor of Washington is considering a bill that would make it illegal for retailers to sell or rent violent video and computer games to minors..."
"Under the measure, store clerks and owners could face fines of up to $500 per incident for selling or renting violent games to anyone under age 18." |
NV: Free speech issue
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"The Association of American Publishers, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Freedom to Read Foundation of the American Library Association, and the PEN American Center specify they are not necessarily endorsing Schiff's views. Rather, Jonathan Bloom, a New York attorney representing the Association of American Publishers, says, 'We are endorsing the idea that even misguided or mistaken ideas have the right to be placed in the public arena, and the government doesn't have the right under the Constitution to pick and choose which ideas can see the light of day.' " |
MN: New gun law is no reason for worry
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"The MPPA did change the law about who can own guns -- but only to restrict it. When the law takes effect about a month from now, convicted violent felons will be barred for their entire lives from owning firearms, instead of the 10 years that has been the case."
"Minnesotans, even without permits, who are allowed to own firearms will still be able to carry them in their homes or rented property, and their places of business (the MPPA expressly recognizes that employment agreements may limits guns in the workplace) or when traveling between their homes and their places of business. Minnesotans without carry permits who aren't traveling between home and work will still be able to have guns in their cars -- on the seat beside them if they care to -- as long as the guns are unloaded and in a closed, fastened case, just as they can now." |
TX: Women Awarded $1 In School Prayer Case
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"A federal judge awarded $1 in damages to a former student who secured a restraining order so she could pray over a public address system before her high school's 1999 home football games." ...
"Ward filed a lawsuit claiming that the school district in Santa Fe, Texas, violated her constitutional rights with a policy that would have kept her from praying over the public address system before games." |
CA: Recalling Governor Davis
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"If the government of California were a company, it'd be American Airlines. It's nearly broke, and everyone is mad at the CEO. American decided to let its chief go, and soon California voters may be able to do the political equivalent and recall Governor Gray Davis." |
Walking out of U.N.
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... "It's hard not to have a deep hatred for the U.N. It has turned its back on America when we needed its support. It is filled with dictators and terrorists – the very people President Bush has pledged to rid from the world. Lastly, anti-Israel sentiment is huge in the United Nations and hatred toward one of our closet allies seems to be growing each day." |
AL: Feds work locally to stop firearms trafficking
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"Federal and local authorities also have begun placing unprecedented emphasis on tracking the guns themselves, and -- with a barrage of advertisements launched locally in late February on TV, and on radio a week later -- trying to spread the word to would-be felons that even minor gun violations can mean prison." |
TX: Johnnie Cochran says U.S. government is taking away civil rights
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"Johnnie Cochran warned lawyers Monday that many of Americans' basic civil liberties are being stripped away as the federal government wages its often secret war against terrorism."
"The famed criminal defense lawyer specifically attacked passage of the Patriot Act by Congress. He was speaking during a luncheon sponsored by the Tarrant County Black Bar Association as part of its first Law Day celebration." |
UK: Passports will carry eye prints
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"Passports will be equipped with chips capable of storing details of the holder's fingerprints and eyes under plans agreed by David Blunkett and other G8 ministers yesterday." ...
"The Home Secretary agreed with his counterparts in the other industrialised countries to develop the technology that would allow biometric chips to be introduced in British passports in two years." |
UK: Gun amnesty should make our streets safer
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"Officers are starting to dismantle the weapons handed in to police stations across the region. About 800 weapons and 14,242 rounds of ammunition were handed to Northumbria Police in the month-long initiative. On the final day alone 184 weapons and ammunition were surrendered." |
UNtangle US!
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... "If there is anything that can be learned from the Iraqi incursion, it is the total unreliability of our "allies" in the UN. If there is anything to be learned from the Iraqi incursion, it is the unreliability of our "allies" in NATO. Why are we still in NATO? Haven’t the Soviet Union and communism collapsed? It seems communism is collapsing everywhere in the world except the United States." ... |
UK: Amnesty nets 692 weapons
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Lincolnshire Police confirmed that they had 692 guns handed in during the gun amnesty which ended this week.
As well as firearms, there were a total of 9,954 rounds of ammunition. In addition numerous knives, swords, crossbows and other types of weapons were handed in.
Nationally it is reported that more than 20,000 guns were passed to police.
Renate Birch, the county force's deputy firearms Manager, said: "It is hoped this will go some way towards reducing gun related incidents in the county. |
WA: Tacoma Police Ignored Rumors on Chief
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"A woman who claims late Police Chief David Brame raped her in 1988 was told the department was re- examining her allegations more than a month before he shot his wife in the head then committed suicide." ...
"A day before the shooting, Roberts called her again and told her to read a newspaper report about the Brames' ugly divorce, including his wife's allegations that he had abused her."
"She said it made her fear for her life." |
AL: Former city police officer indicted on weapons-trafficking charges
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"A decorated Mobile police officer, whose career was cut short by a gunshot, now faces federal charges, along with another man, alleging that they sold and conspired to sell at least five firearms in Mobile without a license."
"Prosecutors accuse the pair of possessing nearly four dozen more guns in a scheme that lasted from September 2001 to last June." |
Closed-Door McCarthy Transcripts Unsealed
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"Pushing an anti-communist crusade that riveted America a half century ago, Joseph McCarthy manipulated his Senate hearings by calling witnesses he could intimidate and ignoring those likely to oppose him, newly released transcripts show."
"Among the nearly 500 witnesses covered in transcripts of closed door meetings, made public Monday by the Senate, are composer Aaron Copland, New York Times journalist James Reston and Eslanda Goode Robeson, the wife of blacklisted singer-actor Paul Robeson." ... |
Huge Homeland Security Drill Planned
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"These fictional events are set to unfold over five days beginning May 12 in what federal officials say will be the largest homeland security exercise in U.S. history. Dubbed TOPOFF 2 (for Top Officials), the exercise will cost an estimated $16 million and involve more than 100 federal, state and local agencies, the American Red Cross and Canadian government agencies and organizations."
"Federal officials said TOPOFF 2 is designed to test the response to widely dispersed, almost simultaneous terrorist attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and to glean from the experience lessons that can be applied in case of the real thing." |
MN: Please explain (Letter)
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A May 3 article in the Star Tribune quoted Sen. Wes Skoglund, DFL-Minneapolis, as stating, "One of the men accused this week in the robbery-homicides of five people in their homes has only a misdemeanor record and could not have been denied a permit under the new rules."
What was the senator's point? The lack of a permit didn't seem to stop these two individuals from carrying weapons. It's only law-abiding people who apply for permits. |
LA: Lawsuit challenges La. ban on non-U.S. citizens taking bar exam
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"Tulane University law student Emily Maw of Wales wanted to stay in Louisiana after graduation to represent death row inmates and defendants in capital cases. Now she is thinking about practicing in Mississippi instead."
"In what is believed to be the only such rule in the nation, Louisiana prohibits international residents from other countries from taking the state bar exam." |
Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of police roadblocks
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"The high court has already said that officers may set up sobriety checkpoints to randomly detect drunken drivers and border roadblocks to intercept illegal immigrants. But justices ruled in 2000 that random roadblocks intended for drug searches are an unreasonable invasion of privacy under the Constitution."
"At issue in the latest case is whether police can set up checkpoints to seek information about a recent crime -- then arrest drunk drivers, people with drugs and others for wrongdoing." |
MN: Anecdotal Evidence (Letter)
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A tale, a petition
In the May 4 Star Tribune, John Lott Jr. sanctimoniously explained that other states with "shall issue" (conceal-carry) laws have not seen increases in crime by gun-permit users. He asked for examples to the contrary.
Recently in Brooklyn Park, it was reported that a 31-year-old man was arrested for threatening to shoot his wife and children. The man was apprehended with his gun, a bulletproof vest, lots of ammo and his permit to carry.
By the way, I and a few others in Brooklyn Park have been circulating a petition that simply states, "I do not support guns in public places."
Interestingly, this petition has been signed by teachers, church-goers, business owners, stay-at-home moms, day-care providers, police officers, lawyers, etc.
In fact, for every 50 people who have signed our petition, one has declined. That's a pretty impressive ratio, don't you think?
Carter Hendricks, Brooklyn Park.
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Then, for every one non-signer there are 50 who do not understand that Constitutional rights are not subject to their cowardly whims. |
Robinson begins term as head of NRA
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"The new head of the National Rifle Association says he's ready push guns rights to the top of the nation's political agenda."
"Kayne Robinson ...took over the presidency of the NRA a week ago after actor Charlton Heston stepped down."
"Robinson is a former police officer and conservative Republican activist. He says while he won't have the same kind of star power as Heston, he will continue to push his message that gun rights are a civil right that's in danger of being taken away." |
Alliance for Justice Awards More Than $170,000 to Promote Youth Activism
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"The Alliance for Justice is awarding Co/Motion Grants totaling more than $170,000 to eighteen local organizations that support youth activism around the problem of gun violence in America. The Alliance's Co/Motion Youth Gun Violence Prevention Initiative seeks to strengthen the voice of young people by providing them with valuable skills and resources to support their dedication to the prevention of gun violence through advocacy, grassroots organizing and public education." |
Justices to Hear Privacy Case
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"The Supreme Court said Monday it would spell out when the public has a right to information in law enforcement files, like recordings of emergency calls and pictures from crime scenes."
"The justices will consider next fall whether the government must release post-mortem pictures of former White House attorney Vincent Foster, resurrecting a 10-year-old controversy over Foster's suicide." |
UK: Man arrested over gun haul
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"Detectives hunting raiders who stole seven guns, a sword and two old grenades from Felixstowe's historic Landguard Fort have arrested a man, it was revealed today."
"Officers have quizzed a 21-year-old man in connection with the break-in at the monument but no charges have been brought at this stage." |
Judges approve all but one wiretap order in four years
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"Only one wiretap order requested by state and federal prosecutors last year was refused, the first time in four years courts had rejected such a request, government data showed."
"The rejected wiretap request was among 1,359 applications filed in state and federal courts last year for investigations other than terrorism." |
IL: Committee to consider Patriot Act opposition
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"The Human Services Committee will consider tonight a resolution concerning the USA Patriot Act, which bolstered federal surveillance powers one month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."
"The resolution, authored by the city's Human Relations Commission, urges Congress to repeal parts of the act the commission found threatening to civil liberties." ... |
Dangerous Cargo
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"Just as flyers are getting used to the idea that pilots can carry guns in the cockpit, some security experts and pilots are raising a new concern: What about guns not in the cockpit? The Transportation Security Administration demands that when pilots are passengers, their guns be placed in a lockbox and checked into the cargo hold—fully loaded. This flies in the face of the usual law- enforcement practice of not separating man and gun—as well as a 22-year-old aviation-safety regulation that requires all weapons to be unloaded when put into the baggage compartment. Some baggage handlers are reportedly refusing to touch the gun boxes." ... |
Gun Lobby Hits The Bull's-eye
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"Companies that make and sell guns could soon gain significant new protections against lawsuits from victims of gun crimes, the Washington Post reports in Monday's editions."
"In a show of the gun industry's resurgent clout in Washington, the newspaper says President Bush and a majority of lawmakers in Congress now support legislation that would prevent victims from making civil claims against companies that manufactured, imported or sold firearms used in crimes." |
FL: DCF Allowed Convicted Sex Offender To Get Custody Of Teen
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"The Department of Children and Families is being sued, for allowing a convicted sex offender to take custody of a teenager. The man who volunteered to take the boy in is now behind bars."
"George Johns was convicted of molesting the teenager he took in and is serving a 30-year prison sentence. Now, the victim is suing DCF."
"At the very least, caseworkers should have done a criminal background check on the new custodian."
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Home Not the Safest Place for Kids, Studies Show
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"Children younger than 5 and boys were the most likely to be injured, the studies found. The most common causes of injuries and deaths were fires or burns, drowning or suffocation, poisoning and falls."
"Falls were the leading cause of injury, accounting for 1.5 million visits to emergency rooms."
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NY: Lead shot worries neighbors
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"Neighbors living near the Friar Tuck Inn's shooting range have complained about noise, trespassers and stray shots. The issue of possible lead contamination has now entered the debate.
Catskill residents Ted and Toni Stallone say they want something done about the shot from shotgun shells they say has polluted the ground, water and wetlands adjoining the shooting range at the resort located on state Route 32." |
KY: Cartoon a liberal attack on gun rights (letter)
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"Actor Charlton Heston has never been responsible for any gun deaths that I am aware of and has served honorably in the National Rifle Association, an organization that tries earnestly to protect the constitutionally protected, God-given right of every American to keep and bear arms, despite the misguided efforts and disingenuous assertions of the liberal community to deprive the people of that right." |
'John Walsh Show:' Victim Couldn't Say Attacker Was a Cop
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"A guest on a recent episode of the 'John Walsh Show' said Friday that producers would not let her identify the man who sexually assaulted her as an off-duty police officer for fear of damaging Walsh's relationship with the law enforcement community. The program was promoted as featuring women who own firearms for personal protection but was instead, the women said, a thinly veiled attack on gun ownership." |
CA: High School Student Denied Free Speech Because of Political Correctness
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"After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Smith wrote a commentary for the paper about the ineffective enforcement of immigration laws, suggesting that persons who cannot speak English should receive increased scrutiny by law enforcement officials. His article appeared in November 2001, after both the journalism faculty advisor and the school principal approved it."
"After publication, however, many students and parents complained about the piece to the principal, alleging that it was an attack on Hispanics. The principal ordered the confiscation of all remaining issues of the paper." |
IL: U.S. jury fines city $1 million
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"A federal jury on Friday socked the City of Chicago with a highly unusual $1 million verdict after finding the city was so lax in disciplining off-duty police officers who beat up civilians that it created an environment that effectively encouraged it." |
MO: Missouri CCW - Siren Song??
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"But concealed guns don't protect people. A recent Brookings Institution study showed that state laws allowing people to carry concealed firearms don't reduce crime and may even cause it to increase."
"Since 1970, 33 states have passed concealed-carry laws. Thank goodness Missouri has been among the holdouts, outlawing concealed weapons since 1875."
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Iraq: Guns in Baghdad
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"As we speak, the National Rifle Association's nightmare scenario is unfolding in Baghdad. Unchecked, ruthless military authorities, operating in the absence of any constitutional restraints, without search warrants and without paying compensation, and without distinguishing between criminals, ordinary Baathists and law-abiding citizens, are seizing privately-owned weapons in clear violation of the principles of the revered, holy and sacrosanct Second Amendment." |
Gun Firms On Verge Of Winning New Shield
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"The gun industry, demonstrating its resurgent influence over Washington politics, is on the cusp of convincing President Bush and Congress to protect it from pending and future lawsuits."
"Under pressure from the National Rifle Association and a lesser-known organization funded with $100 million from gun manufacturers, Bush and a majority of lawmakers are on record supporting significant new legal protections for companies that make and sell guns. The legislation would prevent victims of gun crimes from making civil claims against companies that manufactured, imported or sold the weapons." |
IL: Veteran cop sees modern police methods failing
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" 'Nobody fears us anymore. Nobody respects us anymore' Jimmy said. 'The police are now toothless tigers, and everybody knows it. There's nothing that honest, decent cops can do. We're powerless, and the gangs know it.' "
"' As an everyday street cop, I'm outraged. I'm incensed.' "
" 'That pendulum of justice is stuck, and it's not coming back for the honest people. It's not coming back.' " |
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