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Trust in Government Declines
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40% of Americans say they trust the federal government to do what's right at least most of the time. That's down 17% from a survey conducted for the center in October, but it is higher than the 29% recorded in July.
Government favorableness ratings followed the same pattern. The percentage of people viewing the government favorably rose from 50% last summer to 78% in the fall, only to drop 18% since then. |
Ashcroft: New FBI Plan 'Protects Rights'
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"Attorney General John Ashcroft on Friday defended the FBI's reorganization plan against charges the new, proactive approach to fighting terror will infringe on Americans' constitutional rights."
"If you sit and wait for a crime to happen, and then you respond to it, that isn't a very good prevention strategy," Ashcroft said in an interview with Fox News. "You have to be able to develop or to get a lead from your own information, not wait for something to happen to trigger your activity." |
Peace of mind for the Pilots
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"For reasons that remain impenetrable, if not just plain contrary, our inscrutable Transportation Department continues to hold out against arming airline pilots. Why they did so remains a mystery."
"Pilots need to concentrate on flying the plane," non-explained John Magaw, undersecretary of transportation. But can you think of a greater aid to concentration on the part of the cockpit crew than knowing a sidearm is available should the cockpit door suddenly give way?" |
Media Bias: 'Americans and Guns'
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"On the morning of April 20, 1999, two gun-wielding teen-agers walked into their school, Columbine High, in Littleton, Colorado, opened fire and killed 12 fellow students and one teacher—perhaps the most shocking recent example of gun violence in America. The massacre prompted U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore, armed with cameras and boom mikes, to travel across America—and Canada—to try to understand why the United States has the highest gun-related murder rate in the world." |
Bush's 'Project Safe Neighborhoods' Violates the Constitution
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"A Bush administration program that calls for federal agents to prosecute gun crimes runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution, some legal scholars believe. "In actuality and despite what the federal courts have felt constrained to do, the federal government has no more legitimate constitutional authority over gun crime that happens in one state than it does over jaywalking or drunk driving," said Gene Healy, Cato Institute legal scholar." |
Israel: Terrorist killed after infiltrating Samaria community
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"An armed resident of the Samaria community of Shavei Shomron shot and killed an armed Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated the settlement a short time ago. The Palestinian reportedly hurled an explosive device at a kindergarten after entering the community, and was shot dead near the entrance to a home." |
NV: Man gets 10 to 26 years for home invasion last year
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"A robber who was shot in the face by one of his victims during a home invasion was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Thursday. John Dimick, who lost an eye in the December residential robbery off West Charleston Boulevard, said during his sentencing hearing Thursday that his actions were the result of a four-day methamphetamine binge."
--Justice, when it works out, is a great thing! |
Lindh’s Rights: Second Amendment does not apply
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"Chutzpah isn't a word often used in connection with typical admirers of Islamonazi terrorism. But John Walker Lindh is special. In federal court, Lindh's attorney has claimed that prosecuting him for firearms crime would violate Mr. Lindh's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment claim was preceded by another claim that prosecuting Lindh for joining al Qaeda would violate his First Amendment right of assembly." |
Gun collector warns of 'mail-order weapons terrorists might use'
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"I'm for the Second Amendment," the 57-year-old medical software developer and consultant said as he displayed World War II-era British Enfield rifles at his Collin County home."
"But the terrorism threat looming over the country has led him to campaign against what he considers lax laws governing the importation of parts that can be used to make automatic weapons."
--Right. So he's a hypocrite contributing to the destruction of the country he took an oath to defend. |
MD: Robbery at store leads to shootout
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Two men entered the store and accosted the owner, beating him "severely" with at least one gun. As the suspects fled, the store owner shot at the men, who returned fire.
The store owner was licensed to have the gun.
The store owner suffered "considerable injuries" to his right eye and head as a result of the beating. He is listed in stable condition at St. Agnes Hospital.
The best to him for a speedy recovery. |
Wanted: Cowboys (Bring Your Own Guns)
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"It's all part of Cowboy Action Shooting, a sport started in California in 1981 by the Single Action Shooting Society. (Most pistols in the Old West were "single action," meaning you have to cock the hammer for each shot.) The shooting society now has more than 47,000 members in 450 affiliated clubs nationwide. It's big in Texas (of course), New York, Illinois, "anywhere there's a big population." |
FL: Federal bribe for prosecuting 'gun-related crimes'
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"In the Florida Legislature's winter 1999 session, tough-on-crime politicians passed a law that puts people who have or use a gun during a crime behind bars for a long time."
"What they didn't do was put money behind enforcement of the plan that became known as 10-20-Life, which went into effect later that year. So local prosecutors fought for the money themselves." |
AZ: Tragedy points up need for instruction
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"The tragic death of a Mesa teenager from an airgun pellet Monday underscores yet again the need for youngsters to be instructed in gun safety — even if they never intend to hunt or own a gun themselves. That’s "gun safety" in its traditional meaning of "learn to respect guns and handle them properly," not in its hijacked meaning of "restrict the wicked things as much as possible." |
TX: Authorities concerned as citizens defend themselves against illegal invaders
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OPEN SEASON -- "To the young Mexicans with baggy jeans who regularly prowl the rocky bank of the Rio Grande, the isolated Vega Verde neighborhood just across the river is an American wonderland of large well-furnished homes, satellite dishes and SUVs."
"It is also traditional easy-pickings for thieves, and when three dirt-poor Mexicans from Ciudad Acuña waded the river on November 1, 1999, their target was the last house before the thickets of carrizo cane began." |
Great Guns! Miss Universe is one very Hot Shot (Followup)
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"Don't even think about messing with the new Miss Universe - because she also happens to be a pistol-packin' cop."
"Russian stunner Oxana Fedorova took top prize at the famed beauty contest after modeling eye-popping lingerie that sent pulses racing. But the raven-haired bombshell is also a lieutenant with the St. Petersburg police force." |
Feds Clamping Down on Your Rights - for 'Security'
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"Americans who send and receive money, even as part of day to day business procedures, are subject to far more scrutiny by the Federal Government than ever before, under the USA PATRIOT Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and other so-called "anti-money-laundering" laws."
"Money laundering is the attempt to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of illegally obtained money." |
TX: Hijacked busdriver kept his cool, helped passengers escape gunman
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"Genis Williams had only been driving a Metro bus for about seven months when a gunman hijacked his vehicle last week and threatened the riders. Williams kept his cool, however. He helped the passengers escape before grappling with the pistol-wielding assailant and forcing him off the bus."
"My main concern was the children on the bus and the women -- the passengers," Williams said Thursday. "I was responsible for their lives." |
MI: Detroit youths lead the way for gun violence in 'March For Safety'
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"The Detroit community can make a statement against gun violence by joining the city's youth Saturday in a march and rally at Belle Isle. Organizers expect hundreds of young people and adults to show up. The issue has heated up in the last four months, as at least nine children in the Detroit area have died because of gunfire." |
U.S. DOJ Backs DC Anti-Gun Law In Court
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"The U.S. attorney's office argued yesterday in D.C. Superior Court that the District's ban on handguns should be upheld, brushing aside the Bush administration's new directive that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to bear firearms."
"The court arguments take a different position from those made by Attorney General Ashcroft and Solicitor General Olson in which they said the Second Amendment gives individuals a constitutional right to gun ownership." |
PA: Guard not loaded at nuclear plants
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"Under the governor’s order, the state’s National Guard carries unloaded M-16s at its nuclear plants."
"The National Guard is subordinate to the [fully armed] Pennsylvania State Police, Hixson said. State police provide support to private security details hired by plant operators."
Regardless, why have National Guardsmen walking around with unloaded weapons? Even more bizarre, a state representative democrat is out there pushing for the governor to change his mind. |
UK: Street robber jailed only 3 years for attack
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"A thug dubbed a "highway robber" by a judge has been jailed for three years. Brian Revie, 20, knocked a student to the ground in the street before launching a vicious attack and robbing him."
"As Revie, of St Austin's Road, Avenham, Preston, spends his first day behind bars, shocking figures revealed today how street robberies in Lancashire have spiralled by 30% in the last year alone." |
Germany: Committee to Consider Ways to Toughen Gun Bill
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"Acting in the wake a high school massacre in April, the legislative body that represents Germany's 16 states asked a conference committee on Friday to toughen a measure designed to restrict to the ownership of firearms in the country."
"The Bundesrat took the action in response to a call issued by officials around the country after the slayings." |
PA: Judge denies shooting suspect bail
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"His wife, Susan, also was charged for allegedly trying to shield her husband from police."
"Police said officers responding to reports of a domestic dispute saw Constant pushing his wife to the floor. She told officers everything was all right and tried to shut the door before officers could intervene, police said. Constant fired a handgun, striking the officer, police said. The officer was wearing a bullet proof vest." |
'Steal This Book' - Still A Steal
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Let Off Some Psychological Steam, Enjoy A Great Read & Prepare For If...
From a 60's anti-big-goverment radical echoes a message we're all to familiar as being imminently nescesary. These skills are needed
if we wish to subvert the liars, here lie methodologies. I prefer the later.
If we wish a look back or a look into the 60's and one side of the politics, this is it. In retrospect, after learning of Ed Lansdale and his manipulations in the 50's in setting up Nam (www.prouty.org); Abbie stands vindicated. |
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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