Keeping It Real as a Chicago Communicator

Click Here For Why Terri Schiavo is pro-choice

2005-03-05T20:56:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Why Terri Schiavo is pro-choice: "The primary person desiring Terri's state-sanctioned execution is her husband, Michael Schiavo. As hard as it may be to grasp, the adulterous wife-killer-to-be just might not have the clearest motives in the matter. And he is hoping that today the judges will finally withdraw all the temporary stays and allow his wife to be executed.

What a compassionate man he is! "

Home Burglaries � Invading Your Castle

2005-03-04T14:02:00.000-08:00

Home Burglaries � Invading Your Castle: "The statistics for home burglaries are astonishing:

More than 6 million residential break-ins occur every year -- that is 1 every 10 seconds!

About half of all home burglaries are committed without force, through unlocked windows, patios and doors!

The average cost per break-in was approximately $1,500 (not including the costs of replacing any broken windows or doors)!

1 of every 10 homes will be burglarized this year in the United States -- will you be next?

So, what can you do to reduce your risk of having your home burglarized? Here are some superb ideas suggested by National Crime Prevention Council, Burglary Prevention Council, as well as law enforcement professionals:"

Click Here For Can liberalism survive?

2005-03-01T17:02:00.000-08:00

USNews.com: John Leo: Can liberalism survive? (3/7/05): "Worse, the cultural liberalism that emerged from the convulsions of the 1960s drove the liberal faith out of the mainstream. Its fundamental value is that society should have no fundamental values, except for a pervasive relativism that sees all values as equal. Part of the package was a militant secularism, pitched against religion, the chief source of fundamental values. Complaints about 'imposing' values were also popular then, aimed at teachers and parents who worked to socialize children.

Modern liberalism, says Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, has emptied the national narrative of its civic resources, putting religion outside the public square and creating a value-neutral 'procedural republic.' One of the old heroes of liberalism, John Dewey, said in 1897 that the practical problem of modern society is the maintenance of the spiritual values of civilization. Not much room in liberal thought for that now, or for what another liberal icon, Walter Lippmann, called the 'public philosophy.' The failure to perceive the importance of community has seriously wounded liberalism and undermined its core principles. So has the strong tendency to convert moral and social questions into issues of individual rights, usually constructed and then massaged by judges to place them beyond the reach of majorities and the normal democratic process."

Click Here For Progressing backward is not advancement

2005-03-01T16:53:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Progressing backward is not advancement: "Apparently this group for the advancement of colored people not only views being able to read and write on a commensurate grade level as optional for black youth, but offensive to expect such ability. Being unable to pass a test with the required 40 percent -- a test that gives the student multiple opportunities to retake and pass it -- is not an insult to those favoring the advancement of coloreds. In their jaundiced view, the test is corrupt.

What we observe from these and the encyclopedia of examples that could be cited is twofold: First, we observe the extent of the leadership's dementia, if these are the types of civil-rights threatening actions they oppose. The other is just how anti-advancement the group has become. "

Click Here For Some suggestions for the Harvard faculty

2005-03-01T16:47:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Some suggestions for the Harvard faculty: "Black history is unique. There is no other group whose ancestors were dragged here in chains and enslaved. What is it that we have in common with other groups who are labeled 'minority'?

'Minority,' of course, cannot be defined because it is a label that is purely political and used exclusively for politically motivated purposes. These purposes, through all sorts of attempts at special treatment, wind up producing the same dehumanization that we supposedly want to combat. "

Click Here For Sharpton a good fit for Democrats

2005-02-28T18:12:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Sharpton a good fit for Democrats: "My particular concern is the destructive and wrong message that Sharpton delivered to all African-Americans in inner cities around our country who listened to his address. What did he tell them? That government doesn't care about your personal life, your moral life or how you conduct yourselves as citizens and as people. But it is the government's job to 'guarantee' that food is in your refrigerator.

This is exactly what a community that is being torn apart by AIDS, illegitimacy, abortion, crime and 50-percent school dropouts needed to hear. Particularly from someone who calls himself a minister. "

Click Here For King's message ignored in black community

2005-02-28T18:09:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: King's message ignored in black community: "The bitterness and violence that is so rooted today in many of our black communities shows that they have not gotten Dr. King's message. The statistics are clear that black families are, on average, in far worse shape today than they were in 1963 when Dr. King gave his famous speech. These statistics -- family breakdown, illegitimacy, abortion, crime -- are living testimony to the extent to which blacks chose the path of politics and political demagoguery rather than the path of faith, tradition and personal responsibility on which to build their lives after the Civil Rights Act was enacted. "

Click Here For Golden chance for NAACP

2005-02-28T18:07:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Golden chance for NAACP: "The heads of local NAACP chapters that I meet are out of step with their national leaders and sound much more like local church pastors. Perhaps because these chapter heads live in close proximity to the troubled communities with which they work, they understand that the problems in black communities today reflect the challenges of the business of living and not the business of politics.

As John McWhorter of the Manhattan Institute has aptly put it, today racism is not the main problem of African Americans, but rather '... the mundane tasks of teaching those 'left behind' after the civil-rights victory how to succeed in a complex society.' "

Click Here For Did Ronald Reagan "torture" blacks?

2005-02-28T18:01:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Did Ronald Reagan "torture" blacks?: "So, how did blacks fare under Ronald Reagan?
From the end of 1982 to 1989, black unemployment dropped 9 percentage points (from 20.4 percent to 11.4 percent), while white unemployment dropped by only 4 percentage points. Black household income went up 84 percent from 1980 to 1990, vs. a white household income increase of 68 percent. The number of black-owned businesses increased from 308,000 in 1982 to 424,000 in 1987, a 38 percent rise vs. a 14 percent increase in the total number of firms in the United States. Receipts by black-owned firms more than doubled, from $9.6 billion to $19.8 billion.
If this is 'torture,' more, please � and a side of fries. "

Click Here For When liberals play the race card

2005-02-28T17:58:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: When liberals play the race card: "John 'Sly' Sylvester, a white Madison, Wis., radio host, called Rice 'Aunt Jemima' and Colin Powell 'Uncle Tom.' Sylvester at first offered an apology -- to Aunt Jemima. 'It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima,' said Sylvester, for comparing a 'strong, independent black woman' like Aunt Jemima to a 'self-serving hack politician.' Sylvester later issued another 'apology,' only it demeaned Rice even more: 'I'm concerned that I have offended many African Americans by using a crass term to describe an incompetent, dishonest, political appointee of the Bush administration, I apologize ... She has allowed herself to be used as a black trophy ...' "

Click Here For Children having children

2005-02-28T17:53:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Children having children: "According to the World Almanac 2005 -- which now lists illegitimate birth rates under the politically correct heading 'Nonmarital Childbearing' -- nearly 70 percent of black children are born outside of wedlock. With Latinos, the rate is almost 45 percent, whites nearly 30 percent, and Asians 15 percent. Overall, about 34 percent of America's children today are born outside of wedlock.

According to the Heritage Foundation, children born outside of wedlock were more likely to engage in early sexual activity and have children out of wedlock. The report further stated, 'Compared to children living with both biological parents in similar socioeconomic circumstances, children of never-married mothers exhibit 68 percent more antisocial behavior, 24 percent more headstrong behavior, 33 percent more hyperactive behavior, 78 percent more peer conflict, and 53 percent more dependency. Overall, children of never-married mothers have behavioral problems that score nearly three times higher than children raised in comparable intact families.' "

Click Here For The race card -- 2005

2005-02-28T17:47:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: The race card � 2005: "Richard Williams, father of tennis sensations Venus and Serena Williams, also has three stepdaughters -- one is an actress and singer, one is a lawyer, and one, now deceased, attended medical school. His view of America's 'race relations'? 'In America,' says Williams, 'black people doesn't really have an opportunity at nothin' ... It's kinda bad bein' black in America.' "

Click Here For An armed citizenry and liberty

2005-02-28T17:42:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: An armed citizenry and liberty: "Who are the strongest supporters of the attack on our Second Amendment rights? They're the liberals in and out of Congress, who want more and more government control over our lives. These people want to be secure in the knowledge that they can encroach upon our liberties and face no prospect of armed resistance. These people don't have the courage to seek a constitutional amendment repealing the Second Amendment, so they want to eat away at it piecemeal in the name of fighting crime and protecting children. That's why the Littleton, Colo., massacre is so appealing to them; it gives them cover.

Their ultimate agenda is gun confiscation. Their strategy is akin to the cigarette-Nazi's strategy: start out with reasonable demands and then escalate. Initially, all the cigarette-Nazis wanted was no smoking sections on airplanes. Then they escalated to no smoking on planes altogether, then in airports, restaurants, workplaces and now even outside. Had they made their full agenda known at the beginning, they wouldn't have gotten anything.

I don't know about you, but if you ever hear that Williams' guns have been confiscated, you'll know that Williams is dead. "

Click Here For Are we a republic or a democracy?

2005-02-28T17:37:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Are we a republic or a democracy?: "We often hear the claim that our nation is a democracy. That wasn't the vision of the founders. They saw democracy as another form of tyranny. If we've become a democracy, I guarantee you that the founders would be deeply disappointed by our betrayal of their vision. The founders intended, and laid out the ground rules, for our nation to be a republic. "

Click Here For Dean, Dems frozen in time warp

2005-02-28T17:35:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Dean, Dems frozen in time warp: "Cosby wants blacks to believe in themselves. Dean wants blacks to believe in government.

Dean thinks that if you want to find a black in a hotel you go to the bell stand. There are blacks today who own hotels. "

Click Here For Foolish question about Bill Cosby

2005-02-28T17:32:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Foolish question about Bill Cosby: "How does one compare what Cosby was accused of to Jackson's fathering a child out of wedlock and quite possibly using tax-exempt monies donated to his Citizen Education Fund to buy a $365,000 California home for his paramour? Not to mention hefty child support and $35,000 in severance pay.

Deroy Murdock, reporting on a Bill O'Reilly expose of Jackson, wrote that 'CEF raised $2,077,219 in 1998 and $9,919,914 in 1999. Meanwhile it spent on $30,933 and $15,699 in education and research in those years respectively. CEF dedicated just 0.39 percent of its budget to its stated purpose.' ('Jesse Jackson's Corporate Cash Cow' -- Charitable Donations, Looksmart July 2001; see also 'The O'Reilly Factor,' Feb. 1, 2001, Transcript No. 020101cb.256) "

Click Here For Come on, Harry, it's because he's black

2005-02-28T17:28:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Come on, Harry, it's because he's black: "Of course, liberal whites who practice bigotry are quick to fall back on their track record on civil rights. The problem is, the things they support are designed to keep blacks on their ideological plantation of servitude, indebtedness and dependence upon them. If they were truly for blacks, they would champion meritocracy even if they disagreed with policy. "

Click Here For Teach science, math, English to black children

2005-02-28T17:24:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Teach science, math, English to black children: "I submit it is time to pull the curtain back and reveal the wizard pulling the levers of failure for these children. Black children must be equipped with competitive math and science skills. They must possess communication skills that exceed Ebonics. They must, without question, possess social skills beyond those embraced on the street corner. Black children must be taught that the world doesn't end at the corner of their neighborhood -- nor does it begin with rap music, drugs and violence.

It is an incomparable injustice perpetrated on these young to waste a month with TV commercials and charlatans fomenting a prescribed history of social injustice when the children being indoctrinated are unable to read, write or comprehend at their grade levels.

When Carter Woodson initiated Black History Week, black children took pride in being able to read and write. Today the polar opposite is the case. It is the lack of marketable linguistic, social and educational skills that cause the disproportionate rates of unemployment and income disparity among blacks. "

Click Here For Stock market suckers

2005-02-28T17:15:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Stock market suckers: "Many conservatives are aquiver with excitement that George Delano is daring to brave the third rail of American politics, the much-beloved welfare program set up by his philosophical predecessor, FDR. It is true, of course, that Social Security is nothing but a government-run Ponzi scheme, that there is no trust fund, that as an investment it is a complete rip-off, that it rewards white women at the expense of black men and that it is an outrageous violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. "

Intolerance

2005-02-27T15:46:00.000-08:00

Christian Times Today News Source: "While secular liberals proclaim tolerance as the highest virtue they hypocritically refuse to decry intolerance toward Christians -- the only group who may be ridiculed in American culture with impunity. "

Rights

2005-02-27T14:33:00.000-08:00

BlogArmy: "'The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court -- or to the principal -- when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.' --Jeff Jacoby "

Click Here For Some Rights That Should Be Put In Writing

2005-02-27T14:31:00.000-08:00

Some Rights That Should Be Put In Writing: "Another popular 'right' is the 'right not to be offended.' Recently a schoolgirl objected to reading 'Grendel' by John Gardner -- it's the Beowulf saga retold from the vantage of the monster. Her class was studying Beowulf, one of the oldest works in the English language, and Gardner's Grendel was supplementary reading.
She found the monster's sex and violence offensive. Since sex and violence have been a staple of all literature since Homer and the Old Testament, the 'right not to be offended' is essentially the 'right to be illiterate.'"

Click Here For It Needs To Be Said

2005-02-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

It Needs To Be Said: " Somehow, we now have a RIGHT in this country to not be offended. "

Click Here For The right not to be offended?

2005-02-27T14:24:00.000-08:00

Archive | June 26, 2000 | The right not to be offended?: "In this Supreme Court case, the justices seem to have found yet another new right in the Constitution: the right not to be offended. If I am offended at what you say at a government function, then I can censor you if your speech has any religious overtones at all."

Click Here For Brothers In Arms: How civil rights flowed from a rifle barrel

2005-02-25T16:24:00.000-08:00

Reason: Brothers In Arms: How civil rights flowed from a rifle barrel: "At a protest meeting held at Carnegie Hall after the New York City riot, one of the speakers, 'Miss M.R. Lyons of Brooklyn,' told the audience:
Let every negro get a permit to carry a revolver. You are not supposed to be a walking arsenal, but don't you get caught again. Have your houses made ready to afford protection from the fury of the mob, and remembering that your home is your castle and that no police officer has a right to enter it, unless he complies with the usage of the law; see that he does not."

Click Here For Social Security deceit

2005-02-25T16:20:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Social Security deceit: "The next big lie is from the same Social Security pamphlet: 'Beginning Nov. 24, 1936, the United States government will set up a Social Security account for you ... The checks will come to you as a right.' First, there's no Social Security account containing your money, but more importantly, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on two occasions that Americans have no legal right to Social Security payments.

In Helvering v. Davis (1937), the court held that Social Security was not an insurance program, saying, 'The proceeds of both (employee and employer) taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like internal-revenue taxes generally, and are not earmarked in any way.'

In a later decision, Flemming v. Nestor (1960), the court said, 'To engraft upon Social Security system a concept of 'accrued property rights' would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands ...' That flexibility and boldness mean Congress can constitutionally cut benefits, raise retirement age, raise Social Security taxes and do anything it wishes, including eliminating payments. "

Click Here For What Social Security Crisis?

2005-02-24T13:16:00.000-08:00

What Social Security Crisis?: "In February 1998, then-President Bill Clinton told a Georgetown University audience that a poll indicated that young people felt they were more likely to see a UFO than they were to receive Social Security benefits. He spoke of the 'looming fiscal crisis in Social Security,' saying that Social Security would be bankrupt by 2030 if nothing were done.

Senator John Edwards, D-N.C., told the 106th Congress that the Social Security system was 'riddled with holes. ... And if Congress does not start considering an overall Social Security reform, we will eventually have a hole too big to fix.' In June 2002, Edwards warned again of the 'Social Security crisis.'

On March 30, 2001, Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.V., talked about the 'long-term financing crisis [that] faces the Social Security program.' Again, in May 2003, Byrd referred to 'the impending Social Security funding crisis.'

The above examples illustrate that Democrats have been railing about the Social Security crisis for years. But like a petulant child who must take a contrarian position against his parents, the Democratic leadership is now demanding that no crisis exists.

Who will suffer for such childish behavior? We will. "

Click Here For CBS veteran rips network

2005-02-24T12:37:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: CBS veteran rips network: "'Once you get halfway through the CBS Evening News, the rest of it you can turn off,' Fenton told the News. 'There's nothing there you need to know. It's an attempt to entertain people and pump up ratings. If I want entertainment, I'll watch 'The Daily Show.''
'We have literally dumbed down our public,' he continued. 'We have trained them to accept the coverage they're getting. We so rarely explain what's going on, there's no context. So, people of course, aren't interested. They have no idea what's going on.' "

An Email Prior to the Current Bush Adminstration

2005-02-20T12:27:00.000-08:00

From: john johnson

Questions about Social Security
by Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams is chairman of the Economics Department at George
Mason University and a Cato Institute adjunct scholar.

Liberal Democrats in Congress and Bill Clinton love to attack
Republican proposals for Social Security reform. In their quest for
votes, they stoke the fears of older Americans by telling them that
Republicans want to destroy Social Security by allowing Americans
choices in providing for retirement. Most Democrats and some
Republicans rank Social Security with God, motherhood and apple pie.

Few people know that about 5 million Americans employed by state and
municipal governments do not pay into Social Security. Under the
provisions of the 1935 Social Security Act, state and municipal
governments could opt out. This Social Security loophole was closed
in 1983; however, Congress permitted those 5 million employees, as
well as about 100,000 clergy, to remain exempt from paying into
Social Security.

Part of President Clinton's plan to "save" Social Security, and
championed by Sen. John Breaux, Louisiana Democrat, is to force
previously exempted employees into Social Security. If 5 million more
workers are forced into the system, it would bring in an estimated
$11 billion over five years. Instead of Social Security collapsing in
2030, it would collapse in 2032 and there'd be 5 million more Social
Security obligations. Mr. Clinton and Mr. Breaux's proposal is
standard for any Ponzi scheme - to keep the scheme going, you have to
round up more participants.

Last April, 12 senators, including five Democrats - Dianne Feinstein
and Barbara Boxer, both of California; Christopher Dodd of
Connecticut; Richard Durbin of Illinois; and Edward Kennedy of
Massachusetts - descended on the White House to demand President
Clinton not support forcing 5 million of their constituents into
Social Security. They warned of the adverse impact on employees in
terms of lower rates of return and lost flexibility.

J.T. Young, chief economist for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy
Committee, points out a real-life example of the inferiority of
Social Security compared to municipal pensions. San Diego city
employees are required to put at least 3 percent of their salary into
a pension plan (and may contribute up to 7 percent). Say a worker
with a constant salary of $32,000 puts a minimum of 3 percent of his
salary into a defined-contribution plan that goes into a mutual fund
paying an annual rate of 7 percent. Upon retirement, that worker will
have $293,385 in constant dollars. Such a return is far superior to
Social Security's zero to 2.5 percent rate of return.

If currently exempt workers are forced into Social Security, they'd
also lose the flexibility of their municipal pension plans. Municipal
pension plans typically award partial benefits for partial
disability. Social Security provides benefits only when the
individual becomes totally unemployable. People in high-pressure jobs
like police and firefighting sometime require early retirement. Under
Social Security, retirement benefits are not available until age 62.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why municipal
employees don't want to be in Social Security.

But what are we to make of Democrats who criticize Republicans for
proposals that would begin the process of allowing American workers
to find a deal better than Social Security while at the same time
fighting to keep their 5 million constituents from being dragged into
the Social Security rat hole? At best, they're a little more than
forked-tongue scoundrels.

When politicians boast to you about the wonders of Social Security,
you should ask them:

"If Social Security is so wonderful, how come people have to be
pulled kicking and screaming into it? If it's so wonderful how come
you're petitioning Clinton to spare your municipal employee
constituents from being pulled into it?" I bet they will fork you
gibberish for answers.

Click Here For Should moralism be our highest goal?

2005-02-19T09:57:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Should moralism be our highest goal?: "In the beginning of mankind, God gives this amazing cultural command to us to multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. With the grace given to us from Christ, what's this look like? I think it means we should love God and love others, encouraging each other to do the same, and teaching our children this command. And I may be wrong, but I think that's what Jesus had in mind, that a family of God would emerge that isn't so much as characterized by moralism, but by a passion to love God and others, with joy and peace, boldly proclaiming the Gospel not only with their words, but with their lives.
I keep thinking about what Christ would do if he appeared in humanity today. I don't think he'd start a political action committee and try to take over the world, and I don't think he would start organizations critiquing everything that's wrong with society. My immediate reaction to this thought is, well, even if he wouldn't do it, someone has to. But I've begun to wonder if that's the case. "

Click Here For Ward Churchill's Cheap Shot for Attention

2005-02-13T08:27:00.000-08:00

Ward Churchill's Cheap Shot for Attention: "Ward Churchill did nothing resembling any of the above. Professor Churchill cheap-shot his way into prominence. Saying something outrageous to get attention is the exact intellectual equivalent of a girl stripping for the same reason. Shedding clothes may be attention-getting, to be sure, but there's not a lot of originality or merit surrounding the act no matter how much time and energy she puts into it.

Getting yourself on every talk show in the English language by calling the 9/11 victims 'little Eichmanns' is nothing but a deliberate wardrobe malfunction of the mind. Why, then, does Ward Churchill now get to add this full-length column of mine to his scrapbook?
Not for his wretched contribution to thought and dialogue, I assure you, but rather because of some of the preposterous responses his yawn-worthy notions have provoked.

How can I call the notion that 9/11 was a fate fit for the victims 'yawn-worthy'?

Because I've been around a while. I've seen the shapely ones strip and I've heard the likes of Professor Churchill say outrageous things long enough to have earned the right to yawn. If you haven't yet, don't scold me. Try to catch up with me. "

Click Here For Jonah Goldberg on Ward Churchill and Larry Summers on National Review Online

2005-02-13T08:15:00.000-08:00

Jonah Goldberg on Ward Churchill and Larry Summers on National Review Online: "Known for making factually unencumbered statements about the evils of America, Churchill recently gave an interview in which he said he wanted the 'U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether.' He thinks 'more 9/11s' are necessary. He holds no Ph.D., and his scholarship -- for want of a better word -- is under relentless attack. Before the current kerfuffle, he'd attained whatever prominence he had by pretending he was an American Indian radical. He likes to pose with assault rifles. The Rocky Mountain News did a genealogical search of Churchill's past and found that he's basically a vanilla white guy playing Indian and enriching himself in the process. The American Indian Movement called Churchill a fraud years ago."

From An Email

2005-02-13T07:55:00.000-08:00

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:58:46 -0000
From: "Kat"
Subject: Free from MA!

Jim Perry in "Escape from Massachusetts"

Fed up with high taxes and the Massachusetts nanny state, Jim Perry
joined the United States' fastest-growing freedom movement, the Free
State Project, and publicly broke his bonds from big government. To
symbolize this event, Jim chained himself to a pole in Massachusetts
at its border near Nashua. Freestaters at the event witnessed
thousands of cars pouring in to New Hampshire from Massachusetts for
sales-tax-free shopping. Jim remained chained for about an hour,
holding a sign urging people to "Cut the chains of statism.
--freestateproject.org". Compatriots in the Free State Project handed
out flyers explaining the project and held signs:

"Escape to NH. --freestateproject.org"
"Honk if you love NH. --freestateproject.org"
"Now escaping Massachusetts"

Freestaters who had already made the move to NH then broke his chains,
allowing him to make a mad dash to his freedom. Once there, he
celebrated some of the freedoms one immediately gains when crossing
the border: he destroyed a MA income tax form (NH has no state income
or sales taxes); he drove a car without a seatbelt (NH is the only
state without a seatbelt law for adults); and he openly carried a
handgun, reveling in the freedom to protect himself and his loved ones.

Not all who attended the event were Freestaters. Two assisting in
Jim's break for freedom were NH natives who welcome the Free State
Project. They admitted that before they began working with the
Freestaters moving to NH, they were ready to leave New Hampshire. Now
they've decided to stay and be a part of Liberty in our Lifetimes.

The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more
liberty-oriented people will move to New Hampshire, where they may
work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of
government. The success of the Free State Project would likely entail
reductions in burdensome taxation and regulation, reforms in state and
local law, an end to federal mandates, and a restoration of
constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to
the rest of the nation and the world.

Event Photos:
http://www.soulawakenings.com/underground/tikiwiki/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=9
Free State Project:
http://www.freestateproject.org

More Abortions, Less Clinics

2005-02-13T07:46:00.000-08:00

Planned Parenthood: More Abortions, Fewer Clinics
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Editor
January 18, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the
nation's most frequent provider of abortions, is performing more of
the procedures than ever -- albeit in fewer clinics -- and relying
increasingly on the revenue generated from abortions, according to its
Fiscal Year 2004 annual report.

With other services becoming marginalized in Planned Parenthood's
overall business, the organization relied on abortion for 34 percent
of its clinic income from July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004, up from 32
percent in Fiscal Year 2002 and FY 2003.

After a spike in private contributions two years ago, Planned
Parenthood saw those donations drop 17 percent last year, but U.S.
taxpayer assistance in the form of government grants reached record
levels.

Numerous calls to Planned Parenthood offices in both New York City and
Washington, D.C., seeking comment for this article, were not returned,
but a survey of newspaper stories regarding the closing of 11 of the
organization's clinics during Fiscal Year 2004 revealed a common cause.

'A business decision'

Last fall, the clinic in Tulia, Texas, became the 16th Planned
Parenthood center in the state panhandle to shut its doors during the
past seven years. Only three such facilities remain in the area.

Claudia Stravato, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of
Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, said the Tulia facility was closed
due to low patient load and insufficient government funding to
reimburse the organization for its expenses.

"We're basically in survival mode here," Stravato told the Amarillo
Globe-News when the clinic in Pampa was closed down for similar
reasons. "Nobody wants to close clinics and cut services, but we can
only do so much with so little."

The clinic in Cardigan, Ohio, experienced the same fate some months
earlier, when Planned Parenthood of North Central Ohio (PPNCO)
consolidated its services with those offered at the nearby Crawford
County facility.

Cindy Biggs, head of PPNCO, blamed the merger on a decrease in state
funding.

Citing rising costs and declining demand, Planned Parenthood of
Greater Indiana closed clinics in the cities of Martinsville, New
Castle and Salem during December of 2003

"We have to pick the right locations to be in," spokeswoman Theresa
Browning told the Indianapolis Star. "At this time, these three do not
seem to be in the right location, and we need to be responsive to the
community."

No abortions were performed at the three centers, which lost a
combined total of more than $135,000 in the previous 22 months, she said.

"We believe this change is going to be a better investment of our
resources," Browning added, "and will be able to give the clients what
they want and need."

In August of 2003, Planned Parenthood Northern Michigan (PPNM) closed
its clinic in Houghton, Mich., after two years of operation.

"While we recognize the need for affordable family planning services
in the Copper Country," said Scott Blanchard, executive director of
PPNM, "our Houghton center simply hasn't served enough clients to
justify the monthly costs to keep it going."

Closing the facility was a difficult decision, Blanchard noted in a
press release, in part because "those who oppose Planned Parenthood's
presence in Houghton will undoubtedly see this as a victory.

"However, this was strictly a business decision," he said.

Downward trend

These business decisions have resulted in the number of clinics
operated by Planned Parenthood declining from 938 at the
organization's peak in 1995 to about 850 a decade later, according to
Jim Sedlak, executive director of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP)
International, a subdivision of the American Life League. Sedlak
analyzed Planned Parenthood's annual reports for the last decade.

"Planned Parenthood insists as a business that every one of its
clinics must make money or get closed down," Sedlak said. "It makes no
difference what the federation as a whole is doing."

Nevertheless, the net loss of almost 90 clinics over the past 10 years
and 17 facilities during the most recent fiscal year suggests that the
public is increasingly steering away from Planned Parenthood offices,
Sedlak said, and is consistent with other information contained in the
annual report.

Planned Parenthood increased the number of abortions at its facilities
by 6.1 percent to 244,628, according to the FY 2004 report, even
though the total number of abortions performed nationwide has been
declining since 1997.

Using an average cost of $400 per abortion, Sedlak estimates that the
organization took in $104 million from surgical abortions -- the first
time this number has surpassed $100 million -- accounting for 34
percent of the organization's $302.6 million clinic income.

While Planned Parenthood increased its numbers of surgical and
chemical abortions, breast exams at its facilities dropped by 13.3
percent. And the organization aborted 138 babies for every adoption
referral to an outside agency, according to data in the report.

The most recent figures available on Planned Parenthood's distribution
of the abortion-inducing drug combination RU-486 are from 2002. During
that year, more than 95,000 customers at 203 offices were given the
RU-486 pills. Forty-nine of those facilities do not perform surgical
abortions, but began handing out the drugs that cause chemical abortions.

Following an aggressive marketing campaign, the organization increased
its distribution of the misnamed "morning-after pill" by 22.2 percent
in FY 2004. While Planned Parenthood sells this drug regimen as an
"Emergency Contraception Kit," the fact that it can be used up to
three days after sexual intercourse to prevent the implantation of a
fertilized embryo in a woman's uterus gives the pro-life community
enough cause to consider the morning-after pill a form of abortion.

Planned Parenthood's sale of the Emergency Contraception Kits has
multiplied more than ten-fold in five years -- from 72,024 in FY 1999
to the 774,482 in FY 2004.

The organization's FY 2004 report also indicates a 2.2 percent
increase in the number of clients receiving contraceptives, or a total
figure of 2,257,154, which does not include the clients receiving
Emergency Contraception Kits. This increase contradicts recent surveys
elsewhere that show the use of pure contraceptives, preventing the
fertilizing of an embryo, to be declining in the United States.

'Money is money'

Planned Parenthood's bottom line is still solid. The organization
posted its 18th straight year of record total income ($810 million)
and ended the period with a net profit of $35.2 million.

"Increases in abortions, more money from taxpayers' pockets and bigger
profit margins -- all while clinics are closing down and donations are
dwindling. That is the state of Planned Parenthood," Sedlak said.

The funding Planned Parenthood receives from government agencies is
particularly troubling to Mark Crutcher, founder and president of the
Texas-based pro-life group, Life Dynamics. "That organization receives
an obscene amount of money in taxes," he said.

Even though government grants are given for specific projects and are
prohibited by law from being used for abortions, that funding still
helps Planned Parenthood in its overall operations, Crutcher said.

"Money is money," he stated. "If you can take in $20 million a year
for advertising, then you don't have to spend your own money on that.
If you're a different clinic and you don't get that funding, then
you've got to find that money to advertise. This arrangement frees up
funds for Planned Parenthood to use for other things, like performing
abortions."

Despite the net loss of centers across the country, Planned Parenthood
opened two new facilities in October: the Tri-Cities Health Center in
Saginaw, Mich., by Planned Parenthood of East Central Michigan; and an
express health center in Clackamas County, Ore., by Planned Parenthood
of Columbia/Williamette.

Planned Parenthood also managed to open a clinic in Hattiesburg,
Miss., but the clinic doesn't perform abortions, and Mississippi's
restrictions on abortion continue to make it one of the least
receptive places in America for the organization.

Mississippi law allows any health-care provider to refuse to perform
any abortion-related procedure, including those emanating from
emergency referrals. Both parents are required to give consent before
a minor can have an abortion, and women seeking the procedure must be
told that it could increase their risk of getting breast cancer.

Abortions in Mississippi reached their peak in 1991, when 8,814 were
reported, according to an Associated Press report. By 2002, the number
had dropped to 3,605, giving the state one of the lowest abortion
rates in the nation, the same report stated.

Mississippi doesn't even have a Planned Parenthood chapter, so the new
clinic in Hattiesburg is being operated by the affiliate from the
neighboring state of Alabama.

"Some Mississippi women drive across the state line to get abortions,
but the poorest of the poor are either having the kids or getting a
back-alley abortion," Larry Rodick, director of Planned Parenthood of
Alabama, told the Associated Press.

In another part of the South, Texas has provided Planned Parenthood
with another challenge -- getting its facilities built.

During construction of a clinic in Austin in late 2003, the general
contractor withdrew because a boycott campaign persuaded most
potential subcontractors to steer clear of the project.

The facility was eventually completed, though the names of the
individuals and businesses that worked on the structure are being kept
confidential.

More recently, plans to expand an abortion clinic in downtown Houston
ran into unexpected problems from a pro-life group in the city. As
previously reported by the Cybercast News Service, the Houston
Coalition for Life learned that Planned Parenthood of Houston and
Southeast Texas was seeking architects for the project.

The Coalition sent more than 1,000 letters, signed by community
leaders, to local construction company officials, asking them to
"please do the right thing by rejecting this job if Planned Parenthood
asks you to participate."

The pro-life group is also listing businesses that participate in the
project on its website.

'Now is the time'

As Planned Parenthood approaches the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v.
Wade decision on Jan. 22, opponents of the organization hope to force
it to make more "business decisions" that will further reduce the
number of clinics -- and abortions -- in its future.

National Right to Life reports that nearly 45 million abortions were
performed in the United States between 1973, when the Supreme Court
legalized the procedure, and the end of 2003. The Alan Guttmacher
Institute, which is the research arm for Planned Parenthood, estimates
that overall in the United States, more than 1.3 million abortions
were performed in 2003. Planned Parenthood's annual report indicates
that the organization's clinics were responsible for nearly 19 percent
of that total.

"The public is increasingly rejecting Planned Parenthood's radical
agenda, but apparently, our elected officials haven't gotten the
message," Sedlak said.

"Now is the time for Americans to expand the growing efforts to close
Planned Parenthood clinics and to put pressure on politicians to stop
the obscene amount of taxpayer money that is being funneled to the
nation's largest abortion chain."

Did You Know....

2005-02-13T07:42:00.000-08:00

DID YOU KNOW ALL THIS? I SURELY DIDN'T.

As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the US Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW?

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, DC

DID YOU KNOW?

James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:

"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

DID YOU KNOW?

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

DID YOU KNOW?

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW?

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy --the rule of few over many.

From An Email

2005-02-13T07:36:00.000-08:00

From: "Pep Stofen"

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:40:54 -0500

BLUE COLLAR REPUBLIC

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

ARTICLE 1, Section 8, paragraph 5, The Congress shall have the power To coin Money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures."

(This is the law of our land, given to us by the Founding Fathers.) Therefore, changes must be made, as I call your attention to the finding of the following:

"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)

In 1913 the Congress of the United States turned over their right to coin Money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures, to a group of PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS. A direct violation of ARTICLE 1 above and should be declared null and void.

Click Here For How the Blogs Torpedoed Dan Rather

2005-02-13T07:30:00.000-08:00

How the Blogs Torpedoed Dan Rather: "Blogs Outstripping Some Newspapers
'You'll note that several blogs rank higher than mid-size daily newspapers and some are pushing the sites of papers in the top 50 (by daily circulation). The data suggest that the question isn't 'When will blogs arrive?' but rather 'Blogs HAVE arrived, what now?'
Mirengoff answered that rhetorical question by suggesting: 'In 2004, the earth moved�' [referring to the Rathergate phenomenon]"

Click Here For Journs on Clinton's White House Payroll?

2005-02-13T07:13:00.000-08:00

NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story: "Given examples like these, it would seem that the media ethics police have a lot of catching up to do before continuing the hunt for journalists on the Bush administration payroll. "

Click Here For Charlotte Iserbyt -- Refuse the National I.D. Card

2005-02-12T10:28:00.000-08:00

Charlotte Iserbyt -- Refuse the National I.D. Card: "Once the United States is down, under a totalitarian world communist government, with our Constitution a thing of the past, do we really believe we will be able to stop abortion, euthanasia, mental health screening, etc., that we will be able to get rid of the internal passport, or that we will be able to reclaim any of our other freedoms formerly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?
There is a solution to this vitally important problem. Hopefully, some day in the future, our children and grandchildren will look back on February 9, 2005 the day our Congress passed the infamous H.R. 418, as the day which triggered the movement to take our country back. Should the U.S. Senate pass H.R. 418's companion legislation, all Americans, when they have to renew their drivers licenses, should refuse to accept this drivers license which is nothing more nor less than an internal passport similar to those required in totalitarian countries. "

Click Here For Saudi official: Teaching, not poverty, root of terrorism

2005-02-12T10:19:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Saudi official: Teaching, not poverty, root of terrorism: "Countering the assertion of many in American academia, a Saudi official said extremist teachings, not poverty or unemployment, are the root causes of terrorism in the kingdom, the homeland of billionaire Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers.
At a news conference in Riyadh, Labor Minister Ghazi Al-Gosaibi blamed the spread of terrorism on the 'indoctrination that teaches young people they can kill justifiably' and training in Afghan camps, reported Arab News, an officially sanctioned Saudi newspaper. "

Click Here For Ward Churchill: Rocky Mountain News: Local

2005-02-12T10:15:00.000-08:00

Rocky Mountain News: Local: "In at least one of the cases mentioned by LaVelle, however, Churchill cites the original writer in a footnote but does not acknowledge that the wording is almost verbatim.
LaVelle made the charge in a 1999 essay published in Wicazo Sa Review, an Arizona-based American Indian studies journal.
LaVelle quoted paragraphs from Churchill's works along with the corresponding parts of the other writers' essays, each of which was published before Churchill's. The wording is substantially the same.
LaVelle declined to comment Thursday on his 1999 article that rips Churchill and accuses him of inventing information and of sloppy scholarship.
Churchill could not be reached for comment. "

Click Here For 9-11 professor trained terrorists

2005-02-12T10:11:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: 9-11 professor trained terrorists: "The University of Colorado professor under fire for calling victims of the 9-11 attacks 'Little Eichmans,' reportedly trained a domestic terror group.
Ward Churchill taught the revolutionary group the Weathermen how to make bombs and fire weapons, according to a Fox News report citing the Jan. 18, 1987 issue of the Denver Post.
The revelation is among many reported since Churchill prompted a national furor with publicity of an essay he wrote titled 'Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.' "

Click Here For David Brownlow -- Hot on The Abortion Blood-Money Trail

2005-02-11T11:22:00.000-08:00

David Brownlow -- Hot on The Abortion Blood-Money Trail: "Now we have proof that the state was lying. "

Click Here For Million Dollar Baby' Is a Neo-Nazi Movie

2005-02-11T11:03:00.000-08:00

�Million Dollar Baby' Is a Neo-Nazi Movie: "While the attempted annihilation of Jews by the National Socialists is well documented, the atrocities did not stop with the Jewish race. The main focus of 'Selling Murder' is a group that has been somewhat overlooked: the mentally and physically ill of Germany. In 1939, Hitler ordered the killing of the mentally and physically disabled, labeling them as 'life unworthy of life.'
His reasoning was that the cost of keeping them alive in asylums and hospitals was too great. The real reason, however, stemmed from the government's determination to eliminate any threat to its idea of producing a superior race."

Click Here For SF180 forms to flood Kerry's office

2005-02-11T09:29:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: SF180 forms to flood Kerry's office: "Amanda and Carol have issued a statement which expresses their strong opposition to Sen. Kerry's 2004 presidential run:
It's about honor, and John Kerry's lack of it. It's about betrayal of the worst kind. John Kerry gave aid and comfort to the enemy, while our troops lay dying on the battlefield. He betrayed his fellow military and his country. "

Click Here For Rev. Al turns to chicken-ism

2005-02-11T09:21:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Rev. Al turns to chicken-ism: "Taking a break from the battle against racism, former Democratic presidential candidate and 'civil rights activist' Rev. Al Sharpton recently announced a new mission � fighting chicken-ism. In collaboration with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Sharpton intends to lobby Kentucky Fried Chicken to treat chickens more humanely. If Reverend Al now chooses to pursue social justice for chickens, just how bad is racism in America? "

Click Here For The Kinsey Whitewash

2005-02-11T09:17:00.000-08:00

FOXNews.com - Views - The Kinsey Whitewash: "Kinsey's volunteers were disproportionately comprised of homosexuals, bisexuals, prostitutes and convicts -- more in his sample than in society as a whole. So unreliable were his sampling methods that famed psychologist Abraham Maslow, who expressed early interest in Kinsey's sexuality research, refused to work with him because of his methods.

Predictably, the lack of a true random sample distorted his findings. For instance, Kinsey famously claimed that 10 percent of the general populace is "more or less exclusively" homosexual -- 5 percent exclusively gay and 5 percent bisexual. The most recent National Health and Social Life Survey, by contrast, estimates that the actual figure is about 1 percent to 3 percent.

Then there are the questions about Kinsey's data-collection methods. In his books "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953), Kinsey cites "technically trained experts" as the source for his data on childhood sexual behavior. In particular, the infamous Tables 30 through 34 in his "Male book" -- which charted how long it took to (brace yourself) induce orgasms in children as young as two months old -- featured the research of these 'experts.'"

Click Here For Kinsey film lies, defames World War II Americans

2005-02-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

WorldNetDaily: Kinsey film lies, defames World War II Americans: "The film lied that Kinsey or Pomeroy abhorred the men who raped children for Kinsey. Instead they lauded these men and urged them on. "

Click Here For Ben Shapiro: It's the Democratic party, they can cry if they want to

2005-02-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

Ben Shapiro: It's the Democratic party, they can cry if they want to: " Whining is not the way to win over the American people. But the Democrats are so wedded to the politics of the past that they're boxing themselves into a corner. They're not willing to go the extra mile to build new coalitions, to revamp their image, or to even accept that their grip on power is gone. They're living in a dream world where they still run the Senate and can gain sympathy by calling Republicans 'meanies' and 'liars.' "

Click Here For Walter E. Williams: Not yours to give

2005-02-09T07:33:00.000-08:00

Walter E. Williams: Not yours to give: "Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time. "

Click Here For Thomas Sowell: Filtering out the best

2005-02-09T07:30:00.000-08:00

Thomas Sowell: Filtering out the best: "Having lost the White House, both houses of Congress, and a majority of the governorships and state legislatures, the Democrats are in an ugly and desperate mood, lashing out without regard to how their words and actions will affect this country's position internationally, including giving aid and comfort to our enemies.

This may help explain, but it cannot condone, the obstructionism behind such things as the Democrats' holding up the official electoral college vote count on President Bush's re-election or the harassment of Condoleezza Rice during her confirmation hearings to become Secretary of State.

This is more than a passing mood among bitter sore losers.... "

Click Here For Rich Lowry: Civil libertarians against public health

2005-02-09T07:25:00.000-08:00

Rich Lowry: Civil libertarians against public health: "Do we as a society prefer sick or healthy babies? Do we want babies to be infected with a potentially deadly virus or not? The answers seem obvious, but in a decade-long debate, a host of liberal groups, in effect, came down on the wrong side. Fortunately, in New York City -- once the epicenter of the epidemic of babies born with HIV -- their lunatic obsessions were rejected, and now the scourge of newborns infected with HIV has been all but eliminated."

Click Here For Sick of Lawsuits? You Should Be!

2005-02-09T07:19:00.000-08:00

Sick of Lawsuits? You Should Be!: "Personal injury lawyers and uninjured plaintiffs are gaming our legal system in an attempt to get rich. Their never-ending lawsuit schemes are taking compensation away from those who are truly injured and destroying our healthcare system in the process."

Click Here For The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms--Conservative Debate Handbook

2005-01-28T15:31:00.000-08:00

The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms--Conservative Debate Handbook: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.--Thomas Jefferson, quoting with approval a noted criminologist of his day."

Click Here For Enemies of the Second Amendment

2005-01-28T15:24:00.000-08:00

Enemies of the Second Amendment: "Hitler 'negotiated' for the Sudetenland because he felt himself weaker than an alliance between England, France, and Czechoslovakia. Historians do not believe that Hitler would have gone to war had England and France told him to go to hell instead of appeasing him.
Hitler similarly gained the rest of Czechoslovakia because England and France (still probably stronger in 1938) did not stand up to him.
On the political front, the Million Mom March sought to 'negotiate' away the Second Amendment through a policy of incrementalism. Second Amendment supporters who knew themselves to be stronger did not seek any negotiations or compromises with the Million Mom March. We destroyed it as an organization by exposing evidence of serious improprieties. This caused its own rank-and-file supporters to walk away in disgust. "

Click Here For The Stentorian's Second Amendment site: Position Statement

2005-01-28T15:20:00.000-08:00

The Stentorian's Second Amendment site: Position Statement: "This site defines strategies and tactics for counteracting gun control legislation, and even for destroying the political credibility of organizations like Handgun Control Incorporated. In fact, it introduces military-grade propaganda, the kind that countries use when they are at war, into the controversy. Isn't this a bit extreme? Shouldn't a reasonable person seek compromise or a win-win solution? Everybody agrees that violent criminals shouldn't have guns. Everybody agrees that law-abiding firearm owners should use them safely and responsibly; wouldn't mandatory licensing and registration (as with automobiles, a point the gun control party makes repeatedly) help promote safe and responsible firearm use? Dr. Stephen Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership is a principal reference for my nonfiction books. It contains the essence of how any organization, social group, family, or country should operate. The quest for a win-win solution, e.g. 'keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals while promoting safe and responsible firearm use by law-abiding citizens' is a keystone of constructive conflict resolution. I consider myself among its foremost advocates. Dr. Covey also points out (accurately) that 'compromise' is lose-lose; neither side gets everything it wants but, since both sides agree the solution is 'fair,' no one walks away angry. This is the situation:
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger"

Click Here For Fascism: it CAN happen here

2005-01-28T15:16:00.000-08:00

Fascism: it CAN happen here: Who said this? "'[nationality of citizens] who wish to use firearms should join the [Armed Forces]. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State'"

Click Here For The Problems with Government Gun Control

2005-01-27T17:00:00.000-08:00

The Problems with Government Gun Control: "Burglars have rights too, says Attorney General
He [Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general] said that criminals must also have the right to protection from violence. - Melissa Kite and Andrew Alderson, December 12, 2004 [news.telegraph.uk] "

Click Here For Reason: Gun Control's Twisted Outcome

2005-01-27T16:54:00.000-08:00

Reason: Gun Control�s Twisted Outcome: "Gun Control�s Twisted Outcome

Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S."

Click Here For The Armed Citizen Reporter

2005-01-26T21:56:00.001-08:00

The Armed Citizen Reporter: "GRANNY KILLS ARMED ROBBER: Imagine the surprise for the would-be armed robber who became the second criminal to be killed by his intended victim in Houston in one week. He turned his gun on Nora Ghani, a woman in the convenience store he was robbing and she didn't wait. She killed him. Her son Napel thought first that he had been shot. Then that his mother had been shot. But no. It was one of the two robbers. The other one hasn't been seen nor heard from since, according to this story. They're soon going to be short on convenience store robbers in Houston. (Source: 'The Houston Chronicle,' Feb. 28, 2000, via the 'Keep and Bear Arms' web site. URL elsewhere.) "

Click Here For The Armed Citizen Reporter

2005-01-26T21:56:00.000-08:00

The Armed Citizen Reporter: "NOT GOING TO BE THE SIXTH VICTIM: Khoa Dang Nguyen was determined not to be the sixth victim of robbers, who killed five of his friends. When two armed robbers tried to hold him up, he gave them the money and asked them to leave. When one of them locked the security door, he knew they were not going to be satisfied with taking his money. So he shot them both. Twins Albert and Abbert Gaston, who were wounded, were charged with aggravated robbery. (Source: 'Houston Chronicle,' Houston, Texas 2/24/2000 via 'Keep and Bear Arms Organization.') "

Click Here For The Armed Citizen Reporter

2005-01-26T21:54:00.000-08:00

The Armed Citizen Reporter: "HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASY: Brian K. Franklin thought it would be easy to force his way into a Mayo, Florida home and 'have his way' with the occupants. Franklin, who had evaded a months-long manhunt, walked onto the back porch of the home, but the woman locked the door. So he broke the door down and walked in. When he raised his gun to the woman, her husband blew him away with a 12-ga. shotgun. Very unexpected. (Source: 'Branford News,' Branford, Florida, 12/23/99 via 'Keep and Bear Arms Organization.') "

Click Here For NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets

2005-01-26T21:41:00.000-08:00

NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets: "D.C.`s homicide rate has soared since the city banned handguns in 1976. Homicide had been declining in D.C. before the ban, but increased after the ban was imposed. By 1991 D.C.`s homicide rate had risen more than 200%. By comparison, the U.S. homicide rate rose only 12% during the same period. D.C.`s homicide rate is more than double the rate when its handgun ban took effect. (FBI, Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia)"

Click Here For NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets

2005-01-26T21:40:00.000-08:00

NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets: "The District`s gun law forces law-abiding citizens to choose between protecting their lives and obeying the law. Former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman explained his choice: 'Honest people don`t have guns and criminals do. I think people have a right to protect themselves. I was outraged to learn that I couldn`t legally have a gun in Washington. Despite the law, I kept one in my office and one in my apartment, because there were plenty of armed criminals roaming the streets of Washington.' (Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate, 1996, p.40)"

Click Here For NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets

2005-01-26T21:38:00.000-08:00

NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets: " D.C.`s homicide rate has soared since the city banned handguns in 1976. Homicide had been declining in D.C. before the ban, but increased after the ban was imposed. By 1991 D.C.`s homicide rate had risen more than 200%. By comparison, the U.S. homicide rate rose only 12% during the same period. D.C.`s homicide rate is more than double the rate when its handgun ban took effect. (FBI, Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia)"

Click Here For Annie Get Your Gun

2005-01-26T21:23:00.000-08:00

Annie Get Your Gun: "For those women who think that just because they call 9-11 when a couple of big bruisers break into their home - if they even have the time or opportunity to get to the phone - that the police are obligated to run right over and save their bacon are wrong. Dead wrong. Not here in California and many other states. Anyone can look up these appellate cases and find out that the courts have repeatedly ruled that law enforcement do not have a duty to protect you or your property:
Hartzler v. City of San Jose (1975) 46 Cal.App.3d 6, 120 Cal.Rptr. 5, Davidson v. City of Westminister (1982) 32 Cal.3d 197, 185 Cal.Rptr. 252, Westbrooks v. State (1985) 173 Cal.App.3d 1203, 219 Cal.Rtr. 674, Ne Casek v. City of Los Angeles (1965) 233 Cal.App.2d 13 1, 4-3 Cal.Rptr. 294, Susman v. City of Los Angeles, et al (1969) 269 Cal.App.2d 803, 75 Cal.Rptr. 240, Antique Arts Corp. v. City of Torrence (1974) 39 Cal.App.3d 588, 1 14- Cal.Rptr. 332.

Those three to five minutes it takes a squad car (if that quick) to get to your home or apartment can very well mean the difference between life and death. If the two legged predators out there got the message that women have guns in their homes and will use them, guess whose home they're going to skip on burglary/rape night out with the boys? "

Click Here For WAGC (Women Against Gun Control)-Georgia

2005-01-26T21:12:00.000-08:00

WAGC (Women Against Gun Control)-Georgia: "The wife of an Atlanta police officer who works in the city's Zone 4 precinct shot and killed a would-be robber early today in the couple's Midtown apartment police said. Investigators were not releasing any information regarding the shooting, but said the woman will not be arrested. Maj. Ted Hall, commander of the Atlanta police Criminal Investigations Division, declined to release any information about the officer or his wife. One of the officer's partners said he and the young woman had just married two months ago, and he recently bought his wife a firearm for protection. "

Click Here For Thought You Should Know - To Preserve and Protect

2005-01-26T21:10:00.000-08:00

Thought You Should Know - To Preserve and Protect: "We are told the police are there to 'preserve and protect' and it must be true for we see it emblazoned upon the cruiser cars. Unfortunately it is all a myth. The rude, harsh fact is that the police; local, state, or federal are no more obligated to protect you than the man in the moon. The U.S. Supreme Court has held on many instances that the police are in no way obligated to protect either individuals or groups of individuals.

In a recent case the court ruled it is a, 'fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.' [Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)] In point of fact, it is not the innocent that will receive any protection but, rather, those criminals already convicted of crimes and held in captivity!
'The affirmative duty to protect arises not from the State's knowledge of the individual's predicament or from its expressions of intent to help him, but from the limitation which it has imposed on his freedom to act on his own behalf.' [DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 109 S.Ct. 998 (1989) at 1006.] And just what limitations are referred to in the court's declaration? Why the limitations imposed by law to certain individuals, such as incarcerated prisoners, involuntarily committed mental patients and others restrained against their will and therefore unable to protect themselves. "

Click Here For Police Have No Duty to Protect Individuals

2005-01-26T21:08:00.000-08:00

Police Have No Duty to Protect Individuals: "Because the police have no general duty to protect individuals, judicial remedies are not available for their failure to protect. In other words, if someone is injured because they expected but did not receive police protection, they cannot recover damages by suing (except in very special cases, explained below). Despite a long history of such failed attempts, however, many, people persist in believing the police are obligated to protect them, attempt to recover when no protection was forthcoming, and are emotionally demoralized when the recovery fails. Legal annals abound with such cases. "

Click Here For What Gun Control Advocates Must Believe

2005-01-26T21:03:00.000-08:00

What Gun Control Advocates Must Believe: "That guns are not an effective means of self-defense, which is why police carry them."

Click Here For Taking On Gun Control - Do You Have a Right to Police Protection?

2005-01-26T20:58:00.000-08:00

Taking On Gun Control - Do You Have a Right to Police Protection?: "Warren v. District of Columbia is one of the leading cases of this type. Two women were upstairs in a townhouse when they heard their roommate, a third woman, being attacked downstairs by intruders. They phoned the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After about 30 minutes, when their roommate's screams had stopped, they assumed the police had finally arrived. When the two women went downstairs they saw that in fact the police never came, but the intruders were still there. As the Warren court graphically states in the opinion: ``For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers.'' The three women sued the District of Columbia for failing to protect them, but D.C.'s highest court exonerated the District and its police, saying that it is a ``fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'' Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981). "

Click Here For 40 Reasons for Gun Control

2005-01-26T20:56:00.000-08:00

40 Reasons for Gun Control: "Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted."

Click Here For "Gun Controllers: It's Like They Have an Addiction!" by Howard�Nemerov

2005-01-25T22:19:00.000-08:00

"Gun Controllers: It's Like They Have an Addiction!" by Howard�Nemerov: " Unfortunately for the deluded gun controller, history shows one consistent fact: loss of civil rights follows civilian disarmament. In New South Wales, Australia, Premiere Bob Carr is pushing for revocation of double jeopardy. (15) Britain is looking into the same possibility. (16) Remember that these two countries are the most recent to create a complete ban on civilian firearm ownership.
We have other, more terrifying, examples from the 20th Century. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and many other despots first made sure the people were disarmed. Then they began to slaughter the very people that national leaders are supposed to protect, to the tune of tens of millions; far more than all the gun-related deaths in the history of the United States."

Click Here For It can't happen here!

2005-01-25T22:15:00.000-08:00

It can't happen here!: "Several recent court decisions have consistently held that the state owes a Citizen no personal police protection whatsoever. The United States Supreme Court, and State Supreme Courts, have consistently held that there is no constitutional right to be protected from the criminal element, nor is there any liability if the police fail to protect you. In 1856 the United States Supreme Court declared that law enforcement has no duty to protect a particular person, but only a general duty to enforce the laws. "

Click Here For Gun Facts From Australia and US

2005-01-25T22:13:00.000-08:00

Gun Facts From Australia and US: "After a 16 year decline in the misuse of guns that saw the firearms-related death rate cut nearly in half and firearms related homicides decrease by nearly two-thirds from 1980 to 1995, crime in Australia suddenly reversed itself and began a steep climb.
Following the gun ban (in Australia), armed robberies went up 69%, assaults with guns went up 28%, gun murders went up 19% and home invasions went up 21%.
(March 27, 2000 violent crime statistics posted to the Australia Bureau of Statistics Web site.) "

Click Here For A Nation Of Cowards

2005-01-25T22:12:00.000-08:00

A Nation Of Cowards: "OUR SOCIETY has reached a pinnacle of self-expression and respect for individuality rare or unmatched in history. Our entire popular culture -- from fashion magazines to the cinema -- positively screams the matchless worth of the individual, and glories in eccentricity, nonconformity, independent judgment, and self-determination. This enthusiasm is reflected in the prevalent notion that helping someone entails increasing that person's ' self-esteem '; that if a person properly values himself, he will naturally be a happy, productive, and, in some inexplicable fashion, responsible member of society.

And yet, while people are encouraged to revel in their individuality and incalculable self-worth, the media and the law enforcement establishment continually advise us that, when confronted with the threat of lethal violence, we should not resist, but simply give the attacker what he wants.

If the crime under consideration is rape, there is some notable waffling on this point, and the discussion quickly moves to how the woman can change her behavior to minimize the risk of rape, and the various ridiculous, non-lethal weapons she may acceptably carry, such as whistles, keys, mace or, that weapon which really sends shivers down a rapist's spine, the portable cellular phone."

Click Here For Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense and the Right to Carry a Handgun

2005-01-25T22:10:00.000-08:00

Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense and the Right to Carry a Handgun: "Concealed-carry reform reaffirms the basic idea that citizens have the right to defend themselves against criminal attack. And since criminals can strike almost anywhere at any time, the last thing government ought to be doing is stripping citizens of the most effective means of defending themselves. Carrying a handgun in public may not be for everyone, but it is a right that government ought to respect."

Click Here For Gun Control - It Doesn't Work

2005-01-25T22:09:00.000-08:00

Gun Control - It Doesn't Work: "Gun control. I'm against it. We don't need it. Guns are inanimate. Emotionless. Immobile. They have no ability, means or desire to commit crime or violence. One of the fundamental principals of a free society is you are not punished for the acts of others. You are not deprived of your rights and freedom because of the criminal activity of others. (Aside from aiding and abetting criminal acts) Instead of trying to control the guns that are properly employed by the vast majority of the millions of decent and law abiding gun owning citizens, why don't we control the people who abuse the rights of gun ownership? I rather detest employing the platitudinous old clich�, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people', but it's true. "

Click Here For Rage against self defense: A psychologist examines the anti-gun mentality

2005-01-25T22:07:00.000-08:00

Rage against self defense: A psychologist examines the anti-gun mentality: "In my experience, the common thread in anti-gun people is rage. Either anti-gun people harbor more rage than others, or they're less able to cope with it appropriately. Because they can't handle their own feelings of rage, they are forced to use defense mechanisms in an unhealthy manner. Because they wrongly perceive others as seeking to harm them, they advocate the disarmament of ordinary people who have no desire to harm anyone. So why do anti-gun people have so much rage and why are they unable to deal with it in appropriate ways? Consider for a moment that the largest and most hysterical anti-gun groups include disproportionately large numbers of women, African- Americans and Jews. And virtually all of the organizations that claim to speak for these 'oppressed people' are stridently anti-gun. Not coincidentally, among Jews, Blacks and women there are many 'professional victims' who have little sense of identity outside of their victimhood. "

Click Here For OA Online Editorials

2005-01-25T22:01:00.000-08:00

OA Online Editorials: "Indeed, the government's position is simple: We don't trust you to protect yourself with handguns or rifles, but the police have no obligation to protect you, either. This point, rather than hand-wringing about violent video games and 'easy' access to guns, needs to capture more attention, because it holds the key to making schools safer. "

Click Here For Ed's Views on Gun Control

2005-01-25T21:57:00.000-08:00

Ed's Views on Gun Control: "In order to fully stand by an anti-gun sentiment, you must be willing to do the following:
Post 'gun free house' signs on your home and/or wear 'gun free person' signs on yourself, showing to the world you're unarmed, and be willing to accept the consequences that may arise as a result.
AND
Be willing to publically state that it is better for a woman to be raped/murdered than to defend herself with a gun. "

Click Here For Kopel, Gallant & Eisen on Uganda & Gun Control on National Review Online

2005-01-25T21:56:00.000-08:00

Kopel, Gallant & Eisen on Uganda & Gun Control on National Review Online: "More gun control, more genocide. That's the lesson of the 20th century in many nations, including Uganda. Yet the United Nations is again trying to make it impossible for Ugandans to protect themselves. Once again, the U.N. is supporting repression rather than human rights. "

Click Here For IFR News - 86

2005-01-25T21:54:00.000-08:00

IFR News - 86: "Concealed carry laws have dropped murder and crime rates in the states that have enacted them. According to a comprehensive study which studied crime statistics in all of the counties in the United States from 1977 to 1992, states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%.4 "

Click Here For GunOwnersAlliance.com - Ask the Rabbi: Legality of Police Protection?

2005-01-25T21:50:00.000-08:00

GunOwnersAlliance.com - Ask the Rabbi: Legality of Police Protection?: "No ordinary person in America has a Constitutional right to police protection. Yet, many states and cities refuse to issue permits to carry a weapon for self defense. Why isn't this fact more widely publicized? Would you vote for a bond measure to drag your city or state into further indebtedness for the hiring of additional officers if you knew of this ruling? Just something for you to think about. "

Click Here For The New American - Gun Control Cliches - April 4, 1994

2005-01-25T21:45:00.000-08:00

The New American - Gun Control Clich�s - April 4, 1994: "Numerous state and federal court decisions have firmly established that the police have no legal obligation to protect individual citizens and cannot be held liable for failing to do so. Some of those key decisions are summarized in an important report, Dial 911 And Die?, published by the Wisconsin-based Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO), which concludes that Americans who believe that their local police have a duty in law to protect them against criminals 'are wrong.' As a result of this complacency-inducing belief, JPFO contends, many persons have become crime victims after being 'duped by ignorant or else dishonest politicians or police chiefs, who promise protection that they cannot give and have no legal duty to give.'
Dr. Gary Kleck agrees that the claim that 'citizens can depend on police for effective protection, is simply untrue,' since it 'implies that police can serve the same function as a gun in disrupting a crime in progress, before the victim is hurt or loses property. Police cannot do this, and indeed do not themselves even claim to be able to do so. Instead, police primarily respond reactively to crimes after they have occurred .... ' The idea that 'modern police are so effective in controlling crime that they have rendered citizen self-protection obsolete is widely at variance with a large body of evidence that police activities have, at best, only very modest effects on crime.' "

Click Here For Washington University Law Quarterly: OF HOLOCAUSTS AND GUN CONTROL

2005-01-25T21:43:00.000-08:00

Washington University Law Quarterly: OF HOLOCAUSTS AND GUN CONTROL: " When victims have guns, the overwhelming advantage otherwise enjoyed by physically superior or more numerous aggressors is diminished. One (usually unintended) consequence of an effective ban on citizen firearms ownership is to weaken the weak and strengthen the strong relative to one another. It is not embellishment to call this effect a 'cause' of genocide, because it foreseeably expedites this outcome by lowering the costs of predation. In practical effect, moreover, the matter is even more stark, because gun bans are never universal. By definition they do not operate on people whom government illegally supplies with guns such as government officials.[8]
To summarize: from the point of view of any aggressor, it is desirable if not essential that intended victims not possess weapons, especially firearms. This principle holds true whether the subject is a gangster premeditating a crime or a government planning a genocide. This is an inherently dangerous incentive structure. It seems to us indefensible to fail to acknowledge its potential for mischief even if at the end of the day one decides that 'tyranny' is too remote an evil, and an armed citizenry as a means of avoiding this evil too feeble, to repay its cost in accidental or unjustifiable bloodshed. We discuss these questions presently, but we turn first to a threshold question. "

Click Here For Reasonable Gun Control � Support H.R. 648 - Geoff Metcalf

2005-01-25T21:41:00.000-08:00

Reasonable Gun Control � Support H.R. 648 - Geoff Metcalf: "Who would have thunk it? A congressional bill has been introduced to defend your Second Amendment rights that is reasonable and makes sense. Which probably means Schumer/Boxer/Feinstein/Clinton will go ballistic vilifying it. "

Click Here For GUN CONTROL AND RACISM - Stefan B. Tahmassebi

2005-01-25T21:38:00.000-08:00

GUN CONTROL AND RACISM - Stefan B. Tahmassebi: "The first gun control laws were enacted in the ante-bellum South forbidding blacks, whether free or slave, to possess arms, in order to maintain blacks in their servile status. After the Civil War, the South continued to pass restrictive firearms laws in order to deprive the newly freed blacks from exercising their rights of citizenship. During the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, gun control laws were passed in the South in order to disarm agrarian reformers and in the North to disarm union organizers. In the North, a strong xenophobic reaction to recent waves of immigrants added further fuel for gun control laws which were used to disarm such persons. Other firearms ownership restrictions were adopted in order to repress the incipient black civil rights movement.
Another old American prejudice supported such gun control efforts, then as it does now: the idea that poor people, and especially the black poor, are not to be trusted with firearms. Even now, in many jurisdictions in which police departments have wide discretion in issuing firearm permits, the effect is that permits are rarely issued to poor or minority citizens. [Page 68]

Blacks, and especially poor blacks, are disproportionately the victims of crime. Yet, these citizens are often not afforded the same police protections that other more affluent and less crime ridden neighborhoods or communities enjoy. This lack of protection is especially so in the inner city urban ghettos. Firearms prohibitions discriminate against those poor and minority citizens who must rely on such arms to defend themselves from criminal activity to a much greater degree than affluent citizens living in safer and better protected communities."

Click Here For TEN MYTHS ABOUT GUN CONTROL

2005-01-25T21:32:00.000-08:00

TEN MYTHS ABOUT GUN CONTROL: "If gun laws worked, the proponents of such laws would gleefully cite examples of reduced crime. Instead, they uniformly blame the absence of tougher or wider spread measures for the failures of the laws they adv ocated. Or they cite denials of applications for permission to buy a firearm as evidence the law is doing something beyond preventing honest citizens from being able legally to acquire firearms. They cite Washington, D.C., as a jurisdiction where gun laws are 'working.' Yet crime in Washington has risen dramatically since 1976, the year before its handgun ban took effect. Washington, D.C., now has outrageously higher crime rates than any of the states (D.C. 1992 violent crime rate: 2832.8 per 100,000 resi dents; U.S. rate: 757.5), with a homicide rate 8 times the national rate (1992 rate 75.4 per 100,000 for D.C., 9.3 nationally.) No wonder former D.C. Police Chief Maurice Turner said, 'What has the gun control law done to keep criminals from gettin g guns? Absolutely nothing... [City residents] ought to have the opportunity to have a handgun.'
Criminals in Washington have no trouble getting either prohibited drugs or prohibited handguns, resulting in a skyrocketing of the city's murder rate. D.C.'s 1991 homicide rate of 80.6 per 100,000 population was the highest ever recorded by an American big city, and marked a 200% rise in homicide since banning handguns, while the nation's homicide rate rose just 11%. Since 1991, the homicide rate has re mained near 75 per 100,000, while the national rate hovers around 9-10.
Clearly, criminals do not bother with the niceties of obeying laws--for a criminal is, by definition, someone who disobeys laws. Those who enforce the law agree."

Click Here For Gun Control Misperceptions

2005-01-25T21:30:00.000-08:00

Gun Control Misperceptions: "New York City and Washington, D.C. are two of the most restrictive cities in the country with respect to gun control, yet they are also two of the least safest cities in the country."

Click Here For Gun Control vs. Our Freedoms

2005-01-25T21:29:00.000-08:00

Gun Control vs: "Stricter gun control laws are but one example of our society's movement away from personal liberty and self-reliance, and toward an assumption that the best agent to handle all of our problems is the government. Governmental police forces were created to prevent and break up riots, and to keep a general sense of public order. They were never designed to stop criminal acts against individuals and, accordingly, they do this job poorly. When confronted with a threat to their personal safety or property, many people will choose to simply submit and hope for justice later. This is most definitely a personal decision, and entirely their right. However, for those who choose to exercise their rights to self protection it is immoral to deny them the most effective means to do so. As minorities, and oftentimes unpopular minorities, in this society, it is of critical importance that we have access to the most effective "

Click Here For Gun Laws / Gun Control

2005-01-25T21:28:00.000-08:00

Gun Laws / Gun Control: "(A) Every year, more than 2,400,000 people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals-or more than 6,500 people a day. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.
(B) Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
(C) Of the 2,400,000 times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, 92 percent merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8 percent of the time, does a citizen kill or wound his or her attacker."

Click Here For Fact Sheet: 1995 Firearms Talking Points

2005-01-25T21:26:00.000-08:00

Fact Sheet: 1995 Firearms Talking Points: "Washington, D.C. has the most restrictive gun control laws in the country, and yet it has one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
* Objection: Critics claim criminals merely get their guns in Virginia where the laws are more relaxed. This, they argue, is why the D.C. gun ban is not working.
* Answer: Perhaps criminals do get their guns in Virginia, but this overlooks one point: If the availability of guns in Virginia is the root of D.C.'s problems, why does Virginia not have the same murder and crime rate as the District? Virginia is awash in guns and yet the murder rate is much, much lower. "

Click Here For Guns Save Lives

2005-01-25T21:24:00.000-08:00

Guns Save Lives: "My husband and I were accosted in Phoenix one evening (about 6PM) in a public parking lot (well lighted) by four individuals who wanted our truck (and who knows what else). If we had not been armed, they would have had the truck and anything else they may well have wanted. The police were no where in sight and when we contacted them the next day all they said was, 'what were you doing on that street at that time of the evening? We don't even go there after dark.'
I agree with what has already been stated and is well documented, 'courts have long held that the police are under no obligation to protect individual citizens. "

Click Here For Do the police have an obligation to protect you? | shadyvale.org

2005-01-25T21:23:00.000-08:00

Do the police have an obligation to protect you? | shadyvale.org: "In a word, no. The courts are very clear on this topic in several landmark rulings:

Hartlzer v. City of San Jose
DeShaney v. Winnebago Department of Social Services
Warren v. District of Columbia

Of the three cases the most interesting to me is the third. The short version of the story is as follows: Two women heard their roomate downstairs being attacked by intruders. The two women called the police station and were told that officers were on their way. When their roomates screams stopped they assumed that the police had arrived. They were wrong. For the next 14 hours the women were forced to... (I am sure you can find it on the web if you really want to know.) As expected, the women sued the city. The opinion of the court was that it is a 'fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'"

Click Here For WAGC (Women Against Gun Control)-Georgia

2005-01-25T21:21:00.000-08:00

WAGC (Women Against Gun Control)-Georgia: "The weapon at the feet of a DeKalb Co. policeman was involved in an attempted carjacking Monday night, police said. Local crime Georgia Crime Files A shooting Monday evening in a Dunwoody shopping plaza parking lot is apparently a case of an intended carjacking victim getting the drop on his attacker, DeKalb County police said. The would-be carjacker 'chose the wrong guy,' police told one shopper moments after gunfire erupted in the Perimeter Village shopping plaza parking lot on Ashford Dunwoody Road, about a mile north of Perimeter Mall. Police learned of the shooting from the shooter himself, said police Sgt. Lisa Reese. At 6:15 p.m., he called DeKalb 911 and said his Ford Taurus was being carjacked but that he had shot the suspect, Reese said. Investigators have found no other witnesses to the shooting, she said. The man who was injured was able to tell paramedics only that he had been shot, Reese said. "

Click Here For Taking On Gun Control - Reasons to Own A Firearm

2005-01-25T21:16:00.000-08:00

Taking On Gun Control - Reasons to Own A Firearm: "Police Cannot Protect And Are Not Required To Protect Every Individual
The courts have consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals, only the public in general. For example, in Warren v. D.C. the court stated 'courts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.'

Former Florida Attorney General Jim Smith told Florida legislators that police responded to only about 200,000 of 700,000 calls for help (28.57%) to Dade County authorities. Smith was asked why so many citizens in Dade County were buying guns and he said, 'They damn well better, they've got to protect themselves.'

The Department of Justice found that in 1989, there were 168,881 crimes of violence which were not responded to by police within 1 hour.

Currently, there are about 150,000 police officers on duty at any one time to protect a population of more than 250 million Americans or almost 1,700 citizens per officer. "

Click Here For "Shall Issue": The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws

2005-01-25T21:14:00.000-08:00

"Shall Issue": The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws: "When criminals use force, though, they are violating the law, and thereby taking the law into their own hands. When citizens use or threaten force "

Click Here For Japanese Gun Control

2005-01-25T21:10:00.000-08:00

Japanese Gun Control: "In Japan, the legal system is, in effect, an omnipotent and unitary state authority. All law enforcement administrators in Japan are appointed by the National Police Agency and receive their funding from the NPA. Hence, the police are insulated from complaints from politicians or other citizens.[50] There is hardly any check on the power of the state, save its own conscience.
What does the breadth of police powers have to do with gun controls? Japanese gun controls exist in a society where there is little need for guns for self-defense. Police powers make it difficult for owners of illegal guns to hide them. Most importantly, the Japanese criminal justice system is based on the Government possessing the inherent authority to do whatever it wishes. In a society where almost everyone accepts nearly limitless, unchecked Government power, people do not wish to own guns to resist oppression or to protect themselves in case the criminal justice system fails.
Extensive police authority is one reason the Japanese gun control system works. Another reason is that Japan has no cultural history of gun ownership by citizens."

NCPA - Policy Report 176 - Myths About Gun Control

2005-01-25T03:22:00.000-08:00

NCPA - Policy Report 176 - Myths About Gun Control: "In the 1960s a New York-based antigun group printed signs for its members to post on their homes, 'THERE ARE NO GUNS IN THIS HOUSE.' But the signs came down and the organization withered after a large number of those homes were robbed or burglarized."