Free Republic

7-29-04                          TYRANNY UPDATE!  Oshkosh police say 'Sorry' for trampling citizens' rights in door-to-door gun confiscations.     Oshkosh, Wis. -- In what appears to be an admission of wrong-doing by the Oshkosh Police Department, Fox 11 WLUK (Green Bay) has reported that area resident Terry Wesner was offered an apology by the department.     Police evacuated citizens from their homes within a quarantined area near Smith Elementary School Saturday night (July 17, 2004) to conduct a broad gun sweep of the neighborhood following the shooting of Oshkosh police officer Nate Gallagher.    Residents reported returning home from area shelters -- where...

Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?By DANIEL OKRENTPublished: July 25, 2004 F course it is.The fattest file on my hard drive is jammed with letters from the disappointed, the dismayed and the irate who find in this newspaper a liberal bias that infects not just political coverage but a range of issues from abortion to zoology to the appointment of an admitted Democrat to be its watchdog. (That would be me.) By contrast, readers who attack The Times from the left - and there are plenty - generally confine their complaints to the paper's coverage of electoral politics...

"I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach. I track and move and decoy and play games and try to outsmart them. You know, you kind of play the wind. That's hunting," said Kerry.  (Craig Gilbert, "Bringing candidate to life," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/5/04) The Truth about John Kerry’s Record for Hunters §         John Kerry has the highest rating on the Humane Scorecard sponsored jointly by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the Fund for Animals.  Both groups are firmly committed to ending hunting in this country.  o       HSUS’ website says “sport...

Richard Skidmore is a professor at Los Angeles Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California, having taught at Pierce College since 1975. O’ Hear ye, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in their December decision that the Second Amendment of the Constitution was not adopted "to afford rights to individuals with respect to private gun ownership or possession." The left hails this courts decisions as decisive and correct, while the right sees the court as a bulwark to destroy our republican form of government and forging the links in chains of usurpation. Remember, this is the same federal court...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38726 Tuesday, June 1, 2004 WEAPONS OF CHOICE Pizza man saved by gun, but fired for packin' heat Prosecutors call it 'clear case of self-defense,' yet national chain prohibits carrying firearms Posted: June 1, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A pizza deliveryman won't face charges for fatally shooting a would-be robber several times when he was approached in a high-crime area, but his employer, Pizza Hut, has fired him for violating a company policy against carrying firearms. Ronald B. Honeycutt, 38,...

Guess our national leaders didn't expect this, hmm? On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply...

Reuters SAN FRANCISCO -- The chief Western U.S. appeals court stood by its decision Friday to allow a wrongful-death lawsuit to proceed against a gun manufacturer. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declined to have a larger panel of judges reconsider its 2 to 1 November ruling that allowed a lawsuit against Glock Inc. and gun sellers. The suit alleges negligence for using a distribution scheme that made it likely their guns would end up in the hands of illegal buyers. The case stems from the murder of a postal worker, Joseph Ileto, who was shot by...

SPRINGFIELD -- Ignoring a veto threat, Illinois lawmakers voted Tuesday to offer greater legal protections for homeowners who shoot intruders despite local ordinances barring handguns. The legislation was a response to the case of Hale DeMar, a Wilmette restaurant owner who shot a burglar who had broken into his home twice. Prosecutors declined to press charges for the shooting, but Wilmette officials charged DeMar with breaking the city's ban on handguns. Under the bill now headed to the governor, someone who shoots an intruder on his or her property couldn't be convicted of violating a local gun ban. The bill...

Yuma's police chief is looking for some direction from the city council about what to do with guns his department acquires during investigations and law enforcement actions. Chief Robby Robinson would like a regular policy established in regard to disposal of such weapons and has made some recommendations on what that policy ought to be. Although city regulations already provide for the sale of unclaimed property from the police department at public auction, the chief wants more specific rules for weapons disposal. Some of his recommendations are particularly commendable. First is the one to make every effort to return them...

BLUE ASH - Dressed in camouflage, their skin smeared with dark paint, the young warriors lie in wait in bushes for hours before dawn to ambush an opponent leaving for school. Blue Ash Police Officer Michael Bray checks out a homemade soft-dart gun at police headquarters. On the table are confiscated homemade and commercially produced Nerf dart guns and two-way radios. The Cincinnati Enquirer/GLENN HARTONG With an eye on a $1,600 prize for the last team standing, they track one another at work, baseball games, even church youth gatherings, looking for a "kill." They hire informants to spy, and friends...

"The Bill of Rights." These are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, which were adopted in 1791. It is a shame that we even use this name. It influences our understanding of the intent behind those amendments. They should really be called, "List of Absolute Restrictions against the Government" or "List of Things the Government Cannot Meddle With." I guess nobody would remember such lengthy names. They are not quite as colorful anyway.The first ten amendments do not grant the American people anything. What? Did this statement just come from yours truly? Did I hit my head...

Iowa Law Enforcement Support Strengthening and Renewing Assault Weapons Ban 3/15/2004 Press Release Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence 4403 1st Ave. SE, Suite 113 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-3221 www.ipgv.org Contact: John Johnson Phone: 319-743-7823 The current assault weapons ban, enacted in 1994, will expire six months from now unless renewed by Congress and signed by the President Cedar Rapids, IA - Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence (IPGV) joined with States United to Prevent Gun Violence, the national coalition of independent state-based organizations, today (March 12th) to urge President Bush and Congress to strengthen and renew the...

WEAPONS OF CHOICE County drops homeowner's gun charges 'We choose to prosecute the real criminal' - but village case remains Posted: February 7, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com County prosecutors took a slap at an Illinois town that bans handguns by dropping charges against a homeowner who protected his family by shooting an intruder. Hale DeMar, 54, faces sanctions from Wilmette, near Chicago, but Cook County says it will not press charges for letting his state firearms registration lapse, the Chicago Tribune reported. "We choose to prosecute the real criminal here, the person who broke into this house...

UNITED NATIONS: Although weapons of mass destruction grab headlines, many people see handguns and other small arms as a far greater threat to their safety, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has said. "Dire potential scenarios involving nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have dominated recent disarmament discussions," he told the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters on Wednesday. "But a much more direct threat to many people around the world is the day-to-day violence of conflict fought with small weapons. Those weapons, said Annan, are "supplied-sometimes legally, sometimes illegally-by often unscrupulous and predatory arms merchants. "We must do more to fight...

Some want to ditch listing of permits for concealed guns A conservative House coalition will try to erase from law enforcement databases the list of those who received concealed-carry gun permits. The listing requirement - part of last year's concealed-carry law - makes criminals out of law-abiding citizens, the Republican lawmakers contend, saying the list of weapons holders is often mixed with criminal offenders in computer databases. "I think you shouldn't have to go on a state 'scarlet letter' list for exercising a personal freedom," said Rep. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield. But a sheriff's group says it will fight the move...

CBS Gets Caught Protecting a Leftist Gun BannerAugust 6, 2001I just sent the following to CBS feedback:From: "Henry Bowman" <HenryBowman@azcentral.com> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:20:36 -0700I enjoyed reading http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,305097-412,00.shtml ("Gun Lawsuit Misses Target"). But why did your editor decide to crop the photo of the hands holding the TEC-DC9? After all, the complainants were claiming that the gun was "promoted to high-risk users" and "appealed to criminals." What better proof could you possibly give them than to reveal the owner of the hands holding the weapon in your photo -- a grinning Senator Charles Schumer, obviously enjoying himself.Here's the...

Very well concealed One of the longest and most contentious legislative debates in recent Ohio his tory has ended. Within the next 10 days, Ohioans can expect to be granted the right to secretly carry guns in public. This represents social progress only to those who hunger to carry a weapon whenever they step outside of their homes, or those fatigued by an inane debate that has stalled action on far more important concerns. From Our Advertiser The measure authorizing concealed carry was sent Wednesday to Gov. Bob Taft, who promptly indicated that he would sign it. The law will...

WEAPONS OF CHOICE Homeowner charged after shooting intruder Family protected but suburban town prohibits possession of handguns Posted: January 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Chicago-area homeowner protected his family by shooting an intruder but was charged with violating a local ordinance banning possession of handguns. Wilmette, Ill., Police Chief George Carpenter believes charges against Hale DeMar, 54, underscore the suburban village's serious concerns about the shooting, the Chicago Tribune reported. "The outcome of the matter in this case was very fortunate for the homeowner," he said. "We much prefer, for the safety of the home, that...

Court Allows Arrests of All in Drug Stops WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court issued a traffic warning Monday: Beware of whom you ride with. If drugs are found in a vehicle, all occupants can be arrested, the justices said in a unanimous decision. It was a victory for Maryland and 20 other states that argued police frequently find drugs in traffic stops but no one in the vehicle claims them. The court gave officers the go-ahead to arrest everyone. In a small space like a car, an officer could reasonably infer "a common enterprise" among a driver and passengers,...

day dream toy? Modern-day BB gun is no such thing Rebecca Thoman Published December 12, 2003 A boy's Christmas wish list that includes BB or pellet guns is a parent's worst nightmare. One look at contemporary pellet guns, named and modeled after their grown-up counterparts, the Uzi semiautomatic or the Magnum .44, should convince any parent that these "toys" are not what they used to be. Modern BB guns are nothing like the wooden-stock rifles of 1938, the kind yearned for by Ralphie in the holiday classic, "A Christmas Story." Eighty percent of BB guns on the market today attain...

Silveira has been posted to 11-26 conference http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/03-51.htm further info on case is at www.keepandbeararms.com r

Quote: "... I’m not saying I loved Gore, but I’m saying I don’t want that mother-f*cking Bush in the White House." John Cusack

Moore alters "Bowling" DVD in response to criticism (9/2) By Brendan Nyhan In the newly-released DVD version of his Academy Award-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," filmmaker Michael Moore has altered a caption that he fictitiously inserted into a 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign commercial -- one of a number of misstatements and deceptive arguments we criticized when the film was released last year. Ironically, on the same day the DVD was released, Moore issued a libel threat against his critics on MSNBC's "Buchanan & Press," saying, "Every fact in the film is true. Absolutely every fact in the film is true....

Michael Moore, winner of the 2002 Oscar for Best Documentary for his controversial "Bowling for Columbine," failed to meet submission requirements of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a WorldNetDaily investigation reveals. While critics of the filmmaker and author have called on the academy to investigate whether Moore fabricated scenes in the movie, it also appears he misled the academy about the film's eligibility on purely technical grounds. Candidates for Best Documentary feature have unique procedural requirements for eligibility. According to Rule 12, qualification for the 75th Annual Academy Awards in this category demanded that films be exhibited...

Justice Turned Upside Down 12 over 6. Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, but also a commandeering of the intended victim's person and liberty. If the individual's dignity lies in the fact that he is a moral agent engaging in actions of his own will, in free exchange with others, then crime always violates the victim's dignity. It is, in fact, an act of enslavement. Your wallet, your purse, your car, may not be worth your life, but your dignity is; and if it is not worth fighting for, it can hardly be said to...

Hastert: No Decision Yet on U.S. Assault Gun Ban 2 hours, 31 minutes ago Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert said on Thursday no decision had been made on whether the House will let a politically sensitive 1994 ban on assault weapons expire next year.   The second-ranking Republican in the House, Majority Leader Tom DeLay, had earlier this week predicted the ban would be allowed to lapse, drawing fire from Democrats and posing a dilemma to President Bush (news - web sites) -- who promised to back an extension...

Every legislative body in America has a few idiots, dolts, nincompoops -- elected officials who would hardly draw any notice at all were it not for their incompetence, bigotry or venality. You can find them in City Halls, state legislatures and even the hallowed halls of Congress. So it hardly qualifies as front-page news that U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) recently made blatantly racist statements in which, in essence, she tarred all black Americans as drug users. Cubin's remarks punctuated a debate over a bill to limit lawsuits against gun manufacturers -- a debate that was already offensive since it...

The head of the NAACP testified against handgun manufacturers Thursday, accusing them of failing to stem the flow of illegal weapons into minority communities and saying he is tired of "going to teenage funerals." "I am absolutely certain they should do more," Kweisi Mfume told the federal jury. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has filed a lawsuit claiming more than 80 defendants -- including Smith & Wesson Corp., Sturm, Ruger & Co. and Glock Inc. -- have failed to monitor the bulk sale of their products to federally licensed gun dealers. Irresponsible marketing has "led to...

Why I made that speech Something had to be said at the Oscars about the war. Michael Moore explains why he was the one to say it. [snip] We are continually bombarded with one fictitious story after another from the Bush White House. And that is why it is important that filmmakers make non-fiction, so that all the little lies can be exposed and the public informed. An uninformed public in a democracy is a sure-fire way to end up with little or no democracy at all. [snip]

In one of the most loathsome examples of boorish public behavior, film director Michael Moore’s Oscar acceptance rant – perfectly captured by his unwashed, ungroomed appearance – went beyond all bounds of decency and civility, and spiraled downward into what can only be described as an infantile tantrum. Mired in the lonely delusions of those reliving the great liberal loss of the year 2000, Moore castigated President Bush as a “fictitious” commander in chief, winning by “fictitious” election results, and sending the nation into war for “fictitious” reasons, as vouchsafed by such leaders as the pope, Bill Maher and the...

The "Academy" Must Now Share Michael Moore's Cinematic Shame By Chris W. Cox Executive Director NRA Institute for Legislative Action As the record-low television audience that sat through the latest Hollywood celebration of Hollywood knows, the Academy Award for a feature documentary film was given to Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, a painfully pretentious work of anti-American, anti-gun, anti-NRA propaganda. But many don't know that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had to violate its own rules to allow Moore to compete for, much less win, an Oscar. The Academy's "Special Rules for the Documentary Award" define a...

February 13, 2003 IS "BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE" MORE IMPORTANT THAN "INNOCENTS BETRAYED"? The inevitable has happened. Michael Moore's anti-firearms propaganda film, "Bowling for Columbine," has been nominated for an Oscar as best feature-length documentary. No documentary film within memory has generated such acclaim. "Bowling for Columbine" was the first documentary admitted to the Cannes Film Festival in 46 years. At Cannes, it received a special jury prize and a 13-minute standing ovation. It has gone on to win a slew of "best documentary" and "special audience award" prizes at film festivals. It even ended up being named as "Best Documentary...

Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, has decreed that burglars should go to jail only in the most extreme circumstances. First-time domestic burglars and even offenders who most people would consider serious will never be jailed under new guidelines. Lord Woolf's job is to inject consistency into sentencing but the principal reason behind these latest directions is that the prisons are so full that the Government and the judicial authorities are desperate to cut the numbers. This matters more to Lord Woolf than to most senior judges because he was the author of a seminal report...

TRENTON, N.J. (Reuters) - The state legislature passed a bill on Monday that would make New Jersey the first state in the United States to ban the sale of handguns not equipped with a mechanism to limit their use to the owners. Gun owners' organizations fought the legislation, noting that the technology to "personalize" firearms was not yet commercially available. The measure, which would apply once the technology is available, would require each new handgun sold in New Jersey to have a mechanism that would prevent anyone other than the owner from firing it. "I look forward to signing the...

Celebrate the Second Amendment by buying an extra 100 rounds of ammunition on November 19th. Great for hunting, self-defense, target practice and annoying the anti-gun lobbyists. It's National Ammo Day A few reminders: On November 19: Buy at least 100 rounds of ammunition (or bullets) Buy powder Contact your representatives (call, write, fax, or e-mail) Join, donate, or contribute to a Second Amendment organization or cause. (We've added a page to attempt to clarify what this means) ALL OF THE ABOVE! On and After November 19: Ammunition Sellers: Report your ammunition totals to us. You may be anonymous. (Click...

Backwoods militias suspected of being behind biowar threat IAN BRUCE THE FBI's domestic terrorism unit is investigating the possible role of illegal militia groups in the spate of anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber who killed 168 people when he blew up a federal building in 1995, was a supporter of one such group, the National Alliance. Others have threatened to use biological weapons, including anthrax, botulism, and ricin, in their struggle against what they see as a global conspiracy between the US administration and the United Nations to disarm and enslave them. Every ...

It's getting difficult to see the forest for the deer. It may be about to get difficult to see the garden. We are, in the view of The New York Times, being overrun by the four-footed, soft-eyed beasts, which are, believe it or not, responsible for more human deaths than sharks, alligators, bears and rattlesnakes combined. Oh, they don't go around attacking us in our homes or businesses. We hit them with cars and die in the process -- along with the deer. More than 100 people a year die in such jurisdictional disputes.That number is likely to get bigger...

Now that the Republicans have taken back the Senate, I began wondering what would happen to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban that the 'toon put in place. It is set to sunset in 2004, but I don't know the exact date that it is supposed to happen. Also, does anyone see this as becoming a hot topic in W's re-election campaign? Gun control has become a real loser for the dim's over the past four years, so it would stand to reason that this law would be allowed to slip off into the sunset without much fervor from the dim's....

Charlton Heston says he feels at home in South Dakota. The 78-year-old actor, author and civil rights activist, who is serving an unprecedented fifth term as president of the National Rifle Association, spoke to a largely Republican crowd Wednesday evening at a rally supporting NRA-endorsed candidates. Although he did not appear as robust as when he played Ben-Hur, or possess the command presence of Moses, the Academy Award winner owned the crowd of more than 400 the instant he walked onto stage. Heston, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, reminisced about the two months he spent in Rome learning to drive...

CNS News October 17, 2002: National Ammo Day Targets 'Gun Grabbers' (CNSNews.com) - The organizer of National Ammo Day is calling on the nation's gun owners to "show the gun-grabbers and the nanny-legislators just how many Second Amendment supporters are out there." On Nov. 19, organizer Kim Du Toit wants 75 million gun owners to visit local gun shops, sporting goods or hardware stores -- and purchase every round of ammunition on the shelves.   Full Story http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200210/CUL20021017a.html

Just announced by Brian Wilson, reporter, Fox News

<p>Don't accuse Michael Moore of being objective.</p> <p>"I don't believe in objectivity," says the filmmaker. "I don't believe that any newspaper's objective. I believe there's subjectivity in every article, and where every article is placed. We're human beings, we're subjective animals, we're not machines."</p>

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

MOLON LABE (mo-lone lah-veh) In 480 BC, Xerxes (son of Darius, King of Persia) was in full preparation to invade Athens, the leader of the Greek city-states. King Leonidas of Sparta (Left), another city-state, had agreed to help stop the invading Persians, and marched with 300 hand-picked troops to Thermopylae on the north coast of Greece. Thermopylae was the best of three possible defensive areas in which Xerxes' invading army had to advance. This mountain gap along the coast was about 60 feet wide, and was the best location for a blocking action. When Leonidas was preparing to make his...

Watch this movie! Well done and with a serious message!!LinkEBUCK

Sun Jun 9, 9:06 AM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man was so enraged by an acquaintance's failure to address him with an honorific that he stabbed the man to death with an umbrella, police said on Saturday. It was the second killing with an umbrella in Japan in less than a month. Ryuji Sakamoto, 32, was arrested Saturday and confessed to killing Takayuki Niimi, also 32, during a Friday night quarrel in the city of Sakuragi, some 170 miles west of Tokyo, police said. "It appears that Sakamoto harbored resentment of Niimi for quite some time because Niimi...

Justice Department's legal opinion on Second Amendment is "politically schizophrenic," Libertarians say WASHINGTON, DC -- The Justice Department's new legal opinion concerning the Second Amendment is "political schizophrenia at its worst," Libertarians say, because it asserts that individuals have a right to own a gun while pledging to enforce laws that infringe on that right. "This ruling is very good news - and very bad news - for gun owners," said Libertarian Party Executive Director Steve Dasbach. "The good news is that the government finally recognizes that the Constitution protects individual Americans' right to own a gun. But the bad...