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2 RINOs here.

Have already called the only one I even almost trust in regards to this bill, and to beg for the "sunset" of the stoopid AWB.

But for what it's worth...

Just sent this via the contact web site:

"RE: S. 1805

Senator Collins:

It has come to our attention that S.1805, a bill to protect legitimate manufacturers and commercial dealers from being victimized and potentially driven from their lawful enterprise by trivial and predatory litigation, has been subjected to as many as 14 "Ammendments" to date.

We also understand (please correct me if I am misinformed) that most if not all of these ammendments have been imposed by the advesaries of our Constitutional Rights as law-abiding, free American Citizens - specifically under the Second Ammendment in our Bill of Rights - in order to effectively neutralize S.1805 or convert it into an agent of expanding repression and tyranny, contrary to it's original intent.

As my Representative to the U.S. Senate, please consider my strenuous objection to ANY such malicious or irrelavent ammendments being attached to this bill, and my reccomendation that if at all possible, the passage of S.1805 as a "Clean" bill, and by a vote in which all votes are RECORDED, rather than a "voice vote", so that all Senators so voting may be held accountable to their Constituents, as well as to the American People, for their position on this issue.

Although neither a Lawyer nor a "Constitutional Scholar", it strikes me that any law which prohibits peaceable American Citizens from even posessing the material means by which one might possibly engage in criminal behavior, in the absence of any cogent evidence or reasonable suspicion that said Citizen may indeed be preparing to or even likely to engage in said criminal behavior, represents a gross violation of the "Due Proccess" clause of our Constitution.

By "Criminalizing" the posession and/or bearing of arms, as provided for in our Second Ammendment, have we not initiated a precident by which other "potential" criminal behavior might be legislatively "prevented" by the prohibition of both tangable assetts and / or written intellectual material concievably useful in such activity?

How long will it be before the very spoken word, if deemed to be unacceptably critical of the powers that be (by said powers, naturally) are sanctioned by the force of Law?

Then how long before our very thoughts and beliefs must meet with the approval of those in power over us, lest we be cast amongst the "criminal element" and treated accordingly?

Now you may think my concerns absurd; exaggerated well beyond the boundries of intelligent reasoning...

But does not History teach us (if we would care to listen, that is) that just such insiduous "progressions" of power and the natural, concurrent repressions of Human Rights have not only enslaved millions of Human Beings -
but just within the past 75 years or so, exterminated millions of them?

"Absurd" - "paranoid"...? Really?

Tell that to the Survivors of the last Holocaust, a few of which are still among us.

There seems to be rising concern in this Nation - particularly among those of us who are paying a little attention to both History and our ever-expanding and intrusive Government - that the Rights, Responsibilities, and Liberties of the American People are being continually and eggregiously erroded by those more than willing to employ deciet, intruige, and subtrifuge in order to enhance their own power and wealth at the expense of our Constitution and the Republic it has sustained for lo, these some 220 years now.

And so I implore you, as a duly elected Member of the United States Senate, to maintain all due diligence and trust not only to your Oath of Office, and to our Constitution and your Constituents - but to those who by their inspired and couragous sacrifices have, over the Centuries, and continue yet, to defend and protect this grand experiment of Liberty and decency - the United States of America!

Thank you for your consideration;

"Uncle Jaque"
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Do you think I was too vague?

...in order to effectively neutralize S.1805 or convert it into an agent of expanding repression and tyranny, contrary to it's original intent.

I stopped reading at that point, because I can safely guarantee you that your Senators stopped reading it at that point too, and tossed it into the "nutcase file."

Please note: I am NOT calling you a nutcase. I am merely pointing out the "realpolitik" we're confronted with when communicating with "our elected representatives."

You've gotta craft your message in such a way as to get your message across, without using any "loaded words."

JMO, YMMV, LS/MFT, Not Valid where Prohibited by Law, etc.