U.S. Senate candidate released from Denver jail after act of civil disobedience

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 17, 2001

NEWS RELEASE & MEDIA ADVISORY

Stanley for U.S. Senate
Web site - http://www.stanley2002.org
Contact: Michelle Konieczny,
Campaign Office: 303.329.0481
Email: michelle@stanley2002.org

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Stanley Released from Jail; Charged with Violating an Unconstitutional Gun-Control Ordinance

(DENVER, CO) Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, Rick Stanley, was released from Denver Police custody on Sunday, December 16, 2001, at approximately 3:30 PM, after being charged with violating a local gun-control ordinance. Stanley contends the law he is charged under violates his civil rights and he will be seeking a jury trial to have the ordinance declared unconstitutional. Second Amendment supporter Duncan Philp was also arrested and faces an identical charge.

Stanley and Philp were arrested by the Denver Police, Saturday, December 15, 2001, shortly after noon, upon performing a planned act of civil disobedience by openly carrying a loaded handgun in a holster upon their hip, during a Bill of Rights rally being held in Denver's Lincoln Park. Both Stanley and Philp, stated their actions were an attempt to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed rights under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article II Section 13 of the Colorado Constitution. They are now facing one count each of unlawfully carrying a deadly weapon in violation of Denver's Revised Municipal Code, 38-117.5(b).

Paul Grant, a civil rights attorney who will be representing both men is optimistic about their chances in court. On Saturday Grant stated, "There's absolutely no way a judge should be able to uphold Denver's ordinance in light of the state constitution". Public support and attention would be an essential part of the case, said Grant who has argued cases on several different occasions before the Supreme Court. He urged all supporters to attend these men's court dates and to speak out publicly on this issue explaining that; "Jurors must realize how important this case is".

Mr. Stanley's next court date is Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 8:30 AM, Courtroom 151P, in the County Courts Building located at 1437 Bannock Street in Denver. Supporters are requested to pack the courtroom that morning.

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MEDIA ADVISORY:

The Stanley for U.S. Senate campaign will be holding an informal press conference on Monday, December 17, 2001, at 6:00 PM. All members of the media are invited to attend to learn more about the case, and this candidate for U.S. Senate who is truly different from all the rest. The conference will be held at the campaign office located at 6280 E.39th Avenue in Denver. For directions please call the campaign office at 303.329.0481. Mr. Stanley is also available for personal interviews by calling the same number.

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Then why hate yourself?

I do not. I merely state fact. Governments do not have rights, they have delegated authority.

Since you can't be bothered to crack a book yourself, I will give you an example. Article 1, Section 1 states:All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States...

Note that the word "rights" does not appear. Note that power is granted to Congress, not the other way around.

I do not. I merely state fact. Governments do not have rights, they have delegated authority.

You are stating demagogy and wishful thinking. It's just not how it actualy works. Balance of power is balance of power. Yet even this balance at times need to be skewed such as when threatened by the Soviet Union abroad, or when Dimbocraps use free speech at home to campaign against the nation. If America is to survive, the communist cults of congress will have to go, that means not more but less freedoms. After all, Marx was all for democracy because he knew that was how he could beat any nation out there. His screams against a strong bourgeois government or body are all too obvious.

Manly confidence in a huge government is what kept this country going against the Nazies and the commies

I think we can safely put to rest the idea that the GOP is the party of smaller government.

You're crazy but at least you're honest.

No you are the weakest link, because you are the type of unwitting traitor who would spin the constitutional rights into a death sentence for the US of A. Manly confidence in a huge government is what kept this country going against the Nazies and the commies. DUH!!!! NO WONDER THE LIBERTARIANS BELITTLE THE CHINA THREAT.

Such insightful profundity! How do I even attempt to respond to an entity that thinks the way you do? However, I will say this about you:

Always wrong but never in doubt!

It's just not how it actualy works

Unfortunately nowadays that's true. It's sad that you've been tricked into thinking this is a good thing.

when Dimbocraps use free speech at home to campaign against the nation.

No 1st Amendment either, eh? Amazing. Why don't you just come out and say that we must be a dictatorship to "survive"?

Of course, except that while the Dems push their agenda of welfare and cult of the poor by wanting to mix poor with rich, so as to advance communist cult of the poor, the GOP advance the cult of strength, strong military, well equiped and satisfied police, and they also push for the cult of the strong individual.

Libertarians want a poor government, Liberals want a poor individual, it's the cult of the poor, for both of them, same difference. With the former commies can get guns and kill us, with the latter you have disarmament of the non-commi. Both work on both ends to destroy freedom IMHO.

I agree with you Dane. Perhaps I give them too much credit. Most of the time they're as harmless as zoo monkeys flinging their dung against the cage walls. Once in a while one escapes and causes some hearburn at the banana factory.

That is why every time I see a thread touting some Libertarian candidate I just bring out the facts, that a vote for a Libertarian is a vote for a democrat(in this case for keeping Dashcle as majority leader). Wayne Allard is the incumbant and is a good conservative, I see that the Libertarians on FR are doing their best to get rid of him and keep Dashcle.

No first amendment, no, no freaking way. Whether it is terrorists using a suicide airliner to take our freedoms away, or a liberal spreading the cult of the poor so that we abandon our freedoms via democratic enforcement, both intent on turning the nation into a sewage, it's evil. If the end is evil, then the mean is evil.

I can trust a general today more than I would trust Bush, let alone Gore, let alone a Libertarian. After all what is freedom today if it cannot be defended in the future?

What does my religion have to do with my advocacy of the Constitution?

Uh nothing, I was making a joke, you are a pagan. I thought it funny that a pagan would say "Shut the hell up" as a derogatory term, for hell is a "term" used in Christianity and not paganism.

If you wanted to insult me you should have stated "Shut the heaven up".

Dane: The media is whom I see as the biggest "enemy", the Libertarians, IMHO, are impatient, misguided, and naive blowhards who really don't do that much damage except in close races where they help elect the democrat.

VA: I agree with you Dane. Perhaps I give them too much credit. Most of the time they're as harmless as zoo monkeys flinging their dung against the cage walls. Once in a while one escapes and causes some hearburn at the banana factory.

I thought libertarians were analogous to liberals? If that's the case, wouldn't voting libertarian help the GOP? It's a little hard to keep up with your "logic" - could you explain this to me? Thanks in advance.

and they also push for the cult of the strong individual.

The GOP??? You have got to be kidding.

You had better check that with your statist buddies Dane and VA Advogado. I don't think they would care for that characterization very much. The GOP insists that strong individuals are the problem.

A government cannot hold rights. It's impossible. The government can hold powers given to it by consent of the governed. Government can only limit rights; sometimes it's appropriate (waging war against enemies, protecting citizens from harm from other citizens) and sometimes it isn't (redistributing income, etc).

No first amendment, no, no freaking way

You heard it here first, folks.

You misunderstand the nature of the threat against us. Their goal is not to physically destroy us, but rather to trick us into destroying ourselves by making ourselves like them. So why are you bent on helping them?

Can you shed some light on my #272?

The GOP insists that strong individuals are the problem.

They become the problem when they are so libertarians they would not follow a general. Proof is the GOP's support of a strong professional military. How do we get a strong professional military but with big government and duty bound strong individuals? How do we protect the nation with tax protestors who do not want to pay for it?

Nations are born in the tyranny of the iron and the blood, not because the people there were magicaly born free. Even the Jews fleeing Egypt had to have the wrathful hand of G_d, while Christians do recognize the nation under G_d principle. Nations are also maintained that way, and I am afraid libertarians are denying this truth, because it is not the Bill of right that made this nation, but blood and trusted generals. As a matter of fact we almost lost against the British because of lack of discipline and a minority of fighters. Hence this nation was born under the tyranny of a third minority against the rest who either could care less or who wanted to support the British.

I thought libertarians were analogous to liberals? If that's the case, wouldn't voting libertarian help the GOP? It's a little hard to keep up with your "logic" - could you explain this to me? Thanks in advance.

Not at all, Libertarians are basically liberals but they wrap up thier rhetoric in conservative sounding themes.

Take three major issues. Drugs, gun control, and abortion. Libertarians take the far left position on two of the three, drugs and abortion.

Sheesh you are impatient. Wow your reply #272 and #276 were only 8 minutes apart, no wonder you identify with Libertarians as I stated in reply #250.

the Libertarians, IMHO, are impatient, misguided, and naive blowhards

with big government and duty bound strong individuals?

Your mistake is to assume that the latter can only exist with the coercion of the former. A sense of duty must come from within; it cannot be imposed by the whip. Consider yourself: do you do your duty out of love of country, or fear of punishment?

(p.s. I have to go now so I must leave it at that for now. I will come back later to see your answer.)

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