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In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the City Council respects activists who are Second Amendment supporters. The admission came when City alder Bob Bauman attempted to ban guns near the scheduled Republican National Convention, in violation of state law and the United States and State of Wisconsin constitutions.From wisn.com:Bauman introduced an amendment Friday encouraging the city’s public safety committee to bypass state law and ban guns within the soft perimeter anyway. “We may be sued. I’m not afraid of being sued,” Bauman told his colleagues. Bauman knows his proposal is against the law.From wtmj.com:Milwaukee City Attorney Evan Goyke told WTMJ it would be...

Can Liberty Survive Big Government, Big Spending and Big Mud Slinging? Today's comment is by Bob Bauman, The Sovereign Society's Legal Counsel and author of many books and reports on the offshore world and personal liberty. Dear A-Letter Reader, Recently, our Chairman and a founder of The Sovereign Society, John Pugsley, waxed poetically on the sad state of freedom in America. As always, I enjoyed hearing his thoughts as he reflected on a theme that also concerns me: The cancerous growth of the American Empire.Reading afresh about the fundamental principles of America's Founding Fathers made me ponder how little, if...