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(2007-7-1) MSP has quietly notified dealers around the state that new restrictions on purchase of regulated firearms (handguns and select long guns) will take effect on August 1. Starting that date, any application to purchase such firearms will be administratively denied if it does not contain a release authorizing police to access medical records which may be on file at any state agency – or at any agency anywhere – in order to decide if the applicant is eligible to possess a gun. MSP will now assess your mental health when it decides whether to approve your purchase. Federal and...

From Julie Smithson : Wayne Hage is ill with cancer and both he and his entire family are in great need of your prayers. Not just a Nye County, Nevada, rancher, Wayne is also one of the greatest property rights warriors to ever live. He and his beloved wife, Helen, and children Wayne, Ruthe, Ramona, and Laura, along with his late wife, Jean, have fought long and hard, not only for their own property rights and freedom, but for everyone else's, as well. Please pray for this family! From Wayne's Daughter, via the Klamath Basin Crisis Web Site: May 2006...

For those interested, and following it, the printed version of, "The Stand at Klamath Falls", is now available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The subtitle reads, "How rural western farmers stood up against entrenched environmentalists and agencies of the Federal Government...and prevailed." You can find links to the Amazon and Barnes & Noble sites at the main site here: THE STAND AT KLAMATH FALLS I have also made the Adobe eBook version of the book available for free to all Freepers. Just go to the following site and download it direct...no cost, no obligation. FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD I...

WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Senate agreed to shield gun manufacturers and dealers from liability lawsuits on Friday, as Congress broke for a monthlong recess after sending President Bush energy and transportation bills that had been years in the making. Long sought by the gun lobby, the Senate measure - approved 65 to 31 - would prohibit lawsuits against gun makers and distributors for misuse of their products during the commission of a crime. Senate supporters said the plan was needed to protect the domestic firearms industry from a rash of lawsuits that threatened its economic future. "This bill is...

What is Liberty? Well, IMHO, in the context of American liberty, ere's an answer.... Liberty is freedom from encumberance in an environment where the unalienable rights of mankind are both recognized and respected and where individual "Free Will" bounded by fundamental moral principle is the avenue for interaction in society . That's a lot of pretty words that basically say that if a people are to be free, they and their government have to recognize and respect the God-given rights of others and be moral. In fact, liberty can not coexist with widespread individual, or institutional immorality. Immorality places an...

By Doug Fiedor December 15, 2002    Today, our Bill of Rights becomes 211 years old. These 461 words were intended to be the backbone for defense of what the Founding Fathers called our "unalienable" rights. And so they were, with only few exceptions, for nearly 147 years. Starting with the blatant and unconstitutional socialism of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, Washington has steadily eroded our rights. So, today, many of our so called "unalienable" rights are but privileges allowed or refused at the whim of a capricious central government, and some have been all but completely usurped by Washington....

EMail from the Script writer: In an upcoming TV movie on CBS to be aired this Sunday, Rob Lowe plays an attorney who learns the real meaning of Christmas. He also represents a group of farmers who need protection from the "environmental junta" who wants to take their water rights away over the sucker fish. It is extremely RARE for a pro-rural point of view (no matter how small) to make it to the networks ... and I ought to know, because I wrote the script for the movie. We need to get as many people as possible not only...

Arm the people. That is the answer, not only for the current environment, but for crime in general. The founders of this great Republic knew this, and they enumerated it in clear language in our constitution. Use surplus M-14's or M-1's for long guns and .45's or 9mm's for sidearms and issue comm gear to all particpants Have the local sheriff's review those who volunteer and insure they are U.S. Citizens, have no violent criminal background, and are males between the ages of 18 and 50. Deputize them. Give them a three to five day crash course in rifle shooting...

“What are they teaching our kids these days?” http://www.webnexus.com/users/svfsc/mhusd.html The Morgan Hill Unified School District is now teaching our children the following: “The 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms does NOT include the right to keep and bear handguns.” "There is no place in our society for handguns." “All small firearms should be banned by law.” These are quotes from an English class assignment at Britton Middle School in Morgan Hill. They are part of the standard curriculum in use by several teachers at the school for years. A copy of the actual course material is shown below....

Earlier this year, James R. Otteson, a philosophy professor at the University of Alabama, was threatened with arrest at the airport in Traverse City, MI. His 'offense' was to expresss the opinion that he and his family - three young children - were subjected to an abuse of their rights by being subjected by being selected by a random search. After doffing his sport coat and belt, and turning over his wallet, Otteson "made his usual protest about protections from unreasonable searches and seizures," he wrote in the July issue of Ideas on Liberty. "We were just following orders, I...

What's in a name? A lot sometimes. And lately, it is important to get the name correct. Our first mistake was that we have allowed the Democrats to define our movement. Most recently, that was Hillary. She tagged us all, in general, as the "vast right- wing." The problem is, that is not even close to being accurate for most of us. Yet, we let it ride without correction. A person on the far right would be one who advocates an oligarchical type rule, a type of reactionary government that assumes strict control of all political and economic policies in...