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My Senators are hard at work!
The Senate finally pushed through that so-called economic stimulus package. Let me see how my two senators voted...
Oh, I see. My two "Republican" senators voted yes.
I can't wait to get my monopoly money.
If they really wanted to help the economy they could stop taking the People's money and spending it on war.
Check out this moron!
Look what Senator Jeff Sessions said earlier today:
"Some people in this chamber love the Constitution more than they love the safety of this nation. We should all send President Bush a letter thanking him for protecting us."
That's one of the saddest and most ridiculous things I have ever read!
Today Is Critical, And We Must Join-in To Kill S 1959
To state that today is critical would be a gross understatement;
the Internet is buzzing about the upcoming passage of the
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007,
yet through all of the talk and articles, we still haven't joined-in with
enough numbers to stop this Bill dead in its tracks -
If we don't?
Free Speech in American could effectively become a memory,
and those who have constantly fought for our freedoms will likely be muzzled
and may be hauled-off to internment camps, which we now know exist and
when S 1959 is passed into law, it's inevitable that they will soon be used.
LINK Yes, they are real, and were built by FEMA and KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary.
Do your own Internet search and you will find pictures and documentation of these camps,
yet the Mainstream New Media hasn't uttered a word to the public about these camps,
which demonstrates the MSM has been totally compromised as a reliable news source.
Positive Universe Abstracts has an entire page devoted to the plethora of Op-Eds
and articles on this subject you can find at this LINK.
Two more informative and frightening articles were published last night or this morning,
and both offer the reality we may face if this Bill, the worst assault on the Constitution
in this nations history, is allowed to pass:
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Patriotism
Urgent call to Action: Facts about S1959, Action Alerts
There is factual evidence supplied in all of the above articles,
but the piece which is missing is how to stop this bill dead in its tracks,
and although I commend all on taking this odious Bill to task -
the time for action is now, before the Bill is passed and then,
nothing will save this nation from tyranny.
We must join-in in solidarity to halt this egregious assault on
our Constitutional rights, and several sites are openly
re-printing how we can do it.
Please read How To Make A Grassroots Movement Successful and then
take matters into your own hands and urge others to do the same.
There is a solution, but simply writing about the problem won't make it go away,
and only your participation will - so please, don't think that it couldn't happen
to us as the Jews did in Germany, even as they were in the railroad cars
on their voyage to death and imprisonment.
We may face similar fates ourselves if we don't band-together and speak-out
in unison and there is very little time left. The Bill is being fast-tracked,
so its passage could occur at any time.
Help to save yourselves and the beloved country we grew-up in,
and make a statement, not tomorrow or the day after, but today,
and each and every day thereafter until this Bill is declared dead.
To do otherwise is to allow you to find yourselves in one of those camps
in the not too distant future, and only by speaking-out today will we be able
to circumvent the horror of tomorrow if this Bill is allowed to pass.
William Cormier
FOOTNOTE: To help make this phone and email protest to be effective,
it is imperative to re-post this message on every Progressive/Liberal Blog in America,
and to make it a subject on all of those Discussion forums so the bulk of those who find
their news on the Internet are aware of this message.
Google, thankfully, shows this article on their search engines.
Yahoo, MSM, and even Technorati will not show any results when you search for this article.
It shows the government is concerned, and every effort is being made to kill this story,
yet it still remains popular and I've noted the colleges in particular are reading this story,
as well as thousands of others all over the United States.
Once again, my hat is off to Google for remaining true to their base
and have evidently decided to side with the people rather than the government.
There are two very long comments on DIGG that talk in depth
of the need to defeat this Bill, and another offers a sample letter to send to Congress -
I deeply appreciate their help and they are reprinted below for your perusal;
don't, however, forget to burn-up those phone lines in Washington.
It's critical that our Senate understand that the people have "had enough"
- and it's time for change!
~~~~~~~~~
For those who say they have read this act, and that it doesn’t affect us,
take a look at their definitions listed at the top of the act:
The term `homegrown terrorism’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use,
of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating
primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate
or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States,
or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
The term `ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use,
or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to
promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs.
Do you see the words “force OR violence?”.
What is it that we try to accomplish when forming,
or participating in a grassroots movement,
a protest, an email, phone, or letter campaign?
We are trying to force a change in government action, ideology,
or trying to force a change in thought of every day citizens
who have the power to locally affect legislation being passed
in their state, or local communities.
Congress found “The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and
ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.”
Meaning those threats of force OR violence pose a threat to Homeland Security.
Congress found “The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization,
ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States
by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda
to United States citizens.”
Meaning that restrictions will most certainly be imposed on the internet to immediately
cease traffic to and from known sites commencing with “terrorist” ideologies.
After that, and sites with a lot of traffic adhering to their definitions of violent radicalization,
homegrown terrorism, or ideological based terrorism
(by the ever changing definition of Homeland Security),
will not only be monitored, but the users who post many comments hoping to inspire,
motivate, and drive people to action will also be individually monitored, possibly
banned from these sites, or otherwise restricted.
These restrictions will likely be imposed in other ways of life as well.
Look at the no fly lists, police databases, CCTV cameras, etc.
Congress found: “Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism,
and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should
not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, or civil liberties of United States citizens
or lawful permanent residents.”
Unless of course, they amend the constitution to allow it. Or, they pass an act,
such as this very act, or the patriot act, or the protect america act, that allows
executive privilege in a vaguely defined “time of emergency”, to disregard those rights
in order to protect the homeland.
Congress found: “Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia
have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit
from lessons learned by those nations.”
CCTV cameras, Internet monitoring and censorship, media consolidation under government decree,
face tracking, country/continent unification, excessive tasering, the development of surveillance material
to be used in public places, and in gatherings of protest/dissent
(small hovering microphones and cameras, the development of hovering taser devices).
I can go on and on, and if need be I will.
If you honestly think that this doesn’t affect us,
that our government couldn’t possibly commit illegal acts of censorship,
silencing, monitoring, and installing fear among their own citizens,
you couldn’t possibly be more wrong.
The government has done all of these things before,
and we didn’t know about it until many years later
when these acts were deemed irrelevant enough to be “declassified”.
We have several covert federal agencies operating with our police system,
our court system, the internet, phone companies, and will soon be within
our medical records as well (RFID chips anyone?).
This is something that WILL affect us.
This is something that we have to take care of.
WE MUST RETALIATE.
Flood the offices of your congressional leaders with phone calls.
Write a letter to them on your computer, save it, and print and send dozens of copies.
It’ll cost you what, five dollars in stamps?
Contact your media again and again and again.
Discuss it with your family and friends.
The time for the passing of this legislation is near.
We must act now. We have to act now.
We cannot let apathy get the best of us.
We cannot let fatalism or defeatism get the best of us.
You are not alone, you are among many.
You will make a difference, because your voice will be among thousands.
If we don’t protect ourselves, our children, and our neighbors,
what left will we have to life for?
How will we be able to organize and fight for further infringements
and atrocities if our rights to organize and dissent are slowly withering away?
Here is a letter typed out. . Feel free to use it or draw upon it.
Send it to anyone you like, the more the merrier.
We need to get this, or anything else, out to as many people as possible.
Make sure you include the name(s) of your Senator(s), as well as your name at the bottom
(as, correct me if I’m wrong, but a lot of times, the staff will throw out letters that are not from
the constituency as that particular senator). I’m going to send these out to my senators today,
after I get more stamps. Please do the same.
Dear Senator
It has come to my attention, that The U.S. House of Representatives has recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This is now up for review in the Senate Judiciary committee, listed as S.1959.
Per the language used in the Act itself, S.1959 defines Homegrown Terrorism as: “the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
“The term `ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs.”
Congress found: “The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.”
Congress also found: “The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”
Congress also noted: “Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.”
These findings and definition are of grave concern to us U.S. citizens. The countries listed as having experience and influence of terrorism and terrorism prevention, have consolidated their media under government decree (Canada), leaving almost no room for open, unbiased, investigative journalism that would inform the citizens of the goings on the their countries that should bring concern. The United Kingdom, as well as the United States have begun installing CCTV cameras in public places that will track and monitor, individual faces of persons engaging in loosely defined “suspicious activity”. There have been news reports of business in the process of implementing hovering surveillance devices that can monitor visual and audio activity of suspects, as well as surveillance devices that can assist police and government organizations in deterring aggressive resistance of arrest or detainment, by issuing small electric shocks similar to that of the controversial taser device.
This act also allows for a central organization to be created to monitor, detect, and report on suspicious “homegrown terrorist activity within the United States”. The definition of such activity is vague, leaving room for the possibility of anyone seriously advocating social change, restoration of the constitution, and advocating the organization of protests to “coerce the United States government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof”.
This Act is undermining, and threatening, the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens to organize in dissent of the Patriot Act, NSA surveillance, telecom immunity, social injustice, the War on Terror, or any other program that the citizenry feels is in violation of their inalienable rights as U.S. citizens.
We have had enough. Your constituency, the people you represent, are asking that you vote no when this Act comes up for review.
Here is the website containing the Act (House Resolution HR1955, also S. 1959) in full detail: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill= …
All U.S. citizens who are doing nothing but voicing their opinions against a President and Vice President who have expanded their executive powers, bypassed our congressional check and balance, and has undermined our U.S. Judiciary System, are now at risk, by this new act, of being labeled and prosecuted as a terrorist. Vote NO on S.1959.
Thank you,
Here is a link to all of the Senators,
and their contact information
(name, address, phone number):
To state that today is critical would be a gross understatement;
the Internet is buzzing about the upcoming passage of the
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007,
yet through all of the talk and articles, we still haven't joined-in with
enough numbers to stop this Bill dead in its tracks -
If we don't?
Free Speech in American could effectively become a memory,
and those who have constantly fought for our freedoms will likely be muzzled
and may be hauled-off to internment camps, which we now know exist and
when S 1959 is passed into law, it's inevitable that they will soon be used.
LINK Yes, they are real, and were built by FEMA and KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary.
Do your own Internet search and you will find pictures and documentation of these camps,
yet the Mainstream New Media hasn't uttered a word to the public about these camps,
which demonstrates the MSM has been totally compromised as a reliable news source.
Positive Universe Abstracts has an entire page devoted to the plethora of Op-Eds
and articles on this subject you can find at this LINK.
Two more informative and frightening articles were published last night or this morning,
and both offer the reality we may face if this Bill, the worst assault on the Constitution
in this nations history, is allowed to pass:
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Patriotism
Urgent call to Action: Facts about S1959, Action Alerts
There is factual evidence supplied in all of the above articles,
but the piece which is missing is how to stop this bill dead in its tracks,
and although I commend all on taking this odious Bill to task -
the time for action is now, before the Bill is passed and then,
nothing will save this nation from tyranny.
We must join-in in solidarity to halt this egregious assault on
our Constitutional rights, and several sites are openly
re-printing how we can do it.
Please read How To Make A Grassroots Movement Successful and then
take matters into your own hands and urge others to do the same.
There is a solution, but simply writing about the problem won't make it go away,
and only your participation will - so please, don't think that it couldn't happen
to us as the Jews did in Germany, even as they were in the railroad cars
on their voyage to death and imprisonment.
We may face similar fates ourselves if we don't band-together and speak-out
in unison and there is very little time left. The Bill is being fast-tracked,
so its passage could occur at any time.
Help to save yourselves and the beloved country we grew-up in,
and make a statement, not tomorrow or the day after, but today,
and each and every day thereafter until this Bill is declared dead.
To do otherwise is to allow you to find yourselves in one of those camps
in the not too distant future, and only by speaking-out today will we be able
to circumvent the horror of tomorrow if this Bill is allowed to pass.
William Cormier
FOOTNOTE: To help make this phone and email protest to be effective,
it is imperative to re-post this message on every Progressive/Liberal Blog in America,
and to make it a subject on all of those Discussion forums so the bulk of those who find
their news on the Internet are aware of this message.
Google, thankfully, shows this article on their search engines.
Yahoo, MSM, and even Technorati will not show any results when you search for this article.
It shows the government is concerned, and every effort is being made to kill this story,
yet it still remains popular and I've noted the colleges in particular are reading this story,
as well as thousands of others all over the United States.
Once again, my hat is off to Google for remaining true to their base
and have evidently decided to side with the people rather than the government.
There are two very long comments on DIGG that talk in depth
of the need to defeat this Bill, and another offers a sample letter to send to Congress -
I deeply appreciate their help and they are reprinted below for your perusal;
don't, however, forget to burn-up those phone lines in Washington.
It's critical that our Senate understand that the people have "had enough"
- and it's time for change!
~~~~~~~~~
For those who say they have read this act, and that it doesn’t affect us,
take a look at their definitions listed at the top of the act:
The term `homegrown terrorism’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use,
of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating
primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate
or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States,
or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
The term `ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use,
or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to
promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs.
Do you see the words “force OR violence?”.
What is it that we try to accomplish when forming,
or participating in a grassroots movement,
a protest, an email, phone, or letter campaign?
We are trying to force a change in government action, ideology,
or trying to force a change in thought of every day citizens
who have the power to locally affect legislation being passed
in their state, or local communities.
Congress found “The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and
ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.”
Meaning those threats of force OR violence pose a threat to Homeland Security.
Congress found “The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization,
ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States
by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda
to United States citizens.”
Meaning that restrictions will most certainly be imposed on the internet to immediately
cease traffic to and from known sites commencing with “terrorist” ideologies.
After that, and sites with a lot of traffic adhering to their definitions of violent radicalization,
homegrown terrorism, or ideological based terrorism
(by the ever changing definition of Homeland Security),
will not only be monitored, but the users who post many comments hoping to inspire,
motivate, and drive people to action will also be individually monitored, possibly
banned from these sites, or otherwise restricted.
These restrictions will likely be imposed in other ways of life as well.
Look at the no fly lists, police databases, CCTV cameras, etc.
Congress found: “Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism,
and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should
not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, or civil liberties of United States citizens
or lawful permanent residents.”
Unless of course, they amend the constitution to allow it. Or, they pass an act,
such as this very act, or the patriot act, or the protect america act, that allows
executive privilege in a vaguely defined “time of emergency”, to disregard those rights
in order to protect the homeland.
Congress found: “Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia
have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit
from lessons learned by those nations.”
CCTV cameras, Internet monitoring and censorship, media consolidation under government decree,
face tracking, country/continent unification, excessive tasering, the development of surveillance material
to be used in public places, and in gatherings of protest/dissent
(small hovering microphones and cameras, the development of hovering taser devices).
I can go on and on, and if need be I will.
If you honestly think that this doesn’t affect us,
that our government couldn’t possibly commit illegal acts of censorship,
silencing, monitoring, and installing fear among their own citizens,
you couldn’t possibly be more wrong.
The government has done all of these things before,
and we didn’t know about it until many years later
when these acts were deemed irrelevant enough to be “declassified”.
We have several covert federal agencies operating with our police system,
our court system, the internet, phone companies, and will soon be within
our medical records as well (RFID chips anyone?).
This is something that WILL affect us.
This is something that we have to take care of.
WE MUST RETALIATE.
Flood the offices of your congressional leaders with phone calls.
Write a letter to them on your computer, save it, and print and send dozens of copies.
It’ll cost you what, five dollars in stamps?
Contact your media again and again and again.
Discuss it with your family and friends.
The time for the passing of this legislation is near.
We must act now. We have to act now.
We cannot let apathy get the best of us.
We cannot let fatalism or defeatism get the best of us.
You are not alone, you are among many.
You will make a difference, because your voice will be among thousands.
If we don’t protect ourselves, our children, and our neighbors,
what left will we have to life for?
How will we be able to organize and fight for further infringements
and atrocities if our rights to organize and dissent are slowly withering away?
Here is a letter typed out. . Feel free to use it or draw upon it.
Send it to anyone you like, the more the merrier.
We need to get this, or anything else, out to as many people as possible.
Make sure you include the name(s) of your Senator(s), as well as your name at the bottom
(as, correct me if I’m wrong, but a lot of times, the staff will throw out letters that are not from
the constituency as that particular senator). I’m going to send these out to my senators today,
after I get more stamps. Please do the same.
Dear Senator
It has come to my attention, that The U.S. House of Representatives has recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This is now up for review in the Senate Judiciary committee, listed as S.1959.
Per the language used in the Act itself, S.1959 defines Homegrown Terrorism as: “the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
“The term `ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs.”
Congress found: “The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.”
Congress also found: “The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”
Congress also noted: “Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.”
These findings and definition are of grave concern to us U.S. citizens. The countries listed as having experience and influence of terrorism and terrorism prevention, have consolidated their media under government decree (Canada), leaving almost no room for open, unbiased, investigative journalism that would inform the citizens of the goings on the their countries that should bring concern. The United Kingdom, as well as the United States have begun installing CCTV cameras in public places that will track and monitor, individual faces of persons engaging in loosely defined “suspicious activity”. There have been news reports of business in the process of implementing hovering surveillance devices that can monitor visual and audio activity of suspects, as well as surveillance devices that can assist police and government organizations in deterring aggressive resistance of arrest or detainment, by issuing small electric shocks similar to that of the controversial taser device.
This act also allows for a central organization to be created to monitor, detect, and report on suspicious “homegrown terrorist activity within the United States”. The definition of such activity is vague, leaving room for the possibility of anyone seriously advocating social change, restoration of the constitution, and advocating the organization of protests to “coerce the United States government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof”.
This Act is undermining, and threatening, the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens to organize in dissent of the Patriot Act, NSA surveillance, telecom immunity, social injustice, the War on Terror, or any other program that the citizenry feels is in violation of their inalienable rights as U.S. citizens.
We have had enough. Your constituency, the people you represent, are asking that you vote no when this Act comes up for review.
Here is the website containing the Act (House Resolution HR1955, also S. 1959) in full detail: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill= …
All U.S. citizens who are doing nothing but voicing their opinions against a President and Vice President who have expanded their executive powers, bypassed our congressional check and balance, and has undermined our U.S. Judiciary System, are now at risk, by this new act, of being labeled and prosecuted as a terrorist. Vote NO on S.1959.
Thank you,
Here is a link to all of the Senators,
and their contact information
(name, address, phone number):
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
From a Libertarian mailing I receive:
S 1959 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" must be stopped at all costs.
Pick up your phone today and contact your US Senator's office to instruct them to vote "NO" on S.1959.
Click here for your Senators contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Full PDF text if the bill:
http://tinyurl.com/3a3y2z
If this bill is passed, and becomes law, your words and actions could be considered terrorism. S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an "extremist belief system", instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court.
Contact your Senator and let them know they will be looking for another job if they vote yes on this bill, which is now introduced into the Senate as S.1959 THIS BILL **MUST NOT** BECOME LAW, PERIOD.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959
If this becomes law, your words could be considered "promoting an extremist belief system", and all they have to say is that you are using PLANNED OR THREATENED *FORCE* (DOES NOT HAVE TO BE VIOLENCE) --FORCE by exposing CORRUPTION, CRIMINALITY against "THE CIVILIAN POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, *****OR ANY SEGMENT THEREOF" READ THE BILL MANY TIMES AND VERY CAREFULLY--YOU ARE THE TERRORIST (WHICH MEANS THEY CAN STRIP YOUR CITIZENSHIP, AND HAVE YOU TORTURED AND EXECUTED).
Senate is back in session today, do not hesitate, call, fax, email your Senator ASAP.Click here for your Senators contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
S 1959 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" must be stopped at all costs.
Pick up your phone today and contact your US Senator's office to instruct them to vote "NO" on S.1959.
Click here for your Senators contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Full PDF text if the bill:
http://tinyurl.com/3a3y2z
If this bill is passed, and becomes law, your words and actions could be considered terrorism. S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an "extremist belief system", instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court.
Contact your Senator and let them know they will be looking for another job if they vote yes on this bill, which is now introduced into the Senate as S.1959 THIS BILL **MUST NOT** BECOME LAW, PERIOD.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959
If this becomes law, your words could be considered "promoting an extremist belief system", and all they have to say is that you are using PLANNED OR THREATENED *FORCE* (DOES NOT HAVE TO BE VIOLENCE) --FORCE by exposing CORRUPTION, CRIMINALITY against "THE CIVILIAN POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, *****OR ANY SEGMENT THEREOF" READ THE BILL MANY TIMES AND VERY CAREFULLY--YOU ARE THE TERRORIST (WHICH MEANS THEY CAN STRIP YOUR CITIZENSHIP, AND HAVE YOU TORTURED AND EXECUTED).
Senate is back in session today, do not hesitate, call, fax, email your Senator ASAP.Click here for your Senators contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Senate Considering Treaty That Could Affect Gun Rights
Senate Considering Treaty That Could Affect Gun Rights
-- Ask your Senators to support the "Second Amendment Protection" Amendment
Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102
Springfield, VA 22151
(703)321-8585
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
It turns out that Washington might soon be giving an arm of the United Nations jurisdiction over the import, export, and oceanic transport of GUNS and AMMUNITION.
You would think that even Washington politicians would not be so stupid as to give people like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Burma's despotic military junta, the Sudan's genocidal strongmen, or Cuba's Fidel Castro the right to interfere with our Second Amendment rights on American soil, right?
Well, what makes sense to the common person isn't always the reality in Washington.
The Senate Foreign Relations committee will soon be debating the ratification of a treaty that bears the appropriate acronym of LOST (Law of the Sea Treaty). LOST would put the ocean's resources in the hands of the UN's International Seabed Authority -- and yes, that spells trouble for our Second Amendment rights.
First, there are concerns that the International Seabed Authority might close firing ranges based on the bogus argument that runoff from these ranges pollutes the world's oceans.
This battle over lead run-off is one that gun owners have already fought in this country. We shudder to think that we could one day find ourselves fighting this battle at the global level as well!
But, even more frightening, Article 88 of the treaty stipulates that the high seas are "reserved" for peaceful purposes. And this provision would be enforced by the Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
What does this mean? It clearly doesn't mean that the U.S. or any other country is going to shut down its navy. But, on the other hand, it would be foolish to assume that the UN will not eventually try to use this provision to prohibit the oceanic transport of all firearms and ammunition -- except, of course, for guns and ammo bound for murderous dictators.
Make no mistake: The United Nations is composed of hoards of heavily-armed genocidal tyrants. And the last thing these people want is for firearms and ammunition to fall into the hands of "peons" like you and me.
And the UN has shown no reluctance to try to strip the U.S. of its sovereignty and interfere with our Second Amendment rights. Just consider the several attempts they have made over the last decade to sucker the United States into a binding treaty that would call for greater gun control restrictions inside our own country.
Peter Leitner, who was the Representative to the Law of the Sea negotiations in Geneva during the 1970s and a key witness at the hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee, is not only an authority on the LOST treaty, he is concerned about the danger it poses to individual rights
He says, "The inherent danger in this Treaty is the fact that nothing is set in stone and broad matters of interpretation will be the province of the 'one-nation/one-vote' Assembly. We will have no leverage, veto-power, etc., in that forum."
And then there's the term "Peaceful Purposes" in the treaty. Leitner says that this is "one of those extraordinarily vague terms that lend themselves to political manipulation."
If the US can claim that LOST allows US ships to board foreign ships and look for weapons of mass destruction, he argues, "then other nations can interdict cargoes they find offensive as well. I think the [Second Amendment] gun guys have a very legitimate concern!"
Another opponent of this treaty is John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton almost single-handedly kept the US from signing onto anti-gun treaties sponsored by the UN. Now he is making the rounds on Capitol Hill, reportedly lobbying conservative senators against LOST.
ACTION: Write your senator. Tell him not to vote to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty until the following amendment is adopted:
Article 88 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding anything in this treaty to the contrary, no action shall be taken under this treaty which would impede the export, transport, or import of small arms and ammunition into the United States for the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States."
You can use the pre-written message below and send it as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center (where phone and fax numbers are also available).
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
Article 88 of the Law of the Sea Treaty stipulates that the high seas are "reserved" for peaceful purposes.
This clearly doesn't mean that the U.S. or any other country is going to shut down its navy. But, on the other hand, it could mean that the UN will eventually try to use this provision to prohibit the oceanic transport of all firearms and ammunition -- except, of course, for guns and ammo bound for murderous dictators. And enforcement will be in the hands of the Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
The United Nations is composed of hoards of heavily-armed genocidal tyrants. And the last thing these people want is for firearms and ammunition to fall into the hands of "peons" like law-abiding American citizens.
And the UN has shown no reluctance to try to strip the U.S. of its sovereignty and interfere with our Second Amendment rights.
This is on top of concerns which have already been raised that the International Seabed Authority might close firing ranges based on the bogus argument that runoff from these ranges pollutes the world’s oceans.
As a result, I would ask you to vote against the Law of the Sea Treaty unless and until the following amendment is adopted:
Article 88 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding anything in this treaty to the contrary, no action shall be taken under this treaty which would impede the export, transport, or import of small arms and ammunition into the United States for the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States."
I eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
****************************
Hit The Right Target!
Give to Gun Owners Foundation through the CFC using Agency Number 10042
In many federal offices there are subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) pressures to give to the Combined Federal Campaign. Your boss may think his prestige depends upon getting everyone to kick in. The same thing happens in all too many corporations during the United Way fundraising drive.
You may have wanted to give but couldn’t find a group that wasn't attacking your rights, let alone defending them, on the list of participating organizations. But that has all changed!
Federal employees now are able to designate Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) as the recipient of their gifts to the Combined Federal Campaign. Use AGENCY NUMBER 10042 for Gun Owners Foundation when you make your Combined Federal Campaign pledge or donation. Your gifts will go toward helping our legal assistance program protect the Second Amendment rights of Americans across the nation.
Also, if you work for a company that participates in the United Way, you too, may be able to designate that your gift be to Gun Owners Foundation. Many local United Way Campaigns allow Gun Owners Foundation to participate through their Donor Choice Programs. Some, however, do not. Check with your local United Way Agency. You will not only be helping people and protecting your rights, but you will also get a tax deduction.
-- Ask your Senators to support the "Second Amendment Protection" Amendment
Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102
Springfield, VA 22151
(703)321-8585
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
It turns out that Washington might soon be giving an arm of the United Nations jurisdiction over the import, export, and oceanic transport of GUNS and AMMUNITION.
You would think that even Washington politicians would not be so stupid as to give people like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Burma's despotic military junta, the Sudan's genocidal strongmen, or Cuba's Fidel Castro the right to interfere with our Second Amendment rights on American soil, right?
Well, what makes sense to the common person isn't always the reality in Washington.
The Senate Foreign Relations committee will soon be debating the ratification of a treaty that bears the appropriate acronym of LOST (Law of the Sea Treaty). LOST would put the ocean's resources in the hands of the UN's International Seabed Authority -- and yes, that spells trouble for our Second Amendment rights.
First, there are concerns that the International Seabed Authority might close firing ranges based on the bogus argument that runoff from these ranges pollutes the world's oceans.
This battle over lead run-off is one that gun owners have already fought in this country. We shudder to think that we could one day find ourselves fighting this battle at the global level as well!
But, even more frightening, Article 88 of the treaty stipulates that the high seas are "reserved" for peaceful purposes. And this provision would be enforced by the Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
What does this mean? It clearly doesn't mean that the U.S. or any other country is going to shut down its navy. But, on the other hand, it would be foolish to assume that the UN will not eventually try to use this provision to prohibit the oceanic transport of all firearms and ammunition -- except, of course, for guns and ammo bound for murderous dictators.
Make no mistake: The United Nations is composed of hoards of heavily-armed genocidal tyrants. And the last thing these people want is for firearms and ammunition to fall into the hands of "peons" like you and me.
And the UN has shown no reluctance to try to strip the U.S. of its sovereignty and interfere with our Second Amendment rights. Just consider the several attempts they have made over the last decade to sucker the United States into a binding treaty that would call for greater gun control restrictions inside our own country.
Peter Leitner, who was the Representative to the Law of the Sea negotiations in Geneva during the 1970s and a key witness at the hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee, is not only an authority on the LOST treaty, he is concerned about the danger it poses to individual rights
He says, "The inherent danger in this Treaty is the fact that nothing is set in stone and broad matters of interpretation will be the province of the 'one-nation/one-vote' Assembly. We will have no leverage, veto-power, etc., in that forum."
And then there's the term "Peaceful Purposes" in the treaty. Leitner says that this is "one of those extraordinarily vague terms that lend themselves to political manipulation."
If the US can claim that LOST allows US ships to board foreign ships and look for weapons of mass destruction, he argues, "then other nations can interdict cargoes they find offensive as well. I think the [Second Amendment] gun guys have a very legitimate concern!"
Another opponent of this treaty is John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton almost single-handedly kept the US from signing onto anti-gun treaties sponsored by the UN. Now he is making the rounds on Capitol Hill, reportedly lobbying conservative senators against LOST.
ACTION: Write your senator. Tell him not to vote to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty until the following amendment is adopted:
Article 88 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding anything in this treaty to the contrary, no action shall be taken under this treaty which would impede the export, transport, or import of small arms and ammunition into the United States for the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States."
You can use the pre-written message below and send it as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center (where phone and fax numbers are also available).
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
Article 88 of the Law of the Sea Treaty stipulates that the high seas are "reserved" for peaceful purposes.
This clearly doesn't mean that the U.S. or any other country is going to shut down its navy. But, on the other hand, it could mean that the UN will eventually try to use this provision to prohibit the oceanic transport of all firearms and ammunition -- except, of course, for guns and ammo bound for murderous dictators. And enforcement will be in the hands of the Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
The United Nations is composed of hoards of heavily-armed genocidal tyrants. And the last thing these people want is for firearms and ammunition to fall into the hands of "peons" like law-abiding American citizens.
And the UN has shown no reluctance to try to strip the U.S. of its sovereignty and interfere with our Second Amendment rights.
This is on top of concerns which have already been raised that the International Seabed Authority might close firing ranges based on the bogus argument that runoff from these ranges pollutes the world’s oceans.
As a result, I would ask you to vote against the Law of the Sea Treaty unless and until the following amendment is adopted:
Article 88 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding anything in this treaty to the contrary, no action shall be taken under this treaty which would impede the export, transport, or import of small arms and ammunition into the United States for the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States."
I eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
****************************
Hit The Right Target!
Give to Gun Owners Foundation through the CFC using Agency Number 10042
In many federal offices there are subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) pressures to give to the Combined Federal Campaign. Your boss may think his prestige depends upon getting everyone to kick in. The same thing happens in all too many corporations during the United Way fundraising drive.
You may have wanted to give but couldn’t find a group that wasn't attacking your rights, let alone defending them, on the list of participating organizations. But that has all changed!
Federal employees now are able to designate Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) as the recipient of their gifts to the Combined Federal Campaign. Use AGENCY NUMBER 10042 for Gun Owners Foundation when you make your Combined Federal Campaign pledge or donation. Your gifts will go toward helping our legal assistance program protect the Second Amendment rights of Americans across the nation.
Also, if you work for a company that participates in the United Way, you too, may be able to designate that your gift be to Gun Owners Foundation. Many local United Way Campaigns allow Gun Owners Foundation to participate through their Donor Choice Programs. Some, however, do not. Check with your local United Way Agency. You will not only be helping people and protecting your rights, but you will also get a tax deduction.
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