Subject: Seeking union members who supports paycheck protection
Date: 04 Jun 2001 15:56:37 -0400 (EDT)
As you may recall, paycheck protection was supported by grass-roots pro-RKBA organizations as removing taxpayer funded advantages of public employee unions in lobbying against our rights.
If you or someone you know is a member of public employee union and you or they support paycheck protection, please see the info below and respond to Mr. Solomon.
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The UEA, UPEA and other public
employees unions are going to file suit against HB179
which requires these unions to have members opt-in to
donating to their PACs by writing a check rather than
spending government money to subsidize automatically
deducting their payroll for the donation.
We are currently looking for people who are members of
these unions (ie. teachers, etc.) who would be willing
to state that the don't believe this bill/law takes
away any Constitutional rights to donate their money
to a PAC.
Please get the word out and have anyone that is
willing to do this, who might belong to one of these
unions contact me at the following e-mail address and
leave their name and contact information and we'll get
in touch with them.
E-mail address: jksolomon01@yahoo.com
Thanks,
John.
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"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
Good news on the garage door situation. Further investigation has revealed that access to my friend's garage was probably NOT gained by defeating the rolling code remote technology.
However, my thanks to Neil Sagers for pursuing the issue with Genie and getting the following information. It is well worth remembering especially anytime service personnel or others you don't necessarily trust fully have access to your garage. On some models a person only needs about 5 seconds of access to the wired control console (usually mounted near the door leading from the garage to the home) in order to add another remote to your opener. They will then have unlimited access to your garage until you clear out the opener memory (this usually requires access to the opener moter housing itself) and reprogram only your own remotes.
This is probably a good practice to follow on some periodic basis (once a year?) and certainly immediately after moving into a new home (whether it be new construction or previously owned) or after having service personnel in the home for any extended length of time. It only took me about 5 minutes (including retrieving the remotes) to do this for two garage doors, each of which has 3 different remotes that control it. If you have a keyless coded remote mounted on your exterior garage wall, you will probably need a second set of hands to help you reprogram it after you clear out the memory--unless you want to un-mount it.
Instructions below and at the listed web site are for Genie. Instructions for Craftsman are very similar, check your owner's manual for specifics on clearing the memory (I've not seen anyway to remove a single remote) and then reprogramming those remotes you are using.
Finally, consider the access that garage remote in your car gives to your house. I make a habit of removing the remote from the car anytime I leave the car for service (just as I don't leave any house keys on the keyring) or park it at an airport for an extended period of time.
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I was very interested in the e-mail on garage theft as I have the Genie Intellicode openers on my garage doors. I forwarded the e-mail to Genie and their response is below:
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As distributors for Genie we have found the Intellicode system or any code rotating system for that matter, almost impossible to defeat. You see, since the remotes change frequency every time they are used, it is impossible to duplicate their codes.
However, such a theft points to only one possibility: The intruder must have programmed his remote to your friend's machine prior to the theft. All the thief needed was to access the garage opener for just a few seconds to program his remote prior to the theft, perhaps your friend left the door open, forgot to close it or maybe had service people at his/her house that could have accessed that machine, it is also possible that the previous owners had a remote that was still coded to that machine...
At any rate, your friend must now delete the machine's memory and
reprogram only his existing remotes. This must be done because the thief can access the garage at will right now. To do that, locate the "learn" button and depress it for about 10-20 seconds until the small LED light next to it turns OFF. At that point, the receiver's memory will be deleted and no remotes will be able to open the machine, your friend will have to reprogram his xisting remotes to the machine using the following instructions:
For any who missed this article in the papers, Janalee passes it along.
The article doesn't indicate whether the study attempted to determine what affect gun safety education programs such as "Eddie Eagle" or even hunter safety programs may have had on the likelyhood of a young boy picking up and improperly handling a firearms.
However, rather than allow the antis to use this as some kind of support for safe storage laws, liability laws, etc, I believe we should turn the tables on them and use this as evidence that gun safety education needs to be a priority. Reasonable people can probably disagree about whether that education should be mandated in public schools, but one way or another, whether in schools, in homes, or in some other setting, children NEED sound information on what to do should they or a playmate find a gun.
Charles
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See the following story that appeared in the Trib today. I have a copy of
this report. I studied it over the weekend--the reporter asked me to. I
spoke with the reporter for an hour and notice my dinky quote.
Here's the killer: This report was co-authored by Arthur Kellerman! I've
been doing additional T.V. radio, and newspaper interviews all day exposing
the fallacies of this report and calling it "junk science." jt
Boys, Guns a Risky Mix, Study Says
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
BY TROY GOODMAN
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Most preteen boys will pick up a handgun if they find one, and almost
half of those who do will pull the trigger without knowing if it is a real
or toy gun, according to research published this week by a Utah
pediatrician.
The study, which involved placing boys in a room with an unloaded gun
in a drawer, confirm what many pediatric and behavior experts have long
feared: The innate curiosity of boys -- especially those age 12 or younger
-- spells trouble for thousands of gun-owning parents who fail to educate
their children about firearms or who store their weapons improperly.
"What we've done is prove the obvious," said Geoffrey Jackman, a Salt
Lake City pediatric emergency doctor who led the study while he was in
Georgia.
Some families believe their children can be trusted around guns,
Jackman said, and this study should prove otherwise.
The parents who volunteered the 8- to 12-year-old boys "all wanted
their children to do the right thing -- you know, don't pull the trigger.
But many of them did," he said.
The findings appear in the latest issue of Pediatrics, a journal of the
American Academy of Pediatrics.
The study involved 64 preteen boys, each of them put into groups of two
or more friends or siblings, who were then placed in a room with a one-way
mirror and two separate drawers. One drawer contained a pair of water
pistols and the other drawer had an unloaded .38-caliber handgun equipped
with a hidden sensor that detected when the trigger is pulled back, Jackman
said.
A large portion of the boys, about 72 percent, discovered the real gun
within 15 minutes of being placed in the room. Of those, more than
three-fourths of the sets of boys handled the gun and almost half pulled
the trigger with enough force to fire a loaded weapon, according to the
study.
Jackman's team of three researchers asked the boys who picked up the
gun if they thought it was a toy when they touched it, and many said they
were not sure.
None of the children involved in the study lived in Utah; Jackman, who
now works at the University of Utah's Primary Children's Medical Center,
conducted the study a couple of years ago while working at Emory University
and the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
One interesting detail to emerge from the research is that parents of
the boys appeared unable to predict whether or not their children would
pick up the .38, based upon a survey where they ranked their child's
curiosity about real guns on a scale between low and high interest.
"Boys who were believed to have a low interest in real guns were as
likely to handle the handgun or pull the trigger as boys who were perceived
to have a moderate or high interest in guns," researchers wrote in the
study's conclusion.
Growing concern about childhood firearm injuries, including intense
news-media coverage of school shootings across the nation, has prompted
many advocacy groups to stress the importance of educating parents about
the need to remove guns from their homes or at least secure them in a
proper manner -- locked up and unloaded.
But at least one Utah pro-gun activist said research like the
Pediatrics study could do little but feed an anti-gun bias and may even
thwart responsible gun ownership and education.
This study is "no more than a gun haters' tool to say 'OK, we cannot
have guns in homes,' " said Janalee Tobias, president and founder of the
Salt Lake City-based Women Against Gun Control. "Man, I sure hope they
didn't spend taxpayer money on this study."
The study was paid by the pediatrics academy and by private funds from
child advocacy groups.
Utah Shooting Sports Council Chairman Elwood Powell, however, said he
could see the benefit of any finding that pushes parents to teach children
more about gun safety. The more they know, said Powell, himself a father of
five, the quicker children lose the view of weapons as intriguing,
off-limit gadgets.
National Rifle Association southwestern volunteer Larry Foster agreed.
"You need to show children the gun and let them know it's real and tell
them not to bother it," said Foster, who has instructed preteen boys
attending the NRA's Whittington Center, a two-week hunting camp held
annually on 33,000 acres in northern New Mexico.
Unintentional firearm injuries kill about 400 U.S. children each year,
often after a child discovers a gun in a home while playing with friends or
siblings. Approximately 80 percent of Utah households contain one or more
firearms, according to Powell. The national average for gun-owning
As you probably recall, HB 179, "Paycheck Protection," was supported by grass-roots RKBA groups and citizens as being good for RKBA as well as basic fairness in the electoral process among other good things.
Charles
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Dear Friends,
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. (NRWLDF) is
looking for individuals who would be interested in participating in an
intervention on behalf of Utah's new paycheck protection statute, House
Bill 179, the Voluntary Contributions Act, which is now before the third
district court. Of primary interest are individuals who belong to the
following organizations listed as plaintiffs:
* The Utah Education Association
* The Utah Public Employees Association
* Utah State AFL-CIO
* American Federation of Teachers-Utah
* American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 1004
* Utah School Employees Association
* Professional Fire Fighters of Utah
* Salt Lake County Sheriff's Association, F.O.P. Lodge #2
The NRWLDF also needs any other employees from any other groups, both in or
out of the government sector, who would be personally affected by HB 179
and who want to help defend this important statute. Participants will not
accrue any attorneys fees -- the NRWLDF will cover those expenses. The
NRWLDF needs as many people from as many organizations as possible in order
to have sufficient "standing."
This case has garnered national attention for very good reason -- our new
law is arguably the toughest law against union paycheck abuses in America.
All eyes are on Utah for leadership in successfully defending this law in
court, as this case will test the future integrity of our systems of
government. We believe that other education reforms will be more
successful once the power of the runaway government employee unions is checked.
If you have ANY leads, please contact me immediately. Time is of the essence.
In earnest,
Daniel
P.S. The NRWLDF Web site is at http://www.nrtw.org/home.htm
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