Subject: FW: ALERT: A Plan for the UN's Gun Burning Party
Dear JPFO Members and Supporters,
Several people asked us what they could do to show their disgust
with the UN's gun prohibition agenda. Some folks suggested
demonstrations should be organized.
Here's an easy way to protest the UN's plans -- and a great
excuse to visit the range:
1. Get some of JPFO's shooting targets that show the UN flag,
see http://www.jpfo.org/target-un.htm
2. Shoot holes in them. (That's the fun part!)
3. Mail them to American politicians and opinion makers with
the message "Here is what I think about the UN and its plan
to disarm Americans with global 'gun control'." (Or whatever
message you'd like).
Option: If you don't want to send a bullet-riddled target,
then set it afire and burn part of it ... they'll get the
message.
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 16:14:42 -0600
From: Scott Bergeson <shbergeson@qwest.net>
Subject: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
I've gathered some on this list consider the NRA rabidly uncompromising
in defense of unfettered Right to Keep and Bear Arms. That isn't so, as
this editorial indicates, as well as GOA's concomitant decline.
Scott Bergeson
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FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MAY 27, 2001
THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
EDITORS: A SHORTER, 900-WORD VERSION OF THIS COLUMN ALSO MOVES
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
One way America's mainstream media reveal their rabid anti-self-defense
prejudice is through their insistence on characterizing the National Rifle
Association as a wild-eyed group of no-compromise, gun-rights extremists.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The NRA endorsed the original federal handgun control bill of the 1930s;
the 1968 Gun Control Act; and the Brady Bill with its waiting periods and
now its so-called "instant check" national gun registration (for long guns
as well as revolvers.) NRA executives seem happy so long as they continue
to collect dues and contributions from the outfit's reported 4 million
dull-witted members, who apparently never tire of the siren song, "We got
you a better compromise than if we hadn't been here; we only bargained
away a /few/ more of your rights this year; just keep voting for the
same smiling Republican traitors so they'll let us into their offices to
'compromise' with them again next year; here's your 'Voters' Guide.'"
"The politicians want the NRA, they can cut their deals with the NRA,"
explained gun rights activist Dennis Fusaro this week, phoning in from
Northern Virginia. "The NRA has supported gun control since 1871, they
admit it, I've got the 1968 issue of the Rifleman where [NRA] Vice
President Ort is quoted saying that; the organization has never been about
'rights.' They were started by a bunch of darned Yankee generals who were
pissed off that the Johnny Rebs shot their pants off in the Big War, it
was all about improving marksmanship among the recruits so the army of
the centralized state could keep its hobnailed boot on the throat of the
people."
Until March 16, Dennis Fusaro worked for the NRA's chief competitor in
the field of Washington gun-rights lobbying, the 300,000-member Gun Owners
of America, training local activists to lobby against further restrictions
on the Second Amendment at the state level.
He appears to have done his job too well.
"The professionals at the NRA absolutely hate it when a bunch of people
start coming to the Legislature and telling the politicians what they want
and don't want, because it just makes an awful mess -- the politicians
can't figure out whom they can cut a deal with.
"Compromise is the way politicians like to play the game; you get the
lobbyists in a room and everybody shakes hands on a compromise and the
lobbyists go home and tell the grassroots to vote for this guy because we
can work with him. A few more rights get sold down the river and everybody
goes home happy and gets re-elected. In Utah (GOA local lobbyist) Sarah
Thompson had worked to get through a good bill that would have honored
concealed-carry permits from any other state without restriction."
In the final days of the session, however, NRA lobbyist Brian Judy
arrived in Salt Lake and made a deal to accept an amendment that the
out-of-state permits would only be honored for 60 days.
"They purposely kept Sarah out; he comes out like a knight on a white horse.
Sarah had the senators pretty well under control and was pushing them with
grassroots pressure, and then Brian Judy goes in the back room and accepts
this bad amendment."
GOA consultant Mike Rothfeld, who had worked with Fusaro since 1994 training
the state-level activists, and who parted company with GOA within hours of
Fusaro's dismissal, confirms the tale:
"This year he cut Sarah off at the knees with a last-minute deal to undo a
recognition bill she had drafted, caused to be introduced, and shepherded
through the House. He blamed Sarah for making legislators 'angry.'
As opposed to the old NRA game of "Let's Make a Deal," the way Fusaro says
he was training GOA's local activists to hold the feet of anti-Bill-of-Rights
politicians to the fire "was to tell them, 'Do what you have to do, but you
know where we stand. If you vote any way but for our gun rights, we will
work against you in the next election; we will rate you with an "F"; we will
run people against you; we will get all the gun owners to vote against you;
we will defeat you.' Politicians respond to anyone who makes their lives
miserable; if they can count on your being their friend no matter what they
do, they're going to start cozying up to Sarah Brady."
Fusaro says it was precisely his budding success with these tactics in
20-plus states -- "a decentralized movement that couldn't be controlled;
if the head went bad it couldn't poison the whole body ..." that finally
led the GOA board of directors to attempt to pull in the reins on such
effective lobbying, and -- when that didn't work -- to fire him.
"The local pols tell the lobbyists, 'Can't you control your people?' And
what's more important to the [professional] lobbyists is to have these
relationships with these politicians rather than saving your rights. And
I said that, and for saying that I had to go."
"We're just as opposed to Project Exile as we've always been," responds
GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt, Fusaro's former boss. "We're just as
opposed to the instant background check as we've always been; it just
isn't true that we're going to be any softer on these issues.
"There were some personality differences" that led to the removal of
Fusaro and consultant Rothfeld, Pratt insists. "It's a shame" that Fusaro
had "a personality difference with the chairman of the board," 73-year-old
GOA founder and former California state Sen. H.L. "Bill" Richardson.
"If it had just been a personality difference that'd be great," Fusaro
responds, "but if it was just a personality difference, why did [GOA] board
members come out and say we can't lose the Republican majority in 2002; we
have to get Bush re-elected? If that's our primary objective then what can
Bush and the Republicans in Congress do to us, or fail to do /for/ us? Why
should they feel obliged to do anything for gun owners?"
It's the larger NRA which cynics have long described as the "Gun Owners'
Auxiliary to the Republican Party," of course, since the nation's largest
gun control organization will often award its "A" or "B" rating to GOP
turncoats who have voted for half the gun control laws to come down the
pike, endorsing them over Libertarians or other third party candidates who
vow to repeal every gun law on the books.
Why? Because the third party candidate "can't win," of course, and the
NRA lobbyist's real game is to "retain access" to the GOP incumbent after
helping him win re-election. Why insist on the plain language of the Second
Amendment ("shall not be infringed") if the end result is fewer cocktail
party invitations next year? That could make your organization appear "out
of the mainstream."
"Richardson doesn't want GOA people criticizing the NRA," Fusaro explains.
"Richardson yelled at me over the phone, he said they have wonderful
relations with the NRA in California; we can't have this public disunity"
among the supposed gun rights' groups. "Well, hell, let's look at
California," which has some of the most onerous victim disarmament laws
in the country.
"Let's take the direct shuttle to the death camps, and not mess around on
these winding train tracks. They don't do anything in California, they've
been going to hell for 10 years. That's why I came to work for GOA a decade
ago," Fusaro concludes, "because I wanted someone who'd let me fight.
"What Richardson wants most, in my opinion, is to be part of that
respectable conservative Republican establishment, and if that's what you
want then they own you. You have to show them you're willing to break up
the country club, you're willing to be thrown out, you're willing to be
thrown into the briar patch."
Insiders tell me there may indeed be a drop in GOA lobbying at the state
legislative level this election cycle, though they place the primary
blame on a shortfall in fund-raising -- one that's apparently affecting
most conservative organizations since the Bush election.
When it comes to conservative causes, "People are figuring with George
Bush elected we've all died and gone to heaven," sighed one frustrated,
inside-the-Beltway fund-raiser this week.
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas
Review-Journal. Subscribe to his monthly newsletter by sending $72 to
Privacy Alert, 1475 Terminal Way, Suite E for Easy, Reno, NV 89502 -- or
dialing 775-348-8591. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the
Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at 1-800-244-2224, or via web
site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html.
***
Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved,
as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right." -- Eugene V.
Debs (1855-1926)
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed --
and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:56:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
Subject: Seeking union members who supports paycheck protection
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.
- ------Original Message------
From: John Solomon <jksolomon01@yahoo.com>
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."
- --George Washington
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:23:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
Subject: FOLLOW-UP: Re: Garage thefts
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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From: "Neil Sagers" <Neil.Sagers@THIOKOL.COM>
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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From: " " <gunflower@earthlink.net>
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
- ------Original Message------
From: "Daniel B. Newby" <dnewby@sutherlandinstitute.org>
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
***********************************************
Daniel B. Newby
Director of Operations & Development
dnewby@sutherlandinstitute.org
The Sutherland Institute: Shaping the Future of Utah
Independence Square
111 East 5600 South, Suite 202
Salt Lake City, Utah 84107
Phone: (801) 281-2081
Fax: (801) 281-2414
Website: www.sutherlandinstitute.org
If you have questions, or would like to receive membership
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