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[Ricky Baldwin]

Doug -

I really don't understand this.  What is the "CCRA" that we should care 
about it's newsletter?  Who is this guy who can't spell "site"?  Don't get 
me wrong: I agree that this "day that changed America" stuff is absurd, and 
MOST of his statements about getting involved and defending the Bill of 
Rights are of course right on (...but when was the Second Amendment under 
any threat?  I missed that one?)  I'm not sure his example of arming the 
pilots is a good one, given that firing a gun in a jet at high altitudes is 
nearly as bad an idea as firing a gun in a submarine, but I take his point 
that organized action can be effective.

The quote from William Pitt is something we can appreciate, but whose 
comments are those at the end?  There was no declaration of war Sept 14 or 
since - it was an authorization to use force under the President's "war 
powers", actually a dodge of the Constitutional responsibility of Congress 
to declare war.  And why does this guy think "liberals" are any less likely 
to pound the war drums than so-called conservatives?  Has he ever heard of 
FDR?  JFK?  Johnson?  Even the alleged liberals Carter and Clinton?  "Petty 
bickering", I'll grant, but not because a few questions are starting to come 
up about our President-Select, his contrived war and his corporate 
class-mates instead of slavish devotion to the hawks' "REAL life concerns".

Ricky

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News from The Sight M1911

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I continue to hear the talking heads, particularly the media wonks, talking
about 9-11 as "the day that changed America." In my most charitable mood, I
hope they mean that this day shook us out of our complacency and shattered
our sense of being insulated from the rest of the world. But even if this
most hopeful interpretation of a "changed America" is correct,  and I doubt
that, the statement is still an error of the highest magnitude and demands 
rebuke.

[snip] we need a lot more than one soul to get concerned and motivated about 
the erosion of our civil rights that has occurred since the 9-11 attacks. 
If, in fact, the message is that we must give up our civil rights and 
cherished freedoms bcause "America has changed" then we have to preach, 
protest, demonstrate, lobby, send cards and letters, and whatever else it 
takes to send the message that we are not willing to trade our liberty for 
some talking head's vision of "security." In other words, get involved. Your 
letters, presence, and opinions matter.

It's tempting to look at the situation and say, "What can I do? My voice
doesn't count for anything." The fact is that it does. The campaign to arm 
the pilots is an excellent example of how people can get organized and 
influence policy and law to the very highest levels of government. That 
campaign has been an uphill battle, but the pilots and their supporters 
succeeded in making the administration reverse its position, and even 
managed to get some long-time foes like Barbara Boxer to jump on the 
bandwagon.

We have done a decent job of defending the Second Amendment. The next
battle is shaping up on the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves" -William Pitt, House of
Commons, 18 November 1783
{{{{{{{Warren comments: There DID seem to be a re-ordering of priorities, as 
inanities were buried under REAL life concerns. Even Washington liberals 
were compelled to make sense, passing the Declaration of War on Sept 14.
Immediately  thereafter they realized that success of those goals meant
defeat of their virulent liberal policies, and as their careers mean more to 
them than freeing the world from terrorism, they have been backpedaling ever 
since. Under the onslaught of their petty bickering, and echoes from TV and 
east coast news, the citizenry, too, is sliding back to the previous 
priorities. WD}}}}}}




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