Major Victory for Firearms Owners and Freedom

Filed under:Bill of Rights — posted by 3wire on 9/24/2005 @ 6:13 pm

From the NRA
NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert Vol. 12, No. 38 9/23/05

On Thursday, NRA filed a motion in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana seeking a temporary restraining order to block authorities from confiscating law-abiding citizens’ firearms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Today, we are happy to report, the Court sided with NRA and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable, law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

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English Translation of Iraqi Constitution

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General,War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on @ 1:31 am

Iraqi Constitution

Guns Confiscated in Louisiana?

Filed under:Bill of Rights — posted by 3wire on 9/21/2005 @ 2:18 pm

From the NRA:

If you have personally had a gun confiscated in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina hit, please call (888) 414-6333. Be prepared to leave only your name and immediate contact information so we can get back to you. Once again, we are seeking contact information from actual victims of gun confiscation in Louisiana only.

For additional information, please visit www.NRAILA.org, or e-mail ila-contact@nrahq.org.”

Freedom: Every Loss Hurts

Filed under:Bill of Rights,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 9/16/2005 @ 4:46 pm

The Federal government keeps chipping away at freedoms we have taken for granted for decades. In the post 9/11 hysteria bureaucrats everywhere are pushing for more government control over the most innocuous parts of everyday life. Probably because that’s all they know how to do, make rules and punish those that don’t follow them. The biggest problem with that is that the Jihadists are rarely around to punish after the fact.

It’s the minorities that have to give up their freedoms first because there is no one to fight for them. I’m not talking just race here, I mean any minority. I’m a general aviation pilot and our freedoms have been under constant attack since 9/11. If you are not a pilot you wont understand and you don’t care, but you should care because each bit of freedom belongs to everyone and once its gone you wont get it back. Think of every little encroachment on someone else’s freedoms as setting a precedent for the day that the government wants to take away your freedoms.

This is from the AOPA. ADIZ stands for Air Defense Identification Zone.

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NO ADIZ IN YOUR BACKYARD? DON’T BET ON IT…
Imagine this: Every time you want to fly, you have to file a flight
plan. Before you can take off, you have to get a transponder code,
but the landline you call to get it is busy most of the time. If
there is an RCO (remote communications outlet) frequency for your
airport, you can rarely get a timely response from an overworked
controller. Services are falling off at your local FBO because
business is down drastically. In fact, some of your favorite places
on the field have already closed. Welcome to life in an air defense
identification zone (ADIZ). Can’t happen in your area? Don’t bet on
it. At this moment, New York City has a “temporary” ADIZ. Chicago’s
Mayor Richard Daley keeps pushing for one of his own. Any of the
other Class B airspace areas across the country could become an ADIZ
at a moment’s notice. That’s what happened in Washington, D.C.–where
the “temporary” ADIZ was created on a weekend in response to a
heightened national threat level. But after the threat level was
reduced, the ADIZ remained. Now the FAA wants to make it permanent,
and the same thing could happen anywhere. “That’s why AOPA continues
to fight so hard against the Washington ADIZ,” said AOPA President
Phil Boyer. “And why–very soon–we will be asking all AOPA members
to join the fight. We must work together to prevent an ADIZ in your
backyard.” Stay tuned. See AOPA Online

Gun Show Owner, Patrons May File Civil Rights Suit

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Shooting Sports — posted by 3wire on 9/13/2005 @ 6:49 pm

“More people have had their rights violated at my shows than at Annette’s show,” Elliot said, referring to colleague Annette Gelles, who owns the Showmasters Gun Show, which was the target of another ATF Task Force operation last month.

“They’ve been pulled over when they left the building and had their guns taken away from them,” Elliot continued. “In one case, we had a guy with a valid concealed-carry permit who had his gun confiscated. He had to go to ATF headquarters the next day to pick that gun back up.”

Gun Show Owner, Patrons May File Civil Rights Suit —
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
09/12/2005

A Most Important Vote: September 11, 2001

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 9/11/2005 @ 11:03 pm

United Airlines Flight 93: September 11, 2001

A group of average Americans, who had never met, organized themselves and took a vote.

“During his 15-minute call to his wife, Jeremy Glick told her that they had taken a vote and they were going after the terrorists. After telling her he loved her, Jer­emy said, “Hold the phone, and I’ll be back.”

FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMORIAL

Memorial Fund

Blog from Occupied New Orleans

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General — posted by 3wire on 9/10/2005 @ 10:25 pm

Still blogging from behind the lines.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Media Mangles News from Iraq

Filed under:Bill of Rights,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 8/29/2005 @ 6:04 pm

I’m still digging around in Michael Yon’s blog and finding gold. You have to read this stuff. This below is about the Zarqawi-letter. I included this in the “Bill of Rights” category because of a growing concern (mine) that the “Media” is manipulating the outcome of this event(the war on terror). More later on that later.

“Even CNN couldn’t grasp the importance of the letter. They ended up giving more coverage to the impending E-Bay auction of Jennifer Aniston’s old love letters than to the missive in which the top Al Queda leader in Mosul writes to the second most wanted man in the world, and describes in amazing detail the weaknesses and impending collapse of the terrorist network in Mosul and surrounds. Only then, did the military ask if I wanted to write about the letter.

Every one, even a “higher up” deserves the benefit of the doubt, and should be entitled to one mistake. But how many times, and how many major stories have to be mangled into meaninglessness before someone connects the cables and lets the information flow in a direction other than down the mainstream media drain?”

Appeals Court Preserves Email Privacy

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Technology — posted by 3wire on 8/23/2005 @ 9:32 pm

EFF News
Appeals Court Preserves Email Privacy

Massachusetts – In a long-awaited decision, the full First Circuit Court of Appeals today overturned a First Circuit panel decision that had allowed an email service provider to secretly monitor the content of users’ incoming messages without violating federal wiretap law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other privacy organizations submitted briefs in the case urging that the earlier decision be reheard by all seven First Circuit judges.

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Bill gives abused spouses gun info.

Filed under:Bill of Rights — posted by 3wire on 8/22/2005 @ 4:33 pm

CNN.com – Bill gives abused spouses gun info – Aug 18, 2005

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers have approved a measure that would require courts to give battered spouses information on how to apply for a concealed weapon.

Wired News: TSA Data Dump Leads to Lawsuit

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Technology — posted by 3wire on 8/18/2005 @ 10:31 pm

Following accusations last month that the Transportation Security Administration violated the Privacy Act in testing its new airline passenger-screening program, four individuals sued the agency Thursday.

They want the TSA to dig deeper for commercial data records it may have collected on each of them to test the Secure Flight program, and to hand over those records. The individuals also filed a motion to prevent the agency from destroying records before the lawsuit is resolved.

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FBI’s “National Security Letters” Threaten Online Speech and Privacy

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Technology — posted by 3wire on 8/17/2005 @ 2:27 am

EFF Urges Appeals Court to Find Secret Subpoena Power Unconstitutional

New York – The Electronic Frontier Foundation, joined by several civil liberties organizations and online service providers, filed a friend-of-the-court brief yesterday in the case of Doe v. Gonzales arguing that National Security Letters (NSLs) are unconstitutional. NSLs are secret subpoenas for communications logs, issued directly by the FBI without any judicial oversight. These secret subpoenas allow the FBI to demand that online service providers produce records of where their customers go on the Web, as well as what they read and with whom they exchange email. The FBI can even issue NSLs for information about people who haven’t committed any crimes.

A federal district court has already found NSLs unconstitutional, and the government is now appealing the case. In its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, EFF argues that these secret subpoenas imperil free speech by allowing the FBI to track people’s online activities. In addition, NSLs violate the First and Fourth Amendment rights of the service providers who receive the secret government demands. EFF and its cosigners argue that NSLs for Internet logs should be subject to the same strict judicial scrutiny applied to other subpoenas that may reveal information about the identities of anonymous speakers – or their private reading habits and personal associations.

Yet NSLs are practically immune to judicial review. They are accompanied by gag orders that allow no exception for talking to lawyers and provide no effective opportunity for the recipients to challenge them in court. This secret subpoena authority, which was expanded by the USA PATRIOT Act, could be applied to nearly any online service provider for practically any type of record, without a court ever knowing.

“The Constitution does not allow the FBI to secretly demand logs about Internet users’ Web browsing and email history based on vague claims of national security,” said EFF attorney and Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow Kevin Bankston. “The district court’s decision that National Security Letters are unconstitutional should have been a wake-up call to the House of Representatives, which just voted to renew the PATRIOT Act without adding new checks against abuse.”

Although such protections are lacking in the PATRIOT renewal bill that the House of Representatives recently passed, they are included in the Senate bill. It is not yet clear whether those protections will be included in the final bill when it reaches the President’s desk.

EFF was joined on the brief by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Online Policy Group, Salon Media Group, Inc., Six Apart, Ltd., the US Internet Industry Association, and ZipLip, Inc.

The FairTax Book

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General — posted by 3wire on 8/16/2005 @ 12:48 am

FairTax

“Wouldn’t you love to abolish the IRS …
Keep all the money in your paycheck …
Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn …
And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system?”

Haven’t read it yet. Some say this plan would work, others say it would actually raise taxes. I’d almost be willing to pay MORE tax if it would eliminate the IRS and put tax attorney’s and accountants out of work. Is that wrong?

GA NOT A ‘WEAPON OF MASS EFFECT

Filed under:Bill of Rights,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 8/12/2005 @ 2:46 pm

General Aviation is NOT A ‘WEAPON OF MASS EFFECT,’ AOPA SAYS

AOPA made it clear to yet another government agency last week that general aviation airplanes are not so-called weapons of mass effect. AOPA was invited to address the Homeland Security Advisory Council Weapons of Mass Effect Prevention Task Force. The group is charged with designing defenses to prevent large-scale weapons (such as large bombs or nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons) from entering the United States. AOPA educated the task force about general aviation, using facts, figures, and graphics from the association’s GA Serving America Web site ( http://www.gaservingamerica.org ). “I explained again that most general aviation aircraft don’t have the size or carrying capacity to make an effective weapon,” said Andy Cebula, AOPA senior vice president of government and technical affairs. “And I reiterated all of the steps we’ve taken since 9/11 to improve the security of our aircraft and airports.”

Keep Blogging

Filed under:Bill of Rights — posted by 3wire on 8/5/2005 @ 11:51 am

Bloggers

Did it HAVE to be a French flag? …….Sigh. I know the French flag is Blue White and Red but its too close for comfort. Oh well, keep fighting for bloggers’ rights.

More land grabing.

Filed under:Bill of Rights — posted by 3wire on @ 11:30 am

More Tax Payer funded land grabbing. In this case they had to sneak wording into a highway bill to get the land. It was already public-use property, an airport. Now wealthy developers get to have it.

AOPA Online – Stealth amendment in Congress kills Rialto Airport
All expressed strong opposition to the special exemption for Rialto, but Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) was “able to persuade lawmakers to leave the land transfer language in,” Jim Specht, a spokesman for Lewis, told the Press-Enterprise newspaper of Riverside, California. Lewis represents the Riverside District next to Rialto. He’s also chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most powerfull people in Congress.

San Diego Seeks to Confiscate ‘Little Italy’ Property

Filed under:Bill of Rights — posted by 3wire on 8/3/2005 @ 11:31 am

FOXNews.com

At least one legislator is trying to stop it.

After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld certain powers of eminent domain, State Sen. Tom McClintock introduced a bill that would prevent California cities from taking property from one private owner and giving it to another.

“There is nothing that rankles the American soul more than an abuse of power that creates an injustice and that’s what the U.S. Supreme Court has now unleashed,” McClintock told FOX News.

“There is no right to steal somebody else’s property for personal gain. That is not a right that is recognized in any civilized society and we ought not to recognize it in ours,” he added.

McClintock’s bill and others like it around the nation could take months to become law, too late for Alsco, which is being pressured to sign on the dotted line this summer.

Lawmakers Consider Stamps on Bullets

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Shooting Sports — posted by 3wire on @ 11:02 am

FOXNews.com

California state Assemblyman Paul Koretz (search), D-West Hollywood, is one of the bill’s authors.

“Imagine how much easier it would be, in the case of my bill microstamping, if there was just a number and you call it into a database and you know exactly who it is in five or 10 minutes,” Koretz said.

Critics argue the laws will punish law-abiding citizens and sportsmen by raising costs. Those in the gun and ammo manufacturing business add that they’re tired of bearing the brunt of gun crime and accuse lawmakers of targeting their livelihood.

“I will stop selling ammo the day after. So if that’s what the lawmakers want, is that guys like me to get out of the ammunition business, then all they have to do is tell me I have to spend 15, 20 minutes to paperwork a $2 box of ammo and I’m out,” says Ted Szajer, owner of L.A. Guns.

Guantanamo GI’s Blast Visiting Home State Democrats

Filed under:Bill of Rights,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 7/25/2005 @ 4:14 pm

The Command Post – Global War On Terror – Guantanamo GI’s Blast Visiting Home State Democrats

Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave visiting home-state senators a piece of their mind last week. Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, met with several soldiers during a visit led by Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John W. Warner, Virginia Republican.
Pentagon officials said soldiers criticized the harsh comments made recently by Senate Democrats.

Wired News: ‘Step Up Surveillance,’ U.S.A.

Filed under:Bill of Rights,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on @ 3:31 pm

Wired News: ‘Step Up Surveillance,’ U.S.A.


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