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AMERICAN RIGHTS GUARDIAN UPDATE
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VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2 SPR/SUM 2000 Bald Eagle

The Only Printed Voice of opposition to Federal Government Indian Policy in Wisconsin.
Published by Protect Americans' Rights & Resources to maintain an informed membership.

How many times during the past decade were we insulted by this same charade?
Each year the Chippewa declare many more Walleye and Muskie than they can physically harvest, this reduces the non-Indian bag limit to zero or one fish on many premiere walleye and muskie lakes in the territory the Chippewa "sold" to Uncle Sam over 150 years ago. Perhaps this is done to set up another scam like the $100,000 the Lac du Flambeau conned the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources out of a few years ago. As I recall, this pay off was to prevent these insultingly low bag limits on premiere lakes, and now the money is gone and the bag limits still remain low. The final insult is the air of benevolence assumed by the Chippewa when the non-Indian bag limits rise because they can't possibly spear all the fish they declared. This arrogant "good neighbor" policy of the Chippewa, especially the Lac du Flambeau band, is paying off. They have been sent packing from every one the more populated communities that they have attempted to establish a casino in, Green Bay being the latest. With their Judge Crabb given treaty rights they rule the roost in the
Ceded Territory, but that's where it all ends.

Welcome to the Annual Chippewa Slaughter!
(By Bob Manzke)    The state released daily bag limits on northern Wisconsin lakes for non-Indian anglers after the earliest start of the spear fishing season for Chippewa Indian tribes in the 16 years since a federal judge upheld tribal fishing and hunting rights. Bag limits will stay roughly the same because the tribes declared their intentions to spear about the same amount of fish as last year, the Department of Natural Resources announced. Based on tribal declarations, 121 lakes will have two-walleye limits and 12 will have a daily limit of one walleye. In 1999, only four lakes had a one-walleye limit and 119 lakes were set at two walleyes. Bag limits have remained largely unchanged within the last five years because tribal members are declaring their intentions to spear roughly the same amount, said Doug Beard, DNR tribal fisheries coordinator.
   However, limits were raised last year on some lakes after the spearing season ended and tribal spearers failed to harvest their declared quotas on those lakes. Because of an administrative rule adopted by the state Natural Resources Board in 1998, bag limits can be readjusted after the spring spearing season to reflect actual harvest totals. Last year daily bag limits on 90 lakes were increased. When spear fishing was over 51 were increased from two to three walleyes, 31 went from two to five, seven increased from three to five walleyes and one lake went from one to three.
   The six Chippewa bands set spring harvest quotas on non-reservation waters in the area they sold to the United States Government. The state sets bag limits on those lakes to ensure fish harvests don't exceed safe levels, and the paying customers, i.e. the fishing license buying sports angler, gets what's left, usually very little. Tribal spearers have declared their intention to harvest 40,797 walleye, roughly 1,000 more than last year, as well as 1,410 muskellunge. Spearers ended up harvesting 26,294 walleye and 275 muskellunge in 1999.
PARR Ed. Note:What's wrong with this picture? Let's start with the statistics in the final paragraph. The Chippewa were physically able to spear 275 Muskies in 1999, but they declare 1410 for 2000. That's 500% more than they were physically able to spear the year before. The same held true with the walleye. They were physically able to spear 26,294 walleye in 1999, but they declared 40,797, almost double of what they were physically able to spear in 1999. The same holds true for 2000, as of April 28, 2000, the Chippewa slaughtered 26,850 walleye and 242 muskie. The actual figures show the same trend as previous years. 40,797 walleyes declared and 26,850 slaughtered. 1410 muskie declared and 242 were actually speared. Out of the six Chippewa Bands the Lac du Flambeau speared 42% of the total walleye and 35% of the total muskie. Perhaps these statistics will improve the LdF's chance of getting a casino approval in some Southeastern Wisconsin community.
   There has to be more to this than a bunch of immature individuals having an in your face hissy-fit. PARR feels that this is done to set up another scam like the $100,000 the Lac du Flambeau conned the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources out of a few years ago. If you recall the (WDNR) made a deal with the Lac du Flambeau allowing the LdF to sell Wisconsin fishing licenses and keep the money, plus cash was involved. In turn the LdF would guarantee a three fish limit on all premiere lakes. The LdF got the money, but there still are 121 lakes with a two walleye limit and 12 with a one walleye limit. The WDNR got suckered once as a result of these tactics, but that probably won't happen again, so why the charade? It's doubtful if these tactics will buy a casino for the LdF in Milwaukee County.
    I vividly recall the advice we got back during the boat landing demonstrations. "Leave the Indians alone and after the novelty wears off, and no one pays any attention to them they will quit spearing." Oh-yea! Each year they have been increasing the amount of fish they slaughter. The difference now is that most fish speared are so small, (probably fish planted the year before), no self respecting hook and line fisherman would consider taking them, but there is no such thing as spear and release.[Click Here For Spearing Photos.]

Tax Dollars Misused
(By Bob Manzke)    A congressional audit has revealed that the Clinton administration has misappropriated millions of dollars raised from excise taxes on firearms intended to promote hunting and fishing sports in order to fund "animal rights" groups and to provide junkets and huge bonuses for top federal bureaucrats. Since 1937, the Pittman-Robertson (P-R) Trust Fund has raised more than $3.4 billion from excise taxes imposed on the sale of weapons and ammunition for dispensing to state and wildlife agencies for wildlife restoration projects, hunter safety training programs and firing range construction.
    Suspecting misuse of the funds, last year Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) requested that the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress audit P-R funding. The GAO discovered that at the White House's direction millions of dollars have been taken from the fund and diverted to finance animal rights groups intent upon curtailing hunting and fishing in America and to pay for foreign trips and bonuses for high bureaucratic officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
    According to the GAO report, the mismanagement of funds has involved tens of millions of dollars being taken from the trust which were raised by shooting sports enthusiasts through the sales of firearms and ammunition.
    In hearings before the House Resources Committee, one U.S. Fish and Wildlife employee revealed that he was pressured by the White House to approve handouts of P-R funds to animal rights groups that are "aggressively involved" in efforts to "destroy hunting." Another employee testified that she was directed by high-level Clinton-Gore bureaucrats to "destroy computer records that could have shed light on these abuses and on those responsible."
   "The administrative abuses uncovered by Representative Young constitute a fundamental breach of trust between America's sportsmen and their government, if not outright illegality," James J. Baker, ex-ecutive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) stated. To curb the abuses, Young has introduced H.R. 3671, a bill that would end the abuse and mismanagement of trust fund Moines that have been committed to P-R for nearly two-thirds of a century.
PARR Ed. Note: PARR Chairman Greg Graunke got The (WDNR) to admit that part of the $100,000 pay off to the Lac du Flambeau was P-R funds. Following is a quote from a letter written to Greg by WDNR Secretary George E Meyer "The $100,000 came from General Purpose Revenues (GPR-general state tax dollars) in the bureau of Fisheries Management and Habitat Protection. The funds were initially budgeted for fishery assessment activities in the ceded territory in northern Wisconsin. The DNR was able to gain U.S. Fish and Wildlife service approval to utilize additional unobligated federal Sport Fish restoration funds." This is your P-R tax dollars going to a group that pays no tax.

PARR's Response

   PARR responded to the news that Pittman-Robertson funds were used to wine and dine Clifton's cronies with a letter of protest to Wisconsin's Senators from Chairman Greg Graunke; and I wrote the following letter to Wisconsin's delegation in the House of Representatives;
   Dear Representative…
      Protect Americans' Rights & Resources (PARR), a nation wide grass roots organization of concerned citizens including many hunters & fishermen, with its home office in Wisconsin, is appalled with the improper spending of Pittman-Robertson Trust Fund money explained in the following report. A report from your office, indicating what you intend to do about this, would be appreciated.
The "Tax Dollars Misused" article was the body of the letter. Sincerely, Bob Manzke, Exec. Secretary.

Name Change
(By Bob Manzke)   I want to inform you, PARR's membership, that we have changed PARR's web site name from whiteyes to www.parr1.com. I agree that the name whiteyes does not portray PARR in the proper light. I wanted to use the name white-eyes which is an Indian name for non-Indians, however that name was not available, so without thinking I chose whiteyes, (white eyes with one e) which actually reads white-yes. If the oversight in my choice of names prevented anyone from renewing their membership, please reconsider. If you have a chance, please visit your web site, we are quite proud of it. My son and I put a lot of work into it.
   We also want to address a few mentions that we have lost track of our mission, and we are getting too far afield by addressing the Federal Government's land grabs out west. We are sorry that some people feel that way, because what happens out west today can happen here tomorrow. Folks, the Federal Government that is grabbing all the land out west is the same Federal Government whose Indian policy is responsible for the Indian problems we have here in Wisconsin. We also need to address the never-ending onslaught on our right to bear arms, because that's our name Protect Americans' Rights & Resources.
   Finally one member wrote that our newsletters are appreciated, but because they dispense the facts that are kept buried, they are depressing. Unfortunately this is true, because at times the truth is depressing.
   One thing we will not apologize for is telling the truth about President Clinton. Schumacher and Manzke researched this guy before he was elected the first time, and we tagged him for what he was at that time, and we feel it is our duty to point out, "scandals aside" that this guy, is our enemy.

Clinton in Action     A PARR member now living in Florida sent us the following article: Long distance callers could face an additional 0.4 percent surcharge on their bills starting later this year under a proposal embraced by President Clinton to help provide low-cost telephone service to needy residents on Native American reservations. The surcharge would add $17 million a year to an existing $5 billion federal program that helps impoverished Native Americans pay for monthly phone service.
   The proposal, expected to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission this summer,
would allow 300,000 more low-income Native American families to buy basic monthly telephone service
for $1, FCC Chairman William Kennard said. "The surcharge is a way to close the so-called digital divide, the disparity in access to computers and information technology between rich and poor. Experts say that the gap in computers has been narrowed during the past few years but that disparities remain in teaching training and basics such as the phone service needed to access the Internet.
   Today, only 22 percent of households on Native American reservations have telephone service, said Kennard, adding that the surcharge increase is not a tax increase but “a reinvestment in the network."
PARR Ed. Note: Every month when you pay your phone bill you are already paying Al Gore's tax to bring the Internet to schools. The congress, which is the taxing arm of the government, had nothing to do with this tax. This tax was levied by presidential decree. Now here comes another presidential decree tax, this one designed to pay for installing phones for Indians. The ultimate insult is this sleaze-bag telling us that this is not a tax increase, it's merely a reinvestment in the network. During Clifton's presidency we have seen a overwhelming amount of presidential decrees. Why? Because none of these sleazy giveaways would ever stand the scrutiny of debate in open congress. We can't help but wonder, who the hell appointed this guy King? This is probably a payoff for political contributions. Before you get all choked up over these poor victims on the reservation, remember when many Indians were moving off the reservation to support themselves and their families, these people chose the easy life on the reservation.
   OK, now let's readdress Al Gore's tax to provide Internet to all schools (and libraries). Remember that? Now we are to pay another tax to provide phone service to Indian families so they can access the Internet. What's wrong with this picture? Here's what. If your kids don't have access to the Internet in your home, what do they do? They have to go to school or a library. Why can't Indian kids do the same as some of our kids have to do? So why do we have to subsidize phones in some Indian homes? It would stand to reason that if they can't afford a phone, they sure can't afford Internet access in their homes. Or, is that what's coming at us next, an Indian Home Internet Access tax? If you know a family (non-Indian) that can't afford a telephone, try to get them enrolled in this free phone scam. Use the familiar Clinton mantra, "Let's do it for the kids." Of course, you will fail in this, unless there is still equality under the law.

Issue Item    A radical animal rights group claimed responsibility for setting fire to a Vernon County company that produces food for mink ranches. The Animal Liberation Front said members of the organization placed "timed incendiary devices" inside Kickapoo Fur Foods Inc. in Viroqua, which the group described as “an integral part of the abusive and exploitative” fur industry. Firefighters called to the scene by a plant employee about 10:30 a.m. discovered that the fire “had smoldered itself out,” said Brad Montgomery, an investigator for the state fire marshal's office. There were no injuries.
   This is the same group of kooks that advocate college kids drink beer rather than milk, because cows are mistreated by producing milk. If Joe Camel has an undo influence in causing kids to smoke, how about them advocating beer drinking? Won't that result in drunk driving and eventually more alcoholics?
   Or maybe this could be the genesis of another round of lawsuits; the trial lawyers that put Clinton in office probably feel that they haven't squeezed enough blood yet. Remember the uni-bomber? He was part of this group. He killed and maimed many people, whose only crime was promoting technology, yet he was heralded as a hero.
PARR Ed. Note: The possibility of these people being caught and prosecuted is probably zilch. After all ALF & PETA have achieved a POLITICALLY CORRECT status. This means that they are fighting evil and anything they do is OK. On the other hand blocking abortion clinics is a high crime, because it hinders the auction of late term aborted fetus parts. Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Maulson's Pipe Dreams
(By Bob Manzke) The Lac du Flambeau Chippewa say their gaming compact extension with the state does not prohibit building a second casino near Lambeau Field. "I have talked with the governor. He has never asked me to close our gaming operation to the north," Lac du Flambeau Chairman Tom Maulson said in a recent interview.
   The Lac du Flambeau operate the Lake of the Torches casino in Vilas County, the tribe's only gaming site. The casino is part of a hotel-convention center complex and offers slot machines, blackjack and bingo.The governor's office has said Gov. Tommy G. Thompson will not sign off on the Lac du Flambeau's proposed $80 million casino complex in Brown County unless the tribe closes its existing casino. The governor hasn't approved any off reservation casinos since state-tribal compacts were signed in 1991-'92.
   A second Lac du Flambeau casino would seem contrary to an April 1993 referendum in which a constitutional amendment to limit the expansion of gambling statewide won the support of 59% of state voters, 61% of Brown County voters. When asked if the governor would sign off on a second casino "that's barely worth discussing at this point," said Thompson spokesman Kevin Keane.
Maulson's dream became moot a couple of days later. Read on.
   The Lac du Flambeau tribe's efforts to build an off-reservation casino a few blocks from Lambeau Field were dashed when the Village Board voted to drop the plan. More than 100 residents clapped and cheered as the board unanimously voted against allowing the tribe to build an $80 million casino and hotel in this Green Bay suburb.

What's this?
(By Bob Manzke)   Feb. 16, 2000...Despite the big hit its own Milwaukee casino would take, the Potawatomi tribe has largely kept its lips zipped while another tribe pushes ahead with plans to convert a nearby dog track in Kenosha into a huge gambling hall.
   But no more. Hoping to protect its own lucrative gambling franchise here, the Potawatomi this week launched an aggressive effort to derail the Menominee Indians' fast-track bid to hit its own jackpot by turning Dairyland Greyhound Park into one of the Midwest's largest casinos.
   In a sharply worded, 39-page letter, the Potawatomi demands that federal regulators reject the Menominee plan. A mega-casino in Kenosha would suck at least 27% of the revenue, or $57 million a year, out of the Potawatomi tribe's thriving off-reservation casino, according to a Potawatomi-paid study by accounting giant KPMG. Over four years, the cash flow back to its northern Wisconsin reservation would fall from $238.5 million to $34.6 million a drop of 85.5%, the Potawatomi claim, explaining that its costs would rise even as its revenue plummets.
    "The Kenosha casino proposal is predatory," the Potawatomi charge. Taking aim at the Menominee tribe's non-Indian management firm, NII-JII Entertainment, the tribe said, "It is the precise goal of NII-JII to take gaming customers away from Potawatomi Bingo Casino."
    This is the Potawatomi tribe's first formal move to block the Menominee proposal, although it will not be the last. Potawatomi spokesman Tom Krajewski said the tribe hopes to soon lobby its case in person to the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs.
    It appears the Potawatomi objections are coming not a moment too soon. The Menominee proposal to buy Dairyland for $45 million - plus another $5 million paid to the track's key owners - is rapidly picking up steam.
    This deal will have a devastating impact on the Potawatomi casino in Milwaukee, which is bringing in more than $200 million annually. "The dog track casino will cannibalize a large part of the gaming business of the Potawatomi and other existing Native American casinos," the letter says. Apesanahkwat's blunt response: "Tough (expletive), tough (expletive). If these folks don't have the sophistication to enter free enterprise in America, then they need to hire a better marketing director."
PARR Ed. Note: It was bound to happen, PARR's crystal ball told us this a long time ago. As in the past, greed will consume this latest gambling craze.

The Rule of Law vs Elian Gonzalez
(By J.E. Schumacher)    We are now painfully aware of (Attorney) General Janet Reno’s forcible abduction of 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elian from the home he was staying at while he was awaiting a U.S, Court's decision on whether he is to be granted asylum in this country. Clinton/Reno decided that in the meantime Elian should be in his father's custody.
   So how did General Reno justify this forcible abduction? She first shopped around for a judge to issue her a warrant to allow the abduction. She didn't have a problem finding a "judge". She did have a problem on what type of warrant to apply for, an arrest warrant or search warrant. Couldn't go with an arrest warrant, Elian wasn't wanted for any high crimes or misdemeanors. Let's go with the search warrant, which she did. Wait a minute: She's now searching for little Elian? Anyone not brain dead knows where he's been for the last six months. Furthermore, a search warrant authorizes a search for physical property to be used as evidence. Since when, in this country, is a human being been considered property? Not since the American Civil War, that's when!
   However, General Reno just may be enforcing the rule of law. You see, the Cuban constitution confers no parental rights to Cuban parents. In fact, it declares them wards of the state. In essence, doesn't this make all Cuban children property? See where we're going with this? The big question: General Reno, are you enforcing the rule of law for the American people, or for Fidel Castro? And all this is taking place in the land of the free, folks!

Guns
(By Bob Manzke)    Many of you are no doubt familiar with the picture of Elian Gonzalez being forcibly removed, in the dead of the night, from the only family he has known since the death of his mother. The horror on this 6-year-old youngster's face while being forcibly abducted by an assault-rifle-carrying, flak-jacketed, helmet-wearing storm trooper, is Reno's law in action, folks. Even though, at this time, our Second Amendment Rights are still pretty much intact, and these people can get away with this, just think what life would be like in this country if Clinton achieves his goal to disarm the citizenry of USA completely?
   After viewing the scene described above we knew we had to address the gun Gestapo's latest onslaught on our right to bear arms. All is not bleak, the following article written by Becky Schloer a high school senior at Butternut High School, Butternut Wisconsin, shows us that the youth of this country are not buying the rhetoric being spread by this administration and their co-cabalist.
Becky Writes:
   They have been around for years. Some are short and others are long. They come in various colors and styles. Without their aid during our fight for independence from Great Britain more than two centuries ago, we would more than likely not be here. What are these mysterious helpers? They are guns!
   Of late, there have been frequent arguments over whether or not to have various restrictions on guns and ballistics. Anti-gun groups argue that guns are the killers...pro-gun organizations maintain that people kill people. I believe that banning and restricting arms are not the solutions to stopping crime. I believe these are solutions of taking away freedom that is guaranteed to the people by the Bill of Rights. Guns do not pull the triggers by themselves; it takes a finger, which belongs to a human, in order to dislodge the bullets. People use knives to kill others. So why don't we ban knives, too? And what about other objects that are used for killings such as vehicles, rocks, wood chippers, axes, and even water. Shouldn't we ban all of these since they are accomplices also?
   Why do anti-gun organizations always target guns as the cause? Maybe they are scared of guns. Or maybe it's because they are very narrow minded. I'm sure that most of them have never even shot one, let alone held one in their own hands. Anything can be used as a weapon if the person has a mind to kill or hurt others with it.
   It just so happens that guns can kill very easily and they are not hard to get. So naturally, the gun is the first source most killers use. If they couldn't get a gun, they would use something else to kill with. Luckily for the students at Columbine High School, the killers used guns instead of all bombs. Can you imagine if those boys used only bombs? What a massacre!
   OK, so don't ban all guns---just restrict certain ones. Hello! Have you ever heard of “one thing leads to another?" The right to bear arms was guaranteed to us in the American Constitution.
   Obviously, if the right to bear arms weren't so important, our founding fathers would not have put it in the Bill of Rights. And did you ever realize the placement of this amendment? It is the second amendment. Doesn't that say something of its importance?
   The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) claims that the second amendment was " only for the purpose of maintaining an effective state militia". The second amendment states "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The U.S government installed this amendment for the security of our homes and country. Samuel Adams said "The Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. How can we have security if we are not allowed to own arms?" Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. " Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." James Madison wrote, " the Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." Thomas Paine claims, " Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." When you ban guns, the good people will not have them but the criminals will still get them. These great pioneers of our government obviously knew how important the right to bear arms was.
   Recent studies show that Right To Carry laws reduce crime. In their landmark study, Prof. John R. Lott, Jr., and David B. Mustard, of the Univ. of Chicago, found that, "allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have Right To Carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly.... The estimated annual gain from allowing concealed handguns is at least $6.214 billion.... When state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 8.5 percent, and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent."
   They also found that states with Right to Carry laws have lower violent crime rates. On average, "they have a 24% lower total violent crime rate, a 19% lower homicide rate, a 39% lower robbery rate, and a 19% lower aggravated assault rate, compared to other states and the District of Columbia. The nine states with the lowest violent crime rates are all Right to Carry states"
   Some opponents question gun-related accidents among children. There were 138 fatal firearm accidents among children in 1996 and the number is still decreasing. People must remember that accidents will happen. These accidents are no different from children getting poisoned from regular household cleaners or getting killed in vehicle accidents.
   It is up to the parents to teach and warn their children about guns and what is right and what is wrong. It is time for people to take responsibility for their own actions and quit blaming guns for the problems that killers have caused.

NRA Fights Back
(By Bob Manzke) The National Rifle Association intensified its verbal warfare with the Clinton administration linking the federal government's failure to prosecute a former black militant for a 1995 gun offense to the fatal shooting of a deputy sheriff in Atlanta.
   NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre refused to apologize for remarks he made a week ago when he said President Clinton exploited gun violence for political gain. He and NRA President Charlton Heston, who was interviewed separately, criticized the Clinton administration for failing to enforce existing gun laws. "This lack of enforcement is killing people," Mr. LaPierre said. Both he and Mr.Heston cited the shooting death of Sheriff's Deputy Ricky Kinchen in Fulton County, Ga. The deputy and another officer were gunned down when they tried to arrest Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former Black Panther leader once famous as H. Rap Brown.
   In network appearances, the NRA officials said Mr. Al-Amin was carrying an unlicensed handgun when he was arrested in Atlanta five years ago after a man said Mr. Al-Amin shot him. The man later recanted his accusations. Mr. LaPierre said police in the Atlanta area called the Clinton administration at the time to see if federal officials wanted to prosecute Mr. Al-Amin for illegal possession of a firearm. "The Clinton administration refused to prosecute, and he wound up killing someone," Mr. LaPierre said.
   At this point, Mr. Al-Amin has only been accused in the shootings, not convicted. He remains at-large. Mr. LaPierre said the federal government could also prosecute these cases, but largely doesn't. "They could have taken [Mr. Al-Amin] off the streets for up to 10 years," he said. "Rap Brown would be in jail and that sheriff would still be alive . . . if the Clinton administration had done its job properly," Mr. Heston said.
   White House Domestic Policy Adviser Bruce Reed said federal prosecution of gun crime has risen 16 percent since Mr. Clinton took office in 1993. Mr. LaPierre disputed that figure. He said that increase followed a 50 percent drop in federal gun crime prosecutions since the Bush administration.
PARR Ed. Note: The PARR emergency board was so elated with the NRA's stand against Clinton's onslaught, that we sent the NRA an atta-boy letter and a donation for $100.00.

Issue Item Gun Control...Well, did everyone see our Perjurer-in Chief AKA William Jefferson Clinton at the Million-Mom-March on Washington, attempting to justify more gun control? He very slickly tried to equate the Constitutional right to bear arms with the Constitutional right to travel. He wondered aloud why the anti-gun control folks aren't clamoring for reducing or eliminating the laws and/or restrictions on motor vehicles. What he should have been wondering about is why the Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms, but DOESN'T guarantee the right to own a car.

Million-Mom-March
(By J.E. Schumacher) Million-Mom-March on Washington, D.C. for "sensible" gun control, Mistress of Ceremonies Host Rosie O'Donnell, takes to the podium. Rosie is a liberal antigun host of some inane TV talk show. She's the one, who metaphorically attempted to castrate movie star Tom Selleck on her show because of his pro-Second amendment stance. Rosie took to the stage, ranting and raving about the need for national gun registration. Is gun Registration all that bad a thing? Well, let's see. Notwithstanding the fact that every country that ever instituted gun registration later MANDATED gun CONFISCATION, there is another interesting little item to address.
   Should the federal government mandate gun registration, only law-abiding gun owners will be required to register their firearms. Criminals, by law, will not be required to do so. Over thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Haynes v, U.S. (390 U.S. 85, 1968), ruled that because it would be self-incriminating, a criminal cannot be required to register a gun, NOR BE CHARGED with possession of an unregistered gun…So there you have it. A criminal, who by law, cannot legally own a gun, cannot be forced to register his gun. Sheer lunacy!
   So why the big push for gun registration? Simply put, registration is that first step to confiscation of all firearms legally held by the citizens of this country!
   During the same Million-Mom-March on Washington, D.C. for "sensible" gun control, the wife of Washington, D.C. Mayor, Virginia Williams announces a gun buy-back program with a goal of 7,000 guns. Is this “sensible” gun Control? No, it's nothing more than a propagandized voluntary gun confiscation scam. Shall we take a look at just who might turn in their gun under such a program?
     *Anit-gun liberals who probably don't own any in the first place.
     *Honest citizens who haven't thought through the ramifications of turning in their gun, e.g. once it's turned in and that criminal degenerate invades your home with his gun, you become just another victim, which of course, is exactly what the Clintonistas need to promote their radical agenda.
     *Legal, qualified gun owners .Yep, that's right. The average price paid on these buy-back programs is probably around $100. So, if a legally qualified gun owner has a couple of guns that a gun dealer wouldn't give him two bucks for, he just may decide to take advantage of’ the buy-back program and net himself a tidy little profit.
     *Criminal Degenerates. Gun buy-backs are lucrative for these cretins, both monetarily and legally.
Buy-back programs are usually set up on a "no questions asked" basis and then the guns are destroyed. Monetarily, Mr. Criminal Degenerate can turn in his 10 dollar junker, then take the profit to upgrade to a higher-quality, more powerful weapon. Neat, hey? Legally, he's in seventh heaven. Buy-back guns are destroyed, remember? So now, Mr. Criminal Degenerate, who may have just killed one of your loved ones, can safely turn in what may be the only piece of evidence (the gun) linking him to the crime. And the government will, in its infinite wisdom, destroy that evidence for him. That's justice under the anti-gunners rule of law.
   Well, are gun buy-back programs the great cure-all the anti-gunners claim them to be? You be the judge. Of course, the anti-gunners will tell you if a gun is destroyed, it can't kill anyone. Considering the tens of millions of guns out there, is that a logical argument?

Issue Item Million-Mom-March on Washington, D.C. in favor of more gun control. Why was a MAN up on stage singing a song, in which the most repetitive phrase was "throw these guns away"? It would appear that they're going after a little more than, as the anti-gun folks put it, "sensible gun control."
Same rally, sign being waved in crowd with much energy and enthusiasm: "Guns kill living things."
Wrong! Living things...kill living things.

Chairman's Corner   PARR Chairman Greg Graunke continues to address inequalities wherever they appear. Let's start with Greg's letter of Feb 28;
Dear Gander Mountain Store Manager,
      Please pass this letter on to your corporate headquarters if you personally are unable to answer this letter: It has come to the attention of PARR that your store is sponsoring a walleye clinic to be held at the Lake of the Torches casino. PARR’S question is why choose a Indian casino to hold the clinic, especially one owned by a band that routinely spears spawning walleye. This particular band is known for being the most active spring SPEARERS, not to mention the spearing of musky. This band also threatened the state with a ZERO bag limit on the lakes they spear. The state avoided this catastrophe by letting the DNR pay the band $100,000.00 each year. This money came from the P-R and D-J funds that you collect on the equipment you sell at your store. Your clinic is supposed to show how to catch more walleye. Might PARR suggest you investigate ways to stop spring spearing!
   Dear Rep. Don Young,
      It has come to the attention of PARR that you are introducing H.R. 3671, due to the facts uncovered by the GAO audit of the P-R fund. The misuse of this fund is nothing new to the sportsman of Wisconsin. Several years ago the Wisconsin DNR gave just one band of Chippewa Indians $100,000 in a buy-out to keep the bag limits for walleye above zero. This band had threatened to spear spawning walleye to a level that would produce a zero bag limit to the non-Indian fisherman, on several of the better walleye lakes in northern Wisconsin. The DNR keeps explaining that the Indians have to leave 50% of the fish for the non-Indian fisherman, an agreement the DNR worked out after a federal judge's court order, but obviously that is not the case. The bottom line here is that P-R funds were used for reasons other than their intended purpose. It is PARR's hope that the bill you introduced can stop this sort of raid on these funds by politicians. PARR has written to all of our federal delegation and asked for their support of your bill…Greg Graunke.
   Dear Senators Kohl and Feingold,
      PARR was just made aware of a GAO audit of the Pitman-Robertson funds. Rep. Young asked for this audit because abuses of the fund were suspected. The audit uncovered mismanagement of millions of dollars of this special tax paid by hunting and fishing enthusiasts. The White house pressured U.S. fish and wildlife employees to hand out large sums of this fund to animal rights groups aggressively involved in efforts to destroy hunting. Another employee was directed to destroy computer records that could shed light on these abuses and on those responsible. Another portion of the fund was used to pay for junkets and huge bonuses for top federal bureaucrats.
   This is not the first time this fund has been raided for reasons other than its intended purpose. Just recently the Wisconsin DNR paid just one band of Chippewa $100,000, to enable the non-Indian to have any bag limit at all. This band threatened to spear spawning walleye to a level that would produce a zero bag limit; the $100,000, came from you guessed it P-R funds. After Federal Judge Crabb decreed a fifty-fifty split, a zero bag limit would take some amount of figuring. But the DNR has some how explained, with smoke and mirrors that a possible zero limit is still fifty-fifty.
   Between the state of Wisconsin DNR and the White House it would seem this fund is doomed. However, a ray of hope is on the horizon in the form of a bill, HR 3671, sponsored by Representative Young. This bill would end the abuse and mismanagement of trust fund Moines raised by P-R for almost two-thirds of a century.
PARR Ed. Note: PARR has not received a response from any member of Wisconsin's Delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep Young or Senators Kohl and Feingold. Funny, that's exactly what we expected!

Issue Item Mary had a little Lamb; His fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the Lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day; it wasn't in the rule. It made the children laugh and play, to have a lamb at school. And then the rules all changed one day, Illegal it became, to bring the Lamb of God to school, or even speak His Name. Every day got worse and worse, and days turned into years. Instead of hearing children laugh, we heard gunshots and tears. What must we do to stop the crime that's in our schools today? Let's let the Lamb come back to school, and teach our kids to pray!

The Winner! Pete Brahm of Delevan, Wisconsin was chosen to receive the print, ShantyTown. My grandson pulled Pete's renewal notice out of a hat to determine the recipient of this years print. Like last year Mark Rotz of PERM donated the print to PARR and he will mail it to Pete. When he was notified of his good luck, Pete responded with the following:

Dear Bob,
Yes, you can use my name and location in the newsletter. I own and operate Brahm's Bait shop and Gas Station in Delevan, WI. When I saw the sample of the print in the renewal notice, I told my wife that sure would look nice hanging in my bait shop. Now I don't have to wish I could buy it, I won it. First time I ever won anything in my life. Thank You, Pete Brahm.

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