ARGU PARR Newsletter Summer Fall 2001

AMERICAN RIGHTS GUARDIAN UPDATE
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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 3 S-F 2001 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.

PARR mails its newsletters “American Rights Guardian Update” to Wisconsin's Legislature
and most of the Wisconsin bureaucracies; DNR, Justice Department etc. Included on the mailing
list are the Wisconsin Delegation in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Several of the Federal Bureaucracies also receive ARGU. It has been well received; in fact, PARR has received many favorable comments from people in all levels of Government. In contrast to this generally favorable acceptance, for the past decade PARR has been mailing its newsletters to the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; but the address have been crossed out and then labeled return to sender. Every attempt was made to assure the proper address was on the newsletters, yet these two Bureaucracies refused delivery. In essence, PARR and its members have been deprived of their right under the first amendment of the constitution “to petition their Government for a redress of grievances.” We (PARR) decided not to address this, because this arrogance no doubt had been manifestation of the Clinton Administration and we know he was bought and paid for by the Indians. Now this practice continues under the new Bush administration. Therefore PARR sent the following letter to Wisconsin's Federal delegation in the U.S. Congress and Gale Norton Secretary of the Department Of Interior.

PARR is Deprived of Right to Petition Government.
(By Bob Manzke)     As stated above the following was sent to Secretary Gale Norton, Senator Russell Feingold, Senator Herb Kohl and Congressman Kleczka. Click here to see a reproduction of the front of the returned newsletter.
7/29/2001
Dear Congressman/Senator,
    Above is a portion of the front of the latest issue of American Rights Guardian Update, PARR’s newsletter. Scrutiny of the mailing label shows it was mailed to the Bureau of Indian affairs. The address was crossed out and it was marked returned to sender. The Bureau of Indian affairs refused the newsletter. Repeated checks of the address to assure correctness still resulted in our newsletters being refused by both the Bureau of Indian affairs and The Department of Interior.
    For the last several years both bureaucracies have refused our newsletters. In essence, PARR and its members are being deprived of their right to petition their Government (the last sentence of the first amendment to the constitution reads “or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances”). PARR was indecisive
about addressing this situation in the past. We believed this was a manifestation of the Clinton Administration, however it appears that, under this administration, this practice is still standard operating procedure for the Department of Interior. My question is this: Where will I find the Congressional action, or Supreme Court ruling, or Presidential decree, that grants appointed bureaucrats the power to determine who has the right to petition their government? If you find that no such power was ever granted, what do you intend to do to restore your constituent's rights to petition their government? Response respectfully requested. Sincerely. Bob Manzke.
    So far the only response I have received is from Representative Gerald Kleczka. We all know he is so far left that he can be considered a socialist. His views are that government is all powerful and any bureaucracy has the power to tell the citizenry to get lost.
PARR Ed. Note: Don't be bashful; take pen in hand and tell your elected representatives that even though you are an evil Caucasian, you feel that you still have the right to petition your government. You never can tell, they might even respond to you. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
The Senseless Tragic Death of Four Fire Fighters
The bureaucracy that refuses to take delivery of our newsletters is the same bureaucracy that is responsible for this.     Surrounded by a wall of fire spurred by wind in the Okanagan National Forest, trapped firefighters pleaded for more than nine hours on July 11 for water to be dropped by helicopters. By the time water was finally thrown, four young fire fighters, two women and two men, lay dead below, consumed by the raging fire, 140 miles northeast of Seattle. Just what could have possibly caused this tragic delay that resulted in these deaths? Could it have been a shortage of water? Or perhaps complicated technical problems?
    A Dispatch team for the U. S. Forest Service held off on using water from the nearby Chewuch River to extinguish the flame because they were afraid it might harbor endangered fish or some other species. And because of provisions in the Endangered Species Act, these bureaucrats were presumably afraid that if they used the river water to put out the fire, it would prompt a lawsuit by environmentalists.
    The Endangered Species Act is no doubt an anachronistic piece of legislation that has, ironically enough, been the cause of many forest fires since it has prevented officials from removing mature timber that easily catches fire in protected areas. But the officials who contributed to the decision to delay the rescue of the firefighters can't hide behind legislation. Their primary concern should have been to save the people fighting the fire and deal later with any potential lawsuit. It appears these robotic bureaucrats -- whose slavish adherence to orders and laws trumps their humanity -- need new legislation, such as an Endangered Humans Act, to take proper measures to save the lives of human beings in danger." §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Eisenhower
(By Greg Graunke)     In the August edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News I took special interest in the article” History Aifield.” the article described the first fishing trip to the Minocqua area, by at that time general Eisenhower. The article went on to explain how general Eisenhower and later president Eisenhower enjoyed fishing and vacationing in the Minocqua area.
    I would like to add one more interesting bit of history that president Eisenhower produced while visiting this area. On one of the President Eisenhower’s visits he asked for a cocktail after a days outing and was politely told that he or anyone else was not allowed to have alcohol inside of a Indian reservation, which was the law at the time. He simply remedied that by asking for a pen and paper and writing an executive order to rescind that rule. As he was president at that time that order became immediate law.
    When President Taylor wrote an executive order that the Chippewa move west of the Mississippi river they investigated the new area and then refused to move and requested reservation status for themselves in Wisconsin. That was granted. In essence they disobeyed the “Law of the Land” violating the ceding treaties, nullifying them. In order to keep these treaties valid so she could use them to grant the Chippewa their “Special Rights”, Liberal Federal Judge Barbara Crabb overruled President Taylor's order. If President Taylor's presidential decree was invalid doesn't that Make Eisenhower’s decree invalid, along with the hundreds issued by Clinton?
    Why were the Indians, with such a shaky case, able to prevail? Read the next article “Is Navajo Jim Doyle Competent to run for Governor.” for the answer. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
“Will Navajo Jim Doyle Make A Competent Governor?”
(By Bob Manzke)     Attorney General Jim Doyle asserted that when his staff recently blew the appeal of a rape case on a technicality, the mistake was unprecedented. "The attorney general's office handles thousands of legal cases each year," Doyle said in a written statement. "This is the first time we know of that the system has failed. "Oh yea! How about the refusal to appeal Voight?” There's more, read on:
    Doyle, a gubernatorial wannabe, has been apologizing profusely while keeping his personal distance after his office recently bungled a Waukesha rape case by filing the appeal one day too late. But contrary to his claims, Doyle's office flubbed an appeal on a filing miscue at least one other time and that one was a doozy, also. The error had statewide impact since it opened the door for Wisconsin's Indian gaming explosion.
    Back in 1991, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that because voters approved a constitutional amendment approving a state lottery, the governor had to negotiate agreements with tribes to run a range of casino games. The decision came at a time when Indian casinos typically were hole-in-the-wall operations with unclear legal standing.
    The state's legal eagles responded to Crabb's decision by quickly firing off an appeal. Too quickly, it turns out. A few months later, when the state's lawyers arrived at the appellate court in Chicago to plead the merits of their case, they were unceremoniously told to shut up. The judges ruled that they couldn't hear the case because Doyle's team had filed the appeal at the wrong time.
    According to federal rules then in place, the state improperly filed its appeal while a motion was pending before Crabb. The appeal should have been filed within 30 days after she ruled on that motion. The lawyers didn't realize their error until long after the 30 day clock had run out. The result: Doyle's staff unintentionally helped turn Wisconsin's then fledgling casino industry into one that now wins hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
    I recall during the campaign for Attorney General, in which Mr. Doyle beat out Don Hanaway, PARR obtained information that Mr. Doyle served his legal apprenticeship in the employ of the Navajo Indians. Then PARR Chairman Larry Peterson wrote Mr. Doyle a letter asking him to what degree this Indian sway will influence his decisions on Indian Matters. Mr. Doyle became very Indignant, and defensive of his affiliation with the Navajo. If the whole association was blue sky honest, then why the explosive disclaimer? §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Tom Maulson Torpedoes Tribe's Effort to Gain Respect     Recently the fourth annual Gathering of the Guides at the Lake of the Torches Casino in Lac du Flambeau was held. Lake of the Torches has been sponsoring a fun day in which 20 fishing guides; both native and non-native, take out 40 members of the media, DNR, state government and guests from the private sector. The contention was that the hard feelings of the 8Os & 90s are being replaced by new friendships that are built on special activities like this day.
    About 75 people gathered for coffee and donuts in the morning, and Dick Matty, director of public relations at Lake of the Torches, gave out the boat assignments.
    Margaret Farrow, Wisconsin's lieutenant governor, was on hand for muskie fishing. Other big kahunas present were Trig Solbcrg, Natural Resources board chairman, and Herb Behnke, Sue Black and David Meier, also representing the DNR. Also there were reporters from as far away as Chicago, a couple of television outdoor shows, as well as a radio station doing live broadcasts out on the water. They were sure to get the message out to the public.
    Another dignitary was Jack Saner, chairman of the board for Lafayette County. The board had just voted to allow a new casino that will be owned by the Lac du Flambeau, which explained why Jack was fishing today.
    At noon, all the guides took their crews back to Lake of the Torches for a shore lunch and several speakers. That's when Tom Maulson, former tribal chairman for the Lac du Flambeau, had his turn to speak. Maulson began by reminding us that for non-natives, fishing is a privilege and that for Native Americans, it is a right. Next, he pointed to the casino and told the crowd that without "gaming," no one would have been present for this Outing.
    As Maulson stood up front, wearing his Walleye Warrior hat, he pointed over to Jack Sauer and talked about how he wants to help the people of Lafayette County by bringing gaming to them.
PARR Ed Note: After Maulson finished with his tirade; the Lac du Flambeau’s attempt to regurgitate congeniality all over the place was exposed to be as phony as the rest of their sovereign nation charade. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Case Against Chippewa Hunters Stands     Two members of an Upper Michigan Chippewa tribe were properly charged with illegally hunting deer in 1999, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday in a case reviving the issue of off-reservation Indian treaty rights in Wisconsin.
    A 17 year legal fight that ended in the early 1990s established that the Chippewa retained certain hunting, fishing and food gathering rights in treaties signed in the 1800s that ceded millions of acres of what is now northern Wisconsin to the federal government.
    In the hunting case decided Wednesday, the 3rd District Court of Appeals said Marinette County refused to dismiss the illegal hunting charges against Adam Matthews and Jeremy Husbeck, members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.
    The men argued the state had no power to regulate how they hunted.
    Assistant Attorney General Tom Dosch said Wednesday's ruling clarifies and begins "establishing the framework" of how Wisconsin can regulate the treaty rights of members of other Chippewa bands who come to the state to exercise them.
    The men, who had tribal hunting permits, were arrested Dec. 17, 1999, in Marinette County's Town of Silver Cliff and accused of violating a state law that prohibits using lights to shine on deer and hunt at night, court records say.
    The men argued a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Minnesota treaty rights dispute allowed state regulation only for "conservation purposes."
    The 3rd District Court of Appeals disagreed, ruling the state can regulate the Chippewa's off-reservation hunting for the protection of public health and safety as long as it does not discriminate against American Indians.
    The Supreme Court's decision in the Minnesota case did not specifically address that issue, the three judge panel said.
    The three judge panel sent the case back to Duket for the state to prove that the law on deer shining is "reasonable and necessary" for the protection of public health and safety. The appeals court said the issue of shining deer by Chippewa hunters exercising treaty rights was settled in the 17 year legal fight at least as it pertains to Wisconsin's six Chippewa bands. The panel quoted a 1990 federal ruling that said the law banning shining as a way to hunt deer "imposes a minimal infringement on (the tribes') rights in comparison to the great danger night hunting presents to public safety."
    Matthews' attorney, John Gower, said he had not seen Wednesday's ruling and declined comment. Husbeck's attorney, Jane Krueger Smith, was out of her office and did not immediately return a telephone message. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Fishermen Suing Tribal Gillnetters
(Thanks to Dean Bortz and the Wisconsin Outdoor News for this Article)
(By Linda Gallagher)     Leland, Mich. A local sport fisherman is asking for $750,000 in damages from two Michigan tribal fishermen after his fishing boat allegedly got caught in their gill nets, according to a lawsuit filed in Leelanau County"
    The suit, filed by Traverse City attorney Merritt W. Green on behalf of the sport fisherman, alleges that a 750 to 1,000 foot gill net was not properly marked and could not be seen in two foot waves on April 18.
    That was the day Michael Bordeaux and a friend were fishing for brown trout on Lake Michigan's Good Harbor Bay, near Leland. When the boat's cruising propeller and a second trolling motor propeller got tangled in a gill net in shallow water, the stem of the 16 foot fishing vessel began taking on water, the lawsuit states.
    In an effort to cut the net to free the boat, Bordeaux injured his back, the suit says. As a result of that injury, Bordeaux has since been on disability and has incurred lost wages and medical expenses.
    Three sport fishermen caught in gill nets under similar circumstances several years ago in St. Martin's Bay in the Straits of Mackinac drowned while attempting to free their boat from unmarked nets, reports say.
    Bordeaux is suing defendants Donald Chippewa and George
"Skip" Duhamel, alleging that the tribal gillnetters "negligently failed to mark the location of their net with appropriate buoys or markers."
    Attorneys for the plaintiff did not return calls, but in a recent statement said the lawsuit had been filed under the U.S. general maritime law, a federal law that governs boats on lakes and oceans, and can be used in state courts.
    “This is simply a person injured on the commercial waterways because of another person's carelessness," said Grant Parsons, a partner with the law firm that filed the suit.
     Neither defendant nor their attorneys could be reached for comment, but one of the defendants, Duhamel, is familiar with the legal process, having several times in the past found himself in courtrooms regarding tribal gill netting issues on the Great Lakes, and for claiming to have tribal rights to spear spawning steelhead in Leelanau County's Belanger Creek.
     It was reported that Duhamel resigned from the Grand Traverse Band of Chippewa and Odawa Indian's tribal council last August in protest over the long term Great Lakes consent decree agreement reached between tribal and sport fishing interests.
Circuit Court Judge Tom Power is scheduled to hear the case, which has not yet been placed on the court docket. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Issue Item     When Ole moved up north he discovered that he was the only Lutheran in this new little town of all Catholics. That was okay, but the neighbors had a problem with his barbecuing venison every Friday. Since they couldn't eat meat on Friday, the tempting aroma was getting the best of them. Hoping they could do something to stop this, the neighbors got together and went over to talk to Ole, eventually persuading him to join their church.
    The big day came and the Priest had Ole kneel. He put his hand on Oley’s head and said, "Ole, you were born a Lutheran, you were raised a Lutheran, and now," he said as he sprinkled some incense over Oley’s head, "now you are a Catholic!"
    Ole was happy and the neighbors were happy. But the following Friday evening at supper time, there was again that aroma of grilled deer steaks coming from Oley’s yard.
    The neighbors went to talk to him about this and as they approached the fence, they heard Ole saying: "You were born a whitetail, you were raised a whitetail, and now," he said as he sprinkled seasoning salt over the choice tenderloin cut, "now you are a walleye!" §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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Green Trust Bulldozes Family's Farmhouse
(By Carol W. Lagrasse)     When Augustine Natale bought   farmland in Chester County, Pa., in 1989, he did not recognize the significance of language that had been added 22 years earlier to an older deed to the same land. The language, which had been repeated in the deed just before his own deed, was what is technically known as a "conservation easement." The language said that the land could be used only for farming or nature conservation, and for small buildings related to those uses.
    Nine years after he bought the land, this language destroyed his life's dream. In November 1998, the broken hearted, elderly man stood by while a bulldozer tore into his new farmhouse and ripped it down to rubble. Even last year Mr. Natale did not seem to understand the simple, yet technical, language restricting, or encumbering, his deed. He telephoned the Property Rights Foundation of America in New York in a last ditch hope for help to regain his lost home, but referred to his lawyer an inquiry about the language in the conservation easement.
    It is no wonder that Mr. Natale did not know what he had bought when he acquired the 42 acre property. When the French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust, the land trust that holds the conservation easement, sued to stop the construction of the Natale farmhouse in 1989, the Chester County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the farmhouse was allowed under the restrictions.
    The judge ruled that the construction of the farmhouse "does not offend the easement definition of a 'small building' incidental to farming use." The judge emphasized that the burden of restricting a property owner's use of his land "is substantial," and that the "restriction must be specific and in words incapable of multiple interpretations."
    Mr. Natale had saved for the farmhouse for 15 years. With the court's clear ruling in his favor, he went ahead to build the colonial style house, which would house three generations of his family while they farmed the land. But, while Mr. Natale built his house, the French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust appealed the decision. The ruling by the Chester County Court of Common Pleas was reversed.
    In 1995, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court dismissed Mr. Natale's appeal. All that remained was a drawn out battle about the removal of the house, with the final demolition order given on Nov. 23, 1998. The next day the house came down.
    Bob Williams of the Philadelphia Inquirer photographed one of the men in the Natale family with his arm around Mr. Natale's waist, while the Chester County sheriff wrapped his arm around the aged man's broad, stooped shoulders as he turned away when the house came down.
    During the 1960s, conservation easements were an exciting new tool for the protection of land from development. Questions about the future implications to property owners were not paramount in the intellectual land use planning circles developing this new line of protection.
    When the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws passed a Uniform Conservation Easement Act in New Orleans in 1981, representatives from some of the states raised important questions, but the model law was railroaded through intact. After the model law passed the highly respected body, it went on to be gradually incorporated into law in many states over the years.
    The law sets a framework for conservation easements by canceling the historic legal traditions that do not allow broad, negative encumbrances. It also establishes the powerful right of nonprofit groups to sue to enforce conservation easements even if they are not parties to an easement.
    Meanwhile, as the legal groundwork was being secured, the number of conservation easements also mounted. At the same time, a generation passed. Now, a harvest is being reaped as these easements are affecting subsequent owners. Many cases have gone to court in recent years.
    During the 1990s, however, the drive to acquire conservation easements accelerated greatly, with land trusts and government acquiring encumbrances on extremely large rural blocks of land to protect forests, ranches, farms and nature. Some environmentalists want to tie up most of the land in entire regions, such as all of Maine's unincorporated back country, with conservation easements.
    Moreover, the terms of these new conservation easements are extremely broad, with resource protection superseding even forestry and agriculture, according to the technical language in the deeds. The actual language contradicts the statements of government and environmental groups, which claim that they intend to permanently promote these land based industries.
    If two judges could reach diametrically opposite conclusions on the meaning of the conservation easement encumbering Augustine Natale's property, then the potential for confusion and litigation over the hundreds of thousands of acres of conservation easements being accomplished with much more complex terms is virtually limitless.
    Conservation easements are devaluing the equity of land based industries such as farms. Historic private property rights are being muddied. As this new generation of conservation easements comes home to roost, the tragedy of Augustine Natale will be repeated thousands of times. The American tradition of private property ownership and the freedom and prosperity based on private property ownership will be diminished.
    The United States Court legal document that details the Natale tragedy may be viewed at www.paeb.uscourts.gov/Pubopins%5Cnatale.htm, or order Case: Debtor 98-34221SR from United States Bankruptcy Court, 900 Market Street, 2nd Floor, Courtroom No. 4, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Carol W. Lagrasse is president of the Property Rights Foundation of America Inc. For more information on the dangers of conservation easements visit the foundation web at www.prfamerica.org/index.html or call the Paragon Foundation toll free at 1-877-847-3443. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Issue Item
On the frontiers of junk science...     This item from a global warming brochure predicting catastrophic climate changes, issued by the Atmospheric Division of Australia's Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organization:
"Disclaimer - - The projections are based on results from computer models that involve simplifications of real physical processes that are not fully understood. Accordingly, no responsibility will be accepted by CSIRO for the accuracy of the projections inferred from this brochure or for any person's interpretations, deductions, conclusions or actions in reliance on this information." §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Medicos Getting on Gun Control Kick     The gun control lobby is on the warpath in a most surprising venue. A group called Doctors Against Handgun Injury is calling on doctors, including psychiatrists, to ask their patients nosy questions about their gun ownership. As far back as we can remember doctors have vigorously opposed any interference with the confidentiality of the doctor patient relationship. We could always count on medical associations to defend patient privacy against any invasion by government, the media or others into personal medical records.
    Psychiatrists have been out spoken in the past about the importance of patient doctor confidentially because trust in the doctor is particularly important. Their patients are usually in a very vulnerable and exploitable state of mind.
    Somehow, this is changing under a new onslaught by the gun control lobby. It has lined up a coalition consisting of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and ten other medical organizations claiming a membership of 600,000 doctors.
    Will patients no longer see their physician as a trusted professional in whom they can confide their most private facts about mind and health? Will the physician instead be perceived as an arm of the government prying into their private lives, or as a spokesman of a special interest advocacy group pursuing a political agenda?
    Doctors should be especially leery of this project because of the 20th century experience of medicine under Soviet Communism and Nazism. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial showed how the German medical profession became a collaborator with the Nazi regime by collecting data on their patients that were then used against them.
    Unfortunately, some gun control lawmakers are trying to lock doctors into the ban-the-gun agenda. A bill now under consideration in the California State Legislature would require pediatricians to subject children and their parents to all sorts of nosy questions about "family, environmental, and social risk factors," including whether there are guns in the home and whether their parents spank them.
    The taxpayer financed Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are also climbing aboard the ban-the-guns movement. It is trying to broaden the scope of public health to include the banning and confiscation of all handguns, the restrictive licensing of owners of other firearms, and the eventual elimination of all guns from private ownership except for a small elite of wealthy collectors, hunters and target shooters.
PARR Ed Note: Regardless of what rock you turn over, its innevetalable that you will find the gun Nazis, preparing for their people control agenda. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
WARNING TO ALL GUN OWNERS
(By Bob Manzke)     A couple of months ago PARR joined the Gun Owners Task Force, as a condition of membership they provide us with information like the following:
    The Anti-Gun Democrats in Congress have once again stepped up their efforts to "legislate and regulate" our right to keep and bear arms. In fact, they've already introduced anti-gun bills in the House and in the Senate! Just take a look:
H. R. 114: This bill would require federal registration of handguns in states that do not have their own handgun registration program.
H. R. 138: This bill would require a handgun purchaser to obtain a state license before receiving a handgun or handgun ammunition.
H. R. 139: This bill would provide a 15% increase in federal grant funding for any state that requires a handgun registration program.
H. R. 215: This bill would require the Consumer Products Safety Commission to ban all toy guns!
H. R. 225: This bill would restrict handgun purchases to one a month.
H. R. 233: This bill would impose civil penalties, including loss of license, on any licensed firearm dealer who sells a firearm without a trigger lock. It also directs that tax revenue from firearms be used for public education programs on safe storage and use of firearms.
H. R. 255: This bill would provide grant funds to states that have gun buy back programs, require safety locks with all firearm purchases, and impose criminal penalties on anyone under 21 who purchases a handgun.
H. R. 278: This bill would also provide grant funds to states conducting gun buy back programs.
H. R. 423: This bill would amend the IRS tax code to provide a tax credit for individuals who turn in their firearms to local law enforcement agencies.
H. R. 671: This bill would expand the powers of the Secretary of Treasury to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of firearms.
S. 16: This bill, cosponsored by Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Dianne Feinstein, among others, is the primary anti-gun bill in the Senate. This bill:
Ø Imposes a lifetime gun ban for an offense a person committed as a Juvenile.
Ø Authorizes $15,000,000 to establish "Gun Enforcement Teams" Increases penalties for selling firearms to a juvenile.
Ø Revokes or suspends a dealer's license for selling firearms without trigger locks.
S. 25: This bill would require a government run licensing system for purchasers of firearms; and a record of sale of those firearms. This bill also requires universal back ground checks.
S. 134: This bill amends the Brady Bill to make it unlawful to import large capacity ammunition. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
Astonishing
(By Bob Manzke)     You thought you witnessed the ultimate gun nazi people control legislation. The newest beast (proposed bill on the block is H.R. 731). This baby, if passed will prohibit the discharge of a firearm within 1000 feet of any Federal land or facility.
Full text below:
    In the House of Representatives Congressman Andrews (Democrat New Jersey) introduced the following bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. A BILL To prohibit the discharge of a firearm within 1000 feet of any Federal land or facility:
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. PROHIBITION OF THE DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM WITHIN 1000 FEET OF ANY
FEDERAL LAND OR FACILITY. (a) IN GENERAL- Section 922 of title 18, United States Code is amended by adding at the end the following:
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person who is within 1000 feet of any building or land owned or leased by the Federal Government to knowingly discharge a firearm.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the otherwise lawful discharge of a firearm.
Ø By a law enforcement officer;
Ø By an officer or employee of the Federal Government; or
Ø At a shooting range established and operated in accordance with State law.
(b) PENALTIES Section 924(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:
(7) Whoever violates section 922(z) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not less than 12 months and not more than 27 months, or both.
PARR Ed Note: This bill was introduced last spring and thank God it didn't go anywhere. This bill would have prohibited hunting on all Federal land, your land. This proves we must remain more vigilant than before, because people keep turning over rocks and these outlandish schemes keep slithering out. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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U.S. Greener Than European Hypocrites     Sick of Europe's holier-than-thou attitude on environmental issues? It's all a sham.
    Gregg Easterbrook, a senior editor at the liberal New Republic, notes, "American ecological standards are far more strict than European rules, and have been for 20 years or more."
    "Europe is now the world leader on environmental issues," the Swedish environment minister, Kjell Larsson, said as Mr. Bush arrived in his nation. But Paris today has worse smog than Houston; water quality, especially of rivers, is lower in Europe than in the United States; acid rain reduction has been more rapid in the United States than in Europe; European Union nations like Greece, Italy and Portugal still discharge huge volumes of untreated municipal wastewater, a practice all but banned in America. In addition, the European Union did not act against leaded gasoline till more than a decade after the United States; the forested percentage of the United States is (higher than the forested percentage of most European countries, while America has fewer threatened species than Europe; and many other environmental indicators favor the United States," Easterbrook wrote in the New York Times.
    He also noted something News-Max.com has reported but most other U.S. media for some reason ignore: "The Bush administration's rejection of the Kyoto global warming treaty, supposedly bad news, actually could not have been scripted better.
    European Union leaders got to repeatedly denounce Mr. Bush for saying the United States will not ratify Kyoto though no European Union nation has ratified it, either. After the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio, when Mr. Bush's father declared that the United States would not accept mandatory greenhouse gas reductions, he was lambasted by European leaders, who vowed prompt, decisive action to impose restrictions on their own. They did nothing."
    So put that in your pipe and smoke it, Europe. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR
RIP Common Sense     Today we mourn the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. Common Sense lived a long life but finally died of heart failure. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
    He selflessly devoted his life to service in schools, hospitals, homes, factories and offices. He helped folks get jobs done without fanfare and foolishness. For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common
Sense.
    He was credited with cultivating such valued lessons as to know when to come in out of the rain, the early bird gets the worm, and life isn't always fair. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies such as "don't spend more than you earn", reliable parenting strategies, and the idea that it's okay to come in second sometimes.
    A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Technological Revolution, Common Sense survived cultural and educational trends, including body piercing, whole language, ebonics and new math.
    His health declined when he became infected with the "If it only helps one person it's worth it" bug.
    In recent decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal regulation. He watched in pain as good people became ruled by self-seeking lawyers and enlightened auditors.
    Common Sense knew the end was near when schools endlessly implemented zero tolerance policies, reports of six year old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, a teen suspended for taking a swig of mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but could not inform the parent when the female student is pregnant or wants an abortion.
    Finally, Common Sense lost his will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, criminals received better treatment than victims, and federal judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional sports.
    Common Sense drifted in and out of consciousness but was kept informed of developments regarding questionable regulations for asbestos, low flow toilets, smart guns, the nurturing of Prohibition laws and mandatory air bags.
    Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. Not many attended his funeral, unfortunately, because so few realize he is gone. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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One Too Many
Taken from the Galesville/Ettick Post 11156 Newsletter…Wisconsin VFW News.     Sometimes, in order to make themselves stand out as crack reporters, the interviewer asks one too many “politically correct” questions. It seems that this was the case when a female interviewer questioned U.S. Army General Reinwald
    This is an exact recount of the National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster and U.S. Army General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his Military Installation.
    Female Interviewer: “So General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your
base?”
    General Reinwald: “We ‘re going to teach, them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.
    Female Interviewer: “Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?”
    General Reinwald: “I don't see why. They will be properly supervised on the rifle range.”
    Female interviewer: “Don't you admit this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?”
    General Reinwald: “I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle range discipline before they even touch a
firearm.”
    Female interviewer: “But you're equipping them to become violent killers.”
    General Reinwald: “Well, you're equipped to become a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?” The radio went silent interview over. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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Issue Item     Mt. Etna in Italy exploded violently Thursday, firing molten lava and hot gases into the air. It was dismaying to environmentalists. Now even God is refusing to abide by the terms of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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Issue Item     To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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Daddy, What is a Vet?
(By Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC)     Some veterans bear visible sign of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's alloy forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.
What is a vet?
    He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
    He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown fratboy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
    She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
    He is the POW who went away one person and came back another -- or didn't come back at all
    He is the Quantico drill instructor that has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, noaccount rednecks and gang members into Marines. Teaching them to watch each other's backs.
    He is the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
    He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
    He is any of the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
    He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
    He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
    He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
    So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "Thank You". That's all most people need and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded, or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
    Remember November 11th is Veterans Day.
    "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag. And whose coffin draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag"
PARR Ed Note: Because this writer is a veteran, I can't help but pay tribute to my comrades, they gave a lot more than most people can even start to imagine. I am one of the fortunate ones that came back in one piece…Bob Manzke §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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Gold Star Mothers, Refused!     Gold Star Mothers is an organization made up of women whose sons were killed in military combat during service in the United States armed forces.
    Recently a delegation of New York Gold Star Mothers made a trip to Washington, D.C. to discuss various concerns with their elected representatives.
    According to NewsMax.com there was only one politician in D.C. who refused to meet with these ladies. Can you guess which politician that might be? Was it New York Senator Charles Schumer? Nope, he met with them.
    Try again. Do you know anyone serving in the Senate who has never showed anything but contempt for our military? Do you happen to know the name of any politician in Washington whose husband once wrote of his loathing of the military?
    Now you're getting warm! You got it! None other than the Queen herself, The Hildebeast, Hillary Clinton. She refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers.
    Now --- please don't tell me you're surprised. This woman wants to be president of the United States --- and there are a huge percentage of the voters who are anxious to help her achieve that dream.
PARR Ed Note: Maybe exorcism would help Hillary, but I doubt it! §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
PARR     On September 16th, at PARR’s General Membership Meeting, Greg Graunke was re-elected chairman along with Larry Peterson Vice Chair, J.E. Schumacher Executive Director and Bob Manzke Executive Secretary Treasurer.
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