The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in
all ages.
It marks its victim;
denounces it;
and excites the public odium and the public hatred,
to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
-- Senator Henry Clay (Whig, Kentucky),
1834
Bard
The Constitution Party
A Flat Sales Tax would be much fairer to everyone
and eliminate the need for the IRS as it
is.
It could be scaled down to a much smaller agency
to collect the sales tax.
http://www.constitution.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: M.O.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: M.O.M. Email Alert List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 9:58 AM
Subject: anti-gun quarter recall
> Clinton Orders Recall of "Pro Gun" Quarters
> News/Current Events
> Source: The Washington Past
> Published: Monday, February 21, 2000
> Author: Boob Woodward
>
> President Clinton this morning will announce a total
> recall by the U.S. Mint of 400 million 25 cent pieces
> which feature an armed man on its reverse side.
>
> The quarter was released earlier this year as part of
> a 10-year program of commemorating each state's entry
> into the Union with a specially designed reverse side
> denoting its date of entry and featuring designs
> approved by each state and the Mint.
>
> Last year, five quarters were released without
> controversy. However, the first quarter in this
> year's batch, which honors Massachusetts, has
> drawn outrage from childrens groups, gun control
> advocates and others.
>
> The reverse of the Massachusetts quarter features
> an engraving of the state with a Minuteman holding a
> flintlock rifle embossed over it.
>
> Sarah Brady, out-going president of Hand Gun Control,
> Inc., said she was "livid" and "nearly had a stroke"
> the first time she saw the gun-toting man on the
> quarter. She said she felt betrayed by the Clinton
> administration, which recently re-named the White
> House press briefing room in honor of her husband
> James Brady, who was grievously wounded by gunfire
> in an assassination attempt on President Reagan.
> Brady added that the quarter brought back "horrible
> memories" of that day.
>
> Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) who was promoted to the
> Senate two years ago from the House in part for his
> staunch gun-control advocacy, said he first saw the
> offensive quarter when he was playing "quarters" with
> Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass.) at a Capitol Hill watering
> hole.
>
> Schumer says he was draining a pint of Rolling Rock
> after Kennedy had bounced a quarter into it and
> reacted in "horror" when he saw a man with a gun
> pointed at him through the bottom of the glass,
> causing him to drop it and dive under the table.
>
> Kennedy joined him under the table, thinking Schumer
> had a waitress down there. Instead of a hotty, he
> found the quarter which frightened his colleague.
> Shumer says they both said at the same time, "That
> quarter is dangerous !"
>
> Marianne Wright Edelman, head of the Children's
> Defense Fund says she is "upset" and "scared for the
> children" who will see the "bad man with a gun"
> on the quarter and get the message that "guns are
> cool." She says the quarter will undermine years of
> efforts to teach children that guns are dangerous and
> should only be owned by the government.
>
> A chagrined President Clinton, responding quickly to
> head off an election-year snafu that could hurt his
> fellow Democrats, ordered every Massachusetts quarter
> taken out of circulation and destroyed. A design to
> replace the gun-toting militia man has not been chosen
> yet.
>
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