In a message dated 12/24/00 5:42:51 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: 2ndAmNews Alert: Help Cause, Get Year-End Tax Write-Off Date: 12/24/00 5:42:51 AM Mountain Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2ANews) Dear 2nd Amendment News Subscriber, Before settling in for the holidays, we urge you to read the article below by Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, and then do the right thing. The case of FPPC v. Californians Against Corruption, Russ Howard & Steve Cicero is a chilling example of the government's ability to exact retribution upon grassroots gun rights activists, and to suppress our freedom of expression, under the guise of "political reform". Russ Howard was executive director of the historic effort (described below) to drive Senate President David Roberti, coauthor of the Roberti-Roos "Assault Weapon" ban and once California's top gun grabber, from office. Thanks to that successful effort, gun control was dead in the water in California for a number of years. During the campaign, in a time of death threats, break-ins, burglaries, demonization, and other harassment, Russ withheld the identities of donors until Roberti was out of power, to protect them from vendettas by Roberti's corrupt pals, or from ending up on lists of suspected "assault weapon" owners. Russ' withholding, though justified by the Constitution and numerous Supreme Court decisions, was used as a pretense to exact retribution, as a warning to other grassroots groups. Russ and Steve were fined $808,000 in absentia, by a kangaroo court, with no right to jury trial. The selective vindictiveness of the fine was highlighted on the same day when the same kangaroo court fined the San Francisco 49ers just $60,000 - not for protecting free speech - but for money laundering. Steve Cicero, another CAC leader who served as Assistant Treasurer, is a long standing volunteer for the cause of liberty, and was a tireless volunteer for CAC's campaigns. He was jointly fined on a technicality even though Russ advised the FPPC that Russ alone was responsible for withholding the donors' identities. Russ and Steve are now fighting this oppression in the courts. The Fair Political Practices Commission, and other government speech police agencies, must be stopped. They're so out of control that recently, a duly elected California Assemblywoman was forced to step down to prevent the FPPC from prosecuting her for OVERreporting her contributions. In other words, the FPPC is now abusing its dangerous powers to overturn the will of the people and directly control the composition of the legislature. The legislator singled out for this coup d'etat was, as you might suspect, a Republican. Russ Howard has been a highly effective leader for over 20 years. He co- founded Students Against the Gun Initiative to fight the 1982 Proposition 15 handgun ban. He organized a campaign of single share stock purchases of anti-gun newsmedia corporations. He was Director of Research for California's 1993 school choice initiative. As an NRA Director, Russ authored an unsuccessful Board Resolution to stop giving "A" ratings to legislators who dishonor their oath to defend the Constitution by voting for anti-gun, anti-self-defense laws. As Vice- Chairman of Membership, he oversaw partial enactment of his idea for a retail gun store discount program for NRA members. As part of the NRA Board's Management Audit, he reviewed the underperformance of NRA's investment portfolios, and made recommendations for improvement. In the last 10 years, we've worked with Russ on a number of successful political projects. It's no exaggeration to say he's spent the majority of his free time in the last 20 years laboring to restore Constitutional liberty. Russ and Steve are the kind of people who never fail to do the right thing, despite personal sacrifice. This holiday season, remember: No honorable army leaves wounded warriors on the battlefield, and no honorable civil rights movement should stand by while its champions are legally dissected by petty bureaucratic tyrants. What Russ did was the right thing to do. He did it on your behalf, on behalf of the countless Americans who risked and lost life and limb to leave us our great heritage of liberty. Because of its importance for grassroots organizing and freedom of association, Gun Owners of America has hired two additional attorneys to work on the case. But legal help is not free. Instructions to make tax- deductible donations are at the end of Larry's article below. For those making smaller donations, or who don't need a tax deduction, regular donation instructions are below that. Think of it as one more present under the tree. A present to the Constitution. You know what to do. For Liberty, Weldon Clark, Jr. Former NRA Director Founder, 2ndAmendmentNews Rick Carone Former Chairman of Finance, NRA Founder, Californians Against Corruption P.S. In 1991, when Russ volunteered to serve as Treasurer of CAC, I asked him if he was sure of the risk he was taking on, walking point in such grassroots guerrilla campaigns as those in which we were about to embark. I'll never forget his answer: "Hey, Rick, when they asked you to go to Vietnam, you didn't go to Canada, did you? Well, I never had to go to war like you and a lot of other guys did, and the risk is minimal by comparison. This is my way of doing my part. Somebody has to do it." - RLC (Note: If you were a CAC member or recall donor who inquired about reporting thresholds and limited your donations accordingly, or if you received any abusive mailings such as those described in the NOTE below, and if you're willing to testify or sign an affidavit to that effect, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 2AN) ************** Your Tax-Deductible Contribution Needed: Campaign Laws Aim to Stifle Pro-Gun Activists Gun Rights Leaders Hung Out to Dry Gun Owners Foundation E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.com by Larry Pratt December 12, 2000 Russ Howard, a former NRA director, was one of the principal architects of ending the political career of rabidly anti-gun State Senator David Roberti of California. Howard now faces an $808,000 fine. Roberti and Assemblyman Mike Roos were the chief sponsors of the legislation that banned semi-automatic firearms. They pushed it in the name of fighting crime, even though then Attorney General Van de Kamp had found that the targeted weapons were involved in less than one percent of the state's homicides. Howard was a volunteer with Citizens Against Corruption (CAC) in 1990 when the group spearheaded a campaign against Roos. While Roos was re-elected, his amazingly small margin prompted his resignation a few months later after CAC announced preparations for a recall campaign. CAC employed a re-mail technique to leverage the relatively scarce grassroots dollars they had raised to use against Roos. They made voter names in Roos' district available to volunteers, with a letter explaining why Roos should be voted out of office. The volunteers mailed the letters in their own envelopes into Roos' district. CAC volunteers bore all the expenses themselves. These donations were independent expenditures that were way less than what would be required to be reported to the state's speech police, the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). Later the Commission would include non-reporting of unknowable independent volunteer expenses as part of the unconstitutionally Draconian fine (the Eighth Amendment bars excessive fines). In 1992, Howard became executive director of Citizens Against Corruption. Because redistricting had unfavorably shifted David Roberti's old Hollywood district, he ran that year in a special election for a Senate seat that was vacated when one of his cronies went to prison for extortion. It was a safe Democratic district, but the hope was to force him to spend enough in the primary to wound him. CAC's efforts indeed resulted in Roberti spending $2,500,000 on the primary and the runoff. Roberti raised so much money that other campaigns around the state were harmed because money they might have raised went to Roberti instead. Partly because Democrats worried that he might do it again, he later had to step down as President of the Senate. Immediately after Roberti limped into the runoff primary victory circle, CAC began planning a recall campaign on him. The April 1994 legislative recall was the first to qualify for the ballot since 1914. Roberti had about maxed out his political credit card with Democrat donors. And what made them even less inclined to extend him more political financing was the fact that he was to be term-limited out at the end of 1994. Moreover, Roberti had announced his candidacy for the State Treasurer's office. That primary was scheduled for June 1994, just a few weeks after the recall. This jacked his need for campaign funds much higher, even while his credit limit with fellow-Democrats was being exhausted. Roberti survived the recall, but only by a small margin. The primary election for Treasurer was just a few weeks away, and Roberti lost. He blamed the "gun lobby" for ending his career by exhausting his resources. But Howard learned that fighting people like Roberti was a contact sport. During the petition campaign to force the recall election, the firm getting signed petitions for Citizens Against Corruption explained that Roberti had made them too good an offer. Moreover, the recall Chairman, Bill Dominguez, was personally victimized. His firearms collection was stolen from his house. Even though Dominguez never reported the theft to the press, Roberti's campaign began gloating within hours that an "arsenal" had been stolen. Howard received death threats. CAC Chairman Richard Carone and his wife received lewd and threatening calls. Donors complained of harassment. CAC headquarters was burglarized, and Roberti claimed to have a "mole" in the campaign. It appeared that part of CAC's mailing list had been stolen and that political hate mail was being sent to members. In view of Roberti's great power, his dirty colleagues and the very real threats being made, Howard chose to withhold the full identities of CAC's donors, although the donation amounts were reported. This decision was consistent with Supreme Court rulings that have held that disclosure must be waived in such conditions. The Fair Political Practices Commission did not see it that way. It held that donor identities should have been reported along with all the volunteers who re-mailed anti-Roberti letters. Contrary to the law that prohibits stacking by one party, two of the five Commission seats were vacant during the time in question, enabling Roberti's pals to do their evil deeds in darkness. Now Howard is in court. The FPPC wants to make the $808,000 fine a court judgment. The trial judge is none other than Lloyd Connelly, a former anti-gun assemblyman and political ally of Mike Roos and David Roberti. Connelly has admitted that Roos donated $5,000 to one of his campaigns, and that Roberti paid $12,000 to Connelly's law firm. But, Judge Connelly says that there is no conflict here, and that is why he said nothing of it until he was confronted with it. And of course, he is not willing to recuse himself. The anti-gun extremists in California are trying to do to Howard what he did to Roberti. But whereas Howard worked through the electoral process with money voluntarily given for the cause, Roberti, Roos and Connelly are using tax money to conduct a vendetta through the machinery of government. Please step up to the plate. Don't let Russ Howard be hung out to dry. He desperately needs funds to pay his legal bills. You can get a tax deduction for helping Howard by writing out a check to Gun Owners Foundation and writing Howard on the memo line. Every dollar that comes in for Howard will go towards his legal expenses. You can donate at http://www.gunowners.com/ldfhoward.htm on the GOF website, or by calling GOF (using GOA's toll free number) at 888-886-GUNS. Or, you can print out the response form below. Please give as much as you can. Russ Howard needs your help. And, please, forward this message to as many others as you can. To make a tax-deductible contribution through Gun Owners Foundation for Russ Howard, go to http://www.gunowners.com/ldfhoward.htm and use the secure server. To contribute by mail or fax, please print out the form below. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply Form To: Larry Pratt Gun Owners Foundation 8001 Forbes Place Springfield, VA 22151 703-321-8585 fax: 321-8408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ __ Yes, I want to stand with Russ Howard so that others will dare to challenge anti-gun politicians. __ I understand that my contributions for Russ Howard to Gun Owners Foundation are tax deductible. __ I am enclosing a check for ___ $25, ___ $50, ___ $100, ___ Other___ __ I want to use my credit card: __ Amex, __ MC, __ Visa, __ Discover Account Number______________________________________________ Expiration Date_______________________________ Signature ____________________________________________________ ************** To subscribe to free, low-volume GOA alerts, go to http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm on the web. ************** Regular (non-deductible) donations can be mailed to CAC Defense Fund 1500 Voorhees Ave Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Or over the Internet: Go to www.paypal.com and follow instructions to donate to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information see www.CACDefenseFund.org *************** NOTE: During the Roberti Recall, CAC headquarters was burglarized, and Roberti claimed to have a "mole" in the campaign. Some activists complained of receiving swastikas and other neo-Nazi propaganda in the mail in CAC envelopes, as if mailed by CAC. This appears to have been a "dirty trick" by Roberti's camp to discredit CAC. Other activists wanted to know what the threshold donation was ($99) before reporting the donor's name became mandatory, because they were worried about being damaged if their name became public record. Such concerns were part of the motivation for withholding donor identities until Roberti was out of power. Affidavits or testimony by recall activists and donors on these harassment issues could be critical to the success of Russ & Steve's legal defense. Your testimony may also be useful if you've ever donated to a similar campaign and were harassed or damaged as a result of it. If so, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- 2AN **************** From The 2ndAmendmentNews Team 2ndAmendmentNews is a low-volume publication by volunteer self-defense civil rights activists who support the full original individual rights intent of the 2nd Amendment and oppose any appeasement on same. If you got this as a forward and wish to subscribe, see instructions below. If you don't wish to receive 2ANews, please forgive the intrusion. Simply send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and put UNSUBSCRIBE (or REMOVE) as the subject. (Trouble unsubscribing? Make sure you unsubscribe via the address 2ANews was sent to. It may not work from a forwarded address. Or feel free to contact us directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Protect your rights by protecting the rights of others. Have a Merry Christmas/Hanukka/etc., and a Happy New Year, The 2ndAmendmentNews Team ***************** "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776. "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt, November 18, 1783 "He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them are an abomination to the Lord." - Proverbs >>
Dear 2nd Amendment News Subscriber,
Before settling in for the holidays, we urge you to read the article
below
by Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, and then do the right
thing.
The case of FPPC v. Californians Against Corruption, Russ Howard &
Steve Cicero is a chilling example of the government's ability to exact
retribution upon grassroots gun rights activists, and to suppress our
freedom of expression, under the guise of "political
reform".
Russ Howard was executive director of the historic effort (described
below)
to drive Senate President David Roberti, coauthor of the Roberti-Roos
"Assault Weapon" ban and once California's top gun grabber,
from office.
Thanks to that successful effort, gun control was dead in the water in
California for a number of years.
During the campaign, in a time of death threats, break-ins, burglaries,
demonization, and other harassment, Russ withheld the identities of
donors until Roberti was out of power, to protect them from vendettas
by Roberti's corrupt pals, or from ending up on lists of suspected
"assault weapon" owners. Russ' withholding, though
justified by the
Constitution and numerous Supreme Court decisions, was used as a
pretense to exact retribution, as a warning to other grassroots
groups.
Russ and Steve were fined $808,000 in absentia, by a kangaroo court,
with no right to jury trial. The selective vindictiveness of the fine was
highlighted on the same day when the same kangaroo court fined the
San Francisco 49ers just $60,000 - not for protecting free speech -
but for money laundering.
Steve Cicero, another CAC leader who served as Assistant Treasurer, is a
long standing volunteer for the cause of liberty, and was a tireless
volunteer for CAC's campaigns. He was jointly fined on a technicality
even
though Russ advised the FPPC that Russ alone was responsible for
withholding the donors' identities. Russ and Steve are now fighting this
oppression in the courts.
The Fair Political Practices Commission, and other government speech
police agencies, must be stopped. They're so out of control that
recently,
a duly elected California Assemblywoman was forced to step down to
prevent the FPPC from prosecuting her for OVERreporting her
contributions. In other words, the FPPC is now abusing its dangerous
powers to overturn the will of the people and directly control the
composition of the legislature. The legislator singled out for this coup
d'etat was, as you might suspect, a Republican.
Russ Howard has been a highly effective leader for over 20 years. He
co-
founded Students Against the Gun Initiative to fight the 1982 Proposition
15 handgun ban. He organized a campaign of single share stock
purchases of anti-gun newsmedia corporations. He was Director of
Research for California's 1993 school choice initiative.
As an NRA Director, Russ authored an unsuccessful Board Resolution to
stop giving "A" ratings to legislators who dishonor their oath
to defend the
Constitution by voting for anti-gun, anti-self-defense laws. As
Vice-
Chairman of Membership, he oversaw partial enactment of his idea for a
retail gun store discount program for NRA members. As part of the NRA
Board's Management Audit, he reviewed the underperformance of NRA's
investment portfolios, and made recommendations for improvement.
In the last 10 years, we've worked with Russ on a number of
successful
political projects. It's no exaggeration to say he's spent the majority
of his
free time in the last 20 years laboring to restore Constitutional
liberty.
Russ and Steve are the kind of people who never fail to do the right
thing,
despite personal sacrifice.
This holiday season, remember: No honorable army leaves wounded
warriors on the battlefield, and no honorable civil rights movement
should
stand by while its champions are legally dissected by petty bureaucratic
tyrants. What Russ did was the right thing to do. He did it on your
behalf, on behalf of the countless Americans who risked and lost life and
limb to leave us our great heritage of liberty.
Because of its importance for grassroots organizing and freedom of
association, Gun Owners of America has hired two additional attorneys to
work on the case. But legal help is not free. Instructions to make
tax-
deductible donations are at the end of Larry's article below. For those
making smaller donations, or who don't need a tax deduction, regular
donation instructions are below that.
Think of it as one more present under the tree.
A present to the Constitution.
You know what to do.
For Liberty,
Weldon Clark, Jr.
Former NRA Director
Founder, 2ndAmendmentNews
Rick Carone
Former Chairman of Finance, NRA
Founder, Californians Against Corruption
P.S. In 1991, when Russ volunteered to serve as Treasurer of CAC, I
asked him if he was sure of the risk he was taking on, walking point in
such grassroots guerrilla campaigns as those in which we were about to
embark. I'll never forget his answer: "Hey, Rick, when they asked
you to
go to Vietnam, you didn't go to Canada, did you? Well, I never had to go
to war like you and a lot of other guys did, and the risk is minimal by
comparison. This is my way of doing my part. Somebody has to do it."
- RLC
(Note: If you were a CAC member or recall donor who inquired about
reporting thresholds and limited your donations accordingly, or if you
received any abusive mailings such as those described in the NOTE
below, and if you're willing to testify or sign an affidavit to that
effect,
please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 2AN)
**************
Your Tax-Deductible Contribution Needed:
Campaign Laws Aim to Stifle Pro-Gun Activists
Gun Rights Leaders Hung Out to Dry
Gun Owners Foundation E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.com
by Larry Pratt
December 12, 2000
Russ Howard, a former NRA director, was one of the principal
architects of ending the political career of rabidly anti-gun State
Senator David Roberti of California. Howard now faces an $808,000
fine.
Roberti and Assemblyman Mike Roos were the chief sponsors of the
legislation that banned semi-automatic firearms. They pushed it in
the name of fighting crime, even though then Attorney General Van
de
Kamp had found that the targeted weapons were involved in less than
one percent of the state's homicides.
Howard was a volunteer with Citizens Against Corruption (CAC) in
1990 when the group spearheaded a campaign against Roos. While Roos
was re-elected, his amazingly small margin prompted his resignation
a few months later after CAC announced preparations for a recall
campaign.
CAC employed a re-mail technique to leverage the relatively scarce
grassroots dollars they had raised to use against Roos. They made
voter names in Roos' district available to volunteers, with a
letter
explaining why Roos should be voted out of office. The volunteers
mailed the letters in their own envelopes into Roos' district.
CAC volunteers bore all the expenses themselves. These donations
were independent expenditures that were way less than what would be
required to be reported to the state's speech police, the Fair
Political Practices Commission (FPPC). Later the Commission would
include non-reporting of unknowable independent volunteer expenses
as part of the unconstitutionally Draconian fine (the Eighth
Amendment bars excessive fines).
In 1992, Howard became executive director of Citizens Against
Corruption. Because redistricting had unfavorably shifted David
Roberti's old Hollywood district, he ran that year in a special
election for a Senate seat that was vacated when one of his cronies
went to prison for extortion. It was a safe Democratic district,
but the hope was to force him to spend enough in the primary to
wound him. CAC's efforts indeed resulted in Roberti spending
$2,500,000 on the primary and the runoff.
Roberti raised so much money that other campaigns around the state
were harmed because money they might have raised went to Roberti
instead. Partly because Democrats worried that he might do it
again, he later had to step down as President of the Senate.
Immediately after Roberti limped into the runoff primary victory
circle, CAC began planning a recall campaign on him. The April 1994
legislative recall was the first to qualify for the ballot since
1914. Roberti had about maxed out his political credit card with
Democrat donors. And what made them even less inclined to extend
him more political financing was the fact that he was to be
term-limited out at the end of 1994.
Moreover, Roberti had announced his candidacy for the State
Treasurer's office. That primary was scheduled for June 1994, just
a few weeks after the recall. This jacked his need for campaign
funds much higher, even while his credit limit with
fellow-Democrats
was being exhausted.
Roberti survived the recall, but only by a small margin. The
primary election for Treasurer was just a few weeks away, and
Roberti lost. He blamed the "gun lobby" for ending his career
by
exhausting his resources.
But Howard learned that fighting people like Roberti was a contact
sport. During the petition campaign to force the recall election,
the firm getting signed petitions for Citizens Against Corruption
explained that Roberti had made them too good an offer.
Moreover, the recall Chairman, Bill Dominguez, was personally
victimized. His firearms collection was stolen from his house.
Even though Dominguez never reported the theft to the press,
Roberti's campaign began gloating within hours that an
"arsenal" had
been stolen.
Howard received death threats. CAC Chairman Richard Carone and his
wife received lewd and threatening calls. Donors complained of
harassment. CAC headquarters was burglarized, and Roberti claimed
to
have a "mole" in the campaign. It appeared that part of
CAC's
mailing list had been stolen and that political hate mail was being
sent to members.
In view of Roberti's great power, his dirty colleagues and the very
real threats being made, Howard chose to withhold the full
identities of CAC's donors, although the donation amounts were
reported. This decision was consistent with Supreme Court rulings
that have held that disclosure must be waived in such conditions.
The Fair Political Practices Commission did not see it that way. It
held that donor identities should have been reported along with all
the volunteers who re-mailed anti-Roberti letters. Contrary to the
law that prohibits stacking by one party, two of the five
Commission
seats were vacant during the time in question, enabling Roberti's
pals to do their evil deeds in darkness.
Now Howard is in court. The FPPC wants to make the $808,000 fine a
court judgment. The trial judge is none other than Lloyd Connelly,
a former anti-gun assemblyman and political ally of Mike Roos and
David Roberti. Connelly has admitted that Roos donated $5,000 to
one of his campaigns, and that Roberti paid $12,000 to Connelly's
law firm.
But, Judge Connelly says that there is no conflict here, and that
is
why he said nothing of it until he was confronted with it. And of
course, he is not willing to recuse himself.
The anti-gun extremists in California are trying to do to Howard
what he did to Roberti. But whereas Howard worked through the
electoral process with money voluntarily given for the cause,
Roberti, Roos and Connelly are using tax money to conduct a
vendetta
through the machinery of government.
Please step up to the plate. Don't let Russ Howard be hung out to
dry. He desperately needs funds to pay his legal bills.
You can get a tax deduction for helping Howard by writing out a
check to Gun Owners Foundation and writing Howard on the memo line.
Every dollar that comes in for Howard will go towards his legal
expenses.
You can donate at
http://www.gunowners.com/ldfhoward.htm
on the GOF
website, or by calling GOF (using GOA's toll free number) at
888-886-GUNS. Or, you can print out the response form below.
Please give as much as you can. Russ Howard needs your help.
And, please, forward this message to as many others as you
can. To make a tax-deductible contribution through Gun Owners
Foundation for Russ Howard, go to
http://www.gunowners.com/ldfhoward.htm and use the secure server.
To contribute by mail or fax, please print out the form below.
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Gun Owners Foundation
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703-321-8585
fax: 321-8408
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Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Or over the Internet:
Go to www.paypal.com and follow instructions to donate to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information see www.CACDefenseFund.org
***************
NOTE: During the Roberti Recall, CAC headquarters was burglarized,
and Roberti claimed to have a "mole" in the campaign. Some activists
complained of receiving swastikas and other neo-Nazi propaganda in the
mail in CAC envelopes, as if mailed by CAC. This appears to have been
a "dirty trick" by Roberti's camp to discredit CAC. Other activists wanted
to know what the threshold donation was ($99) before reporting the
donor's name became mandatory, because they were worried about
being damaged if their name became public record. Such concerns were
part of the motivation for withholding donor identities until Roberti was
out of power. Affidavits or testimony by recall activists and donors on
these
harassment issues could be critical to the success of Russ & Steve's legal
defense. Your testimony may also be useful if you've ever donated to a
similar campaign and were harassed or damaged as a result of it.
If so, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- 2AN
****************
From The 2ndAmendmentNews Team
2ndAmendmentNews is a low-volume publication by volunteer self-defense
civil rights activists who support the full original individual rights intent
of
the 2nd Amendment and oppose any appeasement on same.
If you got this as a forward and wish to subscribe, see instructions below.
If you don't wish to receive 2ANews, please forgive the intrusion. Simply
send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and put UNSUBSCRIBE
(or REMOVE) as the subject.
(Trouble unsubscribing? Make sure you unsubscribe via the address
2ANews was sent to. It may not work from a forwarded address.
Or feel free to contact us directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Protect your rights by protecting the rights of others.
Have a Merry Christmas/Hanukka/etc., and a Happy New Year,
The 2ndAmendmentNews Team
*****************
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from
us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down
and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen." -- Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants.
It is the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt, November 18, 1783
"He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous,
both of them are an abomination to the Lord." - Proverbs
