From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CANADIANS PREFER SELF DEFENSE TO CRAZY LAWS
(Canadian gun owners are banding together to form a organization
to be arrested together en masse for civil disobedience).
Thoreau lives! Not in the United States, but in Canada. Gun
owners there understand that no government has the right to take
away self-protection. While the government wants to get rid of
guns, people have decided not to become victims. This is a story
that is worth watching. I remember speaking to a group in Orange
County, California several years ago. The name of the group was
"Future Felons of America". They were making a statement that
under no circumstances would they register their guns or give
them up.
While this story is from April 30, 2000, I just received it from
Rob Ross of Florida.
Publication: Peterborough Examiner Date: April 30, 2000
By-line: Gary Ball
Column: "Slow gun registration panicking Ottawa"
Excerpt from Column: It seems that Ottawa has realized, way too
late, that it may be facing massive civil disobedience over
firearm registration. Canada and the United States, learned sad
lessons about bad laws during Prohibition. Is Ottawa worried
about the same sort of situation with firearms? Is that what the
panic's about? Bruce Hutton, a former Mountie from Rocky Mountain
House, Alberta, heads the Law-Abiding Firearms Association
(LUFA), which he says has 16,000 members across Canada.
Two LUFA meetings in Ontario that I'm aware of drew about 400
gun owners, many willing to sign up at $20 a head. There were
about 300 at a Sudbury meeting and about 100 in Apsley, north of
Peterborough. Hutton and LUFA say, in a published plan, that they
are advocating non-registration, non-compliance, civil
disobedience. "When the first member of LUFA is arrested or
charged, we will appoint his legal counsel. Then 10 or 20 or
30,000 of us will go into RCMP detachments across this country
and tell them we have unregistered firearms without a licence,"
LUFA's website (www.lufa.ca) says. "This is an indictable offence
so they will have to investigate.
The RCMP doesn't have the manpower to handle it and the court
system is already plugged. They will not be able to handle the
load. We will also ask for legal aid as we are not financially
capable of paying our lawyers' fees. We can tie the courts up
forever."
Yes, indeed, there's a whiff of panic in the air around the
Department of Justice and the Canadian Firearms Centre.
Gary Ball is a local award winning outdoors writer His e-mail
address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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