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******************************************* New Leader of the Pachyderms "Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot yesterday announced he will become chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign and be replaced as national party chairman by Ed Gillespie. . . . The job shifts will take place at the RNC's annual summer meeting next month in New York City." - Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, 6/17/03 ****************************************** Burning Distraction "The flag-burning amendment is a distraction by congressmen and senators who, on a daily basis, dishonor their pledge to defend the Constitution. I'm more concerned about protecting the Constitution from them than I am about protecting the flag from a few pyromaniacs." - News & Views reader Michael Morris *************************************** Campaign Hot Tips New to campaigns and grassroots activism? Seasoned veteran who recognizes there's always something new to learn? Then sign up for Mark Montini's FREE "Campaign Hot Tips" e-newsletter at: http://www.campaignsecrets.com/hot_tips.asp ****************************************** If Not America...Who? "(B)y far the most compelling reason for the war - which the Bush administration needlessly and unwisely underplayed - was that there was no other way to end the horrors that Hussein was so persistently and savagely inflicting on his people. "...If the American-led coalition had not gone in, then who would have stopped the filling of the graves, the cutting out of tongues of 'disloyal' Iraqis, the electric shocks and pulling out of fingernails in the torture chambers? More U.N. inspectors? France? Germany? Russia? U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan?" - Columnist Nat Hentoff ****************************************** None Are So Blind As Those Who Refuse to See "Isn't it strange to see some of our legislators and their intellectual backers impatient to 'see' the weapons (of mass destruction in Iraq), but totally ignoring the corpses? . . . The weapons of mass destruction exist. They were shotguns and knifes that slaughtered half a million men and women. Mass destruction occurred, and that is relevant. For that reason alone, our intervention was more than warranted." - Prof. Walid Phares of Florida Atlantic University ****************************************** Political Arson "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Founding Father Samuel Adams ***************************************** Putting It Mildly "Massachusetts is a barbaric [state] for home schoolers." - Scott Somerville, attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, WorldNetDaily.com, 6/17/03 ***************************************** Dispatch from the Front Lines "Dear Mr. Muth: My husband forwarded your alert about the troubles of the Bryant family in Massachusetts . . . I called Dr. Parrella's office and she was NOT, in NO uncertain terms, taking ANY calls!...From anyone! They are referring all calls to the DSS/Ms. Etscovitz...who is NOT taking ANY calls but is referring all of their calls to the State agency in Boston. "The VERY rude woman who answered my call at DSS didn't even ask why I was calling, who I was, if she could take a message...nada. When I asked her about this she said, 'Well we all know WHY you're calling. You're calling about that Bryant case and we've had over 1,000 calls about it already and we don't want to talk to anyone else about it. Now, do you want the other number or not?!'" - News & Views reader Kim Wolf ***************************************** Another After-Action Report "Hello Chuck. I made my calls and was referred from the Waltham superintendent's office to DSS (Department of Social Services), from DSS to a Denise Montero, Public Affairs Director for DSS. Upon calling Ms. (as I am sure she is a MS type of person) Montero I got her voice mail which I left a message on. "I also got her cell phone # since she was in a meeting. I called her cell and she did answer although she was unavailable to talk because she was on the phone with someone else regarding the Bryant children. She did assure me that she would call me back though. We shall see about that! Keep up the good work!" - Joanne Wack of Toledo, OH ***************************************** More on the Bryant Case Fox News (where else) reported on the Bryant's plight last evening. Let's hope it catches on elsewhere in the "mainstream" media. I also found a website which has been following and chronicling the saga of the Bryant family. If you want more historical information about this important case about who gets to make the decisions about your child's education, go to: http://www.educationalfreedom.com/pages/cases/bryant/index.html ****************************************** Carrying the Banner of Liberty "...So, despite homeschooling's outstanding academic track record, we can expect persistent opposition from the establishment, sometimes reaching the point of policemen and social workers at homeschoolers' homes threatening to snatch away their children. "But we can also be sure that homeschooling families will continue to resist this oppression. They deserve our support, because they are fighting over the most fundamental rights of a free society: the right to raise and educate children as they see fit. They are carrying the banner of liberty for all of us." - Columnist David Limbaugh writing on the harassment of the Bryant family in Massachusetts. Catch his full column at: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33117 ************************************ 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views e-newsletter. Just go to: <http://www.GOPLongDistance.com> today. ***************************************** Criminal Prosecution Sad - VERY sad - news to report on another issue of governmental abuse we featured a couple months ago. Remember Ron Dixon, the Brooklyn, New York, father who woke up in the middle of the night to discover an intruder in his two-year-old son's bedroom? When the burglar lunged at Dixon, the father shot the low-life twice, unfortunately only wounding him. The dirt bag - who had a 14-page rap sheet and 19 previous arrests - was hauled off by police. So was Ron Dixon. See, although Dixon had legally purchased the handgun he used to protect his son and was in the process of registering it, the "paperwork" hadn't been completed. So Dixon was arrested and charged with possession of an illegal weapon. Now, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes had the discretion to take the circumstances into consideration and dismiss the ridiculous charge. And in fact, many of you called and emailed the DA at the time and urged him to do just that. Instead, Hynes decided he wanted to make an example out of Mr. Dixon. So with all the obsession of Captain Ahab pursuing Moby Dick, Hynes went after Dixon with a vengeance. Threatening "a far worse sentence" if he didn't accept the plea bargain offered, Dixon is actually going to jail. For shooting a scuzzball who broke into his 2-year-old son's bedroom. The good news is, it's "just" for three days. For shooting a scuzzball who broke into his 2-year-old's bedroom. Charles Hynes should be tarred-and-feathered for this outrageous prosecution. And although it's like closing the barn door after the horse is already out, should you wish to express your opinion on the Ron Dixon "plea bargain," you can call the Brooklyn DA's Office of Public Information at: (718) 250-2300. Or you can send an email to the OPI Director, Jerry Schmetterer, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It won't do Mr. Dixon any good now, but it just might help prevent such reckless and foolish prosecutions in the future. ****************************************** Affordable Campaign Websites! 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