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News Report Issue 62
Index
1. Thought for the day - Neil
2. Request:
3. Opinion: Drug testing -
Antonia
4. Opinion: Wages explosion -
Neil
5. Opinion: GST Blackout -
Antonia
6. Opinion: SA Electricity privatisation -
Neil
7. Opinion: The Olympic cultural cringe
- Antonia
8. Opinion: Governments or teachers waste -
Antonia
9. Opinion: Why not live in Sydney? Part 1 -
Antonia
10. Life Sciences: a) Corn and Soybean
exports drop considerably - Forwarded by Veronica
10. Life Sciences: b) Quotation: Prof. Richard
Lewontin - Genetics - Harvard University
11. Feedback: Constitutional Issues -
Wayne
12. Feedback: A definition of justice -
David
13. Feedback: Ethnic cleansing on our doorstop
-Philip
14. Feedback: Lucky breaks -
David 15. Feedback: Gun Laws - Peter
16. Feedback Contacts:
17. Editorial Policy:
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1. Thought for the day:
"O, once in each man's
life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his
door;
And wit to seize the witting
guest
Need never hunger more"
(LJ Bates, "Good Luck")
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2. Request:
For this online news report to be ultimately
effective it must grow to such a size that it and the ideas it espouses can't be
ignored. So do your bit and help circulate it far and wide. If we are to
challenge the elites (the Packers and the Murdochs) view of history, politics,
economics, the environment, the structure of society etc., then we are going to
have to do more than wait. We are going to have to be very active and vigilant.
We have given you one of the tools (information & a medium for comment) you
will need. Help us to help you. Lets fan the flames of knowledge. Spread the
word. Editor.
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3.
Opinion: Drugs
testing
Predictably, the Salvation Army's anti-drugs campaigner Brian Watters' suggestion that top politicians and bureaucrats be subject to random drug tests has been dismissed. James Bell, the director of a drug treatment facility in inner Sydney said it was a "cheap slur to suggest drug policy is being driven by drug use". It's not actually. It's well known that many people in the arts - actors, musicians, painters, writers, technicians and bureaucrats - do take drugs. The late Brett Whitely was just the most prominent of the heroin addicts. Much literature been written about drug-taking by yuppies including successful traders, lawyers and businessmen. Lawyers end up judges. And the homosexual community is quite blatant about drug use. But these people are affluent, and so don't need to commit crime to indulge themselves. So why would politicians and bureaucrats be any different? Does anybody seriously believe they are more moral than the community at large? Yes, it was a good joke, wasn't it. Major Watters isn't alone in suspecting that drug policy is very likely being influenced by the liberal views of drug users. Heavens to Murgatroyd, it's not unknown for drug and alcohol counsellors to be exposed as abusers themselves. So what have politicians and top bureaucrats got to hide? Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4. Opinion:
Wages
Explosion.
In today's Fin Review, pp. 5., the
commentary was on the fears of a wages breakout. "A leading wages analyst
yesterday dismissed the prospect of a union led pay breakout despite rising
union militancy and concerns about the impact of the GST on inflation and wages.
Mr. John Buchanan of the Australian center for Industrial Relations
Research and Training told a conference in Sydney that pay rises under
"union driven" collective bargaining would be more than offset
by lower pay rises and reduced labour costs under "employer driven"
agreements dominating in most sectors of the economy.
"The heavily unionised sectors, metals
engineering, construction, and road transport - represent 15-20% of the
workforce. The unionised proportion is only 50%. So only about 10% of
the workforce is in the heavily unionised sectors of the economy.
The year 2001 will not be a repeat of 1981..... Employers were
achieving major offsets in return for modest pay rises of 2-4% a year under
employer driven deals. .... Employer driven deals were being used to introduce
performance related pay and a second wave of the "longer and more
flexible hours campaign", commonly refered to as "flexible
hours initiative", Mr Buchanan said.
Employers were also negotiating
"survival agreements" that pay a zero increase, or negligible
rise more than offset by productivity improvements, to keep
companies afloat in industries such as security and manufacturing"
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Welcome to Howard's brave new labor
world. We have started on the path to two very distinct
parallel yet divergent societies - Similar to China's Hong Kong - One Country /
Two Systems.
The workers increasingly will be rostered 12
-14 hour shifts in a 24 hour clock. The starting and finishing times of
shifts will vary based on the flexible needs of the employer
and not of the employee. Families will come under increasing
strain and yet more will not survive, not that many are surviving now.
Children will increasing rarely see one of the parents. This will lead
progressively to the dumbing down of the next generation, even more than has
already occurred.
The workers will increasingly be driven down
into economic slavery. Real wages stagnating and then
falling rapidly, once the Unions are completely
emasculated. The working conditions progressively worsening until they
are not much better than Malaysia... But not stopping
there, until they are ultimately on a par with China, Indonesia and
India. The lowest common denominator .
Courtesy of Free Trade.
If you want a nightmarish
vision of where this will all end up, I suggest your read or re-read
HG Wells book "The Time Machine" set in
a futuristic society where all the work is performed in a twilight
world of manufacturing plants underground (or just out of sight / out of mind)
by workers (the Murlochs) who lived and breathed their machines 24 hours a day,
and on the other hand there were the "beautiful people" (the Eloi), who
lounged around all day at play, doing nothing, creating nothing, wasting
resources....
HG was a good socialist. He
saw merit is such an autocratic society - essentially at peace. I still view
such a society not as a worthwhile dream, but as a nightmare come
true. Nothing to be aimed for, let alone objectively admired. Yet, that
is the end goal.
Neil
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5. Opinion:
GST petition blackout Isn't it interesting that the anti-GST petitions are getting little, if any, coverage in the mainstream media. I read the Australian daily and there has been no mention of any organised opposition. As far as I know there are five petitions - Joe Bryant's, One Nation's, McNally's, Matt Sinclair's and Ken Grundy's. - and none of them has rated a mention. To kick off his mandate, Len Clampett organised a meeting in Brisbane which attracted some hundreds of people. No report in the Australian. Another meeting is scheduled Tuesday night and some media will be attending. Has there been any coverage of any anti-GST activity in the other mainstream media? TV? We'd like to know so as to be fair. Ps. Good on Ray Regan of the Australian Taxpayers' Association for calling on the federal government to delay the start of the GST by 6 months. He said there's no way small business is going to be ready. I hope everybody is putting their members under pressure on this issue. Opposition to the GST has united people like nothing else has. Take the trouble to write to your MPs. Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6. Opinion:
SA Electricity
Privatisation.
Per today's Fin Review, pp. 6, The South
Australian Labor party are pushing for a parliamentary inquiry into the
privatisation of the States electricity authority. While the push has been
initially rejected by the Liberals, the proponents hope that they will be able
to get the independents and rebel Liberal MP's to back a call.
SA sold last year its state-wide electricity
distribution business (to a HK Chinese multinational, with very
strong links to Beijing) and is well advanced in selling the
three generators in the coming months. The government gave in
principal support in December 1997 for a plan to connect the SA grid to both NSW
and Victoria, allowing cheaper NSW electricity to be imported. In order
to maximise the sale price of the electricity generators, the SA government have
reneged on that undertaking, thus locking in SA business and household
consumers to higher electricity prices than they would otherwise have had to
bear.
Yet isn't it peculiar that here in SA, you
have a Labor opposition trying to position itself as opposed to
privatisation, and yet in NSW, the premier (Carr) and
his treasurer (Egan) took the very same issue to his last party
conference before the last State election and but for the fact that they
was rolled at the conference by an amalgamation of public sector unions and
branches, would have got support for the privatisation through. Labor then
contested the State election decrying the Liberals
(Chikarovski) for having the temerity to propose selling the
electricity network and generators. Yet now that Labor are back in
office, there they are working on the same issue yet again, while
colleagues in SA, out of office, make a big issue of opposing
the same.
The hypocrisy of
politicians. We should never trust the likes of them ever again. If we
do, we get what we deserve.
Neil
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7. Opinion:
The Olympic cultural cringe Most people who visit a foreign country expect to experience something different. That's why they go. If Paris were the same as Perth, if Lourdes the same as Launceston, if Bali the same as Brisbane - why go? Yet incredibly, the people training SOBO (Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Organisation) workers are de-Australianising them so that they are 'culturally sensitive' (Sun-Herald, 19 / 3 / 00). This cultural sensitivity has gone too far when our famous Australian "G'day" and thumbs up are deemed no-nos. Ditto pointing with one finger which we all do. BOZO - oops, SOBO - says pointing must be done with the whole hand. The Sun-Herald report also says Muslims must not be offended by being handed anything with the left hand - too bad for Australian southpaws - and Arabs expect people to accept anything with two hands. Well bully for them. They're in Australia and they should be willing to put up with our customs. They mightn't like some of them any more than we like some of theirs. Like amputating the limbs of thieves, stoning adulterers and banning alcohol. True tolerance, true diversity is when all groups can live and let live. This is very far removed from the white diversity freaks' view of tolerance: the West renounces its own customs to accommodate all other cultures, while they are encouraged to retain their own. Sorry, it's not on. Antonia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
8. Opinion:
Government's or teacher's waste? A federal government project to educate young people about Australia's democratic history, government and politics has been left to languish in the nations' schools. The Discovering Democracy project cost $ 18 million, but many of the kits sent out in 1998 remain unopened. (Australian, 20 / 3 / 00) It would be interesting to get hold of one of the kits and evaluate it for fairness and accuracy. If it's not propaganda, why aren't teachers making use of it? There certainly is a desperate need for some education in civics in this country. Many adults are quite ignorant of such elementary things as the difference between state and federal levels of government, let alone how the system works. Or rather is supposed to work. The Teachers' Union has always been dominated by the left. Is it just playing politics again? Antonia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
9. Opinion: Why not live in Sydney? Part 1 Australian actor Chris Haywood was fined $61 for washing his car on the nature strip of his Bondi house, though washing cars on the nature strip is advised by Sydney Water - better on the grass than on a concrete driveway. He'd gone inside momentarily and when he came out, found a ticket on his car. It gets worse. If Haywood plans to invite guests for dinner he has to apply to his local council for a temporary permit for their specific vehicles. He said, "So I have to inform the council beforehand of who my dinner guests are and get a permit. Then I can only have those same people coming over for the next two months." (Sun-Herald, 19 / 3 / 00) Fortunately there is opposition to the new rule which proscribes drivers from parking on or across a driveway. Yes, it's easy to see why such a rule was made - to stop selfish people from obstructing others - but surely common sense should prevail. The North Sydney mayor said there needs to be flexibility for when "your mother pops by, when workmen are around, when the doctor is called out - the list is endless." Not according to the RTA (Roads and Traffic Authority). They're sticking to the rules: "Unless a driver is dropping off or picking up, it [sic] is not permitted to park across driveways, no matter who that person may be", said a spokesman. Ah, bureaucracy! Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
10. Life Sciences:
10. a) Corn and Soybean Exports
Drop Considerably
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE AMERICAN CORN GROWERS
ASSOCIATION
Contact: Gary Goldberg, 918-488-1829 David Senter, 202-331-4348 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CORN GROWERS QUESTION NEED TO SACRIFICE EXPORT MARKETS DUE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS Corn and Soybean Exports Drop Considerably
>From Year-Ago Levels. Losses Stand At Over One Billion Dollars WASHINGTON,DC.
March 12, 2000
Because of overseas resistance to
genetically modified (GMO) crops, U.S. farmers are losing overseas
markets. Brazil and China have both benefited
from certified non-GMO shipments, while American farmers lose over one billion
dollars in sales.
"American farmers are facing historically low prices because of overproduction. Yet U.S. grain exporters continue to insist that GMOs be sold despite the desire by overseas customers for non-GMO products," said Gary Goldberg, Chief Executive Officer of the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA). "Instead of giving the customer what they want, the attitude and arrogance of US exporters and some domestic farm organisations is forcing overseas buyers to turn their backs on U.S. corn and soybeans.
"As a result of exporter arrogance to ship
GMOs, American farmers have lost over one billion dollars in lost sales.
The only winners are U.S. grain export competitors, who are
picking up our former customers," added Goldberg.
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10. b) Quotation: Professor Richard Lewontin, Professor of Genetics,
Harvard University "An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA, that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another." Articles Forwarded by
Veronica Griffin
Ph.D..
Kerawa Qld.
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11. Feedback:
Constitutional Issues
Opinion: reply to Len Clampett's
article on Pollies might be guilty under the crimes act.
The Australian Labor and Liberal party coalitions certainly are guilty of an immoral act against the Australian people for the damage they have done to this once wonderful and proud nation. It would take a miracle greater than walking on water to convict any of the Polies responsible for this damage in an Australian court. Many people of this country have also failed in their duty and responsibility by not informing their representatives of their will. It is not their fault because they have been denied the right to know what their responsibilities are by the education system and all the social engineers. I have below outlined the legal definition and duty of a member of parliament, and the duty of each and every citizen of this country. According to the late Arthur Cresby who was a member of parliament and studied the constitution for nearly 50 years. The federal Government was formed for the main purpose of defending the nation, both from outside and from within. It is quite clear that it has failed miserably. It is the legal duty of the people to keep the Representatives and Senators in the houses of Parliament fully informed of your " WILL " That is the true lawful relationship with your Members and your Senators. One of the duties when a person becomes a member of parliament is to watch on behalf of the general community the conduct of the Executive, of criticising, and if necessary calling it to account in the constitutional way. The SOLE LEGAL FUNCTION of a member of parliament is to freely advise in the government of the country, on any mater or thing the CLEARLY EXPRESSED WILL OF THE PEOPLE, i.e, His sole legal function is to legislate. In legislating, he shall honestly,
impartially, and searchingly examine all matters that may be placed
before him, and with unbiased judgement, vote according to his
conscience and his sense of legal responsibility.
Also members of parliament can call any advisor to parliament or advisor to a member or board of members before parliament to explain that advisors reasons or advice. If that advisor gives wrong advice then he or she can be held accountable for such advice. It is known to most people that Members of parliament vote according to the executive or along party lines. Major party lines do not represent the peoples will and needs. This raises the question of whether under State Criminal codes and the Commonwealth Crimes Act that Parliamentary Party leaders and controllers are guilty of deliberately breaching those codes by preventing back bench members of Parliament from fulfilling their legal functions and duty in the houses of Parliament by telling its members how to vote on legislation. All of P.H.O.N.s' Policies are geared to protect the nation from further decline by reflecting the peoples will and acting on their behalf according to the above legally defined function for all members of both houses of Parliament, which is part of the true Government, not the political party that holds the majority in the lower house. Regards, Wayne Stewart PS GREAT WORK PRAISE TO ALL OF YOU FOR WELL RESOURCED AND WELL WRITTEN AND INFORMATIVE ARTICLES. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
12. Feedback:
A Definition of Justice "What's "just" has been debated for
centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social
justice:
I keep what I earn and you
keep what you earn. Do you disagree?
Well then tell me how much of what I earn
"belongs" to you -- and why?"
(Walter Williams, "All It
Takes Is Guts")
Forwarded by
David Storage
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13. Feedback:
Ethnic Cleansing on our
Doorstop.
The following account is
unverified. However, the fact that it has not been reported in our
mainstream news reports does not, of itself, mean that it is
not occurring as reported. I lived for 2 1/2 years in Lebanon in the mid
1980's while various areas of that country were systematically ethnically
cleansed (of either Christian or Moslem), yet virtually no reporting of
the accompanying atrocities & people displacements (in the hundreds
of thousands) ever graced the pages of Western papers or on the evening
news reports to the extent warranted by the scale of the atrocity.
Hundreds of mixed community villages were cleansed of one or
the other religions with extreme barbarity, ending in
whole regions which for a century had been in peace and whose
communities had lived in harmony, being forcibly made
monocultural.
The cleansing of the Chouf and Aley
mountains SE of Beirut in the Autumn of 1983, just after I got to Lebanon, was
just one such terrible episode (of many) in which in a brief 3 weeks fighting
1/4 million Christian villagers were made refugees after losing the fight
against Druze militias and losing their birthrights and ancestral
homes.
Our media, as we all know,
are far more interested in reporting whether this sports star has a dislocated
shoulder or is up on charges before a disciplinary tribunal for eye gouging
etc.or the latest gossip on this or that Hollywood star or starlet, than
reporting factually what is happening in this country or overseas on
issues that are really important, rather than the trivia they serve us up
with.
So keep an open mind. Don't
prejudge, but equally don't ignore either or accept
verbatim.
Neil
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Forwarded by Phillip Madsen, A letter to
"Michael Davidson"
Christians in Indonesia are being ethnically cleansed and slaughtered by Muslims. The Middle East looks tame compared to this! Wake up people! Let's try to put some international pressure on the Indonesian government to rein in their military which continues to perpetrate such terrible crimes against Christians. All the names in this e-mail have been changed to protect the innocent! Some of you have figured out who I am, However if you haven't (especially if this was forwarded to you) you can trust me, I exist, I know the one who sent the letter to me, and this information is accurate. The situation is real and "D-Day" is coming up fast. Michael Davidson 13 March 2000 Hi Michael: Back from the Maluku (Spice) Islands! I am alive! Many died and many more will die! My heart is broken. The Christians in the Maluku Islands need and deserve all your support! Please pray for the remaining Christians there! I'll give you a brief update on the situation in 'Halmahera Utara', the district of the Malukus where Morotai, Tobelo and Galela fall in. What is happening there is nothing less than the 'Ethnic Cleansing' that happened in Kosovo! Except without any news covering it because it is a 'concentrated religious fight'. This is not true! This is an organised 'cleansing' of the Christians!!! When we arrived in the port of Tobelo I was taken to the home of Mister Smith a Christian who has spent most of his life in the remote islands of Indonesia. On the way to his house I was shocked to see so many burned down houses, stores and churches. Almost every one I saw was wearing some sort of weapon. Mr. Smith was surprised to see me. When I told him that I was on my way with to Galela, he said that Galela is in Muslim hands now and that there are no more Christians left. I was introduced by him to a leader of the 'Evangelical Church of Halmahera Utara' who, together with the owner I met of the local Christian radio station, gave me most of the next information: The island of Morotai has been in Muslim hands for four days now. Only about 3,000 Christians survived and are hiding in the mountains. The rest (thousands!) have been brutally killed . . Muslims from neighbouring islands have gone over there and without warning killed the Christian population! The army which was supposed to protect the civilians, assisted the Muslims. The army in Indonesia is almost all Muslim. One Christian Captain was shot by his own man. A policeman who tried to protect a church and its pastor was approached by his own brother and shot by the same. The adults were beheaded and the children thrown in to the ocean with their legs tied! Many people tried to escape by boat, but an Indonesian navy vessel sunk the ship. Very few people made it to Tobelo alive and brought this news. The reason why there is no news (or "false" news) is because there are people in the Indonesian government who want to free Indonesia from the lesser people. Muslims see the Christians as lesser people. Tobelo was attacked about a month ago. It is a town where the Christian and Muslims had lived together for many years. The attack had been well organised by the
Muslims. In one day many Christian houses and some of the churches were put to
fire. Christians were towed through town behind motor cycles. It took the
Christian population two days before they woke up out of their shock. Then the
Christians started their furious defense. One thousand Muslims were killed and
only 30 Christians. Many Muslims fled to army barracks close to Galela.
The Muslims have called for a holy war (Jihad) against all the remaining
Christians on Halmahera on the 16th of March! (Indonesia time, of
course.) This is being broadcast on the government radio station! Three
boat loads of Muslim warriors have already arrived from Ternate and Tidore. Many
will come from Morotai and while I was in Tobelo two army trucks with militaries
drove through town to Galela.
The army has also provided some
weapons for the Muslims and will back them up. Two navy ships are said
to be scheduled to arrive in the harbour of Tobelo in the morning of the 16th.
This will not be a small operation!.
Without the help of our God (Jesus Christ) and your prayers, all the people I have spoken of (and their families) will be dead in three or four days!!! They are my brothers and sisters. We are related! And it will not stop there! Please pray! Ask your church, your Pastor, your Bible study to pray. PRAY! In His Love, Andrew Forwarded by Phillip
Madsen
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Lucky breaks
Hi Neil and Antonia
Thanks heaps for all the effort you put in to
your mail outs, I appreciate the time it must take to put them
together.
I don't know how we came to
be on each others e-mail lists ??have we met ?? We live just out of Wellington
NZ . I presume you live in Aussie. May be we met at a
seminar so place??
All the best
Dave Storage
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Dave
We have not met. Don't know how your name got on our list. It really
doesn't matter as the connection has obviously been fruitful for us both.
Keep writing and stay in touch. We are both in NSW. I am in Southern Sydney
and Antonia is in the country. Do us a favour and spread our email report around
NZ. Many thanks.
Neil
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15. Feedback:
Gun Laws
Here is article from John Lott, one of the few academics
who can be called
objective
_____________________________________________________________________ Los Angles Times Sunday, March 19, 2000 "Clinton Shoots From Hip With Loaded Claims - The president uses exaggerations and statistical distortions to cloud the issue, firing up the NRA to respond." By JOHN R. LOTT JR. The saga of President Clinton and the National Rifle Assn. continues. Clinton started the recent skirmish by claiming that the NRA's opposition to gun locks was responsible for the death of 6-year-old Kayla Rolland in Michigan. And he demonized the NRA as "basically against anything . . . that helps to make [society] safer." The NRA countered that Clinton was constantly lying about guns and that the president is more interested in passing new laws than enforcing the 90,000 words worth of federal gun laws already on the books. More controversially, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, accused Clinton of being "willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda." Both sides clearly have gone out of bounds in recent statements, and the NRA's comments questioning Clinton's motives drew a swift rebuke from Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. Nevertheless, the NRA seems to be winning this debate so far: The Zogby poll's latest numbers report that only 29% of Americans want new gun laws, but 68% support the NRA's position of stricter enforcement of existing laws. Clinton has failed to explain why yet more laws would have prevented either of the death of Kayla or the attack at Columbine High School. Gun-lock legislation would not have stopped the 6-year-old who shot Kayla because the child's uncle - who had outstanding arrest warrants and apparently ran the crack house where the child lived - would not have made sure that any newly stolen guns had trigger locks. The Columbine murderers violated at least 17 state and federal weapons control laws, and none of the proposals for trigger locks, waiting periods or gun show restrictions would have stopped Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from obtaining either their guns or bomb-making materials. How much the Zogby poll numbers might be due to a general lack of trust in the administration isn't clear, but there have been large distortions and inaccuracies in the numbers presented to the public about guns. A few examples: The Brady law. Clinton continually mentions all those hundreds of thousands of criminals who have been stopped from buying guns. Yet this is based on numbers from his Justice Department, which has been caught numerous times overstating the number of gun sales blocked to criminals. These were no minor errors, with overstatements for some states by as much as 1,300%. An analysis by the General Accounting Office found that Clinton was on average overstating the number of denials to criminals by more than 30-fold. "Thirteen children die every day from guns." The Clinton administration's public service ads exclusively feature children under 10, yet very few children under 10--fewer than 3% of the 13--are killed. Seventy percent of the deaths involve 17 to 19 year-olds, primarily in gang fights. Despite Clinton's repeated use of this claim to justify trigger locks, such locks would do nothing to stop gang members from using guns. "American children are killed by gunfire at a rate nine times higher than the combined total of the next 25 top industrial nations." Selectively including countries and some creative math can go a long way. For example, are Hong Kong and Kuwait industrial nations? (When is Clinton going to tell China about Hong Kong's new status?) Why exclude large countries like Russia or Brazil, which have among the toughest gun bans in the world and still have murder rates four times higher than those in the U.S. Either country by itself, despite much smaller populations, has many more juvenile gun deaths than we do. The NRA also made mistakes, especially with incorrect statements that the Brady law and the gun-free schools laws have not been properly enforced. Ironically, this is possible because of the outrageous exaggerations that Clinton has made about gun law violations, which have left him open to criticism that only a trivial fraction of violations are prosecuted. There is enough blame for everyone to share for the current impasse, but the recent events vividly illustrate why many conservatives so intensely dislike Clinton. While posturing as trying to encourage co-operation on new legislation, his rhetoric demonized his opponents. Their response surely isn't justifiable, but neither are Clinton's accusations about their motives. John R. Lott Jr., a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale University Law School, Is the Author of "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws" (University of Chicago Press, 1998) Forwarded by Peter Cunningham
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