SEE RED! – URGENT ACTION Requested: In 53 days, it begins .

Grassfire Nation Update

Dear Patriots,

On November 20, just 53 days from today, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) will unconstitutionally
seize control of the Internet through their Net Neutrality
regulations.

Not only will the move destroy one of the last, great
free-market frontiers our nation and the world has ever
seen, but the move will also kill an estimated 100,000
to 200,000 real jobs — not to be confused with the fake
jobs created by President Obama and his socialist cronies.

It gets worse…

Having granted itself the authority to regulate the
Internet, the FCC has already begun strong-arming Internet
Providers into supporting Net Neutrality guidelines on
themselves or risk FCC imposed penalties.
As a result, we are beginning to see early signs of what
awaits religious and politically conservative websites.
Web-hosting companies are starting to suspend these
websites — classifying them as “hate sites.”

According to a Sept. 15, 2011 article in the Washington
Times, Internet media giants aren’t giving Christian and
other faith-based groups a fair shake.

Unless grassroots Americans rise up and challenge this
federal power-grab, and demand Congress protect First
Amendment free speech rights on the Internet, conservatives
can and likely will be effectively silenced – removing
the last hurdle for a radical socialist agenda to be
implemented in our nation!

Friend, Americans have just 53 days to act.

+ + Will you allow yourself to be gagged by the FCC?

A just released poll by the Terrance Group reports that
nearly three out of four Americans believe the regulatory
burden is too high in this country. Moreover, “65 percent
of voters – and 67 percent of Democrats – oppose agencies
regulating without the approval of Congress.”

Yet despite an overwhelming majority of Americans opposed
to the regulatory move, Obama continues pushing aside the
constitution and our rights as citizens. He even arrogantly
bragged about his actions saying, “Until Nancy Pelosi is
speaker again, I’d like to work my way around Congress.”

Don’t let these next 53 days pass without taking action.
Demand the Senate move rapidly to pass SJ Res. 6, a Joint
Resolution of Disapproval to overturn the Net Neutrality
order.

Click below and fax your personal comments to your Arizona
Representative and two Senators, as well as other key
lawmakers regarding the FCC power-grab of the Internet.

Click here to schedule your faxes for delivery:

http://www.grassfire.com/2141/offer.asp?Ref_ID=500062

For your convenience, Grassfire Nation has made it easy
for you to download the fax numbers, and the letters if
you prefer to send them on your own. Regardless of the
methods you choose, it is important for citizens to act.

After scheduling your faxes, forward this alert to 25-30
friends and family inviting them to take action with you
and against this federal power-grab that is set to go into
effect on November 20.

Have them click here to sign our petition:

http://www.grassfire.com/2141/offer.asp?Ref_ID=500062

Be sure to tell them they have just 53 days with which to
make an impact on this unconstitutional power-grab by the
FCC — a move that could silence the conservative voice.

Grassfire Nation will deliver these petitions to key
members of the Senate in the weeks ahead.

Thank you for your outstanding efforts.

Grassfire Nation and Patriot Action Network

Visit Patriot Action Network at: http://resistance.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Eliminate corporate money from American politics

By way of explanation:  I know the sender of this e-mail. We’d been out of touch for thirty yrs (!)

People change… Reading this, you’ll note he’s more liberal than conservative; however, the intent of the website mentioned would level the playing field across all political lines, and keep everybody honest. The knife cuts both ways;  he had gotten fed up with the Dems, and is a registered Independent voter.

Please check this out and by all means – if you know a good constitutional lawyer-, get a legal opinion.  Why?  The idea is a Constitutional amendment. We need to be circumspect about anything which would fundamentally change our Constitution.  Here is the message, and the link:

Hi everyone,

I learned about this site trying to get enough signatures to petition our Congress to eliminate corporate money from American politics. Our representatives start each day dialing for dollars. So far 80% of the 16 billion dollars collected for the republican superpacs has been donated by only 58 corporations and this is just the start. The election isn’t until next year and they have already got 16 billion to spend on advertising.

Please go to GetMoneyOut.com and sign the petition, then get as many people as you can to sign on. The petition is to introduce a constitutional amendment, which simply put, will only allow individual contributions to people running for federal office and that amount is already capped by law.

I don’t know about you but, like the majority of individuals, I can’t compete with corporate money. Corporations should not have a say in who has the loudest voice and probably gets elected. Corporations are not people.

 

http://www.getmoneyout.com/

WorldNetDaily Exclusive – POLICE STATE, USA

POLICE STATE, USA

Man ordered to surrender guns – just for blogging!

‘My life’s in danger now. I can’t defend myself, I can’t defend you’

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Posted: September 29, 2011
9:44 pm Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2011 WND 

An Arizona man has filed a federal lawsuit against some of the state’s top judges, claiming they’re taking away his freedom of speech and right to own firearms, all because someone didn’t like what he wrote on his blog.

“You can’t suspend someone’s constitutional rights [for blogging],” said Mike Palmer, who is bringing forth the legal action. “Everybody in America blogs or Twitters, so it’s a First and Second Amendment issue.”

The scenario started when Palmer, a 55-year-old Christian missionary from Phoenix, was online discussing “spiritual death” often referred to in the Bible.

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But, according to the suit, a woman from Prescott, Ariz., Melody Thomas-Morgan, complained to authorities that Palmer was threatening her with “death,” keeping that word in quotes in her legal filings.

Palmer explains, “It is true that the blog, ‘That Woman Jezebel,’ talks about spiritual life and spiritual death. … Spiritual ‘death’ as in ‘The wages of sin is death.’ (Romans 6:23) … It is not true that the blog ever mentions the ‘death’ of Miss Thomas-Morgan.”

Judge Kenton Jones

Kenton Jones, superior court judge for Yavapai County, went along with the woman’s harassment complaint and ordered Palmer to surrender his guns.

“The order says that I am not allowed to possess firearms or ammunition, and directs me to turn over any weapons to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office,” Palmer told WND.

Palmer indicated he does not own any weapons at this time, but when pressed on whether he had any guns previous to the order, he said, “No comment.”

“I certainly want my gun rights,” he added. “There is no law in Arizona which allows the courts to suspend any constitutional right, but in this instance, my Second Amendment right. And, of course, my life’s in danger now. I can’t defend myself, I can’t defend you. I can’t defend my fellow man.” 

Palmer’s suit is seeking a restraining order that would grant him back his constitutional rights.

He wonders if the Christian nature of his blogging has anything to do with the action taken against him.

“Being a Christian seems to make me fair game,” he said. “I bet if I were Muslim and writing about physical beheading on a blog, no judge would dare touch me with an injunction. Ironic.”

Not only is Justice Jones named as a defendant in Palmer’s suit, so are five other jurists on the state supreme court, including Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch.

The issue is reminiscent of another Arizona case, where a local judge ordered Michael Roth of Quartzsite, Ariz., to surrender his weapons because Town Councilman Joe Winslow was offended when Roth allegedly called the lawmaker a “turd.”

In fact, Palmer has set up a blog called Michael’s Law in honor of the Roth case to tell his own story.

Quartzsite Councilman Joe Winslow lists reasons he sought a restraining order against resident Michael Roth, claiming his entrance to town hall was blocked and that he was called a synonym for dog feces.

Winslow told Karen Slaughter, the elected justice of the peace for the region, what he wanted was that Roth and others with similar views “not be allowed to walk around armed. To me, I’m not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but I have been diagnosed with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) … that’s what I’m concerned with, that he’s gonna get so far into my personal space that I’m gonna react without thinking. I’m not making threats or anything like that. I’m not proud of that, but it’s the way I am.”

“I know that I’m 71 years old,” Winslow said. “I don’t want to be a statistic, I don’t want to go to jail and I don’t want to go in the hospital. But based on my history of 24 years in the service, I am more concerned about my reaction to his aggression than anything else, especially now that I believe that he is carrying a handgun. His actions have demonstrated in the past to me that he is not in full control of his emotions.”

After WND’s coverage of Roth’s case, Judge Slaughter eventually reversed her decision on the weapons ban, but Roth says she refused to dismiss his attorney fees.

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From Godfather Politics: Politicians are Like Dirty Diapers

“Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.” ― Mark Twain

Your husband hears your five-week old baby crying. You know the problem. She has a dirty diaper. You know what needs to be done. Her diaper needs changing. You’re tired. The baby’s been cranky all day, and you need a rest, even if it’s only a short one. Your ever-loving husband is in his workshop. “Honey,” you call out to him, “would you be a dear and check on Julie?” He returns with baby in tow and passes her off to you and says, “Her diaper’s dirty, so I can’t change it.”

Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Dad was sent to change what was dirty, a natural and necessary thing to do. If his response is so foolish, why is it that when we get into an area like politics, some can justify their inaction by making a similar claim?: “Politics is dirty! I can’t get involved.”

If you view politics as something dirty, then view it in terms of this bumper sticker: “Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often.” Maybe then we can dispense with the charge that we should not be involved in something as dirty as politics.

Civil government is established by God, therefore, it is a legitimate area of activity for Christians (Matt. 22:21; Romans 13:1; 1 Tim. 2:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-17). There was a need for civil government when man sinned and became a threat to other men (Gen. 4:23). Politics is the process of electing the best men to office to protect law-abiding citizens against the lawless (Ex. 18; Deut. 1:15; cf. 1 Tim. 3:1-7). To speak out against the principle of political involvement is to call God’s wisdom into question and to allow the despots and tyrants to rule.

It’s been said that clothes make the man. In biblical terms we can assert that the character of the people will determine what type of political system a nation gets. Our nation was founded on the belief that religious man undergirds a society. “In the last resort, our civilization is what we think and believe. The externals matter, but they cannot stand if the inner convictions which originally produced them have vanished.”[1] Dirty (sinful) politics is simply the reflection of sinful men and women–politicians and voters included. Or, to put it another way, we are getting what we deserve. We are reaping what we have sown.

So when a sleazy candidate gets elected, or when your local newspaper or TV station seems to favor the abortionists, or when a jury in Cincinnati says an abominable set of photographs isn’t legally obscene–when any of those things happen, don’t leap to the conclusion that someone did a number on us. Consider instead the sober likelihood that the sleazy politician really represents the values of the people who voted, that most subscribers to the paper and those who watch TV really don’t care about–or even prefer–abortion, and that precious few jurors are willing to sit in judgment on anything.[2]

Politics is only as good as the people who make it their calling and those who put them into office either by voting or refusing to vote. The maintenance of good government is dependent on good people. Of course, this is true of everything–from the local grocery store to the family restaurant down the street. George Washington, in his Farewell Address (September 17, 1796), gave this advice to the nation:

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

No governing document can create freedom, national stability, or security by using compulsion to induce compliance to a set of ideals. The best political intentions are no match for the will of the people. In purely human terms, people determine the goodness of a nation’s political system. John Adams wrote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”[3] When self-government is abandoned for self-serving opportunism, we should expect a decline in the health of the nation. Politics will indeed become dirty and infect all of us with its poison. 

Why is politics left out of the clean-up process when politics plays such a significant part in our lives? Who else has the means to clean it up? If Christians do not, who will? Generally speaking, Christians have stayed out of politics, making its corruption even more pronounced. The answer is not to consign politics to even more corruption by ignoring its potential as an area for redemption and restoration. Mark O. Hatfield, former United States Senator from the state of Oregon, relates the following on the question of corruption and politics:

I have often been asked: “How can you be a Christian and be in politics?” There is inherent in this question the popular idea that politics is dirty and that no honest person would get himself involved. Have you ever heard a doctor or a lawyer asked that question? Yet certainly there are as many cases of professional or ethical misconduct in their occupations as among politicians.[4]

Sports is a dirty business, from Little League to the Olympics. Ben Johnson of Canada was suspended after his world-record-breaking performance at the 1988 Olympic Games, because it was learned that he used performance-enhancing drugs. Pete Rose, holder of the all-time hit record and former player and manager for the Cincinnati Reds, was banned from baseball because he gambled on the sport. Mark McGuire, the first baseball player to hit 70 home runs in a season, was accused of taking performance enhancing supplements. The 2001 Little League World series was tainted when it was learned that Danny Almonte, the pitching star of the series, was 14 instead of 12. There are now frequent reports of parents and players fighting at youth sports games.[5] In 2003, Kobe Bryant, a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, admitted he had committed adultery and was charged with raping a nineteen-year-old woman.

How many parents will remove their children from participating in sports because of the dirt? The International Olympic Committee has been working hard to clean up those sports where steroids are the drug of choice for athletic enhancement, especially in track and field and weightlifting. These officials recognize that there is dirt, but they have not abandoned sports because of it. Roberto Alomar spit in the face of an umpire because he didn’t like a call. A parent of a young hockey player killed another parent after a hockey match. Instead of abandoning sports because of these horrible events, parents and officials are working to clean up youth sports by requiring parents to take classes on how to behave and sign “good conduct codes.” The problem is with people who bring the “dirt” (sin) with them to the game not with sports themselves. The same is true about politics.

Abandoning politics because of dirt won’t stop it from affecting you. Every law passed and every policy implemented affects each of us. There is no avoiding politics even if we decide not to involve ourselves. We are involved. Every vote not cast is a vote for the opposition. Politics does not go away when we decide not to participate. Your taxes still go up, homosexuals will teach your children “It’s OK to be gay,” and abortion calls down God’s wrath on the nation as a whole even if we remain silent.

Notes:

1. Paul Johnson, The Enemies of Society (New York: Atheneum, 1977), 117. [↩]
2. Joel Belz, “Evidence Mounts: We Are Still a Small Minority,” World (October 13, 1990), 3. [↩]
3. J. Howe, “The Changing Political Thought of John Adams.” Quoted in Wayne House, ed., Restoring the Constitution: 1787-1987 (Dallas, TX: Probe Books, 1987), 10. [↩]
4. Mark O. Hatfield, “How Can a Christian be in Politics?,” Politics and Politics: Christianity and Contemporary Affairs (Greenwood, SC: The Attic Press, 1968), 7. [↩]
5. Jennifer Brett, “Parents conduct turns kids’ sports into brawl games,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (June 29, 2003), C1. [↩]

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Ex-Muslim Christians murdered by Islamists in Turkey !

FROM:  MUSLIMS4JESUS on YouTube                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Be grateful for where we are; America is in jeopardy.

Another reason to remember, freedom is not free! 

Remember, people who are born in Islamic families and renounce Islam, are subject to imposed death penalties for openly doing so.

From The Patriot Update – The US, the UN and Genetic Engineering

The US, the UN and Genetic Engineering – Gold font my emphasis “X”

Written on September 26, 2011 by Chuck Norris

  

Would you know if you were eating genetically engineered foods?

The Chicago Tribune recently reported that with no labeling on such foods, many people don’t realize that they are doing just that. Genetically modified crops constitute 93 percent of soy, 86 percent of corn and 93 percent of canola seeds planted in the U.S. and are used in about 70 percent of American processed food.

The Tribune went on to say that polls from the Pew Center, Consumers Union and Harris Interactive over the past decade have shown that the overwhelming majority of Americans would like to see genetically modified foods better-regulated and -labeled. Despite that, President Barack Obama’s administration has approved an “unprecedented number of genetically modified crops,” such as corn grown for ethanol.

The U.S. government is not the only entity boosting and greenlighting genetic engineering of our crops and foods. In 1963, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization adopted the Codex Alimentarius, the food code created by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, whose self-proclaimed mission was to protect health, remove trade obstacles and establish food guidelines. The commission now has 185 members, including the U.S.

Hundreds of guidelines have been adopted by the CAC, in areas ranging from additives to pesticides to, most recently, vitamin and mineral supplements. And this year, it is tackling the issue of whether to label genetically altered and engineered fruits and vegetables.

According to the Alliance for Natural Health, the natural health community has expressed concern about the CAC’s guidelines regarding supplements because of parts of the Codex’s preamble that “essentially discount the benefits from dietary supplements, and the fact that the scope of the Codex Guidelines includes developing minimum and maximum levels of vitamins and minerals.”

Though regulating those maximum levels is prohibited by U.S. policy — because dietary supplements are not categorized as drugs — it is one more sign that global governance of our foods is right around the corner. As if American households relinquishing their health and fitness habits to Washington weren’t enough, now the entire U.S. needs to be governed by a global food and drug administration?

U.S. food policy may not acquiesce to worldwide regulations tomorrow, but global control is a slippery slope that often is brought about through small steps, or so-called benign increments. The European Union already has enacted many universal food tenets into law. Could the U.S. be that far behind in this global age? In an era in which caving to international pressure is in vogue, how far behind are our food factories?

But does the U.S. really want foreign entities telling us how to eat, what vitamins to take, and how (not) to label U.S. food, now or in the distant future? I’ll say what I said in a previous article: The sooner we quit relinquishing our health and fitness responsibilities to the government and take control of our own lives the better off we’ll be.

Americans have a right to be concerned with international influence over labeling, marketing and masking the truths behind foods coming from abroad. Our health and welfare should not be turned over to foreign powers, lobbying groups, the Food and Drug Administration or the U.S. Department of Agriculture. If that were to happen, we could kiss goodbye the freedoms we’ve long enjoyed with dietary supplements and organic foods.

The added difficulty with genetic tampering and labels is that we know big business and lobbying often control the decisions in Washington. Recently, that was made evident again by the actions of the USDA. Despite the fact that tests prove that genetically engineered organisms become a part of the bacteria in our digestive tracts, the Alliance for Natural Health reported how the USDA now wants to eliminate any controls from genetically altered corn and cotton.

The ANH cited the wisdom of the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and one of the first scientists to speak out about the dangers of genetically engineered foods:

“Recombinant DNA technology (genetic engineering) faces our society with problems unprecedented, not only in the history of science, but of life on the Earth. … Now whole new proteins will be transposed overnight into wholly new associations, with consequences no one can foretell, either for the host organism or their neighbors. … For going ahead in this direction may not only be unwise but dangerous. Potentially, it could breed new animal and plant diseases, new sources of cancer, novel epidemics.”

Fourteen states have introduced legislation on genetically modified organism labeling, but most face governmental gridlock. So please, take action and keep foods safe (non-genetically engineered) by contacting your representatives, as well as the FDA and the USDA, and demanding that genetically modified food be labeled as such. In addition, corn and cotton must not be deregulated. Without strict controls, as the ANH concludes, genetically engineered crops will encroach on non-genetically engineered crops, contaminating them and rendering the organic crops non-organic.

The only real solution to prevent global food governance and our bodies from having to consume genetically altered foods is to mandate the proper labeling of all foods and to buy local and organic foods. By diminishing the supply of and demand for imported and genetically engineered foods, we can diminish their tyranny at the borders of our bodies.

Follow Chuck Norris through his official social media sites, on Twitter @chucknorris and Facebook’s “Official Chuck Norris Page.” He blogs at http://chucknorrisnews.blogspot.com. To find out more about Chuck Norris and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at http://www.creators.com.

COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK NORRIS

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I POSTED THIS ON PAN :

PBS – Food, Inc. A Robert Kenner Film

• Posted by Prof. Charles Xavier Prof. on August 10, 2011 at 10:30am

With all the other pressing issues we’re blogging, and attempting to reverse, there is a battle on another front – our food suplly is a mass production line. Does anyone recall from history about Sinclair Lewis’s expose – at the turn of the last century- about the meat packing industry ?

I personally have been a label reader since I was in grade school, and would question the need for things like “ester of wood rosin” in orange soda. ( I refused to drink it having discovered this bizarre additive) Today, the “experts” complain about excess salt, sugar, and fat in our diet. Yet, even those of us who consider ourselves aware, and restrict our buying habits, are victims of Agribusiness.

(I personally can’t get specific about what I’d like to see happen to Monsanto, fearing the extent of the power this monster can unleash) Watch this video, and be enraged.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf

Watch the full episode. See more POV.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/promote.php

I checked their site; this video is on backorder as of 8-10-11

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE… From The Patriot Update

From The Patriot Update:

Biden: Voters Should Blame Obama, not Bush, for Economy

September 30, 2011

Vice President Joe Biden told Florida radio station WLRN on Thursday that voters should hold President Barack Obama, not former President George W. Bush, accountable for the poor state of America’s economy.

Conservative PAC American Crossroads circulated the startling statement Thursday afternoon, expecting it will take Democratic campaign strategists by surprise.

“Right now, understandably — totally legitimate — this is a referendum on Obama and Biden and the nature of the state of the economy,” Biden said.

Polls indicating that more Americans blame Bush for the economy than Obama are not relevant, Biden said.

“Even though fifty-some percent of the American people think that the economy tanked because of the last administration, that’s not relevant,” Biden stressed. “What’s relevant is we’re in charge. And right now we are the ones in charge and it’s gotten better, but it hasn’t gotten good enough.”

 

 

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Democrats in Uproar Over this Barack Obama Billboard

September 30, 2011

There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown neighborhood.

On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama as either a dunce, a puppet or a crying baby in a diaper.

“It disrespects the nation — and President Barack Obama represents our nation,” said Skip Alexander, as he looked at one of the signs. “He represents everybody, not some people.”

Dozens of protesters came by the house in the 1500 block of Calhoun throughout the day, demanding the sign come down.

“He wouldn’t do that to [President] Bush, I’m sure. It’s just insulting. It’s insulting,” said C.C. Campbell-Rock. “He’s going to have to take them down.”

“This is nothing put pure racism,” said Raymond Rock. “This is a disgrace.”

 

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these from the above link:

Patriot Update covered this; here is their excerpt:

On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets in New Orleans, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama as either a dunce, a puppet or a crying baby in a diaper.

The home is owned by Timothy Reily, who declined to be interviewed about the signs. Some neighbors tell Eyewitness News that Reily has been putting the signs up for months. Some of the protesters learned about the signs through a local radio station on Wednesday morning.

The signs have created such a firestorm of controversy, though, that police came to the scene– called in by City Council Member Susan Guidry. She represents the district where the home is located. Guidry said she was concerned about public safety and was trying to figure out if the sign was even legal. She also said she spoke to Reily, but didn’t get far.

“We have to determine that there is a zoning law that prohibits perhaps the size of the sign, perhaps the way that it’s erected, that it is leaning over onto public property,” Guidry said. “Whatever we can use, we will, but of course, we do have to balance that with First Amendment rights.”

 

Keep your friends close… Monitoring Chuck Schumer

OK; THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ON PAN, KNOW MY STANCE ON SOCIAL SECURITY.  GIVEN THAT SUCCEEDING DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS RUINED FDR’S ORIGINAL RULES, IT ISN’T THE SECURE, RETIREMENT FUND IT ONCE WAS, AND CONSERVATIVES DIFFER IN WHAT GOV’T PROGRAMS TO CUT.  BUT IN “KEEPING YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER”, I GET CHUCK’S E-MAILS TO KEEP TRACK OF THEIR INTENTIONS. HERE IS HIS LATEST, SENT TO ME TODAY:

The Tea Party is getting bolder and bolder, to the point where they’re now targeting even the most Democratic states and districts. And their newest target may be one of the smartest Democrats we have in the Senate from one of the bluest states, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. There are two main ways we need to fight these Tea Partiers. One is to demand the policies that will do the most for hard-working Americans, like instituting the “Buffett rule” to raise revenue from millionaires and preserving Social Security and Medicare. Sheldon Whitehouse is already fighting for those very policies, which brings me to the second thing we can do: make sure we don’t lose Democrats like Sheldon. Sheldon has an important fundraising deadline tonight at midnight, and we need to do what we can to help him before the clock strikes twelve. Contribute $25 or more to Sheldon Whitehouse’s Senate campaign before midnight tonight. With Tea Party stalwarts like Sharron Angle coming to Rhode Island to raise money to attack Sheldon, people are going to be very interested in his third quarter public financial report. That’s the report he’ll file disclosing every contribution he gets between now and the end of the third quarter (at midnight), publicly showing how much money he’s raised for his race. Reporters will comb through this report and write stories about whether or not grassroots Democrats will be able to fight off the Tea Party in our strongest districts. That could either quickly crush Tea Party hopes or turn the national narrative against Democrats, which makes this an important deadline to our support for Sheldon. Make a contribution of $25 or more to Sheldon Whitehouse before tonight’s deadline. Sheldon is one of the stars of the 2006 Senate class, the first class I helped get elected. He’s a strong progressive who has been one of the leaders in stopping Republicans from cutting Social Security and Medicare. The Tea Party knows taking out Sheldon will make Medicare and Social Security more vulnerable to cuts. They also know, as I do, that the first re-election campaign is usually the toughest. That’s why Sharron Angle showed up in Rhode Island to test the waters. Contribute $25 or more to Sheldon Whitehouse’s campaign before tonight’s midnight deadline. Together with Whitehouse supporters in Rhode Island and around the country, we’ll make sure the Tea Party thinks twice about making this race a top target. Thanks for your support, Chuck Schumer

Urgent action needed – Nat’l Assoc. For Gun Rights

 

Last week I told you some well-meaning, but in my opinion very misguided pro-gunners are working to pass a bill that could turn into a Trojan Horse for more gun control.

I was talking about H.R. 822, the so-called “National Reciprocity Act,” which could open the flood gates of gun control.

I’m calling it the National CCW Registration Act.

While the idea that all states should recognize a concealed weapons permit is sound public policy, the use of the anti-gun federal bureaucracy to implement it is simply foolish.

Can I count on you to take action RIGHT NOW? Rep. Lamar Smith is the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee that will hear H.R. 822, the National CCW Registration Act.

I need you to call House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith and make clear that you want to keep the government’s hands off your permit and that you are opposed to federal intrusion into the concealed weapons permit process.

Once the federal government is in the business of setting the standards for concealed carry permits, it’s only a matter of time before they start using that power to restrict our rights.

Now you may hear arguments that this bill doesn’t do that, and maybe that’s true… for now.

Even worse, once this bill starts moving, anyone can amend the bill with anything… and no legislation can bind a future Congress in any way.

That doesn’t count what Obamacrats in the Department of Justice might dream up as the “regulations” to carry out the legislative “intent.”

Gun owners have enough trouble with Republican-run Executive branches implementing the law improperly. Does anyone really think the Obama Administration is going to treat gun owners fairly?

I know many of you are frustrated that you can carry in some states but not others — I’m frustrated, too.

I carry concealed every day, everywhere I go, and have worked to expand the ability of citizens to carry in dozens of states.

I believe I should be able to carry concealed — without a permit — in all 50 states. That’s what “bear arms” means. Believe me, that’s a long-term policy goal for the National Association for Gun Rights.

But mark my words, H.R. 822, the National CCW Registration Act, will become nothing more than a Trojan Horse for even more federal gun control.

I understand that many who support this bill sincerely just want their right to carry respected — but cannot due to the fact that their state or another won’t do the right thing.

But the devil is truly in the details… and the details are where H.R. 822 gets sticky.

This bill isn’t just about the right to carry for self defense — it’s a battle over the role of government and the ability to restrict our Second Amendment rights.

Once gun owners let the Obamacrats start mandating whether states recognize permit reciprocity, they will want to mandate what it takes to get and keep those permits.

We’re talking about:

• More onerous standards to acquire a permit, so that only FBI agents can pass muster (look at New York’s permit system);
• Higher fees;
• More training requirements;
• A demonstration of “Need” for a permit;
• More frequent renewal periods;
• Federally-mandated waiting periods;
• A national database of all permit holders, accessible by Attorney General Eric Holder;
• An extensive, federally-created list of Criminal Safezones, where only criminals will carry and where law-abiding gun owners are vulnerable;
• The list of potential problems is endless.

I need you to call House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith at (202)225-4236 and make clear that you want to keep the government’s hands off your permit and that you oppose federal intrusion into the concealed weapons permit process.

I haven’t even mentioned that this legislation would shred the Constitutional Carry provisions that are on the books in Arizona, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming.

It doesn’t stop with just concealed carry. They’ll co-opt the bill to expand the national Brady Registration Check system to block military veterans with PTSD or individuals with misdemeanor convictions from even OWNING firearms — much less use them for self defense.

I don’t believe the intentions of the bill sponsors are intrinsically bad — they’re just naive and misguided.

Many statists in Washington will co-opt H.R. 822 as part of their grab for more federal power and less individual liberty.

Even now, the statists in Congress are trying to adopt a National ID card, complete with biometric data that they’ve forced the states to conform to their mandated drivers license “standards.” The National Association for Gun Rights has been part of a group of liberty-minded organizations which have passed state legislation forbidding cooperation with a National ID card.

While many in the institutional gun control lobby will tell you this is a step forward for CCW permit holders, make no mistake, the National CCW Registration Act is a misguided attempt to protect our rights. It’s like asking the fox to guard the hen house.

They will use this bill as the foundation to create a federal database of CCW permit holders. And then they can link it everywhere the Feds have database connections — state police, doctors and insurance companies under Obamacare, and Medicaid/Medicare.

I’m sorry, but I refuse to entrust my liberty and privacy to a “trust us, they won’t do that” approach to dealing with Obama, the gun-grabbers or frankly most politicians of either party in Washington.

I need you to make some noise, right now!

Here’s what you can do to help

1. I need you to call House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith at (202)225-4236 and make clear that you want to keep the government’s hands off your permit and you are opposed to federal intrusion into the concealed weapons permit process.
2. Once you’ve called Chairman Smith, please consider chipping in $15 or $20 to help the National Association for Gun Rights continue to fight the anti-gunners in Washington.

It’s imperative that we stop H.R. 822 — the National CCW Registration Act — before it gathers steam and support.

Liberal Republicans and so-called “conservative” Democrats are looking for an easy “pro-gun” vote to give them cover before the next election.

A Trojan Horse gun control bill like H.R. 822 is exactly the kind of legislation that will get support on both sides of the aisle in Washington D.C. And remember, the Democrat-controlled Senate has to pass it before it gets to Obama… so this bill will only get worse.

That’s why you and I have to make noise, now!

Please call House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith at (202)225-4236 and relay the message that gun owners oppose H.R. 822, the Trojan Horse gun control bill. Make clear that you want to keep the federal government’s hands off the state-run CCW permit system.

Thank you for joining me in this important fight against the National CCW Registration Act.

For Freedom,