Heads Up A Weekly edition of News and Views from around the country October 11, 1996 #4 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net --------------------------------------------------------------- Please Distribute Widely --------------------------------------------------------------- GOVERNMENT RETRIBUTION Remember the BATF "Good O Boys Roundup" scandal? The event may have been sponsored by the BATF, but members of many police departments attended. A lot of cops got in trouble after that story broke, too. Well, now it's get'n even time for the boys with badges and guns! It was the Gadsen Minutemen -- a militia group more famous for shooting with their cameras than their guns -- who originally broke the story. They actually attended a Good O Boys function and took pictures. And, a couple of them were interviewed on many, many news programs. So . . . a year or so ago, the police went after the group's communications officer, Mike Kemp. According to Mike, they mounted a full- scale military attack one night on his house -- complete with a chopper parked thirty feet above his backyard. Picture the press in front of the house, a noisy chopper hovering behind the house, and lots of men with guns surrounding the property. Mike feels that their true intent was to look for an excuse to shoot him, and he may be right. However, Mike was smart enough to walk out to greet them unarmed. And as it turns out, according to Mike, they forgot something important. They did not have a search warrant. Whoops! That didn't matter, though. The officers searched the house and ripped off a few things anyway. The only really interesting things they found were two little hemp plants growing on the back porch. Nothing more was said about this for about a year. Suddenly, they called a court hearing. The trial starts next month. This should be a very interesting trial to watch. Due to the Supreme Court's _Wilson_ opinion, nearly everything the police did in this case was illegal. Excessive force, with no search warrant, sounds a lot like criminal assault, terroristic threatening and breaking and entering of an occupied dwelling. If memory serves correctly, those charges should be made right after the abuse of power charges are started. Or, maybe we should just forget the whole thing and call this a police state.... Whatever your opinion, inform your Members of Congress. Either we must defend our Constitution by demanding that all government officials obey it, or we should give it up. It is time this "in between" stuff came to a screeching halt. THE NEW CENSORSHIP Slick Willie just reported that he wants to appropriate $100,000,000 of our tax dollars to create a better Internet for universities. Sure! What he did not say publicly was that he also wants to update the anti-terrorist bill next year and add the Internet as being necessary to "national security." Wouldn't that be a hoot! Then the spook agencies and the military can monitor everything we do (if they don't already). They're coming to take it away, folks. The powers that be do not like us civilian types trading information back and forth. They're loosing control of what we learn. THEY, not us, must control the information available to us. Yup! They're coming to take it away. Just watch 'em. STUPID LAW OF THE YEAR Some people still do not believe that the federal government is sincerely attempting to regulate everything in our lives from womb to tomb. So, here comes another one: In H.R. 3096 it says, "In a professional sports league game played in the United States, the head referee . . . shall . . . in the event of conflicting calls, review instant replay to determine the correct call." Don't you just love it! Washington can't stay out of anything. Whatever happened to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments? AUTHORIZED NEWS About two years ago, the national media elite started going after the Citizen's Militia community. They trashed the militia community with every media trick they could think of, and by using any idiot they could find willing to speak. I watched in disbelief, but said little because I was not militia. Then the national press started on the American Patriot community. I knew that much of the information published was incorrect; that for the most part, our Patriots were America loving people just like me. But I did not belong to any of the patriot groups, so I did not say much. Now the leftist-liberal national media elite are spouting their venomous lies and disinformation about Republicans I personally know to be honorable people. . . . Pay close attention to what you hear on the news, folks. Most of it is not true. Propaganda, it's called in other countries. Anyone from one of the above mentioned groups knows exactly how true this is! Socialists abound in the media. They don't even make an attempt at acting like they support our Constitution anymore. Our problem is, how to we fix it? Probably the only way is to write to both the station and the program's sponsors. Just flat out tell them that you will not purchase their product while they sponsor garbage. Try it. Just a few letters can do wonders. ASKING WHY Below is part of a conversation I had with an airline pilot (and newsletter reader) this morning. Herein, for reasons that will soon become obvious, we will call him "Gus." Gus has been a pilot all of his adult life, and regularly flys into many of the country's major airports. In his career, Gus had driven some of the world's largest aircraft. He agreed to answer questions without first knowing what the subject would be. Q. When was the last time you have seen a terrorist? A. Terrorist? I have never seen a terrorist. Q. When was the last time any person you know saw a terrorist? A. Never, that I have heard of. Q. Do you have any terrorists in your city? A. No. Q. Do you have any terrorists in your state? A. None I have ever heard about. Q. So, why do you think Clinton wants all of those new anti-terrorist laws? A. I have no idea. Except, maybe, for better control of the citizens. There are over four-million successful commercial airline flights in the United States every year. The key word there is "successful." Then one aircraft explodes -- for unknown reasons -- and the Washington law factory comes out with a flurry of very oppressive anti-terrorist laws. What's wrong with this picture, folks? Some major changes are needed in Washington. Please do your civic duty on Tuesday, November 5.