Weekly Update

Volume 3 Issue 10

May 23 -30, 1996





THOUGHT POLICE



     MACON, GA (May 30, 1996) - A federal judge opened a sealed indictment

Tuesday charging Robert Edward Starr III and William James McCranie, Jr.

with threatening the life of ATF agent Bart McIntyre and conspiring to use a

destructive device in a crime of violence. There also were charges of three

counts of conspiring to use a destructive device as well as alleged firearm

violations. If convicted the men could be sentenced to 30 years to life in

prison on charges of knowingly assaulting a federal law enforcement officer,

or making plans to maliciously destroy government buildings and/or

structures used in interstate commerce.

     Nancy Lord, attorney for defendant Robert Starr stated "It appears that

since the BATF had no credible evidence of wrongdoing by Starr and McCranie

they now have manufactured an indictment that could put innocent men in jail

for the rest of their life. When you look at the manner and means of the

so-called conspiracy and counts in the indictment it focuses on the militia

preparing for a war against the government. The indictment cuts the heart

out of our constitution that mandates the maintenance of unorganized state

militias to defend our countrymen against all enemies foreign or domestic.

This indictment attacks the nonaggressive principle that many militia

members adhere to, that while they will not initiate force, they will defend

themselves. At face value the indictment appears to strip Americans of the

right to defend themselves. Perhaps the present administration may have

borrowed some of its 'no right to self defenses' policies and philosophies

from a former European governmental regime. I am Jewish and read The Diary

of Anne Frank and had I been a little girl in Nazi Germany I would have had

no choice but to march to the gas chambers -- unable to defend myself. Our

government seems to believe that this will be perfectly fine here, too."

     J. J. Johnson, founder of E Pluribus Unum of Ohio stated, "This

indictment is ridiculous. It smacks of a 'thought police' state. These

citizens are being held without bail for alleged 'thought crimes' against the

government. No government  building exploded. No federal agent was shot or

even touched. But there was assassination -- character assassination

committed by some news outlets and some government agents against a plumber

(McCranie) for committing the 'crime' of owning pipes, and against an

electrician (Starr) for the 'crime' of owning wire. Since these gentlemen

lived in Georgia some news outlets irresponsibly reported that they

'conspired' to blow up the Olympics and had ties with the (oh no) Michigan

Militia. All references to the well publicized 'conspiracy to blow up the

Olympics' were conspicuously absent from the indictment.

     Michigan Militia Corps Executive officer Thomas Wayne stated: "Where are

the indictments against CBS and other media outlets that contributed to this

masterpiece of malignment? Fear sells. Some media moguls exploit that fear,

lace it with innuendo, peddle it for a profit and get off with impunity.

With pictures of Olympic Stadiums resembling Roman ruins indelibly etched in

the minds of prospective jurors, it may be difficult for them to remain

impartial toward dehumanized, demonized militia members that once (so they

were told) 'conspired' to blow up the Olympics, that timeless cross-cultural

icon that epitomizes 'fair play.' Such irony. Perhaps historians in the

next century will characterize this pre-millenial Olympic year as one that

was dominated neither by loving liberals nor by concerned conservatives

but rather as an era when nearly 5 billion inhabitants of planet earth were

held hostage by an elitist minority of media manipulators that shattered

all prior world records in the arena of running rumors, throwing dirt and

jumping all over moral, patriotic citizens in their quest to capture not

only the gold but the very souls of their subscribers who innocently

believed the news."

     The arraignments are scheduled today [May 30] at 11:00 A.M. Eastern Time in

the U.S. Middle District Court.



Americans for Responsible Media

Jerry McGlothlin





OCEAN FISHING RESTRICTED



     Rules passes last week by the New England Fishery Management council

will cut in half by next year the number of days fishing boats can spend at

sea and will close some fishing grounds and limit the total groundfish

catch by summer.

     Federal officials had already closed parts of the rich Georgee Bank

fishing area and cut back the number of days boats could spend at sea in the

early 1990's to protect the supply of groundfish -- chiefly cod, haddock,

and yellowtail flounder swimming near the ocean bottom.

     The groundfish are at just one-fourth of the level considered

acceptable by regulators, but fisherman say they, too, are a threatened

species.



Deneret News

May 18, 1996





CONFISCATION IN AUSTRALIA



     Shocked by the slaughter of 35 people at a tourist site on the island of

Tasmania, Prime Minister John Howard has said gun owners will be ORDERED to

relinquish semiautomatic and automatic weapons for yet-to-be determined

payments. Pro-gun activists in Australia are holding rallies across the

country, vowing they won't part with their weapons.



Internet News Library





KILL THE MESSENGER



     By attacking the First Amendment the gun control lobby is advocating

censorship in an attempt to force their agenda on the American public. In a

February 14th news release, Rep. Charles Schumer stated:

     "Today we (the anti-gun lobby) are opening a second front in the war

to get guns off our streets. For the last decade we have been fighting in

Congress to pass rational gun control laws, and now we have our crosshairs

set squarely on the deceptive marketing plays of gun manufacturers."

     Schumer, and a host of other obsessed gun haters, petitioned the

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban advertisements that imply guns can

be used for self-defense. By Schumer's reasonings the ads are "only

commercial speech," so the government can prohibit the expression of any

idea Schumer feels is deceptive; that is, any idea he disagrees with.

     Under the power it has to prevent unfair or deceptive trade practices,

the FTC can prohibit misleading advertising.

     This newest tactic by the anti-gun lobby makes three things blatantly

obvious. First, their attack is not directed at the black market in illegal

guns. It is directed at honest people who acquire guns through legal

channels for a legal use. People who use guns are not complaining. People

who see no use for guns are. Second, having not achieved their agenda in

Congress the anti-gun lobby is attempting to get the bureaucrats to adopt a

"public policy" that congress has rejected. Their focus is the message of

the ads not methods of commercial practice. Because they know they cannot

compete in the free market place of ideas, they want to ban what they do

not like. Third, since the dangers of guns are obvious, the anti-gun lobby

must think the American public is very stupid.



Gun New Digest

Summer 1996





DROPPED PROVISIONS OF ANTI-TERRORISM BILL TO BE INCLUDED IN REVISED

IMMIGRATION BILL?



     A week after the House voted on the anti-terrorism bill, Congress was

shifting to consideration of a revised immigration bill. Perhaps not so

strangely, many of the items taken out of the anti-terrorism measure were

being brought back up in a different costume, including a listing of

"specific" crimes in which the new wiretapping authority could still be

enacted. Additionally, there are other elements of the bill which could be

revived as amendments to other legislation.



Gun News Digest

Summer 1996