Weekly Update - A publication of the Michigan Militia Corps

Volume 3, Issue 30

October 3, 1996





Land of the FREE? You'd Better Look Again Folks.



        On Monday, September 30th, our wonderful, benevolent Congress sent

to President Clinton several gun control provisions as part of the omnibus

spending bill. These provisions were added to this spending bill in the form

of amendments. The practice of attaching amendments to bills that have no

relationship to the stated title of the bill is customary and accepted by

Congress. The President signed this bill into law late Monday night after

both houses had overwhelmingly passed it (House: 370-37; Senate: 84-15).

        The antigunners in Congress succeeded in passing these amendments in

the name of defending women and children. Despite the rhetoric, the

provisions will not accomplish what was claimed and will blow even more holes

in our Second Amendment freedoms. What follows is a brief summary of what

passed, the practical problems with those provisions, and a listing of who

voted against them.

     Road-block Gun Ban (Sec. 657 of the Treasury-Postal portion of HR 3610)



* Sets up thousands of gun ban zones across roads, statewide, where local

police or the BATF can arrest unsuspecting drivers who have a firearm in the

car. Victims will face 5 years in prison. This provision (also known as the

Kohl amendment) creates gun ban zones nearly one-half mile in diameter around

every school in the country even though a similar bill was deemed

unconstitutional by the supreme Court last year (US v Lopez, 1995).



* Anyone without a pistol carry license driving through a zone with an

unloaded firearm that is not in a locked container or rack faces 5 years

in prison. (This would apply even to off-duty police officers, despite

ineptly drafted exceptions in the Kohl language). People who live in states

that allow people to drive freely with guns, either in plain view or in the

glove compartment, can now be victimized by anti-gun police and/or BATF

agents.



* There a just a couple of other quirks that result from the law: a) Because

of the way "school" is defined in Title 18 of the U.S. Code, the school zone

gun ban could outlaw the possession of firearms by parents who home school

their children; and b) For a person who lives within 1,000 feet of a school,

any hunting trip would constitute a legal labyrinth. He or she could not

carry their gun to a car parked on the street unless it was determined that

such action was approved by school officials.



        Domestic Confiscation (Sec. 653 of the Treasury-Postal portion of HR

3610)



* Frank Lautenberg originally cosponsored the so-called domestic confiscation

provision with anti-gun Senators Dianne Feinstein and Ed Kennedy as S. 1632.

The largest wholesale, firearms confiscation effort in decades, this

provision bans thousands upon thousands of Americans from owning firearms for

life and orders their guns seized. For now this gun ban only applies to

domestic dispute misdemeanors, but it sets a very bad precedent, since

previously only felons have been stripped of their rights. (Note: This

provision could strip many law-enforcement officers, previously convicted

of domestic violence misdemeanors, of their ability to carry firearms.)



* The Lautenberg-Barr amendment which passed the Congress threatens to

disarm the very women that it is supposed to help. The provision would impose

a lifetime gun ban on anyone who has been convicted of "using or attempting

to use ... physical force" in a domestic situation. Of course, this "use of

force" language can cover anyone (both men and women) who get involved in a

little spat between spouses, roommates, etc.



* The "use or attempted use of force" language will not only affect women who

might throw a lamp at their spouse (like the First Lady), it will also

endanger parents who spank their children. Parents convicted of a domestic

misdemeanor for spanking will now have to forfeit their guns or else become

felons -- for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. This

provision federalizes a state issue and is clearly unconstitutional under

the 2nd and 10th Amendments, just for starters.



        Everything, including the kitchen sink, out into HR 3610



* Legislators also threw in the study on placing (dangerous) taggants in

black and smokeless powders, a provision which had previously been defeated

in Congress. (Source: Sec. 113(2) of the general provisions of the Justice

Department Title in HR 3810)



* The bill gives the BATF a PAY INCREASE of almost $100 million dollars for

next year. $16 million in the regular budget plus an additional $66 million

for so-called antiterrorism efforts. (Source: Titles I and VII of the

Treasury-Postal provisions)



* HR 3610 continues the language included in the previous year's budget

prohibiting the BATF from "investigating or acting upon applications for

relief from federal firearms disabilities." This means that non-violent

offenders who lose their gun rights won't be getting them restored any time

soon. (Source: Title I of the Treasury-Postal provisions)



* The so-called digital telephony provision will threaten the rights of

everyone in this nation. (Source: Sec. 110 of Commerce State Justice

provisions) The funding in this provision will be used to force telephone

companies to retrofit existing telephone equipment in order to facilitate the

ability of government officials to wiretap citizens. This would be similar to

requiring home builders to put microphones in the walls of every home so that

the FBI could more easily eavesdrop on conversations.



        The following Representatives from Michigan voted against this bill:

Garcia and Hoekstra.

        The following  Representatives from Michigan that missed the vote:

Collins and Conyers

        All other Representatives from Michigan voted for this bill and must

be held accountable for their actions!



GOA Alert, October 2, 1996





An American Nightmare:

What Happens if Bill Clinton is Re-elected?



        The fact that America is in a moral freefall should be quite evident

to even the casual observer. The decline in our morality and culture just in

the five years from 1990 to 1995 is dramatic. In 1990, who would have ever

believed that the President of the U.S. and his first lady would openly

advocate and push the homosexual agenda (placing 35 or more homosexuals in

the cabinet or the upper echelons of government) and openly push the

abortionist agenda as well.

        Who would have believed in 1990 that the U.S. government would openly

kill innocent men, women, and children (as at Ruby Ridge and Waco) and

arrogantly claim they had done nothing wrong. 

        We were told by the media and political pundits in 1992 that the

morality of Bill Clinton had nothing to do with his ability to govern. This

is, of course, total nonsense. While the morals (and spiritual life) of our

leaders may (unfortunately) reflect the values of the people, these morals do

have consequences in the life and destiny of a nation and the actions of its

government. This is especially true of America which was (and still is)

dedicated as "One Nation, under God."

        Today, there is a general reluctance to connect aspects of

politicians' personal lives to their political performances. Yet a study of

the moral fiber - or lack of it - and political leaders' public performances

throughout history shows far more correlation between the two than people

would like to admit.

        It is as that great Rabbi of Nazareth once declared: "Do men gather

grapes from thorn bushes? ...every good tree beers good fruit, but a bad tree

bears bad fruit." How many thorn bushes have existed among the leaders and

rulers of men, and how destructive and devastating their fruit has been!

        Marx, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Khomeini are just a few recent

examples of immensely evil and personally corrupt men, whose rule brought

destruction upon millions of people. Could Bill Clinton ultimately be another

such example?

        Marx, who grew up a devoted Christian, later apparently sold his soul

to the Devil, and became possessed with a destructive urge to which he

himself attests: "The hellish vapors rise and fill the brain, till I go mad

and my heart is utterly changed. See this sword? The prince of darkness sold

it to me, for he beats the time and gives the signs; ever more boldly I plan

the dance of death." (Spielmann)

        In The Pale Maiden, Marx confesses: "Thus heaven I've forfeited, I

know it full well, my soul, once true to God, is chosen for hell." And in

Human Pride, Marx writes: "With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the

face of the world. And see the collapse of this pygmy giant, whose fall will

not stifle my armor. Then wander godlike and victorious through the ruins

of this world." And so he did, his ideology of Communism becoming the cause

of millions upon millions of deaths.

        Something similar happened to the young Adolf Hitler. Joseph Carr

relates how, after attending Wagner's Rierzl opera, Hitler had an amazing

occultic experience which set him aside from that moment for his ultimate

sinister role in history.

        What happened in the brief encounter was, for Hitler, a state of

"complete ecstasy and rapture, in which he transferred the character Rienzl...

with visionary power, to the plane of his own existence." (The Twisted Cross)

        Both Stalin and Mao were deeply corrupt leaders, who did not shrink

from killing and mass-murdering their own people, even their trusted

comrades, to remain the undisputed leaders of their evil empires. Reading

about them leaves no doubt that the moral fiber of a man's character, much

more than his ideology, is the reason for his bestial behavior.

        If we are honest with ourselves, we know that our ideologies grow out

of the moral dispositions which have formed our characters and outlook in the

earlier stages of our development. For this reason the study of morality and

character is so important.

        Thus it is not just the different ideologies that have been

responsible for the wars and massacres -- but the evil and corrupted

characters of those who used these ideologies to become undisputed,

megalomaniacal dictators.

        Even if Saddam Hussein, Muammar Ghadaffi, Ayatolla Khomeini and Hafez

Assad did not - or have not yet-- massacred millions of their own people,

they indisputable show the same cruel traits of these viciously evil rulers.

And so do Yasser Arafat and certain powerful U.S. political leaders. And like

Hitler, Stalin and Mao, they have been able to come so far because so few

political leaders of character and courage are left in the world to resist

them.

        No decent (or thinking) American can forget what the President did

within hours of his 1993 inaugural, when he passed executive orders that

promoted abortions and basically legalized homosexuality in the military.

Clinton knew that American voters have a very short memory, and it was the

perfect time for him to ram through some of his wicked agenda. How many

people even remember those executive orders of three years ago?

        The prospect of four more years of Bill Clinton is, in reality, no

scarier than four years of any other Establishment hack such as those who

passed the so-called anti-terrorism bill and the recent amendments to the

Omnibus Spending Bill. The truly frightening part, however, is the thought of

four more years of Janet Reno, Hillary, Marxist apologist Laura D'Andrea

Tyson, earth worshipper Al Gore, David Kessler, Donna Shalala, and the rest

of the Clinton gang.

        There are many "politically incorrect" groups who may need to head

for the hills after the election. After all, Clinton has the (questionable)

"authority" to declare any group a terrorist organization and shut them down.

Who would be at the top of the hit list. The Militias can count on the

undying hatred of the government and their lackeys in the media, even though

they spend a great more time organizing politically than they do in the

woods. Gun owners and gun dealers could also be in harm's way during a second

Clinton term, especially if Janet Reno remains as Attorney General as she

remains with a venomous hatred of law-abiding gun owners and the Second

Amendment.

        The alternate media can count on persecution and harassment if the

Clintons win the election. Radio talk shows would be especially vulnerable,

since every radio station in America is licensed by the government, and talk

radio can inform listeners in a more timely manner than print media.

        Squashing the hundreds of politically incorrect newsletters and the

various computer networks would be a harder (and probably impossible) task,

but that wouldn't prevent the censorship storm troopers from trying.

        Pro-lifers and anti-abortion activists have already been ruthlessly

assaulted by the feds. Non-violent abortion protesters have been beaten by

police, arrested and jailed on trumped-up charges (including "terrorism") and

found liable for huge monetary sums in lawsuits brought by abortionists.

        Churches and ministries who preach an uncompromising Biblical message

or speak out against the endless evils of Big Brother government will

certainly draw attention. There is already a ready handle with which to make

those churches who have been conned into the "non-profit" trap toe the line,

even though they are not and have never been required to have this so-called

"non-profit" status.

        Home schoolers and church-affiliated schools would be on the

Clintons' enemies list. As many as 1 million children are being educated at

home in America today, and enrollment at private Christian schools is growing

steadily as concerned parents flee the moral and intellectual decline of

public education. These children are a major obstacle since they are being

educated and trained in Biblical morality rather than being lobotomized,

dumbed down and paganized by the government school cartel. Beware of the

voucher movement that is being promoted mainly by Republicans. Government

money to private schools will ultimately mean government control of those

institutions.

        Honest, hard-working Americans from blue-collar workers to affluent

businessmen are hated by the Marxist oriented Clinton administration. Factory

workers and other people on the lower half of the economic spectrum will

continue to see their job prospects and wages decline, as the Clintons and

their Republican allies continue to do everything possible to send American

jobs to Third World Communist sweatshops.

        Those who have accumulated financial assets are also at risk, as the

Clintons and their economic advisors greedily covet the trillions of dollars

in corporate pension plans. The 15% tax on pensions is far from a dead issue.

        Landowners might see their once valuable acreage become worthless or

liquid when it is declared a federal wetland, or a sanctuary for some

"endangered species." Sadly most people who could be big financial losers are

totally unaware of their vulnerability to government's insatiable greed and

lust for their hard-earned assets.

        Perhaps the best hope for America in the '96 election will be in the

House of Representatives. Most of the freshman congressmen who were elected

in 1994 have bravely stood against the Clintons, Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich

(i.e., Bill's GOP partners in socialism).

        The so-called "Conservative Action Team" has been a thorn in the side

of the Establishment, and more need to be added to their ranks. Another 40-50

real Americans in the House could be a major obstacle to growing federal

tyranny.



MIA, January 1996



***



To subscribe to the Weekly Update, put out weekly by Michigan Militia Corps

state command, simply send a message conveying that to xxx.