Friday, April 22, 2011

Kissinger up to his old tricks...Will he get his way? (Lets hope not!)

 "... creating a “world treasury department” under the UN. This long-pending goal of the elite would give the International Monetary Fund power to dictate economic policy to every country on the globe."
Globalists Attend Bevy of Policy Meetings
April 22, 2011 by Infowars Ireland

By James P. Tucker Jr.
American Free Press
Issue No.18, May 2, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trilateral Commission (TC) luminaries were bouncing like yo-yos during their meeting in Washington April 8-10, when they met at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs.
Next, they hopped up the street to an Aspen Institute session on “Values and Diplomacy” at the National Cathedral, then some darted north to the historic Bretton Woods II conference in New Hampshire. Several Aspen Institute leaders also attend Trilateral and Bilderberg meetings.
Since these sessions happened around the same time, the international elite had to agree on instructions to give the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which met in Washington over the weekend of April 16 to April 17.
Henry Kissinger was the biggest yo-yo, giving the same speech at all of these meetings. David Rockefeller, 94, had less bounce. As Rockefeller’s valet, Kissinger kept his wheelchair moving briskly.
Kissinger, visibly depressed, gave a rationale for the war on Libya that the TC and its brother group, Bilderberg, want to keep rolling, according to an inside source who has proved reliable for years. Both groups want the war extended through 2012 to generate turmoil throughout the Middle East and pressure the United States into attacking Iran on behalf of Israel.Which would also produce huge war profits.
That it would be the greatest disaster for American policy in history is not important to these meddlers. In informal comments to bystanders before climbing to the podium, Kissinger continued groaning about a [expletive deleted] weekly journal that disclosed the Arab terrorists’ role in the Libyan rebellion.
But Kissinger’s only concern was that these facts “being forced into the national press makes it more difficult” to sell the invasion of Libya. After AFP exposed this, the major media picked it up but, for the most part, folded it deep into their Libya stories.
In all three speeches, Kissinger played the reluctant damsel who was firmly convinced that the United States must put boots on the ground in Libya—among all the wars that the U.S. is already involved in. America “should always support democracy and human rights politically, economically and diplomatically, just as we championed freedom for the Captive Nations during the ColdWar,” Kissinger said. “But as a general principle, our country should do so militarily only when a national interest is also at stake.”
He called this position “pragmatic realism.” So what is America’s national interest that is “at stake”? Libya is “an exception to the rule,” he explained.
While the United States has “no vital interest at stake in Libya,” Kissinger said, “a limited military intervention solely on humanitarian grounds could be justified.”
Muammar Qadaffi’s forces had already caused heavy casualties among civilians, he claimed. But no one will know for sure whether that is even true until the dust settles and independent journalists and researchers can get into Libya to study the situation. Again posturing as a reluctant warrior, Kissinger (a cook during World War II) said:
Our idealistic goals cannot be the sole motivation for the use of force. We cannot be the world’s policeman. We cannot use military force to meet every humanitarian challenge that might arise. Where would we stop? Syria, Yemen, Algeria or Iran? What about countries that have been strong allies but do not share all our values: Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia? What about humanitarian violations in other countries, such as Ivory Coast?
In defiance of facts to justify the U.S. attack, Kissinger reached for the nuclear button:
Conduct by Libya “may tempt the Iranian regime to speed its development of a nuclear weapon. Rogue states have to remain convinced of our determination to resist nuclear proliferation.”
So, according to Kissinger, invading Libya prevents Iran from developing nuclear weapons that would threaten Israel. Kissinger was not merely mistaken, he was lying as defined by eight centuries of Anglo-Saxon common law.
It is a lie when one deliberately tells an untruth to enrich himself, injure another or both.
Here’s what Kissinger knows:
Iran is developing nuclear energy for electrical power. Iran is a member of the international group of nations opposing nuclear proliferation and allows its facilities to be inspected. Israel has unofficially had nuclear weapons since the 1960s and refuses to be inspected. This was first revealed by the late George Ball, undersecretary of state in the JFK administration and a Bilderberg luminary.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick, a leader of the Trilateralists and Bilderberg group, jumped on a food kick, also yo-yoing about the three meetings. He cited a 36-percent increase in food prices over the past year and called inflation the “biggest threat to the poor around the world.”
Start with high inflation, Zoellick said, “mix in price gyrations, and then stir in higher fuel costs, and you get a toxic brew of real pain contributing to social unrest.”
His remarks were intended to help pressure Congress into throwing more tax dollars at poor countries. The United States has long been the most generous nation on Earth, yet is routinely taken to the cleaners.
Also yo-yoing from the meetings in Washington and Bretton Woods were Trilateral-Bilderberg luminaries Larry Summers and Paul Volcker. Summers was a key White House economic adviser, and Volcker is a former Fed chairman who recently advised Barack Obama on a special economic panel until his replacement by General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt.
Both pushed hard for creating a “world treasury department” under the UN. This long-pending goal of the elite would give the International Monetary Fund power to dictate economic policy to every country on the globe.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Lets face it, Muslims hate Christians and Obama is a Muslim... So what does that tell you?

IVORY COAST IN CHAOS
Christians massacred by Muslims
Obama directs U.S. policy to support radical Islam

Radical Muslims in Africa's Ivory Coast, with the military backing of the United Nations and France, are perpetrating a massacre on the country's Christians while the Obama administration stands by and does nothing.
Now, Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara's largely Muslim forces have kept Christian Laurent Gbagbo, the current president, in his Abidjan residence under siege.
In retaliation, Gbagbo forces launched two mortars and a rocket at the residence of the French ambassador and French helicopter gunships responded by attacking Gbagbo forces, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
In a report issued last week, Human Rights Watch documented that forces loyal to Ouattara killed hundreds of civilians and raped more than 20 alleged Gbagbo supporters as they burned at least 10 villages in the Ivory Coast's western region.
"People interviewed by Human Rights Watch described how, in village after village, pro-Ouattara forces, now called the Republican forces of Côte d'Ivorie (Forces Républicaines Côte d'Ivorie, FRCI) summarily executed and raped Gbagbo supporters in their homes, as they worked in the fields, as they fled, or as they tried to hide in the bush," the report noted. "The fighters often targeted people by ethnicity, and the attacks disproportionately affected those too old or feeble to flee."
On Saturday, reports from the Ivory Coast published by the London Evening Standard indicate that more than 200 bodies, some of them burned alive, have been found in the country.
The newspaper reported the concern of the International Rescue Committee that even if the military showdown in Abidjan were to end, the looting, hostility, bloodshed, reprisal killings and sexual assaults will continue to escalate in communities across the country.
The silence of the Obama administration on the violence in the Ivory Coast makes hypocritical the president's declaration in his May 28 speech on Libya that U.S. military action there was necessary to prevent a massacre by Gadhafi that "would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world."
The truth is that Obama, like the French and the U.N., support the radical Muslims that have taken over the "rebel forces" in Libya, just as Obama, the French and the U.N. support the Muslims in the Ivory Coast trying to remove from power the current Christian president, even if the Muslim supporters of Ouattara engage in massacres and mass rape against Christians.
What the Ivory Coast situation makes clear is that the consistency in the Obama administration's policy regarding the turmoil in North Africa is that Obama directs U.S. policy to support radical Islam, even to the point of being hypocritical in arguing United States policy is motivated by a desire to protect human rights and prevent massacre in the various ongoing conflicts in countries including the Ivory Coast and Libya.
This is the ugly truth the mainstream media in the United States will never openly report.
Ivory Coast background
The dynamics of the Ivory Coast turmoil are fairly simple to understand.
The current president, Laurent Gbagbo, is locked in a controversy with challenger Alassane Ouattara over the contested results of a Nov. 28 election.
The Ivory Coast Election Commission, or CEI, declared Ouattara the winner with 54.1 percent of the vote, only to have the Constitutional Council nullify the CEI's decision and declare that Gbagbo won with 51 percent of the vote after votes attributed to voter fraud were thrown out.
Most of the international community, including the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, has rejected this result, declaring instead that Ouattara is the legitimate winner.
Both Gbabgo and Ouattara have taken competing oaths of office, with each claiming to be the legitimate winner of the Nov. 28 election.
Now, for what's really going on.
Gbagbo is a Christian who is supported mainly by Christians that dominate the southern part of the Ivory Coast.
Ouattara is a Muslim who is supported mainly by Muslims that dominate the northern part of the Ivory Coast.
Will Christianity long survive in the Ivory Coast?
Red Alert is getting inundated by emails from concerned Ivory Coast insiders who are worried Christianity may not survive in Africa if the international community ousts Gbabgo.
If civil war comes to the Ivory Coast, the violence will almost certainly descend into tribal violence, with the risk that thousands, if not tens of thousands, of innocent Ivory Coast citizens being massacred.
The underlying issue, rarely discussed in the controversy is whether the Ivory Coast will tip toward Islam should Ouattara end up replacing Gbabgo as the next president of the Ivory Coast.

Related story (Warning! Extremely graphic!) ...Homosexuals burned alive in Iraq (video)  ...apparently, Obama loves this or else he would have done something about it.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Are gun owners hypocrites? Check your 'sights' here to find out!

"How many headlines have we seen over the past two years about the usurper camped out in the White House going to grab your firearms? Endless. There are approximately 85 million gun owners in this country. How many of them voted for the putative president, Obama/Soetoro/Dunham? If every single gun owner in this country had gotten off their backsides and voted against him in November 2008, not even vote fraud could have ushered such a despicable liar into office." ~ Devvy Kidd at News With Views 

HURRY! FIGHT THIS GUN BILL! (YAWN)

"The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally ... enable the people to resist and triumph over them." Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, p. 3:746-7, 1833 
Everyday my mail box brings in several urgent notices to fight some gun bill either in the Outlaw Congress or the states:

3/16/2011----- Original Message -----
PASS IT ON. CALL YOUR SENATORS THURSDAY!!!!!!
URGENT!
Senate to Consider Anti-gun Funding Resolution on Thursday
Gun Owners of America has written Senate members to ....
continued: http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/05-594/

Here's another one:

NJ Continues To Trash 2nd Amendment! March 17, 2011

New Jersey Continues to Trash Second Amendment in Right to Carry Lawsuit - Second Amendment Committee

"NJ Attorney General Argues That The Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms Does Not Apply Outside the Home and That the Public Needs to be Protected From Those Legally Carrying!! On March 16, the New Jersey Attorney General filed its final lower court response in the recently-filed lawsuit challenging New Jersey's extreme and subjective handgun carry laws. As in its previous papers, the Attorney General again trashed the Second Amendment, arguing that the right to bear arms does not apply outside the home, and that New Jersey's carry laws are constitutional and necessary to protect the public from those who legally carry firearms."

Same old, same old and it's been going on for decades. Now, one would think that gun owners in this country would have gotten fed up a long time ago with this never ending game of back and forth on the Second Amendment. After all, the solution is there, it's always been there, but for some reason, no one wants to cure the cancer, just treat the symptoms. That is especially true for politicians. After all, there's no reelection in the cure, only more Band Aids.

How many headlines have we seen over the past two years about the usurper camped out in the White House going to grab your firearms? Endless. There are approximately 85 million gun owners in this country. How many of them voted for the putative president, Obama/Soetoro/Dunham? If every single gun owner in this country had gotten off their backsides and voted against him in November 2008, not even vote fraud could have ushered such a despicable liar into office.

Yet, the numbers tell us a whole lot of gun owners must have voted for Obama/Soetoro. Why? Because the fraud in the White House, Mr. Cool, had his mojo working and promised hope and change. Guess their Second Amendment rights didn't count for much when sweet talked by such a skilled snake oil salesman who couldn't possibly (and never intended) deliver what he promised the masses.

Millions of words have been written about the Second Amendment, never ending court cases and endless bushels of money thrown at politicians to "fight for our Second Amendment rights". Yet, gun owners are still fighting battles instead of decisively winning the war.

Do gun owners really want to stop the constant assault on the Second Amendment? Quite frankly, so far, I don't think so. Oh, there are many who do, but it's a very small percentage of gun owners pushing for the solution instead of more hurry up and call the Outlaw Congress or your state house to fight another gun bill. Why, some gun owners believe the right to own and bear arms means their hunting rifle for deer season; I kid you not.

What is the final solution? The constitutional militia reconstituted by the state legislatures. That is the ONLY constitutional solution that will stop federal and state gun laws and activist judges interfering with your gun rights. Why? Because as Edwin has written based on historical facts and the whole wording of the Second Amendment: if you're between the ages of 16 and 60 you are required to own a firearm and be part of the militia. Not private militias, of which there are many who are peacefully training and being prepared for natural disasters in their area. However, there are no constitutional militia in this country as mandated by the Second Amendment.

Like millions of Americans, I didn't fully understand or appreciate the real meaning of the whole Second Amendment until I began reading Edwin's columns back in 2005 on NWVs. These are a must read:


Once you fully understand the intent of the militia as is defined in the Second Amendment, then you will begin to understand, as I did, why all this time and money expended on fighting one anti-gun bill or another thousand is simply a waste of time and money. It hasn't cured the problem, it just drags it out in one court room battle after another. All the emails screeching the UN is going to take your gun maybe good for fund raising, but I never see the real solution in the sales pitch.

I ask again: Do gun owners in this country want to stop all the gun grabbing bills or do you want to continue treating the symptoms? Every time I see another email with the subject matter: Stop this gun bill, I trash it because they're all the same.

What can you do? First, do like I did and get fully educated on the issue. Start with the two columns cited above. You can also listen to a few of Edwin's columns on audio for free; click here. I recorded them so that every American can listen and learn. Download to a CD or your IPod and listen on a plane or a train or the bus. Time is in short supply, but without a complete understanding of what the real militia to maintain a free state actually means, you cannot help defeat our enemies. I've sent dozens of copies to state reps and senators in my state and half dozen others asking them to please reconstitute the militia under the control of the state. Not counting more than 18,000 hard copies over the past years since I recorded that special edition. Just imagine what would happen if 40-50 MILLION gun owners did the same. State legislators would feel the heat of the 2012 elections.

Think it wouldn't make a difference with your state legislator? Of course it would and it would also tell your state legislator you have their back because the stupid and ignorant in the state houses who hate the Second Amendment will go after them if a bill is introduced with slash and burn labels like radicals. Patrick Henry was called a radical. He gave several speeches on the purse and the sword. If not for Patrick Henry, the "radical", it's unlikely there would have been a Bill of Rights at all. So, let the name calling begin and we'll see who wins the war.

I guarantee you that if the millions of gun owners in this country don't go after the cure, nothing will change no matter which party holds power in the Outlaw Congress or your state capitol. If you are a member of Gun Owners of America, the NRA or other gun rights organizations, write them a short letter asking them to help lead the way in reconstituting the constitutional militia in the states; include a copy of the CD. Since they are pro Second Amendment, I don't know why they won't come out on the front lines to advocate for the true meaning of the Second Amendment, do you?

Of course, there will be all kinds of screeching and hysteria from gutless cowards like Chuckie Schumer, Michael Bloomberg (Fascist mayor of NYC), the incredibly, stupid empty headed, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY] and many others. Forget them and drown out their ignorance with the truth and persistence. Focus on your state rep and senator. Get your local gun organization together, find out who can get to your state capitol and send a delegation to meet with your public servants. Bring my CD (for which I profit not a penny) to give to him/her, and if you can afford it (pool your $$ and buy two copies), purchase Dr. Vieira's book, Constitutional Homeland Security: A Call for Americans to Revitalize the Militia of the Several States. Volume I, The Nation in Arms; one for your state rep and one for your state senator.

Lots of fine books are out there on the right to own and bear arms, But A Call for Americans to Revitalize the Militia of the Several States is the definitive work on the history of the Second Amendment every gun owner should know. Edwin is working on Vol. II and once it's published, I'll get a few copies and get it to my state rep and a few of his colleagues. In my case, I won't bother with my state senator. He's another Republican who wouldn't know what the U.S. Constitution said if James Madison stood in front of him and read it word for word.

Now, where are my fellow Texans who are gun owners and believe in the Second Amendment? Are you willing to do what I've done or just sit on the side lines? It doesn't cost anything to download the CD except the cost of a blank CD. If you can't make it to Austin, send a short letter with the CD to your state rep; will cost you less than a buck in postage. Then follow up phone calls. Is that so difficult to win this war instead of just more skirmishes? How about you up in Montana or over in Kentucky? Do you want the solution or just more "call your congress critter"?
It will take only one state to bring itself back into constitutional compliance and other states will follow. Okay, realistically, it won't happen in California or New York. Not that you shouldn't try, you should. If your state rep or senator is an ignorant anti-gun zealot like Carolyn McCarthy, it would be a waste of time, but you can get the above mentioned materials to your local gun group and contact Gun Owners of America, the NRA and others asking them to put their considerable weight behind this effort. Because, guess what? I can tell you as sure as the sun shines that unless we see this happen, the crack down on guns (and ammunition) will continue with more and more laws. Gun owners will continue "fighting" gun "laws" with more of their money and time only to get little for their efforts. Kind of like trying to climb a sand dune.

How about stop doing the same thing that brings the same losing results? Either you're sick and tired and fed up with worn out non-solutions or you're willing to work towards the solution. The choice is yours and I hope it will be the constitutional one.

Educational links:

Order: Constitutional Homeland Security: A Call for Americans to Revitalize the Militia of the Several States.
Volume I, The Nation in Arms
$19.95 ($20.95 for Virginia residents) to: Dr. Edwin Vieira,
52 Stonegate Ct., Front Royale, VA 22630



1 - Go look at this newspaper I scanned many years to and continue to link over the years. 'Our civilian-military face-off' (Sacramento Bee, November 30, 1997)
2 - Second Amendment Committee


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2nd Amendment at stake: Will your shotgun be illegal? ...Obama is trying to make it so!

Update: Be sure to read the post following this: Are gun owners hypocrites? Check your 'sights' here to find out! ...a must read for all gunowners! ~ Storm'n Norm'n

"This is not just an issue for gun owners. This is an issue of the Obama administration overreaching, and violating the Constitution in the process. Restricting our rights by regulatory fiat should concern every American." ~ sourceThe Landmark Report

Could Your Shotgun Soon be Outlawed? Maybe, If the ATF Has Its Way
Source: The Blaze

What’s the definition of a “shotgun?” According to Dictionary.com it’s “a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.” For the gun enthusiasts, that’s only partly true, as there is also the option of using slugs. But what if there’s another addition that will soon be added to the definition? How about, illegal.
In a series of fascinating, and eerie, posts over at the blog Beregond’s Bar (and linked on Redstate.com), author “Tom” pens a four-part series on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and their new campaign to change the definition of the term “shotgun.” A change, based on a recent study,* that could soon make some of them illegal. But as Tom points out, the implications for all guns are chilling.
Below are excerpts from the series. Click on the appropriate link to read more.
Part 1, which focuses on changing the term “sporting use” in order to ban certain shotguns:
The Obama administration is seeking once again to do via regulation what they would never be able to do via legislation. This time shotguns are in the crosshairs, specifically certain popular imported weapons.
[...]
Sporting use is one of the three main thrusts of gun control efforts in America. The other two are racism and those who openly advocate complete bans except for military and police. (The complete ban advocates often hide under cover of sporting use, but that and the racist history of gun control are topics for another day.
Sporting use was how the original distinction was made about what weapons would be subject to a special tax in the National Firearms Act (NFA) in 1934, and again in Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968. The congressional power to tax was used selectively to make ownership of weapons the government didn’t like burdensome and expensive. This was gun control via the back door, as even the ATF admits. As would become the pattern, politicians found that actually dealing with crime and criminals was difficult and expensive. Blaming guns and passing a law to look like they were doing something about it was much simpler.
Part 2, which notes that the administration and the ATF’s definition of “sporting use” includes a list of things that cannot apply to such use. Things that are common in hunting and self-defense:
In this case the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is seeking to master the definition of the term “sporting use” to “traditional” sports, things similar to what might have been found in 1934 when the Treasury Department first began regulating firearms. The ATF “Study on the Importability of Certain Shotguns” (PDF) limits “sporting purpose.”
However, consistent with past court decisions and Congressional intent, the working group recognized hunting and other more generally recognized or formalized competitive events similar to the traditional shooting sports of trap, skeet, and clays.
In order to decide what shotguns fit the “sporting purpose” definition the study comes up with a list of characteristics that aren’t sporting. Nobody has yet taken to bayoneting deer or skeet as far as I know, so I’m not going to raise a big stink about bayonet lugs being on the list of features that aren’t particularly suited for sporting purposes. (Please stop shouting that the Constitution of the United States says nothing about “sporting purpose.” We’ll look at why the “sporting purpose” rule violates the constitution in Part 3.)
One major problem (aside from the constitution) is that many of the features the ATF study group settled on make a shotgun particularly useful for self defense, especially home defense. Here are the characteristics that the study has decided are unsuitable for sporting use:
(1) Folding, telescoping, or collapsible stocks;
(2) bayonet lugs;
(3) flash suppressors;
(4) magazines over 5 rounds, or a drum magazine;
(5) grenade-launcher mounts;
(6) integrated rail systems (other than on top of the receiver or barrel);
(7) light enhancing devices;
(8) excessive weight (greater than 10 pounds for 12 gauge or smaller);
(9) excessive bulk (greater than 3 inches in width and/or greater than 4 inches in depth);
(10) forward pistol grips or other protruding parts designed or used for gripping the shotgun with the shooter’s extended hand.
Some of these features, such as folding stocks and larger capacity magazines clearly are useful in sports if you include practical shooting sports. 
Part 3, which looks at how “sporting use” stacks up to the Constitution and how it came into use:
But there is a far more basic objection that must be raised to this new attempt at regulatory gun ban- Nowhere in the constitution of the United States is there anything about a “sporting purpose.” The second amendment says:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Like all rights of Americans, the rights exist because you are a person. The Constitution is a contract we have with the central government to protect those rights against all enemies, foreign and domestic. One of the enumerated rights is the right to keep and bear arms. Nary a “sporting purpose” in sight in the entire document. So where did it come from? 
And finally, Part 4, which shows that the ATF’s “sporting use” definition puts all guns, not just certain shotguns, at risk of being outlawed:
One factor that jumps out from the current ATF study is that it differs from the Clinton gun ban in a critical way. The Clinton ban looked at guns and said if it could accept a high capacity magazine and had any 2 other characteristics then it was banned. Thus you could have a magazine and a pistol grip, or a magazine and night sights, and still be legal. Few people missed having a bayonet lug, and grenade launchers and grenades had essentially been banned from civilian hands since the NFA became law in 1934. The current study says that any ONE item on a list, including a magazine that holds more than five rounds or a place to attach a flashlight so you can see the burglar in your home, and the gun is banned.
So the problem doesn’t end with shotguns. The current study refers to the conclusions drawn in prior ATF studies of rifles in 1989 and 1998, and handguns in 1968. It also draws on the NFA and the GCA (Gun Control Act of 1968) to justify the “sporting purpose” test, and the narrow interpretation that the ATF places on the test. The justifications are all linked together, like a knitted sweater. Pull on the piece of yarn called “imported shotguns” and you find when it’s unraveled enough that you’re tugging on the “domestic shotguns” yarn. Only now the “imported rifle” bit of yarn is hanging loose, just begging for someone to tug on it. Unravel that a bit and you reach “domestic rifles.” A similar bit of unraveling is likely to happen with the piece of yarn labelled “handgun.”
Each piece is well worth the time it takes to read it. Meanwhile, the ATF is taking comments on its study. Tom lets you know how here.

But here’s the catch: in order to let the ATF know what you think, you have to give it your mailing address.

Interesting.



*According to Tom, the study “spends a lot of time showing that hunting, trap and skeet, and target shooting are sports, but plinking and practical shooting sports are not REALLY sports, and therefore guns that are particularly suitable for, or readily adaptable to those sports shouldn’t be allowed into the country.

UPDATE:

Jack Minor of the Greeley Gazette covered the ATF’s study, too. He puts in terms of “military”-style shotguns vs. others. But, he notes, according to the specifications used, “military” could apply to so many shotguns:
The ATF completed a study regarding the importability of certain shotguns. The basis for a possible ban is based on a loosely defined “Sporting Purpose” test. Using the vague definition almost all pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns could be banned as they are all capable of accepting a magazine, box or tube capable of holding more than 5 rounds. Other characteristics determined to be “military” by the ATF can also be used as a basis for a ban.
Ironically, many shotguns with “military” features are currently being used in shooting competitions held by the USPSA, IDPA and IPSC. The rules could also result in obscure regulations where an individual would be unsure if he is violating them or not.
Dudley Brown, Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, said if the ATF succeeds with the banning of tactical shotguns it “will be the most dangerous interpretation of the 1968 Gun Control Act ever envisioned and will outlaw thousands of perfectly legitimate home defense shotguns.”
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Source for the following: Fox News

U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' Deserves Human Rights Status
By Jonathan Wachtel

United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing issues of international peace and security to devote an entire day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.”
A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that would grant the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Mother Nature.
Treaty supporters want the establishment of legal systems to maintain balance between human rights and what they perceive as the inalienable rights of other members of the Earth community -- plants, animals, and terrain.
Communities and environmental activists would be given more legal power to monitor and control industries and development to ensure harmony between humans and nature. Though the United States and other Western governments are supportive of sustainable development, some see the upcoming event, “Harmony with Nature,” as political grandstanding -- an attempt to blame environmental degradation and climate change on capitalism.
“The concept ‘Mother Earth’ is not universally accepted,” said a spokesman from the British Mission to the U.N. about Bolivia’s proposal. “In general, our view is that we should focus on tackling important sustainable development issues through existing channels and processes.” 
The General Assembly two years ago passed a Bolivia-led resolution proclaiming April 22 as “International Mother Earth Day.” The measure was endorsed by all 192 member states. But Bolivian President Evo Morales envisioned much more, vowing in a speech to U.N. delegates that a global movement had begun to lay “out a Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.”
Morales, who repeatedly says “the central enemy of Mother Earth is capitalism,” called for creating a charter that defends the right to life for all living things. Morales, who was named World Hero of Mother Earth by the General Assembly, has since made great strides in his campaign.
In January, Bolivia became the world’s first nation to grant the natural environment equal rights to humans. Bolivia’s Law of Mother Earth is heavily influenced by the spiritual indigenous Andean world outlook that revolves around the earth deity Pachamama, roughly translated to Mother Earth.
The Bolivian law establishes 11 rights for nature that include: the right to life and to exist; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered; the right to have nature’s processes free from human alteration. The law also establishes a Ministry of Mother Earth to act as an ombudsman, which will ensure nature is “not being affected my mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities.”
Emboldened by this triumph, Morales’ goal is to emulate his domestic achievement as a U.N. treaty. In a 2008 address to a U.N. forum on indigenous people, he said the first step in saving the Earth is to “eradicate capitalism” and to force wealthy industrialized countries to “pay their environmental debt.” Morales presented 10 points, or Evo’s Ten Commandments, as they are affectionately called by devotees, to save the planet.
Among them is a call to end the capitalist system, and a world without imperialism or colonialism. Respect for Mother Earth is Commandment 6. U.N. critics slammed the decision to devote an entire day debating Mother Earth legislation as not only a waste of time and resources, but a major blunder.
“The UN is a one-act show,” said U.N. watchdog Anne Bayefsky, of Eye on the U.N., in which “Western democracies are responsible for the world’s ills and developing countries are perpetual victims.”
Bayefsky said the General Assembly’s focus on Mother Earth distracts from more pressing issues and problems at the U.N.
“The rights of inanimate objects violated by developed countries are considered a useful focal point this month,” she said, adding that, “Syria is scheduled to be elected next month to the U.N.’s top “human” rights body, and Iran is on the U.N.’s top women’s rights body.” Syria is one of the sponsors of the “Mother Earth” treaty.
Bolivia’s ambassador to the U.N., Pablo Solon, who will represent Morales at the debate and ‘expert’ panel discussions at U.N. headquarters, said, “Presently many environmentally harmful human activities are completely legal,” including those that cause climate change.
“If legal systems recognized the rights of other-than-human beings,” he says, such as mountains, rivers, forests and animals, “courts and tribunals could deal with the fundamental issues of environmental contamination.”
It is not clear if Bolivia’s new tough environmental laws will actually go as far as to protect life forms like insects, but the legislation does include all living creatures.