Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a
fellow Black Panther named Alex Rackley needed to die.
Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was first tied to a chair.
Once safely immobilized his ‘friends’ tortured him for
hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him.
When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther
member Warren Kimbo took Mr. Rackley outside and put a
bullet in his head. Rackley’s body was later found floating
in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.
Perhaps at this point you’re curious as to what happened
to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that’s only eight years
later, only one of the killers was still in jail.
The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship
to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern
Connecticut State College.
Isn’t that something? As a ’60s radical you can pump a
bullet into someone’s head,and a few years later, in the
same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only
in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by
boiling the water for Mr. Rackley’s torture. Some years
later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School
Board.
How in the world do you think these killers got off so
easy?
Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two
people who camr to the defense of the Panthers. These two
people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University
with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers
during their trial.
One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr.
Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn’t a college
dean. He isn’t a member of a California School Board. He is
now head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights
Division.
O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this
other notable Panther defender now a school board member?
Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college
dean?
No, Neither!
The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law
student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as
The “smartest woman in the world.” She is none other than
the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from the State
of New York—-our lovely First Lady, the incredible Hillary
Rodham Clinton.
And now; as Paul Harvey says; you know “the rest of the
story
Considering Backing Gun Control Laws?
Are you considering backing gun control laws? Do you
think that because
you may not own a gun, the rights guaranteed by the
Second Amendment don’t matter?
CONSIDER THIS…
In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From
1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to
defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917,
1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to
1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally
ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952,
20 million political dissidents, unable to defend
themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From
1964 to 1981, 100,00 Mayan Indians, unable to defend
themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971
to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend
themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975
to 1977, one million “educated” people, unable to
defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
That places total victims who lost their lives
because of gun control at approximately 56 million in
the last century. Since we should learn from the
mistakes of history, the next time someone talks in
favor of gun control, find out which group of citizens
they wish to have exterminated.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in
Australia were forced to surrender 640,381 personal
firearms to be destroyed, a program costing the
government more than $500 million dollars. The results
Australia-wide;
Homicides are up 3.2%, Assaults are up 8%, and
Armed robberies are up 44%.
In that country’s state of Victoria, homicides with
firearms are up 300%.
Over the previous 25 years, figures show a steady
decrease in armed robberies and Australian politicians
are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no
improvement in “safety” has been observed after such
monumental effort and expense was successfully
expended in “ridding society of guns.”
It’s time to state it plainly; Guns in the hands of
honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws only affect the law-abiding citizens.
Take action before it’s too late, write or call your
delegation.
Paul Harvey’s comment on the Columbine High
School shootings:
How can we blame it all on guns?
For the life of me, I can’t understand what
could have gone wrong in Littleton, CO. If only the
parents had kept their children away from the guns,
we wouldn’t have had such a tragedy.
Yeah, it must have been the guns.
It couldn’t have been because half our children
are being raised in broken homes.
It couldn’t have been because our children get
to spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful
conversation with their parents each day. After
all, we give our children quality time.
It couldn’t have been because we treat our
children as pets and our pets as children.
It couldn’t have been because we place our
children in day care centers where they learn their
socialization skills among their peers under the
law of the jungle while employees who have no
vested interest in the children look on and make
sure that no blood is spilled.
It couldn’t have been because we allow our
children to watch, on the average, seven hours of
television a day filled with the glorification of
sex and violence that isn’t fit for adult
consumption.
It couldn’t have been because we allow our
children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to
win the game, one must kill as many opponents as
possible in the most sadistic way possible.
It couldn’t have been because we have sterilized
and contracepted our families down to sizes so
small that the children we do have are so spoiled
with material things that they come to equate the
receiving of the material with love.
It couldn’t have been because our children, who
historically have been seen as a blessing from God,
are now being viewed as either a mistake created
when contraception fails or inconveniences that
parents try to raise in their spare time.
It couldn’t have been because we give two-year
prison sentences to teenagers who kill their
newborns.
It couldn’t have been because our school systems
teach the children that they are nothing but
glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some
primordial soup of mud by teaching them evolution
as fact and by handing out condoms as if they were
candy.
It couldn’t have been because we teach our
children that there are no laws of morality that
transcend us, that everything is relative and that
actions don’t have consequences. What the heck, the
President gets away with it.
Nah, it must have been the guns –
– Paul Harvey . . . GOOD DAY!
Freedom Is Never Free!
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56
men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as
traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two
lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or
hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven
were merchants, nine were farmers and large
plantation owners; men of means, well educated.
But they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death
if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter
and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by
the British Navy. He sold his home and properties
to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that
he was forced to move his family almost
constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his
family was kept in hiding. His possessions were
taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the propertiesof
Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward,
Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr,
noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken
over the Nelson home for his headquarters.
He quietly urged General George Washington to
open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died
bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties
destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died
with in a few months. John Hart was driven from his
wife’s bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His
fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For
more than a year he lived in forests and caves,
returning home to find his wife dead and his
children vanished. A few weeks later he died from
exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the
American Revolution. These were now wild-eyed,
rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men
of means and education. They had security, but they
valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and
unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this
declaration, with firm reliance on the protection
of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to
each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor.”
They gave you and me a free and independent
America. The historybooks never told you a lot
about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We
didn’t fight just the British.
We were British subjects at that time and we
fougnt our own government! Some of us take these
liberties so much for granted, but we
shouldn’t.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th
of July holiday and silently thank these patriots.
It’s not much to ask for the price they paid.
Remember: freedom is never free!
Subject: Change (Generation Gap)
I was talking to my Dad about current events
the other night. I asked him what he thought about
the shootings at schools, our immoral President,
the computer age and just things in general.
He replied: …”Gee, let me think a
minute………………. I was born before television,
penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact
lenses, Frisbees and the Pill. There weren’t things like
radar, credit cards, laser beams or ball-point pens. Man
had not invented pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers,
electric blankets, air conditioners and he hadn’t walked
on the moon.
“Your Mom and I got married first-then lived together.
Every family had a father and a mother, and every kid
over 14 had a rifle that his dad taught him how to use
and respect. Until I was 25, I called every man older
than me ‘sir’; and after I turned 25, I still called
policemen and every man with a title, ‘sir.’
“In our time, closets were for clothes, not for
‘coming out of.’ Sunday’s were set aside for going to
church as a family, helping those in need, and just
visiting with your neighbors. We were before gay-rights,
computer dating, dual careers, day-care centers, and
group therapy. Our lives were governed by the Ten
Commandments, good judgment and common sense.
“We were taught to know the difference between right
and wrong, and to stand up and take responsibility for
your actions. Serving your country was a privilege,
living here was a bigger privilege. We thought fast food
was what you ate during Lent. Having a meaningful
relationship meant getting along with your cousins. Draft
dodgers were people who closed their front doors when the
evening breeze started. And time sharing meant time the
family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not
condominiums.
“We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, CD’s,
electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors,
yogurt or guys wearing ear rings. We listened to the ‘big
bands’, Jack Benny and the President’s speeches on the
radio. I don’t ever remember any kid blowing his brains
out listening to Tommy Dorsey.
“If you saw anything with ‘Made in Japan’ on it, it
was junk. The term ‘making out’ referred to how you did
on your school exam. Pizza’s, McDonald’s and instant
coffee were unheard of.
We had 5 and 10 cent stores where you could actually
buy things for 5 and 10 cents. Ice cream cones, phone
calls, rides on a street car, and a Pepsi were all a
nickel. And if you didn’t want to ‘splurge,’ you could
spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail a letter and
two postcards.
“You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, but who
could afford one. Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a
gallon. In my day ‘grass’ was mowed, ‘coke’ was a cold
drink, ‘pot’ was something your mother cooked in, and
‘rock music’ was your grandmother’s lullaby. ‘Aids’ were
helpers in the Principal’s office, a ‘chip’ meant a piece
of wood, ‘hardware’ was found in a hardware store and
software wasn’t even a word.
“We were not before the difference between the sexes
was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change,
‘Billy’ having two mommy’s, and pornography in a family
home and at newsstands. And we were the last generation
that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have
a baby.
“No wonder people today call us old and confused, and
there is such a generation gap. ….. and I’m only
53!!!”
….did you dig that, Son?
SAFE GUN HANDLING IN THE CLINTON
ADMINISTRATION
1) HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo’s bodyguard left his
.38 in the HUD cafeteria. Again. He carries it
in a small bag marked US Department of State
Diplomatic Security Service and this is at least the
third time it has been left. (Why does HUD need
bodyguards?)
2) Hillary’s Secret Service Agent protector had
her gun stolen at a Chicago bar last fall. It’s OK.
She was off-duty at the time!
3) A Tucson teacher shot herself to “highlight the
lack of security” at Pima County’s La Cima Middle
School. She reported she had been shot by a young
Hispanic student.
NATIONAL REVIEW April 17, 2000
Issue
An Army of Gun Lies
How the other side plays.
By Dave Kopel
Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill
battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with,
a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half
of American households exercise this right, owning a
total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent
of those households do so in a responsible manner. To
fight for major restrictions on an item that plays
such a valued part in the lives of so many people
looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you’re
really committed to the effort, and you want to win,
what do you do?
Simple: You lie.
A full listing of the lies told by the antigun
lobby could fill a book.
A short list of the more popular ones would have to
begin with the canard about the number of children
killed by firearms. We are told repeatedly that 13, or
15, or 17 children every day are killed by guns. This
factoid is used to conjure up pictures of dozens of
little kids dying in gun accidents every week.
In truth, the number of fatal gun accidents is at
its lowest level since 1903, when statistics started
being kept. That’s right: Not only is the per capita
accident rate at a record low, so is the actual number
of accidents-even though the number of people and the
number of guns are both much larger than in 1903. The
assertions about “X children per day” are based on
counting older teenagers, or even people in their
early twenties, as “children.” The claims are true
only if you count a 19-year-old drug dealer who is
shot by a competitor, or an 18-year-old armed robber
who is shot by a policeman, as “a child killed by a
gun.”
As for actual children (14 years and under), the
daily death rate is 2.6. For children ten and under,
it’s 0.4 per day-far lower than the number of children
who are killed by automobiles, drowning, or many other
causes.
If the statistic about child gun deaths is the most
notorious lie, one of the most frequent has to do with
gun shows. All of the antigun groups repeat,
incessantly, the phrase “gun-show loophole.” As a
result, much of the public believes that gun shows are
special zones exempt from ordinary gun laws. Handgun
Control, Inc., the major antigun group, has an
affiliate in Colorado that claims that the “vast
majority” of guns used in crimes come from gun shows,
while the Violence Policy Center calls gun shows
“Tupperware parties for criminals.”
This is all an audacious lie. First of all, the
laws at gun shows are exactly the same as they are
everywhere else. If a person is “engaged in the
business” (as the law puts it) of selling firearms,
then he must fill out a government registration form
on every buyer, and get FBI permission (through the
National Instant Check System) for every
sale-regardless of whether the sale takes place at his
gun store, at an office in his home, or at a gun show.
Those who are not gun dealers by profession, but
happen to be selling a gun, are not required to follow
this procedure. To imply that gun dealers can go to an
event called a “gun show” and thus avoid the law is
absolutely false. Also false is the charge about
Tupperware parties for criminals. According to a
National Institute of Justice study released in
December 1997, only 2 percent of guns used in crimes
come from gun shows. The gun-show charge has great
currency in the media, but it is not very important in
itself. How about the more serious charge that guns
are basically dangerous to society?
Public-health experts and gun-control lobbyists
will tell you that most murders, including those
involving guns, take place among acquaintances and are
perpetrated by ordinary people; these facts supposedly
indicate that ordinary people are too hot-tempered to
be allowed to have guns.
The facts tell a different story: 75 percent of
murderers have adult criminal records. As for the
rest, a large number either have criminal convictions
as juveniles or are still teenagers when they commit
the murder; laws dealing with access to juvenile-crime
records prevent full access to their rap sheets.
Furthermore, the category of “acquaintance” murders is
misleading. It includes drug buyers who kill a drug
dealer to steal his stash, and thugs who assault each
other in barroom brawls.
There’s also a sad irony here. Domestic murders are
almost always preceded by many incidents of violent
abuse. If a domestic-violence victim flees the home,
and her ex- husband tracks her down and tries to rape
her, and she shoots him, the killing will be labeled a
“tragic domestic homicide that was caused by a gun,”
rather than what it legally is: justifiable use of
deadly force against a felon.
The famous factoid that a gun in the home is 43
times more likely to kill a family member than to kill
a criminal is predicated on a similar
misclassification. Of the 43 deaths, 37 are suicides;
and while there are obviously many ways in which a
person can commit suicide, only a gun allows a small
woman a realistic opportunity to defend herself at a
distance from a large male predator.
Emory University medical professor Arthur
Kellermann is a one-man factory of this type of
misleading data. One of his most famous studies
purported to show that owning a gun is associated with
a 2.7 times greater risk of being murdered. Kellermann
compared murder victims in several cities with
sociologically similar people a few blocks away in
those cities, who had not been murdered.
The 2.7 factoid was trumpeted all over the country;
but the study is patently illogical. First of all,
Kellermann’s own data show that owning a security
system, or renting a home rather than owning it, are
also associated with equally large increased risks of
death. Yet newspapers did not start running dire
stories warning people to rip out their burglar alarms
or to start lobbying their condo association to
dissolve.
The 2.7 factoid also overlooks the obvious fact
that one reason people choose to own guns, or to
install burglar alarms, is that they are already at
higher risk of being victimized by crime. As Yale law
professor John Lott points out, Kellermann’s
methodology is like comparing 100 people who went to a
hospital in a given year with 100 similar people who
did not, finding that more of the hospital patients
died, and then announcing that hospitals increase the
risk of death. Kellermann’s method would also prove
that possession of insulin increases the risk of
diabetes.
The media are complicit in many of these lies.
Take, for example, the hysteria about so-called
“assault weapons.” Almost everything that gun-control
advocates say about these firearms is a lie. The guns
in question are not machine guns; they are simply
ordinary guns with ugly cosmetics that give them a
pseudo-military appearance. The guns do not fire
faster than ordinary guns. The bullets they fire are
not especially powerful; they are, in fact, smaller
and travel at lower velocity than bullets from
standard hunting rifles.
The media have succeeded in giving a totally
different impression-through deliberate fraud. The CBS
show 48 Hours purported to show a semiautomatic rifle
being converted to fully automatic-i.e., turned into a
machine gun-in just nine minutes. But the gun shown at
the beginning was not the same gun that was fired at
the end of the demonstration. An expert from the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) later
said that such a conversion was impossible. And in
Denver, KMGH television filmed people firing automatic
weapons and told viewers that the guns were
semiautomatics.
The chief culprits are not the media but the
antigun lobbyists themselves, some of whom have very
little compunction about lying-even in cases where it
can be proven rather easily that they are aware of the
truth while spreading the falsehood. For example, in
February 1989, a former BATF employee who had become a
paid consultant for Handgun Control testified to
Congress that “assault weapons” were rarely used in
crimes. (He wanted to ban them anyway, as a
precautionary measure.) Nevertheless, within weeks,
Handgun Control was running an advertising campaign
insisting that assault weapons were the criminal
weapons of choice.
The most dangerous dishonesty concerns the ultimate
intentions of the antigun forces. Handgun Control
claims that it merely wants to “keep guns out of the
wrong hands”; yet in 1999, it lobbied hard to preserve
Washington, D.C.’s outright ban on handguns. Back in
1976, the group’s then leader, Pete Shields, explained
the long-term strategy to The New Yorker: “The first
problem is to slow down the number of handguns being
produced and sold in this country. The second problem
is to get handguns registered. The final problem is to
make possession of all handguns and all handgun
ammunition-except for the military, police, licensed
security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed
gun collectors-totally illegal.”
Sarah Brady, the current chairwoman of Handgun
Control, has said that people should not be allowed to
own guns for self-defense. Yet in debates, employees
of the group steadfastly deny that the organization
believes in the policies articulated by its leaders.
In short, they are lying about what they want to
accomplish. This is understandable, to be sure; but
not honorable, or right for the country.
Mr. Kopel is research director of the Independence
Institute, a free-market think tank in Colorado.
There is something radically wrong here! In Russia
all high school students are REQUIRED to have training
in the use of the AK 47 . Here rifle shooting programs
of any kind are being removed wholesale from the
schools. Someday these chickens may come home to
roost!
Way back when — when we were a lot poorer but
didn’t know it because we were happy and life was good
— there was a famous neighborhood orator who was also
a United States Senator.
As a young boy always available to do odd jobs
around the neighborhood, I was required to attend a
rather large outside function one beautiful June day.
The Senator spoke of the joy of being an American,
love of country, duty to God and country, and how
proud he was of all of us for joining various civilian
national defense related programs that were still
around after the Second World War.
Then, a surprising thing happened: His booming
voice cracked and tears came to his eyes as he started
to read the names of local boys killed in the Korean
Police Action. He, too, knew some of those guys.
And then, just when we thought he was done, he
started on Liberty.
Freedom and Liberty were a big deal with us back
then. There were a lot of people in the neighborhood
who had lived under Hitler and most of us lost
relatives over there. So, when that serious stuff
started, we kids knew that was not the time to be
rustling around — lest the nearest adult give us a
healthy smack across the head.
That day, it was a repeat of his famous “box”
speech I had heard before and we had also discussed
thoroughly in school.
Of course he talked of the “ballot” box. I’m not
sure, but it may have been an election year — not
that it ever mattered in his case. He was “Our
Senator,” everyone liked him, and that was that.
Then he said, “I have the soap box,” and went on to
explain to us how important it was that we also use
our freedom of speech to get our political points
across. The old folks loved that. Especially the ones
who recently arrived from Europe.
But, when he got to the “jury” box he diverted from
the law a little, some said. Apparently, he too agreed
that a jury must not only judge the guilt of the
person being tried, but also the applicability of the
law in the matter before the jury. “That helps keep
government in check,” he said to thunderous
applause.
Soon thereafter, a little joking around started and
the band was playing, so I bugged out to the
refreshment stand for a large cherry Coke. Even then,
though, I knew he missed something. The speech was not
complete. All of the “Boxes of Liberty” were not
properly related.
The audience was greatly interested by the time I
got back. That old guy didn’t forget at all. The
joking and the band playing were cover, marking time,
while people he wanted came up to the bandstand.
The last Liberty Box, as we all knew very well back
then, was the cartridge box. And so, after another
five or ten minutes on the methods of protecting
Liberty, the Senator made many mothers in the audience
proud by personally giving awards for expertise and
proficiency in the use of personal firearms.
Boy Scouts, student ROTC members from high schools
and colleges, police officers . . . he lined them up
and pronounced every name correctly (difficult, in
that neighborhood) as he personally handed each of
them an award.
By their presence on that platform, each was
proclaimed to be a good, honorable and useful member
of society. They were “the protectors of Liberty.” So
said our Senator.
Therefore, it must be true. That is how it was back
then, when things were simpler and life was good.
People said they could hear that final standing
ovation two miles down the road that afternoon.
Because, there was another important thing we all
knew for certain, deep in our own hearts: No Nazi
Gestapo types or Stalinist commie pinko punks would be
taking over OUR neighborhood anytime soon. We had our
own own army! And anyway, even us kids had guns and
knew how to use them. Me too, I felt with pride.
A Polish Catholic Priest and a Polish Jewish Rabbi
were to finish out the afternoon with some words and a
prayer or two. Both were very memorable with their
freedom and Liberty oriented mini-sermons and their
semi-nondenominational prayers. Again, there were
tears evident in many of the older folks; those who
lost family and friends to the Nazi jackbooted Gestapo
horrors just about a decade earlier. The younger among
us always thought it unfortunate that the war stories
kept getting rehashed. But, unless the older folks
said something, it was not our place to mention
it.
Then, as the flags came down, a very tall police
officer sat at attention atop his beautiful
thoroughbred horse and blew a very chilling rendition
of Taps and the Boy Scouts fired off a twenty-one gun
salute in honor of those boys the Senator mentioned
who were recently lost in Korea.
Back then, we all knew that the soap box, the
ballot box and the jury box were the basics of freedom
and liberty and must be appreciated and used properly.
They defend liberty in a free society. It’s when a
society becomes less than free — when government gets
crazy and the other boxes no longer work properly —
that we must reach for that cartridge box.
As those two great religious leaders painted so
dramatically in word pictures that fine June afternoon
many years ago, one only needs to read the story of
the Warsaw Ghetto for an indication of just how
quickly and easily the necessity for the cartridge box
can occur.
There was one thing everyone readily agreed on back
then. Liberty requires work. These “Liberty Boxes” are
not just rights, they are also our civic
duties.
FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JAN. 23,
2000
THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
Is it possible David Koresh didn’t lose his
confrontation with the Godless state he and his
followers identified as “Babylon,” at all?
Throughout their 51-day Texas standoff in the
spring of 1993, Koresh and his followers repeatedly
compared their plight to that of God’s people
facing the “flaming chariots” of Babylon in the
biblical prophesies of Nahum and Habakkuk. A
follower says Koresh believed he would be the one
to “bring down Babylon” by sacrificing himself and
his denomination.
Will it turn out that — like an earlier group
of Texas martyrs who died buying time for Sam
Houston at the Alamo — the Branch Davidians still
retain the power to reach out from the grave and
smite their oppressors?
After completing the documentary “Waco: The
Rules of Engagement’ — nominated for an Academy
Award — researcher Mike McNulty continued to delve
into the central mystery of Waco: Why would scores
of perfectly sane and decent Christian Americans
apparently choose to condemn themselves and their
“unusually bright and well-treated” children (per
Texas child welfare authorities) to death in the
flames, rather than coming out and surrendering to
the federal tanks and helicopters that surrounded
them?
Mr. McNulty appears to have found some answers
at least to the extent anyone still can, given the
determined after-the-fact efforts to bleach and
bulldoze the “crime scene.” Those answers are
offered in the new video: “Waco: A New Revelation,”
directed by Jason Van Vleet.
The documentary is not strident. If anything,
the new evidence is piled up in such a measured and
matter-of-fact way — superposed with the sneering
denials of FBI spokesmen and apologists like U.S.
Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer — that its full
impact may not register without a second
viewing.
But at that point, any thoughtful viewer of
conscience must wonder how willfully the Congress
and populace of this country must want to
ignore the truth, to be able to close their eyes to
facts like the following:
On the evening of Feb. 28, three Branch
Davidians who had not been present for the initial
BATF raid and shoot-out attempted to get home to
their wives and children in the Mount Carmel
church. They were intercepted and fired upon by 17
agents “dressed as trees.”
Two were captured, but Michael Dean Schroeder —
not charged with any crime — was shot seven times
and killed. As the other two Davidians were led
away — after Schroeder was down — they report
hearing two final shots behind them, in quick
succession. An autopsy showed Michael Dean
Schroeder had two neat bullet holes immediately
behind his right ear.
His body was left lying in the ravine for five
days.
Far from inviting an exodus and surrender, tape
recordings reveal that by late March, FBI
negotiators told the Davidians:
“No one is authorized to come out of there for
any reason. The patience of the bosses is no longer
what it was. If anyone tries to come out, they will
be treated in such a way that they’ll be forced to
retreat.”
Former FBI Director William Sessions wanted to
fly to Waco to negotiate with David Koresh
face-to-face, but the Justice Department refused to
let him board his plane. Sessions’ wife, Alice
Sessions, explains: “The FBI did not want it
negotiated. They wanted to show they could win with
military type tactics; it was a paramilitary
organization.”
When the final government attack with toxic and
disabling CS gas finally began early on the morning
of April 19, the buried school bus was gassed
first, forcing the women and children to retreat to
the reinforced concrete records vault, which the
FBI referred to as “the bunker.” Gas was then
pumped into the bunker, which had no ventilation,
for two hours. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., tells
Congress: “At the very least that resulted in the
babies and children being tortured for at least
three to four hours.”
Manning sniper post Sierra 1 in the “undercover
house,” Lon Horiuchi (who eight months earlier had
shot the unarmed Vicky Weaver as she stood holding
a baby in her kitchen in Ruby Ridge, Idaho),
“accompanied by most of the FBI team from Ruby
Ridge,” swore he did not fire into the church on
April 19. But other FBI agents swore they heard
fire from his position, and four expended .308
shell casings were later found there.
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a Branch Davidian is
spotted trying to exit the building across the
roof. “Falcon 2,” an FBI helicopter, is seen
approaching in ground-level footage. It hovers, and
muzzle flashes can be seen from its port waist gun.
Dr. Edward Allard, formerly of the U.S.
government’s Night Vision Directorate, says his
analysis shows at least three, five-shot machine
gun bursts. “It’s indicative of a machine gun
firing 600 rounds per minute,” he says. “It’s
impossible for these to be solar flashes.”
Other close-range video — not high-altitude
footage — clearly shows full-sized machine guns in
cradle mounts in the waist doors of the FBI
helicopters, which the government long swore were
unarmed.
Branch Davidians Phillip Henry and Jimmy Riddle
appear to have been shot behind the building at
this time. Neither had soot in their lungs or
carbon monoxide in their blood — both died before
the fire. An autopsy showed half of Riddle’s body
torn away, which the medical examiner said could
have been consistent with “an encounter with a tank
tread.”
However, when the family re-opened Riddle’s
casket for a follow-up examination of his fatal
bullet wounds, the evidentiary portion of his skull
was missing. The widow says the local medical
examiner was instructed by Texas authorities and
U.S. marshals not to release his autopsy results to
the family.
The film’s researcher, Mike McNulty, tells me
the most likely scenario is that Henry and Riddle
were shot behind the building by government agents
around 9 a.m. A lull followed, as the FBI pondered
what to do. Then, closer to noontime, their bodies
were bulldozed back into the church dining room by
tanks, and the final government assault — with
machine guns and incendiary grenades — began in
earnest.
Viewing the government’s high-altitude infrared
footage of the final battle, Dr. Edward Allard,
formerly of the U.S. government’s Night Vision
Directorate, explains: “What we have here is a
tank-infantry type of operation. As the tank
advances, two men have dropped out of the escape
hatch. They then roll over, and as they roll over
they open up with automatic gunfire. The shots
occur at one-thirtieth of a second. There is
absolutely nothing in nature that can cause thermal
flashes to occur in a thirtieth of a second.”
Dr. Allard reports he stopped counting the
gunshots into the dining room — the last available
escape route from the building after the fire broke
out — “after 62 individual shots.”
The filmmakers report Maurice Cox, a former
analyst with the U.S. intelligence community,
determined that for an aircraft circling at 9,000
feet to pick up rhythmic flashes at a rate of 600
per minute from “reflected sunlight” as the
government claims, the reflective surfaces would
have to be placed in a precise array, and the
aircraft would have to be traveling at the absurd
speed of Mach 1.8.
FBI officials have refused to respond to Cox’s
findings, and have dragged their feet in the face
of demands that they re-create the footage to see
if sunlight reflections can be made to look like
the flashes in the Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR)
footage.
Absurdly, the FBI claims cameras like the one
used in 1993 can no longer be obtained.
Meantime, ground level footage — not distant
aerial shots — clearly show men in Kevlar army
helmets firing projectiles from an M-79 grenade
launcher into the church’s storm shelter the
morning of the final assault.
Seconds later, white smoke pours from the
shelter.
Although the government has consistently denied
the Army’s Combat Applications Force — the “Delta
Force” — was present at Waco, previously
classified Army documents reveal that four Delta
Force “observers” were deployed to Waco on March
21. Gene Cullen, a senior case officer with the
CIA’s Special Forces Group, reports on camera he
was “initially told they would just be observers.
But at (an April 14) CIA briefing, we were told
there were more than 10, and that they would be
actively participating” in the April 19 attack.
March Bell, who headed the staff of the last
congressional investigation into Waco, tells the
filmmakers: “They were in the tanks and the sniper
posts. They were not giving advice back in some
conference room — they were working shoulder to
shoulder with the (FBI’s) Hostage Rescue Team.”
Rep. Stephen Buyer, R-Ind., explains that it is
a federal crime — a violation of the Posse
Comitatus Act — to use any part of the Army or
AirForce “to enforce the law in this country.”
But CIA agent Cullen says he met Delta Force
operators in Europe who “told me not only were they
forward deployed at Waco, Texas, but they were
actually involved in a gunfight with the Branch
Davidians.”
Steven Barry, a retired Special Forces sergeant,
concurs: “I did talk to some Combat Applications
Group guys, and they did confirm that, yes,
portions of B Squadron were there pulling
triggers.”
Most chilling of all, Sgt. Barry reports: “Their
operators had penetrated the building on several
occasions, and on one occasion, late April 17 or
early on the 18th, they saw Koresh within six feet
of them. They radioed back to the Tactical
Operations Center for permission to grab him, and
within minutes the word came back from the Justice
Department, ‘No, we already have a plan in place,’
that being what happened on April 19.”
“People ask why we didn’t let the children out,”
sobs Davidian survivor Clive Doyle. “If they saw
all that was happening, and they were there with
their children, would they have sent them out to
the animals outside that were shooting at them and
doing all those terrible things? No. … When there
was shooting going on it’s kind of tongue in cheek
to then turn and say, ‘Well, why didn’t you come
out?’ “
Although the government long denied its agents
fired any incendiary projectiles into the church —
which was lined with hay bales against government
gunfire, heated with kerosene heaters after the
government shut off the electricity, and then
flooded with combustible propellant for the CS gas
— photographs taken after the fire clearly show a
U.S. military Mark 651 pyrotechnic CS gas
projectile lying in the ashes.
When researcher McNulty finally broached the
evidence room with the aid of the Freedom of
Information Act in 1998, the pyrotechnic devices
visible in those photographs were missing from the
evidence boxes. But two additional pyrotechnic 40mm
devices were found.
The film’s investigators also found —
mislabeled as gun parts or silencers — six spent
government flash-bang grenades, which were
recovered from the dining room, the chapel, and the
southwest corner of the building — “all three
points of origin of the fire.”
Asked at a press conference whether she is
embarrassed that independent filmmakers could find
this evidence, when the FBI had been unable to turn
it up in six years, Attorney General Janet Reno
responds: “I’m not embarrassed. I’m very, very
upset.”
At 12:10 p.m. on April 19 the overhead FLIR
footage shows at least two automatic weapons being
fired into the rear of the dining room, the only
remaining undamaged exit from the now-burning
building. According to a Justice Department report,
at least 15 people were found shot to death at this
location. The FBI conducted ballistic tests which
the DOJ later termed “inconclusive and rudimentary
at best.”
“I cannot remember anything more sickening” than
watching that gunfire into the building’s last
exit, comments Dr. Allard.
Asked whether the Davidian gunshot victims
appeared to have committed suicide, a former FBI
forensic crime scene analyst who preferred to be
filmed only in silhouette responds: “The majority
of people, the bodies that I saw, were clear-cut
homicide victims….I don’t know who fired the
bullets into their bodies. So in fact what we have
here is an open homicide.”
Congressional investigator March Bell says the
treatment of those bodies was “very troubling. The
bodies were preserved in a semi-frozen state in two
trailers for the purposes of investigation.
For some reason those trailers under the control
of the FBI were allowed to not have any electricity
running to them and the bodies deteriorated beyond
the point where any sort of forensic evidence could
be gathered. We were very disturbed by that.”
Indeed, the scene of the massacre was declared a
“bio-hazard,” and since the FBI had predetermined
this was a mass suicide, “The FBI investigators
were instructed to sift, wash, and bleach the
evidence associated with the bodies, destroying
much of its evidentiary value.”
The large hole in the roof of the concrete
records vault where the women and children were
sheltering — the rebar bent downwards as though
from an external blast — has never been
explained.
Military explosives expert Brig. Gen. Benton
Partin, USAF retired, says “What it tells me is
that you had a demolition charge that went off on
the roof.”
The FBI bulldozed the “bunker” to rubble. Six
years later, in 1999, when Davidian attorneys were
granted permission to recover the portion that
might bear traces of the explosive used, that
portion of the bunker ceiling was found to be
missing. Gen. Partin concludes the rudimentary
gunpowder possessed by the Branch Davidians would
not have been capable of blowing that hole through
six inches of reinforced concrete.
Special Forces Sgt. Steven Barry reports the
damage inside the records vault was “consistent
with a shaped charge,” as does retired USAF
ordnance engineer Col. Jack Frost.
“In military operations, it’s standard procedure
to do this,” Barry explains, in order to reduce
casualties among the attacking forces.
The FBI’s White House contact during the Waco
operation was presidential aide Vince Foster, who
committed suicide 90 days later. His widow told the
FBI that the Waco tragedy was “very high on his
list of concerns.” She says he told the FBI he
“believed everything was his fault,” though Foster
also commented: “The FBI lied to me.”
After his suicide, the White House kept the
Department of Justice and the Parks Police from
reviewing Foster’s files.
Witnesses saw Maggie Williams — Hillary
Clinton’s chief of staff — removing Waco files
from Foster’s office. The staff was told “The
contents of the box needed to be reviewed by the
First Lady.”
Sgt. Barry of the Special Forces: “If the
Special Combat Applications Group were on the
ground that day actually pulling triggers, the
origin of that operation would have come from the
White House. It would have come from the president.
Because the Special Combat Applications Group is,
for all intents and purposes, the president’s
private army.”
So: The ATF, the FBI, and the Army Combat
Applications Group (the “Delta Force” — which can
only have been dispatched to the scene by the
special authorization of William Jefferson Clinton)
stand accused of murder at Waco.
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page
editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new
book, “Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the
Freedom Movement, 1993-1998,” is available at
$24.95 postpaid from Mountain Media, P.O. Box
271122, Las Vegas, Nev. 89127; by dialing
1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html.
WHAT IS A VET?
Some veterans bear visible signs of their
service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain
look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence
inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece
of shrapnel in the leg – or perhaps another sort of
inner steel: the soul’s ally forged in the refinery
of adversity.
Except in parades, however, the men and women
who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
You can’t tell a vet just by looking. What is a
vet?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months
in SaudiArabia sweating two gallons a day making
sure the armored personnel carriers didn’t run out
of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five
wooden planks,whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is
outweighed a hundred times in thec osmic scales by
four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th
parallel.
She – or he – is the nurse who fought against
futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for
two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came
back another- or didn’t come back AT ALL.
He is the Quantico drill instructor who has
never seen combat-but has saved countless lives by
turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang
members into Marines, and teaching them to watch
each other’s backs.
He is the parade – riding Legionnaire who pins
on his ribbonsand medals with a prosthetic
hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the
ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of
The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington
National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory
of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies
unrecognized withthem on the battlefield or in the
ocean’s sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the
supermarket -palsied now and aggravatingly slow –
who helped liberate a Nazi death campand who wishes
all day long that his wife were still alive to hold
him whent the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human
being – a person who offered some of his life’s
most vital years in the service of his country, and
who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not
have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against
the darkness, and he is nothing more than the
finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest,
greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has
served our country, just lean over and say “Thank
You.”
That’s all most people need, and in most cases
it will mean more than any medals they could have
been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot, “THANK
YOU.”
Remember November 11th is Veterans Day.
“It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus
organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to
demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the
flag.”
Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC
Washington Post, November 2: “Al Gore
acknowledged Suday that he hired controversial
feminist Naomi Wolf for a $15,000-a-month
consulting fee, saying the author and columnist is
a ‘valued adviser’ who has helped him target
younger voters. Gore has gone to great lengths to
conceal Wolf’s role, funneling her payments through
other counseling firms so her name would not appear
on financial reports filed with the Federal
Election Commission.”
IS ANYONE SURPRISED?
Associated Press, Portland Oregon, October
23: “When legislators passed a law requiring
schools give students time to say the Pledge of
Allegiance each week, their motivation was simple:
to nurture patriotism. It got complicated quickly.
To comply with the law, which goes into
effect today, schools had to scramble for flags,
which were either in tatters or ABSENT from the
classroom. Now the banners are hanging, but some
students aren’t cooperating. They claim that
language in the pledge, which mentions ‘God’ and
‘liberty and justice for all’, conflicts with their
religious beliefs, personal philosophies–and for
some, is just PLAIN BORING.
‘It is a complete waste of time’, said one
seventh grader, ‘ I just stand there and move my
lips and think about what I am going to do after
school.’
Republicans proposed the bill to get the
pledge back in the classrooms where it used to be
part of the DAILY morning ritual”
What a stain on the memories of all who died to
protect that liberty and justice !! When I was in
grade school way back when, we recited the pledge
and the Lord’s Prayer every morning, yes it was a
public school, and marched out each evening to The
Stars and Stripes Forever. Of course schools were
an extension of the family, patriotism, and were
not afraid of the mentioning of God. What was one
principal’s excuse for the present situation? “I
think the focus became more on instruction” GOD
HELP US ALL!
Bill O’Reilly was questioning a Democratic
strategist about the difference between Al Gore and
Bill Bradley. “Oh Bradley is much farther to the
left. He wants gun registration, gays to openly
serve in the military, and would have voted against
welfare reform.”
Now we know.
SANTA CRUZ– Ben Chirco figured he was within
his rights when he pulled his rifle on four kids
breaking windows on his trucks on his rural
property, called the cops, dragged one roughly to
the road and left him there handcuffed to a gate.
“
Boy was I wrong,” Chirco said. “It’s more like a
People’s Republic here. Folks are real anti-gun,
anti-property rights.”
Chirco begins a 6-month sentence this month
after pleading guilty to misdemeanor brandishing a
firearm and felony assault with a firearm. The
report doesn’ t say what happened to the the
kids.
ISN’T THERE SOMETHING WRONG HERE? THE STUPIDITY
OF POLLS:
My wife received a poll in the form of one
question at here office this week. The question, to
be answered by phone or FAX , was simply “DO YOU
BELIEVE IN MORE EFFECTIVE GUN CONTROL LAWS?”
Now just what does that mean? Every anti-gunner
will say yes but I also believe in more effective
gun control laws. It would be quite easy to replace
the tens of thousands of laws we have now with a
very few (that could be counted on the fingers of
one hand) that simply keeps guns out of the hands
of violent criminals by locking them up. Period.
For good. If all polls are this stupid it is easy
to see how Slick maintains a favorable rating.
Politics Is the Art of Deception!
Al Gore gave a big speech this week about how
his faith is so “important” to him. In this attempt
to convince the American people that we should
consider him for president, he announced that his
favorite Bible verse is John 16:3. Of course the
speech writer meant John 3:16 but nobody in the
Gore camp was familiar enough with Scripture to
catch the error. Do you know what John 16:3
says?
“And they will do this because they have not
known the Father or me.”
IF I WERE THE DEVIL
by Paul Harvey
I would gain control of the most powerful nation
in the world.
I would delude their minds into thinking that
they had come from man’s effort, instead of God’s
blessings.
I would promote an attitude of loving things and
using people, instead of the other way around.
I would dupe entire states into relying on
gambling for their state revenue.
I would convince people that character is not an
issue when it comes to leadership.
I would make it legal to take the life of unborn
babies.
I would make it socially acceptable to take
one’s own life, and invent machines to make it
convenient.
I would cheapen human life as much as possible
so that the life of animals are valued more that
human beings.
I would take God out of the schools, where even
the mention of His name was grounds for a
lawsuit.
I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind
and target the young, and I would get sports heroes
to advertise them.
I would get control of the media, so that every
night I could pollute the mind of every family
member for my agenda.
I would attack the family, the backbone of any
nation. I would make divorce acceptable and easy,
even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does
the nation.
I would compel people to express their most
depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and
I would call it art.
I would convince the world that people are born
homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be
accepted and marveled.
I would convince the people that right and wrong
are determined by a few who call themselves
authorities and refer to their agenda as
politically correct.
I would persuade people that the church is
irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for
the naive.
I would dull the minds of Christians, and make
them believe that prayer is not important, and that
faithfulness and obedience are optional.
I guess I would leave things pretty much the way
they are.
California now joins three other states with the
“one gun a month” plan. With my wife and I both
into sixguns, that would be 24 per year. I’m glad I
don’t live in any of those states. Don’t think I
could afford it!
The elusive, imaginary(?) Budget Surplus. The
Democrats are against tax cuts because “the surplus
may not be there” but they want to fund new
programs with the money that will be accruing from
the surplus. Isn’t this what in simpler times would
have been called speaking with forked tongue?
A pastor recently offered this prayer:
God give us men…ribbed with the steel of Your
Holy Spirit…men who will not flinch when the
battle’s fiercest…men who won’t acquiesce, or
compromise, or fade when the enemy rages.
God give us men who can’t be bought, bartered,
or badgered by the enemy, men who will pay the
price, make the sacrifice, stand the ground, and
hold the torch high.
God give us men obsessed with the principles
true to your word, men stripped of self-seeking and
a yen for security…men who will pay any price for
freedom and go any lengths for truth.
God give us men delivered from mediocrity, men
with vision high, pride low, faith wide, love deep,
and patience long…men who will dare to march to
the drumbeat of a distant drummer, men who will not
surrender principles of truth in order to
accommodate their peers.
God give us men more interested in scars than
medals, more committed to conviction than
convenience, men who will give their life for the
eternal, instead of indulging their lives for a
moment in time. Give us men who are fearless in the
face of danger, calm in the midst of pressure, bold
in the midst of opposition.
God give us men who will pray earnestly, work
long, preach clearly, and wait patiently. Give us
men whose walk is by faith, behaviour is by
principle, whose dreams are in heaven, and whose
book is the Bible.
God give us men who are equal to the task. Those
are the men the church and the world needs
today.
His name was Fleming and he was a poor Scottish
farmer. One day while trying to eke out a living
for his family he heard a cry for help coming from
a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the
bog. There, mired up to his waist in black muck,
was a terrified boy screaming and struggling to
free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from
what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day a fancy carriage pulled up to the
Scotman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed
nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the
father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
“I want to pay you” said the nobleman. “You
saved my son’s life.”
“No, I can’t accept payment for what I did” the
Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At
that moment the farmer’s own son came to the door
of the family hovel.
“Is that your son?” the nobleman asked.
“Yes,” the farmer replied proudly.
“I’ll make you a deal,” said the nobleman. “Let
me take him and give him a good education. If the
lad is anything like his father, he’ll grow to a
man you can be proud of.”
And that he did. In time Farmer Fleming’s son
graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School
in London and went on to become known throughout
the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the
discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward the nobleman’s son was stricken
with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The
name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His
son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: “What goes around comes
around. Work like you don’t need the money. Love
like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s
watching.”
PRAYER FROM THE KANSAS STATE LEGISLATURE
NOV. 30, 1998
This prayer was actually spoken before the
Kansas State Legislature.
When minister Joe Wright was asked to open the
new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was
expecting the usual generalities, but what they
heard instead was a stirring prayer, passionately
calling our country to repentance and
righteousness.
The response was immediate. A number of
legislators walked out during the prayer in
protest. In six short weeks, the Central Christian
Church had logged more than 5,000 phone calls with
only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The
church is now receiving international requests for
copies of the prayer from India, Africa, and
Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired the prayer on The
Rest of the Story on the radio and received a
larger response to this program than any other he
has ever aired!
THE PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and
guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe on those who
call evil good,” but that’s exactly what we have
done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and
reversed our values. We confess that:
*We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your
Word and called it pluralism.
*We have worshipped other gods and called it
multi-culturalism.
*We have endorsed perversion and called it an
alternative lifestyle.
*We have exploited the poor and called it the
lottery.
*We have neglected the needy and called it
self-preservation.
*We have rewarded laziness and called it
welfare.
*We have killed our unborn children and called
it a choice.
*We have shot abortionists and called it
justifiable.
*We have neglected to discipline our children
and called it building self-esteem.
*We have abused power and called it political
savvy.
*We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and
called it ambition.
*We have polluted the air with profanity and
pornography and called it freedom of
expression.
*We have ridiculed the time-honored values of
our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts today;
Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide
and bless these men and women who have been sent to
direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in
the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus
Christ.
Amen.
With the Lord’s help, may
this prayer sweep our nation and wholeheartedly
become our desire so that we again can be called a
Christian nation that fears the Lord!
No one among the elitists in the major news(?)
media ever points out that guns were more easily
accessible when I was a kid. I could buy a sixgun
or rifle at age 16 without filling out anything
without a background check, without a waiting
period. Kids took their guns to school and checked
them in with the teacher or principle so they could
go hunting after school. A kid walking down the
road with gun in hand was not a cause for alarm.
The liberal solutions to everything have brought us
to this point. SO what is their answer? More of the
same. Even the dumbest among us surely knows enough
to say STOP when something doesn’t work decade
after decade after decade… That leaves us with
only one solution. They do not want to solve
problems they only want to create more and more
problems so they can have more and more
control.
The following words were spoken by Paul Harvey
on a recent program:
“For the life of me, I can’t understand what
could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only
the parents had kept their children away from the
guns, we wouldn’t have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it
must have been the guns.
“It couldn’t have been because of half our
children are being raised in broken homes. It
couldn’t have been because our children get to
spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful
conversation with their parents each day. After
all, we give our children quality time.
“It couldn’t have been because we treat our
children as pets and our pets as children.
“It couldn’t have been because we place our
children in day care centers where they learn their
socialization skills among their peers under the
law of the jungle while employees who have no
vested interest in the children look on and make
sure that no blood is spilled.
“It couldn’t have been because we allow our
children to watch, on average, seven hours of
television a day filled with the glorification of
sex and violence that isn’t fit for adult
consumption.
“It couldn’t have been because we allow our
children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to
win the game, one must kill as many opponents as
possible in the most sadistic way possible.
“It couldn’t have been because we have
sterilized and contracepted our families down to
sizes so small that the children we do have are so
spoiled with material things that they come to
equate the receiving of the material with love.
“It couldn’t have been because our children, who
historically have been seen as a blessing from God,
are now being viewed as either a mistake created
when contraception fails or inconveniences that
parents try to raise in their spare time.
“It couldn’t have been because our nation is the
world leader in developing a culture of death in
which 20 million to 30 million babies have been
killed by abortion.
“It couldn’t have been because we give two-year
prison sentences to teen-agers who kill their
newborns.
“It couldn’t have been because our school
systems teach the children that they are nothing
but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of
some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution
as fact and by handing out condoms as if they were
candy.
“It couldn’t have been because we teach our
children that there are no laws of morality that
transcend us, that everything is relative and that
actions don’t have consequences. What the heck, the
president gets away with it.
“Nah, it must have been the guns.
“Good Day!”
Can any of us even begin to imagine what it must
have been for the parents whose children were slain
at Columbine? Rachel Scott was one of those who
died at the hands of the two brutal assassins. Her
father, Darrel Scott testified before the House
Judiciary Committee on May 27, 1999.
Listen to his powerful words: “Since the dawn of
creation there has been good and evil in the heart
of men and women. We all contain the seeds of
kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my
wonderful daughter Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths
of that heroic teacher and the other wonderful
children who died must not be in vain. Their blood
cries out for answers. The first recorded act of
violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in
the field. The villain was not the club he used.
Neither was it the NCA, the National Club
Association. The true killer was Cain and the
reason for the murder could only be found in Cain’s
heart.
“In the days that followed the Columbine
tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began
to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a
member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even
own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the
NRA-because I don’t believe that they are
responsible for my daughter’s death. Therefore I do
not believe they need to be defended. If I believed
they had anything to do with Rachel’s murder I
would be their strongest opponent.
“I am here today to declare that Columbine was
not just a tragedy-it was a spiritual event that
should be forcing us to look at where the real
blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this
room. Much of that blame lies behind the pointing
fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem
just four nights ago that expresses my feelings
best. This was written way before I knew I would be
speaking here today .
Your laws ignore our deepest needs
Your words are empty air.
You’ve stripped away our heritage.
You’ve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere
And ask the question WHY?
You regulate restrictive laws
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand
That God is what we need!’
“Men and women are three part beings. We all
consist of body, soul, and spirit. When we refuse
to acknowledge a third part of our makeup, we
create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and
hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual
influences were present within our educational
systems for most of our nation’s hsitory. Many of
our major colleges began as theological seminaries.
This is historic fact.
“What has happened to us as a nation? We have
refused to honor God and in doing so we open the
doors to hatred and violence. We do not need more
restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have
been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun
laws can stop someone who spends months planning
this type of massacre. The real villian lies within
our OWN hearts. Political posturing and restrictive
legislation is not the answer. The young people of
our nation hold the key. There is a spiritual
awakening taking place that will not be
squelched!
“We do not need more religion. We do not need
more gaudy televison evangelists spewing out verbal
religious garbage. We do not need more million
dollar church buildings built while people with
basic needs are being ignored. We do need a change
of heart and a humble acknowledgement that this
nation was founded on the principle of simple trust
in God.
“As my son Craig lay under that table in the
school library and saw his two friends murdered
before his very eyes he did not hesitate to pray in
school. I defy any politician or law to deny him
that right! I challenge every young person in
America and around the world to realize that on
April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School–prayer was
brought to our schools. Do not let the many prayers
offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move
into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for
legislation that violates your conscience and
denies your God-given right to communicate with
Him.
“To those of you who would point your finger at
the NRA – I give to you a sincere challenge. Dare
to examine your own heart before you cast the first
stone! My daughter’s death will not be in vain. The
young people of this country will not allow that to
happen.”
GOD BLESS YOU DARREL SCOTT! I pray that the
House members listened to you!
“It was while at this ranch that I perfectd the
fast draw which saved my life on several occassions
in later years. While I could hit anything I could
see with my rifle, I was not satisfied. With my
Tombstone background and oft-repeated tales of some
renowned fast-draw man prodding me I made up my
mind to be the fastest in the world. Scrimping and
saving I managed to get hold of a pretty fair
single action, Colt’s .44. Hueco helped me build my
first holster, and from then on I spent my spare
time practising the draw-and-shoot. Needless to
say, I tried many different styles of holsters, and
I got to be fairly fast. Jerking and shooting as a
jack rabbit leaped in front of my horse afforded
the best possible practise. My hand was not shaped
right for speedy thumbing the hammer with the ball
of my thumb, so I learned to fan after the first
shot, which means of course, hitting the hammer
back with the free hand while holding the trigger
with the other. Much has been written pro and con
about the merit of speed with a six-shooter, and
the right and wrong way to handle one. I’ve read of
men who declared speed was of no value–that the
man who won his fight was the one who who took his
time, but I never heard a real gunfighter make that
statement. yes, it is all right to take your
time–if you shoot first. Believe me the man who
builds his fire first has all the best of it in a
gun fight. About fanning: No man with an ounce of
brains will tell you that a man can do straight
shooting at a small target and fan a gun. But when
the odds fronting you at from five to thirty feet
consist of four, six, or a dozen men bunched
against you, a fanner can sure blast an awful
opening in his opposition. As to the fast draw,
there is no right or wrong way. Whatever way comes
natural is the right way. It only remains to
develop speed. Back through the years I have tried
every holster and draw I ever heard of, belly
draws, the cross draw, from beneath the arm or
shoulder, from low-hung tied down holster, and from
the breed or swivel holster. They are all good if
they suit your particular style and you can develop
speed. My fastest draw was always from a low-cut
holster held fast against the hip by a tightly
buckled belt. I never raise a gun, never throw it
down, but cock as I pull, shooting as the muzzle
clears leather” …Jack Ganzhorn, Arizona
Gunfighter and Spanish American War Vet.
The politicians are always trying to interpret
the Constitution and Bill of Rights and tell us
what the Founding Fathers “really meant.” Listen to
Thomas Jefferson: “The Constitution of most of our
states, and of the United States, asserts that all
power is inherent in the people; that they may
exercise it by themselves; that it is their right
and duty to be armed at all times.”
“It is not the critic that counts; not the man
who points out how the strong man stumbles, or
where the doer of deeds could have done better. The
credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly, who errs, and comes
short again and again, because there is no effort
without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds”…Theodore
Roosevelt
“The man who knows the truth and has the
opportunity to tell it, but who nonetheless refuses
to, is among the most shameful of all creatures.
God forbid that we should ever becomes as lax as
that.”…Theodore Roosevelt
“We must diligently strive to make our young men
decent,God-fearing,law-abiding, honor-loving,
justice-doing, and also fearless and strong, able to
hold their own in the hurly-burly of the world’s
work, able to strive mightily that the forces of
right may be in the end triumphant. And we must
ever be vigilant in so telling them.” …Theodore
Roosevelt
” A nation needs heroes. It needs examples of
valor so that it will know just how it ought to
behave”…Theodore Roosevelt
The following was written by a man named
Clarence Schultz, a minister and retired Navy
Chaplain. Lots to think about. Pass it on if you
think it has merit.
I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare
complained that she didn’t want any prayer in our
schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you had
better not read the Bible in school. The Bible that
says “thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal,
and love your neighbor as yourself.” And we said,
OK.
Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our
children when they misbehave because their little
personalities would be warped and we might damage
their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should
know what he’s talking about so we won’t spank them
anymore.
Then someone said that teachers and principals
better not discipline our children when they
misbehave. And the school administrators said no
faculty member in this school better touch a
student when they misbehave because we don’t want
any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be
sued. And we accepted their reasoning.
Then someone said, let’s let our daughters have
abortions if they want and they won’t even have to
tell their parents. And we said, that’s a grand
idea. Then some wise school board member said,
since boys will be boys and they’re going to do it
anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they
want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and
we won’t have to tell their parents they got them
at school. And we said, “that’s another great
idea.”
And then some of our top elected officials said
that it doesn’t matter what we do in private as
long as we do our jobs. And agreeing with >them,
we said it doesn’t matter to me what anyone,
including the President, does in private as long as
I have a job and the economy is good.
And then someone said let’s print magazines with
pictures of nude women and call it wholesome
down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the
female body. And we said we have no problem with
that. And someone else took that appreciation a
step further and published pictures of nude
children and then stepped further still by making
them available on the Internet. And we said they’re
entitled to their free speech.
And the entertainment industry said, let’s make
TV shows and movies that promote profanity,
violence, and illicit sex. And let’s record music
that encourages homosexuality, rape, drugs, murder,
suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it’s just
entertainment and has no adverse effect and nobody
takes it seriously anyway so go right ahead.
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have
no conscience, why they don’t know right from
wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill
strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard
enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a
great deal to do with… “we reap what we sow.”
My two teenage granddaughters are finishing up
the school year with grade point averages hovering
right at 4.0. Lately I have caught them involved in
doing homework and even reading books. What is this
younger generation coming to?
Our esteemed public servant Charles Schumer
admits that the gun control sentiment is mostly
coming from those in the Congress and White House
and not from the general public. Think that will
stop him from having a “passion to legislate”?
Are you teaching your kids and grandkids the responsibility
of having firearms, the proper use of
firearms and also how they will have to continue
the fight to keep them? The Schumers of this world
never give up.
The dinosaurs did not become extinct. They
simply got fed up and left.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the Constitution was
actually followed?
We take prayer out of the schools, tell God he
isn’t welcome there, allow millions of innocents to
be murdered, fill our kids with the worst possible
violence and filth on TV, music, and movies (all
pedalled to them by adults), and then we ask what
went wrong. Someone is not paying attention!
Consider in this ‘democracy’ that we really live
under the rule of one. Nearly every important
Supreme Court decision which effect hundreds of
millions of us, is decided on a one-vote 5-4
decision. If they are going by the law, why can’t
they all agree? I would not want to be in the shoes
of some of these Supreme Court Justices on the real
Judgement Day! God will not turn his back on what
has been done by their decisions.
If most confrontations are stopped by the firing
of less than two shots, why do so many think they
have to have high capacity semi-autos with so many
extra magazines? When Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was
carrying a Colt Single Action Army .45 with five
rounds and no extra ammunition (well into this
century after the advent of the the double-action
sixgun and the semi-auto) he said needing any more
would simply make him guilty of sloppy peace
officering.
If you believe in evolution, please explain to
me how it is that we started this century with
Theodore Roosevelt and end it with Bill
Clinton!
I just heard on the radio news about people all
over the country who have been waiting in line,
some since April 7, to buy tickets to Star Wars.
Locally the grounds of the theater are filled with
tents of people camping out. Am I missing
something? Is there any longer any doubt about the
dumbing down of America?
Where have all the heroes gone? Are there any
public servants left that truly serve the
public?
If you are not a member of the NRA, WHY NOT?
Every time we have something such as Oklahoma City
or Littleton the NRA and gun owners take a toally
undeserved hit. It is time that every gun owner
joined the NRA.
I don’t want to hear anything about “I don’t
care for what the NRA does” or “I don’t like the
leadership.”
If either is the case, get in and change it.
Without the NRA we would have lost all gun rights a
long time ago. If we were 20,000,000 strong we
would not have to put up with any nonsense from
politicians.
Consider the Single Action Sixgun: The aesthetic
value of the Single Action cannot be approached by
any other handgun, as there are qualities inherent
in a Single Action that cannot be found in any
other hand-held firearm. Or anywhere else. If your
soul, spirit, and heart are not quickened by the
feel and genuine great looks of a Colt Single
Action, or a Freedom Arms .454, or a Ruger Flat-Top
or Bisley, you my friend have been taking life much
too seriously. It is time to step back and begin to
once again enjoy the finer things in life. Pick up
a Single Action, thumb back that big hammer, rotate
the cylinder, and I guarantee that you will feel
the dust of a Texas cattle drive, hear the sounds
of the saloon along the main street of Dodge City,
smell bacon and coffee on an open fire in the
mountains of Montana, long for a supper of
beefsteak, beans,and a big slab of apple pie. Once
you fire that first shot and feel the gentle recoil
of a .44 Special or .45 Colt, or experience the
power of a .44 Magnum or .454 Casull, you will from
that moment on be a true lover of Single Actions.
If not, you are in dire straits and I will pray for
you.
Last night UPS dropped off a package from one of
our manufacturers. As I opened it a lady who was
there who knows little about guns wanted to know
what the key in the box was for. My wife said that
it served to lock the action so it couldn’t be
used. The lady wanted to know why anyone would want
to do such a thing as the gun would be worthless.
Why can’t everyone understand this?
Notable Replies
oh think of the children…
I had read that, the common sense reply like that would surely be a minority
I actually turned away a mint S&W M28 because it had a Hillary Hole.
Not familiar with that model I looked and see it was discontinued in 86, when did those damns safeties come on the market?
Time is weird, and fast, but I’d not of guessed that far back.
Wow ol’Killary Clinton defending a killer imagine that.
oh think of the children…
I had read that, the common sense reply like that would surely be a minority
I actually turned away a mint S&W M28 because it had a Hillary Hole.
Not familiar with that model I looked and see it was discontinued in 86, when did those damns safeties come on the market?
Time is weird, and fast, but I’d not of guessed that far back.
Wow ol’Killary Clinton defending a killer imagine that.