Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:05:47 -0700 From: frdmftr@MINDSPRING.COM (Don Cline) Subject: Re: Glendale Update To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
----- Original Message ----- From: Bullseye1911 <bullseye1911@MSN.COM> To: <AZRKBA@asu.edu> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Glendale Update
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> Forgive me I stand corrected,I'm new to alot of this( political activism
> that is)
No forgiveness necessary. I'm just one of those crusty old freedom fighters who has been in this fight too danged long to waste any time on smarmy government-issued euphemisms. They turn us into our own worst enemy by getting us to agree with their side of the argument and then springing the trap. We should never agree with someone who, for any reason whatever, wants to restrict our right to keep and bear (personal, defensive) arms in any way, shape or form. If we find ourselves agreeing with them, we need to dig in our heels, back up, and figure out what their hidden agenda is.
> Voting,and letters to our public officials isn't getting us very far
> these days.It is important that more women get involved in standing up for
> our rights.
You have that right. I am thankful that you are in the fight.
> unfortunately not many law enforcement officers even know what the Arizona
> State constitution says in reguard to your right to keep and bear arms in
> defense of yourself or the state.
> So do you have a plan of action ?
> E
Yes, but if I told you I would have to ... (never mind; it's an old joke, and a bad one.)
Besides button-holing practically everyone who will listen for five minutes, I have also printed up a bunch of business-card sized tracts which I leave all over town, wherever I go, in rest rooms, elevators, restaurants. I also hand them out to police officers (infrequently, since I have as little contact with them as possible). One side of the card says the following:
A free citizenry does not ask its governments' permission to exercise a right. It does not register its exercise of a right. It does not waive any other right, such as the right to privacy, in exchange for permission to exercise a right such as the right to keep and bear arms. It does not permit government to claim the exercise of a right is probable cause, or prima facie evidence, or even a suspicion, of a crime having been committed. It does not discuss, or negotiate, what rights it will or will not exercise with government or with any government functionary. In short, a free citizenry, founded in principles of liberty, does not give up its right to determine what kind of government will receive its Consent to Govern. --Donald L. Cline, frdmftr@mindspring.com
The other side says:
Government: "Citizen, do you have the right to free speech, to religion, to keep the fruits of your labor, to elect your own leaders?" Serf: "Why, of course!" Government: "Citizen, do you own a gun?" Serf: "No. Guns aredangerous!" Government: "Then SHUT UP! Against the wall, you stinking serf! The democratic majority has ruled that your religion is offensive and that your selfishness is unfair to politicians, criminals, and other economic parasites. GOVERNMENT will choose your leaders! If you don't like it, you will spend the rest of your life in the Gulag making shoe leather out of the skin of your fellow inmates!" (Here's a newsflash for those who don't pay attention: If you don't EXERCISE your right to keep and bear arms, you have no rights at all. Lip service doesn't cut it.)
Until TSHTF (and it will, and when it does most people out here -- even our compatriots in the RKBA fight -- will not believe it and we will lose more than half of our number before the rest wake up) -- anyway, until it does, any other plans will remain confidential. I urge you and others to establish contingency plans and keep them to yourself.
-- Don Cline frdmftr@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~frdmftr
I don't fight lawless, unconstitutional government because I have an obligation to win.I fight lawless, unconstitutional government because I have an obligation to earn the right to live in a free country.
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