---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:32:34 -0400 From: Weldon Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NEA Threatens Firearms Owners -- How to Fight Back Editor's note, by Weldon Clark The National Education Association is attacking gun ownership. We present two ways to fight NEA. Exercising your rights as a union member if you are a teacher and vouchers. The NEA hates and fears the "voucher" concept. Some conservatives have criticized the "voucher" approach to defeating the NEA. They point out that federal money means federal control. From THE REVIEW OF THE NEWS: "It is a familiar story. In the early days of federal farm programs, for instance, farmers were assured that federal subsidies would not necessitate submission to federal controls. Yet such controls were quickly instituted. And, when they were tested in court, unhappy farmers learned that "it is hardly lack of due process for the government to regulate that which it subsidizes." (Supreme Court, Wickard vs. Filburn, 1942)." I would like to point out that all governments, state and local, also operate the same way. So do businesses. It is known as the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules. The critics fail to point out that the private schools or home schools can turn down the money and the control. The voucher system means that the bad schools will not get the money. That kicks NEA in the teeth. Also it is more difficult to enforce controls against religious, private and home schools. THE AUTHORS OF THESE VOUCHER INITIATIVES ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMITTED TO LIBERTY, WHO ARE WELL AWARE OF THESE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS, AND SO HAVE DESIGNED THE INITIATIVES TO PROTECT AGAINST GOVERNMENT MEDDLING. The current California voucher initiative, for example, amends the California Constitution to forbid government meddling in private schools WHETHER OR NOT THEY ACCEPT VOUCHERS. It actually gives private schools far more protection than they have now. Another key thing besides the money is the right to send your children to a private, religious or home school. There is a lot more than money at stake. Here in South Carolina (the bible belt, the most conservative area of the nation) the public schools have young children, very young boys and girls together, placing condoms on cucumbers in sex education classes. Children should not have this kind of pressure placed on them. Editor's Note The enemy is active. The so called Million Moms March is calling people asking for a donation of 100 dollars apiece. ************************************************************ TAKE THE OFFENSIVE, By Russ Howard How to weaken & destroy the main source of anti-freedom and anti-self- defense funding, improve public education, and put an end to government indoctrination centers. The following is a paraphrased NRA Alert: "The National Education Association, America's largest teachers' union, has long been a shrill proponent of restrictions on our Right to Keep & Bear Arms. On July 3rd, the NEA launched a drive to petition Congress for gun owner licensing, registration, "ballistic fingerprinting", mandatory storage, and waiting periods. No mention of targeting violent criminals or enforcing existing gun controls. The attack on law-abiding gun owners, mirroring Gore's platform, was not met with complete approval at NEA's convention. One teacher said, 'Rather than gun control, we need parental control & responsibility.' Another said, 'metal detectors are more useful than gun control to protect schools...(and) it would be better to control TV shows, video games & movies that promote violence.' NRA will watch any attempts to use public schools for a political agenda. To oppose NEA's petition, call 202-833-4000, write to 1201 16th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20036, or send e- mail NEA's President at [EMAIL PROTECTED] " No wonder we're losing. Bad enough that NRA management's grand Orwellian pre- emptive surrender strategy Fight Gun Control with Gun Control bleeds through the alert: * Full enforcement of all gun controls. * Metal detectors to enforce the NRA-supported "gun-free" school zones mandatory school defenselessness law. That'll stop mass shootings by psychos! Right! * What's next? If gun control works so well in schools, why not "gun-free" homes? NRA management says, "let's start by caving on mandatory trigger locks & holding parents criminally liable for child access to firearms." * And, who knows, maybe even restrict the First Amendment as well. But the real indictment of the alert, the really pathetic thing, is how it urges NRA members to write the NEA to complain. Would President Reagan have insulted your intelligence by asking you to get on your knees, write Comrade Breshnev a letter, and whine about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? The overpaid beltway types who "manage" NRA as a quasi- government institution might as well ask us to light candles, hold hands, & sing "Kumbayah". Is this why we give Wayne LaPierre and his "Winning" Team 20,000 dollar-a-month salaries, 15,000 dollar-a-month tax-free "expense accounts", and who-knows-what other benefits? For the political equivalent of a reverse "pacification" program, where we pacify our own troops? It's another example of NRA's sterile bee queen management. Waste our time, energy & money pleading with the sworn enemies of freedom and decency. Keep us on our knees when we could be making a difference. Any number of things would be more effective than getting on your knees and begging the enemy for mercy or wasting your time trying to "talk sense" to a committed leftist. Like penning a letter to the editor or writing your legislator. But much of that by nature is defensive. Defense is necessary, but the problem with always being on the defensive is that by and large the best you can do is not lose. Taking turf, new or old, is generally out of the question. Unless you're on the offensive as well, sooner or later, you'll lose more turf and never get it back. To utilize our true potential as a movement, we must be flexible. Always question the "rules" of the game. Engage in "unconventional" political warfare, jump outside the paradigm of our struggle and redesign it to our advantage, search for weak points, for opportunities to make the enemies of freedom pay for attacking our rights. Teach them, through pain, that it's not worth it. Often the most effective thing, while not neglecting the defense of your own primary issue, is to find & exploit other issues that serve as the enemy's Achilles Heel, to weaken him financially and destroy him politically, at the very least keep him so busy defending himself that he can no longer attack your rights. There are fundamental struggles we should be part of, that will have profound, long-lasting benefits for the cause of liberty, that are not directly gun rights issues. FIRST: IDENTIFY & FACE THE PROBLEM The government school unions have long been one of America's foremost enemies -- not only of constitutional liberty and decent values; but of decent-quality public education itself. Why? * Government school unions spend vast sums of money to protect their monopoly, and to protect mediocre & incompetent teachers from being fired, from having to compete, or from being subject to performance-based pay. In the mammoth L.A. school district, something like 100 teachers were fired over a 10-year period for such behavior as rape, indecent exposure, etc, while not a single teacher was fired for incompetence. * Much of the union money goes, both directly and indirectly, to elect anti-self-defense politicians and to promote gun control. * The government school unions are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party is completely in their pocket. In fact, they're so powerful few Republicans are willing to cross them. The L.A. Daily News recently referred to their influence as a "reign of terror". Destroy the government school unions and the cause of freedom advances by light years. * Because government unions are run by committed leftist ideologues, because parents have little effective control, and because of the nature of government institutions and the type of personnel they attract, many government schools increasingly serve as ideological, spiritual, and even sexual indoctrination centers, whose daily mission is to brainwash kids with anti-American, collectivist, socialist, and even racist propaganda; give condoms to kids as young as 11, urge them to be "open minded" and "explore their sexuality"; get kids to snitch on parents who own guns and on "abusive" parents who dare spank as a form of discipline, pressure parents to put "hyperactive" kids on dangerous mind-altering drugs, punish kids who support the 2nd Amendment, protect violent students from expulsion, and generally undo the influence of such subversive institutions as families, churches, synagogues, & Scout Troops. * Money is not the problem. Ten years ago, per-student spending was three times what it was in 1960, pupil-staff ratios had dropped in half, and government school teachers made 50% more than the average worker, yet performance steadily worsened -- to the point that in Los Angeles, government school teachers themselves were twice as likely to send their own kids to private schools as the typical parent. * Since then even more money has been thrown at the problem. Next year California will spend well over 8,000 dollars per student, more than most private schools. The more money we throw at government schools, the worse they get. * Of course, there are many good teachers who support constitutional liberty, but they do not control the government school unions, and they never will. VOUCHERS & EDUCATIONAL CHOICE Various educational choice plans have been proposed in the past 40 years to improve public education. The debate has primarily been around vouchers, which would take some of the per-student money now spent at government schools and let parents spend it at the school of their choice. Private & home schooling would expand, kids would get a better education, and the worst government schools would have to compete, shrink, or disappear. The better government schools need not fret. Parents happy with their schools can leave their kids where they are. California's current voucher initiative would give private schools strong new constitutional protections against government meddling, and, of course, no private school would be required to accept vouchers. Other plans have been proposed, such as David Barulich's innovative concept where parents would actually be paid bonuses based on standardized tests of their kids' performance. From here on I use the term "vouchers" loosely to describe any educational choice plan that lets parents direct taxpayer education dollars to the school of their choice government, private, or religious or that rewards parents based on the educational progress of their children. To see how vouchers harness the power of competition and free enterprise to improve education, consider this analogy to the current government system: Suppose the government taxed everyone heavily to support a government-run car manufacturing system, and gave everyone a new car every few years. None of the workers could be fired, their pay depended solely on seniority, and so performance-based pay was strictly forbidden. If you didn't like the quality or style of your "free", one-size-fits-all government car, you couldn't just take your money to another car company like you can now, because they'd already have your money. Few but the wealthy would be willing to cough up another 20 to 50,000 dollars for a "private car". So you lobby the government to improve quality and offer the style you like. Good luck! The answer would always be some version of "we need more money" (fewer cars built per autoworker, higher pay, nicer factories and buildings, etc.). Every decrease in quality would be hailed as evidence that not enough money was going into car making. Imagine what cars would be like. Naturally, the government school unions are adamantly opposed to vouchers, accurately perceiving them as a threat to their reign of terror. The unions spent something like 16+ million dollars to kill California's 1993 voucher initiative, outspending proponents by an order of magnitude. They killed it by a landslide at a time when few citizens understood the concept. But times have changed. Polls show dramatically increased understanding and support for vouchers, and new voucher initiatives will cost far more to kill. THE OFFENSIVE It's time for the self-defense civil rights movement to support tuition vouchers: 1. Vouchers will improve public education by enabling parents to send their kids to better schools, by forcing government schools to compete, and by giving parents an alternative to government indoctrination centers. To the minimal extent that any harmful government meddling and indoctrination is allowed, parents will tend to send their kids to the schools that tolerate it the least, since those will obviously tend to be the better schools. 2. Even if voucher initiatives lose, government school unions will be forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars fighting them, money that would otherwise be spent directly or indirectly fighting for gun control and against freedom. Ideally, voucher initiatives should be run in EVERY primary, soaking up government school union money that would otherwise be spent in general elections. 3. Once vouchers begin winning, the government school unions will be destroyed, taking with them the anti-freedom groups' biggest financial base, and the largest built-in source of institutional demand for government meddling in schools. 4. Vouchers will not hurt good teachers. The current system demoralizes teachers by not rewarding excellence. Educational Choice helps good teachers by restoring safety (violent students can be expelled), cutting red tape, encouraging innovation, shifting money from bureaucracy to teaching, creating jobs, and promoting systems that reward excellence. On the other hand, bad teachers will have to improve or get other jobs. Do yourself, the children of America, and your rights a favor: Support educational choice every chance you get. Get informed and write letters to the editor. Volunteer & donate to campaigns. For more information on vouchers, go to www.schoolchoice2000.net . ANOTHER ACHILLEES HEEL: MISUSE OF UNION DUES Employees of unionized industries have several options to prevent all or part of their mandatory union dues from being used to destroy constitutional liberty. 1. Don't join. Employees who refuse to belong to the union can get as much as 30% of their dues refunded. However, many employees still want to belong to the union so they can have a voice. If that is the case: 2. Better yet: Join but object on religious grounds. You have the right to have 100% of your dues redirected to a charity. Often this can be the charity of your choice. For example, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Gun Owners of America Foundation, Pacific Justice Institute, or a church or religious charity. 3. Thus, you can not only keep nearly 1000 dollars a year from being used to destroy America, you can redirect it to help save America, at no cost to you. See www.pacificjustice.org/union.html for all the information you need to take advantage of these options. The Pacific Justice Institute (www.pacificjustice.org) will represent employees without charge in matters regarding religious freedom, academic freedom, and freedom of association. Proposals to bleed anti-freedom war chests by educating NRA members on such issues were presented to NRA management years ago by Arnold Gaunt and myself (Russ Howard former NRA Director), and rejected out of hand as "non-gun-related" (as opposed to, say, such "gun-related" NRA programs as 3-Strikes for Victimless Gun Crimes; hiring more police, ATF agents, & gun prosecutors; helping gun grabbers enforce all existing gun controls; helping the gun grabbers build state & federal gulags for gun owners; and putting teachers in prison for 10 years for carrying to defend themselves and their students). Unfortunately, the enemies of freedom don't tie their hands behind their backs and play by such witless rules. Otherwise, the government school unions wouldn't be pushing gun control, would they? Don't waste your time begging a sworn enemy for mercy. Instead, bleed him financially until you destroy him. Your weapons are your pen, your money, and your time. Use them wisely, relentlessly, and with focus. And unless you're a life member, think twice about joining, donating to, or staying with the management of organizations like NRA who pay themselves 20,000 dollar-a-MONTH salaries, 15,000 dollar-a-month expense accounts, and who- knows-what else, for perpetually selling you out, for living by the creed of pre-emptive surrender, for "fighting" gun control with gun control. Think twice about supporting the managers of groups like NRA who play you for the sap in a national game of "good cop/bad cop" with HCI, who "fight" de jure registration as a smokescreen to hide the fact that we already have de facto registration which they've supported all along. * by supporting "shall-issue" carry while threatening legislators who promote Vermont Carry (which does not involve registration), [Editor's Note: in Vermont you can carry without a permit. Your "permit" is the 2nd Amendment.] * by engineering the InstaCheck system while burying viable alternative systems where the government would not know who is buying, [Editor's Note: I was at the legislative policy committee meeting when NRA staff tried to get InstaCheck approved. It did not succeed at that meeting. The motion did not even get a second. Neal Knox and I were on the committee and the board at that time. To my knowledge InstaCheck has still not been approved by the NRA Board of Directors since then.] * by supporting the Gun Control Act of 1968's nationwide system of registration lists. Lists kept by gun stores whose locations are known by the federal government, lists which must be turned over to the government when the store goes out of business. NRA management will want you to send in your check to help "kill" registration, and they'll be back bragging and asking again for more money as a "reward" after they've "killed" it. Your money & time are better spent with organizations like KeepAndBearArms <http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com>, Citizens of America (www.citizensofamerica.org), JPFO (www.jpfo.org), Gun Owners of America (www.gunowners.org), www.theLSAS.org, and dozens of other anti-appeasement groups (listed on www.KeepAndBearArms.com/exile). For those who want to bone up on educational choice, KABA has posted a short Q&A/FAQ on Educational Choice that I wrote up for the California's 1993 voucher initiative. The figures are dated, but the concepts remain valid. Go to: www.keepandbeararms.com/howard and look for the Voucher FAQ. Russ Howard ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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