CS: Field-threat to shoots
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony, You're right about the getting involved bit. Our Parish has had a number of vacancies over the last 6 years and I have written in on 3 occasions responding to Notice Boards requests from the PC for replacement PCouncillors. Well strange thing is they ignored my letter on 2 occasions and appointed others. On 3rd I rolled up to the Meeting and they (embarrassed) announced that again they selected another. This time I got a letter saying "sorry". Seems that they tend to elect their own like minded souls, don't want someone who will rock the boat, or know more about what they blather on about for 4 hours every 4 weeks!! I even thought of starting my own "Alternative" P/Council Still, will keep on trying Tom C Tom, Perhaps you should pull-off a walk-in. Find out where they are holding their meetings, and arrive unannounced to attend one, or several of them. Thing is, if they are holding a 'star chamber' sort of meeting, and demand that you leave, then you have the ammunition with which to take them all to task. Should not all of their meetings be open and attended by all who wish to know what they are discussing? And what excuse could they use to exclude their fellow citizens from meetings that will affect them? Who - on that board of individuals - could possibly connive to deprive the citizens of the information that is conducted in the normal course of business? ET Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Police review articles
From: "David Rovardi", [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems the police like to push the point about LETHAL firearms, a car becomes lethal if you run some one over with it. I very much doubt if my guns or for that matter most on the list will ever be used in a lethal manner. regards David Rovardi Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Legal-Ryan
From: "Nicholas Jones", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone in the UK would now accept its easier to get an illegal gun and use that, rather then apply for a FAC. Only when told what a hassle it is by FAC owners. Don't forget, many members of the public still think that we can store handguns at our clubs and use them there - I corrected someone at my factory about that a few weeks ago. Another advantage to a criminal purchase is that the police would not have 3 spare photos of you to issue to the police snipers!! Again, not known to the public/not considered by most criminals as they ahven't a clue about the application process. I'm not criticising Tom, but we need to remember that the public won't know what we FAC holders take for granted as common knowledge. When writing to MPs or newspapers, mention ALL these facts to hammer home the message of how detailed the FAC procedure is. Nik Jones Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Police Review
From: "IG", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site of Police Federation of England and Wales: http://www.polfed.org/main_frame.htm They are still building this but soon you'll be able to send them e-mails. I guess that there are more than one or two people who can't wait to comment on some of the rubbish they print in Poice Review. Truly I don't mean this destructively but the police are such an exclusive bretheren that some sensibly written input from outside can only do good. Police Review is an independant publication with absolutely no connection with the Police Federation. It will therefore be of no use emailing the Federation office as they have no influence over this magazine. The magazine of the Federation is called simply 'Police'. It is published monthly as opposed to weekly. Why dont you try sending a letter or article for publication? You may get a pleasant surprise. Having said that, given the amount of vitriolic, ignorant and ill informed comments coupled with open hostility regarding the police that appear on here, it is more than likely that no response at all would be forthcoming. PC Plod (Fed Rep for a large area of a large police force with a good licensing dept. that NEVER make any mistakes and an even better armed response unit) (AKA as IG) Lights the blue touchpaper and stands back again. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Target-Sportsmens Battalion - info wanted
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone point me in the direction of any sources of information (websites, books, periodical articles etc) about a British army unit of the First World War, named the 1st Sportsmens Battalion? All help gratefully received. Colin -- Actually I've always thought a definitive history of the Artist's Rifles would be quite interesting, I hear often that they formed a regiment that became 21 SAS but little more than that. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-Useful Quote
From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Forty-two years ago, in 1958, a collection of essays by a Brit, Aldous Huxley, was published under the name 'Brave New World Revisited'. A short, verbatim excerpt consisting of 6 sentences from his concluding chapter is below: "We may expect to see in the democratic countries a reversal of the process which transformed England into a democracy, while retaining all of the outward forms of a monarchy. Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms--elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial--but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought manufacturers and mind manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit." Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-Sign-off Line
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I rather liked the following sign off line from an American friend: Annoy a Fascist: Just Say No to Gun Control! Annoy a Liberal: Think! Kenneth Pantling Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-PSA
From: "Jim Franklin", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [.] (snip).. said the SuperintendentsÆ Association. 'We believe .. said Peter Gammon, the associationÆs president. 'We stand by evidence we gave to the committee that there should be a system of licensing for airguns. They can be lethal weapons. There are some very powerful air weapons not subject to licensing on the market: he said. [.] Anybody got an address. Its worth requiring this character to explain the last sentence. Jim Franklin Orpington KENT. UK PGP key on request -- The PSA don't seem able to accept the fact that they are wrong, remember Brian MacKenzie, who stood up at the PSA AGM and said the 1996 HAC report was: "Rubbsh and should be thrown in the bin." So they gave him a peerage! Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
