Mr. Wienke, help me out on this -- Re: FW: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-30 Thread Richard Stevens
--- Jonathan Wienke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the NRA's American Rifleman magazine. The July > issue also has > an article about Ashcroft's letter, which does not > quote the rather > lengthy footnote. However, it does contain a legible > image of BOTH > pages of the letter, including

RE: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-30 Thread Jonathan Wienke
Title: RE: General Ashcroft make his move -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get the NRA's American Rifleman magazine. The July issue also has an article about Ashcroft's letter, which does not quote the rather lengthy footnote. However, it does contain a legible ima

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-18 Thread Petro
At 7:55 PM -1000 7/12/01, Reese wrote: >This makes it likely for Ashcrap's justice department to drop the case, >which means a clear 2nd Amendment issue will not go to the SCoTUS, which >means as soon as this case is out of the pipeline, they can "change" >their policy just like they just did. Es

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
Matt, Thanks for posting this. I'm not sure why this should be a surprise. Groups that care about currying favor with Congress and the administration have a strong incentive to distort the truth to constitutents in hopes of persuading them that awful compromises are not. To use examples from the

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread David Honig
At 06:09 PM 7/12/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What is your position on the First Amendment and: > >o "obscenity" > >o child pornography > >o generated non-child child pornography And synthetic images depicting *cloned* children...

Re: Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread Brent
ECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:01 PM Subject: CDR: Re: General Ashcroft make his move > [Note from Matthew Gaylor: Richard Stevens is author of the recent > book "Dial 911 and Die" published by the Jews for the Preservation of > Firearms Owne

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jimminy Critic wrote: > # > #Now a couple of questions for you... > > Yabut you gave cryptic replies, like > answering a question with a question. Some answers are question, even if one doesn't recognize, like, or want to accept it. > #W

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread George
Jimminy Critic wrote: # #Now a couple of questions for you... Yabut you gave cryptic replies, like answering a question with a question. #Where in the Constitution does it say the fed's are supposed #to regulate pornography or sex? Interstate commerce? #Where in the Constituti

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread George
Jimminy Critic wrote: # #Where is that boundary condition in the amendment? Saying "felons #may not own firearms" is certainly an infringment. Rights don't #come from the state after all (see 1st two para's of the DoI). # #Amendment II # #A well regulated Militia, being neces

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gee, how pure and simple. Well see... > What is your position on the First Amendment and: > > o "obscenity" What is 'obscene'? > o child pornography What is 'pornography'? As to the 'child' part of that, any interaction with a minor i

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote: > As you know, Ashcroft also said in that footnote in > his letter that the Constitution "does not prohibit > Congress from enacting laws restricting firearms > ownership for compelling state interests, such as > prohibiting firearms ownership by convic

Re: General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Gaylor
[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Richard Stevens is author of the recent book "Dial 911 and Die" published by the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. http://www.jpfo.org ] Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Matt -- we must pro

General Ashcroft make his move

2001-07-12 Thread George
General Ashcroft has announce the Second Amendment applies to individuals. This will apparently affect the case of a Tim Emerson, a Texas physician accused of violating a 1994 law barring people under restraining orders from having guns. The DOJ is currently appealing the case claiming the Second