Gates vs. Cheney on Iran; Friction within U.S. Government

This is a story that broke Saturday in the U.K.. It is especially noteworthy in that U.S. press and media have had NO coverage on this. There is much more evidence that there is serious friction within the U.S. government on the war-mongering against Iran. Here Gates is opposing Cheney, and it is claimed that Cheney is being duly suppressed for usurping powers not his own. However, the article says that McConnell, who also works for James Woolsey's firm Booz Hamilton (major neocon contractor and outsourced Pentagon power), is close to Gates on this. Thus there is much more than what is reported, Gates himself is being controlled by the radical neocons, whom Cheney is in involved with, while it is stated that Cheney is being checked. Note who controls America's war powers in the government in all of this. Nevertheless the friction and resistance to open a war with Iraq is very good. A constitutional crisis (since Congress only has power to declare war, which Pelosi just invoked) is in the works, typical with this rogue government and usurping administration.

The man who stands between US and new war

Last Updated: 1:50am BST 10/10/2007

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has taken charge of the forces in the American government opposed to a US military attack on Iran, writes Tim Shipman.

Pentagon and State Department officials say Mr Gates has set himself up as chief rival to Dick Cheney in a bid to thwart the vice president's desire to bomb the Islamic state.

	Defence secretary Robert Gates: a force for peace

Those familiar with internal battles in the Bush administration say Mr Gates has eclipsed Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, as the chief opponent of air strikes and is the main reason President George W.Bush has yet to resort to military action.

Pentagon sources say Mr Gates is waging a subtle campaign to undermine the Cheney camp by encouraging the army's senior officers to speak frankly about the overstretch of forces, and the difficulty of fighting another war.

Bruce Reidel, a former CIA Middle East officer, said: "Cheney's people know they can beat Condi. They have been doing it for six years. Bob Gates is a different kettle of fish. He doesn't owe the President anything. He is urging his officers to be completely honest, knowing what that means."

Officials say Mr Gates's strategy bore fruit when Admiral William Fallon, the head of US Central Command, charged with devising war plans for Iran, said last month that the "constant drumbeat of war" was not helpful.

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He was followed by General George Casey, the army's new chief of staff, who requested an audience with the House of Representatives armed services committee to warn that his branch of the military had been stretched so thin by the Iraq war that it was not prepared for yet another conflict.

Gen Casey told Congress the army was "out of balance" and added: "The demand for our forces exceeds the sustainable supply. We are consumed with meeting the demands of the current fight, and are unable to provide ready forces as rapidly as necessary for other potential contingencies."

Mr Gates has forged an alliance with Mike McConnell, the national director of intelligence, and Michael Hayden, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, to ensure that Mr Cheney's office is not the dominant conduit of information and planning on Iran to Mr Bush.

Insiders say Mr Gates has ensured that Mr Bush has seen more extensive studies of the probable negative effects of an attack on Iran than he was privy to before the war in Iraq.

One CIA insider said: "Bush understands that any increase in real military hostilities in Iran right now could have a negative effect. Bob Gates is the only one opposed to it. He's the single person in the US government who has any standing with the White House fighting it."

"Islamo-Fascism": Fred Thompson Shills for the Neoconservative Agenda in First Debate

Question: What is the greatest problem and threat to America?

Answer: The greatest threat to America is Islamo-fascism. These are Islamic fundamentalists and jihadists that want to kill us all, especially Jews and Christians. 9/11 changed everything.

-- Unofficial Neoconservative Catechism required by the new republican establishment

Make no mistake, Fred Thompson is bought and paid for, another neoconservative shill, equally owned by the Israeli lobby. Israel Today reported this on June 6th:

Fred Thompson coming to Israel

Fred Thompson, US presidential hopeful and former star of the hit television series “Law & Order,” is scheduled to make his first visit to Israel in the coming days.

Thompson, who is said to have a fair chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination, will meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and various other senior officials during his tour of Israel.

Of the dozen or so candidates contesting the nomination, Thompson is among the most supportive of Israel.

Here again is the power of the Israeli lobby and neoconservatives, mostly Jewish and Zionist. Candidates that are establishment 'approved' must pass the muster not with Americans, but must be fully indoctrinated and approved by Israel and its imbedded dual-citizen officials within the government. The Zionist influenced media, with largely Jewish corporate heads, will also be sure to give these candidates more push and coverage. So Thompson shows himself to be another Israeli-firster and his commitment and oath to the Constitution and American interests are already compromised.

Fred Thompson, like Giuliani and Romney also, is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), like Cheney, a David Rockefeller organization pushing for world government and its key ingredient of a North American Union. This is why not just anyone can become president of the U.S., they must have powerful "connections", and therefore loyalties, which immediately compromise constitutional law to a larger agenda subversive to America's legitimate government. (Democrats are members of the CFR as well, and also the Israeli lobby). Ron Paul is the only true conservative and constitutionalist that has no ties to these anti-American interests.

"Islamo-Fascism"

"Fascism" is a pejorative term to be taken and believed without thinking of its true definition of "centralized power", something that has no evidence in the Islamic world, or even in Iran. But it does describe the "Federal" Government in Washington (the term federal refers to limited and delegated powers from the states, not absolute central power).

The only "fascism" threatening America is what is being established by anti-constitutional "unitary Executive" power and legislated by a cowardly complicit Congress. Key elements of Totalitarian Government and Fascism, like REAL (National) ID, USA PATRIOT ACT, Military Commissions Act, Domestic Spying, Homeland Security (America's Gestapo) have not been established by any Islamic "terrorists", but from the White-washed House on Pennsylvania Avenue and under the Capitol dome. 9/11 was used to "terrorize" Americans for this purpose, to usurp anti-constitutional powers over the American people and to hijack military power for a global Democratic Jihad of their own. The neoconservative fifth column, coercing and hijacking the republican party via Cheney and Bush, is behind it all. It is all THEIR plan, based upon THEIR ideology of a SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNMENT AND THE SUPPRESSION OF ALL DISSENT. This is why a North American Union and illegal immigration amnesty is also part of their plan.

Thompson warns of Islamic fascism in debut debate
09 Oct 2007

Screen star Fred Thompson muscled into his debut 2008 presidential debate clash with Republican rivals Tuesday, vowing to repel a tide of "Islamic fascism" aimed at bringing down the West.

What is amazing is that some still believe this propaganda despite the lack of credible evidence. So here is an expose' on the term "Islamo Fascism" (linked to original at Lew Rockwell) and where it came from, and the neoconservative propaganda and ideology that it comes from, which comes not from American conservatives, but from disciples of Leon Trotsky! Anyone who repeats it, therefore, is reciting Trotskyist ideology and propaganda that continues to control and deceive Americans.

Springtime for Trotsky

by Daniel McCarthy

In most circles the word "fascist" is a generic pejorative, an epithet that conveys a moral judgment rather than a description. We Americans have perhaps become so accustomed to this use of the word that we don't even think about it. We should, because "fascist" in this sense was specifically coined by the Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky to identify all of his rivals, even Stalin, with Hitler and Mussolini – and with "the right." Its use reveals the undying influence of Trotsky.

By calling Stalin a fascist, Trotsky and his followers could claim that "real" socialism is not a murderous ideology. They could further claim that all true threats to human dignity and freedom really come from the right. Although Trotsky himself had a rather fateful encounter with an icepick in 1940, Trotkyists today continue his fight on behalf of international social democracy. These days however Trotskyists prefer to call themselves "neoconservatives."

Over the past two months the word "Islamofascism" has gained currency. The term has appeared in National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, and at Andrew Sullivan's website, among other places. To a vigilant eye the word "Islamofascism" looks suspiciously like a classic Trotskyist coinage. You don't have to be a fan of either fascism or Islamic terrorism to wonder if there's more than meets the eye to this word.

"Islamofascist" was coined or at least popularized by Stephen Schwartz in his recent Spectator article "Ground Zero and the Saudi Connection." Note that within the article Schwartz singles out Stalin and Bolshevism for criticism, rather than Communism in general.

Schwartz, who now writes from National Review Online, is a hardly abashed Trotskyist. Here's how a one-time fellow traveler of Schwartz's describes him:

Schwartz's parents had been members of the pro-Moscow Communist Party U.S.A. In reaction against the Stalinist milieu he'd grown up in, he'd become a Trotskyist in his teens and eventually gravitated towards the left communism of the FOR [Fomento Obrero Revolucionario]. Schwartz and I agreed that all forms of Leninism were counter-revolutionary. This didn't stop Schwartz from intensely identifying with Leon Trotsky and blaming anything that peeved him, from bad weather to poor table service, on the machinations of "Stalinists".

By attaching himself to the FOR, Schwartz could gain notice among Trotskyists as the author of the most extreme left English language publication close to the Trotskyist spectrum, and guarantee himself a place in the future as a wax mannequin in the ludicrous icepickhead pantheon that was so dear to his heart.

And here is Schwartz in his own words, referring to information he gleaned from reseraching the Venona transcripts:

Dismissing questions about the guilt of Alger Hiss, Lauchlin Currie, and Harry Dexter White, Schwartz writes: "I am much less interested in the fates of these three bourgeois careerists than I am in those of such dissident revolutionists as Ignacy Porecki-Reiss, Andreu Nin and Leon Trotsky." "I have never understood the moral compass of certain U.S. intellectuals who consider the sufferings of White and Hiss, or of the heirs of Currie, to be more compellingly tragic than the assassination of Reiss, the death by torture of Nin or the smashing of Trotsky's brain by an ice ax" by Soviet agents, writes Schwartz.

For Schwartz, Stalinist assassinations are something of an obsession. He wrote a piece for the Weekly Standard earlier this year hypothesizing that Stalin murdered Frankfurt School theorist Walter Benjamin. From this article and his quote above it's hard not to conclude that Schwartz feels a great deal of continuing sympathy for Trotsky and the Trotskyists, and not just for the grisly ways they met their deaths. Was Trotsky's assassination really "tragic," as Schwartz says?

The Trotskyist pedigree of neoconservatism is no secret; the original neocon, Irving Kristol, acknowledges it with relish: "I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory." Nor is there any doubt about the influence – one might almost say hegemony – of "former Communists" on the post-war conservative movement. Just read the words of one neocon, Seymour Martin Lipset:

From the anti-Stalinists who became conservatives – including James Burnham, Whittaker Chambers, and Irving Kristol – the Right gained a political education and, in some cases, an injection of passion. The ex-radicals brought with them the knowledge that ideological movements must have journals and magazines to articulate their perspectives. In 1955, for example, William F. Buckley, Jr., launched National Review at the urging of Willi Schlamm, a former German Communist. In its early years, National Review was largely written and edited by the Buckley family and a handful of former Communists, Trotskyists, and socialists, such as Burnham and Chambers. It played a major role in creating the Goldwaterite and Reaganite New Right and in stimulating an anti-Soviet foreign policy.

Worthy of note is that while ex-Stalinists tended to denounce their Communist roots vehemently, neoconservatives like Kristol and Schwartz remain at least wistfully fond of Trotsky. It's also worth noting that the neoconservative preoccupation with exporting social democracy abroad through war and mercantilism reflects the original split between Trotsky and Stalin. Trotsky argued that there could not be "socialism in one country" but rather that the revolution had to be truly international. And so the neoconservatives push for "human rights" and social democratic governments to be imposed on Serbia, for example, by force of arms.

And so fifty-six years after the death of Hitler we're still fighting a war against "fascism" in one form or another. We're still fighting to make the world safe for (social) democracy. Somewhere in the bowels of hell Leon Trotsky must be smiling.

Postscript: I'm indebted to Paul Gottfried, whose lectures at the Mises Institute's History of Liberty conference inspired and informed much of this article.

November 6, 2001

Daniel McCarthy [send him mail] is a graduate student in classics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Copyright © 2001 LewRockwell.com

Lockerbie Bombing a Cover-up; Iran Connection Alleged; Crash Evidence refutes Flight 93 Story

Recent news creating again suspicion over the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing official story, blamed on Libya, was reported today, that again adds prima facia evidence of the typical lies and cover-up of both government and media. The official story of Pan Am 103, like 9/11, is a fraud, where Libya was conveniently scape-goated to justify an agenda against "terrorists" of the government's choice. (Yes, and Princess Diana's death is even being run through a second cover-up dog and pony show trial today, which Charles Gibson on ABC derided tonight. The media is very complicit in maintaining political-correctness of all official stories, irregardless of evidence). Don't expect the official story to change here. Just note the incriminating evidence of a cover story that was conspired and crafted for the public.

Here is what was reported recently, courtesy of CLG's news feed:

FBI offered me $4m: Lockerbie bomb witness 06 Oct 2007 A witness in the Lockerbie case has claimed he was offered $4 million (£2 million) by American investigators to lie to the trial judges. Edwin Bollier, head of the Swiss company MEBO that was said to have manufactured the timer used to detonate the Pan Am bomb, claims he was offered the money by the FBI at its Washington HQ in exchange for making a statement that supported the main line of inquiry - that Libya was responsible for the bombing.

Lockerbie evidence withheld from defence 02 Oct 2007 Fresh doubt has been cast over the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber after it emerged a document containing vital evidence about the bomb timer has never been shown to the defence. The Scotsman has learned that the failure to disclose the classified document, which concerns the supply of timers identical to the one said to have been used to blow up Pan Am Flight 103, led a review body that examined the case against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi to conclude a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.

Which led me to these two videos below:

1. Here in this first video, an Al Jazeera broadcast, we see the official story of Lockerbie is untrue, as Scottish officials testify. Also shown is ROBERT BAER, CIA, (of "Syriana" fame) states that Lockerbie was a "revenge" by Iran of the U.S. Navy "accidentally" shooting down Iranian Airliner killing 290 passengers in 1988. (We have not heard much about that, have we. Note how close the passenger deaths are between the two incidents; "eye for an eye"?).

Secondarily, one can see in this video also the difference between a genuine commercial airliner crash and the myth of flight 93. (See video and links in right column; Flight 93 did not crash in Shanksville, but evidence is was shot down or blown up over nearby New Baltimore, PA where debris and body parts were found). Note the size of the crater, debris field, portions of aircraft at Lockerbie--all identifiable--compared to a 15' hole with no debris in Shanksville.

2. The second video is about the buried story of the U.S. Navy shooting down an Iranian airliner in 1988, the murder of 290 Iranians on the way to Mecca, which Robert Baer above, refers to--a highly charged, provocative incident.

An Iranian Airbus A300 was shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 38 non-Iranians and 66 children. The Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters at the time of the shoot-down.

Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On December 21, 1988, the aircraft flying this route, a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA and named "Clipper Maid of the Seas", was destroyed and the remains landed on Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In the subsequent investigation into the crash, forensic experts determined that 340 to 450 g (12 to 16 oz) of plastic explosive had been detonated in the forward cargo hold, triggering a sequence of events that led to the rapid destruction of the aircraft. Winds of 100 knots (190 km/h) scattered victims and debris along a 130 km (81 mile) corridor over an area of 845 square miles (2189 sq km). The death toll was 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people in the town of Lockerbie.

THE US, UK & ISRAEL ARE JUST COLONIES

This article, and most anything by Makow (see his bio at the bottom) is worth reading in full. And if you are offended by what he says, remember that Makow himself is Jewish, so read closer before jumping to conclusions. Everything he states here is well documented. The message is this, that both political parties are controlled, and America is owned, not free, and big media plays a primary role in keeping it that way. The real purposes of the "war on terror" is easily seen once you understand the big picture which Makow helps unveil. Then be sure you watch at least part of the video below, which complements and establishes the message of this article so well.

[Video diclaimer: This is not an endorsement of all the contents of the video, only the mechanics and premise of its message about how America is controlled and wars are brought about according to a larger agenda].

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THE US, UK & ISRAEL ARE JUST COLONIES
IMPERIALISM OF JEWISH CAPITAL PART 2

By: Henry Makow

Hardly a day goes by without a new article on the Internet blaming the Israel Lobby and neo-cons for the war in Iraq.

The power of the Jewish neo-cons is analogous to that of Communist Jews in the FDR era. Caroll Quigley wrote, "the power that these energetic left-wingers exercised was never their own power or Communist power but was ultimately the power of the international financial coterie." (Tragedy and Hope, p.954)

In my review of "The Red Dragon" last week, I presented the hypothesis that there is only one imperial power in the world: the central banking cartel. Because it creates money out of nothing, it is obliged to buy everything it can. It hides behind the mask of British, American, French or Japanese imperialism, Nazism, Zionism, Communism, etc. but essentially the same people instigate and finance all wars, and profit from them, at the expense of humanity.

The fundamental agenda appears to be that of the "The Protocols of Zion" (a "forgery" with amazing prescient power) "to undermine all collective forces not our own" by which they mean all nations, races, religions and family. They intend to sow chaos until an exasperated and exhausted humanity succumbs to their world "super government."

According to Red Dragon author L.B. Woolfolk, this ethnic-Jewish dominated "Money Power," operating through the Bank of England and countless corporate fronts, tied up most of the world's wealth as early as 1864.

They are colonizing the world, including the so-called imperialist powers. The most draconian repressive measures are taking place in England, the headquarters of this cabal. They created Israel not as a Jewish homeland but as seat of their future Masonic world government. They instigated the Holocaust to force Jews to support Israel. They may have used the Holocaust to mask the true character of WWII: an attack on Christian European civilization in general by a satanic heretical Jewish sect (the bankers) . They owned I.G. Farben , the backbone of the Nazi war machine, which used Jewish slave labor at Auschwitz.

The US has been a colony of this financial power for a long time. In 1919, Col. Edward House, a Rothschild agent, spoke of using the League of Nations for the [quote] "peaceful return of the American colonies to the dominion of the Crown." House writes: "The League is in substance the Empire with America admitted on the same basis as our other colonies."

The "Crown" is a euphemism for this private cartel. Col. House boasts that the "Crown" used U.S. Treasury loans intended for war purposes to buy up oil fields in California, Mexico and Latin America.

"The war has made us custodians of the greater part of the world's raw materials... [We] now largely control the oil fields of the world and thereby the world's transportation and industry."

WE HAVE BEEN COLONIZED

According to Wikipedia, "colonising nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious and linguistic structures on the conquered population."

We have not been invaded by a foreign army but by foreign capital. As Col. House intimates, they own a controlling interest in industry, and have used that position to buy the politicians, the media and education.

House described how their "entire system of thought control" was working relentlessly for the adoption of the League. But he could be referring to the Iraq War, Global Warming, the EU, or North American Union, today. I urge you to read this document because their tactics haven't changed.

Back in 1919, Col. House used Canadians and Brits to persuade Americans to join the League. He also used the elite-sponsored YMCA, Red Cross, and Salvation Army.

"The League's praises are thundered by our press, decreed by our college presidents, and professed by our professors. Our authors, writers and lecturers are analysing its selected virtues... we have enlisted 8000 propagandists for the League. We have organized international and national synods, committees, conferences, convocations, conventions, councils...to herald the birth of the League as the dawn of universal peace."

"Agriculturalists, bankers, brokers, accountants, chemists, and all other functional groups capable of exerting organized professional, business, financial or social pressure are meeting to endorse the League in the name of peace, progress and prosperity...Our film concerns are preparing an epoch-making picture..."

"In short, our entire system of thought control is working ceaselessly, tirelessly, ruthlessly, to ensure the adoption of the League. And it will be adopted, for business wants peace, the righteous cannot resist a covenant, and the politicians, after shadow boxing for patronage purposes, will yield valiantly [is this a threat?] lest the fate of the wanton and wilful pursue them."

COLONIZATION OF THE MIND: FAST FORWARD

Today, the bankers are fomenting war between Zionism and Islam as part of their world colonization plan. Iran is being targeted for its oil wealth, independence and belief in God.

As in the past, they use all available means of "thought control," Jewish or non-Jewish. Most people can be tricked by a slogan or bought for the price of a steady job.

Because they control the media, neo-cons haven't felt the wrath of the American people for Iraq; and are beating the drums for war with Iran.

Recently, the President of Iran was a guest speaker at Columbia University where angry Zionists picketed him. The President of the University, Lee Bolinger, called him "an evil petty dictator." Bollinger, who is a Zionist, apparently cleared his speech with the Israel Lobby.

Here is an example of how a university supposedly dedicated to truth has been subverted by organized Jewry to foment war. Throughout history, organized Jewry has been accused of being a Fifth Column. Unorganized Jewry needs to repudiate Organized Jewry!

Of the eight Ivy League universities, only Dartmouth has a President who is a white non- Jewish male. Four have Jewish presidents. The other three have militant feminists. (Feminism, today's version of Communism, envisages a total transformation of society.)

Let's see how this "system of thought control" works. At Princeton, Shirley Tilghman succeeded Judith Rodin, a Jewish feminist who is now President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Tilghman is not Jewish but, according to an alumnus, she "has pursued an activist feminist agenda to remake Princeton into a liberal paradise ...Princeton is rife with political correctness, multiculturalism, and liberal groupthink."

In 1945, Dartmouth president Ernest M. Hopkins declared that his "is a Christian college founded for the Christianization of its students." In the 1970s and 1980s, Dartmouth entrusted "the Christianization of its students" to two Jewish presidents. In the 1990s, Harvard and Yale also selected presidents with Jewish backgrounds. By 1993, Jews headed five of the eight Ivy League institutions prompting some wags to refer to the "Oy Vei" League.

Whether it's education, media or business, the central bankers appear to regard Jews are trustworthy agents. This is not a racial thing. Jews that forget their task are fired. For example, Lawrence Sommers , the President of Harvard was replaced by a desiccated feminist (non-Jewish) after he dared to opine that men had superior scientific ability.

Of course the Freemasons are a prime example of a largely non-Jewish organization secretly devoted to subverting Western Civilization. In England, they have spawned a "charity" called "Common Purpose" which has recruited prominent people (educators, judges, cops, churchmen) entrusted to uphold democracy, sovereignty and the rule of law to undermine all three. They are run out of the office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK!

CONCLUSION

The New World Order is an extension of the imperialism of the "Crown", a clique of Jewish bankers and their Gentile accomplices devoted to "absorbing the wealth of the world" (in Cecil Rhodes words) and enslaving the human race.

We are being colonized by this financial power. The bogus "War of Terror" obviously is directed against us. It is the naked fist of this imperialism. Our jobs and resources are exported. Illegal aliens are imported to divide our poltical culture and dilute our job market. The education system is used for mass indoctrination. News is controlled. Entertainment is filled with trivia, drugs, violence and pornography. Obviously our masters wish to arrest our development.

In every colonial situation, the political and cultural elite consists of people who serve the occupying power. Thus, let's judge people not by their race, but by the service they perform for the invisible invader. And let's not confuse them with the real imperialist "Money Power."

The sooner we see ourselves as colonized, the sooner we can declare our independence.


"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact."

Henry Makow, Ph.D. is the inventor of the board game Scruples and author of "A Long Way to go for a Date." His articles on feminism and the New World Order are archived at his web site. Henry is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

Henry Makow can be reached at: Henry@savethemales.ca

Published in the October 5, 2007 issue of Ether Zone.
Copyright © 1997 - 2007 Ether Zone.

Gun Owners of America Warns NRA, and Republican Congress, Compromising on 2nd Amendment

"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both."

--William Rawle, U.S. Attorney appointed by G. Washington, 1791

This is not new and why Congressman Ron Paul calls GOA "the only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington". NRA, despite their poster celebrity Charleton Heston's "cold dead hands" rhetoric, has a pattern of ceding gun rights in increasing compromises. Here GOA calls them on it publicly. Shelly Moore Capito and other republicans should pay close attention.

It should never be a crime, as it is now, to be armed (i.e. concealed carry, registration permits, et al). It should only be a crime to make illegal use of arms, or the Second Amendment means nothing. The "security state" is replacing the "freedom state" that America once was, all under the tyrant's politically-correct plea of "necessity". FEAR is the weapon they use to create "must pass" legislation, as usual. Local talk show hosts have bowed to the same pressure. Eventually, West Virginia will become like Giuliani's New York City fascist police state instead of a place where "Mountaineers are always free". Think about it, and read this.

When you're done reading, watch this 4 minute video clip of what a Texas woman told the local government is the purpose of the 2nd amendment.

An Open Letter To The Pro-gun Community

Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Thursday, October 4, 2007


It may be a cliche, but it is true: This letter is written not in
anger, but in sorrow and concern. It is written to our friends about
NRA staff who, tragically, have taken a course which, we believe,
would be disastrous for the Second Amendment and the pro-gun
movement.

Two of us are Life Members of the NRA -- one of whom was an NRA board
member for over ten years. And our legislative counsel was a paid
consultant for the NRA.

So we certainly have no animus against the NRA staff, much less our
wonderful friends who are NRA members.

In fact, over the last thirty years, GOA and its staff have worked
with NRA to facilitate most of our pro-gun victories -- from
McClure-Volkmer to the death of post-Columbine gun control to a gun
liability bill free of anti-gun "killer amendments."

But those who staff the NRA, without consulting the membership, have
now made a series of strange and dangerous alliances with the likes
of Chuck Schumer, Carolyn McCarthy, and Pat Leahy. And we believe
that, if allowed to continue, this will produce anti-gun policies
which the NRA staff will bitterly regret.

Christ said, in the Sermon on the Mount, that "by their fruits, ye
shall know them." And, frankly, these fruits are not likely to
produce much pro-gun legislation.

Substantively, the Leahy/McCarthy/Schumer bill, which NRA's staff has
vigorously supported without consulting with its membership, would
rubber-stamp the illegal and non-statutory BATFE regulations which
have already been used to strip gun rights from 110,000 veterans. It
would also allow an anti-gun administration to turn over Americans'
most private medical records to the federal instant check system
without a court order.

But perhaps even worse, the bill was hatched in secret, without
hearings or testimony, and passed out of the House without even a
roll call. And now, the sponsors are trying to do the same thing in
the Senate -- in an effort to ram the bill through without votes or
floor debate, led by anti-gun Senator Chuck Schumer. If it is good
legislation, as its proponents claim, why such fears of a roll call
vote or debate in committee?

Indeed, in the face of horrific dissent from the NRA's own
membership, its staff has tragically ignored arguments and dug in its
heels -- in an almost "because-we-say-so" attitude.

Understand this:

* Passage of McCarthy/Leahy/Schumer will not quell the calls for gun
control. To the contrary, it will embolden our enemies to push for
the abolition of even more of our Second Amendment rights. Already,
the Brady Campaign has indicated its intent to follow up this
"victory" with a push for an effective ban on gun shows.

* Passage of McCarthy/Leahy/Schumer will not be viewed as an "NRA
victory." To the contrary, once the liberal media has used the NRA
staff for its purposes, it will throw them away like a used Kleenex.
Already, an over-confident press is crowing that this is the "first
major gun control measure in over a decade."

* Taking the BATFE's horrifically expansive unlawful regulations
dealing with veterans' loss of gun rights and making them
unchangeable congressionally-endorsed statutory law is NOT
"maintaining the status quo."

* We are told that the McCarthy/Leahy/Schumer bill should be passed
because it contains special provisions to allow persons prohibited
from owning guns to get their rights restored. But there is already
such a provision in the law; it is 18 U.S.C. 925(c). And the reason
why no one has been able to get their rights restored under CURRENT
LAW is that funds for the system have been blocked by Chuck Schumer.
It is no favor to gun owners for Chuck Schumer -- the man who has
blocked funding for McClure-Volkmer's "relief from disability"
provisions for 15 years -- to now offer to give us back a tepid
version of the provisions of current law which he has tried so hard
to destroy.

Finally, there is the cost, which ranges from $1 billion in the
cheapest draft to $5 billion -- to one bill which places no limits
whatsoever on spending. Thus, we would be drastically increasing
funding for gun control -- at a time when BATFE, which has done so
much damage to the Second Amendment, should be punished, rather than
rewarded.

We would now respectfully ask the NRA staff to step back from a
battle with its membership -- and to join with us in opposing
McCarthy/Leahy/Schumer gun control, rather than supporting it.

And, to our friends and NRA members, we would ask that you take this
letter and pass it on to your friends and colleagues.

Sincerely,


Senator H.L. "Bill" Richardson (ret.)
Founder and Chairman

Larry Pratt
Executive Director

Michael E. Hammond
Legislative Counsel

The New American offers free special edition magazine on North American Union

Excellent FREE Magazine (in pdf format) offered by The New American with a special edition on the NORTH AMERICAN UNION. This is a most important issue that is not receiving due attention by the 2008 Presidential Candidates, because none of them oppose it, except republican Congressman Ron Paul. This is being pushed by the CFR Republicans, i.e. Giuliani and Romney and Fred Thompson, who are moving toward an "American EU" and globalization. This is what the controversial immigration (amnesty) bill was all about that was pushed so hard by the Bush/Cheney administration. (Cheney is CFR).

DOWNLOAD IT FROM HERE, READ IT, SHARE IT.

Download PDF You know that The New American magazine has always worked to keep America free and independent. The New American has made available an EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL ISSUE that pulls aside the veil of secrecy surrounding efforts to create a North American Union. As part of this important effort to alert the American people to the danger of a North American Union, we are also undertaking an unprecedented distribution of the print version of this issue to 1 million decision makers and opinion molders nationwide. And we have completely redesigned the magazine's website. In addition, we are making available to you a PDF download COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE! Why did we make such a special issue of the magazine completely free? Simply put, to stop the North American Union and preserve the United States of America as a free and independent nation. It is critical that as many people as possible are warned of the threat. ONLY YOU CAN HELP US OUT. Click here to download this special issue of The New American magazine. Read it and share it with as many of your friends, neighbors, relatives and co-workers as possible. To help distribute 1 million print copies to opinion molders, and again ONLY YOU CAN HELP US OUT, click here to make a donation to The New American magazine. Help us spread the word about the planned merger of Canada and Mexico with the U.S. Your generous donation can help save America. Thank you, The Editorial Staff The New American magazine

REAL SUPPORT: Ron Paul's Financial Support Surges while Neocon Candidate's Declines

The support for Ron Paul is real and genuine, and very enthusiastic, and growing every time he speaks to an audience. The more who hear his message, the more support comes in. Even ABC News tonight paid attention to the growing and proven support for republican candidate Ron Paul evidenced in campaign contributions and as the candidate WHO HAS RECEIVED THE MOST FINANCIAL DONATIONS FROM THOSE IN MILITARY. ABC even had a statement for George Will saying that Ron Paul proves that you can be conservative and against the war (not pacifist, but anti-unjust and anti-undeclared war).

We have published much about this, and his track record before, including the military giving and analysis by Gun Owners of America, in previous articles. The more people learn about Ron Paul's positions (e.g. against North American Union and REAL ID, strict immigration enforcement, anti-abortion, gun rights, eliminating Income Tax, limited government, eliminating unconstitutional agencies, constitutional versus Executive war powers, etc.) the better he looks, and with a proven track record of HONESTY AND CONSISTENCY, compared to the likes of establishment candidates Giuliani, Romney and Thompson who are liberal RINOs in conservative clothing. Being a doctor he is also opposed to any kind of nationalized health care insurance programs, period, and is in a better position to reason with Americans on this issue.

Could this be why all the republican state committees are shifting their primary process of elections this year, including West Virginia? They are afraid of Congessman Ron Paul who threatens Big Government CFR republicans. Remember, Gnewt Gingrich warned that republicans would lose if they appeared to be continuing the same policies as George W. Bush, and he is absolutely right. Your choice is actually then between Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton! Ron Paul is the only candidate that offers any substantive difference, being more conservative than all of them, opposing both the neoconservatives as well as the democratic socialist agenda.

This proves again the nay-sayers, columnists like Don Surber, and pundits are wrong about their conspiracy theory that relatively few support (i.e. "spamming" online and FOX polls cannot be done and is a dishonest claim) this most conservative candidate in the race whose goal is to restore Constitutional and limited government from a long history of anarchy by both party establishments.

Here is a copy of their press release, along with more video coverage below.

Subject: Press Release: Third Quarter Fundraising

October 3, 2007

Paul Campaign Raises Over $5,000,000 In Third Quarter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - The Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign raised $5,080,000 during the third quarter of 2007. That is an impressive 114 percent increase from the second quarter.

Cash on hand for the Paul campaign is $5,300,000.

"Dr. Paul's message is freedom, peace and prosperity," said Paul campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "As these fundraising numbers show, more Americans each day are embracing Dr. Paul's message."

Ron Paul's 114 percent increase is in stark contrast to the decrease suffered by Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. Romney's fundraising was down 29 percent. Giuliani was down 40 percent. McCain was down 55 percent.

Paid for by the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee

REAL ID: Dept. of Homeland Tyranny Continues to Lobby State DMVs; Head of Nat'l Gov. Association Plays Sycophant

MAD ABOUT REAL ID
"Mountaineers are always free"--unless they accept REAL ID.
Preserve our way of life, tell the WV legislature and Governor to pass the pending bi-partisan bills opposing REAL ID implementation. A nation ID card is un-American, and unconstitutional.

Alot of good current information in this article on one of the most important topics that could change every West Virginian's "way of life" more than any presumed terrorist threat, which is a microscopic threat statistically. Whether "Mountaineers are always free" (the state's real official slogan that has been laid aside, while liberty has been consistently encroached upon) is up to the state legislature and Governor, whether they will pass the pending legislation opposing and nullifying REAL ID or not. (See REAL ID tags for previous articles).

As another alternative, any citizen could sue, as did the individual from Alaska to their DMV in the link at bottom, to prevent REAL ID being implemented based upon the West Virginia Constitution which requires the state to resist federalization, maintain constitutional continuity, and defend our rights of privacy, insteading of being "pre-booked" as criminal suspects (it is no longer merely an "operator's license" since they required SSN and photos) in order to have "freedom" to travel.

Homeland Security is America's Gestapo and it ought to be dismantled as well, since it is designed for federalization of the states, and contrary to the U.S. Constitution which does not authorize any such tyrannical agency to exist. Notice in this article how they found a sycophant to do their bidding, the head of the National Governor's Association, who is not representing the States, but this usurping rogue power illegally added to the Federal branch.

From Wired:

DMV Gets Educated on Real ID by Homeland Security Industrial Complex

By Ryan Singel September 25, 2007 | 6:55:58 PMCategories: Identification

The database and identity wing of the Homeland Security Industrial Complex sponsored a conference this week on Real ID, the controversial, unfunded government mandate that forces states to join in a national identification program or face having their residents unable to enter federal buildings or board airplanes.

Much of the conference agenda seemed dedicated to rallying state DMV employees to make sure the vendors get the fat contracts, regardless of the drubbing the proposal has gotten from states and the public.

Under the proposed rules all current driver's license and state I.D. holders would have to track down verified copies of "breeder documents" that prove their citizenship and marital status.

Many states are balking at the proposal, seeing it as a federal encroachment on state sovereignty, a privacy-invasive initiative and a financial strain on cash-strapped states.

Among the many sessions held Monday and Tuesday at the D.C.-based conference was a keynote from Dr. Raymond Scheppach, the head of the National Governors Association, which aimed to educate DMV bureaucrats on how they could use Real ID's bigger databases to bring in more money to pay for the databases.

What options did Scheppach suggest for states to deal with the estimated $23 billion cost over 10 years? According to the schedule, his speech included

Assessing various ways of creating the extra funding yourself, e.g. can you use a nation-wide database in other areas of your jurisdiction too, such as finding fathers who aren't paying their child support, or providing extra security for retailers using credit cards?

THREAT LEVEL thinks DMVs might think about selling the database to data brokers, Florida-style...

Jim Harper, the Cato Institute's resident identification specialist, noticed the event first, highlighting another session entitled Bringing Your Public Onboard For Smoother Legislature Changes, teaching DMV employees how to sell Real ID to the public so that politicians will make the necessary changes to state laws.

Harper comments: "State legislators who care about privacy should bar their employees from attending events like this - before the bureaucrats oust them from office."

See Also:

• Montana Rejects Real ID Mandate, Joins Rebel Forces
• Panels Scrutinize Real ID Proposal
• Senate Looks into REAL ID
• Second Round of Real ID Fight Coming to Close
• Homeland Security's Own Privacy Panel Declines to Endorse License ...
• DHS Honchos Get a Polite Earful on New ID Regulations
• Another State Pulls Out of REAL ID, Alaska DMV Sued

CC photo: Anna Reid

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