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August 20th HONKING GEESE
August 20 issue
HONKING GEESE
Back in the old days, your small village relied on dogs to warn of an approaching threat.
In really old days, and overseas still in Africa and India, it was flocks of geese. (Better, because they don’t lay around sleeping.)
The geese pick up sounds you miss, and cackle an alarm.
That’s why you had them there: because they were sensitive to things you could not hear, and would raise the alarm long before you yourself could detect the threat. You had them so you could go about your life, without having to look constantly over your shoulder for a threat. You relied on the geese: to give you advance notice - warning time - time to prepare - time to react - time to defend yourself if necessary.
So if you lived in one of these villages, and the geese started honking, you - if you were smart/wanted to live/cared about your safety and security - had better get up and check out the threat, to see what YOU need to do.
When those geese raised the alarm, you’d be foolish indeed to ignore it. Because to ignore it is to take an unnecessary risk, a risk which could be life-threatening. NO responsible person would set up an alarm system and then ignore it when it goes off. When life turns into “life or death”, you have to win every time; you only get to lose once.
You could look on those who are concerned about the future of liberty in this country as ‘honking geese’. Because of them, you know that, starting last October, every driver’s license issued or renewed has to meet federal mandates, incorporating encoded information about you on the license.
Because of them, you are warned about the new national database of employed persons.
Because of them, you know about the national database centralizing criminal files and mental health data (required for NICS).
Because of them, you know about the law enabling the executive branch to declare any organization - without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal - a ‘terrorist’ group, and require the turnover of its membership list to the government. (Think about it. There’s hardly a liberal alive who doesn’t already consider those kittens over at the NRA a ‘terrorist’ organization.)
Because of them, you know about the new national database of health records, where every statement made to your doctor could go into a government file.
(All but one of the above was passed by the Republican congress - the guys who are there to ‘get government off your back.’)
OK, guys, the geese are honking.
Ignore them at your peril.
People sensitive to infringements on liberty are squawking about what they perceive to be serious threats.
When the geese start honking, you need to listen. At the least, you need to get off the couch, and check out what they are honking about. It could be a real threat, and there could be just enough time for you to get prepared. Thank the honkers for giving you the warning - and the time! And do something!
Write “1-minute” letters to congress; take a new shooter to the range; join/support JPFO, COA, GOA - after all, it’s only money, and money is cheaper than blood. And, while you are at it, become a Rifleman.
WHAT OUR FRIENDS ARE UP TO
From AP wire services:
“U.N. Investigating Whether E-Mails From U.S. Gun Enthusiasts a Security Threat” (7/5/01)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is investigating whether irate letters and e-mails it has received from American gun enthusiasts protesting an upcoming conference on the illicit trade in small arms constitutes a security threat.
The world body has received about 100 complaints from Americans who erroneously believe the conference seeks to infringe on their right to bear arms, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Disarmament Jayantha Dhanapala said Thursday. The gun-rights enthusiasts did not threaten physical harm to any U.N. official but their protests were strongly worded and were turned over to U.N. security experts, Dhanapala said.
"What concerned me was that there was a widespread campaign," he said. "It's essentially a U.S.-based phenomenon."
The letters and e-mails started arriving in recent weeks, some signed and some anonymous, alleging that the U.N. is attempting to take away guns from people, in conflict with the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, Dhanapala told a news conference.
"I did not get the impression that they have been orchestrated. They are differently worded, but clearly they all labor under the same misapprehension about the conference," he said.
Dhanapala's office released a pamphlet called "Setting the Record Straight" to address the misconceptions they contained and explain what the conference hopes to achieve. [“For Sale: Brooklyn Bridge - can get you a good deal on it.”]
"The focus of the conference is on illicit trade in small arms, not the legal trade, manufacture or ownership of weapons," the pamphlet stressed.
"The U.N. conference will have no effect on the rights of civilians to legally own and bear arms." [Our motto: Trust us]
Delegates are expected to adopt a program of action, which is not legally binding, to curb and ultimately eliminate illegal trafficking in assault rifles and other small arms and light weapons that have become the weapons of choice in many internal conflicts around the world...
U.N. conventional arms expert Joao Honwana, a top conference official, said it wasn't up to the U.N. Department for Disarmament Affairs to judge whether the e-mails and letters constituted a threat.
"The objective of turning these e-mail and communications to the U.N. security was precisely to allow them to assess them from a perspective of threat to the organization of the conference and take whatever necessary measures they found appropriate, which is what they are doing," he said. [“Dear! It’s the UN knocking”]
"They analyze those communications, and I'm sure that they will contact with the appropriate institutions in this country and elsewhere to make sure that whatever is said in those e-mails does not represent a major threat to the organization of this conference," Honwana said.
Is this typical of the types of people who gravitate to the UN, or what? Afraid of a few emails...
There’s not a thing in this report that any US liberal would not approve or any liberal paper would refuse to print (which is one reason it is on the AP). The disappointing thing is that only 100 people across this great land protested, to let them know what liberty-stifling scum they are. A third thing to notice is that weasel word “legal”. One quiet law enacted can change all your guns from “legal” to illegal in the time it takes the ink to dry. You can choose to believe the UN is not after your guns, that they are, in fact, when it comes to firearms ownership in the US, PRO-gun, but if you do, my friend, you need to meet Simple Simon, the pieman.
But you might also derive pleasure that a measly 100 protests created a flap at the UN, with security experts running around, etc.etc. These guys can be scared, no doubt about it. They remember Africa a year or so ago, and the UN force that local elements captured, stripped their equipment and uniforms, and turned them loose to walk back in their underwear.
Gun clubs across the nation should offer to make their facilities available to the UN to burn guns. Let’s see if these world-class good-fellas have the guts to show. My guess is that their ‘security experts’, hired and paid for with your tax dollars to keep these popular folks from getting their collective bottoms whipped by people who don’t like them, will advise them not to... |
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