A visit by my Congressman

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The Congressmen are making the rounds Down Home this Easter recess.

Ours visited our small Nevada town, pop. 12,000+ and met us at the City Hall. TWENTY (count them) concerned citizens showed up.

I asked him about Hyde's "compromise" letter and whether he had been under any pressure from the leadership to vote for the current Juvenile Crime Bill. He said "No", and that he would vote against it if it ever got out of committee.

I also thanked him for voting to straighten out that mess in the scandal-ridden Fish/Game/Wildlife department and asked if anyone was ever going to be punished. He said, "Two words. Janet Reno. Every time we send something to her it just disappears. It's always 'We're still investigating' -- some cases are over four years old."

To us in the West, the ongoing Federal land grabs were another sore point. Clinton's recent set aside of a million plus acreage in the Escalante Staircase(sp?) in Utah was the latest outrage. Locked up HUGE coal reserves.

He said that one of Clinton's big campaign donors was an Indonesian coal mining comapny who evidently wants to lessen the competition.

After some other questioning, he passed on some disturbing information on our military preparedness.

Fallon Air Station (near Las Vegas) has a wing of 15 F-18s. Only five are flyable because of a lack of spare parts.

We started the Balkan War with 2400 cruise missiles and are now down to 25 or so.

The carriers we sent there had only a 75% complement, meaning the crews worked extra shifts and were worn to a frazzle.

Morale is down because of that and the extended tours of duty away from home that shortage entails.

There is a mass exodus of officers and enlisted men from the service. Many don't like the policing aspect of their duties as well as the above problems.

I hope your Congressman had better news.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by HankL:
And your point is Sir? [/quote]

1. We get the government we deserve. How many people showed up when your Congressman held a Town Hall meeting in your area - or, did YOU even show up?

2. I have a good pro-gun Congressman, hope you do too. Have you asked him?

3. Confirming info about Reno's corruption from somebody who's not in the choir, but has actually dealt with her.

4. We are in no shape to take on any more "police actions", let alone a predictable blinking contest with China over Taiwan.

5. We had better resolve our recruitment problem or we won't even be able to police Monaco.

6. Willie has been permanently sealing off huge tracts of the West (read natural resources). This includes UN-decreed
"biospheres" where NO ONE is allowed in. And God help you if you own land bordering those areas (something like a 5-mile
"buffer" area)- you can't do anything with it and you are effectively disenfranchised. Check out this from the URL below: "The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument which he designated in 1996 comprises 1.9 million acres and is by far the largest national monument ever declared in the lower 48 states. The Grand Canyon-Parashant, declared in January, 2000, at a little more than a million acres is the second largest. These huge acreages are blatantly in violation of the smallest-area-compatible test imposed by Congress. (So what else is new? - Oatka)
http://www.monumentpetition.com/monumentbackground.html

That's for openers. The Congressman told us a lot more, but I didn't want to take up additional space.

This country is rotting before our very eyes and my post was just supposed to be yet one more wake-up call.

Evidently I'm not doing a good job.

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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.


[This message has been edited by Oatka (edited April 24, 2000).]
 
Oatka,

Not to speak for Hank, but I think I know what his semi-sarcastic remark was all about.

So what?

We've got an administration in the White House that's about as corrupt as it can possibly be, an inept Congress that can't wait to fall all over itself to appease one of the most popular presidents in history (Soccer Mom's Revenge, I call it), and a handful of us that even give a dang about the Constitution will write letters, call, show up at events, etc. to talk to politicos that are ready to sell us out at the turn of a poll. What's the final score in this game?

In the end the final result is more monuments (if you think the Utah thing was bad, you should see what Clinton did here in California), more illegal usurptations of power, more corruption, more scandal, less freedom, more flaunting of the Constitutional seperation of powers. It just goes on and on.

I'm glad you showed up. I myself write a couple letters a month (does little good writing to Feinstein and Boxer, so I save my stamps), just gave $40 to NRA-ILA and consider myself pretty well involved. But I don't delude myself.

Its like an argument I have with my wife about every month or so. She works for the state with some of the laziest, most inept people you can imagine. She constantly complains to me about how bad they all are and how this employee or that is causing all kinds of problems costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars. I tell her to save her breath. Why? BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES!! Nobody ever gets fired or even reprimanded. As a matter of fact, they all get promoted on a regular basis with regular salary increases. Same with Clinton. All of the lawsuits, the scandals, the abuses of power, not to mention the impeachment, they all add up to nothing and never will. It doesn't help that the media is complicit, but the sad reality is that most sheeple just don't care and your representatives know it.

When those representatives of yours are ready to talk about opening up REAL investigations, or starting impeachment proceedings again, then I'd bother to listen. Everything short of that is just hot air.

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"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H.L. Mencken, February 12, 1923, Baltimore Evening Sun

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Oatka:

Hey I appreciate the info, you can never have too much information. The broader the spectrum the better the view.
 
The deal with the Escalante Steps land grab is as follows: there are three areas in the world that have large deposits of $$$ low sulfur coal. One is in Wyoming, one is in the Escalante Steps area, and the other is in Indonesia and is owned by Riady. So, if the Escalante Steps area can't be mined, what happens to the price of low sulfur coal?

Dick
 
Semi-sarcastic ??? Oatka knows that I'm not semi anything. Very-sarcastic would be fine.
I have a fine Senator in Trent Lott
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but my Represenative is Bennie Thompson
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Oatka spoke fine words in his original topic and I really liked his reply to my question I'm just sorry that he misundertood where I was coming from.
Hank
 
Here is the latest letter I got from my Congresscrook.

Dear mr. Bxxxxxxxx:

Thank you for contacting me regarding gun control. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns.

Throughout my time in Congress, I have felt it is vital to use all available means to reduce the violence that plagues many of our nation. I have supported limitations such as a ban on assault weapons, a waiting period before purchase, and background checks on purchasers. In essance, I support limited, effective controls, while supporting the rights of those law-abiding citizens who wish to own and purchase firearms. Within that context, please be assured that I will keep your thoughts in mind as different proposals come before the full House of Representatives.

Again, thank you for taking the time to write. I hope you will continue to stay in touch, so that I might benefit from your valuable perspective.

Sincerely,
(signed)
Ed Pastor
Member of Congress
This is the Congresscreep from southern Arizona. I think he has his lips firmly pressed against Slick's backside.
The secretary of my gun club and I both have asked him to come out of the closet and admit he is a Communist.
All members of TFL who are one of his constituants, read what he said to me in his letter, and vote the S.O.B. out! Damn but I'm P!$$ed.
Paul B.
 
Well, the following letter is the worst I've ever seen. I sent a friend a copy of the article "An Army of Gun Lies," by Dave Koppel, if I remember correctly. He sent the article to our anti state assemblywoman.
Here's her reply:

Dear Alan:

Thanks for the article. Hope all is well.

Best wishes,

Peggy Krusick
 
Monkeyleg: she HAD to be so reticent; otherwise the lies would drip out.

Say, y'all! This is a good topic, and I hate to interupt one that's moving along so well, but this really belongs in Legal and Political, don'tcha think?

Moving to L&P....
 
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