Call to action! - Impeach Senator Feinstein!!

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Big Bear

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Friends, this is from the CA TRT mail list. Time to take the offensive, folks. It only takes a few minutes to fire off a few emails. Let them know they work for US!

Mike, PRK

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Friends of Freedom,

As you may already know, Senator Feinstein, on May 9, put forth Senate Bill 2525, calling for registration of firearms and licensing and thumbprinting of firearm owners.

The US Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down schemes to exert prior restraint upon the exercise of our First Amendment rights:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>LOVELL v. CITY OF GRIFFIN, GA., 303 U.S. 444 (1938)
- We think that the ordinance is invalid on its face. Whatever the
motive which induced its adoption, its character is such that it
strikes at the very foundation of the freedom of the press by
subjecting it to license and censorship.
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/303/444.html
<LI>BANTAM BOOKS, INC. v. SULLIVAN, 372 U.S. 58 (1963)
- Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court
bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity.
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/372/58.html
<LI>LAMONT v. POSTMASTER GENERAL, 381 U.S. 301 (1965)
- We conclude that the Act as construed and applied is
unconstitutional because it requires an official act ... as a
limitation on the unfettered exercise of the addressee's First
Amendment rights. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/381/301.html
<LI>FREEDMAN v. MARYLAND, 380 U.S. 51 (1965)
- One can challenge a licensing statute which endangers freedom of
expression, whether or not his conduct could be prohibited by a
properly drawn statute and whether or not be applied for a
license. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/380/51.html
</UL>

It is clear that Senator Feinstein's licensing scheme represents a prior restraint on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and thus is a violation of our Second Amendment rights: if you can't buy or own a firearm without paying a license fee and submitting a thumbprint, and if you can be charged with a crime if you don't register existing guns, then how are you supposed to "keep" your arms?

Feinstein's bill proposes to subvert a Constitutionally-guaranteed natural right into a government-licensed privelege, striking at the very foundations of our freedom.

I firmly believe that a Senator who thinks so little of her solemn oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States that she would put forth such flatly unconstutional legislation, has absolutely NO BUSINESS holding office in the nation's most powerful legislative body. She must be impeached.

Since the Constitution vests the power of impeaching federal officials in the House of Representatives, I encourage you to contact the pro-rights, A-rated representatives listed at the Gun Owners of America:
http://www.gunowners.org/106hrat.htm

... and ask them to begin impeachment hearings for Senator Feinstein, as well as S.2525's cosponsors Senators Boxer, Lautenberg, and Schumer, on the grounds of disregard for their oaths of office and for the Constitution of the United States.

It would also be helpful to contact the A-rated Senators listed here, and notify them that you are calling for the impeachment of Senator Feinstein, since word gets around in the halls of the Senate:
http://www.gunowners.org/106srat.htm

The phone and e-mail directories for both the House and Senate can be found on their respective websites, http://www.senate.gov/
and http://www.house.gov/

It's time to stop the half-measures. It's time to throw the gloves aside and get serious about defending our rights. A clamourous call for impeachment would be a loud and clear message to these "four horsemen of the gun control Apocalypse," and to any who might follow in their path, that their Constitution-shredding will not be tolerated.

Please forward this message far and wide.

-Michael Pelletier.

http://www.firearmsfreedom.net/guncontrol/
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- Joe Brower

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[This message has been edited by Big Bear (edited May 17, 2000).]
 
I still like going after her about holding dual citizenship, USA & Israel.

She can't, by law, be a senator if she's a citizen of another nation.

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"Anyone feel like saluting the flag which the strutting ATF and FBI gleefully raised over the smoldering crematorium of Waco, back in April of ‘93?" -Vin Suprynowicz
 
I just sent letters and phoned my Senators about this.

Let's make some serious noise!

CMOS

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NRA? Good. Now joing the GOA!
 
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Gee, what's wrong with that picture?

(And DiFi is a LICENSED gun owner. :mad: )

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Dear Thugs:
I am willing to die to protect my freedom.
Are you willing to die trying to take it?

[This message has been edited by Coinneach (edited May 17, 2000).]
 
FYI, GOA A-rated Senators are:

Mike Crapo (R) -Idaho
Sam Brownback (R) -Kansas
Bob Smith (R) -New Hampshire
Mike Enzi (R) -Wyoming

I have written to them, as well as my own Representative (GOA C-rated), and A-rated House members.
 
Coinneach,

Aside from her finger being on the trigger, and it likely being aimed at some hapless reporter, just WHAT in the wide world of sports is she doing with my AK! I better check when I get home.

Chris..
 
deanf,

Please post info on this law. Let's get her out!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by deanf:
I still like going after her about holding dual citizenship, USA & Israel.

She can't, by law, be a senator if she's a citizen of another nation.
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NRA/GOA/SAF/USMC

Oregon residents please support the Oregon Firearms Federation, our only "No compromise" gun lobby. http://www.oregonfirearms.org
 
Are you saying that she legally and actively claims to be a citizen of Israel or the right of return for people of Jewish descent to become citizens of Israel?

Also cite the specific law on this matter.
You would disqualify all Jews from being senators, etc.?

Be very careful here. You might wander down paths that the TFL doesn't want to go.
 
Forgot to say this.

It would be better for RKBA advocates to avoid crackpot schemes like impeaching folks for other than high crimes and the like.

It isn't going to happen. Spend your energies on betting her in the polls by logical arguments and grass roots political organization.

Clinton wasn't removed with a clear case of corruption - do you honestly think that she
is vulnerable to such an attack over these issues. No, she's not.

It might make you feel good to propose such schemes but it is a waste of time.
 
Do I think this will result in Feinstein actually being impeached? No

Do I think it's a waste of time? No

IMHO, this sends a loud and clear message that the registration and thumbprinting of lawful gun owners is a particularly aggregious affront to our Constitutional rights. And it gives fighting "ammo" to our allies in Congress should it come to debate on the floor.

Believe it or not, sometimes our friends in Congress actually read and apply the information we send them, and the cited Supreme Court rulings against prior restraint just may help them fight S.2525 for us.

I would like to hear some of our friends in the Senate go on the record saying that their constituants are not only opposed to registration and thumbprinting, but they want the Senators who support it to be impeached! It certainly makes more impact if it's seen as a "black-and-white" issue rather than a "gray" area.

Just my $0.02 worth.
 
Our government is too corrupt to impeach someone on ANY grounds. Really! I can't imagine what someone would have to do to be thrown out of office.

Then again, it doesn't change things. What Feinstein is trying to do is wrong. She's subverting the Constitution, and should be ousted. Just because the weasels in power won't do it doesn't mean that it should be done. Sending the recommendation let 'em know we're paying attention.
 
My mention of her dual citizenship comes from a long dead TFL thread on the same subject that had citations of current law and credible evidence that she holds dual citizenship. When asked about it, her office "will neather confirm or deny."

So, until I find that thread, it's heresay.
 
When I see Feinstein, I see the word hypocrite tatooed across her forehead. She and her husband have two of the very few chl in SF. When challenged about this, she said that she was an important person and needed to protect herself. Hummm.
 
I'd like official info on DiFi's ccw in SF. I live in Oakland where I see project exile billboards on buses, rapid transit stations, and benches. I'm composing letters, and this kind of hypocrisy needs more exposure, but I need official reference.
 
If we are so sure that we could win a second Amendment decision based on the quoted cites, we should do an immediate 180 and declare our undying support for registration. Besides those examples we also have:

HAYNES v. UNITED STATES, 390 U.S. 85 (1968) http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=390&page=85

JONES v. CITY OF OPELIKA, 319 U.S. 103 (1943) http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=319&invol=103

JONES v. CITY OF OPELIKA, 319 U.S. 105 (1943) MURDOCK v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA and seven other cases. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=319&invol=105

FOLLETT v. TOWN OF MCCORMICK, S.C., 321 U.S. 573 (1944) http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=321&invol=573

In his concurring opinion in Follet, Mr. Justice REED stated:
My understanding of this Court's opinions in Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 , 63 S.Ct. 870, 891, 146 A.L.R. 81, and Jones v. Opelika, 319 U.S. 103 , 63 S.Ct. 890, is that distribution of religious literature in return for money when done as a method of spreading the distributor's religious beliefs is an exercise of religion within the First Amendment and therefore immune from interference by the requirement of a license. These opinions are now the law of the land.

Mr. Justice Murphy, in his concurring opinion, wrote: "It is wise to remember that the taxing and licensing power is a dangerous and potent weapon which, in the hands of unscrupulous or bigoted men, could be used to suppress freedoms and destroy religion unless it is kept within appropriate bounds."

Although these were also First Amendment cases, they made it glaringly clear that there may not be licensure of a Constitutional right.

From JONES v. CITY OF OPELIKA, 319 U.S. 105 (1943)

We are concerned, however, in these cases merely with one narrow issue. There is presented for decision no question whatsoever concerning punishment for any alleged unlawful acts during the solicitation. Nor is there involved here any question as to the validity of a registration system for colporteurs and other solicitors. The cases present a single issue-the constitutionality of an ordinance which as construed and applied requires religious colporteurs to pay a license tax as a condition to the pursuit of their activities.

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Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion are available to all, not merely to those who can pay their own way.

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It is one thing to impose a tax on the income or property of a preacher. It is quite another thing to exact a tax from him for the privilege of delivering a sermon. The tax imposed by the City of Jeannette is a flat license tax, the payment of which is a condition of the exercise of these constitutional privileges. The power to tax the exercise of a privilege is the power to control or suppress its enjoyment. Magnano Co. v. Hamilton, 292 U.S. 40, 44 , 45 S., 54 S.Ct. 599, 601, and cases cited. Those who can tax the exercise of this religious practice can make its exercise so costly as to deprive it of the resources necessary for its maintenance. Those who can tax the privilege of engaging in this form of missionary evangelism can close its doors to all those who do not have a full purse. Spreading religious beliefs in this ancient and honorable manner would thus be denied the needy. Those who can deprive religious groups of their colporteurs can take from them a part of the vital power of the press which has survived from the Reformation.

This last paragraph is significant when placed in the context of the Second Amendment and within the structure of the current day efforts at licensing and registration. It could be rewritten to read:

It is one thing to impose a tax on the purchase of a firearm. It is quite another thing to exact a tax from him for the privilege of firing it. The tax imposed by the City of Anywhere, USA is a flat license tax, the payment of which is a condition of the exercise of the Second Amendment. The power to tax the exercise of a privilege is the power to control or suppress its enjoyment. Magnano Co. v. Hamilton, 292 U.S. 40, 44 , 45 S., 54 S.Ct. 599, 601, and cases cited. Those who can tax the exercise of this practice can make its exercise so costly as to deprive it of the resources necessary for its maintenance. Those who can tax the privilege of engaging in this right can limit the Second Amendment to all those who do not have a full purse. Lawful self defense would thus be denied the needy. Those who can deprive the people can take from them a part of the vital power of self defense which has survived from the Reformation.

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jimpeel:
If we are so sure that we could win a second Amendment decision based on the quoted cites, we should do an immediate 180 and declare our undying support for registration...[/quote]

Interesting strategy, but I think I'd prefer to wait to see how the Emerson case pans out first. Keep your shirt on. This may all be over by election day.
 
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