: 8/19/00 9:42:11 PM Central Daylight Time
From: whclark@bellsouth.net (Weldon Clark)
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Signed NRA Petitions Needed
Editor's Note by Weldon Clark - We need you to sign the
bylaw petitions to change NRA bylaws to (1) allow members
to elect directors from their own state and (2) prevent
multimillion dollar vendors from controlling NRA elections.
Please sign them and return them immediately to the Second
Amendment Action Committee, Dr. Bill Davis, Secy.-Treas.,
465Riverhill Drive, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30328-3178
*******************************
by Neal Knox -- Signed petitions to amend the NRA Bylaws
are coming in at a good clip, co-sponsor Bill Davis tells me,
but we're nowhere near the 500 valid signatures needed to
put them on next spring's ballot.
Bill needs them by next Friday Aug 31!
Any that we get to NRA HQ after Sept. 1 are worthless.
If you've been putting this off, please get moving now!
At present, there are 76 members of the NRA Board of
Directors, all elected at large on recommendation of the
Nominating Committee selected by the Board they are to
select.
Most members don't know even one of the Directors they
choose.
One of Bill's and my petitions calls for at least one Director
elected from each state -- by members from his or her state.
Twenty-four more would be elected at large, to allow big-
population states to elect more of their residents, or those
recommended by people they trust. One Director would
continue to be elected by the members at an annual meeting.
That would mean that at least two-thirds of the NRA Board
would be elected by NRA members who actually know them.
By changing the electorate -- from the Board-controlled
nominating committee to the members within a nominee's
slate -- I'll guarantee you that directors elected under that
system would be far more concerned about the wishes of you
members than are the present Directors.
The second proposed bylaw amendment states that NRA
employees or contractors -- those with a financial interest in
the NRA Board elections -- would be prohibited from funding
or attempting to influence the elections.
One NRA Director told me: "I don't see how anyone could
oppose that." I told him: "You *watch* them."
To print out a letter-sized or legal-sized copy of the petitions
and our cover letter describing them, go to http://www.nealknox.com/NRA2001/petitions/
Or see the link off the home page at http://www.nealknox.com
If you're a voting member -- Life or *continuous* 5-year –
please sign them and get them to Bill at the address listed on
the petition.
----------
Last night I received a fax asking me to respond to a poll
asking "Should Gun Law Be Seriously Tighten." I'm asked to
fax my response to a 900 number at a cost of $2.95 per
minute -- which, it smugly asserts in small type, is "a small
price for greater democracy."
Democracy has nothing to do with it.
It's a money-making SCAM for an outfit in England.
Speaking of scams, a lot of gun polls on the web are
interested in just one thing: getting the email addresses of
pro-gunners or anti-gunners that they can sell to the highest
bidder.
Computer gurus tell me that if you get on the poll's web page
they can pull down information about you and what's on your
computer -- or leave a bitter "cookie" on your machine if they
don't like your answer.
Don't get ripped off.
--
Help us keep you informed! Send your Firearms Coalition
dues to:
Neal Knox Associates
7771 Sudley Road, No. 44
Manassas, VA 20109
Suggested dues are the price of a box of ammunition - $15-
$25.
Archives of these messages are stored at http://www.nealknox.com/alerts/.
Copyright (c) 2000 Neal Knox Associates. All Rights
Reserved.
For legislative updates contact www.nealknox.com and go to
"Scripts from the Firearms Coalition Legislative Update Line"
For current news, call 1-900-225-3006 (89 cents per minute)
or visit http://www.NealKnox.com (free).
************************************************************
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************************************************************
What To Do If The Police Come To Confiscate Your Militia
Weapons see www.2ndamendment.net
***************************************************
Hmm this might actually give the NRA BOD members reason to stand up to Lapierre next time he spouts something like
'the NRA supports reasonable gun laws'
and listed off most that Clinton wanted or
'the NRA supports gun free school zones'.
or is that just me and the members also supported these 'reasonable measures'.
------------------
"those who sacrifice
liberty for security deserve neither"
From: whclark@bellsouth.net (Weldon Clark)
Sender: 2nd-Amendment-News@frostbit.com
Reply-to: 2nd-Amendment-News@frostbit.com
To: 2nd-Amendment-News@frostbit.com
Signed NRA Petitions Needed
Editor's Note by Weldon Clark - We need you to sign the
bylaw petitions to change NRA bylaws to (1) allow members
to elect directors from their own state and (2) prevent
multimillion dollar vendors from controlling NRA elections.
Please sign them and return them immediately to the Second
Amendment Action Committee, Dr. Bill Davis, Secy.-Treas.,
465Riverhill Drive, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30328-3178
*******************************
by Neal Knox -- Signed petitions to amend the NRA Bylaws
are coming in at a good clip, co-sponsor Bill Davis tells me,
but we're nowhere near the 500 valid signatures needed to
put them on next spring's ballot.
Bill needs them by next Friday Aug 31!
Any that we get to NRA HQ after Sept. 1 are worthless.
If you've been putting this off, please get moving now!
At present, there are 76 members of the NRA Board of
Directors, all elected at large on recommendation of the
Nominating Committee selected by the Board they are to
select.
Most members don't know even one of the Directors they
choose.
One of Bill's and my petitions calls for at least one Director
elected from each state -- by members from his or her state.
Twenty-four more would be elected at large, to allow big-
population states to elect more of their residents, or those
recommended by people they trust. One Director would
continue to be elected by the members at an annual meeting.
That would mean that at least two-thirds of the NRA Board
would be elected by NRA members who actually know them.
By changing the electorate -- from the Board-controlled
nominating committee to the members within a nominee's
slate -- I'll guarantee you that directors elected under that
system would be far more concerned about the wishes of you
members than are the present Directors.
The second proposed bylaw amendment states that NRA
employees or contractors -- those with a financial interest in
the NRA Board elections -- would be prohibited from funding
or attempting to influence the elections.
One NRA Director told me: "I don't see how anyone could
oppose that." I told him: "You *watch* them."
To print out a letter-sized or legal-sized copy of the petitions
and our cover letter describing them, go to http://www.nealknox.com/NRA2001/petitions/
Or see the link off the home page at http://www.nealknox.com
If you're a voting member -- Life or *continuous* 5-year –
please sign them and get them to Bill at the address listed on
the petition.
----------
Last night I received a fax asking me to respond to a poll
asking "Should Gun Law Be Seriously Tighten." I'm asked to
fax my response to a 900 number at a cost of $2.95 per
minute -- which, it smugly asserts in small type, is "a small
price for greater democracy."
Democracy has nothing to do with it.
It's a money-making SCAM for an outfit in England.
Speaking of scams, a lot of gun polls on the web are
interested in just one thing: getting the email addresses of
pro-gunners or anti-gunners that they can sell to the highest
bidder.
Computer gurus tell me that if you get on the poll's web page
they can pull down information about you and what's on your
computer -- or leave a bitter "cookie" on your machine if they
don't like your answer.
Don't get ripped off.
--
Help us keep you informed! Send your Firearms Coalition
dues to:
Neal Knox Associates
7771 Sudley Road, No. 44
Manassas, VA 20109
Suggested dues are the price of a box of ammunition - $15-
$25.
Archives of these messages are stored at http://www.nealknox.com/alerts/.
Copyright (c) 2000 Neal Knox Associates. All Rights
Reserved.
For legislative updates contact www.nealknox.com and go to
"Scripts from the Firearms Coalition Legislative Update Line"
For current news, call 1-900-225-3006 (89 cents per minute)
or visit http://www.NealKnox.com (free).
************************************************************
For those of you in South Carolina who wish to receive
specific alerts please e-mail request to lcoble@netside.com
and/or visit www.scfirearms.org.
************************************************************
What To Do If The Police Come To Confiscate Your Militia
Weapons see www.2ndamendment.net
***************************************************
Hmm this might actually give the NRA BOD members reason to stand up to Lapierre next time he spouts something like
'the NRA supports reasonable gun laws'
and listed off most that Clinton wanted or
'the NRA supports gun free school zones'.
or is that just me and the members also supported these 'reasonable measures'.
------------------
"those who sacrifice
liberty for security deserve neither"