AMERICA'S
SECRET WAR
(Part 4)

GOVERNMENT

        "All governments are more or less combinations AGAINST the people...and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled...the power of government can only be kept within its constituted bounds by the display of a power equal to itself, the collected sentiment of the people." - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BACHE ("Phildelphia Aurora") (1794)
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        "Our government is the potent, omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example." - JUSTICE BRANDEIS (quoted by Timothy McVeigh at his trial)
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        "The happiness of society is the end of government." - JOHN ADAMS (1735 - 1826)
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        "For in a Republic, who is 'the country?' Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant - merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to OBEY orders, not originate them." - MARK TWAIN
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        "The proposition that the United States of America [is] a CHRISTIAN...nation, is...the statement of a fact. That fact is not simply that the great majority of the people are Christians...but that the organic (initial, natural) life, the institutions, laws, and official action of the government, whether that action be legislative, judicial, or executive, is...in accordance with the PRINCIPLES OF...CHRISTIANITY ...If a man goes to China, he expects to find the government administered according to the religion of the country. If he goes to Turkey, he expects to find the Koran supreme and regulating all public action. If he goes to a [Christian] country, he has no right to complain, should he find the BIBLE in the ascendancy and exerting its benign influence not only on the people, but also on the GOVERNMENT..." - CHARLES HODGE ('Systematic Theology') (1871, 1975)
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        "If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive." - THOMAS SOWELL
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        "People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect." - H.L. MENCKEN
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        "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except CONGRESS." - MARK TWAIN
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        "Nothing is more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than to see the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and to observe the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is brought about, we shall find, that as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. 'Tis therefore, on opinion ONLY that government is founded...this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular." - DAVID HUME
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        "Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The AUTHORITY of man-made law is entirely due to WEAPONS of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions." - LUDWIG VON MISES
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        "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - WILLIAM E. BORAH

    (*And do we do this out of respect for our parents and our elders? Or because - sheep-like - we unquestioningly accept the lying propaganda of our "educators?" - OL)

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        "We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate ANY values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do NOT love." - RICHARD MITCHELL
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        "The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous." - RICHARD MITCHELL
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        "The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in CONQUEST and CONFISCATION. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner." - ALBERT JAY NOCK
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        "Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional- criminal class." - ALBERT JAY NOCK
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        "It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its OWN monopoly of crime." - ALBERT JAY NOCK
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        "No government knows any LIMITS to its power except the ENDURANCE OF THE PEOPLE." - LYSANDER SPOONER
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        "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a FOOL trusts either of them." - P.J. O'ROURKE
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        "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of EVERYONE." - FREDERIC BASTIAT
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        "POLITICAL SCIENTISTS almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression." - RUDOLPH RUMMEL
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        "Under DEMOCRACY one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." - H.L. MENCKEN
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        "There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it." - LORD ACTON
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        "It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after." - DENIS WILLIAM BROGAN
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        "I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE TO THEM over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington..." - GEORGE W. MALLONE
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        "Remember that a government BIG enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to TAKE AWAY everything you have.'' - BARRY GOLDWATER
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        "Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are BENEFICENT (for your "good").'' - SUPREME COURT JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS (in a 1928 decision)
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        "The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of NATURAL rights (GOD-given), but on the idea that the individual has NO rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing." - ALBERT JAY NOCK
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        "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our WICKEDNESS; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher." - THOMAS PAINE
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        "Government is not suggestion nor persuasion, it is FORCE...and force is violence...When you advocate any government action, you first must believe that VIOLENCE IS THE BEST ANSWER to the question at hand.'' - ALLEN THORNTON ('Laws of the Jungle')
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        "Democracy is also a form of WORSHIP. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses." - H. L. MENCKEN
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        "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

    (*The "300" - or as they are more commonly known the "BANKSTERS!" - OL)

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        "DEMOCRACY encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant." - JOHN SIMON
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        "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by PERMISSION; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of RULE BY BRUTE FORCE.'' - AYN RAND ('The Nature of Government')
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        "It shall be UNLAWFUL for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP, as defined in paragraph (15) of section 782 of this title, the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination or control of, any foreign government, foreign organization, or foreign individual: Provided, however, That this subsection shall not apply to the proposal of a constitutional amendment.'' - US CODE, TITLE 50 (War and National Defense), Chapter 23 (Internal Security), Subchapter I (Control of Subversive Activities), † 783 (Offenses), former subsection a, *STRICKEN IN 1993 by Public Law 103-199, Sec. 803(2) (*ALSO STRICKEN were RESTRICTIONS on access to classified information by members of COMMUNIST organizations)

    (*Never forget: the UNITED NATIONS is SOVEREIGN from the United States. It is NOT under our Constitution - that makes it a FOREIGN organization! OL)

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        "The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its OWN advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards ANTI-SOCIAL purposes is self-sprung." - ALBERT JAY NOCK
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        "There can be no such thing as a POLITICAL CRIME under the American system of law. Since an individual has the right to hold and to propagate any ideas he chooses (obviously including political ideas), the government may not infringe his right; it may neither penalize nor reward him for his ideas; it may not take any judicial cognizance whatever of his ideology. By the same principle, the government may not give special leniency to the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds of the nature of his ideas." - AYN RAND
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GUNS

        "The framers gave us the SECOND AMENDMENT not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny." - WALTER WILLIAMS
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        "Both OLIGARCH (elitist, dictator, etc.) and TYRANT mistrust the people, and
therefore deprive them of their ARMS.'' - ARISTOTLE ('Politics')
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        "I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to DRUGS: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control." - GEORGE L. ROMAN
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        "BANNING GUNS addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel SAFE." - DIANNE FEINSTEIN

        (*Well, of course, Feinstein is correct - but she is selling the notion that getting rid of our privately-held, Constitutionally-protected, legal guns will make us all feel safer - ignoring the millions of guns still owned by CRIMINALS, the MILITARY, and GOVERNMENT! The truth is banning all legal guns will TAKE AWAY our safety!)

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        "On March 5, 1991 Bonnie Elmasri called a firearms instructor, worried that her husband - who was subject to a restraining order to stay away from her - had been threatening her and her children. When she asked the instructor about getting a handgun, the instructor explained that Wisconsin has a 48-HOUR waiting period. Ms. Elmasri and her two children were MURDERED by her husband TWENTY-FOUR HOURS later.'' - JEFF DISSELL (from "More Women and Children Killed By The Brady Bill")
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        "A gun is like a seatbelt; when you need it you need it NOW!'' - BUMPER STICKER
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        "A right delayed is a right DENIED.'' - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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        "...PROTECTION OF LIFE is not a LEGITIMATE use for a FIREARM in this country sir!...Not! That is expressly ruled out!'' - ALLAN ROCK (Canada's Minister of Justice [!], VCR taping at the Triwood community centre in Calgary) (12/94)
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        "The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the COLLECTION OF TAXES and dues, and tends to permit uprising (RESISTANCE).'' - TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI (Shogun of Japan) (8/29/1558)
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        "I am one who believes that as a first step (to the takeover of the United States?) the U.S. should move expeditiously to DISARM the CIVILIAN population, other than police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols and revolvers...NO ONE should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun." - PROFESSOR DEAN MORRIS

        (*In other words, anybody who can defend themselves from the GOVERNMENT! - OL)

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        "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a WHOLE NATION of ARMS (such as they are attempting to do in the USA TODAY and - led by Klinton - recently did to Australia!) as the blackest.'' - MAHATMA GANDHI ('An Autobiography')
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        "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.'' - SIGMUND FREUD ('General Introduction to Psychoanalysis') (1952) Hmmm.
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        "With all the political hysteria being whipped up this year about school shootings, more children are killed each year by bee stings - and FAR MORE are killed by AIRBAGS MANDATED BY THE GOVERNMENT.'' - THOMAS SOWELL ("NewsMax") (9/30/99)
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        "After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't DO it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the ONLY people allowed guns are the police and the military." - WILLIAM BURROUGHS
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        "I don't care if you want to hunt (it's not about hunting, Rosie. It's about SELF-DEFENSE!). I don't care if you think it's your RIGHT. I say: 'Sorry, it's 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not ALLOWED to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should GO TO PRISON'.'' - ROSIEO'DONNELL
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        "Most gun-grabbers want to disarm you because they believe you must share THEIR sickness, which they are sure would drive THEM to murder or suicide were they armed with a gun.'' - DANIEL POUZZNER
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        "GUNS CAUSE CRIME the same way that pens cause bad spelling.'' - (from the .sig of desertdog8812@webtv.net) C.J. ROBERTS
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        "So what is the first thing he would do to decrease violent behavior? Quick answer. 'We've got to dismantle the NRA.' And what to do with Charlton Heston? 'SHOOT HIM [!] - with a .44-caliber bulldog,' he says with a laugh.'' - HOWARD FEINSTEIN ("New York Post" writer, reporting the views of - racist, rich, peddler of psychopath training films, black, and establishment Liberal - Spike Lee, in "Spike Takes On 'Sam' & The NRA" "New York Post." Feinstein interviewed Lee at the Cannes Film Festival in France; the type of handgun Lee identifies was used in the Son of Sam slayings) (5/22/99)
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        "Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by ACCIDENT.'' - DICK ARMEY
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        "America has many more guns than England, and a lower violent crime rate. Switzerland has many more guns than Germany, and a lower violent crime rate. England had much less crime in 1900, when the nation had no gun laws, than it does in 2000, when England has some of the most repressive gun laws in Europe. Gun prohibition leads to boldness by CRIMINALS, and passivity by the innocent - and therefore to MANY MORE VIOLENT CRIMES committed against the innocent.'' - DAVID B. KOPEL (in an interview with Carlo Stagnaro for "Zola Times") (10/23/00)
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        "The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.'' - COL. JEFF COOPER, from 'The Art of the Rifle'
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        "The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside...Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; ...THE WEAK WILL BECOME PREY.'' - THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)
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        "Justice Department studies show that ARMED citizens are MUCH LESS LIKELY to suffer losses or personal injury from thieves''- "THE WASHINGTON POST" (1/7/92)
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        "Since Florida has enacted their concealed carry law, the Florida murder rate has DROPPED by 29%. Nationwide, the murder rate ROSE 11% over the same period...'' - 'ABC NEWS' (reporting on 1994 FBI crime statistics) (3/12/95)
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        "But focusing solely on guns is not the right question, according to Joe Morse, president of Seacoast Firearms in Hampton. Morse pointed out that New Hampshire has the SECOND LOWEST homicide rate in the country, while Granite Staters own the MOST guns per family of any state in the nation.'' - "THE PORTSMOUTH HERALD" (shortly after Columbine - "Gun laws debated" by Steve Jusseaume) (4/22/99)
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        "Our analyses provide NO EVIDENCE that implementation of the Brady Act was associated with a REDUCTION in homicide rates. In particular, we find NO DIFFERENCES in homicide or firearm homicide rates to adult victims in the 32 treatment states DIRECTLY SUBJECT TO THE BRADY ACT provisions compared with the remaining control states.'' - JENS LUDWIG and PHILIP J. COOK (in "Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated With Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act" - "The Journal of the American Medical Association") (8/2/00)
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        "A covenant NOT TO DEFEND MYSELF from force, by force, is always VOID...For though a man may covenant thus...man by nature chooseth the lesser evil, which is danger of death in resisting, rather than the greater, which is CERTAIN and PRESENT DEATH in NOT resisting'' - THOMAS HOBBES 1588-1679 (English political philosopher, from 'Leviathan' 1651, Chapter XIV, "Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts'')
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        "But I don't WANT to defend myself.'' - reportedly uttered by a BRADY LAW supporter

        (*That is so sad! Obviously these poor fools are all suicidal! - OL

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        "FALSE is the idea...that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicide, for AN UNARMED MAN MAY BE ATTACKED WITH GREATER CONFIDENCE THAN AN ARMED MAN...'' - CEASARE BECCARIA (18th century criminologist, in 'On Crimes and Punishments')
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        "FREE men have arms; SLAVES DO NOT.'' - WILLIAM BLACKSTONE 1723-1780 (English jurist and professor of common law at Oxford)
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        "The POSSESSION OF ARMS is the distinction between a FREEMAN and a SLAVE. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, OUGHT to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses; else he lives PRECARIOUSLY (in danger)...'' - ANDREW FLETCHER 1655-1716 (quoted by James Burgh (1714-1775), in 'Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses' - London) (1774-1775)
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        "ARMED women deter RAPISTS over 400 times each DAY.'' - BUMPER STICKER
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        "ARMED women equals POLITE men.'' - CHARLES CURLEY
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        "The RIGHT of citizens to bear arms is just one more GUARANTEE AGAINST ARBITRARY (dictatorial) GOVERNMENT, one more safeguard against the TYRANNY which...historically has proven to be always possible.'' - UNITED STATES SENATOR HUBERT HUMPHRY
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        "Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GUN, FREEDOM OF SPEECH HAS NO POWER.'' - YOSHIMI ISHIKAWA (Japanese author, in the "Los Angeles Times," commenting on the response of the Japanese public to government corruption) (10/15/92)
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        "If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a COMMON force (MILITIA) to protect these rights constantly.'' - FREDERIC BASTIAT ('The Law,' Paris) (1850)
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        "When tyranny hits the fan and the 'Firearms Control Section Gestapo' stops by to confiscate YOUR firearms, do the right thing...give'em the AMMUNITION first!'' - THE TUCSON (Arizona) RIFLE CLUB newsletter) (9/99)
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        "CRIMINALS don't REGISTER their guns.'' - MURRAY GRISMER (spokesman of the Saskatchewan Federation of Police Officers, and a 13-year veteran of the police force in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
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        "Crooks are going to get guns regardless of what REGULATIONS we have.'' - KURT SCHMOKE (Mayor of Baltimore) (3/13/99)
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        "This proposal will never prevent CRIMINALS from possessing firearms and WE NEVER SAID IT WOULD.'' - DARYL SMEATON (Attorney General's department, Director of Law Enforcement Co-ordination, on the new Australian gun bans, in "The Weekend Australian") (9/20-21/97). (Then WHO ARE you "proposing" to prevent from possessing firearms? And what is your purpose???)
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        "This business about gun control is a joke really. I come from Switzerland where everyone is taught how to treat weapons sensibly and with care. In Switzerland EVERYONE keeps a gun in their own home and WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THEM.'' - MRS EMMA JAY 70 (Northern New South Wales, Australia, Friend of Port Arthur mass shooting victim Jim Pollard, as reported in "The Age") (7/19/96)

        (*Now WHY is that, I wonder? You don't suppose there's any possibility all this recent gun violence is being deliberately ARRANGED by politicos - sort of, no, make that EXACTLY like Hitler's stormtroopers did in NAZI Germany, back in 1933 - in an attempt to DISARM all the RESISTORS who would fight a TAKEOVER of their country, do you? Hmmm. - OL)

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        "Gun control? IT'S THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR CROOKS AND GANGSTERS. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. WE'LL SEE WHO WINS.'' - MAFIA INFORMANT SAMMY "THE BULL" GRAVANO (on gun control, in an interview by Howard Blum that appears in "Vanity Fair" Magazine) (9/99)
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        "Since 1934, only ONE legally-owned machine gun has been used in a crime of murder, and a LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICER committed that crime.'' - 'THE HISTORY CHANNEL' ("Modern Marvels, Weapons at War: The Machine Gun")
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        "When I began my research on guns in 1976, like most academics (theoretics - no practical knowledge), I was a believer in the 'anti-gun' thesis...It seemed then like self-evident common sense which hardly needed to be empirically tested...[But] the best currently available evidence... indicates that general gun availability has NO measurable net positive effect on rates of homicide, suicide, robbery, assault, rape, or burglary in the U.S...Further, WHEN VICTIMS HAVE GUNS, it is LESS likely aggressors will attack or injure them and LESS likely they will lose property in a robbery... The POSITIVE associations often found between aggregate levels of violence and gun
ownership appear to be primarily due to...INCREASING GUN OWNERSHIP, rather than the
reverse.'' - PROF. GARY KLECK (Florida State University School of Criminology, from a speech given to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991, as reported by Don B. Kates, Jr. in "Shot Down," "National Review") (3/6/95)
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        "Accidental gun deaths among children are fortunately much rarer than most people believe. Consider New York, with more than 2.6 Million children under the age of 10. From 1993 to 1997, the Centers for Disease Control report that there were only SIX accidental gun deaths in that age range...Guns clearly deter criminals: Americans use guns DEFENSIVELY around 2 MILLION times each year - FIVE TIMES MORE FREQUENTLY than the 430,000 times guns were used to COMMIT CRIMES in 1997. And 98 percent of the time, simply BRANDISHING the weapon is sufficient to stop an attack...Recent research that I have done, examining juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides for all the states in the United States from 1977 to 1996, found that safe-storage laws had no impact on either type of death. However, what did happen was that law-abiding citizens were less able to defend themselves against crime. The 15 states that adopted these laws during this period faced OVER 300 MORE MURDERS and 3,860 MORE RAPES per year. Burglaries also increased dramatically.'' - JOHN R. LOTT (senior research scholar at the Yale University Law School, author of the book 'More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws')

        (*Hmmm. Are YOU going to volunteer to be one of these victims - or will you brave the censure of the "politically-correct" and own a gun? - OL)

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        "Liberalizing concealed carry laws won't lead to a return to the WILD WEST - though it wouldn't be bad if it did...in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capita robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown.'' - DAVID KOPEL (quoted in "Have Gun, Will Eat Out'' - The "Wall Street Journal") (2/28/94)
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        "Anti-gun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a Constitutional (Make that Constitutionally-PROTECTED! The right came from GOD!!) right to gun ownership. Today, HALF of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: YOU LIE!.'' - DAVID KOPEL
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        "It is true that despite an INCREASE IN GUN OWNERSHIP in Australia over the past 15 years, there has been a DECLINE in the murder and suicide rates.'' - MELANIE GRANGER (for the Hon. Daryl Williams, Attorney General of Australia and Minister for Justice, from a "Letter to Ross Wilmoth") (8/27/97)
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        "TIGHTER GUN-CONTROL LAWS WERE NOT FRAMED WITH THE SPECIFIC EXPECTATION THAT GUN-RELATED DEATHS WOULD DECLINE.'' - ANNE STANDFORD (press secretary for Police Minister Bill McGrath, in "The Geelong Advertiser") (11/9/97). (Then, once again: exactly what WERE they framed for?!)
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        "This has got nothing to do with common sense, THIS IS ABOUT POLITICS.'' - HON BILL MC GRATH MLA (Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Deputy National Party Leader, at the Annual General Meeting of the Ballarat Arms and Militaria Collectors Society Inc. - as recorded on videotape) (8/96)

     (*Oops! You reckon as how Mr. Mc Grath would mind this statement being put out there for public consumption? Oh, well. Too late now! Loose lips...you know! - OL)

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        "I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the MILITARY or in the POLICE.'' - AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER JOHN HOWARD (in "Australia's Answer to Carnage: a Strict Law'' - The "Los Angeles Times") (8/27/97).

        (*Hmmm. I believe that's what HITLER and STALIN said - along with every power-mad dictator since the world began. And guess who whispered it in the first dictator's ear? That's right: The Serpent in the Garden of Eden - in other words, LUCIFER!  - OL)

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        "Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... [The government should] DECONSTITUTIONALIZE the subject by repealing the EMBARRASSING Amendment.'' - GEORGE WILL (1991)

        (*But I bet it will start getting "as important" in a big hurry, once it becomes YOUR rights that are being threatened - and they WILL be, Georgie Boy! In fact, A lot sooner than you think! - OL)

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        "There is no reason for ANYONE in this country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to PROHIBIT the guns. And the only way to do that is to CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION.'' - MICHAEL GARTNER ('NBC News' president in "USA Today") (1/16/92)
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        "We will never fully solve our nation's horrific problem of gun violence unless we BAN the manufacture and sale of handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons.'' - "USA TODAY") (12/29/93).

       (*Will that solve the problem of a tyrannical police state, like they had in NAZI Germany - AFTER they took the guns away?

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        "Why should America adopt a policy of near-zero tolerance for private gun ownership? ...[W]ho can still argue compellingly that Americans can be TRUSTED to handle guns safely? We think the time has come for Americans to tell the truth about guns. They are not for us, we cannot handle them.'' - "LOS ANGELES TIMES" (12/28/93)
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        "The only way to discourage the gun culture is to REMOVE THE GUNS from the hands and shoulders of people who are NOT in the law enforcement business.'' - "THE NEW YORK TIMES" (9/24/75)

        (*"Law Enforcers" are the ONLY ones armed in POLICE STATES, too! - OL)

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        "We are inclined to think that every firearm in the hands of anyone who is NOT a law enforcement officer constitutes an incitement to violence (you mean RESISTANCE!). Let's come to our senses before the whole country starts shooting itself up on all its Main Streets in a delirious kind of High Noon.'' - "WASHINGTON POST" (8/19/65)

     (*Don't forget that this paper - along with ALL of the "mainstream" ones - is owned by Mafia drug-lords! This is NOT top-secret information. It has been out there for decades! - OL)

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        "Handguns should be the province of the military or law enforcement or a SPECIAL (?) segment of people'' - MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL J. JOSEPH CURRAN

        (*I wonder WHICH "special segment" he is referring to? Again: what all these people are
demanding is a POLICE STATE! Is that what YOU really want?)

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H.C.I.
(Handgun Control, Inc.)

        "We must get rid of all the guns." - SARAH BRADY (on behalf of Handgun Control Inc. - "Phil Donahue" Show) (9/94)
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        "I'm convinced that we have to have FEDERAL LEGISLATION to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily...going to be very modest...Our ULTIMATE goal - TOTAL CONTROL OF HANDGUNS in the United States - is going to take time...The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns REGISTERED, and the final problem is to make the possession of ALL HANDGUNS, and ALL handgun AMMUNITION - except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors - totally ILLEGAL.'' - NELSON T. SHIELDS III (former chair of Handgun Control, Incorporated, in "The New Yorker," immediately before SARAH BRADY, and immediately after Edward O. Wells, who in 1974 upon his ostensible retirement from the CIA - a preeminent ROCKEFELLER tentacle - founded HCI under the name "National Council to Control Handguns," revealing HCI's FINAL SOLUTION) (6/26/76)
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        "...we agree with the National Rifle Association that assault weapons right now play a small role in overall violent crime.'' - HANDGUN CONTROL, INC. representative (in Congressional testimony)
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        "...HCI (Handgun Control, Inc.) gave anti-gun Columbus Ohio Police Officer Dewey Stokes, who heads the Fraternal Order of Police, $2,000 on June 30, 1989. HCI has now given him $3,000 since the first of the year. It does not say why he received it, only that it was a 'contribution." - "FEDERAL LOBBYING REPORT" (for first half of 1989)
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        "[NRA] claimed that they vigorously fought [the BRADY BILL] at every turn and every step...because it was the nose of the camel [under the tent]...Today we would like to tell you what the rest of the camel looks like." - RICHARD ABORN (HCI President) (12/8/93)
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        "Handgun Control Inc., (HCI) the lobbying group that helped push through the federal ban on semi- automatic weapons and the Brady law on gun purchases, is said to be worried that it is losing the public relations war to the National Rifle Association...It is also considering a name change because, among other reasons, polls and focus groups show that many Americans are uncomfortable with the word control." - "US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT" (8/19/96)
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        "Yes, I'm for an OUTRIGHT BAN (on handguns)." - PETE SHIELDS (Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc. - "60 Minutes" interview)
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        "It is also interesting to note that the top officials of Handgun Control Institute are gun owners themselves. They also intend on keeping them. It's OTHER people's guns that bother them..." - MARK URBIN

        (*Right! Like YOURS and mine. Bottom line: they don't want us to be able to protect ourselves from THEM! - OL)

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HISTORY

        "...the situation was very different two hundred years ago, when we were still a primarily agrarian society. Youngsters were expected and needed to become workers at age ten, eleven, and twelve. For the masses, a fourth, fifth, or sixth-grade education was deemed perfectly adequate. But as the character of our society changed, fewer youngsters were needed for farm work, and the enactment of child-labor laws soon made it impossible to put ten, eleven, and twelve-year-olds to work in factories. It was necessary to keep them off the streets, and where better than in schools? Naturally, new material had to be inserted into the curriculum to fill up the time. It didn't much matter what it was. Have them memorize the capitals of every state. Have them memorize the principle products of every state. Have them learn the steps a bill takes in passing Congress...what difference would it make? It didn't matter that, once learned, they were immediately forgotten. It filled up some time." - DANIEL QUINN ("Schooling: The Hidden Agenda" - speech at a home-schooling/unschooling conference) (2000)
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        "The law decreed that an eighth-grade education was essential for every citizen, and so curriculum writers provided material needed for an eighth-grade education. During the Great Depression it became urgently important to keep young people off the job market for as long as possible, and so it came to be understood that a TWELFTH-grade education was essential for every citizen..." - DANIEL QUINN ("Schooling: The Hidden Agenda" - speech at a home-schooling/unschooling conference) (2000)
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        "At the end of the Second World War, no one knew what the economic future was going to be like. With the disappearance of the war industries, would the country fall back into the pre-war depression slump? The word began to go out that the citizen's education should really include four years of college. Everyone should go to COLLEGE." - DANIEL QUINN ("Schooling: The Hidden Agenda" - speech at a home-schooling/unschooling conference) (2000)
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        "It was in the good years following the war, when there were often more jobs than workers to fill them, that our schools began to be perceived as failing. With ready workers in demand, it was apparent that kids were coming out of school without knowing much more than the sixth-grade graduates of a century ago. They'd 'gone through' all the material that had been added to fill up the time - analyzed poetry, diagramed sentences, proved theorems, solved for x, plowed through thousands of pages of history and literature, written bushels of themes, but for the most part they retained almost none of it
- and of how much use would it be to them if they had? From a business point of view, these high-school graduates were barely employable. But of course by then the curriculum had achieved the status of scripture, and it was too late to acknowledge that the program had never been DESIGNED to be useful." - DANIEL QUINN ("Schooling: The Hidden Agenda" - speech at a home-schooling/unschooling conference) (2000)
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        "If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the FUTURE.'' - WINSTON CHURCHILL (Speech in the House of Commons)
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        "All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that there was everywhere, among the people generally, a deep feeling of unrest. The nation had been rid of human slavery - fortunately, as all now feel - but the conviction was universal that the country was in real danger from ANOTHER kind of slavery sought to be fastened on the American people: namely, the slavery that would result from aggregations of capital in the hands of a few individuals and corporations controlling, for their own profit and advantage exclusively, the ENTIRE BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY, including the production and sale of the necessities of life.'' - "STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY v. UNITED STATES" 221 U.S. 83 (1911)
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        "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. WELLS
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        "The historical experience of SOCIALIST  countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather INCREASES it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency." - POPE JOHN PAUL I

      (*Substitute "communist" for "socialist" and you are describing America today, but here we call it the "nanny state!" - OL)

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        "What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history." - GEORGE WILHELM HEGEL

        (*How true. Certainly not from communism, i.e., Stalin, or fascism, i.e., Hitler! - OL)

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        "I must study POLITICS and WAR that my sons may have liberty to study mathmatics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathmatics and philiosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain." - JOHN ADAMS (1735 - 1826)
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        "What is HISTORY but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?" - THOMAS SOWELL
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HOMOSEXUALITY

        'WE SHALL SODOMIZE YOUR SONS...we shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormi- tories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together.

        "Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us."

        "WOMEN, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. WE, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, SHALL TAKE YOUR MEN FROM YOU THEN..."

        "Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then GO AND BE WITH EACH OTHER. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only ONE man knows how to truly please another man; only ONE man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man."

        (*Read that last line again. Doesn't that sound like something a LESBIAN would say? Actually, it is something that wiley SERPENT says! And what does he mean "ONE" man? The track for most homosexuals is closer to HUNDREDS! - OL)

        "ALL LAWS BANNING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY WILL BE REVOKED. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men."

        (*Except, of course, between "gay" and "straight" men! - OL)

        "We shall stage PLAYS in which MAN OPENLY CARESSES MAN; we shall make FILMS about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt STATUES of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with PAINTINGS of graceful, naked lads.

        "Our writers and artists will make love between men FASHIONABLE and DE RIGUER,and we will SUCCEED because WE ARE ADEPT AT SETTING STYLES. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of WIT and RIDICULE, devices which WE ARE SKILLED IN EMPLOYING."

        "The FAMILY unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, MUST BE ELIMINATED. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the GENETIC LABORATORY. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants."

        "All CHURCHES who condemn us will be closed. OUR ONLY GODS ARE HANDSOME YOUNG MEN...Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH."

        "Any man CONTAMINATED with hetrosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be TRIED in homosexual courts of justice and will become INVISIBLE men."

        "WE SHALL REWRITE HISTORY...We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man."

        "We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. WE TOO ARE CAPABLE OF FIRING GUNS AND MANNING THE BARRICADES OF THE ULTIMATE REVOLUTION."

        "TREMBLE, HETERO SWINE, when we appear before you WITHOUT OUR MASKS." - MICHAEL SWIFT (all of the above quotes come from "The Homosexual Threat:The Battle Rages!" - "Gay Community News") (2/15/87)

       (*If much of this sounds familiar, it is because you can look around you - especially on TV and in the movies - and see it all coming to life. Michael is right: their masks ARE slipping! - OL)

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        "In an annual rite of summer, New York City's 'GAY PRIDE' PARADE will once again pass by St. Patrick's Cathedral, where militant homosexual activists will vent their hatred of the Catholic Church and its teaching of chastity for unmarried persons. Last year, while Rudy Guliani turned a blind eye, gay exhibitionists pranced naked down the street and engaged in public masturbation. They chorused
obscenities at the Cathedral, which while not illegal, as William Donahue of the Catholic League points out, would never be blessed by New York officials if it were done by NAZIS in front of Temple Emanu-El, or KLANSMEN in Harlem." - "NATIONAL REVIEW" (7/10/95)

        (*What happened to their "Public Indecency" laws - making it illegal to display your private parts? Would they have just "turned a blind eye" if it had been HETROSEXUALS doing this?!)

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        "By refusing to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality, schools shove heterosexuality down the throats of gay children. Just because straights make up a larger proportion of the population doesn't mean you can have every single second of everything dedicated to you. The schools already teach a value system that results in 1/3rd of suicides being gay teens. If anything is immoral..." - LAWRENCE C. FOARD

        (*Well. They've certainly managed to turn that around, haven't they? Nowadays they are ramming homosexuality down the throats of children from pre-school on up! - OL)

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        [Homosexuals] "want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!" - BEVERLY LA HAYE (Concerned Women for America - CWA direct mail) (5/92)
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        "Our citizens should NOT be INFERIOR to birds and many species of animals..." - PLATO (from 'Laws' - referring to his observation that homosexuality is UNNATURAL among the animal kingdom)
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        "Don't use the word 'GAY' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'." - BOB DORNAN (Former Republican Representative from California)
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        When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in NAZI Germany. Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were SATANISTS, many of them were HOMOSEXUALS - the two things seem to go together." - PAT ROBERTSON ("700 Club") (1/21/93)
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        "On the issue of homosexuality, we are the SAME place we were in the 1930s with alcoholism. Back then, we said, 'once a drunk, always a drunk.' But now we know many alcoholics CAN RECOVER." - LOU SHELDON (Traditional Values Coalition - "Washington Times") (2/5/90)
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        "Okay, conservatives have changed my mind. Allowing gay marriage, I have been persuaded, will destroy the family, weaken Western civilization, turn America into Sodom and Gomorrah, increase the trade deficit with Japan, endanger the family farm and promote tooth decay. The impeccable logic of conservative opponents is simply too powerful to deny." - STEPHEN CHAPMAN ("Chicago Tribune" columnist)

        (*Save the sarcasm, Stephen. Re-read the first three, look around you and read the following. Mission accomplished!)

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        "If you think permitting queer marriage is perceived as an attack on the family, YOU AIN'T SEEN NUTHIN' YET." - ROGER B. A. KLORESE
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        "We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts." - SENATOR JESSE HELMS (R-NC - on why he opposed approval of the Ryan White CARE act, which funds AIDS research)
 
        (*Like creating lethal medications? I agree with you up to a point, Senator Helms - but there are a few things we need to keep in mind: 1] the AIDS syndrome - like Agent Orange and the Gulf War Syndrome - was CREATED BY AMERICAN SCIENTISTS, and 2] many AIDS victims are (were) guilty of nothing more heinous than accepting a BLOOD TRANSFUSION, and finally 3] FUNDING of all these programs (including cancer, diabetes, etc.) WITH TAX DOLLARS has done absolutely NOTHING to end these MAN-MADE critical diseases! So, tell us: where IS the money going???)
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        "If he was gay, he sure never showed it. He never vaunted (revealed) himself as being gay or talked about it. And whether he was or not, it don't make me love him any less. He was my young'un...If he was gay or not, that STILL didn't give them no right to kill him." - LOIS GAITHER (mother of Billy Jack Gaither, who was beaten to death and incinerated on a pile of tires by gay-bashers in Sylacauga, Alabama - "The New York Times") (3/5/99)
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        "Watch your back, be careful who you come out to. I've been with my partner 10 years, but I'd never hold his hand in public - because in Alabama it's a death wish." - DAVID WHITE (Alabama Gay and Lesbian Alliance spokesman - "Philadelphia Inquirer") (3/7/99)
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        "I don't know, but her hair is." - KATE CLINTON (Lesbian comedian - on the question of whether U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno is a lesbian, to "The New York Times") (1/29/99)
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        "I've had gay friends throughout my life and have enjoyed their friendship very much. And I came to realize that everyone is human and that sexual orientation really has nothing to do with anything. Knowing gay people definitely prevents homophobia. Friends are friends. I had two gay friends in the world of wrestling that were together 41 years. Unfortunately, one of them passed on. But when one was ill, the other was never allowed to be by his bed in the hospital. That was very inhumane. It's why in my campaign I had the quote 'Love is bigger than government'." - JESSE VENTURA (Minnesota Governor - "The Advocate") (5/25/99)

        (*Maybe you were able to have such warm friendships with them, because they never challenged your personal beliefs, or countermanded your teaching of your children! - OL)

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        "I looked up the definition of marriage in the dictionary, and it says 'between a man and a woman,' so until they change the dictionary, I think domestic partnership is a good name [for officially recognizing gay couples]. MINNESOTA DOESN'T RECOGNIZE DOMESTIC PARTERSHIPS. But if gays and lesbians wanted to make the commitment under law, I WOULDN'T OPPOSE IT." - JESSE VENTURA (Minnesota Governor - "The Advocate") (5/25/99)

        (*Yeah. But, then again, your political career ended after a mere FOUR years! - OL)

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        "If you come to DENMARK secretly hoping to be raped and ravaged by a raucous band of long- haired, broad-shouldered Viking queers, forget it. Danish gays are pretty much a neatly-coifed, reserved group fairly indistinguishable from their straight countrymen. That's because Denmark is very tolerant of homosexuals making the need for a separate political or cultural identity mostly unnecessary. In Denmark gay men have most of the same rights as other citizens, including the right to marry in a civil ceremony. That said, there is still lots of skin, e.g. parties, cruising and sex, to be had for the passing tourist. There are clubs, bars, parks, cinemas and toilets - as described in other sections of this periodical - catering to every taste and desire." - "GUIDE TO GAY AND LESBIAN DENMARK '99" (Danish National Association of Gays and Lesbians - funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture)
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        "I believe that SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH BIBLICAL SCRIPTURE. This same Bible, however, tells us that every human being is entitled to love and respect. It's inevitable that my strongly-held beliefs will clash with those of others" - DR LAURA SCHLESSINGER (Open Letter - "The Globe and Mail" Toronto, Canada) (5/15/00)
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        "Dr. Laura's condemnation of homosexuality is shared by the thousands of homosexuals who seek treatment for their condition every year. [M]ALE HOMOSEXUALS, as low as their numbers are, perpetrate up to HALF of all child molestation crimes. GAY TEACHERS alone commit up to 80 PERCENTof ALL sexual assaults on pupils." - HYMIE RUBENSTEIN, Ph.D., (professor of anthropology at St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba - in a letter-to-the-editor - "The Globe and Mail") (5/17/00)
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HOMEPAGE