Time: Wed Jul 16 05:58:59 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA24280 for [address in tool bar]; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 05:49:06 -0700 (MST) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA09141; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 05:46:59 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 05:46:35 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Life rafts departing the rudderless NRA (fwd) <snip> > > FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JULY 23, 1997 > THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz > Life rafts departing the rudderless NRA > > As resistance spreads among real Second Amendment patriots, to the >disastrous back-pedaling and endless sell-outs of The Nation's Largest Gun >Control Organization, Sarah B. Thompson, M.D., of Sandy, Utah >(righter@therighter.com) forwards me a copy of her July 8 letter to Marion >Hammer and Wayne LaPierre, of the National Rifle Association. > > It reads: > > Dear Ms. Hammer and Mr. LaPierre, > > I have received several requests from each of you to renew my membership in >the National Rifle Association. I am unwilling to do so now, or in the >foreseeable >future. > > You see, I'm one of those "extremists" whom you feel you need to purge >from the >ranks of the organization. I know better than to go where I'm not wanted. I >certainly know better than to pay for such treatment. > > I believe that many, though still a minority, of our law enforcement >agents do >behave like "jack-booted thugs," and that calling them what they are is >appropriate and necessary. I believe that federal law enforcement should >be severely curtailed and should always work under the supervision of local >law >enforcement. > > I believe the Second Amendment guarantees me the right to own any weapon I >choose, specifically including fully automatic machine guns. In fact, if the >Second Amendment is to have any meaning, then we are obligated to own fully >automatic weapons and weapons of mass destruction in order to resist the >depredations of a corrupt, unconstitutional government that would sell us >and our children into slavery. > > I believe I do not need anyone's permission to own or carry the weapon of my >choice. I most assuredly do not need anyone's permission to defend myself, my >family, or my property. I will not beg, and I will not subject myself to >degradation >by a government that presumes I am "guilty" until it determines my innocence. > > I do not, and will never, concede that the police, the military, the >legislature, the >ATF, our despicable president, or anyone else is my intellectual or moral >superior and has the right to judge me. Only a fully informed jury of my peers >may do that, and then only where it has lawful jurisdiction. > > I believe that all gun control laws are inherently evil. It is not enough >to say that >Brady will "sunset." If you're willing to tolerate evil for one day, will >you tolerate it for two? If you are willing to tolerate it for two days, >will you tolerate it for a >year? And if you tolerate it for a year, why should anyone believe you will not >tolerate it forever? Honor and integrity dictate that we demand a repeal now! > > Domestic abuse is a heinous crime and must be treated as such. But I will >never >condone the removal of rights as punishment for a misdemeanor. Likewise I will >never condone the removal of a person's right to self-defense in response >to a non-violent crime, nor will I condone the denial of basic rights to >those persons >who, through no fault of their own, suffer from a mental illness, but pose no >threat to others. > > I find your support for the overturning of the Religious Freedom Restoration >Act, which denies First Amendment rights as "necessary to get tough on crime," >abhorrent; it is an indication of your true nature and goals. > > NRA-ILA has done many wonderful things. Your educational programs are >excellent, have taught the joys of gun use and ownership to many, and have >no doubt prevented many deaths and injuries due to your emphasis on safety >training. ... > > However, the time for compromise is past. This is no longer about >hunting, or target shooting. It's not about safety. It's not about begging >for permission to >exercise rights that existed long before either government or man. > > It's about survival: individual survival and family survival. It's about >survival of >the form of government envisioned by the founders of this nation. It's >about the >survival of the gun culture in the face of a government that would >willingly commit genocide against it. If you think I'm a wild-eyed radical, >just look to Clinton's soul mate, Tony Blair, who has publicly announced >that gun bans have nothing whatever to do with public safety; that the >issue is the elimination of the gun culture. > > Far too many others have attempted genocide against my people. I will not >close my eyes. I will not lie down. I will not go willingly. I will resist >until there is >nothing left of me to resist. > > I will not register my guns, my ammunition, myself, or my family. I will not >consent to background checks, especially when performed by a fascist >government. I will not ask permission from anyone to do what is right. When >you decide to stop selling our birthright, When you decide to stop >supporting permits, When you proclaim that each and every one of us is >innocent until proven guilty; that we need not subject ourselves to >"background checks," registration or bureaucracy, When you refuse to >tolerate evil, When you are willing to call evil by its rightful name, When >you are willing to call genocide by its rightful name, When you stop >distracting yourselves and others with peripheral issues, When you learn >that a compromise with the devil is no compromise at all, Then, and only >then, will you have my support. > > Until that time, may your chains rest lightly. > > Sarah B. Thompson, M.D. > >Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas >Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. > >*** > > >Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com > >Voir Dire: A French term which means "jury stacking." > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>From Springfield-Missouri. >Freedom now days is a state of mind. > >Has anyone announced the soon-to-be maximum leader that will >soon descend on us or will that be briefly announced in the >comic section of a future Sunday morning paper? > >Just another day in paradise or is the "paradise" >quickly disappearing or just simply disappeared >and a great many people haven't figured it out yet? > >Be watchful for the federal thought police and >their unfriendly associates--who may, someday, >be coming soon to a city, town or village near you. > >Mail me with BCC: please, thank you. >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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