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Roberts is referring to a long and dangerous trend to expand the concept of crime to actions and non-actions in which no individual is harmed or threatened with harm. In our time one can be convicted for a felony and put in jail for killing a turtle, chopping down a tree, draining a swamp, polluting a body of water, and generally not doing everything that some bureaucrat says you have to do.

When we study socialist countries- be they Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or too many others- we find a concept in the law called “crimes against the state.” These are also sometimes called crimes against the people. In earlier days, they might have been called crimes against the king’s peace. Biblically and constitutionally, crimes are against individuals and should result in capital punishment, restitution, or acquittal. Non-criminal damages should lead to restitution. In the 17th and 18th centuries, this was how the criminal justice system operated in America.

Add to these crimes against the state that of possessing a prohibited object, specifically a firearm. Several local jurisdictions in the U.S. have banned a wide range of guns, and the federal government has banned a bunch as well. One need not commit a crime to risk being sent to jail for possessing a combination of metal, wood, and plastic parts.

What our founders required by law- carrying guns- is now illegal in many jurisdictions. And in all but Vermont and Alaska, permission is needed to exercise the “right” to bear a concealed firearm.

To the extent that the United States has imposed gun controls on a population “protected” by our Bill of Rights, we have a measure of how socialist our country has become. Our government was founded on the idea that individuals have God-given rights that need to be protected from that same government. Furthermore, government was seen as having no rights, but only a few well-defined duties. Socialism requires the reversal of our founding premises.

In Joyce Lee Malcolm’s study of Guns And Violence: The English Experience we find the record of how gun control came to England. It began to get very restrictive following World War II. Now that most guns have been confiscated (all legal guns were registered long ago), England is roaring into the socialist pit.

(Listen to my interview with Professor Malcolm about her book on the GOA web page. Go to http://gunowners.org/radio.htm and click on Precious Episodes.)
Margaret Thatcher sold off many government-owned industries when she was Prime Minister, but as we can see in the U.S., socialism through regulation can be just as stultifying as socialism in which the government owns the productive sector. Regulatory socialism was the Nazi model, proving that nominal private ownership dose not prevent control from the center.
England is moving to crush other personal freedoms now that gun ownership has been virtually eliminated. Prime Minister Tony Blair has proposed restricting jury trials, eliminating the prohibition on double jeopardy and most ominously, proposing that an anonymous complaint be enough to put somebody in jail because he is deemed a danger to himself or the community.
Worse still, self-defense- even without a gun- is penalized. Everything else is monopolized in socialist England, so it is no surprise that self-defense becomes a monopoly of the state.
At the core of the Christian common law, the people are understood to be the owners of the law. Socialism considers law (and everything else) to belong to the government or to be controlled by it. The police are under the control of whoever owns the law.
Consider who are the most ardent gun control advocates in America. Senators Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton and Diane Finestein are among the most eager to ban guns, and they are among the most socialist of our national politicians.
In the House, a dedicated opponent of firearms ownership and self-defense is Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, an avowed socialist. This can be said because she is a member of the House Progressive Caucus, which is affiliated with the Democratic Socialist of America, which is affiliated with Socialist International.
Socialism is based on the arrogant assumption that there are a few (elected or in power by force) who are uniquely suited to decide all issues of life. Folks who think like that are hardly likely to make an exception for their subjects to take personal responsibility for their own defense.
As a rule, the more socialist the politicians, the more they want to restrict gun ownership to those who protect politicians- weather that be law enforcement or private security guards (such as the NY City armed detective who travels as an armed guard for Sen. Schumer). Law enforcement is in place largely to tell the subjects of the socialists to obey the regulations of the regime or risk being put in jail.
Socialists do not like bad attitudes among their subjects, as we saw at Ruby Ridge and Waco, or as we saw in Chicago when Secret Service officers threatened a woman who expressed her disgust with Bill Clinton.
Socialists have an “us versus them” view of society. They are angry and feel threatened when they hear criticism of their policies. Did you see Sen. Clinton screaming at the top of her lungs when some of her subjects disagreed with her position on the Iraq war? As one wag quipped, he thought she was talking to Bill when she first heard her.
In any case, a government that sports a “bad attitude” combined with the belief that one is everyone else’s Big Brother will result in a socialist crusade against guns.
Fight socialism. Buy a gun.
Larry Pratt is Executive Director of Gun Owners of America which can be contacted by calling 1-703-321-8585 or going to http://www.gunowners.org on the internet.

President Bush praised the two Middle Eastern prime ministers, and spoke of America’s commitment to Israel’s security as “a vibrant Jewish state.”

Ariel Sharon spoke of fighting terrorism to the finish, improving the humanitarian conditions of the Palestinian people, and moving step by step towards President Bush’s vision of two states living side by side in peace and dignity.

But Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas’ solemn declaration that “the armed intifada must end and we must resort to peaceful means to achieve our goals” was scarcely out of his mouth when a Hamas spokesman angrily rejected them and warned that his organization had no intention of laying down arms or partnering in any peace deals whatever.

Will one terrorist organization be able to shut down the prospect for peace in the Middle East? For the time being, it appears the answer is yes. One needs to go back and examine a wider picture in order to understand the power that Hamas, under the direction of Yasser Arafat, currently wields.

Syrian Commitment to Terrorism
In mid-April, it came to light that Syrian fighters were moving into Iraq. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld issued a stern warning to Damascus against sending combatants into Iraq. There was a flurry of speculation as to whether the Bush Administration would go after Syria. Then, the subject seemed to drop off the radar screen. Now, mid-June, it has popped up again. It appears the influx of anti-American combatants from Syria was never interrupted, nor was the smuggling of weapons, cash and maps marked with U.S. targets—all this, despite the Assad government’s promises to Colin Powell that Syria would cooperate with the U.S. to curtail such operations.

The strategy has been to send five or six men at a time, equipped with large quantities of arms, mines, explosives and rocket propelled grenades to be distributed among Iraqi groups fighting in the northern western, and central regions of Iraq. They cross by two main routes: One, the borderland west of oil-rich Mosul region. The other goes through the al Qaim region of western Iraq which is not yet firmly under U.S. military control.

The Syrians have maintained their belligerent presence in Iraq for several reasons. One is, they have their eye on the oil-rich Mosul region. Another is that that they do not want an American presence along the Iraqi-Syrian border, nor do they want Kurdish influence to spread in that region.

A lessen known motive, according to DEBKAfile sources (June 15, 2003), is that Bashar Assad, having lost his main source of foreign revenue when the bootleg pipeline to Syrian was shut down, is replacing his lost source of revenue with new ones, and is utilizing the same smuggling routes that he and Saddam utilized for their illegal trade in weapons and oil before the war.

There is evidence that enormous amounts of money continue to flow from Iraq to Syria. In May, American forces intercepted two trucks laden with gold bullion worth hundreds of millions of dollars heading for the Syrian border—one by the Mosul route, the other by the al Qaim route. DEBKAfile’s sources report that the treasure came from hideouts where Saddam and his sons and agents had stashed gold and other valuables before the war broke out. DEBKA says they believe most of the gold trucks reached their destination and that the amount captured by U.S. forces was a pittance in comparison.

What has this to do with Arafat?
The answer is, the same contraband traffic is being conducted from Syria and Lebanon to the Palestinian areas of the West Bank—right into the hands of Hamas and Yasser Arafat. A steady trickle of fighters, money, weapons and explosives have been reported streaming from the point where Syrian, Jordanian and Israeli borders meet and running through the Golan Heights, through the West bank, right up to Arafat’s stronghold at Ramallah. American and Israeli intelligence are certain that Syria is the primary source of weapons and explosives feeding the Palestinian terrorist organizations.

On June 10, DEBKAfile intelligence reported that Iraq had secretly transferred its weapons of mass destruction from Baghdad, Tikrit and al Qaim into Syria and Lebanon. Part of this arsenal has been destroyed, they say, and the rest are buried under an army base in northern Syria and in huge pits dug by Syrian engineering units in the Beqaa valley.

All these smuggling routes for transfer of weaponry are under Arafat’s control. With his terrorist pipeline being supplied via Damascus, and with roughly three-fourths of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces under his control, Yasser Arafat is in a position to torpedo any cease-fire agreements or peace negotiations.

Why has the Bush administration refrained from coming down hard on a regime—Syria-- that continues to covertly send combatants and weaponry to join the Iraqi resistance, thus threatening U.S. servicemen and actively sabotaging Washington’s plans for peace between the Palestinians and Israel?

We do not know the answer. It appears that Washington still hopes that relentless economic and diplomatic pressure on Damascus will keep the Syrians from meddling in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Obviously, those deterrents have had little effect. The only explanation we can offer at this stage is that it is once again the struggle in the Bush administration between the pro-diplomacy secretary of state on one hand and Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld on the other, pressing for a tough line against Syria.

Few Americans have heard of the National Slave Memorial Act (HR 196) that proposes to erect a National Slave Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Editor’s Note: Rev. Peterson is one of the few African American leaders with the guts to stand up to Jesse Jackson. He is currently involved in a lawsuit against Jackson.

Dear Friend,

This just in: the black “leadership” has spoken and war is not the answer.

Though some 70% of Americans supported the war against Iraq, you didn’t find a corresponding pro-American outcry from the black community. And it’s no wonder. The reason that most blacks didn’t support the war is that most of their leaders were against it.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus, and a cornucopia of embittered black church leaders and a slew of civil rights degenerates came out vocally and vengefully against the war.

Let us run down the latest from this group of bedraggled misfits that masquerade as leaders:

Jesse Jackson wrote an open letter to Saddam Hussein indicating that his opposition to the war has grown after Colin Powell’s presentation to the U.N. earlier in February. Jackson was a part of several large antiwar protests in recent months. That’s right - Jesse Jackson, the man who called New York City “Hymietown” and Jews “Hymies,” the adulterer minister, the lover of Palestine and hater of Israel.

Louis Farrakhan, speaking in Baghdad this past July, reportedly said “the Muslim American people are praying to the almighty God to grant victory to Iraq [in the war].” Farrakhan recently wrote an open letter to President Bush, in which he wrote, “May Allah … guide you.”

If Farrakhan was referring to the god that he serves, then I must assert that I hope “Allah” is the last one guiding our President.

And does Farrakhan really believe that President Bush is going to take advice from a known anti-Semite who once called Hitler a “great man,” a minister who has referred to Judaism as a “gutter religion” and Jews as the “blue-eyed devil?”

Next up on this list of civil rights leftovers is Al Sharpton. He and Jesse Jackson are together again, frequenting the antiwar/anti-American protests of recent months.

Sharpton is mounting his presidential run and thus is making an attempt to be on his best behavior, but it’s hard to forget his past: the Tawana Brawley hoax, the reference to a Jewish man as a “white interloper” and Jews as “diamond merchants,” the history of race-baiting that is only outdone by the men previously mentioned.

For the sake of brevity, I’ll mention only one last collection of enraged black leaders. As reported by FinalCall.com, on February 8, in Detroit, Michigan, black clergy and black leaders from across the county united to denounce the war and send a message to President Bush.

Among the gems of this event were those uttered by Dr. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Marcia Louise Dyson (wife of hatemonger Professor Michael Eric Dyson, who was also in attendance at the event), and Rev. Fr. James A. Forbes Jr.

Adams proclaimed “It is insanity, injustice and indecency to start a war in Iraq when we haven’t finished in Afghanistan, we haven’t cleaned up drugs in America and now we want to attack postage stamp-sized Iraq.”

It may come as news to Dr. Adams that there was no “out-of-the-blue” start to the war - it was a necessary and appropriate response to repeated violations of U.N. Mandates following the Gulf War.

Mrs. Dyson declared that “We cannot say that we are against terrorism in other countries when terrorism exists right here in America.” If Reverend Dyson finds democracy and freedom so troubling then perhaps she would be happier living with all the privileges and immunities Saddam had granted to the good people of Baghdad.

Finally we have the words of Rev. Dr. Forbes: “If being a good American means ignoring the value of life, then we have a problem. If being a good American means we can flex our muscles to say, [America] can do whatever and ignore the sensibilities of men like Nelson Mandela, then we have a problem.”

How could the Rev. Forbes have claim to care about the value of life, when he called on the United States government to hazard the lives of Americans be letting Saddam Hussein off the hook?

And last time I checked, Nelson Mandela was a communist - an inherent enemy of the American republic. If our country had been founded on the sensibilities of Mandela then America would be the disaster that is South Africa.

It is amazing, but all too predictable, that the black leadership could be so united against America. As we’ve seen here, most of these “leaders” are ministers no less.

These people are supposedly called by God - implying a respect for human dignity - and yet they have no qualms at all in opposing a regime that secured safety for its people by liberating those oppressed by a brutal dictator.

Of course this united voice of the black leadership, reflected in an utter lack of pro-American support from the black community, should come to us as no shock.

We have long known that the majority of the so-called black civil rights leaders and black preachers are communist-socialist pigs who hate America and hate Israel passionately, despise President Bush, and can’t stand the melting of their once widespread power since 9-11.

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Since 9-11, the cries and rants of men like Jackson and Sharpton have seemed more and more trivial and spurious - and they know it. This is the motive behind these desperate actins - these childish grasps for the fraying threads of power that were once theirs.

Though their significance has exponentially dwindled, we must still be aware of the real threat these “leaders” pose. The civil rights movement has already succeeded in breaking down the black family. By emasculating the black man and enraging the black woman there is only the faintest line of defense against this hate America onslaught, and their influence has penetrated the black community.

Simply notice how the hatred of America, of Jews, of Israel, of Morality is so pervasive in the black community - it is a reflection of the perversion and evil of its leaders. So it was with the war on Iraq.

In a time when we should have been uniting in America to speak with a solitary voice supporting freedom and democracy, these black problem profiteers used the Iraq war to divide us.

At BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, we have been revealing the destructive, evil nature that lies within the black leadership, and never has it been more apparent as in their present desperation. These people lined up against their country and favored a brutal dictator over a regime that values freedom and respect for human dignity.

I urge all Americans, especially black Americans, to unite rather than divide, to stay alert to the desperate attacks of these communist-socialist leaders of the black - and white - communities, and support our American troops in the fight for freedom against evil.

Don’t let yourself be angered by the ‘hate America’ crowd. If we become angry we can be controlled, but if we unite in the spirit of patriotism and freedom we cannot be defeated. Desperate times make black leaders more desperate, so be ready. Remember that our cause is just.

Thank you and God Bless,

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Rev Jesse Lee Peterson is the Founder and President of BOND.

Solana’s aim is to convince the EU, Russia and other UN Security Council members to work collectively to curtail American influence in the Middle East. And the ostensible Israel/Palestine peace plan—the “road map,” as it is being called—seems to be the perfect setup to entrap the Bush Administration.

As Colin Powell was on his way to the Middle East recently, the Bush Administration attempted to shelve the seriously flawed plan. One of the problems with the plan is that it requires that the Palestinians “immediately undertake an unconditional cessation of violence.” That would be a reasonable demand if the Palestinian leadership were genuinely interested in a peaceful state that would co-exist with Israel. As it is, the new Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, has made no effort to rein in terrorist groups such as Hamas, Fatah, the al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Tanzim. Clearly, Yasser Arafat is still in command; and his dream of destroying Israel has not changed.

A second problem with the road map is the issue of “refugees.” Mahmoud Abbas made clear in his inaugural speech that he intends to demand that Palestinians who left Israel in 1948 (when Israel was invaded by five of its Arab neighbors) should have the right to return to any part of Israel, along with their children and grandchildren. If that were to happen, Israelis would soon become a minority in their own country, destroyed by demographic measures. Israel would cease to be Israel.

The roadmap was cobbled together, with participation by the U.S. State Department, by the UN, the EU, and Russia. Unfortunately, those “partners” do not share President’s vision or subscribe to the Bush Doctrine, as was made abundantly clear in the days leading up to U.S. military operations in Iraq this spring. The U.S. contribution to the roadmap was led by the same State Department officials of seemingly endless tenure who constructed the Oslo Accords. Those folks appear to believe that the promise of a Palestinian state will be incentive enough to end Palestinian terrorism.

In the words of Clifford D. May, writing May 19 for National Review, “Deeply ingrained within the culture of the State Department is the conviction that it would be wasteful to discard a policy just because it has failed (17,000 terrorist attacks, including 251 suicide bombings since Oslo) or just because it does not happen to represent the views of the temporary occupant of the Oval Office.” The “temporary occupant of the Oval Office” made it clear in his June 24, 2002, speech on the Middle East that the Palestinians can have terrorism or they can have a state. But they can’t have both.

The Europeans and Arabs—who, for obviously political reasons are not buying into the Bush Doctrine—can easily resurrect the road map by calling the Security Council into urgent session to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. They can put it to a vote at that time. Our one dependable ally on the Security Council—Great Britain—will not oppose the plan because it does not want to jeopardize its conciliatory efforts with Europe; and the U.S., as a signatory, could hardly veto the plan.

Once the road map resolution has been adopted by the Security Council, Solana wants the Security Council to create an inspection or monitoring team to supervise its execution. This booby trap coincides perfectly with Yasser Arafat’s ambition for an international body to move into the buffer areas between Israel and Palestinian lands; Israel will be forced to pull out of Palestinian locations and give up its fight against terrorists.

Solana assured the Saudi foreign minister that he had already obtained agreement by the French, Russians and Germans. As for Damascus, he believes he can easily persuade the Syrian president to jump on the bandwagon and thus counteract the heat being applied to him by Washington to act against terrorism in his domain.

The Solana plan was one reason Powell failed on May 14 to get Russian president Putin to agree to Washington’s proposal to lift UN sanctions on Iraq. The U.S. needs revenues from Iraqi oil to fund reconstruction and impose law and order. Russia and other nations that opposed U.S. military action in Iraq now see a way to punish the Bush administration for going forward without their agreement. It also gives them the means to sink U.S. postwar plans by withholding funding and forcing Washington to go back to the Security Council to solicit their approval before further progress can be made.

It will be interesting to see if President Bush and his advisors can finesse this latest maneuver at the international game table.

As governor, between 1978 and 1986 he increased taxes each year and nearly doubled the state's spending.

His mismanagement of Florida's prisons brought them to the brink of a mass-release.

His inability to make decisions earned him the nickname "Governor Jello."

He voted four times to oppose bans on partial-birth abortions - which most Americans recognize as infanticide.

In 2002, the National Abortion Rights Action League gave him a perfect score for his votes.

He received a 100 percent rating from the Americans for Democratic Action.

As a U.S. senator he supported the largest tax increase in U.S. history in 1993.

He voted to reduce President Bush's puny tax cut.

Citizens Against Government Waste gave him a lifetime rating of 25 out of a possible 100.

He voted against eliminating the "death tax" and the "marriage tax."

He voted to rob Social Security of $338.7 billion in seven budgets.

Graham supported President George H.W. Bush's halfway war on Iraq, supported President Clinton's senseless bombing of the country and opposed President George W. Bush's decisive campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

This is the kind of politician we want to take America back from - not the kind of "leader" we want to follow into the future.

Graham says he wants to "bring America back - back to the values of our past and the promise of our future." Does this guy sound like someone who believes in the values of the past? Does he seem like he understands the promise of the future?

Interestingly, the press is hailing him as a "centrist" candidate in his party. Is this the record of a centrist? Perhaps by his party's standards.

He has perhaps my favorite campaign gimmick: He has what he calls "workdays" in which he does the job of "an ordinary person" for a day to learn about their concerns.

An ordinary person? What does he think he is? Immortal? Master of the universe? Extraordinary? Lord?

After his big announcement, this clown was headed to New Hampshire, site of the first presidential primary next January, to work as a teacher for the day. So be warned, New Hampshirites. Hide the kids tomorrow.