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The End of the Republican Party?

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:57 pm
by scottc
September 23, 2005

The End of the Republican Party?

A storm is brewing. It has the potential to utterly destroy the Republican Party.

For years, under both Democrat and Republican administrations, American citizens -- cornerstones of their communities -- have been falsely charged and railroaded into prisons. Their lives have been ruined. Their families have been shattered. It has all been because of accusations and sham trials that belong in Communist China, not the United States of America.

We're talking about the decades of abuses committed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). We're talking about the _continuing_ abuses that are ruining innocent gun owners and gun makers today. Worse, we're now also talking about political cover-up and complicity.

A HISTORY OF ABUSE

For evidence of the abuses, see:

http://www.jpfo.org/alert20050103.htm
http://www.jpfo.org/savagebatfe.htm
http://www.jpfo.org/savage2.htm

People are being convicted on utterly meaningless testimony from "expert" witnesses who don't know what they're talking about and who work for an agency that uses arbitrary testing methods designed to yield whatever results bureaucrats and politicians want.

Do the Republicans know about this? Yes. Of course they do. They've known since at least 1982, when Congress recommended curbing the ATF's powers. Instead of controlling the ATF, administration after administration, of both parties, has handed the ATF more money and more power.

NEW EVIDENCE OF A COVER-UP

But it's worse. Not only does the current administration know about these unjust persecutions, these outrageous, trumped-up charges, they're now blatantly aiding and abetting the very agency that so horribly abuses American gun owners.

Here's what we're discovering:

Earlier this year, firearm manufacturer Len Savage and JPFO worked together to reveal that ATF Firearms Technology Branch (FTB) actually has NO standards for determining what constitutes an "illegal machine gun"!

One agent might decide that a semi-automatic rifle is an "illegal machine gun" if it can be made to fire full-auto after 15 minutes of casual tinkering. Another ATF agent might say another semi-automatic rifle is an "illegal machine gun" if a gunsmith with a machine shop can make it fire full-auto after eight hours of expert modification.

But each "expert" can then give testimony that puts the innocent owner of a semi-automatic rifle in prison.

Sometimes, they do no real testing or examination of firearms at all. Don't believe it? Watch the video of the "testing" of John Glover's FAL, and see for yourself: http://www.jpfo.org/batfevideo.htm. You'll see an ATF "expert" claim that a semi-automatic rifle is an "illegal machine gun" because it had a broken part and would occasionally fire two shots on one trigger pull. No one from the ATF ever even disassembled the gun to look for the cause of the malfunction before charging Glover with a federal felony!

When the Glover footage became public, the prosecutor ordered the charges against Glover dropped. Later, the head of the ATF himself ordered Mr. Glover's guns returned to him. (If you know someone being attacked by the ATF, make sure they have a copy of the footage to use!)

GUN OWNERS ATTEMPT TO HOLD THE ATF'S FEET TO THE FIRE

Recently, many concerned gun owners have contacted their congressional representatives requesting the FTB's firearms-testing procedure manual. The response has been -- shockingly, but not surprisingly -- that _no such manual exists_. The ATF is now being forced to admit that for decades it's been "making it up as it goes along" -- at the expense of American gun owners.

BUT ... Instead of defending gun owners in this simple matter of commonsense and justice, powerful Republicans are helping the ATF cover up!

The FTB has _refused_ to release its manual to the Congressional Research Service. Note: It's not admitting the truth -- that there is no manual, that there are no standards. It's just saying it won't release it. And the Department of Justice (under which the ATF now operates) is backing up its underlings.

Congressman James Sensenbrenner - Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary - is scrambling to give the FTB time so that it can hurriedly write some sort of fake manual - anything! - to show the public when knowledge of this travesty becomes widespread.

But by doing so, the FTB will be facing unintended consequences: If the standards for testing firearms have only _now_ been written, then literally thousands of _previous_ gun owner convictions will become suspect, and may well be overturned. The Department of Justice fears (accurately) that there will be a wave of retrials or even complete exonerations for imprisoned gun owners when the public discovers this fetid coverup.

But the current VIPs of the Republican Party and the Bush administration are actually trying to _prevent you and me from learning what their agents are doing to us_.

Only one congressman, Phil Gingrey of Georgia, stands alone in opposition to the ATF's domestic terrorism. He has written a bill to force the ATF to video-record all firearms tests. He made the first requests for the non-existent manual. Yes, Gingrey is a Republican, and a courageous one. But his attempts to get justice have been stymied at every turn by Republican James Sensenbrenner and the Republican Department of Justice.

We're getting calls from outraged, patriotic gun owners. We're reading angry rumblings on second-amendment blogs and message boards. They're all saying the same thing: "If more gun owners begin to grasp the full depth of their betrayal, the Republican Party will not survive the fallout."

Republican betrayal of gun owners is unfortunately not new. The Brady law passed only because a powerful Republican (Bob Dole) enabled it. Republicans who claimed to oppose various Clinton-era gun laws have vigorously supported enforcement of those same laws through Project Safe Neighborhoods. It has been a _Republican_ administration, not a Democrat one that has appointed hundreds of special prosecutors just to handle "gun crimes" (which are often completely non-violent and technical "crimes").

Until now, many gun owners have either been oblivious to the depth of the Republican betrayal or they've held their noses and supported Republicans because they believed the Democrats to be worse.

Many Democrats are open and frank in their hatred of guns and gun owners. But for years the Republicans have looked us in the eye, smiled, shaken our hands, asked for our support -- then stabbed us in the back.

If this were a just world with an impartial media, this brewing scandal of Republican-supported abuse and Republican coverup would have the potential to make Watergate or Iran Contra look trivial in comparison.

Because the media doesn't care about gun owners, and because gun owners themselves are so often willfully blind to Republican betrayal, we don't know that this scandal _will_ be the end of the Republican Party.

We only know an increasing number of concerned, patriotic gun owners are saying that it _should_ be.

- The Liberty Crew

both parties are!!

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:25 pm
by cz07
for one all, both parties are a law to them selfs not care about you ,don't obey the oath of offices nor the real law of the land; case in point look at the so-called '' laws'' they pass to the common /Constitution laws !please read the 10 planks of Karl Marx , George Orwell's 1984 and animal farm!so were are we well my grandmother [born sept 11-00]said best who lived in Germany till 1948 in about 1993 the USA has more common with Nazis and roman empire than what the USA started to be [ she seen how this nation dieing of elitism in her time ]look at history for will happen next !!!

Re: both parties are!!

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:44 pm
by Splitter
cz07 wrote:for one all, both parties are a law to them selfs not care about you ,don't obey the oath of offices nor the real law of the land; case in point look at the so-called '' laws'' they pass to the common /Constitution laws !please read the 10 planks of Karl Marx , George Orwell's 1984 and animal farm!so were are we well my grandmother [born sept 11-00]said best who lived in Germany till 1948 in about 1993 the USA has more common with Nazis and roman empire than what the USA started to be [ she seen how this nation dieing of elitism in her time ]look at history for will happen next !!!
Let's not go to the extreme here, the US is nowhere near Nazism or the Roman Empire.

That actually disturbs me a little that you would say that. My wifes family came from Germany in 1932, she is first generation American. Her grandmother passed last year at 96, she watched her family murdered at the hands of Hitler.

No, we're not even close to what you say. Do we need to step up our efforts to fix our corrupt government? Yep. So, vote morons out of office, that is your duty as an American. Feel stronger than that? Join an activist group or run for office yourself.

Nazism... whatever.

new party??

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:13 am
by cz07
OK lawyers run both parties not Oby the laws of the land -gun laws are one of many other ,look at how prez.Clinton ran things more like a Caesar with blackmail and other dirty means !

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:30 am
by Tsavong_Lah
The concept that Cz07 is trying to get across is that Hitler used his military/secret service to control the German government. In the same way Clinton and more than likely any other President can use personal or political secrets to influence most of our representatives.

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:15 pm
by Splitter
I understand very clearly what he is trying to say. And a little proof reading wouldn't hurt.

Our republic has had over 40 presidents. Each and every one of them has used their power in one way or another to do things that people don't like.

So, we vote the idiot out of office, or we don't.

Unfortunately about 49% of all voting Americans' are liberal in their way of thinking. Their (and in effect, our) leaders aren't choir boys. But, that would be like calling the kettle black now wouldn't it? Our (and in essence, their) leaders are just as bad.

Where is the answer? The answer is in education. Not the watered down crap that filters through classrooms nowadays, real education. We need severe education reform, and turn that into the real education of our youth.

If we continue to deaden them with Ipods, crap movies, retarded Hollywood, etc, our leaders of tomorrow will be worse than the ones of today.

Home school your kids if you can't send them to a private school, religious school, or military academy.

It isn't too late.

Yet.