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  • WHY WOULD YOU VOTE FOR BILL NELSON?

    Subject: LIST OF TRAITORS...

    LIST OF TRAITORS

    Over the weekend, we came four votes away from the United States Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

    The Statement of Purpose from the bill read:

    To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

    The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S. , and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.

    Astonishingly, 46 of our United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.

    Here are the 46 senators that voted to give your rights to the U.N.

    Baldwin (D-WI)

    Baucus (D-MT)

    Bennet (D-CO)

    Blumenthal (D-CT)

    Boxer (D-CA)

    Brown (D-OH)

    Cantwell (D-WA)

    Cardin (D-MD)

    Carper (D-DE)

    Casey (D-PA)

    Coons (D-DE)

    Cowan (D-MA)

    Durbin (D-IL)

    Feinstein (D-CA)

    Franken (D-MN)

    Gillibrand (D-NY)

    Harkin (D-IA)

    Hirono (D-HI)

    Johnson (D-SD)

    Kaine (D-VA)

    King (I-ME)

    Klobuchar (D-MN)

    Landrieu (D-LA)

    Leahy (D-VT)

    Levin (D-MI)

    McCaskill (D-MO)

    Menendez (D-NJ)

    Merkley (D-OR)

    Mikulski (D-MD)

    Murphy (D-CT)

    Murray (D-WA)

    Nelson (D-FL)

    Reed (D-RI)

    Reid (D-NV)

    Rockefeller (D-WV)

    Sanders (I-VT)

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    Schumer (D-NY)

    Shaheen (D-NH)

    Stabenow (D-MI)

    Udall (D-CO)

    Udall (D-NM)

    Warner (D-VA)

    Warren (D-MA)

    Whitehouse (D-RI)

    Wyden (D-OR)

    Please distribute widely. This needs to go viral. These Senators voted to let the UN take our guns. They need to be voted out of office. We have been betrayed (again).

    46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N. Remember their names when you cast your votes at the next election.

    2 Independents and the rest were democrats.

    Hmmm, is there a pattern here ???

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  • Would you agree with this in school?

    NEW School prayer :

    Now I sit me down in school

    Where praying is against the rule

    For this great nation under God

    Finds mention of Him very odd..

    If Scripture now the class recites,

    It violates the Bill of Rights.

    And anytime my head I bow

    Becomes a Federal matter now..

    Our hair can be purple, orange or green,

    That's no offense; it's a freedom thing..

    The law is specific, the law is precise..

    Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

    For praying in a public hall

    Might offend someone with no faith at all.

    In silence alone we must meditate,

    God's name is prohibited by the state.

    We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,

    And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks...

    We can carry smut, but not the Bible.

    To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

    We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,

    And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King..

    It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,

    We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.

    We can get our condoms and birth controls,

    Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.

    But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,

    No word of God must reach this crowd.

    It's scary here I must confess,

    When chaos reigns the school's a mess.

    So, Lord, this silent plea I make:

    Should I be shot; My soul please take!

    Amen

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  • Would you vote for Sotomayor for a Supreme court position?

    I believe the Constitution is not up for debate on the basic issues. Freedoms like the 1st and 2nd amendments plus all others.

    Please read this e-mail I recieved...

    Sotomayor Takes Axe to Second Amendment

    -- Won't answer whether she believes there's a right to self-defense

    Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert

    8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151

    Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408

    http://www.gunowners.org/

    Wednesday, July 15, 2009

    The U.S. Senate must vote NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor!

    In defending her decision that the states could enact any form of gun control they wished -- with absolutely no regard to the Second Amendment -- Judge Sonya Sotomayor has developed a new love for Nineteenth Century court opinions.

    Demonstrating that she was programmed in her responses, Sotomayor defended one of her earlier legal opinions by citing "footnote 23" of Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion in the DC v. Heller case last year.

    But, when pressed by questioner Orrin Hatch yesterday, Sotomayor could not recite the contents of that footnote or the holdings of the cases which it cited. As it turns out, the footnote on which Sotomayor claims to rely, cited -- without approval -- two Nineteenth Century cases which rejected the notion that the Second Amendment was 'incorporated' to apply to the states.

    But those were also the days when the Supreme Court held that the rights protected in the First Amendment did not apply to the states. Apparently, Sotomayor wants to base her anti-gun philosophy on antiquated decisions from an era when the U.S. Supreme Court was spitting out racist decisions.

    Her answers got even worse today when Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma asked her, point blank, "Is there a constitutional right to self-defense?" Sotomayor said that was an "abstract question" and that she couldn't think of a Supreme Court case that addressed that issue.

    Coburn said he didn't want a legal treatise on what Supreme Court holdings have said, rather, he wanted her own personal opinion. Sotomayor would not answer the question, although when pressed, she equated self-defense with vigilantism!

    Folks, do you see how important it is to stop this nomination? GOA mailed its members postcards opposing Sotomayor not too long ago. Please make sure you have mailed those in. We need a multi-pronged offensive right now where our Senators are receiving snail mail, email and phone calls.

    And, we need ALL PRO-GUN ORGANIZATIONS to take a stance AGAINST this nominee.

    Organizational spokesmen can talk a good game and say they have serious "concerns" about Sotomayor. That's all well and good. But unless those organizations (big and small) rate each Senator's vote on Sotomayor -- when she's clearly anti-gun -- then those supposed "concerns" are just meaningless.

    Senators have to hear from ALL the pro-gun organizations -- big and small -- that they are going to rate this vote during the 2010 election. Otherwise, those organizations are just Paper Tigers.

    We can't let this anti-gun judge infiltrate U.S. Supreme Court! She is dangerous on so many levels -- but, especially, on Second Amendment rights.

    GOA considers her nomination to be of the most important gun votes in the HISTORY of the US Senate. We can't think of any other nominee in recent history who has taken such a horrid stand on the basic right of self-defense.

    She says that she will follow the precedent in the DC v. Heller (2008) case. But even if she does, that only means that she will vote to apply the Second Amendment in Washington, DC. She has already ruled this year in Maloney v. Cuomo that the amendment doesn't apply to where you live.

    -- Tim Macy, Vice-Chairman of Gun Owners of America

    ACTION: We need to "pull out the stops" to defeat this nominee. Please contact your two U.S. Senators today and urge them to VOTE NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

    Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the pre-written e-mail message below.

    ----- Pre-written letter -----

    Dear Senator:

    Even though President Obama is extremely anti-gun, I still started with an open mind regarding his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. But after her testimony these past two days, there is no way that she should be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    When asked by Senator Tom Coburn if there was a right to self-defense, Sotomayor said that was an "abstract question." Sotomayor would not answer directly, although when pressed, she equated self-defense with vigilantism!

    How can the Senate confirm a judge to the U.S. Supreme Court who does not believe in the rights that are EXPLICITLY stated in the Bill of Rights?

    I also want you to know that Gun Owners of America will heavily score any vote related to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- whether it's a vote on cloture or final passage -- for its rating in 2010.

    Moreover,

    6 AnswersGovernment1 decade ago
  • Do you care about 2nd Amendment Rights?

    > Tuesday, June 23, 2009

    >

    >

    > Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a Wednesday vote on a

    > State Department nominee who supports gun control on a global scale.

    >

    > While advocates of the Second Amendment have come to expect that

    > appointees of President Barack Obama would be hostile to the rights of

    > gun owners, the president's nominee for legal advisor to the State

    > Department reaches a whole new level of anti-gun extremism.

    >

    > Harold Hongju Koh, who served at the State Department under the

    > Clinton administration, is a self-described "trans-nationalist" who

    > believes that our laws -- and our Constitution -- should be brought

    > into conformity with international agreements.

    >

    > "If you want to be in the global environment, you have to play by the

    > global rules," Koh told a Cleveland audience.

    >

    > Koh's positions treat our constitutional law as if it were a mere

    > local ordinance on the greater world stage. This is of particular

    > concern to gun owners at a time when the U.S. Congress is under

    > pressure from President Obama to ratify an international gun control

    > treaty with countries in the western hemisphere. That treaty, known

    > by its Spanish acronym CIFTA, would likely serve as a forerunner to a

    > more extensive United Nations initiative, the "Program of Action to

    > Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and

    > Light Weapons in all its Aspects."

    >

    > The Bush administration, under the leadership of UN Ambassador John

    > Bolton, rejected the small arms treaty.

    > Bolton plainly told the world

    > that the United States will not accept a gun control document that

    > violates our Constitutional right to bear arms.

    > Harold Koh commented

    > that Bolton was being "needlessly provocative."

    >

    > In a paper entitled "A world drowning in guns,"

    > Koh maintains that a

    > civil society cannot exist with broad gun ownership:

    > "Guns kill civil

    > society," he said.

    >

    > Koh is eager to assume his post at the State Department, having

    > lamented that there is only so much that can be done from the outside

    > to push gun control treaties, and that ultimately we need people like

    > him in positions of power. The chief lawyer for the State Department

    > is just the position someone like him needs to put his agenda into

    > play.

    >

    > While Koh's nomination has been delayed largely because of Second

    > Amendment concerns, Sen. Reid plans to force a vote this week.

    >

    > It is imperative that gun owners contact their Senators and insist

    > that they vote AGAINST this anti-gun extremist.

    >

    > ACTION: Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to

    > oppose Harold Hongju Koh's nomination to the State Department. You

    > can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at

    > http://gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the

    > pre-written message below.

    >

    >

    > ----- Pre-written letter -----

    >

    > Dear Senator:

    >

    > The Senate is expected to soon vote on a State Department nominee who

    > supports gun control on a global scale.

    >

    > Harold Hongju Koh, who served at the State Department under the

    > Clinton administration, is a self-described "trans-nationalist" who

    > believes that our laws -- and our Constitution -- should be brought

    > into conformity with international agreements.

    >

    > According to Koh, "If you want to be in the global environment, you

    > have to play by the global rules." Well, I don't support global

    > rules that contradict our own Constitution.

    >

    > Koh supports international gun control treaties such as the United

    > Nations initiative entitles the "Program of Action to Prevent, Combat

    > and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all

    > its Aspects."

    >

    > When former UN Ambassador John Bolton told the world that the United

    > States will not accept a gun control document that violates our

    > Constitutional right to bear arms, Harold Koh commented that Bolton

    > was being "needlessly provocative."

    >

    > And in a 2003 Fordham Law Review article entitled "A world drowning in

    > guns," Koh maintains that a civil society cannot exist with broad gun

    > ownership: "Guns kill civil society," he wrote.

    >

    > I urge you to reject this trans-nationalist, anti-gun extremist who

    > would place foreign laws and international agreements on equal footing

    > (at minimum) with the U.S. Constitution.

    >

    > Sincerely,

    >

    >

    > ****************************

    >

    4 AnswersGovernment1 decade ago
  • Why does the media not report the news?

    This is a good Memorial Day story. I wish success stories like this

    would be recognized by the media.

    Outnumbered 8-1: 'A good day for the Corps'

    Afghanistan By Peter Bronson:

    "Our vehicles came under a barrage of enemy RPGs and machine gun fire. One of our humvees was disabled from RPGfire, and the Marines inside dismounted and laid down suppression fire so they could evacuate a Marine who was knocked unconscious from the blast."

    That's not from an episode of The Unit or 24. It's not from an anti-war movie. It's not from any newspaper or TV news reports I could find. The quote comes from a "designated marksman who requested to remain unidentified." He was reporting what happened recently in the city of Shewan , Afghanistan .

    The story was told in a Marine Corps News report by Cpl. James M. Mercure. "The day started out with a 10-km patrol with elements mounted and dismounted, so by the time we got to Shewan, we were pretty beat," the marksman said.

    Mercure reported, "Shewan had been a thorn in the side of TF 2nd Bn, 7th Marine Regt, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground TF Afghanistan,

    throughout the Marines' deployment here in support of OEF, because it controls an important supply route into the Bala Baluk district. Opening the route was key to continuing combat ops in the area."

    "The vicious attack that left the humvee destroyed and several of the Marines pinned down in the kill zone sparked an intense 8-hour battle as the platoon desperately fought to recover their comrades. After recovering the Marines trapped in the kill zone, another platoon Sgt personally led numerous attacks on enemy fortified positions, while the plt fought house to house and trench to trench in order to clear through the enemy ambush site."

    "The biggest thing to take from that day is what Marines can accompli sh when they're

    given the opportunity to fight", the sniper said. "A small group of Marines met a numerically superior force and embarrassed them in their own backyard. The insurgents told the townspeople that they were stronger than the Americans, and that day we showed them they were wrong." "During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a

    co.-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the 8-hour battle for Shewan, in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn't miss any shots, despite the enemies' rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position." '"I was in my own little world,"' the young corporal said. '"I wasn't even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target."' "After calling for close-air support, the small group of Marines pushed forward and broke the enemies' spirit as many of them dropped their weapons and fled the battlefield. At the end of the battle, the Marines had reduced an enemy stronghold, killed more than 50 insurgents and wounded several more.

    "I didn't realize how many=2 0bad guys there were until we had broken through the enemies' lines and forced them to retreat. It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,"' the corporal said. "It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured."

    Such an amazing story of heroism and victory would have been on Page One in every paper in the country during World War II. Just 30 Marines giving 8 hours of hell to 250 insurgents, is the kind of story that would make a good movie - if that kind of movie still could be made. But these days, it did not even make Page 10. I couldn't find a story about it anywhere. The only mentions were on conservative blogs and military Web sites. The soldiers who are fighting for their lives and our country might as well be in another dimension. News from the battlefronts in Iraq and Afghanistan is apparently not important. It reminds the jaded anti-war crowd that they were wrong. We're winning. It reminds a self-centered nation that some Americans are making sacrifices much bigger than a loss in their 401(k)s. So we don't hear about it. But we need to hear news like that, because a good day for the Marine Corps is a good day for freedom. And that's a good day for America .

    1 AnswerOther - News & Events1 decade ago