70 Years Ago Today

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the leaders of France and Italy made a pact with Adolf Hitler in Munich, September 30, 1938, to let Germany annex a portion of Czechoslovakia in exchange for a promise of peace.

When Hitler reneges and invades Poland in 1939, the Munich agreement is recognized as futile appeasement, and World War II in on.

Liberals have not changed. They are still cowards who prefer surrender to freedom.

Your Gun Rights Are in Danger Unless You Register to Vote!

Don’t Wait for Barack Obama to Ban Your Guns – Register to Vote Today!

Barack Obama Has Supported:

	A Total Ban on Handguns
	A Ban on the Sale or Transfer of All Semi-Auto Firearms
	A Ban on Right-to-Carry Permits
	A Ban on Firearms Kept in the Home
	And More -

“So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them….”
– Barack Obama, April 2, 2008

Barack Obama has made it clear – he believes gun owners are dangerous and that guns should be banned.  If he is elected President, he could name new Supreme Court Justices who will try to overturn the recent court decision and strip our rights away.

Protect your rights.  Protecting your rights has never been more important. Register to vote today!

Joe Biden: The Voice Of Anti-Gun Experience

Most people are saying that Barack Obama chose Biden as his running mate to compensate for his own lack of experience.  After all, Obama has been in the Senate since only 2005, while Biden has been a senator since 1973, when Obama was 11 years old.  But few in the Senate have as much experience as Biden in attacking our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Just like fellow Democrats Edward Kennedy, Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, Biden has voted for, and actively pushed, major anti-gun bills, including those:

• Banning semi-automatic firearms;
• Banning hunting, sporting and self-defense ammunition;
• Banning magazines holding more than 10 rounds; and
• Imposing a waiting period on handgun sales.

Biden also voted against the law that prohibits lawsuits designed to bankrupt law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers.  And he voted against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices who support the Second Amendment.

The Brady Campaign sums it up in a straightforward fashion: “Senator Biden has been a consistent supporter of the Brady Campaign.”  According to the gun prohibition activist group, “Senator Biden was a key player in the fight for the federal assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.  He also worked hard for passage of the Brady Law (sic).”

To hear Biden tell it, though, that’s only half the story.  Last year, during a debate with Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and other contenders for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Biden said, “I’m the guy who originally wrote the assault weapons ban.”

Now, on the one hand, Biden has been faulted in the past for claiming credit for others’ work.  In one instance, the Washington Post reported, Biden “lifted five pages from a published law review article and used them in his 15-page paper for a legal-methods course” in college.  He also plagiarized British Labor Leader Neil Kinnock in a speech before the National Education Association, and similarly “failed to attribute to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy a lengthy passage . . . in a speech he gave to the California Democratic Party.”

But Biden almost told the truth about his role in the “assault weapon” issue.  Indeed, though Sens. Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH) and Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) had authored earlier bills, Biden introduced an “assault weapons” ban in Congress five years before the Clinton gun and magazine ban was imposed.  In 1989, a Biden bill (S. 1970) proposed to ban the Colt AR-15 and eight similar firearms as “assault weapons,” and authorize the Secretary of the Treasury (in reality, the then Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) and the Attorney General to recommend to Congress any other firearms, regardless of type, to be banned as “additional assault weapons.”

To this day, Biden doesn’t merely support a ban on “assault weapons” and standard-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds, he actively pushes it.  In the current Congress, another Biden bill (S. 2237) proposes to renew the Clinton ban on roughly 200 makes and models of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and handguns on the basis of things like the shape of their grips, and on ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, regardless of the kind of firearm in which they are used.

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller-the case that overturned Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban-offers two more insights into Biden’s position on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

First, Biden has been in the Senate long enough to vote on the confirmation of all nine justices now on the Court.  Biden voted to confirm only one of the five justices who ruled against D.C.’s handgun ban in Heller.

Second, before the case went before the Supreme Court, more than 300 members of Congress signed a legal brief supporting the Second Amendment and opposing D.C.’s handgun ban.  Biden, like Obama, refused to sign the brief.

While the Obama campaign wants voters to think that Joe Biden complements him, bringing a different perspective to the Democrat ticket, the reality is that both candidates have long records throughout their careers of not merely of going along with gun control, but originating and pushing the anti-gun agenda aggressively.  It is fair to say that if Barack Obama is elected president, Joe Biden will be the most anti-gun vice president in American history.

Thanks to GunBanObama.com for this information.

About GunBanObama.com

Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history.  Senator Obama says “words matter.”  But when it comes to your Second Amendment rights, he refuses to speak honestly about where he stands.  In fact, Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth.

But even he can’t hide from the truth forever … his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history.

GunBaNObama.com is designed to bring you the truth about Barack Obama’s words - words like these:

• “Do you support state legislation to …  ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns? Yes.”  (Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization general candidate questionnaire, Sept. 9, 1996
• “I’m consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.”  (Chicago Tribune, April 27, 2004)
• “I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturers lobby.”  Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (2006).

And GunBaNObama.com will also bring you Obama’s deeds:

• Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sports shooting.  (United States Senate, vote no. 217, S. 397, July 29, 2005)
• Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.  (Illinois Senate, SB 2165, vote 20, March 25, 2004)
• In his only two votes on confirming Supreme Court nominees, Obama voted against two of the five justices (Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito) who later affirmed an individual right to keep and bear arms in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.

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Obama Wants NRA Ads Banned

The Obama camp has been threatening television and radio stations to keep them from airing anti-Obama ads.

The latest target is the NRA and stations in Pennsylvania.

Earlier this week, the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund released a series of radio and television spots to educate gun owners and sportsmen about Barack Obama’s longstanding anti-gun record. In response to the NRA-PVF ads, a clearly panicked Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are doing everything they can to hide Obama’s real record by mounting a coordinated assault on the First Amendment.

They have gone to desperate and outrageous lengths to try to silence your NRA by bullying media outlets with threats of lawsuits if they run NRA-PVF’s ads.

The Obama camp is particularly angry with an NRA ad entitled “Hunter” which lays out Obama’s record on gun control.

You can see the “Hunter” ad – Go Here Now.

Other NRA ads include “Way of Life” and another focusing on Joe Biden’s record, “Defend Freedom, Defeat Obama.”

This week, Obama’s campaign general counsel Bob Bauer wrote seeking to censor the ads at stations in Pennsylvania.

“Unlike federal candidates, independent political organizations do not have a ‘right to command the use of broadcast facilities,’” Bauer writes. “Moreover, you have a duty ‘to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.’”

“This advertising is false, misleading, and deceptive,” Bauer continued. “We request that you immediately cease airing this advertising.”

The NRA says Obama’s camp are sending out these “intimidating cease and desist letters” to cable operators and television stations, threatening their FCC licenses if they run the ads.

The NRA charged that “Obama and the DNC have been using strong-arm tactics reminiscent of Chicago machine politics to try and cover up the truth and silence NRA by forcing the stations to assist them in hiding Obama’s radical anti-gun record.”

And now, Obama and the DNC have opened a new front in their assault on your First Amendment rights by calling on their followers to contact these station managers to demand that the stations not run NRA-PVF’s ads.

NRA stands behind the accuracy of these ads, and NRA attorneys have responded to the Obama campaign’s despicable and abusive attempt to trample on the First Amendment by sending a thorough rebuttal to station managers. This rebuttal clearly and conclusively refutes the Obama campaign’s fallacious claims that the ads are inaccurate.

The NRA has set up a Web site detailing its position on Obama at www.gunbanobama.com.

Thanks to Newsmax.com for this information.

Republicans Oppose the Democrats Massive Bail Out Scheme

Well, the Republicans are finally showing some balls by opposing the Democrats massive bail out scheme. The Democrats have the votes to pass their plan but need the Republicans on board or they will face a tremendous backlash from the voters in November.

Please encourage your Republican Congressmen and Senators to hold their ground and oppose this massive bailout.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml

$25,000,000,000.00 Bail Out for Automakers

The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $25,000,000,000.00 package of low-cost loans to help carmakers and their suppliers finance plant modernization at a time of restricted access to public capital ­markets.

The automotive loans are separate from the proposed $700,000,000,000.00 bail-out for the banking sector, which is still being debated in Congress. The House approved the measure 370-58, setting the stage for Senate approval within days.

I looked at my copy of the U.S. Constitution this morning and I can not find where it gives Congress the authority to loan taxpayer money to private businesses.

If anyone out there can find that provision, please let me know.

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.

Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to Americans in a “We Deserve It Dividend.”

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S.Citizens 18 and up.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So, 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

Let’s divide 200 million adults 18 and up into $85 billion and that equals $425.00. My plan is to give $425.00 to every person 18 and up as a “We Deserve It Dividend.”

A husband and wife would get $850.00.

What would you do with $425.00 to $850.00 in your family?

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18 and up including those serving in our Armed Forces.

As for AIG – liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.

Sure it’s a crazy idea that can “never work.”

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion “We Deserve It Dividend” more than the geniuses at AIG or in Washington.

Ahhh… I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

I e-mailed my Congressman and both Senators expressing my unhappiness. I hope you will do the same.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml

Ron Paul Regarding the Current Economic Crisis

Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.

The events of the past week are no exception.

The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress’ throat is not just economically foolish.  It is downright sinister.  It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect.  It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder.  Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China!  “This is welfare for the rich,” he said. “This is socialism for the rich. It’s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters.”

That describes the current bailout package to a T.  And we’re being told it’s unavoidable.

The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it.  But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences – predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics – are being let off the hook.  The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!

• The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.
• Financial institutions are “designated as financial agents of the Government.” This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.
• Then there’s this: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.” Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.

There goes your country.

Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this “sadly necessary.”  Sad, yes.  Necessary?  Don’t make me laugh.

Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people.  The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind – another example of the big choice we’re supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes.  Now, with a backlash brewing, they’re not quite sure what their views are.  A sad display, really.

Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we’ll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short.  Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow.  With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it.  Call them!  Let them hear from you!  Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.

The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom?  Do we care about responsibility and accountability?  Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for?  Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government?  Do we care?

When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?

Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.

In liberty,

Ron Paul
September 24, 2008