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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks! These are my thoughts exactly as a retired Mental
Health Proffesional and Case manager for the chronically mentally ill. Idaho has
taken a giant leap backward, and is not saving money but increasing the costs
the tax-payer will pay in the long run. So many of our mentally ill community
members will never be violent, but their torment with no support systems in
completely inhumane. As for those whose mental illness pushes them to violence,
perhaps someone looking in to keep them grounded would prevent that or warn that
violence might be looming. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sadly, I believe this is more of the same core belief
system: those who are not absolutely strong, fit, smart, young, and capable can
be easily discarded by those who have money. And money can buy publicity that
promotes this belief system by telling those with not much that those with
nothing are a threat.....The real threat to our communities and our state is
from those cynical, corrupt politicians and officials with power and money
who wish to retain both and exploit the fearful and foolish to do
so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donaledwards@hotmail.com
href="mailto:donaledwards@hotmail.com">donald edwards</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 31, 2011 5:14
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Something to
ponder regarding mental health issues</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Here's a letter from my dad to the press regarding PSR
services the state is considering cutting & shared with the Viz with
his permission. Don Edwards <BR><BR><BR><BR>From:<SPAN
class=ecxApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:gedward@roadrunner.com"><FONT
color=#0068cf>gedward@roadrunner.com</FONT></A><BR>To:<SPAN
class=ecxApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:editor@cdapress.com"><FONT
color=#0068cf>editor@cdapress.com</FONT></A>;<SPAN
class=ecxApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:editor@spokesman.com"><FONT
color=#0068cf>editor@spokesman.com</FONT></A><BR>Subject: Email sent to JFAC
re Opposition to Mental Health Cuts 1/26/2011<BR>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011
07:35:45 -0800<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV
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JFAC re Opposition to Mental Health
Cuts<SPAN> </SPAN>1/26/2011</DIV>
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<DIV
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am writing to you to express my opposition to proposed cuts to the Mental
Health programs in Idaho, specifically the PSR Program.</DIV>
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<DIV
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have been a licensed social worker for over 40 years and am now
retired.<SPAN> </SPAN>I worked for the State of Idaho as a CPS
Social Worker and Supervisor and owned my own PSR Case Management agency for
eight years before my retirement four years ago.</DIV>
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<DIV
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a brief history of mental illness treatment.<SPAN> </SPAN>Before
the 1970’s mentally ill persons were largely confined to large, inefficient,
expensive institutions such as the Mental Hospital in
Orofino.<SPAN> </SPAN>When miraculous advances in drug therapy came
along in the 1970’s the mental health emphasis switched to community based
treatment at mental health centers with patients receiving drugs for treatment
of symptoms.<SPAN> </SPAN>Then, in the 1990’s private home based
agencies sprang up to provide patients with supervision so they could live in
their own homes without hospitalization mostly through Case Management
services (CM).<SPAN> </SPAN>Then, in the 2000’s the state of Idaho
minimized CM services and switched to more expensive time consuming treatment
called PSR.</DIV>
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liked the Case Management program.<SPAN> </SPAN>It worked
well.<SPAN> </SPAN>I was able to provide care for mentally ill
patients.<SPAN> </SPAN>I was able to visit clients from
the extremes of once a month up to four hours a day.<SPAN> </SPAN>I
helped them with landlords, courts, assured they took their medication,
& kept them out of jails and hospitals.<SPAN> </SPAN>Using
mostly bachelor’s level social workers it cost the state an average of
$<B>500</B> a month for my clients</DIV>
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<DIV
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one time I was with a client in a doctor’s waiting room and the radio was
broadcasting a description of a rapist.<SPAN> </SPAN>I asked my
client if he knew anyone that fit that description and he gave me a
name.<SPAN> </SPAN>I handed him my cell phone and he called the
police and that rapist is now serving 25 years in
jail.<SPAN> </SPAN>Another time, a client told me some bad people
had taken over his apartment.<SPAN> </SPAN>We contacted the
Kootenai County Drug Task Force who raided the place and found a meth lab;
later they arrested the men who had tried to manipulate my client.</DIV>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal
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<DIV
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the state of Idaho cut back CM services drastically in about 2000 the client I
mentioned above was dead within two months because I was unable to visit him
daily.<SPAN> </SPAN>In fact, I heard from a colleague that the
suicide, hospitalization and incarceration rates went up significantly when
the CM program was cut.</DIV>
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<DIV
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heard it mentioned that volunteers could help the mentally ill and make up for
a cut in services.<SPAN> </SPAN>Trust me, the little old lady or
man from the local church is not equipped to deal with the time and energy and
knowledge it takes to help the mentally ill.<SPAN> </SPAN>I had one
client who was mentally ill, autistic and retarded who called me at least 20
times a day for two years, usually repeating the same inane
questions.<SPAN> </SPAN>Most people would find this
intolerable.<SPAN> </SPAN>In fact, I had a registered Nurse
employee who quit because the mortality rate of clients following the cutback
in CM services was depressing to her.</DIV>
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<DIV
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keep in mind that there is a federal match for CM and PSR services under
Medicaid, so I think Idaho loses $2 for every $1 they save in Medicaid
cuts.</DIV>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal
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<DIV
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you noticed that in North Idaho and Spokane there have been at least eight
police related shootings of people in the community?<SPAN> </SPAN>I
believe this can be directly related in cuts or lack of services for mentally
ill patients.<SPAN> </SPAN>Do you recall the shootings recently in
Tucson where Congresswoman Giffords and about 20 other people were shot
because an obviously deranged person and six people were
killed?<SPAN> </SPAN>I believe you’re going to see many more
community problems like this if these Medicaid cuts in PSR go through.</DIV>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal
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summary, paying $500 a month per client average for CM services a month is a
lot cheaper than the state cutting PSR services and then ending up paying more
in suicides, homicides, hospitalization and incarceration
costs.<SPAN> </SPAN>I recommend that you de-emphasize PSR and
restore the 20 hours per week authorization for CM services.</DIV>
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From: vision2020-request@moscow.com<BR>> Subject: Vision2020 Digest, Vol
55, Issue 227<BR>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011
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Re: that Jared guy and mental health (Reggie Holmquist)<BR>> <BR>>
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<BR>> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:59:37 -0800<BR>>
From: "Art Deco" <deco@moscow.com><BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020]
apologists for violence<BR>> To: "Vision 2020"
<vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID:
<B317ACDBB5A14217A40D6306EE5A4002@LocalHost><BR>> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR>> <BR>> Is there an echo in
here?<BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From: lfalen <BR>> To:
Joe Campbell ; Paul Rumelhart <BR>> Cc: vision2020@moscow.com ; roger hayes
<BR>> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:36 PM<BR>> Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] apologists for violence<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> You say that
Michael O' nastiness is wrong and it should't happen. Just how is he any
nastier than Chapman, Brock or White? I suspect the difference is that you
agree with them bu not O'Neal. You along with a lot of people on both the left
and the right excuse obnoxious comments made by those you agree with but get
all bent out of shape when is directed at those you like. Again it is a matter
of perspective. <BR>> Roger<BR>> <BR>> -----Original
message-----<BR>> From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe@gmail.com<BR>>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:19:29 -0800<BR>> To: Paul Rumelhart
godshatter@yahoo.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] apologists for
violence<BR>> <BR>> > I don't see that you're responding to the
points that Roger made as much as<BR>> > talking past them.<BR>> >
<BR>> > One issue is, Should certain speak -- say violent rhetoric -- be
restricted<BR>> > by law?<BR>> > <BR>> > Another very
separate issue is, Should people use violent rhetoric?<BR>> > <BR>>
> Another very separate issue is, Should violent rhetoric be
criticized?<BR>> > <BR>> > My answers are "No," "No," and "Yes." I
think all points are worthy of<BR>> > debate.<BR>> > <BR>> >
Certainly you think it is OK to criticize folks who criticize violent<BR>>
> rhetoric, so you should be fine with criticizing violent rhetoric. I
don't<BR>> > see how Roger's points are, in that respect, any different
from yours. He's<BR>> > not advocating passing laws restricting speech.
He's advocating having a<BR>> > conversation about it, which is JUST
MORE SPEECH.<BR>> > <BR>> > Also, you should be able to step away
from your love of free speech for one<BR>> > minute and say that Michael
O'Neal's nastiness is wrong, that it shouldn't<BR>> > happen. You should
be able to separate the issue of freedom of speech and<BR>> > the
restriction of speech from criticism of speech.<BR>> > <BR>> >
Folks SHOULD be critical of O'Neal's writing. He's insulting and
insulting<BR>> > is just wrong. That we all do it is no excuse. We
should all be openly<BR>> > critical of O'Neal and try to encourage him
not to spew insults and<BR>> > distortions about his political
opponents. Having a conversation about that<BR>> > is a good thing, the
kind of thing that should happen in a civil society. It<BR>> > is not
governmental intervention; it is merely another form of free speech,<BR>>
> people using their words to try to solve problems rather than resorting
to<BR>> > the kind of actual violence that nasty speech like O'Neal's
bi-weekly rants<BR>> > encourage.<BR>> > <BR>> > On Sat, Jan
29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com>wrote:<BR>>
> <BR>> > ><BR>> > > I didn't read Michael O'Neal's
editorial, but I do want to comment on<BR>> > > this topic.<BR>>
> ><BR>> > > I am a strong advocate of freedom of speech and
freedom of expression.<BR>> > > When I end up defending particular
examples of speech that are being<BR>> > > argued against, I'm almost
always defending speech that I disagree<BR>> > > with. The reason for
that is that speech I agree with is hardly ever in<BR>> > > danger of
being suppressed in today's society. The main reason that I<BR>> > >
defend speech I disagree with has to do with not wanting to give our<BR>>
> > government the club that they can use to beat us into
submission.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I would love it if there was
less violent talk surrounding politics, and<BR>> > > that there were
fewer racial slurs and put-downs and just generally rude<BR>> > >
behavior on-line, on talk radio, and on the street. However, it's a<BR>>
> > better situation than giving our leaders the ability to determine
what<BR>> > > is acceptable and what is not in this area. I don't
trust those<BR>> > > currently in power not to abuse this, and even
if I did I wouldn't trust<BR>> > > their unknown replacements not to
abuse this after those in power were<BR>> > > voted out or ran up
against their term limits.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > If you are
repulsed by political candidates flinging violent rhetoric,<BR>> > >
imagine how much you would hate it once they have the power to tell
you<BR>> > > what you can and cannot say.<BR>> > ><BR>>
> > I would like others to tone down their rhetoric and I would love
for<BR>> > > them to use reasonable logic and debate rather than
trying to incite<BR>> > > people emotionally, but I'm not willing to
unleash a demon in order to<BR>> > > get them to stop.<BR>> >
><BR>> > > In my opinion, if we want to stay a free country
(assuming we still are<BR>> > > one) then we need to push back
against governmental control on speech in<BR>> > > every way possible
and make sure that the exceptions are extremely clear<BR>> > > and
well thought out.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Paul<BR>> >
><BR>> > > roger hayes wrote:<BR>> > > > Regarding
Michael O'Neals recent editorial.<BR>> > > > I am repulsed by so
many people defending the right to scream "Fire!"<BR>> > > > in
crowded theaters. We need to understand what we do when we incite<BR>> >
> > people to riot or violence. I don't give a hoot from which
quarter<BR>> > > > the rhetoric is flung, telling people "Don't
retreat, Reload" and the<BR>> > > > thousands of other vindictives
being hurled at the public is nothing<BR>> > > > but sedition at
worst, and trash talk at best. It is designed to<BR>> > > > prick
at the raw nerves of fear and hate in which modern life seems<BR>> >
> > to be so rich these days. How does the rest of the world view us?
Do<BR>> > > > they hear the angry and often violent talk of media
baboons<BR>> > > > advocating death sentences on people with whom
they disagree. Do<BR>> > > > they get wind of ridiculous racial
slurs against world leaders and<BR>> > > > languages other than
English? Do they fear to visit the United States<BR>> > > > out of
worry for their personal safety because of our growing<BR>> > > >
reputation for violence and anger?<BR>> > > > A civil and healthy
debate about our responsibility as citizens, and<BR>> > > >
particularly as media or governmental figures to rein in our language<BR>>
> > > is a good thing. Shish, we need to take back our
dignity!<BR>> > > > Sincerely,<BR>> > > > Roger
Hayes<BR>> > > > Moscow<BR>> > > ><BR>> > >
><BR>> > > >
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2<BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:12:16 -0800<BR>> From: Reggie Holmquist
<reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu><BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020]
that Jared guy and mental health<BR>> To: lfalen
<lfalen@turbonet.com><BR>> Cc: vision 2020
<vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID:<BR>>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<BR>> <BR>> Your faulty
argument is based on the false premise that there is an equal<BR>> amount
of hate speech and violence coming from both sides. Please consider<BR>>
this short list so that you may disabuse yourself of that false
equivalency.<BR>> <BR>> -Reggie<BR>> <BR>> *July 27, 2008*?Jim
Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive<BR>> church in
Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it ?a symbolic<BR>>
killing<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>?<BR>>
because he really ?wanted to kill?every Democrat in the Senate & House,
the<BR>> 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's<BR>>
book<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>,?<BR>>
but was unable to gain access to them.<BR>> <BR>> *September 18,
2008*?Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of *District<BR>> of
Columbia v. Heller*, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding<BR>>
firearm-related legislation. Heller?s written, submitted testimony
states,<BR>> in part: "?We the people,? armed, are TRULY what the Writers
of the<BR>> Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15,
and that is<BR>> the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our
city, ARMED<BR>> CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities
in our individual<BR>>
neighborhoods<http://www.csgv.org/storage/documents/HELLER%20TESTIMONY%209-18-08.pdf><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *September 22, 2008*?The National Rifle Association
launches its GunBanObama<BR>> website <http://www.gunbanobama.com/>,
which predicts that Democratic<BR>> presidential candidate Barack Obama,
?if elected?would be the most anti-gun<BR>> president in American<BR>>
history<http://www.gunbanobama.com/Default.aspx?NavGuid=99ac1df3-2e0b-454c-a039-dffd66849533>.?<BR>>
The<BR>> website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit
Obama.<BR>> <BR>> *December 9, 2008*?FBI teams investigating the murder
of white supremacist<BR>> James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine,
find supplies for a crude<BR>> radiological dispersal dervice and other
explosives in his home. Cumming's<BR>> wife, who shot him to death after
being abused by him repeatedly, explains,<BR>> "His intentions were to
construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to<BR>> kill President
Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our<BR>> moter
home
<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html><BR>>
."<BR>> *<BR>> **February 5, 2009*?FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an
hour-long special on<BR>> Fox called ?We Surround Them
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKUfmFL3Cs>,?<BR>> a ?grassroots
effort to wake up our Nation's leaders and let them know what<BR>> many, if
not most, Americans truly believe in and stand for.?<BR>> <BR>>
*February 20, 2009*?FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games
a<BR>> 2014 civil war scenario called ?The Bubba<BR>>
Effect<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8La5xLYo2-s>.? It<BR>> involves
citizen militias in the South and West taking up arms against the<BR>> U.S.
government.<BR>> <BR>> *March 3, 2009*? FOX commentator Glenn Beck
interviews NRA celebrity<BR>> spokesman Chuck Norris. During the interview,
Beck states that, ?Somebody<BR>> asked me this morning, they said, ?you
really believe that there's going to<BR>> be trouble in the future?? And I
said, ?if this country starts to spiral out<BR>> of control and, you know,
and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really<BR>> starts to spiral out
of control, before America allows a country to become a<BR>> totalitarian
country ? Americans will, they just, they won't stand for<BR>> it. There
will be parts of the country that will rise up.? And they said,<BR>>
?where's that going to come from?? And I said, ?Texas, it's going to
come<BR>> from Texas
<http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/22220/>.??<BR>>
<BR>> *March 9, 2009*?NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an
editorial<BR>> published at WorldNetDaily: ?How much more will Americans
take? When will<BR>> enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our
leaders finally listen<BR>> or will history need to record a second
American<BR>>
Revolution?<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103><BR>>
?<BR>> <BR>> *March 11, 2009*?NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009
Conservative<BR>> Political Action Conference and announces that ?Our
Founding Fathers<BR>> understood that the guys with the guns make
the<BR>> rules<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAWQ-TMF3I><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *March 21-22, 2009*?Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
states that she<BR>> wants residents of her state to be ?armed and
dangerous on this issue of the<BR>> energy tax because we need to fight
back. Thomas Jefferson told us ?having a<BR>> revolution every now and then
is a good thing,? and the people?we the<BR>> people?are going to have to
fight back hard if we?re not going to lose our<BR>>
country<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *April 4, 2009*?Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and
kills three police<BR>> officers responding to a 911 call to his home in
Pittsburgh. His friend<BR>> Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski
feared ?the Obama gun ban<BR>> that?s on its
way<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>?<BR>>
and ?didn?t like our rights being infringed<BR>>
upon<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>.?<BR>>
Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because
?if<BR>> anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna? stand by what
his<BR>> forefathers told him to do
<http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001115/>.?<BR>> <BR>> *April 7,
2009*?The Department of Homeland Security?s Office of Intelligence<BR>> and
Analysis releases an assessment of right wing extremism in the United<BR>>
States. The Department notes that ?the economic downturn and the election
of<BR>> the first African American president present unique drivers for
rightwing<BR>> radicalization and recruitment
<http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf>.?<BR>> Recalling the
1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, the Department<BR>>
speculates, ?The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and
the<BR>> return of military veterans facing significant challenges
reintegrating into<BR>> their communities could lead to the potential
emergence of terrorist groups<BR>> or lone wolf extremists capable of
carrying out violent<BR>>
attacks<http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf><BR>> .?<BR>>
<BR>> *April 15, 2009*?Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents
after<BR>> he openly states on Twitter
<http://twitter.com/citizenquasar> that he is<BR>> going to turn the
upcoming Oklahoma City ?Tea Party? into a bloodbath. Two<BR>> months
earlier, Hayden had written online, ?The only thing that is keeping<BR>>
the New World Order from destroying this nation is the presence of
over<BR>> 100,000,000 guns in civilian hands. When guns are outlawed, only
criminals<BR>> will have guns. Since we are already criminals in the eyes
of the New World<BR>> Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and to kill
those of us who will<BR>> NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE gun
"laws" and keep your guns<BR>> (AND ammo)
handy<http://www.jackbloodforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=22193&p=123690#p123690><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *April 19, 2009*?The Oath Keepers
<http://oathkeepers.org/>, an<BR>> anti-government group made up of
current and former law enforcement and<BR>> military personnel, holds its
first "muster" in Lexington, Massachusetts,<BR>> the site of the opening
shots of the Revolutionary War. The groups' members<BR>> pledge to disobey
ten different orders that they deem<BR>>
"unconstitutional<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>"<BR>>
and
"immoral<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>,"<BR>>
the first of which reads, "We will NOT obey orders to disarm the
American<BR>>
people<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *April 25, 2009*?Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the
Florida National<BR>> Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's
deputies attempting to<BR>> arrest him on a domestic abuse charge.
Cartwright is killed in an enusing<BR>> gun battle with police.
Cartwright's wife reports that he was "severely<BR>>
disturbed<http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/cartwright-16963-elizabeth-deputies.html>"<BR>>
that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County Sheriff
Edward<BR>> Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia
groups and weapons<BR>> training
<http://cbs2.com/national/police.shooting.sheriffs.2.995014.html>."<BR>>
<BR>> *May 2009*?Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that
threats<BR>> to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled
in the past<BR>> six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in<BR>>
2008<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402931.html>.<BR>>
Federal officials blame a number of parties, including the "sovereign<BR>>
citizen" movement?an unorganized grouping of tax protesters, white<BR>>
supremacists, and others who don't respect federal authority.<BR>> <BR>>
*May 21-22, 2009*?We The People<BR>>
<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>Chairman Bob Schultz hosts
a<BR>> gathering of 30 "freedom keepers" in Jekyll<BR>> Island, Georgia.
The meeting plays "a key role in launching the current<BR>> resurgence of
militias and the larger anti-government 'Patriot'<BR>>
movement<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>."<BR>>
One of the participants, former Texas militia leader Jon Roland, claims
the<BR>> federal government has "been engaging in warlike activity against
the<BR>> American
people<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *May 31, 2009*?Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George
Tiller, an<BR>> abortion provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran
Church in Wichita,<BR>> Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the
Montana Freemen, a radical<BR>> anti-government group. In April 1996, he
had been pulled over in Topeka,<BR>> Kansas, for driving with a homemade
license plate. Police found a<BR>> military-style rifle, ammunition, a
blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound<BR>> can of gunpowder, and two
9-volt batteries in his car.<BR>> <BR>> *June 3, 2009*?Hal Turner, a New
Jersey resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is arrested
on charges of inciting injury after calling<BR>> for the deaths of two
Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they<BR>> sponsored a
bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman<BR>> Catholic
parishes from priests and bishops to lay members. ?While filing a<BR>>
lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle<BR>>
things<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3>,?<BR>>
he wrote, ?we at TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to
a<BR>> group of tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too
soft.<BR>> Thankfully, the Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to
resolve<BR>> tyranny: The Second Amendment. TRN advocates Catholics in
Connecticut take<BR>> up arms and put down this tyranny by force ... If any
state attorney, police<BR>> department or court thinks they're going to get
uppity with us about this, I<BR>> suspect we have enough bullets to put
them down,<BR>>
too<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *June 10, 2009*?James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and
a ?hardcore<BR>> Neo-Nazi
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/dc.museum.shooting.suspect/>,?<BR>>
walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and
shoots<BR>> and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western
civilization was<BR>> going to be replaced with a ?ONE WORLD
ILLUMINATI<BR>>
GOVERNMENT<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>?<BR>>
that would ?confiscate private<BR>>
weapons<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>?<BR>>
in order to accomplish its goals.*<BR>> *<BR>> *June 24, 2009*?Hal
Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio
host, is arrested again after calling for the murder of three<BR>>
Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who
had<BR>> issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in
Chicago. Writing<BR>> on his blog, Turner says, ?Let me be the first to say
this plainly: these<BR>> judges deserve to be<BR>>
killed<http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/06/hate_blogger_hal_turner_arrest.html>,?<BR>>
and includes photographs, phone numbers, work addresses, and room numbers
of<BR>> the judges, as well as a map of Chicago?s federal courthouse which
points<BR>> out its ?anti-truck bomb? pylons.<BR>> <BR>> *July 13,
2009*?Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County,<BR>>
Texas, with an assault rifle<BR>>
<http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7db_1247676436>. Police<BR>> were
responding to reports that Ortez or his wife had fired shots at
utility<BR>> workers in the area. Police searching Ortez?s mobile home
after a 10-hour<BR>> standoff find more than 100 explosive devices; Nazi
drawings and extremist<BR>> literature; and several additional
firearms.*<BR>> <BR>> July 15, 2009*?Katherine Crabill, a Republican
candidate for the Virginia<BR>> House of Delegates in the state?s 99th
District makes headlines by calling<BR>> on Americans to resist the course
President Obama has set for the country.<BR>> Appearing at a ?Tea Party?
rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick<BR>> Henry and then states,
?We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot<BR>> box before we
have to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our<BR>> Second
Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of<BR>> firearms
for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the<BR>>
Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against<BR>>
tyranny<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604070.html>.?<BR>>
This thought is reinforced on Crabill?s campaign website, where she
states<BR>> the Second Amendment ?was clearly intended for self defense as
well as, and<BR>> more specifically, to keep the government on notice of an
armed<BR>>
citizenry<http://www.catherinecrabill.com/catherine_crabill_for_del/issues/><BR>>
.?*<BR>> <BR>> July 31, 2009*?On WWJB-AM in Hernando County, Florida,
talk radio host Bob<BR>> Haa takes a call from a listener who mentions
ammunition, target practice,<BR>> and Barack
Obama<http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1026150.ece>.<BR>>
Haa<BR>> tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to save it for
the<BR>> administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the Secret
Service.***<BR>> <BR>> August 11, 2009*?William Kostric is filmed openly
carrying a handgun outside<BR>> of President Obama's health care reform
town hall meeting in New<BR>> Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads,
"IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF<BR>> LIBERTY!" a reference to the
following Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of<BR>> liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and<BR>>
tyrants<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/thomas-jefferson-and-the_b_273800.html><BR>>
."*<BR>> <BR>> August 17, 2009*?Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun
and AR-15<BR>> semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in
Phoenix,<BR>> Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW
Convention across<BR>> the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton
states, ?What do you<BR>> think we did in the revolution, in the American
Revolution? The British<BR>> weren't stealing money from us for health
care. They weren't taxing us the<BR>> way they are now back then. And what
did we do? We forcefully kicked them<BR>> out of our country, and *we will
forcefully resist people imposing their<BR>> will on us through the
strength of the majority with a<BR>>
vote*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GiXzpfGhA><BR>> .?<BR>>
<BR>> *<BR>> **August 25, 2009*?During a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls,
Idaho, an audience<BR>> member asks Rex Rammell, a candidate in the 2010
Idaho Republican Primary, a<BR>> question about "Obama tags" during a
discussion about state-issued tags for<BR>> wolf hunting. Rammell responds,
"The Obama tags? We'd buy some of<BR>>
those<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html>."<BR>>
In a subsequent press release, he adds, "Anyone who understands the
law<BR>> knows I was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to
issue hunting<BR>> tags in Washington,<BR>>
D.C.<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html><BR>>
"<BR>> <BR>> *August 26, 2009*?At a secessionist rally on the state
capitol steps in<BR>> Austin, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina
states that, "We are<BR>> aware that stepping off into secession may in
fact be a bloody war. We are<BR>> aware. We understand that the tree of
freedom is occasionally watered with<BR>> the blood of tyrants and<BR>>
patriots<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#32635648><BR>>
.?<BR>> *<BR>> September 9, 2009*?With President Barack Obama at the
U.S. Capitol to<BR>> address a joint session of Congress on the subject of
health care reform,<BR>> Joshua Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia,
attempts to drive his Honda<BR>> Civic into a secure area near the
building. U.S. Capitol Police stop him<BR>> and, searching his vehicle,
find a rifle, a shotgun, and 500 rounds of<BR>>
ammunition<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/josh-bowman-man-with-gun-_n_282397.html>.<BR>>
He<BR>> is arrested on weapons charges.<BR>> <BR>> *September 25-26,
2009*?Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at the ?How to Take Back<BR>> America?
Conference in St. Louis, tells her audience, ?If we had our guns<BR>>
[during the time of the Nazis? reign in Germany], we would have fought
a<BR>> bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and
buy<BR>> ammunition. Take back America. Don?t let them take the country
into<BR>> Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler?s party was National
Socialism. And<BR>> that?s what we are having here right now, which is
bordering on<BR>>
Marxism<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/28/werthmann-nazism-socialism/><BR>>
.?*<BR>> <BR>> September 28, 2009*?Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the Chairman
of the Second<BR>> Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of
Representatives, calls House<BR>> Speaker Nancy Pelosi a ?domestic enemy of
the<BR>>
Constitution<http://blogs.onlineathens.com/node/1425>?<BR>> at a
health care reform town hall meeting.<BR>> <BR>> *September 29,
2009*?An<BR>>
editorial<http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/newsmax-20090929-perry_coup.pdf>at<BR>>
the Newsmax website calls for a military coup to oust President Obama.<BR>>
<BR>> *September 30, 2009*?The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a talk radio
program<BR>> on Sirus, takes a call from ?Jim? from Oklahoma, who claims
that he and 200<BR>> others are meeting weekly to stage a coup against
President Obama. Jim says<BR>> they want to restore their "a right to bear
arms" and bring the country back<BR>> to where it was 400 years ago, before
slavery was abolished.<BR>> <BR>> *October 18-19, 2009*?Reports emerge
that the Secret Service has received an<BR>> unprecedented number of death
threats against President<BR>>
Obama<http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/new-report-find-secret-service-overwhelmed-by-increased-threats.php>.<BR>>
Ronald<BR>> Kessler's account of presidential security, *In the President's
Secret<BR>>
Service<http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Secret-Service-Behind-Protect/dp/0307461351><BR>>
*, states that there has been a 400% increase in such threats in
comparison<BR>> with Obama?s predecessor. Another source of these reports
is an August 5,<BR>> 2009 study by the Congressional Research Service which
finds: ?The [Secret]<BR>> Service?s protection mission has increased and
become more ?urgent? due to<BR>> the increase in terrorist threats and the
expanded arsenal of weapons that<BR>> terrorists could use in an
assassination attempt or attacks on facilities.?<BR>> <BR>> *October 21,
2009*?John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard,<BR>> is
arrested for making terroristic threats against President<BR>>
Obama<http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/nation/newark-security-guard-john-brek-arraigned-on-3-charges-for-threats-against-president-obama>.<BR>>
Authorities<BR>> find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a
stolen rifle. Brek, a<BR>> National Rifle Association member, is also found
to be in possession of<BR>> illegal hollow point bullets.<BR>> <BR>>
*November 2009?*Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County,
Missouri,<BR>> that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges
Missourians to<BR>> "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt
government. The<BR>> billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County
Republicans<BR>>
website<http://lafayettecountyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-i-70-billboard-replaces-famed.html><BR>>
.<BR>> <BR>> *November 11-22, 2009?*More than 100 delegates from across
the country<BR>> attend a "Continental Congress" hosted by We The<BR>>
People<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>.<BR>> Attendees include
Neo-Confederate secessionists, "Common Law Court"<BR>> enthusiasts,
adherents of the "Sovereign Citizens" movement, militia<BR>> backers, and
other radicals. Planned at an earlier May meeting in Jekyll<BR>> Island,
the Congress issues a document entitled the "Articles of<BR>>
Freedom<http://www.alamogordo2atf.com/AOF_20100128.pdf>"<BR>> which
declares that the federal government "now threatens our Life, Liberty<BR>>
and Property through usurpations of the<BR>>
Constitution<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias><BR>>
."*<BR>> <BR>> **November 29, 2009?*Conservative web publisher Andrew
Breitbart<BR>> tweets, "Capital<BR>> punishment for Dr James Hansen.
Climategate is high<BR>>
treason<http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911290004>."<BR>> Hansen, who
heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is a noted<BR>>
researcher on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who
has<BR>> called for public policies to mitigate the effects of global
warming.<BR>> *<BR>> December 23, 2009**?*Warren "Gator" Taylor takes
three people hostage at a<BR>> federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia.
He is armed with four guns,<BR>> including a .40-caliber Glock pistol,
despite a criminal record that<BR>> includes convictions for lewd and
lascivious beheavior with a 13 year-old<BR>> and attempted second-degree
murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a<BR>> parking lot in 1993).
Taylor fires at least three rounds before the<BR>> stand-off ends,
including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of<BR>> Taylor's
hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the government<BR>>
taking over the right to bear<BR>>
arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091225/ap_on_re_us/us_hostage_situation_post_office><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *January 2010**?*A group of nearly 200 "extremely
concerned citizens" in<BR>> Ravalli County, Montana, demand that local
elected officials fill out a "<BR>> questionnaire
<http://ravallirepublic.com/123/militia_petition/petition.pdf>"<BR>>
pledging to form a local militia, prohibit mandatory vaccinations,
allow<BR>> citizens to bear any type of firearms they choose (including
fully automatic<BR>> machine guns), and require federal government
employees to get written<BR>> approval before approaching "any Citizen" in
the county. The questionnaire<BR>> is organized in part by Celebrating
Conservatism, a group with direct ties<BR>> to the militia
movement<http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2009/08/18/conservatismor-extremism><BR>>
.<BR>> *<BR>> January 2, 2010**?*More than 300 people attend a rally in
Alamogordo, New<BR>> Mexico, organized by the local Otero Tea Party
Patriots and Second Amendment<BR>> Task Force
<http://www.alamogordo2atf.org/>. The purpose of the rally is to<BR>>
protest health care reform, and many of the rally's participants
openly<BR>> carry handguns and/or rifles. One attendee states that his
handgun is a ?very<BR>> open threat
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>? to the ?socialist<BR>>
communists <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>? in the
Obama<BR>> Administration. ?The government fears the people, and a disarmed
people are<BR>> slaves <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>,?
he says. ?Political<BR>> power comes from the barrel of a gun ... They?re
pushing us to our<BR>>
limits<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc><BR>> .?<BR>>
<BR>> *January 12, 2010**?*Mark Campano of Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not
guilty<BR>> to charges of possessing destructive devices not registered
with the federal<BR>> government. Law enforcement are called to Campano's
apartment in November<BR>> 2009 after he accidentally detonates a pipe bomb
and loses parts of two<BR>> fingers. They find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and
handguns, and hundreds of<BR>> rounds of ammunition in the dwelling.
Campano's next-door neighbor states, "He<BR>> was always trying to get me
and another neighbor to listen to<BR>> anti-government tapes and watch
anti-government videos ... He was some kind<BR>> of radical, and he didn't
believe in the<BR>>
government<http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/law_enforcement_investigating.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *January 12, 2010**?*Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former
Marine with ties to<BR>> Tea Parties and far-right-wing organizations like
Oath<BR>> Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>,<BR>> is arrested
at his home on charges of raping a 7 year old-girl. Sheriff's<BR>> deputies
find several firearms inside Dyer's home and a Colt M-203 40mm<BR>> grenade
launcher, which was stolen from a military base in Fort Irwin,<BR>>
California, in 2006. Dyer had been an organizer of militia groups in<BR>>
Oklahoma and told one interviewer, "I'm going to use my training and
become<BR>> one of those domestic terrorists that you're so afraid of from
the<BR>> [Department of Homeland Security (DHS)]<BR>>
reports<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CNNiGwUDJs>."<BR>> In another
video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly calling patriots,<BR>> veterans,
and constitutionalists a threat, all that I have to say is you?re<BR>> damn
right we're a threat. We're a threat to anyone that endangers our<BR>>
rights and the Constitution of this<BR>>
republic<http://www.irehr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43:tea-partying-militia-leader-arrested-for-rape-possessing-a-grenade-launcher&catid=9:news&Itemid=23><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *February 9, 2010**?*Gregory Girard of Manchester,
Massachusetts, is<BR>> arrested for weapons charges after police find 20
firearms, thousands of<BR>> rounds of ammunition, and explosive devices in
his home. Girard's wife says<BR>> that her husband recently told her,
"Don't talk to people, shoot them<BR>> instead
<http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_041222314.html>."<BR>>
In a January 30 post at a popular website affiliated with the Tea
Party<BR>> movement, Girard stated: "We have been in a state of war and
state of<BR>> emergency of some time for decades uninterupted ... The
entire body of these<BR>> War Powers and 'continuity of gov't' plans render
our concept of a<BR>> Constitutional Republic to be little more than thin
veil of civility and<BR>> justice layered over a monsterous, diabolic
dictatorship that would break<BR>> out of political cage but for Americans
vigorously exercising their 2nd<BR>> Amendment rights ... As it stands
today at start of 2010, there is never a<BR>> time that our gov't would
find itself without some excuse, no matter how<BR>> perverse, as the
justification for unleashing their murderous 'War Powers'<BR>> monster upon
the public, in an attempt to subject us to<BR>>
tyranny<http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2734278%3ABlogPost%3A154819&commentId=2734278%3AComment%3A154896&xg_source=activity><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *February 13, 2010**?*An unidentified speaker at an event
organized by the<BR>> Lewis and Clark Tea Party Patriots in Asotin County,
Washington, tells the<BR>> audience, "How many of you have watched the
movie "Lonesome Dove"? What<BR>> happened to Jake when he ran with the
wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's<BR>> what I want to do with
[Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty<BR>>
Murray<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/idaho-tea-party-speaker-h_n_466261.html?ref=fb><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *February 18, 2010**?*Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies
a single-engine<BR>> plane into an office building containing nearly 200
IRS employees, killing<BR>> one and wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack
lays out his grievances with<BR>> the federal tax agency, stating, "The law
'requires' a signature on the<BR>> bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can
say truthfully that they understand<BR>> what they are signing; if that's
not 'duress' than what is. If this is not<BR>> the measure of a
totalitarian regime, nothing is ... Violence not only is<BR>> the answer,
it is the only<BR>>
answer<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/joe-stack-statement-alleg_n_467539.html?page=1><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *February 19, 2010**?*Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville,
Kentucky, is arrested<BR>> and charged with making threats against the
president after his poem titled<BR>> "The Sniper" is found on the website
NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S.<BR>> Secret Service. The poem reads, in
part: "As the tyrant enters his cross<BR>> hairs the breath he takes is
deep. His focus is square on the target as he<BR>> begins to release. A
patriot for his people he knows this shot will cost his<BR>> life. But for
his race and their existence it is a small sacrifice. The<BR>> bullet that
he has chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration<BR>> on
the casing reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the
trigger<BR>> releasing all his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as
he seals that<BR>> monkey's fate. The bullet screams toward its mark
bringing with it death.<BR>> And where there was once a face there is
nothing left. Two blood covered<BR>> agents stare in horror and dismay.
Looking down toward the ground where<BR>> their president now
lay<http://www.wlky.com/download/2010/0219/22615404.pdf><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *February 2010**?*Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty
soldier at Fort<BR>> Drum and member of Oath Keepers
<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>, tells a<BR>> reporter that he and
five fellow service members at the Army base are<BR>> preparing to take on
the U.S. government when it declares martial law, and<BR>> will turn their
guns on their fellow soldiers should it become necessary. "I<BR>> know
their tactics
<http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers>,"<BR>> says
Pray. "I know how they...work their convoys?if we attack this vehicle,<BR>>
what the others will do ... If the government continues to ignore us,
and<BR>> forces us to engage, I'm willing to fight to the<BR>>
death<http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *March 2010**?*The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
announces that 2009<BR>> saw a dramatic increase in the number of new
anti-government "Patriot"<BR>> groups in the United States. Specifically,
the number of Patriot groups<BR>> jumped from 149 (including 42 militias)
to 512 (127 of them militias) in<BR>> 2009*?*a 244%
jump<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right><BR>>
.<BR>> <BR>> *March 2, 2010**?*FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly,
speaking about<BR>> the *McDonald<BR>> v. Chicago *case before the
Supreme Court, declares that plaintiff Otis<BR>> McDonald's inability to
own a handgun in Chicago amounts to<BR>>
"tyranny<http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."<BR>>
Predicting that four justices on the Court will side with the city of<BR>>
Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's interesting that in America today the
far<BR>> Left that wants the government to call the shots, not the folks.
In the<BR>> past, Right-Wing extremists like Hitler and Mussolini were in
the forefront<BR>> of state control. But with the exception of Burma,
today's totalitarians are<BR>> primarily on the Left
<http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."<BR>> <BR>>
*March 4, 2010**?*John Patrick Bedell, a California resident, travels
to<BR>> Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the
entrance to<BR>> the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic
firearms and "many<BR>> [ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two
officers before he is killed by<BR>> return fire. Reports reveals Bedell to
be a Truther who believed that the<BR>> U.S. government had been taken over
by a criminal organization in a 1963<BR>> coup. In an Internet posting, he
writes, "This organization, like so many<BR>> murderous governments
throughout history, would see the sacrifice of<BR>> thousands of its
citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as<BR>> a small
cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric<BR>>
control<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCKwXk17aAr3T_8Z9nN4iUwQPnngD9E8KP283><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *March 19-22, 2010**?*During consideration of health care
reform legislation<BR>> by the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals
attack Democratic offices in<BR>> Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas;
Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New<BR>> York; and Rochester, New York. Mike
Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the<BR>> Alabama Constitutional
Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting<BR>> a blog on March
19 that states, "If we break the windows of hundreds,<BR>> thousands, of
Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might<BR>> just make
up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a<BR>> rifle
unnecessary<http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html>."<BR>>
Several Democratic members receive death threats, including Rep.
Louise<BR>> Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will "kill the children
of the members<BR>> who voted YES
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>"; Rep.<BR>>
Bart Stupak (D-MI), who receives a message saying, "You're dead; we
know<BR>> where you live; we'll get<BR>>
you<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>";<BR>> and
Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller, "Better<BR>>
hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a<BR>>
gun<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/markey-got-threatening-phone-calls-before-vote.php>."<BR>>
House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus<BR>>
(D-OH), says he "may be a dead<BR>>
man<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html><BR>>
."*<BR>> <BR>> March 21, 2010**?*As the U.S. House of Representatives
enters a final round<BR>> of debate over a controversial health care reform
bill, Conservative blogger<BR>> Solomon "Solly" Forrell calls for the
assassination of President Barack<BR>> Obama on his Twitter account. In two
separate postings, Forrel writes,<BR>> "ASSASSINATION!<BR>> America, we
survived the #Assassinations of #Lincoln & #Kennedy. We'll<BR>> surely
get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next #American with<BR>> a
#Clear #Shot should drop #Obama like a bad<BR>>
habit<http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-secret-service-is-investigating-a-conservative-bloggers-oba/19408303/><BR>>
."<BR>> *<BR>> March 21, 2010**?*Russell Laing, 52, is charged with
aggravated assault and<BR>> making terroristic threats after a four-hour
standoff with police at his<BR>> home in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers
were responding to a 911 call<BR>> after Laing called a friend and said he
couldn't walk. When police responded<BR>> to the call, Laing pointed an
assault rifle at them and cocked the weapon.<BR>> After Laing was arrested,
officers recovered approximately 150 guns and<BR>> 15,000 rounds of
ammunition from Laing's one-bedroom apartment. "I can't<BR>> explain it. In
my 40 years, I've not seen that type of<BR>>
collection<http://www.wpxi.com/news/22903086/detail.html>,"<BR>> said
McCandless Police Chief Gary Anderson.<BR>> <BR>> *March 23,
2010**?*After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel<BR>> Coleman
of the Danville Tea Party post the home address of the brother of<BR>> Rep.
Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge supporters to "drop<BR>>
by<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34843.html>,"<BR>>
someone deliberately<BR>>
cuts<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35040.html>a
propane<BR>> gas line at the house. Rep. Perriello is targeted by the Tea
Party<BR>> activists because of his vote in favor of health care reform.
Perriello's<BR>> brother and his wife have four children under the age of
eight.<BR>> *<BR>> March 24, 2010**?*After voting for health care reform
legislation, Rep. Bart<BR>> Stupak
(D-MI)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/stupak-receives-threatening-fax-with-drawing-of-noose.php>and<BR>>
Rep.<BR>> James Clyburn
(D-SC)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/clyburn-says-photo-of-noose-faxed-to-his-office-after-hcr-vote-video.php>receive<BR>>
faxes with drawings of nooses.<BR>> <BR>> *March 25, 2010**?*Rep.
Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who voted for health care<BR>> reform legislation,
receives a package containing white powder and an angry<BR>> letter telling
him to "drop<BR>>
dead<http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/White-Powder-Package-Sent-to-Congressman-Weiners-Office-89136827.html>."<BR>>
<BR>> *March 26, 2010**?*Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health care
reform<BR>> legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that it
will take a<BR>> few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has
selected you for<BR>> assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in
Washington, D.C., we will<BR>> get you in Little<BR>>
Rock<http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=121037.54928.133165><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *March 26, 2010**?*NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the
following comment<BR>> on FOX News' "Your World" program: ?I?m the expert
on the health care bill<BR>> because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster
big pig here in Texas and<BR>> seeing as how this is a pig bill created by
pig bureaucrats to help out<BR>> American pigs ? We gotta? kill the<BR>>
pig<http://video.foxnews.com/v/4125942/nugent-new-independence-day-in-november?category_id=86858><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *March 29, 2010**?*A Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman
Leboon, is charged<BR>> with threatening the life of Virginia Rep. Eric
Cantor (R-VA). Leboon, 38,<BR>> is arrested by the FBI after posting a
YouTube video in which he referred to<BR>> Cantor's family and
threatened,"bulllets...will be placed in your<BR>>
heads<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-the-fbi-busts-youtube-terrorists-in-under-a-day.ars>."<BR>>
Leboon made hundreds of YouTube videos with anti-government themes,
and<BR>> threatened others, including President Barack Obama, the
Democratic<BR>> Leadership in Congress, and the Pope. Leboon has a long
history of mental<BR>> illness, but was able to obtain a concealed handgun
permit in<BR>>
Pennsylvania<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100329_Phila__man_charged_with_threatening_GOP_congressman.html>,<BR>>
which alarmed his family.<BR>> <BR>> *March 29, 2010**?*Nine members of
the MIchigan-based "Hutaree" Christian<BR>> militia are arrested and
charged with seditious conspiracy and attempting to<BR>> deploy weapons of
mass destruction. The group had allegedly plotted to kill<BR>> a law
enforcement officer and then detonate improvised explosive devices<BR>>
(IEDs) during the officer's funeral procession. The group targeted
federal<BR>> officials, members of the law enforcement<BR>>
"brotherhood<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html>"<BR>>
and other participants in the "New World<BR>>
Order<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *March 30, 2010**?*Dozens of sitting governors receive
letters from an<BR>> extremist anti-government group called the Guardians
of the Free<BR>>
Republics<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/front-page.html>.<BR>>
The letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or
"they<BR>> will be
removed<http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2136993,extremist-group-governors-removal-040210.article>"<BR>>
from office. A page on the group's website entitled "Rationale" reads,
"For<BR>> those who are concerned about opening the door to satanic forces,
permit me<BR>> to reassure you. The Guardian Elders deliberated with great
sobriety the<BR>> wisdom of sitting on our hands while the march to World
War III<BR>>
continues<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/rationale.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *April 1, 2010**?*CNN commentator Erick Erickson,
questioning the legality<BR>> of the U.S. Census Bureau?s American
Community Survey (ACS), makes the<BR>> following comment on WMAC-AM radio:
?We have become, or are becoming,<BR>> enslaved by the government ... I
dare ?em to try to come throw me in jail. I<BR>> dare ?em to. [I?ll] pull
out my wife?s shotgun and see how that little ACS<BR>> twerp likes being
scared at the door. They?re not going on my<BR>>
property<http://www.macon.com/2010/04/06/1084164/erickson-draws-fire-for-gun-comment.html><BR>>
.?<BR>> <BR>> *April 1-20, 2010**?*Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of
American Grand Jury<BR>> (AGJ) <http://americangrandjury.org/>,
attempts to effect a citizen's arrest<BR>> on grand jury foreman Gary
Pettway at the Monroe County courthouse in<BR>> Madisonville, Tennessee,
and is arrested. Nineteen days later, on the day<BR>> that Fitzpatrick is
scheduled to face trial, Oath<BR>>
Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>member Darren Huff is pulled
over<BR>> by Tennessee state troopers as he attempts<BR>> to drive to
the courthouse to arrest county officials he calls "domestic<BR>> enemies
of the United States engaged in<BR>>
treason<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/right-wing_extremists_take_on_local_law_enforcemen.php?ref=mp>."<BR>>
Huff is armed with a Colt-45 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with
300-400<BR>> rounds of ammunition. He is indicted on federal charges of
traveling in<BR>> interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and
transporting in<BR>> commerce a firearm in furtherance of a civil
disorder.<BR>> <BR>> *April 6, 2010**?*Authorities charge Charles Alan
Wilson of Selah,<BR>> Washington, with threatening a federal official after
Wilson makes several<BR>> phone calls to the office of Sen. Patty Murray
(D-WA). Wilson, a concealed<BR>> handgun permit holder in Washington, was
angry about Sen. Murray's vote for<BR>> health care reform legislation and
told her she had "a target on her<BR>>
back.<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html>"<BR>> He
also told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk, and
some<BR>> bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at
risk, dear<BR>> ... I hope somebody puts a...bullet between<BR>>
your...eyes<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html?source=mypi><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *April 7, 2010**?*Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San
Francisco, California, is<BR>> arrested for making threatening phone calls
to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<BR>> (D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi
dozens of times, recited her home<BR>> address, and told her that if she
wanted to see it again, she should drop<BR>> her support for health care
reform legislation. Giusti had a "history of<BR>> mental health problems
<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>" and his<BR>> mother
indicated he was influenced by "Fox News and all of those that are<BR>>
really radical <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>."<BR>>
<BR>> *April 7, 2010**?*Brody James Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and
arrested on<BR>> charges including two counts of aggravated assault on a
law enforcement<BR>> officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting to elude.
The charges stem from<BR>> an incident on March 25, 2010 in which police
attempted to pull Whitaker<BR>> over for a traffic violation on I-75 in
Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led<BR>> officers on a high-speed chase,
fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun, and<BR>> escaped capture. During
his arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the<BR>> authority of the judge
and states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American<BR>>
citizen<http://articles.courant.com/2010-04-07/business/hc-manhunt-winsted-0406_1_troopers-state-police-bail>."<BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> *April 10, 2010**?*At a "Second Amendment March" organized
by the Connecticut<BR>> Citizens Defense League
<http://www.ccdl.us/>, Martha Dean, the<BR>> Republican-endorsed
candidate for Attorney General in Connecticut, tells<BR>> those in
attendance, "If government is legitimate and truly is the voice of<BR>> the
people, it need never fear the people themselves when they?re armed.<BR>>
Only a government that uses secrecy and force to impose improper laws
[to]<BR>> which the people do not consent need fear the wrath of its
law-abiding<BR>> citizens at the ballot box or, ultimately, with arms ? Our
right of free<BR>> speech and to back it up with arms if necessary if our
government becomes<BR>> tyrannical and unjust as King George?s was to the
colonists are the most<BR>> essential of the rights we as Americans have
... I will oppose all efforts<BR>> to create nonsensical distinctions that
are nowhere supported by our<BR>> constitutions between different types of
firearms. Nowhere in the<BR>> Constitution does it say that the government
gets the effective firearms and<BR>> the people the ineffective ones.
Nowhere in our Constitution does it say<BR>> that the government gets the
modern firearms and the citizens only get the<BR>> antiquated
ones<http://aconnecticutlawblog.com/2010/06/martha-deans-land-of-screwy-habits/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *April 13, 2010**?*Reports surface that state Sen. Randy
Brogdon (R-OK) and<BR>> Rep. Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea
Party groups to discuss<BR>> the formation of a new "volunteer<BR>>
militia<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>"<BR>>
to defend against what they see as improprer federal infringements on
state<BR>> sovereignty. Brogdon states that the Founding Fathers "were not
referring to<BR>> a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren't even
talking about us<BR>> having the ability to protect ourselves against each
other. The Second<BR>> Amendment deals directly with the right of an
individual to keep and bear<BR>> arms to protect themselves from an
overreaching federal<BR>>
government<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>."<BR>>
One Tea Party leader involved in these meetings, J.W. Berry of the<BR>>
Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the Militia to "launch a
thousand<BR>> guerrilla attacks on the plans that these people have to ruin
us and our<BR>>
country<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_TQvZwccGEcJ:www.okfortea.com/documents/NewsLetterNo4.doc+site:okfortea.com+militia&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *April 19, 2010**?*Pro-gun activists conduct two rallies
in the Washington,<BR>> D.C. area to demonstrate their opposition to an
"oppressive, totalitarian<BR>> government
<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36108>." Among the<BR>>
featured speakers at the events are current and former militia leaders
and<BR>> others with ties to extreme, anti-government groups. The choice of
date is<BR>> significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary of the first
shots being<BR>> fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of
Lexington/Concord, the<BR>> fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and
the 1995 bombing of the<BR>> Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy
McVeigh. At the "Second<BR>> Amendment March" in the District of Columbia,
Larry Pratt, the Executive<BR>> Director of Gun Owners of America, states,
"We're in a war. The other side<BR>> knows they are at war, because they
started it. They are coming for our<BR>> freedom, for our money, for our
kids, for our property. They are coming for<BR>> everything because they
are a bunch of<BR>>
Socialists<http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/19/second.amendment.rally/>."<BR>>
Mike Vanderboegh, who made national headlines after taking credit for<BR>>
several instances of vandalism at Democratic offices following votes
on<BR>> health care reform legislation, is the featured speaker at a rally
in Fort<BR>> Hunt National Park in Virginia, where he tells attendees,
"Whenever the<BR>> legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the
property of the people, or<BR>> to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary
power, they put themselves into a<BR>> state of war with the people, who
are thereupon absolved from any further<BR>> obedience ... This is what the
other side doesn?t understand! We are doing<BR>> backing up! Done! Not one
more inch<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAJDVEpsdQ><BR>> ."<BR>>
<BR>> *May 4, 2010**?*A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event asks
speaker<BR>> Rep. Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has
done to leave us<BR>> vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us
vulnerable to outside<BR>> enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would
he have to do differently<BR>> to be defined as a domestic<BR>>
enemy?<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>"<BR>>
After smiling and stating that "no one thinks that the president is a<BR>>
domestic enemy
<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>,"<BR>>
Cantor is booed by several members of the audience.<BR>> <BR>> *May 6,
2010**?*Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican candidate in South<BR>>
Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a YouTube video where she
holds<BR>> an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers, "Why do we have the
Second<BR>> Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all of our other rights
... The<BR>> Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution, plainly, to
ensure that our<BR>> limited government stayed limited and that we would be
able to enforce those<BR>> limitations if need be ... We are a sovereign
people. A sovereign people is<BR>> an armed people
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHJihLaQBw>."<BR>> <BR>> *May 15,
2010**?*At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in<BR>>
Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential nominee hopeful
Newt<BR>> Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment is not in
defense of<BR>> hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not
in defense of<BR>> collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of
freedom from the<BR>>
State<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0>."<BR>>
He goes on to make the following reference to Thomas Jefferson's "The
tree<BR>> of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots<BR>> and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's historically honest has to
admit [the<BR>> Founding Fathers] understood the right to bear arms because
they routinely<BR>> carried arms. These were tough people in a tough time
in a tough country<BR>> doing tough things and the idea that they would
allow some D.C. city<BR>> government or some Washington federal bureaucrat
to get between them and<BR>> their Constitutional rights, they would have
said in Jefferson's terms was<BR>> the legitimate justification for a
political revolution in every generation<BR>> which was what Jefferson
thought was inevitable to clean out the corruption,<BR>> the arrogance, and
the obsolenscence that government would invariably<BR>>
have<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *May 15, 2010**?*Referring to a controversial new
anti-immigration law in<BR>> Arizona, FOX News personality Glenn Beck tells
the 2010 NRA Convention, "Let's<BR>> talk a minute about a 'well-regulated
militia' and why you might need one<BR>> because the government isn't doing
their job. Let's meet people in Texas,<BR>> Arizona and
California<http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/appearances/Glenn-Beck-2010-NRA-Speech/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *May 20, 2010**?*Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son Joseph
Kane, 16, fatally<BR>> shoot two Arkansas police officers with AK-47
assault rifles during a<BR>> routine traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West
Memphis. The Kanes are killed<BR>> during an exchange of gunfire with
police in a Walmart parking lot 90<BR>> minutes
later<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/kane_west_memphis_arkansas_shootings.php>.<BR>>
Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long<BR>>
history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for
driving<BR>> with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane
considered himself a<BR>> "sovereign citizen" and ran a business that
centered on debt-avoidance<BR>> scams.<BR>> <BR>> *May 27,
2010**?*The *Washington Times* publishes an editorial claiming that<BR>> a
United Nations treaty seeking to curb the international, illicit trade
in<BR>> smalls arms "would necessarily lead to confication of
personal<BR>>
firearms<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/>"<BR>>
in the United States. The editorial goes on to say, "Not all
insurgencies<BR>> are bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a
despotic regime is<BR>> to rise up against it. That threat is why
authoritarian regimes such as<BR>> Syria, Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe,
and Sierra Leone endorse gun control<BR>> ... Governments are a bigger
threat to most people than their<BR>>
neighbors<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *May 30, 2010**?*Sharron Angle, a candidate for the
Republican nomination<BR>> for U.S. Senator in Nevada, tells the *Reno
Gazette-Journal* that a recent<BR>> increase in gun sales nationwide "tells
me that the nation is arming. What<BR>> are they arming for if it isn't
that they are so distrustful of government?<BR>> They're afraid they'll
have to fight for their liberty in more Second<BR>> Amendment kinds
of<BR>>
ways<http://www.rgj.com/article/20100530/NEWS19/5300350/1232/Sharron-Angle-s-conservative-credentials-wins-support-of-activist-army>."<BR>>
These comments echo ones made by Angle in January, when she told<BR>>
conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson, "You know, our Founding<BR>>
Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and
that<BR>> was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical
government.<BR>> And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country
to have a<BR>> revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're
going, but, you<BR>> know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is,
people are really looking<BR>> toward those Second Amendment remedies and
saying my goodness what can we do<BR>> to turn this country around? I'll
tell you the first thing we need to do is<BR>> take [U.S. Senator from
Nevada] Harry Reid<BR>>
out<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/sharron_angle_floated_possibil.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *May 31, 2010**?*Oath Keeper
<http://oathkeepers.org/> Rex Nichols, a<BR>> candidate for sheriff
in Montana's Lincoln County, makes reference to<BR>> federal agents'
standoffs at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993 and<BR>> promises to keep
them out of the county if elected. "I am going to take my<BR>> deputies and
stand in the middle of the road and tell them to get the hell<BR>>
out<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80>,"<BR>>
says Nichols. "And if they want a war, they got<BR>>
it<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *June 2010**?*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking
the Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District,
runs a campaign ad in<BR>> which he dicusses contemporary political issues
with America's Founding<BR>> Fathers. After Barber states "I would
impeach<BR>>
him<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>"<BR>>
and rails about the "progressive income<BR>>
tax<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>,"<BR>>
the Internal Revenue Service, and health care reform, a Founding
Father<BR>> replies, "Gather your<BR>>
armies<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>."<BR>>
Several Founding Fathers are depicted as being armed with pistols.<BR>>
*<BR>> June 9, 2010**?*Addressing the Obama administration and the<BR>>
Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck says, "Tea<BR>>
parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the<BR>>
principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them.
Shoot<BR>> me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot
me in the<BR>> head if you try to change our government. I will stand
against you and so<BR>> will millions of others. We believe in something.
You in the media and most<BR>> in Washington don't. The radicals that you
and Washington have co-opted and<BR>> brought in wearing sheep's
clothing?change the pose. You will get the ends.<BR>> You've been using
them? They believe in communism. They believe and have<BR>> called for a
revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the<BR>>
head<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101220005><BR>> ."<BR>>
<BR>> *June 9, 2010**?*Justine Haynes, 31, of Phoenix is charged with
threatening<BR>> to kill a federal official after making two calls to the
office of U.S. Rep.<BR>> Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). Haynes was incensed over
Grijalva's opposition to<BR>> Arizona's controversial new immigration law
and threatened to come to the<BR>> Congressman's office and ?blow
everyone's head<BR>>
off<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36281.html><BR>>
."<BR>> *<BR>> **June 27, 2010**?*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate
seeking the Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional
District, runs a campaign ad in<BR>> which he compares taxation and "the
tyrannical health care<BR>>
bill<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"<BR>> to slavery and
the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in<BR>> perilous times
... We are all becoming slaves to our<BR>>
government<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>,"<BR>> Barber
warns. The "army of
voters<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"<BR>> depicted in
the ad includes individuals who are openly armed with guns. In a<BR>>
follow-up editorial in the *Washington Post*, Barber makes reference to
"the<BR>> possibility of evil conducted on a grand<BR>>
scale<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>"<BR>>
and states, "Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ... The road to<BR>>
serfdom is a long one, but I fear that we are well on the<BR>>
way<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>."<BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> *July 2, 2010**?*The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends
sales tax<BR>> collections at the state's gun shows because of
"increasing<BR>>
animosity<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html>"<BR>>
toward field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's Excise
Tax<BR>> Division, cites one particular incident at a gun show that
"crossed the<BR>> line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at gun
shows than any place<BR>> ... I have 10 field reps throughout the state,
and every one of them has<BR>> experienced some animosity ... I don't want
to put my people at<BR>>
risk<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *July 3, 2010**?*Joyce Kaufman, a conservative radio hosts
on WFTL in<BR>> Florida, tells a crowd of supporters at a Fort Lauderdale
Tea Party event, ?I<BR>> am convinced that the most important thing the
Founding Fathers did to<BR>> ensure me my First Amendments rights was they
gave me a Second Amendment.<BR>> And if ballots don?t work, bullets will.
This is the standoff. When I say<BR>> I?ll put my microphone down on
November 2nd if we haven?t achieved<BR>> substantial victory, I mean it.
Because if at that point I?m going to up<BR>> into the hills of Kentucky,
I?m going to go out into the Midwest, I?m going<BR>> to go up in the
Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I?m going to gather<BR>> together
men and women who understand that some things are worth fighting<BR>> for
and some things are worth dying<BR>>
for<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs><BR>> .?<BR>>
<BR>> *July 6, 2010**?*Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of<BR>>
America<http://gunowners.org/>,<BR>> tells *Religion Dispatches*, "If
you have a people that has basically been<BR>> disarmed by the civil
government, then there really isn't any effectual<BR>> means available to
the people to restore law and liberty and that's really<BR>> the purpose of
the right to keep and bear arms?is to defend yourself against<BR>> a
tyrant<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>."<BR>>
Titus goes on to cite the "totalitarian<BR>>
threat<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"<BR>>
posed by
"Obamacare<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"<BR>>
and "what Sarah Palin said about the death<BR>>
panels<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *July 11, 2010?*Supporters of Tea Party candidate Joe
Miller openly carry<BR>> assault rifles and handguns during a community
parade in Eagle River and<BR>> Chugiak, Alaska, while young children march
alongside<BR>>
them<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAGdoBcnjWQ>.<BR>> Miller, who is
running against Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican<BR>> primary, was
endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who described<BR>> him as a
?true Commonsense Constitutional<BR>>
Conservative<http://community.adn.com/node/151885>.?<BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> *July 18, 2010?*California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron
Williams,<BR>> 45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds
are fired.<BR>> Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for
speeding and weaving in<BR>> and out of traffic when he opened fire on them
with a handgun and a long<BR>> gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot
several times, but survives<BR>> because he is wearing body armor.
Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that<BR>> he was on his way to San
Francisco to "start a<BR>>
revolution<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/21/MNMN1EHB37.DTL>"<BR>>
by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother
says<BR>> her son was angry at "Left-wing<BR>>
politicians<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/>"<BR>>
and upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these
Left-wing<BR>> agenda
items<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *July 26, 2010?*A proposed ordinance that would prohibit
residents from<BR>> firing air rifles and other low-powered weapons within
500 feet of a<BR>> building (unless fired in a target range) is pulled from
consideration in<BR>> Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, after the Board of
Supervisors receives a<BR>> number of angry and threatening phone calls
from gun owners. Citing a<BR>> National Rifle Association "Action Alert"
that claimed Exeter supervisors<BR>> were "consider[ing] a broad and
overreaching attack on our Second Amendment<BR>> freedoms
<http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>," Exeter
Township<BR>> Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This was totally
false information<BR>> that was put out. The anger was building, and I was
concerned that someone<BR>> might actually get hurt
<http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>."<BR>> <BR>>
*July 28, 2010?*U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down his district<BR>>
office in Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole in one of
the<BR>> office's windows. Authorities also<BR>>
report<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40423.html>that
U.S.<BR>> Judge Susan Bolton receives hundreds of threats at her
Phoenix<BR>> offices after issuing an injunction on Arizona's controversial
new<BR>> immigration law.<BR>> <BR>> *July 29, 2010?*Jack Dailey, the
founder of the Appleseed Project (which is<BR>> dedicated to teaching every
American how to fire a bullet through a man-size<BR>> target out to 500
yards), explains that Americans should own an AR-15<BR>> assault rifle
"because they want to tell us what to do. And we don't want<BR>> them to
tell us what to<BR>>
do<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all>."<BR>>
James Faire, an Appleseed trainer, states that, "the government has
quite<BR>> literally become tyrannical. It is fulfilling the principles
outlined in *The<BR>> Communist Manifesto*. It's completely out of control
from city to state to<BR>> federal to international law. All predicate
their existence on plundering<BR>> the individual and his rights. The only
thing to do now is to organize<BR>> citizens into a militia to abolish
this<BR>>
government<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *July 30, 2010?*Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake, 64,
is charged with<BR>> robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake allegedly
shot Getgen to death<BR>> at a local shooting range and stole Getgen's
custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.<BR>> Investigators follow Peake to a storage
unit when they find three firearms:<BR>> Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a scoped
Remington rifle that had been reported stolen<BR>> from the range in May,
and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also<BR>> arrested and charged
with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other<BR>> crimes. Peake
tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the<BR>> purpose
of overthrowing the federal<BR>>
government<http://www.whptv.com/mostpopular/story/UPDATE-Guards-charged-in-shooting-suspended/T7TywdSx-0efWskrT3nupg.cspx><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *August 14, 2010?*Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack?who
gained fame in<BR>> anti-government circles by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit
against the federal<BR>> government over the Brady Bill requirement that
state law enforcement<BR>> agencies conduct background checks on gun
purchasers?tells those in<BR>> attendance at the American Policy Center's
2010 Freedom Action Natonal<BR>> Conference, "My dear friends, I pray for
the day that the first sheriff in<BR>> this country is the one to fire the
shot heard 'round the world and take out<BR>> some IRS
agents!<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/-willing-to-kill-in-gatherings-over-t><BR>>
"<BR>> <BR>> *August 17, 2010?*Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the
Department of<BR>> Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully
attempts to ignite<BR>> gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched
to his truck. Sharp is<BR>> armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber
semiautomatic pistol, and a<BR>> 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an
exchange of gunfire with police<BR>> arriving on the scene. Miraculously,
no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,<BR>> Eric McClellan describes him as
"a great<BR>>
guy<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting>"<BR>>
and states, "We're Texans. We have a right to bear<BR>>
arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *August 19, 2010?*Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County,
Florida, is arrested<BR>> after threatening to "bear arms<BR>>
against<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcwXt1-hso>"<BR>> local law
enforcement officers who were trying to serve him with a warrant.<BR>>
Authorities recover a letter that Fornof had tried to serve the
deputies<BR>> with, which reads, "I have the right to bear arms against
such unlawful<BR>> entities, up to and including the President of the
United States, that are<BR>> coming against me unlawfully, lethally,
and<BR>>
genocidally<http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2010/aug/19/feds-pasco-man-vowed-bear-arms-against-deputies/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *August 23, 2010?*Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after he
attempts to bring a<BR>> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook
County<BR>>
courthouse<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/facing-foreclosure-man-br_1_n_692749.html>.<BR>>
Pidegon was supposed to attend a foreclosure hearing that day. His home
was<BR>> to be sold to a lender in North Carolina after New York-based BNY
Mellon<BR>> filed an action against him in the county.<BR>> <BR>>
*September 1, 2010?*James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at the Discovery<BR>>
Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while armed with
two<BR>> starter pistols and four improvised explosived devices. After
pointing a gun<BR>> at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by
police. Lee, a radical<BR>> environmental activist, had previously issued
11 demands through a<BR>>
webpage<http://savetheplanetprotest.com/>that Discovery was to
meet<BR>> "immediately." The demands involved the content<BR>> of
programming on the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his<BR>>
MySpace page, "It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"<BR>> <BR>> *September 13,
2010?*Police stop Richard Scott McLeod, 48, for a traffic<BR>> violation in
Webberville, Michigan, and upon searching his vehicle, discover<BR>> bumper
stickers quoting Adolf Hitler, a picture of President Barack Obama, a<BR>>
loaded handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod
is<BR>> arrested and charged with illegally carrying a concealed weapon and
unlawful<BR>> possession of body armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a
member of the<BR>> Michigan Militia. The group denies any relationship with
McLeod<BR>> *<BR>> September 16, 2010?*Patricia Stoneking, the President
of the Kansas State<BR>> Rifle Association, tells Fox News, "People need to
arm themselves, We have<BR>> the right to put limits on our government, and
that's what [the Second<BR>> Amendment]
does<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms>."<BR>>
Explaining why America's Founding Fathers drafted the amendment, she<BR>>
says, "They<BR>> knew government could become tyrannical. We have the right
to defend<BR>> ourselves from a rogue<BR>>
government<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *September 30, 2010?*Kevin Terrell, a self-described
"colonel" who founded a<BR>> group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky,
predicts war with "the jackbooted<BR>> thugs
<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>"
of<BR>> Washington within a year. Referring to the arrest of Hutaree
militia members<BR>> earlier in the year, Terrell says, "There was a lot of
citizens out there in<BR>> the bushes, locked and loaded. It's only due to
miracles I do not understand<BR>> that civil war did not break out
right<BR>>
there<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *September 30, 2010?*Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff
running for sheriff in<BR>> Lake County, Montana, threatens "a
violent<BR>>
conflict<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html>"<BR>>
with federal agents if "they are doing something I believe is<BR>>
unconstitutional<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *October 15, 2010?*Conservative radio show host Glenn Beck
lays out a<BR>> hypothetical scenario on the air where the government is
considering taking<BR>> his children because he refused to have them
receive a mandatory flu<BR>> vaccine. Beck tells his audience that his
response to the government would<BR>> be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr.
Wesson<http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010150025><BR>> ."<BR>>
<BR>> *October 21, 2010?*Pastor Stephen Broden, the Republican candidate
for U.S.<BR>> Representative in Texas' 30th Congressional District, tells
WFAA-TV in<BR>> Dallas that the violent overthrow of the government is
an<BR>> "option<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>"<BR>>
that remains "on the table
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>." "Our<BR>> nation was
founded on violence
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>,"<BR>> states Broden. "I
don't think that we should ever remove anything from the<BR>> table as it
relates to our liberties and our<BR>>
freedoms<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs><BR>> ."<BR>>
<BR>> *October 22, 2010?*Texas Department of Corrections officers searching
for a<BR>> missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor
while on<BR>> Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger,
46, points an<BR>> AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the
officers, who recalls, "He<BR>> told us to get off the property or he would
kill us<BR>>
all<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>."<BR>>
Later that afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search<BR>>
warrant and an armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger
opens<BR>> fire on the vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before
authorities shoot<BR>> and kill him. Police find guns and "many rounds
of<BR>>
ammunition<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>"<BR>>
in Granger's house. They also find the body of Clements, buried in a
shallow<BR>> grave on Granger's property.<BR>> <BR>> *November 2,
2010?*On Election Night, supporters of Republican congressional<BR>>
candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically confront Rep. Bob
Filner<BR>> (D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall in San Diego
following the<BR>> announcment of Filner's victory in the race. "You're a
damn liar. You should<BR>> be ashamed of
yourself<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>,"<BR>>
Popaditch tells Filner, leading the mob. Other Popaditch supporters<BR>>
yell "You're<BR>> a
scumbag!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"<BR>>
"Jew!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"<BR>>
and "Don't tread on me,<BR>>
Bob!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"<BR>>
Another Popaditch supporter punches a Filner campaign staffer in the
face.<BR>> <BR>> *November 3, 2010?*James Patock, 66, of Pima County,
Arizona, is arrested on<BR>> the National Mall in the District of Columbia
after law enforcement<BR>> authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243
caliber rifle barrel, a .22<BR>> caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol,
several boxes of ammunition, and<BR>> propane tanks wired to four car
batteries in his truck and trailer. Patock<BR>> former neighbor in Arizona
reported that, "He hated the president. He hated<BR>> everything. He said
if he got a chance he would shoot the<BR>>
president<http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13448240>."<BR>>
Patock tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle<BR>>
Association<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110407609.html><BR>>
.<BR>> <BR>> *November 4, 2010?*On his radio show, conservative host
Glenn Beck<BR>> fantasizes about President Obama being decapitated during a
trip to India,<BR>> saying, "If anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here,
well God forbid, they<BR>> think he was a Muslim over there because he left
his religion for<BR>> Christianity, death sentence, behead<BR>>
him<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>.?<BR>>
Beck then tells his listeners that "God<BR>>
forbid<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"<BR>>
this should happen, as there would be a "New World<BR>>
Order<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"<BR>>
overnight in the United States.<BR>> <BR>> *November 4, 2010?*Fox News
host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes about killing a<BR>> Washington Post reporter
while on the air, saying, "Does sharia law say we<BR>> can behead
Dana<BR>>
Milbank?<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html>"<BR>>
O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think you and I should go
and<BR>> beat him
up<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *November 9, 2010?*U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of
Florida's 22nd<BR>> Congressional District hires conservative radio talk
show host Joyce Kaufman<BR>> as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told
a crowd of Tea Party<BR>> supporters, ?I am convinced that the most
important thing the Founding<BR>> Fathers did to ensure me my First
Amendments rights was they gave me a<BR>> Second Amendment. And if ballots
don?t work, bullets<BR>>
will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs><BR>> ."<BR>>
<BR>> *November 9, 2010?*Concealed handgun permit holder George Thomas Lee,
69, of<BR>> Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's main street
for<BR>> disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs "laden
with<BR>> expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President
Barack Obama,<BR>> blacks in general, Jews and the nation of<BR>>
Israel<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."<BR>>
Officers also seize literature from Lee that details "the most
expedient<BR>> means of killing law enforcement<BR>>
officers<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."<BR>>
The November 9 arrest follows an October 19 arrest for assault after
Lee<BR>> kicked and swung his signs at a group of girls between the ages of
12 and<BR>> 14.<BR>> <BR>> *November 10, 2010?*Public schools in
Broward County, Florida, go into<BR>> lockdown after an email threat is
received by WFTL 850 AM. The email is sent<BR>> to conservative radio host
Joyce Kaufman in response to remarks she made at<BR>> a Tea Party event in
July ("If ballots don't work, bullets<BR>>
will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>").<BR>> The email
expresses support for her view of the Second Amendment and says<BR>> that
to further "their cause...something big will happen at a government<BR>>
building in Broward County, maybe a post office maybe even a<BR>>
school<http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Possible-Suspect-Questioned-in-Massive-School-Lockdown-Threat-107271123.html>."<BR>>
A phone call is then received at the station, allegedly from the
emailer's<BR>> wife, warning that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke Pines
school and open<BR>> fire.<BR>> <BR>> *November 23, 2010?*Larry
Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of<BR>> America, writes an
editorial in *The Register Citizen* in which he calls for<BR>> state and
county sheriffs to organize large, armed "posses" as "a check on<BR>> the
unconstitutional exercise of federal<BR>>
power<http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/11/23/opinion/doc4ceb3b593f453721919056.txt><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *November 29, 2010?*U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the
ranking Republican on<BR>> the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
circulates a PowerPoint<BR>> presentation to his colleagues in which he
compares the Obama administration<BR>> to the Nazi regime in Germany and
likens himself to Gen. George Patton,<BR>> bragging, "Put anything in my
scope and I will shoot<BR>>
it<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/powerful-republican-calls-assassination-president-obama/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *December 3, 2010?*At "Roe & Roeper's Miracle on
Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday<BR>> Extravaganza" promoting "Toys 4 Tots" in
Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee<BR>> Emery (famous for his depiction of
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal<BR>> Jacket") tells those in
attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to<BR>> point fingers at
anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot<BR>> to do with
that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it until<BR>> they
bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up and<BR>>
we should stop this administration from what they're doing because
they're<BR>> destroying this country. They're driving us into bankruptcy so
that they can<BR>> impose socialism on<BR>>
us<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/full-metal-jacket-drill-instructor-apologizes-calling-americans-rise-up-obama/><BR>>
."<BR>> <BR>> *December 31, 2010?*An anonymous threat is posted in the
"Rants and Raves"<BR>> section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree
McLeod, a citizen<BR>> activist who has requested?under Alaska?s Open
Records Act?work-related<BR>> emails that Sarah Palin sent and received
while governor of the state. The<BR>> threat states, "I think Andre has
used up to much oxygen. So I have my scope<BR>> cross hair on her head! She
better watch out, the request may have been her<BR>> last
<http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/death-threat-palin-critic>."<BR>>
The Anchorage Police trace the message to the AOL account of an
Anchorage<BR>> woman in her 50s, but neglect to verify if she is the one
who is responsible<BR>> for it.<BR>> *<BR>> **January 6, 2011?*John
Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after threatening to set<BR>> fire to the
office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and shoot members of his<BR>> staff.
The threat comes when Davis calls Bennet's office to complain about<BR>>
his Social Security benefits, telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic
and<BR>> "may go to
terrorism<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>."<BR>>
"I'm just going to come down there and shoot you<BR>>
all<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>,"<BR>>
he declares. Davis is charged with assault on a federal employee.<BR>>
<BR>> *January 8, 2011?*Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep.
Gabrielle<BR>> Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner"
event at a<BR>> Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six,
including federal<BR>> judge John Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords,
who is shot in the head.<BR>> Loughner has an extensive history of mental
illness and substance abuse, yet<BR>> is able to purchase two handguns and
a high-capacity ammunition magazine<BR>> legally at Sportsman's Warehouse
on November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video<BR>> posted in December 2010,
Loughner states, "You don?t have to accept the<BR>> federalist laws ...
Nonetheless, read the United States of America?s<BR>> Constitution to
apprehend all of the current treasonous<BR>>
laws<http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10><BR>> ."<BR>>
*January 8, 2011?*Fearing violence from tea party activists, Arizona<BR>>
Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman Anthony Miller, Secretary
Sophia<BR>> Johnson, First Vice Chairman Roger Dickinson, and former
district spokesman<BR>> Jeff Kolb resign from their positions. "I don't
want to take a bullet for<BR>>
anyone<http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html>,"<BR>>
says Miller, who cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts from
tea<BR>> party members upset with the fact that he is a former campaign
worker for<BR>> U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an
incident in which a<BR>> detractor made his hand into the shape of a gun
and pointed it at him.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55
PM, lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com> wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Your
arguments would have more veracity if you named people on both the<BR>>
> right and the left, but you continue to harp on only Palin and the
Tea<BR>> > Party. Talk about hate speech, no one has been on the
receiving end of it<BR>> > more than Palin. She has been hanged in
effigy. Do you condone that? I<BR>> > suspect that if she were to be
assassinated there would be very little<BR>> > condemnation of it from
the left. Most likely the comments would be "good<BR>> > riddance" or
"she had it coming".<BR>> > Roger<BR>> > -----Original
message-----<BR>> > From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe@gmail.com<BR>>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800<BR>> > To: Dan Carscallen
areaman@moscow.com<BR>> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and
mental health<BR>> ><BR>> > > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ
shooting: "This can?t be blamed on<BR>> > rhetoric,<BR>> > >
nor on extremists from either side of the aisle. The blame lays solely<BR>>
> on a<BR>> > > sick man who obviously needs help. And, perhaps,
the ?blame? lays on the<BR>> > > freedom we enjoy by being citizens
of the United States of America."<BR>> > ><BR>> > > First,
no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric, or<BR>> >
Palin,<BR>> > > or anyone, or anything. No one that I know who has
talked about the<BR>> > > connection between violent rhetoric (or gun
control, etc.) and the AZ<BR>> > > shooting has used "blame" talk. So
let's get that straight.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Rather than talk
about "blame" for or even "causes" of the shooting,<BR>> > let's<BR>>
> > talk about "explanations" for the shooting. Why did it happen? What
can<BR>> > we<BR>> > > do to prevent shootings like this from
happening in the future? Your<BR>> > opinion<BR>> > > seems to
be that we can't do anything, that shootings like this just<BR>> >
happen<BR>> > > for NO reason whatsoever -- or they happen in
societies that have the<BR>> > kinds<BR>> > > of "freedoms"
that our society has. That we should accept them because we<BR>> > >
can't do anything about it, unless we want to deprive people of their<BR>>
> > "freedoms."<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Sorry but that seems
a little too fatalistic and cynical for my tastes. I<BR>> > > think
we CAN do something about these kind of shootings. What can we do?<BR>>
> I<BR>> > > don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see
if there are some<BR>> > > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to
have the solution, I'm just<BR>> > claiming<BR>> > > that we
can do something if we put our minds to it and come up with a<BR>> >
plan.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > The claim that violent rhetoric and
gun laws and even Palin's poster have<BR>> > > NOTHING to do with the
shooting, that the explanation for the shooting is<BR>> > > unrelated
to the overinflated, violent rhetoric of the right and others,<BR>> >
is<BR>> > > an extreme claim. Issues of explanation are empirical
issues. You have to<BR>> > > back up such an extreme claim -- a claim
like the claim that violent<BR>> > > rhetoric has NOTHING to do with
violence in America. Here are a few<BR>> > reasons<BR>> > > why
I think you can't back that claim up.<BR>> > ><BR>> > >
You'll have to explain why there is more violence in American than in<BR>>
> almost<BR>> > > any other country; why the violent rhetoric
apparently works when it<BR>> > comes<BR>> > > to getting
people to vote (Tea Party candidates had some level of success<BR>> >
in<BR>> > > the last election; anti-gay propaganda was a huge part of
Republican<BR>> > > victories during the last Bush era) yet has NO
other impact on human<BR>> > > behavior; why a lot of the violence
from "lunatics" is directed toward<BR>> > folks<BR>> > > on the
left (as well as gays, Muslims, etc.). Now if you have the<BR>> > >
explanation, please give it -- please explain why you're so certain
that<BR>> > > there is NO connection between violent rhetoric and
actual violence. I'm<BR>> > > pretty sure you have no formal training
in psychology or sociology, so<BR>> > I'm<BR>> > > unsure what
your basis is. I don't think the explanation has anything to<BR>> > >
with our "freedoms." I don't think the vision of a society that is
both<BR>> > free<BR>> > > and nonviolent is an
absurdity.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I think it is clear that there
is SOME connection between violent<BR>> > rhetoric<BR>> > > and
actual violence. The real questions are how much of a connection is<BR>>
> > there (what is the nature of the connection) and what can we do
about it?<BR>> > I<BR>> > > refuse to think that "Nothing" is a
good answer.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47
AM, Dan Carscallen <areaman@moscow.com><BR>> > wrote:<BR>> >
><BR>> > > > Vizzz peeps,<BR>> > > ><BR>> >
> ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > We live in a free
society. One of the prices we pay for living here is<BR>> > > >
that there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any<BR>>
> minute> Should they be? Probably not, but who is to say when and how
these<BR>> > folks<BR>> > > > should be rounded up and
treated? Sure, I think all of us can talk<BR>> > about<BR>> > >
> the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what
are<BR>> > we<BR>> > > > supposed to do? Call the cops and
have them haul him in because he<BR>> > doesn?t<BR>> > > >
fit society?s norm? I think there are a lot of folks, right here on<BR>>
> the<BR>> > > > Vizzz even, that don?t necessarily follow the
?norm?. But we go along<BR>> > and<BR>> > > > live our lives
in our free society.<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>>
> > ><BR>> > > > The media talked to this Jared guy?s
neighbors, and they said ?yes, he<BR>> > > > seemed like a
nutjob?, but what were they to do? They watched him,<BR>> > kept<BR>>
> > > their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could.
Unfortunately, he<BR>> > > > ?slipped through the cracks?. Should
he have been prevented from<BR>> > buying a<BR>> > > >
pistol? Maybe, but in a free society, how? He wasn?t a convicted<BR>> >
felon, he<BR>> > > > answered all the questions properly, and he
paid his money. It?s not a<BR>> > > > speedy process, no matter
who or where you are. Even with a concealed<BR>> > > > weapon
permit, and a pre-checked background, it?s not quick by any<BR>> >
means.<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > >
><BR>> > > > This can?t be blamed on rhetoric, nor on
extremists from either side of<BR>> > the<BR>> > > > aisle.
The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help.<BR>> >
And,<BR>> > > > perhaps, the ?blame? lays on the freedom we enjoy
by being citizens of<BR>> > the<BR>> > > > United States of
America.<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > >
><BR>> > > > Your pal<BR>> > > ><BR>> > >
><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > DC<BR>> > >
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