Posted by mjberry1975 on 03/30/09 Last updated 03/30/09
Several House and Senate bills in support of firearms rights and sovereignty, among other items, are being tabled in committee, changed for the worse, or voted down. It is time to let our elected legislators know that Montana is taking notice of their disregard for our rights. Please take some time to either write, call, or email your Rep. or Senator. Let them know you have educated yourself on their actions and will be doing everything possible to replace them by voting in pro-Montanan legislators next cycle.
All Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats as well as two Republicans voted on 3/30/09 to strip this bill of most of its teeth. Senator Larry Jent made the motion to strip the bill. It's time to vote him out of the Montana Senate. Republican Senators Gary Perry and John Esp need to know that freedom loving Montanans find it unacceptable to vote against shoring up our rights.
This bill would have put the management of wolves back in to the hands of Montanans. It was killed in second reading on the Senate floor. Leading the way in opposition was Kalispell Senator Bruce Tutvedt. Surprising, since Tutvedt is a self-proclaimed life long farmer and rancher. We need to tell him what we think of his vote against giving Montana its rights back. Senators Carol Williams, Jesse Laslovich, Trudi Schmidt and Kim Gillan, all minority leaders, need to get a gigantic ear-full about voting against Montana. Republican Senators Taylor Brown, Jeff Essmann, Rick Laible, Ryan Zinke should all be put on notice by the people of Montana that we will find liberty loving candidates to run against them next election cycle.
This bill needs new life. It is currently listed as dead. Please call, write, fax, or email the House Judiciary Committee and urge them to raise this bill from the dead. Montana needs to join the many states across the country in reiterating our Constitutional 10th Amendment rights. In a disgusting act of partisan politics, every single Representative who voted against the Montana-made firearms bill also voted against upholding our sovereignty.
Here are the remaining members of the House who voted against Montana:
HB 639 - Sound Money Bill (allow Montana to conduct transactions in gold and silver)
Here is another bill that needs to be revived immediately. It has been tabled in the House State Administration Committee. The Montana House of Representatives needs to be inundated with complaints for tabling this bill. The two major foul players are Republican Reps. Dennis Himmelberger and Gary MacClaren. Without their votes against getting this bill out of committee it would still be alive. Let's find more competent representation for House District 89 and 47. Among the major offenders already listed for previous bills, Republican Reps. Bill Nooney (Missoula) and Don Roberts (Billings) have chosen to vote against sound money in Montana. Maybe we should send them Ron Paul's reading list along with a notice that we will be searching for candidates to oppose them next election. Two more Democrat Reps. that voted against this bill are Michele Reihart (Missoula) and Brady Wiseman (Bozeman). This is a prime example of a fantastic bill gone to wast because of idiot politicians. Let's send them a strong message.
This is a great bill that would basically tell the U.S. Dept. of Interior that their laws prohibiting self-defense in national parks don't apply in Montana because they don't reflect our laws. It has passed third reading in the Senate. Continued support of this bill is necessary to ensure the Senate doesn't strip it down like they've done to HB 228.
Please don't wait to contact your legislators!
And keep the pressure on them continually, or else it's business as usual and they will continue to think that they can destroy our efforts to protect and bolster our rights and get away with it (like they have for years).
Special thanks to Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association for his tireless work in Helena and for keeping us informed day by day and sometimes hour by hour.
Poll: Do you think we should work hard right now to find candidates willing to run against those in the MT Legislature who continue to compromise our rights?
Thanks for the info. I called on these bills at the time and have had two letters printed in the Interlake One on 2nd amendment and one on Scamulous bill. I am still finding new areas on this website and only discovered this page today.
Are there any ideas about the Mayors Race in Kalispell? AND
What about the State GOP meeting this week?
Posted by mjberry1975 on 03/29/09 Last updated 03/29/09
All across the nation on and around the dreaded April 15 IRS tax deadline freedom lovers will be gathering to protest the bankrupt Federal Government (among other things). I think this is an excellent time to stoke the fire of revolution and get the message out that Campaignforliberty is on the forefront of opposition against a runaway Fed. Montana is now in third place behind Iowa and Vermont in meeting the precinct leader goal. I'm looking for any avenue to help meet our goal.
Due to city regulations regarding event permits and insurance as in Cape Coral, FL,
some areas will need to encourage a spontaneous gathering. However, I intend to canvass and hand out flyers to as many people as possible in order to gain more attendees. I'm positive that with the focus on the AIG mess there are many Americans who are ready to make some noise about what's going on in D.C. http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2009/03/28/opinion/columns/columns01.txt
I'm hoping I can steer many more people in the coming months to CFL and towards information that will encourage them to take action. The 2010 elections are not far off in political terms and it's time to start revving the engines of those willing to help get liberty minded people in to office here in Montana. I am really hoping to see a similar fervor as I witnessed during the Ron Paul For President Campaign. While 2010 elections may not seem as important to some as the presidential election, be assured that they are very important. This is a chance to gain more ground for the cause of liberty. Bringing more members in to the CFL fold can only help.
Posted by mjberry1975 on 12/12/08 Last updated 12/12/08
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country." --Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations, Second Edition (1973), Pg. 425-426. Translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens. Introduced and with a new preface by H. R. Trevor-Roper. The original German papers were known as Bormann-Vermerke.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Tue, Oct. 14, 2008
Commentary
Taking aim at Obama's stance on gun control The candidate says he supports the right to bear arms. The record says otherwise. By John R. Lott Jr. A senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Barack Obama claims he is a friend of gun owners. He certainly has convinced the media. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times said the NRA's opposition to Obama seemed strange because "Obama does not oppose gun rights. He has made a point of pounding this home to rural audiences, telling them he has no intention of taking their guns away: not their shotguns, not their handguns, not anything."
From the Boston Globe to FactCheck.org, the media and their watchdogs have uncritically recited Obama's statement that he believes there is an individual right to own guns. How does Brooks Jackson, FactCheck.org's director, explain the NRA's opposition to Obama? He says: "They are lying. . . . They are just making this up."
Yet, while the media and their checkers take Obama's current statements about his beliefs at face value, the NRA doesn't. So who is right?
In Pennsylvania, the answer could alter the election outcome. With about one million of the country's 12.5 million hunters, Pennsylvanians spend more time hunting than the residents of any other state. Pennsylvania also has more concealed-handgun permit holders than any other state, about 600,000.
In June, when the Supreme Court struck down the gun ban in Washington, D.C., Obama claimed that the decision merely confirmed his own view. He told Fox News that he had "said consistently that I believe that the Second Amendment is an individual right, and that was the essential decision that the Supreme Court came down on."
But that doesn't square with statements Obama has made in the past. Just last November, Obama's campaign told the Chicago Tribune, "Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional." After Obama's later statement supporting the Supreme Court decision, the campaign disowned the Tribune quote as a staffer's "inartful attempt" to characterize his position.
Obama also blamed a 1996 statement supporting a handgun ban on a staffer's mistake. But Politico discovered a copy of the candidate's statement with Obama's own handwritten comments on it.
Obama personally voiced support for the D.C. ban at other times. In February, Leon Harris, a news anchor for the ABC affiliate in Washington, said to Obama: "One other issue that's of great importance here in the district as well is gun control . . . but you support the D.C. handgun ban." Obama's simple response: "Right." When Harris added "and you've said that it's constitutional," Obama again said "right," and he is clearly seen on tape nodding his head in agreement.
In fact, Obama has a long history of supporting city gun bans. The Associated Press described his vote on a gun-control bill in 2004: "He also opposed letting people use a self-defense argument if charged with violating local handgun bans by using weapons in their homes. The bill was a reaction to a Chicago-area man who, after shooting an intruder, was charged with a handgun violation."
No major-party presidential nominee has ever had as strong and consistent an anti-gun record as Obama. Here is a politician who supported a ban on handguns in 1996, backed a ban on the sale of all semiautomatic guns in 1998 (which would encompass most guns sold in the country), and advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park in 2004 (a virtual ban on all gun stores). He also served on the board of the Joyce Foundation, the largest private funder of anti-gun research in the country.
This evidence should be sufficient, but I have yet another reason to be skeptical. I knew Obama during the mid-1990s, when we were both at the University of Chicago Law School. Indeed, when I introduced myself to him, he said, "Oh, you are the gun guy."
I responded, "Yes, I guess so." His response, as I recall it, was, "I don't believe that people should be able to own guns."
When I said it might be fun sometime to talk about the question and his support of Chicago's lawsuit against gunmakers, he simply grimaced and turned away, ending the conversation.
Obama obviously thinks the gun issue is important. He and his surrogates constantly repeat the claim that he has always supported an individual right to own guns. But the media should stop uncritically reporting the claim without checking his past statements.
This post makes me think of several things. The one thing that I think of, is a post it note, that I have somewhere, with the "Four Boxes of Freedom" on it. I can not find it. The four "boxes" were:
1. Soap box
2. Ballot box
3. ??
4. Ammo Box
I may have #'s 3 &4 reversed.
I never felt the need to go past the ballot box.
Without the "threat" of number four, the first three are meaningless. When the government controls the force, they can control everything.
Did you ever think you would see the day that farmers and ranchers would be taxed on the farts that their animals emit? Under the cap-and-trade tax system this is exactly what will be done. This will essentially be the end of small farms and ranches in Montana and across the country. Small business simply will not be able to afford these heavy taxes.
Poll: What do you think of the cap and trade tax system?
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