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On 1/27/95 a posting indicated an intended boycott of the Whitehouse 

Forum on Compuserve by our brothers embattled there.



I urge all members of Compuserve, indeed, all patriots everywhere, to 

enter the fray - do not boycott -- show the Whitehouse Forum the 

strength of our numbers and demonstrate the strength of truth contained 

in the absolute intent of our Founding Fathers in their drafting of the

Second Amendment.



Do your research and argue your points with valid Constitutional Law 

interpretations.  Everyone should read 'That Every Man Be Armed' by 

Stephen P. Halbrook published by the Independent Institute, 134 98th. 

Ave., Oakland, CA  94603.  This book is available through NRA 

publications request.  We all must educate ourselves to the truth and 

use that information to combat the ignorance of those who would allow 

governments to dictate what freedoms we may enjoy.



As a beginning, here is some ammunition for the fight:



A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the

security of a free State, the right of the people

to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

			____	Amendment II

The Constitution of the United States of America



For those who would argue the above is subject to interpretation as to 

who/what constitutes the Militia, I offer the following evidence of 

intent by those who were most intimately involved in

drafting the 2nd. Amendment;  and of those who have made serious 

interpretive decisions based upon well informed Constitutional Law.



AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO WOULD ARGUE THAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS FOR

PROTECTION OF RECREATIONAL HUNTERS' RIGHTS -- PLEASE READ ON ....



"No free government was ever founded, or ever

preserved its liberty, without uniting the

characters of citizen and soldier in those

destined for the defense of the State.  Such are

a well regulated Militia, composed of the

freeholders, citizen, and husbandman;  who

take up arms to preserve their property, as

individuals, and their rights as freemen."

		____	James Madison

		United States Congress, 1779

		Bill of Rights Ratification



"The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden

foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of

power by rulers.  It is against sound policy for a free people to keep 

up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, 

both from the enormous expenses with which they are attended, and the

facile means which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to

subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.  The

right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered,

as the palladium of the liberties of the republic, since it offers a 

strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers; 

and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, 

enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

					____	Justice Joseph Story

					United States Supreme Court

							1811 - 1845



The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful

defense of himself or the State, is absolute.  He

does not derive it from the State government.

It is one of the 'High Powers' delegated directly

to the citizen by the United States Constitution,

Amendment II, and "is excepted out of the

general powers of government".  A law cannot

be passed to infringe upon it or impair it,

because it is above the law, and independent of

the law-making power.

	____	Texas Supreme Court Decision

		1859

		Cockrum vs State of Texas





"And that the said Constitution be never

construed to authorize Congress to prevent the

people of the United States, who are peaceable

citizens, from keeping their own arms....."

			____	Samuel Adams

			United States Congress, 1779

			Bill of Rights Ratification





"The right of self-defense is the first law of

nature.  In most governments it has been the

study of rulers to confine this right within the

narrowest limits possible.  Whenever standing

armies are kept up, and the right of the people

to keep and bear arms is, under any color or

pretext whatsoever, prohibited;  liberty, if not

already annihilated, is on the brink of

destruction."

		____  Justice George Tucker

		Virginia Supreme Court

				1803





"The power of the sword is in the hands of Congress?  My friends and

countrymen, it is not so;  for the powers of the sword are in the hands

of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty.  The Militia of these

free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when

compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible.

Who are the Militia?  They are not ourselves as politicians and

lawmakers.  They are those who have elected us into our positions and

entrusted us with the power of preserving and carrying out their

wishes.  Congress has no power to disarm the Militia.  Their swords,

and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right 

of an American.  The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of

either the Federal or State governments, but, where I trust in God it

will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

			____	Tench Cox's Letter to James Madison

	During Adoption of the Bill of Rights in United States Congress

								1779



"Guard with jealous attention the public

liberty.  Suspect everyone who approaches that

jewel.  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it

but downright force.  When you give up that

force, you are ruined."

		____	Patrick Henry

				1779



No State shall make or enforce any law which

shall abridge the privileges or immunities of

citizens of the United States;  nor shall any

State deprive any person of life, liberty, or

property, without due process of law;  nor deny

to any person within its jurisdiction the equal

protection of the laws.

			____	Amendment XIV

The Constitution of the United States of America



Those who would oppose these principals and argue that persons in 

support of them are "radical gun nuts" or "extremist", etc., etc., ad 

infinitum;  they must be categorized as falling into one of

the following categories:



1)  Ignorant beyond belief of the history of governmental abuse against 

the common populace of nations.



2)  Have an agenda to destroy the freedoms upon which this Nation was 

founded;  therefore must be considered enemies of the United States of 

America.



3)  Uninformed and perhaps intelligent enough to exercise a change of 

mind after having objectively considered these issues.



**** The Tree of Liberty is nourished by the blood of Patriots********

				              _____Thomas Jefferson



 

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