July - December 2004
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"Tucked deep inside the mammoth $388.4-billion spending bill that Congress approved last month is an $80,000 earmark for the San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender Community Center." [Your tax dollars at work . . . doing what?]From "Marriage-Amendment Opponent Gets $80,000 in Federal Earmark," by Robert B. Bluey, Human Events, December 6, 2004, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"[T]he Transportation Security Agency likes to throw expensive parties. In November last year, TSA hosted an awards party that cost taxpayers almost half a million bucks. TSA spent $461,745 to wind and dine at a posh hotel in Washington, D.C., where guests enjoyed, among other gastric delights, three cheese displays costing $500 each, and seven cakes at $265 each. TSA also spent $81,767 for plaques, $5,196 for photography, $1,486 for balloons, and $1,509 for signs."From "Fun Times at TSA," Your Tax Dollars at Work, Middle America News, December 2004, page 6. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Eleven Christians were arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for peacefully protesting at a homosexual event. They face charges under the city's hate crime law that could land them in prison for up to 47 years." [Remember when there was freedom of speech?]From "Christians Arrested at Homosexual 'Outfest'," American Family Association Journal, November/December 2004, page 2. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"[A] taxpayer-funded group in New York City took out job ads offering employment to city residents -- on the condition they are illegal aliens. . . A complaint was filed with the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by a New Yorker who was turned down for a job on grounds of being a legitimate U.S. citizen."From The American Sentinel, December 2004, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[Dr. Alfred] Kinsey's 'research' was funded, principally, by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Research Council. Other sponsors such as the Russell Sage Foundation, Ford Foundation, and other tax-exempt foundations (as well as playboy publisher Hugh Hefner) have joined the Rockefeller radicals in pouring millions of dollars into the Kinsey campaign to normalize sexual abnormality. Additionally, our tax dollars, in the form of government grants, also have gone directly into funding the Kinsey Institute's perverse agenda, and our tax dollars are at work on another Kinsey movie, soon to be released on PBS's American Experience."From "Kinsey's Hidden Child Abuse," by Judith Reisman, The New American, December 13, 2004, page 31. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"For 16 years, John Rapanos from Michigan has been fighting the federal government over its claim that he filled a wetland on his property. Only problem is, there never was a wetland on his 200-acre field because the county government dug drainage ditches around the plot in 1904."From "A National Shame," Resource Roundup, November 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"In a recent column, David W. Kirkpatrick at the U.S. Freedom Foundation came up with some startling figures. Forty years ago, 'there were more administrators in the New York City public school system than in all of France, and more in New York State than in all of Western Europe.'"From "Squeaky Chalk," by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, November 2004, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.
"In 1967 . . . the U.S. had 26 firms which made vaccines. Today, the U.S. has four, and no American firms make a flu vaccine. . . . When the federal government began allowing lawsuits in which plaintiffs did not have to prove that a manufacturer did something wrong in order to win a lawsuit, and manufacturers could 'be held responsible for the harm of [their] products, whether blameworthy or not,' vaccine manufacturers opted not to risk producing vaccines." [Hence the vaccine "shortage".]From "An Overdose of Government," The New American, November 29, 2004, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"The crime rate in D.C., including crimes committed with guns, rose 72 percent in the period since the gun ban was implemented through 2001, while the national rate fell 36 percent."From "Political Report," by Chris W. Cox, America's First Freedom, December 2004, page 14. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"King County, Washington government officials have passed the most restrictive land use regulations in the country. The ordinance, known as the 65/10 Rule, will require landowners to maintain 65% of their property in a natural state and 'allow' them to build on only 10% of it." [If you can't do what you want with your own private property, private property doesn't exist.]From "Liberty Matters," Liberty Matters, as quoted in Resource Roundup, November 2004, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"A presidential initiative called the 'New Freedom Commission on Mental Health' has issued a report recommending forced mental health screening for every child in America, including preschool children. The goal is to promote the patently false idea that we have a nation of children with undiagnosed mental disorders crying out for treatment. . . . The greater issue is not whether youth mental health screening is appropriate. The real issue is whether the state owns your kids. When the government orders 'universal' mental health screening in schools, it really means 'mandatory.' Parents, children, and their private doctors should decide whether a child has mental health problems, not government bureaucrats."From "Who Owns Your Kids?" quoting a statement by Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), Resource Roundup, November 2004, page 5. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"When the government decided that obesity was 'a critical health problem in this country that causes millions of Americans to suffer unnecessary health problems and to die prematurely,' your right to decide what, where, and how much to eat disappeared."From "The Great Obesity Scam," by Alan Caruba, Resource Roundup, November 2004, page 7. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he Totalization Treaty . . . will give Mexicans -- even illegal aliens -- the right to participate in the U.S. Social Security system, and to acquire benefits faster and easier than Americans can . . ."From "Take Action!" Resource Roundup, November 2004, page 14. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"[Senate] Bill S.966, 'Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2003' could criminalize church leaders' sermons which portray the practice of homosexuality in an unfavorable light. . . . Although the Bill is making little progress by itself, it may be sneaked into law as an Amendment to other legislation, such as a Defense Appropriations or Homeland Security bill."From "U.S. Senate Considers 'Shut-up the Preacher' Act," by William Jud, eco-logic Powerhouse, November 2004, page 16. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"In Oakland, California, the police department suspended DUI traffic checkpoints after the city's Hispanic leaders complained the roadblocks were catching too many illegal aliens. . . Hispanic grupenfuerher Ignacio De La Fuente told Associated Press that the checkpoints 'were making life miserable for illegal immigrants who aren't licensed to drive. . .'"From "How Power Works in America," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2004, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"The Small Business Administration estimates that small businesses have to pay $5,000 for each employee every year just to keep up with the ridiculous rules and mountains of paperwork that the government requires."From Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, by Mark W. Smith, 2004, page 117. Published by Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600.
"Statistics from the IRS's own Appeals Division indicate the records on which the agency bases its audits are wrong between 60%-90% of the time!"From The American Sentinel, November 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[A] 'man tax' [has been] proposed by a group of far-left Swedish parliamentarians . . . The purported objective of the 'man tax,' explained Reuters, is 'to cover the social cost of violence against women' -- which advocates of the levy insist is the collective responsibility of men, rather than the particular responsibility of individual offenders."From "Sweden Reining in Men?," The New American, November 1, 2004, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"[S]chool officials have decided to ditch the sonnets of Shakespeare for the tripe of slain gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur -- the drug-dealing, baseball bat-wielding, cop-hating, Black Panthers-worshiping, convicted sexual abuser who made a fortune extolling the 'thug life' before he was gunned down in Las Vegas eight years ago. Teachers in Worcester, Mass., have embraced Shakur's posthumously published book of poems as a way to get middle school students' attention. A school board member in Palm Beach Country, Fla., is also championing Shakur's so-called literary work. The presumption that particularly inner-city children can only be stimulated by the contemporary and familiar smacks of lazy elitism and latent racism."From "2 Lazy 2 Teach," by Michelle Malkin, NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2004, page 24. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"In observance of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month will become part of the curriculum for many U.S. public school students. In Herndon, Va., a Muslim teacher named Ayeefa Syeed will be teaching third through fifth grade children in that city about Ramadan and the tenets of the Muslim religion. [Yes, but what about the 'separation of church and state'?] Prayer rugs are distributed, Muslim prayers are recited and basically a 'happy face' is put on the most dangerous and violent religion the world has ever known. . . . Unfortunately, many parents simply do not care . . . . Something is dangerously wrong with a nation which believes that the Ten Commandments should be ripped from the walls of every public institution, while pushing the religion of our enemy upon our impressionable children."From "No Islam . . . Know Peace," by Dave Givson, in American Daily, as quoted in Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 1-7, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Children in the Sacramento area don't play tag, dodge ball, Red Rover, or any game involving physical contact, including pushing each other on the swing during recess. Concerns about children's self-esteem -- and lawsuits -- have led local school systems to ban such activities."From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, December 2004, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"A triple whammy of stricter federal safety regulations, handicap accessibility mandates, and injury lawsuits gradually removes swing sets from the nation's playgrounds."From "Balance Sheet," Reason Magazine, December 2004, page 11. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates federal regulations cost more each year than the total gross domestic product of Canada!"From The American Sentinel, October 2004, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"'[P]rofessional sensitivity consultants' vetoed an article for the [national standardized] test about a blind man who climbed Mt. McKinley. The story had to be removed, the panel was informed, because children from flat states might not know what mountains were, and because it was offensive to blind people to suggest that a blind person might have a more difficult time climbing a mountain."From "Squeaky Chalk," by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, October 2004, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.
"After six years of Endangered Species Act regulations and restrictions that have cost builders, local governments, and landowners on the western fringe of the Great Plains as much as $100 million by some estimates, new research suggests the allegedly endangered Preble's mouse never existed. Instead, it seems to be genetically identical to a cousin considered common enough not to need the federal government's protection."From "The $100 Million Mouse that Isn't," by Jay Lehr, PhD, eco-logic Powerhouse, September 2004, page 10. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"Over-the-counter supplemental vitamins may soon be banned in the U.S., to comply with treaty obligations to the World Trade Organization."From The American Sentinel, October 2004, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The Financial Times of London reports International Monetary Fund bureaucrats are making demands for our Congress to raise tax rates."From The American Sentinel, October 2004, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The State Department has quietly reversed Bush Administration attempts to exempt U.S. servicemen from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court."From The American Sentinel, October 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The Bush State Department has signed off on a kooky U.N. proposal to create a global peacekeeping army. A key element of the U.N. 'Brahimi Report,' the plan calls for the United States to contribute 75,000+ troops to an international force."From The American Sentinel, October 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"WorldNetDaily reports a Swedish court has sentenced Ake Green, a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement, to a month in prison. His 'crime' was offending homosexuals in a sermon."From The American Sentinel, August 2004, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"A Dutch restaurant has been ordered to alter its dress code to suit the religious preferences of Muslim women. Last month in Amsterdam, the Netherlands' Commission on Equality, charged with enforcing the multiculturalist ideology of the country's elites, told a restaurant that its dress code, which bans headgear, 'discriminates' against Muslim women wearing headscarves."From "Freedom for Them, None for You," World Watch, Middle America News, October 2004, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"In Denver, officials at the majority Hispanic North High School decorated a classroom as well as the school's lobby with Mexican flags. Andrew Fox, who teaches English to the many Spanish-speaking immigrant students, said displaying the Mexican flag helps the immigrant kids feel welcome."From "Who's Country Is It?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2004, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Nine percent of the entire population of Mexico now lives in the United States. . . [N]early 80 percent of them do not have U.S. citizenship."From "Colonization or Immigration?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2004, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"South African troops serving as part of a United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been accused of 50 sexual attacks on underage boys and girls."From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, November 2004, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Residents of Killington, a ski town in Vermont, were so mad about their high state taxes that in March they approved a plan to secede from the state and join neighboring New Hampshire."From "Succession Fever," by Hanah Metchis, Reason Magazine, November 2004, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"In April, a California school district participated in a national 'Day of Silence' on which 'high school and college students were urged to remain silent to show support for homosexuals, bisexuals and trans-gendered students.' One student opted to express a countering view by wearing a t-shirt that said: 'Homosexuality is Shameful.' It seems that freedom of speech only applies one way today. The student was suspended."From "What's Happening to Our Schools?" by Andie Many, Resource Roundup, September 2004, page 1. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"A new study by the American Enterprise Institute called 'Closing the Education Gap: Is Title I Working?' compared the scores of individual Title I students with the scores of similar students who did not receive Title I benefits. The researchers found no evidence that Title I programs had improved the recipients' academic performance. Nevertheless, despite a 20-year record of failure, Title I spending (for low-income schools) increased from $8.8 billion in the Clinton Administration to $13.3 billion in the Bush Administration."From "More Children Left Behind," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, August 2004, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"Wilmette, Ill., village council members [have been] pushing for a ban on air rifles, air pistols, BB guns, and paintball guns."From "Wilmette Wars on Kids!" America's First Freedom, October 2004, page 17. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"One of the requirements of the new Help Americans Vote Act is that every one of the 193,000 election polling stations in America must now allow anyone to cast a 'vote' -- whether or not they're registered, whether or not they're eligible -- so that no potentially legitimate voter will ever be turned away." [Nor will anyone absolutely unqualified to vote be turned away.]From "Provisional Ballots: How to Steal an Election," by Marshall Lewin, America's First Freedom, October 2004, page 42. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"[I]n Denmark, the Qur'an is now required reading for all upper-secondary school students."From "Will Europe Become Next Islamic Mecca?," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, September 20, 2004, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"Cerebral palsy has left Courtney Glowczewski with a withered arm and leg. Unfortunately, that has made her a target for harassment by some students at Denver's Martin Luther King Middle School. She's been taunted and threatened and has even had a knife pulled on her. Finally, after another student set her hair on fire, the school acted: It told Courtney not to come back for the rest of the year."From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, October 2004, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"U.S. District Court Judge Samuel B. Kent of the Southern District of Texas decreed that any student uttering the word 'Jesus' would be arrested and tossed in jail for six months. He further warned: 'And make no mistake, the court is going to have a United States marshal in attendance at the graduation. If any student offends this court, that student will be arrested and will face up to six months incarceration in the Galveston County Jail for contempt of court. Anyone who thinks I'm kidding about this order better think again. . . Anyone who violates these orders, no kidding, is going to wish that he or she had died as a child when this court gets through with it." [Remember when there was freedom of speech?]From a flyer titled, "Whose Vision for America Will Win in 2004?" published by Citizen Leader Coalition, PO Box 96324, Washington, DC 20090-6324.
"[A] teacher in a Houston middle school spotted two female students carrying Bibles. The teacher seized the Bibles, threw them in the trash, exclaiming 'this is garbage.' Another teacher at this same school confiscated book covers that contained the Ten Commandments and threw them in the trash saying the Ten Commandments were 'hate speech.'" [The destruction of Christianity is sometimes messy.]From a flyer titled, "Whose Vision for America Will Win in 2004?" published by Citizen Leader Coalition, PO Box 96324, Washington, DC 20090-6324.
"A pregnant Mexican woman, who was ordered deported after authorities discovered she had been living in the U.S. illegally for two years, sought to remain in the U.S. by claiming that her unborn child is a U.S. citizen because it was conceived on American soil. In May, a multiculturalist federal judge in Kansas City actually thought that was a pretty good argument, so he approved a delay in 30-year-old Maria Christina Rubio's deportation order so the issue could be resolved."From "Deportable Federal Judge," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, September 2004, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"[A] July 20 vote by San Francisco's city council [allows] non-citizens to vote in Board of Education elections."From "City Grants Aliens Right to Vote," by Phil Kent, Middle America News, September 2004, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Thirteen house Democrats, led by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, asked the U.N. to provide international monitors to oversee the November elections. Yes, we mean our elections. Here in America. For president. Of the United States. Yes, really."From "UN-Believable," America's First Freedom, September 2004, page 16. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"After three years in operation, the ballistic 'fingerprinting' database in the state of New York has provided exactly zero matches. Not one single gun crime has been solved nor one prosecution assisted by the database. The only impact has been to increase the cost of firearms, reduce their availability to New Yorkers and cost the taxpayers millions to create and operate the system. And now, despite the complete failure of the system to show any usefulness, the state of New York is working to find a way to skirt federal law and tap into the federal National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN)."From "New York's Ballistic 'Fingerprinting'," America's First Freedom, August 2004, page 61. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"As U.S. troops in Baghdad began to enforce a new 'no-smoking' policy at hospitals, Army spokesman Capt. John Margolis explained to the press that the smoking ban was an example of freedom at work: 'This is freedom and freedom can mean different things, and in this case freedom means we are going to have to enforce our values on them.'"From "Gun Confiscation in Iraq," The New American, August 23, 2004, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"Slightly more than one percent of Russia's 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons has been destroyed. U.S. taxpayers have forked over more than a billion dollars in aid to assist the Russians in doing so. But instead of destroying the rest, according to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Russia has 'spent billions more on . . . secret biological and chemical weapon programs.'"From "Conspiracy Realities," by William F. Jasper, The New American, August 23, 2004, page 22. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"In July, a three-judge panel of the Federal Appeals Court for the District of Columbia blocked implementation of the Energy Department's plan for burying nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada -- a project that has been in the works for 17 years and on which the government has already spent some $9 billion -- on the ground that the government's standards for protecting the public from radiation leaks at the site extend for 'only' 10,000 years."From "Government Protection: Heaven Help Us," by David Schaefer, The American Enterprise, September 2004, page 10Y. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"Santa Monica, California, has decreed a fine of $2,500 a day for not cutting your hedges!"From "People's Republic of Santa Monica Hedges Freedom," by Thomas Sowell, Human Events, August 9, 2004, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"After he removed illegally dumped tires and abandoned cars from a property he purchased, a Pennsylvania man was told by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that his clean-up efforts were a violation of the Clean Water Act. The man served a year and a half in prison for allegedly destroying wetlands and subsequently filed for bankruptcy; then three environmental groups filed complaints with the government that the man's punishment was too lenient."From "Something is Wrong," Resource Roundup, July/August 2004, page 13. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"In February 2003, after completing a 12-month review as required by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced that the California spotted owl, a native bird found in forests of the Sierra Nevada, the central coast range, and major mountain ranges of Southern California, doesn't warrant any protection under the ESA."From "Seeing Spots," by Teresa Platt, Range Magazine, Fall 2003, page 8. Address: Box 639, Carson City, Nevada 89702-0639. Phone: 775-884-2200. Fax: 775-884-2213. E-mail. Website.
"A new animal welfare law in Britain . . . will offer slugs and snails the same protection as cats and dogs. . . . Anyone under the age of 16 will be banned from owning a pet, and goldfish will no longer be allowed to be given as prizes at fairgrounds. The legislation could mean gardeners will be fined for killing insects, worms, caterpillars, slugs and snails, if scientific evidence proves they have suffered pain and distress."From "Gardeners Mock Snail Protections," by Fiona Govan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 19-25, 2004, page 2. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"King County, Washington is poised to enact the most restrictive land use regulation in the country, according to a Fox News report. The proposed 65-10 Rule decrees that landowners can build on only 10% of their land, and must maintain 65% of their property in a natural state."[Some "private property" is no longer private property.]From "65-10 Rule," Resource Roundup, July/August 2004, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Washington state's Sharon White and family had made plans to build a shop/garage in their large back yard. They were unable to obtain a permit, however, because their backyard contained an Oregon White Oak tree, which had a 'preservation radius of 20 feet' which must 'remain undisturbed except for periodic watering; grass mowing of not more than four times a year, and hand weeding of plants designated as noxious by the state of Washington'."From "Something Is Wrong," Resource Roundup, July/August 2004, page 13. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Today, [the federal government] owns over 1/3 of U.S. land. When city, county, and state lands are factored in, governments may own 50%."From "Short Cuts," Resource Roundup, July/August 2004, page 16. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Kansas' new law . . . means that American citizens from out of state pay more [for state university tuition] than illegal aliens who live in Kansas."From "The Right Ear," Human Events, July 26, 2004, page 19. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"The Diamond Hill Jarvis High School in Texas has suspended Cory Hanson, forbidden him to attend the year-end sports banquet, and is considering expelling him. The sophomore, a member of the school baseball team, is accused of bringing a dangerous weapon to school. School officials noticed the 'weapon' -- an 8" (yes, eight inch) baseball bat laying on the seat in Hanson's car in the school parking lot. The bat had come loose from a trophy that Hanson had won. The small bat was deemed 'a club'. Hanson's car was then searched, and a full-size aluminum bat was found in the trunk. That bat, however, was not deemed a 'weapon' since it is part of his sports equipment."From "'Bastions of Mindlessness'," Resource Roundup, June 2004, page 13. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"French lawmakers this month are expected to consider a bill making it a criminal offense to criticize women or homosexuals." [Freedom of speech is apparently less important.]From "World Watch," Middle America News, August 2004, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Brian Kentwell has been pounding livestock and wild animals to death with a hoe. No, he's not a sadist -- the animals have been injured in Australian irrigation channels. Previously, he would use a firearm to put down dying animals. But when Australia enacted new gun control laws several years ago, the use of firearms for 'agricultural' purposes was precluded and Kentwell's license was revoked."From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, August 2004, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Police officials in Bel-Ridge, Missouri, say department officials are pressuring them to spend less time catching robbers and more time writing tickets. 'When it comes down to it, money is what counts,' says a department memo obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 'State cases do not generate money for the department. Municipal tickets do.'"From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, August 2004, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"The federal government is forcing tiny Briny Breezes, Fla., to print election notices in Spanish despite the fact that everyone who lives there speaks English. The oceanfront retirement community was also required to provide bilingual voting information to residents, even though no election was being held."From "Florida Town Illustrates Bilingual Ballot Absurdity," The ProEnglish Advocate, July 2004, page 4. Address: 1601 North Kent Street, Suite 1100, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Phone: 703-816-8821. Fax: 703-816-8824. Website.
"[W]hen the Department of Homeland Security recently announced a plan to fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors from 27 countries, Mexico was quietly exempted."From The American Sentinel, July 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"In 2002, nearly two-thirds of all federal employees (1.6 million civilians) received 'merit bonuses' or special 'time-off' awards."From The American Sentinel, July 2004, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Home schooled students in the U.S. score 15 to 30 percentile points, on average, above their school peers whether the subject is reading, writing, mathematics or science or social studies." [One might conclude that the amateur parent-teachers are dramatically better at their job than are professional teachers.]From "Smarter, Better & Home Schooled!" Warning Signs, by Alan Caruba, Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington, 98009, 2003, page 52.
"Several detainees released by the U.S. military from the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have rejoined their former comrads-in-arms and taken part in fresh attacks on American troops, according to Defense Department officials and a senior Republican lawmaker."From "Freed Gitmo Detainees Back in Rebel Ranks, Officials Say," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 12-18, 2004, page 18. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"In Massachusetts, 'Forty percent of the children adopted have gone to gay and lesbian families,' according to Democratic state Sen. Therese Murphy."From "Could Your Kids Be Given to 'Gay' Parents?" by Stephen Baskerville, as reported in "Hostages to an Agenda," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 12-18, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[In] the 2000 election . . . ballots from America's military -- 75 percent of whom vote Republican -- were disqualified in greater numbers than ever before in history. Unfortunately, things aren't looking any better for the disenfranchised military voters this year, Human Events reports."From "Even More Military Voters Likely to Be Disenfranchised," NewsMax.com (the magazine), July 2004, page 48. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"San Francisco officials are considering asking voters in November to give parents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in school board elections. Under the proposed ballot initiative, even illegal immigrants would be able to vote, so long as they are parents with children in pubic schools, the San Jose Mercury-News reports."From "Noncitizen Voting," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 28 - July 4, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The United States on June 23 abandoned its effort to have the U.N. Security Council extend a provision granting U.S. soldiers immunity from prosecution in the International Criminal Court."From "U.S. Forgoes Extension of World Court Immunity," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 28 - July 4, 2004, page 19. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Zimbabwe has sent armed policemen to close all the country's private schools and send the children home, on the g rounds that their fees are too high. The education minister says the schools set fees high to keep out blacks. In fact, the overwhelming majority of the students are black."From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, August 2004, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Zimbabwe's minister of land reform and resettlement announced last month the country plans to 'nationalize' all the country's farmland. . . [S]aid Minister John Nkomo, 'In the end, all land shall be state land and there will be no such things called private land.'" [Socialism is alive and well.]From "More Land Confiscations," Middle America News, July 2004, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"Two . . . Michigan high school seniors were kicked out of school and not allowed to graduate because they displayed Confederate emblems on the last day of school."From "Freedom in Multicultural America," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2004, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"In Texas the Fort Worth City Council passed a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to pass legislation sponsored by left-wing Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, to establish a national commission to study paying reparations to American blacks for the slavery some of their ancestors endured 150 years ago. . . Many other cities with large black populations, including Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Chicago, have passed similar resolutions." [Imagine what will happen when blacks and Hispanics are in the majority. We'll know in a few decades.] From "POWERRR Seekers," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2004, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"More than 4.5 million students were victims of sexual misconduct by teachers and other school officials in the past decade, says a study released on June 30 by the Education Department. The study shows that more than half of reported adult sexual predators were teachers, classroom aides and coaches. School principals made up 6 percent and student counselors 5 percent." From "Study Alleges Millions of Students Are Victims of Sexual Misconduct," by George Archibald, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 5-11, 2004, page 15. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"New Border Patrol uniforms, ordered in the wake of the agency's transfer last year to the Department of Homeland Security, arrived this month and some agents are not very happy: The new uniforms were 'Made in Mexico'."From "Border Patrol Uniforms Are 'Made in Mexico'," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 21-27, 2004, page 19. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"One Supreme Court justice wants to censor all male nouns and pronouns out of our laws because they allegedly discriminate against women. One Supreme Court justice says that anyone who believes there are inherent differences between men and women is 'close-minded'. . . . One Supreme Court justice based his decision about criminal law on 'polling data' instead of the Constitution."From "Protect America from Judicial Tyranny," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, June 2004, page 2. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"On May 19, Jacqueline A. Blake, a biologist employed at the FBI laboratory, admitted to 'submitting falsified DNA analysis reports in more than 100 cases.'"From "Feds Behaving Badly," The New American, June 28, 2004, page 8. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"The disastrous results of forced school integration have been to waste money (over $2 billion in Kansas City, Missouri alone), drive whites out of cities, and destroy urban school districts -- nearly all of which are now highly separated by race. Education for both races has suffered. And judges are to blame."From "Triumph to Tragedy on Race," by Lino Graglio, The American Enterprise, July/August 2004, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"Less than 1% of the 40,000 pilots who signed up for the 'armed pilots' program have received the training that would allow them to have pistols in their cockpits. The Transportation Safely Administration has continually come under fire for dragging its feet and refusing to properly implement the program."From "Armed Pilots Update," Resource Roundup, June 2004, page 2. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Canada has passed law C-250, the 'chill bill', which makes it illegal for anyone to publicly criticize homosexuality. As a result, certain verses of the Bible will now be considered 'hate speech' in Canada. Some Christian TV programming has already been banned in Canada." [A preview of things to come to the U.S. perhaps.]From "The Chill Bill," Resource Roundup, June 2004, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Government-sponsored Islamic militias in Sudan have killed at least 30,000 people in the Southern Sudan since February, 2003. Many young boys have been taken into slavery and women have been forced to marry into Islamic families, usually as a second or third wife." [You mean you haven't read this in the mainstream media? It must not be news "fit to print" when America bashing and Bush bashing take all the space.]From "Mass Murder in Sudan," Resource Roundup, June 2004, page 12. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.  Government Run Amok items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2000. Second Quarter, 2000. Third Quarter, 2000. Fourth Quarter, 2000. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2001. Second Quarter, 2001. Third Quarter, 2001. Fourth Quarter, 2001. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2002. Second Quarter, 2002. Third Quarter, 2002. Fourth Quarter, 2002. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2003. Second Quarter, 2003. Third Quarter, 2003. Fourth Quarter, 2003. Government Run Amok items for First Half, 2004.
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