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 "[S]tudents at West Springfield High School in Northern Virginia were recently forced to forge their parents' signatures on a county form that the school uses to collect federal funding. . . Bill Renner, a coach at the school . . . defended the actions . . . noting that the students were supposed to turn in their forms three months prior."From "Forge Your Parents' Signatures . . . Or Else!" by Peyton Knight, The DeWeese Report, June 2001, page 7, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. "Friday, March 30th was a state holiday in California. It marked the first celebration of a new state holiday commemorating the birthday of leftist farm worker organizer Cesar Chavez. . . To prevent losing a day of school and work, the law deleted President's Day (still officially George Washington's birthday) as a holiday in California."From "California Falls into Even Greater Darkness," The DeWeese Report, June 2001, page 7, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. "'We must stop American capitalistic imperialism! We must support social changes so America can be more like Cuba, where the government owns everything and gives it out equally so there are no rich and poor.' 'Never trust the police!' 'If you are a woman who uses no makeup and does not like frilly feminine things then you are a transgender.' 'We must stop drilling for oil, stop cutting trees, stop using our resources, stop exploiting animals, and save the environment!' 'Sex can wait -- masturbate!' These were some of the profound tidbits of learning presented to students in the hallowed halls at Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California) during their 'Days of Diversity,' this past April."From "Week of Biodiversity-Hotbed for 'Political Correctness'," by Orlean Koeble, The DeWeese Report, June 2001, page 12, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. "Executive Order 13166, issued on August 11, 2000 by Bill Clinton made the United States officially multilingual. Every government agency and every recipient of federal funds must now prepare themselves to provide all their services in any person's choice of language at any time" "Thanks to EO 13166, the United States now has over 300 official tongues."From an undated solicitation letter from Jim Boulet, Jr., executive director, English First, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8408. Website. "Republicans have been arguing for an increase of 11 percent in spending by the Department of Education, while Democrats have been arguing for a 35-50 percent increase. The department currently operates on a budget of $44.5 billion a year. . . [T]he Department of Education has been so mismanaged that it can't account for the money that it is currently spending. The amount of missing, mismanaged or stolen money reaches $6 billion. . . ."From "Cooking the Books at Education," by Cliff Kincaid, AIM Report, #9, 2001, page 1. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "[T]he FBI sequestered 23 surveillance tapes trained on the Murrah Building and the streets in the area [of the Oklahoma bombing], but they won't say what is on them."From "Notes from the Editor's Cuff," by Reed Irving, AIM Report, #9, 2001, page 1. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms memo shows that the agency knew about the activities of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh a year before the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building."From "Prior Knowledge of OKC Explosion," WorldNet, June 2001, page 30. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "The federal agency that supplies the Pacific Northwest with electricity has decided to cut off power to the local aluminum industry on October 1. . . John Carlisle of the National Center for Public Policy Research says the decision means the end of the region's 60-year-old aluminum industry along with the loss of 30,500 jobs."From "Feds Kill NW Aluminum Industry," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 11, 2001, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Eleven high-school students, two parent escorts and a teacher were abruptly escorted out of the White House this week after daring to stop during a tour of 'the people's house' to pray for its chief resident, President George W. Bush."From "White House: No-Pray Zone," WorldNet, June 2001, page 31. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "IRS employees charged with helping taxpayers at walk-in sites around the U.S. give incorrect or insufficient answers 73 percent of the time. And to get even those answers one out of six of the [taxpayers] had to wait from 30 minutes to over an hour."From "Internal Recreation Service," The American Enterprise, July/August 2001, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "The Capital Research Center (CRC) revealed that 31 'nonprofit' groups received over $400 million in federal money in the last five years, the majority of which are the most politically active Democratic groups in the country. The report also noted that most are using your money to finance their lobbying activities even though it is illegal."From "Your Tax $ Fund Pro-Illegals," 9*1*1, April 2001, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "According to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, any illegal alien who is 'physically abused' by any member of their family is automatically granted asylum in the U.S. Asylees have the option of sponsoring an unlimited number of their family to come to the U.S. [The flood gates have thus been opened.]"From "Your Tax $ Fund Pro-Illegals," 9*1*1, April 2001, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "An honors graduate at a high school in Fort Myers, Fla., completed her final exams but missed graduation ceremonies because she was arrested and jailed when a steak knife was found in her car on a school parking lot."From "Treatment of Honors Grad Spotlights 'Zero Tolerance' Flaws," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 4-10, 2001, page 12. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Don't look now, but the federal government spending spree continues unabated. Here are some examples: "--$1 Million to study how to cross the street in Utah. --$76,971 to study 'Human Responses to Repeated Floods.' (Victims get depressed and move to higher land.) --$104,055 to study how people communicate through facial expressions. --$384,000 for a federally paid census of the cats and dogs in Ventura County, California. --$229,460 to study the sex life of houseflies. $161,913 to study 'Israeli Reactions to Scud Attacks During the Gulf War' (They didn't like them.)" [When will our citizens get upset about this waste? I mean really upset.]From "Putting Numbers & Common Sense in Perspective," The Oil Patch, May 2001, page 8. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "In [a] GAO report, auditors found that the . . . IRS couldn't explain how it spent $8.5 billion."From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, June 2001, page 8. 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 a report released in April, the inspector general of the Justice Department said the INS was unable to account for more than 61,000 items of its own property, including 539 weapons and 12,000 computers. . . ."From "INS Floundering," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2001, 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 Chinese fighter jet that collided with America's reconnaissance plane in the South China Sea was carrying air-to-air missiles made by the largest recipient of America's foreign aid -- Isreal."From "Sleeping with the Enemy," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2001, 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. "Under President Bill Clinton the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] said it would no longer round up and deport illegal aliens, and then it announced it would no longer raid businesses that hire them. Now the INS has told Border Patrol agents to spend their valuable time picking up the trash illegals leave behind and to avoid walking or driving on the desert habitat. The agency says it doesn't want officers disturbing endangered species like the desert tortoise."From "INS Policy Questioned," Middle America News, June 2001, page 7. 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 United States may be facing a national energy crisis -- one that will be punctuated by blackouts in California and probably many other states this summer -- but across the Pacific Ocean in Shanghai, the Jiangnan Shipyards will be running at full power building warships for the Communist Chinese regime, thanks to funding provided by the U.S. government. The Export-Import Bank of the United States has provided funding to help two U.S. corporations -- Westinghouse Electric and Bechtel Power -- to help the People's Republic of China (PRC) build the Qinshan nuclear power plant near Shanghai."From "U.S. Funding Nuclear Plant in China," by Timothy P. Carney, Human Events, May 21, 2001, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "North Carolina State University in Raleigh has received $472,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice to study whether police stop black drivers more often then whites because they are more likely to speed. . . Preliminary findings indicate blacks indeed do drive faster than whites."From "Sensible Approach," American Renaissance, June 2001, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "Massachusetts now requires sushi served in restaurants to either have been frozen or cooked."From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "Pet owners in California will soon be required to place a microchip in every dog and cat they sell if a bill in the state legislature becomes law."From "'Dog tag' Gets Whole New Meaning," WorldNet, May 2001, page 31. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "Foreign language ballots for U.S. elections are provided in more than 375 voting districts. There's no good rationale for this unless the Democrats are trying to enable non-citizens to vote. To become a naturalized citizen of the United States, our laws require that the applicant demonstrate the ability to read, write and speak simple words in ordinary usage in the English language. Since only citizens can legally vote, there is no need for foreign language ballots."From "The Importance of Our English language," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2001, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "The Internal Revenue Code has 1,395,000 words . . . As of June 2000, the Treasury Department had issued 20,000 pages of tax regulations containing over eight million words. . . [T]axpayers contacted the IRS 117 million times in 1999 for advice and clarification, although the Government Accounting Office says they got wrong answers 47% of the time."From "New Study Illustrates Huge Tax Complications," Human Events, May 28, 2001, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The U.S. General Accounting Office found that the IRS wrongly assessed penalties against 1.5 million taxpayers in a single year[.]" "Each year, the IRS seizes over 10,000 homes, cars, and pieces of property . . . and IRS agents often get 'merit bonuses' based on how much property they've managed to confiscate[.]"From a recently-received promotional booklet from the Institute for Self-Reliant Living, 808 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Phone: 888-201-1714. "For the first time in human history, a nation has embraced same-sex marriage after the Netherlands passed a law which legalized it, and 'gay' activists predicted other European countries will soon follow suit."From "Netherlands OKs World's First 'Gay' Marriages," American Family Association Journal, June 2001, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Communist leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book [Body of Secrets, by James Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News] about the National Security Agency. . . ."From "New Book on NSA Sheds Light on Secrets," Free American Newsmagazine, June 2001, page 7. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "The Clinton bureaucrats managed to sneak a new Medicare law into the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. A law that makes it illegal for your doctor to give you a treatment or operation that's not covered by Medicare!"From a solicitation letter from Paul S. Friedman, M.C., American Studies Center, PO Box 96848, Washington, DC. Phone: 202-408-0944. "In announcing the abolition of Mother's Day at the [Rodeph Sholom private] school, principal Cindi Samson wrote to parents, 'We are a school with many different family make-ups and we need to recognize the emotional well-being of all the children.'"From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, May 14, 2001, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Brian and Jody Bea . . . applied for, and were granted, a permit to build their dream home on their 20-acre parcel of land in 1997. Just before the 4,000 square=foot home was finished, the [Columbia River] Gorge Commission demanded a halt to the construction, and told the Teas they would have to move the structure because it was visible from the road. The Commission had approved the permit more than a year earlier as part of the original process for the building permit. The Beas are still fighting the Commission -- and are not living in their dream home."From "Columbia River Gorge Commission -- A Sustainable Development Monster," eco-logic, Summer 2001, page 16. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. "The 'Metric Martyr', London greengrocer Steven Thoburn, was found guilty in April of selling food measured in pounds and ounces, in violation of European Union statutes. Thoburn faces a fine of $1,500 and court costs of $90,000. It could 'destroy' the Union, suggested the ruling judge, if individuals like Thoburn were allowed to go off on non-metric 'frolics.'"From "Assault with a Dangerous Scale," The American Enterprise, June 2001, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "[I]n the fall of 2000, the [California] state legislature passed two . . . laws (AB 1931 and AB 1785) that promote homosexuality as a normal sexual behavior in the public schools. . . . Under AB 1785, the state Board of Education is ordered to rewrite all of its curriculum guidelines-- including moral and civic education materials -- to promote homosexuality as a positive alternative lifestyle. . . ."From "Homosexual Ed in California,"by Frank York, The New American, June 4, 2001, page 29. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "[C]omprehensive research has not only shown [that the Roosevelt administration in] Washington knew in advance of the attack [on Pearl Harbor], but deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the 'surprise' attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II."From "Pearl Harbor -- The Facts Behind the Fiction," The American Enterprise, June 2001, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "[D]ocuments within the FBI's own investigative file . . . validate . . . that forces within the federal government directed the murder of Dr. [Martin Luther] King through racketeering union-associated operatives who, in turn, hired locals in Jim [Cooper Green's] home town of Caruthersville, Missouri."From "The Ongoing Cover-up," Media Bypass, May 2001, page 35. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Jim [Cooper Green's] partner . . . Butch Collier . . . killed Martin Luther King. . . ."From "M.L. King Murder a Government Plot," by Pat Shannan, Media Bypass, May 2001, page 37. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "A 16-year-old high school student in Broomfield, Colo., may be charged with a felony and could be expelled after school officials found an unloaded BB gun in his car."From "BB Gun Could Net Prison Sentence," America's First Freedom, June 2001, page 18. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "The federal government is turning off the spigot to 1,500 California and Oregon farmers to protect some endangered fish. Farm families will get no water this summer to irrigate crops on 200,000 acres of farm land in the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon and northern California."From "Fish Get Water Farmers Need," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 7-13, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Last month, the following message appeared in huge letters on the sides of Washington, D.C. buses, courtesy of the District's public school system: 'DC Public Schools Wants [sic] You!!! Go To Class -- It' [sic] a Blast!!!'"From "Spell Check," The Limbaugh Letter, February 2001, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "Minnesota high school student Elliott Chambers was told by his principal that he could not wear his 'Straight Pride' sweatshirt because it offended the homosexuals at his school."From "Homosexuals Push for Control of Schools," American Family Association Journal, May 2001, page 1. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "According to the Pacific Justice Institute . . . the California State Board of Education has already drafted new regulations which would require Bible clubs in the public schools to include homosexual members -- and even homosexual leaders."From "Homosexuals Push for Control of Schools," American Family Association Journal, May 2001, page 2. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "[A] 42-year-old detective in Las Vegas, Nevada, will not be prosecuted for an alleged sexual relationship with a teenage boy. Law enforcement officials said that doing so would discriminate against homosexuals. . . . Even though the law states clearly that a homosexual act with a minor under age 18 is a felony, law enforcement authorities have decided that the law is discriminatory, since heterosexual sex is fine once a kid reaches age 16."From "Adult Sex with Teen Not Illegal, Law Says," American Family Association Journal, May 2001, page 6. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "The city of New York spent upwards of $6,500 a night to provide lodging in swanky four-star hotels for homeless people infected with AIDS, the New York Post reported. On one Friday night in April, the city reserved 20 rooms at the pricey Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan -- at a cost of $329 each -- as emergency shelter for AIDS victims living on the street."From "Fat City," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2001, 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. "Just around the time non-whites became a majority of California's population, the city of San Diego decided it will no longer use the word 'minority.' Calling the word 'disparaging,' the city council voted unanimously against using the word in official business."From "New Language for New Times," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2001, 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. "Following Congress' re-naming of CD's 'Ronald Reagan National Airport' in 1997, the local subway system has refused to revise its signs to reflect the change."From "Capitol Offenses," Middle America News, May 2001, page 14. 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 Florida Legislature has gone to war with state judges in the wake of last year's long presidential-election recount battle. Lawmakers are moving dozens of measures aimed at diluting Supreme Court authority and making it harder for justices to keep their jobs. One judge fired back by issuing an unprecedented order forbidding a joint Senate-House committee hearing."From "Florida Lawmakers, Judges Still at War," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 16-22, 2001, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "A third-grader at the Lenwill Elementary School --- he's an honor student, by the way -- . . . drew a picture of [a] relative in uniform. . . He drew the Army fort. . . He listed what weapons and supplies might be found inside the fort. Then . . . a teacher got a glance of it. The next thing you know, the youngster finds himself suspended from school. The principal of this wonderful institution said the drawing was 'upsetting.'"From "Zero Tolerance for Heroes," Parting Shot, by Neal Boortz, America's First Freedom, May 2001, page 72. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "State of Maryland . . . House Bill 1125 would impose a tax of 50 cents per round for 'other than antipersonnel ammunition' (plain vanilla target and practice ammo) and $5 per round for 'antipersonnel ammunition' (defense ammo -- the kind that saves lives). Sales of ammunition to police forces and other governmental agencies would, of course, be exempt.'"From "Bad Gun Owners! Baad, Baaaad Gun Owners!" America's First Freedom, May 2001, page 18. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "In the case of Gentala v. City of Tucson, Arizona . . . judges ruled that it's perfectly all right for the City of Tucson to charge Christians a fee for use of public facilities in conjunction with the National Day of Prayer . . . while setting aside the same fees for non-Christian groups!"From an April 23, 2001 solicitation letter from Jay Alan Sekulow, The American Center for Law & Justice, PO Box 64429, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23467-4429." "Chinese fighter jets had begun a systematic campaign of 'buzzing' dangerously close to U.S. planes and ships in waters near China as early as a year ago . . . but the Pentagon did not formally complain to the White House until December -- out of respect for its ongoing 'strategic partnership' with China. 'The Clinton administration wanted to keep all this quiet, which they did,' a senior Senate aide [said]."From "China's 'Buzzing'," Inside Politics compiled by Gred Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 9-15,, 2001, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Not since Germany occupied Holland six decades ago has there been an official policy declaring some people unfit to live and worthy of forced extermination. But two weeks ago, the Dutch parliament gave final approval to a new euthanasia law that will allow doctors to end a life when it is subjectively decided that the life is no longer worth living." "Two doctors will have to validate that the patient is terminally ill, that he or she suffers 'unbearably' and wants to die. But the principle of an unalienable right to life, which began to fall when abortion was legalized, has crashed to the pavement with the Dutch government's validation of euthanasia."From "A Dutch Death Embrace," by Cal Thomas, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 23-29, 2001, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "In a study conducted between August and November of 2000, the GAO found that the Department of Energy, on the watch of Secretary Bill Richardson, was giving away old computers without removing all of the sensitive information on them."From "The Right Ear," Human Events, April 23, 2001, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Sgt Sandra Larson of Fort Riley, Kansas is dead of 'aplastic anemia,' a virulent auto immune blood disease. She died just 30 days after completing her series of Anthrax shots. . . ."From "Female Sergeant Dead from Anthrax Shot -- When Will Pentagon End This Madness?" Free American Newsmagazine, May 2001, page 15. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "The European Court of Justice ruled that the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil liberties."From "Euro-Court Outlaws Criticism of EU," by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Free American Newsmagazine, May 2001, page 39. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "[P]olls stayed open beyond the legal hour [November 7, 2001 in St. Louis] because of a court order issued pursuant to a petition that included the signature of a dead voter."From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, April 23, 2001, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "A third grader was thrown out of school for drawing a picture of his father, a soldier. The school principal ruled that a soldier was a violent image and, if tolerated, would lead to a school shooting."From "Free Men control Their own Labor and Wages," by Paul Craig Roberts, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 23-29, 2001, page 30. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Recently, a hospital fired an employee who could not get to work or get there on time because of grooming and dressing rituals that took hours and sometimes all day. A federal court ruled that the employee's grooming compulsion could be a disability, thus placing her under the protection of the Americans With Disabilities Act. She is entitled to her job even though she does not perform it."From "Free Men control Their own Labor and Wages," by Paul Craig Roberts, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 23-29, 2001, page 30. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton said yesterday that the Bush administration is not seeking to overturn any of President Bill Clinton's designations of millions of acres of federal land as national monuments largely off limits to mining and commercial activity."From "White House Won't Fight Monument Designations," Free American Newsmagazine, April 2001, page 45. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "The red-legged frog is the largest native frog in the Western United States. . . On March 6th of this year, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that . . . some 4.1 million acres in 28 California counties had been declared actual or potential red-legged frog habitat. . . Though much of the land is currently barren of frogs, it was included because the amphibians might some day seek to move there. The new regulations will make it more difficult for land owners in the habitat areas to exercise their property rights. . . ."From "Another Ludicrous Land Lockup," The New American, April 23,, 2001, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "[T]he 'Yellowstone to Yukon' (Y2Y) project . . . would create a transnational 'bioregion' 2,000 miles long and 300 miles wide. Y2Y could subsume huge tracts of land within five states, as well as two Canadian provinces and one territory. . . Y2Y is an important component of the UN-mandated Wildlands Project, which seeks to lock up approximately one-half of the surface area of North America into a vast 'biodiversity' preserve." "Y2Y's eastern analogue is the proposed 'Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Initiative' (A2A), which would connect the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario with New York State's Adirondack Park. . . ."From "Wildland Project's 'A2A' Landgrab," The New American, April 23,, 2001, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "[I]n 1971 . . . a seven month long trial was held before an EPA administrative judge. He concluded DDT was not 'a hazard to man . . . or other wildlife.' So naturally Nixon's EPA administrator, William Ruckelshaus, a supporter of the Environmental Defense Fund, banned its use in the U.S." "The scientific literature has not even one peer-reviewed study linking DDT to any adverse health outcome."From "Deadly Green," by Mark Hemingway, The American Spectator, April 2001, page 20. Address: 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website. Environmental consultant John J. Zentner, 46, decided to move some 60 California red-legged frogs and 500 tadpoles from a watercourse to a pond. The red-legged frog is protected by the Endangered Species Act, don't you know. John wanted to move the frogs to safety to save his client up to a year's delay in construction. Oops! A Department of Justice prosecutor asked a federal magistrate to sentence Zentner to 10 days in jail. Zentner pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of violating the federal Endangered Species Act. He agreed to serve 200 hours of community service, to have his firm pay a fine of $65,000 and to pay a personal fine of $10,000. Maybe next time Zentner will just bulldoze over the critters and be done with it.From information in "Move a Frog, Go to Jail," by J. Zane Walley, Website, as reported in Freedom Alert, March/April 2001, page 15. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 757, Crestview, Florida 32536. Phone: 850-682-6156. "A state government commission recommended that Oklahoma taxpayers should pay reparations for alleged offenses committed during a race riot 80 years ago."From "Tulsa Commission Okays Reparations for 1921 Riot," Middle America News, April 2001, page 11. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "American courts permit illegal aliens to sue police for mishaps stemming from the lawbreakers' failure to understand English."From "Justice, American-Style," Newsbriefs, Tulsa Commission Okays Reparations for 1921 Riot," Middle America News, April 2001, page 12. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "Pennsylvania schools are implementing a new program requiring fingerprint identification for the children before they can purchase their lunches. At the cash register, the children place their index fingers on the scanner which automatically accesses the [computer] database and deducts the price of the meal from the family's account."From Discerning the Times -- News in a Nutshell, April 2001, page 1. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website. "The Hague International Wars Tribunal just passed sentence on a Serbian man for rape, providing a glimpse of what is in store for the world when the International Criminal Court is finally made international law. President Clinton signed the treaty at the last minute on December 31, 2000, the last day he could do so. The Hague Tribunal arbitrarily decided for the first time to declare rape a war crime."From Discerning the Times -- News in a Nutshell, April 2001, page 2. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website. "Congress is considering a bill that would prohibit discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of any federal land or facility, effectively banning the use of guns in the rural areas of most Western states. Over 30 percent of the US land area is owned by the federal government in general. The amount of federal land in the Western states is over 50 percent."From Discerning the Times -- News in a Nutshell, April 2001, page 2. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website. "According to a recent Washington Post article, federal regulations are due out later this year to phase out the use of snowmobiles on major federal parklands over the next three years. This is, of course, just a prelude to a total ban."From The American Sentinel, April 2001, page 4. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "The federal government has orchestrated a downward spiral in the quality of U.S. medical care (accompanied by an escalation in prices). The goal behind the deliberate destruction of America's medical system is to drive it into crisis, and thus force health care further into the embrace of federal bureaucrats who made it sick to begin with."From The American Sentinel, April 2001, page 7. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "[T]he Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wants to end 'tax competition,' by making all countries charge equally high tax rates."From "The Right Ear," Human Events, April 2, 2001, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The U.S. State Department under Colin Powell, the first black secretary of state, is considering a grant of immunity to protect black racist strongman Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe from a lawsuit filed by the families of two Zimbabweans killed by Mugabe's henchmen. . . . In February the State Department informed the families that it favored granting Mugabe's official request for immunity from the suit."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, April 2001, 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 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is preparing a report that says that school sports teams that use American Indian names or even images of American Indians could be violating federal civil rights laws."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, April 2001, 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. "Disappointed that voters choose so few women to hold public office, the government of France imposed a new law requiring political parties to field an equal number of male and female candidates. . . [T]he French law is not radically different from the contemporary American practice of drawing electoral district boundaries in ways that guarantee the election of minority candidates."From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, April 2001, pages 5 & 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "President Bush last month granted an 18-month reprieve to some 150,000 illegal aliens from El Salvador who were slated for deportation."From "Bush Amnesties 150,000 Illegasl," Middle America News, April 2001, 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. "The Justice Department confiscated 42,454 cars, boats, houses, stacks of cash, and other items of private property in 1998 -- booty valued at $604,514,733. Federal agents can seize a person's house, car, boat, or other property by invoking more than two hundred different federal statutes involving everything from wildlife to carrying cash out of the country to playing poker for cash with friends and relatives. The vast majority of people whose property is seized by federal agents are never formally charged with a crime. Some ninety percent never get their property back."From "An End to Federal Plundering?", by James Bovard, The American Spectator, April 2001, page 12. Address: 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website. "Bill Clinton's most wanton closing act had nothing to do with pardoning tax cheats or drug dealers. His quiet decision to sign the U.N. ban on 'Persistent Organic Pollutants,' which would outlaw a number of lifesaving chemical agents on dubious environmental grounds, will contribute to the deaths of millions of people."From "Deadly Green," by Mark Hemingway, The American Spectator, April 2001, page 18. Address: 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website. "Because of federal environmental regulations, very little timber is now permitted to be taken from federal lands, and the numbers shrink every year. . . As a direct result of enforcement of these regulations by the Clinton Administration, between 1992 and 2000 more than 300 timber mills were closed in the northwestern states alone, at a cost of at least 130,000 jobs. . . Since 1990, timber harvest on federal land has declined from 12 billion board feet a year to barely 2.5 billion board feet in 2000." [A 79% reduction.]From "Green Agenda Is Devouring America's Private Property," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, April 2001, page 2, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. "On Friday, December 1, the UN took a major step in justifying a UN intervention into the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The UN General Assembly reconfirmed a number of past UN resolutions that strip Israel of any sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights and provides the Palestinians with 'inalienable rights.'"From "UN Takes Giant Step Towards Intervention in Israel," Discerning the Times, December 2000, page 1. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website. "[T]he FBI's so-called 'Carnivore' . . . system has the ability to scan and sift through millions of private e-mails every second. Because of the system's ability to get to the 'meat' of important messages, it was named 'Carnivore' by its bureaucratic controllers. . . . So how has the FBI decided to handle the Carnivore controversy now that Clinton is out of power? Instead of announcing its decision to dismantle the nefarious system, they have simply renamed it. From here on in, the FBI will refer to the Carnivore system as 'DCS1000.'"From "Carnivore System Re-Named to Protect the Guilty," The American Sentinel, March 2001, page 7. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "All residents of European Union to be issued world's first global identity number. . . The move is being touted as a step toward more efficient financial interplay between citizens of EU nations. But in reality this is another brick in the foundation of world government."From "All Residents of European Union to be Issued World's First Global Identity Number," The American Sentinel, March 2001, page 8. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "New Jersey Attorney General John F. Farmer [decided] to dismiss drug and contraband charges against 128 defendants who claimed they were victims of racial profiling. Farmer admitted that the defendants, all of them drivers pulled over by the state police, were criminals who had been caught breaking the law. But he said he wanted to dismiss the charges and move on. . . ."From "Prosecuting the Police," AIM Report, March 7 2001, page 3. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "The Clinton bureaucrats managed to sneak a new Medicare law into the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. A law that makes it illegal for your doctor to give you a treatment or operation that's not covered by Medicare! Even if you're willing to pay for the operation out of your own pocket, your doctor can't treat you."From an undated solicitation letter from Paul S. Friedman, M.D., PO Box 96848, Washington DC 20090-6848. Phone: 202-408-0944.  Government Run Amuck items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amuck items for First Quarter of 2000. Second Quarter of 2000. Third Quarter of 2000. Fourth Quarter of 2000. Government Run Amuck items for First Quarter of 2001.
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