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 "[I]n the past year, city, state, and federal levels of government grew by 6%, while the private sector grew by only 0.5%."From "Big Government Gets Bigger," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 17, 2002, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "A new Labor Department study estimates that $2.4 billion, or 8% of the unemployment benefits paid last year nationwide, were overpayments or fraudulent claims. . . Illegal immigrants are not eligible for unemployment benefits, but the Labor Department estimates that illegals received approximately $30 million in benefits last year."From "Illegals Steal from Taxpayers," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 17, 2002, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The world's largest lanthanide mine, in the Mojave desert between Barstow, California and Las Vegas, Nevada was regulated out of business by twenty-nine local, state and federal officials. The People's Republic of China becomes the principal source of these strategic minerals."From "Greens Force Strategic Mine Out of Business," Resource Roundup, March 2002, page 4. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website. "The Federal Bureau of Prisons is seeking a 'dance instructor' to teach beginning and advanced classes to the Texas inmate population."From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, July/August 2002, page 8. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "The United States is accepting immigrants at a faster rate than at any other time since the 1850s, according to Census 2000 figures released on June 4. The 31.1 million foreign-born residents represent 11.3 million more than in the 1990 census -- a 57 percent increase. . . ."From "Immigrant Growth Rate Is Highest in 150 Years," by Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 10-16, 2002, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "War isn't stopping Uncle Sam from celebrating Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, recognized every June. Bureaucrats not busy tracking down terrorists who threaten to annihilate Americans with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are encouraged by a U.S. government memo 'to explore opportunities to participate in these events.'"From "Immigrant Growth Rate Is Highest in 150 Years," by Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 10-16, 2002, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "We are . . . experiencing a shaken baby syndrome (SBS) witch hunt in this country. Violet Harris has looked into six different SBS cases in and around Boise, Idaho and found out that in each case, both malnutrition and vaccines were involved. All parties claim innocence. The prosecutors in all cases refuse to look at the vaccine connection -- and the victims, the alleged 'shakers', are being locked up in our state's prisons. . . . The truth is that vaccines can cause sudden infant death; vaccines can cause learning disabilities; vaccines can cause the infections that lead to the development of chronic diseases. We cannot even begin to describe the extent of what is happening with regard to public health policies mandating 'medical experimentation' via vaccinations. . . . Shall we continue to allow governments to inject animal pus, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and live and dead viruses directly into our children as a mandated method of disease prevention? To say 'yes' is to ignore hundreds of years of vaccination failures and ignore the cause and effect relationship of mass vaccination to epidemic diseases and learning disabilities."From "The American Mass Vaccination Agenda," The Idaho Observer, May 13, 2002, page 11. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website. "Despite that label of being 'the most active state sponsor of terrorism,' Iran is about to get a $1-billion loan from the World Bank. This despite the fact, noted Investor's Business Daily (May 22), that the United States provides 29% of the World Bank's money and is opposed to the loan. Western European countries, says IBD, seem to be about to endorse the deal."From "World Bank to Aid Iran," Capital Briefs, Human Events, May 27, 2002, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "As the Postal Service prepares to raise postage rates this month by an average of 13.5%, the Postal Rate Commission released figures showing that in the last fiscal year one-third of Priority Mail deliveries failed to be delivered by their intended target date. . . According to the Wall Street Journal, 'The latest post office statistics show that the typical Priority Mail shipment now takes more than half a day longer to reach its destination than first class deliveries. . ."From "Priority Not Prioritized," Human Events, June 10, 2002, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Bush appointee, INS Commissioner James Zigler . . . has publicly stated he does not agree with U.S. immigration laws and said he will not implement the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act recently signed into law. . . . Per the N.Y. Post (5-30), NYPD officers apprehended seven admitted Mideast (most from Pakistan) illegal aliens with fraud documents and spent hours attempting to contact INS. When INS finally called them back, they refused to send an agent and told the officers 'to just release them'."From "INS Abides by 'Zigler's Law' -- Possible Terrorists Released," 9*1*1, June 2002, 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. "Juan Hernandez, head of the government's Office of Mexicans Living Outside Mexico, said that the North American southwest 'is not two countries; it's just a region.'" [So much for borders.]From "Immigration News Briefs," Middle America News, June 2002, 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. "Prior to the FDA's becoming a national medical gatekeeper in 1962, the average approval time for new drugs was seven months. By 1967 it had increased to 30 months. Today, it takes about 8 years to get a new drug developed, approved and delivered to market."From "Exposed: The Food and Drug Administration Death Machine," The American Sentinel, June 2002, page 2. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "[T]he Bush Administration has signed off on legislation to produce books that promote the Islamic religion, for shipment to the children of Afghanistan." [So much for the separation of church and state.]From "The Fight to Make Tom Ridge's Homeland Security Council a Powerful New Super-Bureaucracy," The American Sentinel, June 2002, page 6. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "Citing the need to regulate . . . unorthodox forms of [medical] treatment, the UN's World Health Organization has taken the first steps toward global regulation of all alternative medicine -- including chiropractic practitioners and, conceivably, health food outlets." [The UN and freedom are strangers.]From "UN Crackdown on 'Alternative' Medicine," The New American, June 17, 2002, page 7. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "In early 1998, the Federal Aviation Administration was told of 'concerns' of instructors at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Phoenix, Arizona about a Saudi student named Hani Hanjour. They said he lacked the English skills necessary to fly multi-engine jet aircraft, a requirement for the civil aviation industry. The FAA responded by offering to provide an interpreter for Hanjour. He was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th."From "Intel Failure: Worse than We Thought," by Reed Irvine, AIM Report, #9, May 24, 2002, page 2. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "Currently, universities are considered to be in compliance with Title IX if the proportion of female students who are athletes is the same as the proportion of male students who are athletes, thus forcing schools to prevent some men from participating in sports if not enough women choose to participate. . . . [C]oaches assert that Title IX has resulted in the elimination of more than 400 men's teams nationwide." [Your government's quotas at work.]From "Out with Title IX?" Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 3, 2002, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "In a little-noticed statement, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner James Ziglar has said that most of the millions of illegal aliens living in this country do not have to worry about the U.S. government enforcing the law and deporting them." [In other words, "illegal" no longer means "illegal".]From "Out with Title IX?" Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 3, 2002, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "INS Commissioner James Ziglar's only law enforcement experience [was] serving as the Sergeant-at-Arms for the Senate."From "Immigration News Briefs," Middle America News, June 2002, 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. "[There are an] estimated nine million illegal aliens now present in the United States".From "INS - The 'Incompetence and Negligence Service'," Border Alert, June 2002, page 3. Address: U.S. Border Control, 8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1070, McLean, Virginia 22102. Website. "The INS spent $31.2 million on a computer system to track whether visa-holders overstay their visas. The system still does not work, and the INS says that it needs an additional $57 million for the system."From "$31.2 Million Spent on Tracking System - It Still Doesn't Work," Border Alert, June 2002, page 3. Address: U.S. Border Control, 8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1070, McLean, Virginia 22102. Website. "INS Commissioner Doris Meissner . . . personally ordered every single document pertaining to the Elian [Gonzalex] raid to be destroyed to prevent any embarrassment to the Administration. Unfortunately for the corrupt trio [Reno, Clinton, and Meissner], they were not careful enough. For one single document survived the attempted cover up and lived to tell a tale in court that proves the Administration lied to the American people about the Elian saga."From "JW Reveals 'Smoking Gun' Memo in Case Against INS," Judicial Watch Verdict, June 2002, page 8. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website. "The Wall Street Journal reported Monday the Justice Department will ask a federal judge to impose tough restrictions on the marketing, manufacture and sale of cigarettes as government lawyers show their hand for the first time in their three year legal assault on the tobacco industry that began during the Clinton administration. The pretrial documents, according to the Journal, show that the government will ask the court to restrict all cigarette advertising to black and white, print-only formats; reserve half the space in any cigarette ad for graphic health warnings; end all cigarette trade promotions and giveaways; ban all cigarette vending machine sales and publicly disclose all ingredients, additives and toxic chemicals in cigarettes."From "Free Speech Casualty: Are Guns Next?" (excerpted from CNSNews.com) Resource Roundup, May 2002, page 2. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website. "[Great Britain's] Home Secretary solemnly declared, 'The government has fulfilled its pledge to remove all handguns from the streets of Great Britain to prevent legally-held handguns from falling into the wrong hands.' [However,] new Scotland Yard figures show that in London, murders with guns increased 87% in the first eight months of 2001, compared to the same period in 2000." [Is any conservative surprised?]From "Controlling Guns . . . or People?" by Barney Swartz, Resource Roundup, May 2002, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website. "This (Endangered Species Act) is the only act in this country that I'm aware of that elevates species of flies, rats, slimy slugs and a host of other creatures nobody has ever heard of over the needs, desires and the pursuit of happiness of American citizens."Representative Jim Hansen (R-UT), quoted in Resource Roundup, May 2002, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website. "A Norwalk, Virginia couple has been accused of conducting a regulated activity on a wetland without a permit and ordered to appear in court. The charge? They have been accused of trimming bushes on their private ocean view property. The charge carries penalties of up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine."From "VA Couple Faces Jail for Pruning," (excerpt from Liberty Matters Website) Resource Roundup, May 2002, page 16. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website. "Just one week after the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) notified a Florida flight school that the two men who had piloted hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center had been granted legal status to study in the United States, four Pakistani crewmen were allowed ashore improperly and disappeared from a merchant ship that docked in Norfolk, Virginia."From "Another INS Blunder Adds Fuel to Fire of Reorganization," FAIR Immigration Report, May 2002, page 8. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website. "A Central Florida boy who had repeatedly threatened to kill his assistant principal could only be suspended for a maximum of ten days. School officials in Orange County, California could not remove a child who hits, kicks, and bites his teachers and classmates; a federal court ruled that school officials must honor the demand of the child's father that he stay in class. A North Carolina student broke her teacher's arm -- and could only be suspended for two days. An Oklahoma City student stabbed a principal with a nail and was suspended for three days." [But if a kid raises his thumb, sticks out his finger and says "bang", he's outta there.]From "Bad Idea," The American Enterprise, June 2002, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "In January 1995, [Lin] Drake bought Utah land, then verified that it had no prairie dogs. . . But the FWS [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service], on what it thought was Drake's land -- there were neither maps nor landmarks -- saw 74-78 prairie dogs; but only two were filmed due to camera problems! The FWS threatened Drake with a $200,000 fine and a year in prison."From "Pendley's View," The Litigator, Spring 2002, page 2. Address: Mountain States Legal Foundation Executive Offices, 2596 South Lewis Way, Lakewood, Colorado 80227. Phone: 303-292-2021. Fax: 303-292-1980. Website. "[T]wo rural western counties [Blaine and Alamosa, Colorado] . . . have been sued by the federal government, which asserts that the counties have violated the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and must racially gerrymander their counties to guarantee the election of racial minorities."From "Voting Rights Act Abuse Fought in Western Counties," The Litigator, Spring 2002, page 6. Address: Mountain States Legal Foundation Executive Offices, 2596 South Lewis Way, Lakewood, Colorado 80227. Phone: 303-292-2021. Fax: 303-292-1980. Website. "Earlier this year, the New Jersey State Department of Education issued new history standards omitting all mention of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Fortunately, after an uproar in the press, New Jersey's Department of Education backed down and agreed to include those famous names in the state's history standards."From "Dropping Down the Memory Hole," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2002, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "Massachusetts' highest court ruled that people may practice sodomy in public places such as parking lots, parks, and beaches without fear of prosecution so long as they cannot be seen by others." [But if you're caught smoking . . .]From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2002, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "In one week, over 45 speakers from the Bay Area's gay community spoke to students at the Park Day elementary school in Oakland."From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2002, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "Janet Reno . . . executed the largest law enforcement killing of civilians in U.S. history."From "Reno's Idea of a Threat," Scan, The American Enterprise, June 2002, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "A UNICEF-funded book being passed out at the United Nations Child Summit [in New York] encourages children to engage in sexual activities with other minors and with homosexuals and animals."From "Child Sex Book Given Out at U.N. Summit Cites Animals, Gays as Partners," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 13-19, 2002, page 21. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The ICC [International criminal Court] will be in business as of July 1. Its troublesome mandate allows it to claim jurisdiction over American soldiers and government officials, even though America has rejected the treaty."From "Keeping Out of a World Court," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 13-19, 2002, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Over 90 million acres have been designated as wetlands, some that have been farmed for 20, 30 or more years. Over 25% of Florida is classified as wetlands, with some in every county. Over 72% of these lands are privately owned, but the owner cannot use them, and can only pay taxes on them. The state of Florida is drafting regulations that would be even more restrictive than federal guidelines. Some of these 'wetlands' are as dry as your back yard. Once classified as wetlands, the owner is denied use of the land."From a flyer distributed by Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 757, Crestview, Florida 32536. Phone: 850-682-6156. Fax: 850-689-3637. E-mail. Website. "The long-awaited appeal of Alan Yurko was filed March 22, 2002. Yurko was sentenced by a Florida judge to serve life plus 10 years in prison for shaking his baby to death. The evidence shows that Yurko's conviction was actually a cover for medical malpractice. Baby Alan was born premature and sickly after an extremely difficult pregnancy. Though Baby Alan was contraindicated for vaccines due to his many medical complications, his pediatrician gave him six vaccinations all at once at age two months. Two weeks later Baby Alan died after Yurko had rushed him to the hospital. Yurko was then arrested and railroaded into prison for the murder of his son. . . Hundreds of innocent mothers, fathers and caregivers are currently being imprisoned for 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' to cover the fact that vaccines are killing more and more babies."From "Bogus SBS Conviction Appeal Filed," The Idaho Observer, April 15, 2002, page 10. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website. "On February 27, 2002, the Wisconsin legislature passed a Mandated Vaccination/Emergency Health Powers Act that calls for a $10,000 fine and/or nine months in prison for those who refuse vaccinations."From "Smallpox vaccinations at Gunpoint?" The Idaho Observer, April 15, 2002, page 16. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website. "At John C. Fremont Middle School, a student recently protested being asked to stand during the pledge of allegiance. Not out of a lack of patriotism, but because it was being recited in Spanish, not English."From "Nevada Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish," from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, as quoted in English First Members' Report, April 30, 2002, page 5. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "The highly touted Priority Mail, which is going up to $3.85 in June, often takes longer to deliver than normal first class mail. . . . The coming [postage] rate increase will cost consumers an extra $500 million a month."From "Postal Monopoly Causes Failure," by Doug Bandow, Human Events, May 6, 2002, page 9. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "[M]ore than 100,000 blank passports . . . were stolen in recent years from government offices of participating countries in the U.S. visa waiver program. 'Passports from visa waiver countries are often the document of choice for terrorists,' [Senator Dianne Feinstein] says, and they sell for as much as $7,500 (per visa) on the black market."From "Smile, and Say Osama," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 29-May 5, 2002, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The Bush administration has joined European delegates to an upcoming U.N. summit on children in moving to recognize families 'in various forms,' including unmarried cohabiting couples and homosexual partners."From "U.S. to Help U.N. Redefine 'Families' to Include gay Couples," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 29-May 5, 2002, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The United Nations, which just last summer met on U.S. soil to try to restrict your right to keep and bear arms, is being investigated for possible use of illegally imported and issued fully-automatic rifles -- for Secretary-General Kofi Annan's security detail, no less!"From "First Tings First," America's First Freedom, May 2002, page 16. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "Do you want to live in a country where you can go to jail for voicing your opinion about a politician? Where the government can ask your librarian what you read, without you knowing about it? Where the federal government can wiretap your phone, or search your computer online, without a warrant? Guess what? You already do."From "Freedom v. Fear," by Wayne LaPierre, America's First Freedom, May 2002, pages 36-37. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "In Holland, the age of consent is 12, if the senior 'partner' is no older than 16. The April 13th New York Times observed that parents who object to a 12-year-old becoming sexually active 'can overrule a child's wishes only if they persuade the Council for the Protection of Children that they are acting in the child's best interest.' That is to say, Dutch parents must get the central government's permission to enforce moral standards in their home. (This arrangement, by the way, is entirely in keeping with the UN's so-called Universal Convention on the Rights of the Child, which makes the central government the primary custodian of children.)"From "'Queer' Agenda for Clergy Abuse," The New American, May 6, 2002, 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. "Minnesota . . . now offers health care forms in 'a total of 11 languages: Arabic, Croatian, English, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese' and offers telephone interpreter services in ten languages."From "Istook Demands HHS Rescind Clinton Order Forcing Medicaid to Fund Unlimited Translation," English First Members' Report, April 30, 2002, page 2. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "In 2000, the Chicago City Council voted 46-1 in favor of a resolution calling for reparations, and after the vote Chicago Mayor Richard Daley publicly apologized for slavery."-- "The Reparations Battle," by James Lubinskas (reviewing Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery by David Horowitz), American Renaissance, May 2002, page 8. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "The unpunished expulsion and murder of whites is, of course, the real story in Zimbabwe, even if Europeans and Americans are either too stupid to notice or too afraid to say so. Africans understand exactly what is happening. A Namibian is reported to have said of the election: 'This is a great victory against the white colonialists. Soon we will cleanse Namibia and then South Africa of all Europeans and whites."From "Zim over the Edge," American Renaissance, May 2002, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published a report in 1995 which revealed that the actual cost of foreign aid provided by the U.S. to the rest of the world since the end of World War II is nearly $2 trillion. . . An official Clinton administration Task Force on Foreign Aid Report stated that, 'despite decades of foreign assistance, most of Africa and parts of Latin America, Asia and the Middle East are economically worse off today than they were 20 years ago.'"From "Foreign Aid Flip-Flop," by Cliff Kincaid, AIM Report, #6, April 1, 2002, page 2. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "Human Events columnist Walter Williams explained last month: 'The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution? But, I'm afraid, most Americans want congressmen to do something else -- to violate the Constitution in order to make it possible for them to live at the expense of others.'"From "The Truth," The Right Ear, Human Events, April 8, 2002, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "[H]andgun crime [in Canada] has been increasing even though handguns have been registered in Canada for 60 years. [S]ince 1998, when the government started to register all firearms, homicides involving firearms have gone up 20%."From "Canadian Crime," The Right Ear, Human Events, April 8, 2002, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The community . . . called the '8.5 Square Mile Area' . . . along the eastern edge of the Everglades National Park . . . has been granted flood protection by Congress on three separate occasions, but because of radical environmentalists [the] community has been flooded unmercifully since 1994 in an effort to force people to become 'willing sellers.' In the process of flooding us, the government agencies involved in 'restoring' the Everglades have managed to flood the entire Miami-Dade County area twice in a one-year period. So far there has been at least $1 billion in flood-related losses and 14 flood-related deaths throughout the urban and agricultural areas of the county. The agricultural community in the southern part of the county is literally on its knees."From "Rural America Under Seige -- Right Here in Florida," by Madeleine Fortin, Freedom Alert, April 2002, page 7. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 540575, Merritt Island, Florida 32954. Editor: John Earley, PO box 31, Loxahatchee, Florida 33470. Phone: 561-793-7451. Fax: 561-792-1992. E-mail. "[The] Pacific Legal Foundation challenged the listing of the Oregon Coast coho [fish]. Judge Hogan concluded that the government had created the unusual circumstance of two genetically identical salmon swimming side by side in the same stream, while one receives ESP protection and the other does not."From "Solutions that value People's Lives, Not Extremist Hype, Must Dominate Klamath Water Planning Process," Freedom Alert, April 2002, page 13. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 540575, Merritt Island, Florida 32954. Editor: John Earley, PO box 31, Loxahatchee, Florida 33470. Phone: 561-793-7451. Fax: 561-792-1992. E-mail. "High visitor numbers are . . . offered as a justification for large increases in the Forest Service's annual budget. The Forest Service was recently forced to admit it has drastically misled Congress and the general public about the number of visitors to national forests. The Forest Service reported 920 million visitors in the year 2000, while the actual number was, at most, 209 million."From "Dyslexic or Deceitful?" Environment and Climate News, as quoted in Media Bypass, April 2002, page 46. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Amtrak has been given some $25 billion in tax revenues since its creation in 1971. . ."From "Another Great Train Robbery," The New American, April 8, 2002, 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 U.S. Army is facilitating the practice of Wicca, a neo-pagan form of witchcraft, on military bases. Several months ago it was reported that Fort Hood, the largest U.S. Army base in the country, is also the center of Wiccan practice in the military. At least 20 witches, and perhaps as many as 100, reportedly take part in covens at Fort Hood. . . It turns out that Attorney General Ashcroft has had a witch on his payroll. Selena Fox, a senior minister with Circle Sanctuary, a Wiccan congregation in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, has been serving as a consultant to the Department of justice on religious accommodation for followers of alternative religions."From "Profiling Ashcroft," AIM Report, #2, January 25, 2002, 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 administration provided some $1.2 billion in loans for [projects proposed by Enron and partially financed by the U.S. government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation -- projects] worth a combined $4 billion, while Democratic causes received nearly $2 million from Enron."From "The Missing Enron Witness," AIM Report, #4, February 21, 2002, 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. "A Swedish man has been banned from 14 countries for putting up an anti-EU poster. Per Johansson put up the poster outside a Belgian police station. He was expelled from Belgium and told he will not be able to travel in 13 other EU countries." [Political Correctness overwhelms the freedom of speech.]From "Swede Banned from 14 Countries for Putting up a Poster," Free American Newsmagazine, April 2002, page 37. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "Montgomery County, Maryland, already nationally known for its stringent anti-smoking laws, passed and then retracted a law penalizing people for smoking in their own homes. The law was approved on November 20, but was retracted just seven day later after the county became the object of national and global ridicule."From "Maryland County Ridiculed for Attempted Smoking Ban," by James M. Taylor, Environment & Climate News, February 2002, page 13. Address: The Heartland Institute, 19 South LaSalle, Suite 903, Chicago, Illinois 60603. Phone: 312-377-4000. Fax: 312-377-5000. E-mail. Website. "Today, of the information now in federal data banks, more than thirty percent is known to be incorrect."From "Liberty Is Not a Plastic ID Card," by Tom DeWeese, eco-logic, Fall 2001, page 36. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. "According to the Christian Science Monitor, the [Social Security Administration] recently discovered that 21 million SSN's are not correctly matched to the persons to whom the numbers should belong."From "Understated Understaffing," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2002, 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. "The IRS tax code . . . is 13,000 pages long . . . has 1.4 million words and 650 different forms. . ."From "How to Reform the Tax Code," by Martin Gross, Middle America News, April 2002, page 20. 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 the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United Nations is said to be considering a universal identification system. A proposal made in December at a U.N. meeting suggests the implementation of a system which would require the fingerprinting and registration of every person in the world."From "UN Considers Universal Identification System," American Family Association Journal, March 2002, page 7. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "U.S. soldiers guarding the captured Taliban are now being required to undergo mandatory 'sensitivity training' so as to not offend these fanatics."From "Political Correctness Toward Taliban Prisoners Gains U.S. No Friends," The American Sentinel, April 2002, page 11. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "This proposed driver's license system [a de facto national ID card] is not about preventing terrorism, and it's not even about identity. It's about requiring individual American citizens to get government permission for traveling, banking, medical care, renting or buying housing, attending school or college, and even getting a job."From "Is the Era of Big Government Coming Back?" by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2002, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "Picture a social worker claiming a right to conduct an official interview in Spanish even if the citizen being interrogated asks to be addressed in English. That is precisely what happened in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A meeting between a social worker from New Mexico's Children's Protective Service and Adela Martinez led to Mrs. Martinez losing custody of her three-year-old daughter, Anamarie. The alarming thing about that meeting was that, despite Mrs. Martinez's request that the social worker speak English, this crucial meeting was conducted almost entirely in Spanish. Why? According to Mrs. Martinez, the social worker stated 'she was more comfortable in Spanish.'"From "E.O. 13166," English First Members' Report, February 25, 2002, page 4. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "Just before Christmas, the Arizona State Legislature approved nearly $3 million in public funds to cover kidney dialysis treatment and cancer chemotherapy for illegal aliens. Meanwhile, many indigent senior citizens -- American citizens -- must abide by stricter limits, fewer choices and rising prices on everything from walkers to pain medications under their government health coverage."From "Osama's Medical Welcome Mat," by Michelle Melkin, 9*1*1, March 2002, 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. "Florida Governor Jeb Bush [appointed] Representative Rudy Bradley to a post on the Public Service Commission. . . . Mr. Bradley, . . . describing his 2000 senate bid . . . wrote 'I lossed my election.' [He later explained:] 'I speak English and ebonics. I guess ebonics came out the day I did that application.'"From "It's Who You Know," American Renaissance, April 2002, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "[N]ow it turns out that U.S. Forest Service officials used fake data on spotted owl habitats to halt logging in California. . . So far, the feds have paid out $15 million in taxpayer funds to compensate for their lies."From "Lies and More Lies," The Right Ear, Human Events, March 25, 2002, page 17. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Currently, 30% of the information stored in federal databases is incorrect. A single mistake on your new national ID card could make it impossible for you to drive a car, apply for a credit card, or even get a job."From "States Creating a National ID System," by Peyton Knight, The DeWeese Report, April 2002, page 3, 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. "While opposing the Kyoto Protocol, President Bush embraced a treaty to give the U.N. control over 12 important industrial chemicals -- including chlorine."From "Global Taxation," by Henry Lamb, The DeWeese Report, April 2002, page 6, 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. "Dr. Larry Squires, a rancher and veterinarian . . . sought to use his arid land near Hobbs [New Mexico], where the evaporation rate exceeds rainfall by 100 inches annually. The EPA said that, every one or two hundred years, it rains hard enough in the area so that rain collects in the sinkholes pocketing Squires' land. When birds land on the water, at least until the water evaporates, because the birds are 'engaged in interstate commerce,' the water become 'waters of the United States.'"From "Landowner Wins Big -- Prevails in 'Taking' Case," The Litigator, Winter 2002, page 4. Address: Mountain States Legal Foundation Executive Offices, 2596 South Lewis Way, Lakewood, Colorado 80227. Phone: 303-292-2021. Fax: 303-292-1980. Website. "Last summer, Canadian authorities reminded broadcasters Drs. James Dobson, Laura Schlessinger and Jerry Falwell that criticism of the homosexual agenda violates Canada's anti-hate laws and will not be tolerated on the airwaves in Canada. The penalty? Loss of a license for Canadian stations that don't comply." [Wave goodbye to our Freedom of Speech.]From "Canadian 'Thought Police'," by Ted Pike, Midnight Messenger, March-April 2002, page 1. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. "Already in 49 states, 'anti-hate' laws have been passed which can lead directly to a ban on 'intimidation' of homosexuals over the airwaves. If 'hate' bill S625 (HR1343), now before Congress, is passed, it will provide massive federal authority behind an end to anti-homosexual broadcasting in America."From "Canadian 'Thought Police'," by Ted Pike, Midnight Messenger, March-April 2002, page 10. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. "The U.N. has . . . funded Osama bin Laden. . . In a startling revelation, the BBC on October 21, 2001 said the U.N. donated over $1 million to a charity believed by the US to be a bin Laden front organization."From "The U.N. War Against America," by the National committee Against the U.N. Takeover, The U.N. War Against America, a project of America's Survival, Incorporated, page 2. Address: PO Box 96099, Washington, DC 20090-6099. "In a politically-correct move that turns history on its ear, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are not included in the revised version of the New Jersey department of Education history standards. The Pilgrims and the Mayflower also are excluded, as well as the word 'war,' which has been replaced with 'conflict' in lessons about the early settlers, colonization and expansion. . . ."From "Founding Fathers Ousted in New Jersey!" America's First Freedom, April 2002, page 20. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "The EU is threatening Irish farmers with severe fines for producing too much milk. [Also:] The European Court of Justice has banned British shops from selling designer goods at reduced prices."From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2002, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "[T]he Centers for Disease Control is trying to pass laws in your state that will give health officials the power to use the state militia to quarantine you and your family; seize your personal property and forcible medicate and vaccinate you without your informed consent. . . . Before September 11, this kind of proposed law would be unthinkable. Today, this CDC-inspired emergency health powers legislation already has been introduced in six states (Massachusetts, Minnesota, Illinois, South Carolina, Maryland and California) and there are plans to introduce it in many more in the next few months. . . ."From a solicitation letter from Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder, National vaccine Information Center, 421-E Church Street, Vienna, Virginia 22180. Phone: 800-909-SHOT. Website. "The Clinton Administration waged war on our common language during its eight years in office. Under Bill Clinton, the first citizenship ceremony was conducted entirely in a foreign language and the exam for U.S. citizenship was reduced to copying two sentences written in English from a blackboard and needing to get just one of the two correct! . . . Right now, our government is telling immigrants they don't have to learn our language or adopt our culture or American values. This policy has literally destroyed the unity that has made our country great."From a 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. "As they do in many cities, police officers in Los Angeles must now keep a record of the race of every person they stop. Beginning on Nov. 1, they had to record the 'apparent descent' of the person (white, black, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, American Indian or other). They also have to indicate whether they frisked the person and why they stopped him. During the coming year, Los Angeles officers will probably fill out 700,000 such forms. . . . Of course, no one knows what the data will mean. How many frisked Mexicans is too many frisked Mexicans? Some people have pointed out that anti-gang units do a lot of stopping and frisking, and that gang members 'happen to be' black and Hispanic."From "Keeping the Police Busy," American Renaissance, February 2002, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "As part of heightened security in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, airport security guards have been asking Sikhs to remove their turbans for searches. Under pressure from the Maryland-based Sikh Mediawatch and Resources Task Force, the Federal Aviation Administration has now declared it illegal to make a Sikh take off his turban. For Sikhs, the turban is sacred, and a Sikh man may never bare his head in public."From "Hide and Sikh," American Renaissance, February 2002, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.  Government Run Amuck items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amuck items for First Quarter, 2000. Second Quarter, 2000. Third Quarter, 2000. 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