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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
(Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions near the end of the message)
January 8, 2002
ALERT: MAYOR VERA KATZ SAYS, "HAPPY NEW YEAR, THUGS AND CRIMINALS"
How low will anti-rights leaders stoop in their quest to disarm
you? Here's a city mayor and her minions who've gone so far as
to break the law and then lie about it.
On New Year's Eve, the city of Portland, Oregon, threw a big
bash in Pioneer Courthouse Square. As JPFO supporter Timothy
Dunn reported, "Everybody was invited with one exception:
Law-abiding citizens of Oregon who had a state-approved,
county-issued concealed carry permit and who wished to carry
their self-defense weapon on their person for their own
protection."
Since roving gangs had terrorized innocent people at the
previous year's party, and since courts have ruled that no
individual has a right to receive protection from police,
midnight partygoers had every reason to come prepared for
self-defense. But no. Mayor Vera Katz and her officials set
up now-familiar "checkpoints" to ensure that they could not.
Oregon has a state pre-emption law (ORS 166.170, Subsection 2)
that categorically forbids local governments from passing
firearms restrictions. Mayor Katz and her officials were
caught red-handed, breaking that law.
So what do politicians do when caught in criminal acts? They
dodge, of course. Questioned by a local rights activist, a Lt.
Rowley of the Portland police and Phyliss Oster in the mayor's
office insisted that the party was *private* -- that it was
being put on by an independent promoter, not the city, and
that an entrepreneur was free to make any rules it wished for
its own event.
Not quite. According to city documents provided to JPFO by KXL
radio talk-show host Lars Larson:
* The announcement of the party was made on Mayor Katz' own
letterhead.
* The event was held on city property, with the entire "general
public" openly invited. The city was listed as the major
sponsor.
* The announcement of the no-self-defense policy was put out by
the Portland police on letterhead with their logo prominently
displayed.
* The supposedly "private" event was established by city
ordinance.
* And the promoter, EnterCom, was acting as a contractor to the
municipal government.
The city paid EnterCom $50,000 to provide the entertainment. As
Larson asks, "If it ain't your party, why are you paying the
bill?"
When Kevin Starrett of the Oregon Firearms Federation tried to
get a restraining order to prevent Portland officials from
banning guns in the hands of ccw holders, *The Oregonian*
reported, "Mayor Vera Katz said she was on edge until late in
the day, considering calling off the fireworks, concert and
downtown celebration should guns be allowed."
Unfortunately, a judge managed to overlook all this evidence
of city sponsorship, city control, and city discrimination and
upheld the government's position. Starrett is now returning to
court to seek injunctive relief for law-abiding gun owners.
(The newspaper also noted that Katz "was fuming at Lars Larson,
who she said was using his radio talk show to encourage the
injunction attempt." Good going, Lars!)
Dunn wrote, "If the truth be told there is NOTHING a law abiding
citizen can do to prove to Mayor Vera Katz that they are a
responsible member of society" -- nothing, that is, short of
putting themselves at the mercy of "the dregs of society."
A few months ago, we wrote an article asking, "Do Jewish
'Leaders' Want Us All to be Victims?"
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010903.htm
It seems Mayor Katz is another "leader" who should be added to
the list of vicious fools who, in the name of "safety" aim to
disarm the innocent and empower thugs. She should also be added
to the list of politicians who, in this corrupt post-Clinton
era, are replacing the rule of law in this country with the
rule of "whatever I can get away with."
Suggested Reading for Mayor Katz:
1) She should read _Death by "Gun Control"_ -- she needs to see
how dangerous her decisions are,
click on http://www.jpfo.org/deathgc.htm
2) She should read Gran'pa Jack #7: _Do Gun Prohibitionists Have
a Mental Problem?_ -- the Mayor might learn something about
herself, click on http://www.jpfo.org/gpjack7.htm
3) She should read Gran'pa Jack #6: _Will "Gun Control" Make You
Safer?_ and lean that the policies she proposes are a fraud,
click on http://www.jpfo.org/gpjack6.htm
The Liberty Crew
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Sign-up at: http://www.bigcoop.com/JI137885
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DO YOU BUY JPFO PRO-FREEDOM MATERIALS?
================================================================
Help spread the word about JPFO by putting in your ".sig file"
something like the following:
Member (or Supporter) of JPFO http://www.jpfo.org/
================================================================
FOR The Bill of Rights Pistol FOR
SALE! http://www.jpfo.org/pistol.htm SALE!
The following Bill of Rights Limited Edition Pistols have been
sold and are no longer available:
Standard BoR Commemorative: Proof, #1, #10, #35, #64, #82, #100
JPFO BoR Commemorative: #1, #2, #18, #100
Go to http://www.jpfo.org/ and click on the pistol for more
information.
================================================================
NEW! Life Membership: $500 or $41.67/month for 12 months.
Call for details: 1-800-869-1884, or www.jpfo.org/member.htm
Annual Membership: $20/year -- Two Years for $40
================================================================
Are you buying books, CDs, or videos? Help JPFO earn a commission
on your purchases, Click through to Amazon.com via the JPFO web
site at: http://www.jpfo.org/bookstore.htm
================================================================
NEW! Gun clubs can become JPFO affiliates for only $40 annual
dues. Affiliate with both JPFO and CCOPS at the same time:
only $59.95! Call for details. 1-800-869-1884
================================================================
Original Material in JPFO ALERTS is Copyright 2001 JPFO, Inc.
Permission is granted to reproduce this alert in full, so long
as the following JPFO contact information is included:
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
PO Box 270143
Hartford, Wisconsin 53027
Phone: 1-262-673-9745
Order line: 1-800-869-1884 (toll-free!)
Fax: 1-262-673-9746
Web: http://www.jpfo.org/
================================================================
JPFO ALERTS is provided as a free service to the Internet
Community. If you wish to help support this service, consider
joining JPFO! $20/year (no, you don't have to be Jewish!)
Join for 2 years and receive a free JPFO lapel pin!
Life Membership: $500 or $41.67/month for 12 months.
To SUBSCRIBE to JPFO Alerts: send a blank e-mail to:
[url=mailto:jpfo_alerts-subscribe@topica.com
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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
(Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions near the end of the message)
January 8, 2002
ALERT: MAYOR VERA KATZ SAYS, "HAPPY NEW YEAR, THUGS AND CRIMINALS"
How low will anti-rights leaders stoop in their quest to disarm
you? Here's a city mayor and her minions who've gone so far as
to break the law and then lie about it.
On New Year's Eve, the city of Portland, Oregon, threw a big
bash in Pioneer Courthouse Square. As JPFO supporter Timothy
Dunn reported, "Everybody was invited with one exception:
Law-abiding citizens of Oregon who had a state-approved,
county-issued concealed carry permit and who wished to carry
their self-defense weapon on their person for their own
protection."
Since roving gangs had terrorized innocent people at the
previous year's party, and since courts have ruled that no
individual has a right to receive protection from police,
midnight partygoers had every reason to come prepared for
self-defense. But no. Mayor Vera Katz and her officials set
up now-familiar "checkpoints" to ensure that they could not.
Oregon has a state pre-emption law (ORS 166.170, Subsection 2)
that categorically forbids local governments from passing
firearms restrictions. Mayor Katz and her officials were
caught red-handed, breaking that law.
So what do politicians do when caught in criminal acts? They
dodge, of course. Questioned by a local rights activist, a Lt.
Rowley of the Portland police and Phyliss Oster in the mayor's
office insisted that the party was *private* -- that it was
being put on by an independent promoter, not the city, and
that an entrepreneur was free to make any rules it wished for
its own event.
Not quite. According to city documents provided to JPFO by KXL
radio talk-show host Lars Larson:
* The announcement of the party was made on Mayor Katz' own
letterhead.
* The event was held on city property, with the entire "general
public" openly invited. The city was listed as the major
sponsor.
* The announcement of the no-self-defense policy was put out by
the Portland police on letterhead with their logo prominently
displayed.
* The supposedly "private" event was established by city
ordinance.
* And the promoter, EnterCom, was acting as a contractor to the
municipal government.
The city paid EnterCom $50,000 to provide the entertainment. As
Larson asks, "If it ain't your party, why are you paying the
bill?"
When Kevin Starrett of the Oregon Firearms Federation tried to
get a restraining order to prevent Portland officials from
banning guns in the hands of ccw holders, *The Oregonian*
reported, "Mayor Vera Katz said she was on edge until late in
the day, considering calling off the fireworks, concert and
downtown celebration should guns be allowed."
Unfortunately, a judge managed to overlook all this evidence
of city sponsorship, city control, and city discrimination and
upheld the government's position. Starrett is now returning to
court to seek injunctive relief for law-abiding gun owners.
(The newspaper also noted that Katz "was fuming at Lars Larson,
who she said was using his radio talk show to encourage the
injunction attempt." Good going, Lars!)
Dunn wrote, "If the truth be told there is NOTHING a law abiding
citizen can do to prove to Mayor Vera Katz that they are a
responsible member of society" -- nothing, that is, short of
putting themselves at the mercy of "the dregs of society."
A few months ago, we wrote an article asking, "Do Jewish
'Leaders' Want Us All to be Victims?"
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010903.htm
It seems Mayor Katz is another "leader" who should be added to
the list of vicious fools who, in the name of "safety" aim to
disarm the innocent and empower thugs. She should also be added
to the list of politicians who, in this corrupt post-Clinton
era, are replacing the rule of law in this country with the
rule of "whatever I can get away with."
Suggested Reading for Mayor Katz:
1) She should read _Death by "Gun Control"_ -- she needs to see
how dangerous her decisions are,
click on http://www.jpfo.org/deathgc.htm
2) She should read Gran'pa Jack #7: _Do Gun Prohibitionists Have
a Mental Problem?_ -- the Mayor might learn something about
herself, click on http://www.jpfo.org/gpjack7.htm
3) She should read Gran'pa Jack #6: _Will "Gun Control" Make You
Safer?_ and lean that the policies she proposes are a fraud,
click on http://www.jpfo.org/gpjack6.htm
The Liberty Crew
================================================================
Save Money and Support JPFO by Shopping at BigCoop.com
Sign-up at: http://www.bigcoop.com/JI137885
================================================================
ARE YOU A DUES-PAYING MEMBER?
DO YOU BUY JPFO PRO-FREEDOM MATERIALS?
================================================================
Help spread the word about JPFO by putting in your ".sig file"
something like the following:
Member (or Supporter) of JPFO http://www.jpfo.org/
================================================================
FOR The Bill of Rights Pistol FOR
SALE! http://www.jpfo.org/pistol.htm SALE!
The following Bill of Rights Limited Edition Pistols have been
sold and are no longer available:
Standard BoR Commemorative: Proof, #1, #10, #35, #64, #82, #100
JPFO BoR Commemorative: #1, #2, #18, #100
Go to http://www.jpfo.org/ and click on the pistol for more
information.
================================================================
NEW! Life Membership: $500 or $41.67/month for 12 months.
Call for details: 1-800-869-1884, or www.jpfo.org/member.htm
Annual Membership: $20/year -- Two Years for $40
================================================================
Are you buying books, CDs, or videos? Help JPFO earn a commission
on your purchases, Click through to Amazon.com via the JPFO web
site at: http://www.jpfo.org/bookstore.htm
================================================================
NEW! Gun clubs can become JPFO affiliates for only $40 annual
dues. Affiliate with both JPFO and CCOPS at the same time:
only $59.95! Call for details. 1-800-869-1884
================================================================
Original Material in JPFO ALERTS is Copyright 2001 JPFO, Inc.
Permission is granted to reproduce this alert in full, so long
as the following JPFO contact information is included:
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
PO Box 270143
Hartford, Wisconsin 53027
Phone: 1-262-673-9745
Order line: 1-800-869-1884 (toll-free!)
Fax: 1-262-673-9746
Web: http://www.jpfo.org/
================================================================
JPFO ALERTS is provided as a free service to the Internet
Community. If you wish to help support this service, consider
joining JPFO! $20/year (no, you don't have to be Jewish!)
Join for 2 years and receive a free JPFO lapel pin!
Life Membership: $500 or $41.67/month for 12 months.
To SUBSCRIBE to JPFO Alerts: send a blank e-mail to:
[url=mailto:jpfo_alerts-subscribe@topica.com