American diplomats, 1979, in Tehran, Iran

AmmoLand Gun News

Manasquan, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- As someone who vividly recalls the Iranian “students” who took our diplomats hostage in 1979 and the 444 days it took to get them back, the repeat of this by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, putting 19 pro-democracy, non-government organization (NGO) Americans on trial on trumped up charges has an ugly repetitive feel to it.

The contempt the Iranian revolutionaries, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, had for America and, I might add, international law and practice that goes back centuries, is everything you need to know about dealing with militant Islamists, whether they are in Iran, Egypt, or anywhere else on the face of the Earth.

Just as then-President Jimmy Carter dawdled while looking for a diplomatic response, this same scenario is now being played out by Barack Obama and it won’t work now just as it did not work then. Carter authorized a failed military operation that, by most accounts, was poorly organized and executed.

What is needed now is a Navy SEAL unit or larger force to go in, rescue our American hostages, and extract them from Cairo.

We need direct military action, just as we need direct military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, missile operations, and the barracks of the Revolutionary Guards.

Just as Jimmy Carter was seen as weak, so too is Barack Obama and, for America and the world, that is very bad news. I don’t care if the Iranian leadership and other militant Islamists don’t like America. I want them to fear us.

Apparently they didn’t get the message when the U.S. killed Obama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the home city to its military college. While bin Laden was right up the street and around the corner, we are supposed to believe that no one in Pakistan’s military or intelligence structure had the slightest idea. He was living in a large walled compound. Short of buying his own groceries, you’d think someone might have noticed. And, of course, now they are angry at us for killing the man behind the murder of some 3,000 of our citizens, including an attack on the Pentagon!

When the Iranians went into the streets in June 2009 protesting the bogus election of Mamoud Ahmadinejad, Obama’s response was that the U.S. “shouldn’t meddle” in Iran’s affairs. A plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to America in a Washington, D.C. restaurant was discovered and some people might call that “meddling” in our affairs.

This hostage-taking needs boots-on-the-ground action now. The only upside to this event is that the longer it goes on, the same disenchantment that resulted in the defeat of Jimmy Carter will be Obama’s fate in the November election.

The fact that Obama has imposed the largest debt/credit crisis that the nation has ever incurred, unemployment levels that rival the Great Depression, a housing market that is still in the tank, and is busy hollowing out the nation’s military capabilities at the worst possible time seems to gone unnoticed by the forty percent or more of Americans that think he’s doing a swell job.

Our present problem is that Obama does not like America any better than our enemies do. He does not like our Constitution, recently blaming the Founding Fathers for the limitations they wisely imposed to avoid a government grown too large and a president with powers beyond those granted.

This nation is in peril from the same gross stupidity that gripped it prior to World War Two until Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941. The war in Europe had been going on since 1939 and the Japanese had invaded China in 1937.

We are in a new, dangerous era with the chaotic situations in the Maghreb of northern Africa where U.S. assistance, via NATO, was provided to overthrow Gaddafi and Obama’s swift rejection of Egypt’s Mubarack led to his downfall. There are uprisings in Syria and Yemen. It is the result of massive resentment against dictatorial regimes, but the real problem will be how these revolutions turn out.

That is something we cannot control, but we must do what we can to protect American citizens abroad to protect our national interest and to project real national power.

The Middle East is tribal. With the exception of Israel the “nations” we must deal with are merely armies with a national flag, not modern democratic governments responsive to their citizens. That is why Iraq threatens to break apart. It is why the majority Syrians want to end the minority Alawite tribe’s control. It is why Palestinians are not welcome anywhere.

The President’s top intelligence adviser recently told a Senate committee that sanctions are not working against Iran, but the President wants to pretend they are. The U.S. and the rest of the world are waiting for the Israelis to do to Iran what we and our allies should be doing to end its nuclear threat.

Likewise, if we wait around while the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo makes us look like a bunch of punks it will just get worse for us in Egypt and the Middle East just as it did in 1979.

In Egypt we need to get in, break some furniture, shoot some bad guys, get our people out, and then shut off the billion-plus dollar aid spigot.

No more American tourists, no more American aid, and no more Mr. Nice Guy.

c Alan Caruba, 2011

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Alan Caruba’s commentaries are posted daily at “Warning Signs” his popular blog and thereafter on dozens of other websites and blogs. If you love to read, visit his monthly report on new books at Bookviews.

AmmoLand Gun News

Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- On October 11, 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference to announce that FBI and DEA agents had stopped an Iranian plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.

The men behind the plot were “Manssor Arbab Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri.” And of these two, only Arbabsiar has been arrested.

The plot became known when Arbabsiar traveled to “Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas, and negotiated a $1.5 million payment for the assassination of the Saudi ambassador.”

Unbeknownst to Arbabsiar, the contact he made in Mexico was a DEA informant. And soon thereafter, with the help of the FBI, the DEA office in Houston launched an investigation that appears now to have ended successfully.

It’s important to note there were also bombing plots allegedly associated with these plans. Thus the criminal complaint filed against Arbabsair and Shakuri accused “the men of conspiracy to murder a foreign official; conspiracy to engage in foreign travel and use interstate and foreign commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire; conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction: specifically explosives; and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism.”

Ironically, during his press conference on these things, after Holder said the plot was “conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran,” he actually had the gall to describe crossing international borders to plan and execute crimes as a “flagrant” violation of U.S. and international law.

When he used the word “flagrant,” a few questions arose in my mind:

• Was he describing a flagrant violation similar to selling 2,500 weapons to straw purchasers who were going to knowingly pass them to criminals?
• Or was he talking about a flagrant violation like we’ve witnessed via the smuggling of those weapons across an international border via gun walking?
• Or did he mean flagrant as in the flagrant cover-up of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder with Fast and Furious weapons?

I am just so confused.

Of course, I don’t expect Holder to answer any of these questions, because I watched him walk out of the room following the press conference as soon as the reporters began asking about Fast and Furious.

Yet I still have one more question that I must ask – If the two Iranians had talked to real Mexican cartel members (instead of DEA agents) and if those cartel members had killed the Saudi Ambassador with guns they acquired via Fast and Furious, would Holder be an accomplice to that murder?

After all, Holder owns Fast and Furious.

AWR Hawkins

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His southern drawl is frequently heard discussing his take on current events on radio shows like America’s Morning News, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Ken Pittman Show, and the NRA’s Cam & Company, among others. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (summer 2010), and he holds a PhD in military history from Texas Tech University.

If you have questions or comments, email him at awr@awrhawkins.com. You can find him on facebook at www.facebook.com/awr.hawkins.

9/11 Murder Victims Gone But Not Forgotten

AmmoLand Gun News

Manasquan, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- To all our friends, families and neighbors that were killed or lost someone dear on September 11th 2001.

You are in our thoughts and hearts on this day and we want everyone to know you will never be forgotten.

God bless all those effected by this tragedy.

United We Stand!
This is a story of a historic event,
And this is the way that it went.

An airplane crashed thru building one,
Next thing people know two was done.

Now both buildings down of the twin towers,
While people wait for hours and hours.

They watch the police and firefighters strive,
And see if their loved ones are still alive.

Now there are two lights where the towers once stood,
And they shine very bright thru the neighborhood.

This event did not break apart the U.S.A.,
Because we are closer and closer to each other everyday.

Jen S.

AmmoLand Gun News

Dallas, TX - -(Ammoland.com)- Ten years ago, after 9/11, Americans chanted, “We will never forget.”

Today the White House is chanting that it is not “just about us.”

Terrorism has been tempered and transformed ever since 2009, when President Barack Obama took office and turned the global war on terror into an “overseas contingency operation” and coddled the global Muslim community from Cairo by saying that part of his “responsibility as president of the United States is to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear” and create a “partnership between America and Islam.”

Since those actions, a slew of terrorists have slipped through the cracks of U.S. international and homeland security.

Alex Jones’ Infowars.com recently documented several examples of how the feds have “dispensed with all pretense of the war on terror being focused on Al-Qaeda Muslims.”

In April 2009, The Washington Times reported that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stood by a DHS intelligence assessment report that “lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S.” And in the same month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI was running a probe targeting returning veterans as extremists and a major domestic threat.

At the end of last year, an Atlanta station, WSB-TV, reported that “the State Department is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to save mosques overseas.” The anchor noted that the U.S. Agency for International Development granted enormous funds for mosques in Cairo, Cyprus, Tajikistan and Mali.

In March, Judicial Watch obtained new documents via a Freedom of Information Act request that revealed that U.S. officials had apprehended 663 illegal immigrants last year with suspected ties to terrorist groups. Yet our borders and ports remain as porous for illegals as a screen through which gnats slip.

In the same month, ABC News reported that the “U.S. government formally requested the early release of a convicted terrorist (Mohammed Babar) from federal prison, even though the terrorist admitted that he continued to support the killing of U.S. soldiers serving in Muslim countries.”

Just a few weeks ago, as a part of its “If You See Something, Say Something” stoolie campaign, Homeland Security released two videos, in which nearly every segment shows a shift in federal strategy from catching foreign terrorists to targeting white middle-class Americans who are against big government as terrorists, including tea partyers, anti-Fed activists and even veterans. (These videos echo Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks that tea partyers are like “terrorists.”)

On Aug. 26, Fox News reported that the State Department is protecting the privacy of terrorists by refusing to release documents about Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim cleric who became the first American on the CIA’s kill or capture terrorist list. In response to a Fox News FOIA request for al-Awlaki’s passport records, the State Department replied, “The release of this information to you would be an invasion of personal privacy of another person, without written authorization from that person.”

It’s official: The feds have lost their minds, this time at the cost of forgetting the heart of 9/11 and all the sacrifices made to fight militant Islam since.

Ten years after 9/11, the federal government has become an acute enabler of terrorism. It is suffering from a self-inflicted terrorist amnesia, despite the fact that even in the past two years, there have been 126 terror-related arrests, and all have been Muslims.

With the killing of Osama bin Laden and President Obama’s recent order to withdraw more troops from Afghanistan, it appears that the feds soon will be raising the banner that the “overseas contingency operation is mission complete.”

But what they really need is a wake-up call to jar them out of their terrorist amnesia!

We should plant the feds in the heart of Afghanistan and have them seriously reconsider al-Qaida’s assault on America and exactly how and why our courageous troops and their families continue to sacrifice for us — something well-documented by film producer Mike Slee in his most recent film tribute to our service members and their families as a part of Operation Patriot Care Package, highlighted on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show and on Slee’s own website, http://ZaragozaPictures.com.

Unfortunately, this terrorism amnesia has spread outside Washington and infected such officials as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has decided that a ground zero commemoration for the victims of 9/11 on the attack’s 10th anniversary will be held without prayer. Neither clergy nor first responders have been invited to the event, because Bloomberg apparently thinks politicians will be sufficient to comfort the still-grieving families and nation. Please sign the Family Resource Council’s petition to Bloomberg to reverse his decision and recognize that prayer is needed more than politics.

Bloomberg needs to take a lesson from people like Rosellen Dowdell, the widow of Lt. Kevin Dowdell, who was a New York firefighter who gave up his life on 9/11. She told the Catholic News Service: “I’ve never blamed God. I’ve always looked to God for an answer. I guess I always hoped there was solace in going to church and being in the presence of God.”

Similarly, Monsignor Michael J. Curran told CNS: “So many of these families, who have every reason to be angry at God, have not given up. They are still faithful. I’m more aware of the spiritual strength of people. Folks are not fair-weather friends of God. The question of ‘why?’ is still out there, but they are willing to trust God and keep him at the center of their lives. Nobody has just slammed down their bat and ball and gone home.”

Ten years ago, in the wake of the worst terrorist attacks in our nation’s history, Americans turned to one another and God for help and comfort. The wise still seek him. They know the truth — as did most of America’s Founding Fathers — in Psalm 33:12: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”

God bless and help all the victims of 9/11, from United Flight 93 to the Pentagon and New York and beyond, and may the real memory of 9/11 live on in our hearts and minds so that even our posterity will say, “We will never forget.”

Chuck Norris

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NRA - ILA

Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- Anti-gun groups have been quick to exploit last week’s al-Qaeda video in which Adam Gadahn, an American-born militant on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, calls on followers in the United States to buy firearms and attack major institutions and public figures.

On June 7, the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the Legal Community Against Violence, and States United to Prevent Gun Violence wrote to President Obama, urging him “in the strongest terms to order an immediate and thorough review of steps the Administration can take in the short term to reduce the firepower available on the civilian gun market, to tighten existing laws regulating the gun industry, and to improve the background check system to make it harder for those with terrorist ties to obtain firearms.”

Of course, it’s never surprising that anything even remotely related to firearms inspires these anti-gun groups to promote whatever unrelated issues were already at the top of their agenda. And it’s even less surprising that the groups’ preferred initiatives would have no more effect on a committed terrorist than they’ve ever had on domestic criminals:

• Terrorists around the world have never lacked for “firepower,” no matter how harsh the laws in the countries they’ve attacked. India’s strict laws, for example, failed to stop the deadly attack on Mumbai.
• Even if private gun sales in the U.S. were banned, terrorists – like common domestic criminals – could simply use straw purchasers who can pass background checks, or could rely on stolen guns and other black market sources.
• Legislation to arbitrarily deny sales to persons on the “terrorist watchlist” would be useless against Gadahn’s target audience of “lone wolf” attackers with no previous ties to terrorist organizations.
• Fully automatic “assault weapons” cannot be purchased over the counter.

Ironically, Gadahn’s call for “lone wolf” attacks may itself be a sign of his group’s decline. As the private intelligence firm Stratfor said in an analysis of the video, earlier al-Qaeda communications “suggested that militants who answered the call would be trained, equipped and put into the field of battle under competent commanders,” while the more recent calls for would-be terrorists to go it alone “may be an admission of defeat and an indication that the jihadists might not be receiving the divine blessing they claim.”

About:
Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military. Visit: www.nra.org

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Via: BurialInsurance.org

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BurialInsurance.org presents The Life and Death of one of our country’s most despised enemies, Osama Bin Laden. Osama’s plight of terror is finally terminated, so we decided to document the timeline of his rise to terror and then ultimate death at the hands of United States troops. He was killed on May 6th, 2011, and it was a long time in the waiting. Special thanks to KillerInfographics for helping us create this page.

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- A South African man’s story on a real life gun fight with terrorists told at VCDL meeting last week

Last week’s VCDL membership meeting in Annandale had an excellent guest speaker: Charl Van Wyk, who saved countless lives back in 1993 because he was able to shoot back at some terrorists who attacked a church he was attending.

The terrorists came in with nail-encrusted grenades and fully-automatic AK47s, intent on a full fledged massacre.

What Charl did back then was extremely courageous. When the attack started with grenades and AK rounds flying into the church during a service, Charl drew his gun, a snubby .38 Special revolver with 5 shots and no reloads, and fired two shots at the attackers at the front of the church. Charl was sitting near the back of the church when the attack started and he was unsure if his gun’s accuracy was sufficient to actually hit the terrorists at that range, but he had to try anyway.

After firing the two shots, Charl exited the church through a back door. At that point, most people would have run for the hills and called the police. But not Charl, he ran around the outside of the building, hoping to come in the front door and shoot the terrorists in the back with his last 3 bullets. The were four terrorists for his three bullets, so he had a problem, but that didn’t concern him.

As Charl came around the corner, he spotted a lookout and the getaway driver out by the car, the lookout with an AK47 on his hip, pointing up in the air. Charl believes that the lookout was watching for Charl to come out the front door so he could be executed. As it was, Charl was coming up behind him!

Charl opened fire, sending his last 3 rounds towards the terrorists by the getaway vehicle. At that point the other terrorists came running out of the church and they all fled in the getaway vehicle.

It turned out that Charl had actually hit one of the terrorists with his first two shots in the church. The terrorists were already spooked by that and his last 3 shots from the parking lot was the last straw (lucky for Charl).

The terrorists had superior numbers and superior firepower, yet they were intimidated by a man with a 5 shot .38 Special snubby! With Charl firing at them from inside the church and then from behind in the parking lot, the terrors probably thought there were multiple defenders!

Guns do indeed Save Lives
One of the terrorists later said that they had picked that church to attack believing that no one would be armed, and that they were greatly surprised when rounds started coming their way , striking one of them only seconds into their assault.

For those interested in learning more about the story, Charl has a book and a DVD available here: www.superstore.wnd.com/SALES/BUNDLES/The-Shooting-Back-Bundle_2

Charl is a Christian missionary and part of the book and DVD deals with him coming to grips with religion and the right, and the requirement, to protect innocent life.

Executive member Ian Branson filmed Charl’s presentation at my request, as I had heard from many of you who could not make the meeting, but wanted to see the presentation.

Thanks to Ian for a great job video taping and editing the presentation and to Charl for sharing it with us:

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

Protect Your Pets From Animal Radicals

National Animal Interest Alliance

Portland, Oregon --(AmmoLand.com)- Welcome to the new Bucks for Billboard Campaign, a campaign dedicated to awakening the public to the threat against their pets from animal rights radicals.

The billboards serve as the opening round in a grassroots campaign that will expand over the next year adding a variety of exciting new media elements as the campaign progresses.

Thanks to Kathy Grayson, Marion Bradshaw and the rest of the Bucks for Billboards gang for conceiving the idea and successfully bringing it forward so that NAIA can take it nationwide.

Today 75 new billboards were posted in the Los Angeles area to launch the campaign.

Visit the website at www.BewareAnimalRadicals.com and join the campaign today.

About:
The Mission of NAIA is to promote the welfare of animals, to strengthen the human-animal bond, and safeguard the rights of responsible animal owners and professionals through research, public education and sound public policy. Visit: www.naiaonline.org

New Jersey Outdoor Alliance

Belmar, NJ --(AmmoLand.com)- Yesterday I sent an email stating that at the heart of the animal extremist movement is the agenda to foist a vegetarian lifestyle on humanity.

Some groups are more covert than others about their intentions and use environmentalism and animal rights as a means to distract from their true agenda.

The NJOA has presented evidence in the past that groups like Animal Protection League of New Jersey (formerly New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance) Humane Society United States (H.S.U.S.) and other have similar agendas, some even going as far to lend support to domestic eco-terrorist groups (A.L.F. E.L.F., SHAC, etc.) as determined by the FBI. (read more at www.njoutdooralliance.org/eco/terrorism.html)

Now a new New Jersey based animal extremist group has apparently formed (see below). You’ll note that veganism and animal rights are the basis of their founding. Also, they openly announce their support of several known eco-terrorist organizations.

Remain vigilant and please participate in helping to keep our freedoms to enjoy the outdoors and be true environmental stewards.

Thank you. NJOA

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Friends Of Animals United NJ (F.A.U.N.)

Friends Of Animals United NJ (F.A.U.N.)

FAUN is a coalition of New Jersey-based animal/earth liberation activists who are bound by the twin objectives of EXPOSING and FIGHTING AGAINST the insidious perpetrators of overt & clandestine animal exploitation/use wherever they are operating in our geographic sphere.

We are firmly united in our commitment to unraveling animal-use industries’ profit-driven lies, schemes and lucrative illusions, as well as engaging in the practical, street-level action so essential to bringing about the local (and ultimately universal) abolition of retrograde, dark-age practices that systematically exploit and destroy countless nonhuman sentient beings, and the Earth itself.

We employ our energies/resources in tactile, visible ways such as public demonstrations, marches, educational outreach and leafleting, to elevate public consciousness about the myriad, ugly, half-shrouded faces of modern animal slavery. We fight to cast light on, cause economic damage to and ultimately bring down the smug, shadowy, monolithic industries which are responsible for the systematic, irreversible rape/destruction of Mother Earth, her delicately balanced ecosystems, and of course, the billions of beautiful, wondrous sentient beings with whom we share this biosphere.

We UNAPOLOGETICALLY support and align ourselves with national and international direct action entities such as Sea Shepherd, ALF, ELF, Negotiation Is Over (NIO), H.O.P.E, SHARK and numerous other groups who understand that veganism & animal rights are quintessentially and inextricably tied to a sustainable human future, and more widely, to a sustainable future for all the fragile biotic communities supported/nourished by our great and ancient Mother Earth.
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Above and beyond our own initiatives, we promote and actively participate in the initiatives/engagements of local allies such as CAAF, NYC Animal Rights, W.A.R, Hearts for Animals, Mercy For Animals and others who share our ideological/practical objectives of promoting veganism and a universal, unconditional moratorium on all forms of animal slavery.

Everyone in the animal liberation movement who understands the breathtaking scale & severity of animal slavery, and the complex/culturally embedded nature of animal/earth exploitation systems, knows that ours is a colossal task. History reveals that moral progress/evolution is a slow, arduous, uphill battle. A conscientious, illuminated, compassionate world which unilaterally rejects all forms of animal objectification/suffering, which considers the inherent worth/natural rights of ALL sentient beings, simply will not happen overnight! It will be brought about by a persistent, disciplined, measured, unified effort by local activists collaborating toward universal, movement-wide objectives,as well as operating in their local environment, i.e.,campaigning in response to specific, local conditions and problems.

We don’t pretend to have all the answers. FAUN is an egalitarian thought pool by design, welcoming the insights, ideas, and intel which will aid us in amping up the fight in the NY/NJ area with maximum efficacy and end-result impact. We are highly adaptive and mobile, willing/prepared to adjust our tactical approach/materials/tools as appropriate, to act on behalf of animals anywhere in our region, in any context that we can make a practical, tactile difference.

Fur and leather mafias, factory farm gestapos, fraudulent sadist vivisectors, cowardly hunters, emotionally/mentally stunted butchers, abominable circus thugs, vile animal breeding mills – our nausea, our aversion to ALL of you is unilateral and absolute.

We are bringing the battle for Mother Earth and her sacred, defenseless denizens to your doorstep, to the very gates of the posh, palatial mausoleums you have built systematically extinguishing innocents, where you have grinned and drooled over your helpless, dying quarry, where you have lined your pockets with blood and entrails, where the lingering screams of terror and unspeakable suffering will echo long after you and your evil works are reduced to a negligible, shameful blight on recorded history.

Animal Liberation WILL NOT advance unless we shake off the safe, ineffectual, ego-balming platform of coffeehouse veganism, unless we unify ourselves in solemn, sober commitment to our purpose, unless we convert our movement from a collection of self-flattering, armchair theories into a dynamic, pragmatic, effective set of practices.

Please keep in mind that FAUN is not looking to add vacant, meaningless numbers to our list of friends and compatriots. Token gestures and cordial votes of confidence do not (and never will) help animals or advance animal/earth liberation. We have the tools/material resources required to have a resounding, meaningful impact for animals and their habitats – what we need are caring, compassionate, noble people to pull up their bootstraps and stand alongside us out there, where it matters. Because they are suffering now.

If you are not serious about jumping in with us and taking the animal liberation struggle to the streets of NJ/NY, please be advised that this is NOT the group for you!
For those who have had enough and want to get involved, feel free to contact us.

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JOIN NJOA: http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/support/njoa.html

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NJOA – The mission of New Jersey Outdoor Alliance is to serve as a grassroots coalition of outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen dedicated to environmental stewardship. We will champion the intrinsic value of natural resource conservation – including fishing, hunting and trapping, among opinion leaders and policy makers. We will support legislation, and those sponsoring legislation, that provides lasting ecological and social enrichment through sustainable use of the earth’s resources. Visit: www.njoutdooralliance.org

National Animal Interest Alliance Trust

Portland, Oregon --(AmmoLand.com)-We owe a debt of gratitude to the hard work of grassroots members like you.

Time and again you have taken time out of your day to defend pet ownership and stand up for reasonable laws governing animal ownership in your state — and nationally.

If the firestorm of radical legislation in 2009 is any indication, 2010 promises to be even more intense. This year we spent the lion’s share of our time fighting over 75 radical bills across the country, backing two important lawsuits to protect pet owner rights and supporting NAIA’s ongoing programs. We’ve devoted every spare moment to gearing up for next year, a year we think could be a defining moment in the battle against animal rights extremism.

We have our work cut out for us. The rising level of legislative activism is part of a coordinated strategy aimed at achieving the animal liberationists’ goals, namely “… to inflict economic loss on people who [according to the animal rights doctrine] exploit animals … and to escalate events to a point where all of these industries are under threat and can’t operate.”

Since summer we’ve seen draft after draft of potential ballot box initiatives and scores of state and federal bills slated for the 2010 session. Even more foreboding is the deluge of high-tech TV ads featuring gut-wrenching images of suffering animals, along with “big lie” allegations about who’s to blame and Siren song appeals. The timing of this sophisticated propaganda campaign carefully lays the groundwork for the upcoming session. Like well-aimed artillery, these ads are being launched over and over to soften up targets, to break down defenses and to saturate the audience with imagery and ideas so twisted and volatile that when the time comes, only the slightest legislative spark will be needed to ignite them.

So this year, in addition to our core responsibilities, we’ve been working overtime to gear up, to strengthen our alliances, develop new resources, and to be ready for the coming year. NAIA is excited to be proposing proactive legislation in 2010 in key states that will actually improve conditions for animals, not advance some subversive agenda. We feel emboldened by our progress and better positioned than ever before, but we must have the full engagement of our grassroots to succeed. We need you to volunteer, and we need your financial backing.

With your help, and continued advocacy, we will be ready for the Big One and prepared to take on anything that threatens to take away choices and harms responsible animal ownership in America.

Thank you once again for your commitment, and may you have a safe and happy holiday season!

About:
The Mission of NAIA is to promote the welfare of animals, to strengthen the human-animal bond, and safeguard the rights of responsible animal owners and professionals through research, public education and sound public policy. Visit: www.naiaonline.org

National Rifle Association

New York, NY - -(AmmoLand.com)- In another transparent attempt to undercut the Second Amendment fresh on the heels of his hidden-camera attack on gun shows, Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has alleged that the terrorist attack resulting in multiple murders that took place on Ft. Hood recently could have been prevented by changes in federal gun laws.

In an ad in the Washington Post on Monday, Bloomberg’s group claimed that the Ft. Hood terror suspect’s “gun purchase could have been key to the FBI’s investigation into his association with terrorists.”

Incredible
It has already been reported that before the suspect purchased the gun allegedly used in the murders, the FBI knew that between December 2008 and June 2009, he had sent 16 emails to a radical Islamic cleric based suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda. In one, he told the cleric that he could not wait to join him in the afterlife.

Nevertheless, after reviewing the e-mails, the FBI and other federal agencies concluded that the suspect was not a threat, and it has since concluded that the crimes of which he is suspected were not part of organized terrorism.

On November 9, the FBI stated

“Major Hasan came to the attention of the FBI in December 2008 as part of an unrelated investigation being conducted by one of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). JTTFs are FBI-led, multi-agency teams made up of FBI agents, other federal investigators, including those from the Department of Defense, and state and local law enforcement officers. . . . Investigators on the JTTF reviewed certain communications between Major Hasan and the subject of that investigation and assessed that the content of those communications was consistent with research being conducted by Major Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning. . . . [T]he investigation to date indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot.”

Bloomberg says that if the federal law requiring the FBI to purge the NICS system of records of approved gun purchasers had not been in place, the FBI would have known that Hasan had bought a gun and changed its judgment about him. But while few Americans exchange e-mails with radical clerics suspected of ties to al Qaeda, there are about 12 million NICS firearm checks annually.

To Bloomberg, apparently, buying a gun is reason enough to be suspicious.

Bloomberg also says that Congress should approve legislation introduced by, long time gun banner,  Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), to allow Americans placed on the FBI’s terror watchlist to be prohibited from buying firearms, but to deny them the right to confront their accusers and the “evidence” against them. Both concepts received a nod from the Obama Administration on November 18. During hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked Attorney General Eric Holder whether the administration supported legislation to allow to FBI to retain NICS gun purchase records, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked Holder whether the administration supported legislation “closing” the so-called “Terror Gap.” Holder responded in the affirmative on both counts.

You would think that someone who can spend $200 million of his own money to get elected mayor of New York City three times could afford copies of the U.S. Code and the Constitution. Not only does federal law stipulate the specific grounds for denying a person the right to arms, the Fourteenth Amendment states that no one shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law.

And while he is at it, he could buy a copy of another well-known publication, Webster’s Dictionary, and look up the word “obsession.”

To see Bloomberg’s Washington Post ad, and whether your town’s mayor is allied with his group, see www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/downloads/pdf/terror_gap_ad.pdf.

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Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military.

Outdoors Magazine

Bennett’s Pond, CT --(AmmoLand.com)- According to the Connecticut Post, earlier this month, a bowhunter in Bennett’s Pond State Park fired a shot which mortally wounded a deer. As any hunter knows is often the case, the deer didn’t immediately go down and ran a short distance before collapsing.

The hunter tracked the deer. He soon saw that it ran onto private property. Being responsible, he knocked on the landowner’s door and asked for permission to retrieve it. It turns out the property is owned by Lynn Gorfinkle, the CEO of the Animal Rights Alliance in Redding, Conn.

“My husband told him to just go away, he couldn’t have the deer,” Gorfinkle said.

Lynn and other animal-rights proponents argue that killing deer is not the answer to Connecticut’s over-population issues. They feel nature should be allowed to take its course to control deer numbers.

Biologists say that over 62 deer per square mile reside in some of the state’s urban areas.

The sad part of the situation is that the carcass remains in the Gorfinkles’ yard, where it has been since October 2. Lynn hopes that other animals will eat it because it is too big to bury.

“If someone’s going to eat that deer, I want it to be natural predators, not some hunter,” she said.

Ironically, Gorfinkle’s actions may mean the death of another deer.

“Since the hunter did not recover the deer, he did not need to tag it and it doesn’t count toward his bag limit,” said Dennis Schain, Connecticut’s DEC communication director.

To ready more outdoor stories, and to find out how to win a Suzuki ATV, visit www.outdoorsmagazine.net

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Each month Outdoors Magazine shines its spotlight on different areas of the outdoors world. Features and sub-features are multiple page spreads written by select experts in their fields. In addition to features and sub-features, each month Outdoors Magazine has over 40 columns written by real guides, industry experts, and the best in their fields. Our staff are die-hards who take the time out of their lives hunting and fishing to write.

National Wildlife Control Operators Association

Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- The National Wildlife Control Operators Association (NWCOA) is a Non-Profit Trade Organization representing the Industry of Nuisance Wildlife Control.

Our Membership is particularly knowledgeable about the use of body-gripping traps and regards such traps as trade tools.

We would like to point out some reasons for our opposition to H.R. 3710.

• The National Wildlife Refuge System is the property of all U.S. Citizens including Hunters, Trappers and Sportsmen.
• Each State has an Agency (Department of Natural Resources, Department of Fish & Game…) that manages and regulates the harvesting of Wildlife and the tools used for this purpose. Said Agencies have Scientific and Field Personnel to analyze the need for restrictions, the latitude to enact Ordinances that address such needs and Enforcement Personnel to provide oversight.
• Wildlife Refuges often have man-made structures or features which may be in need of Professional Services, using the tools in question, to resolve conflicts and protect such properties or features.
• Given the broad dynamics of each Wildlife Refuge across the Nation, such as adjacent human population densities, actual human usership, Refuge dynamics (swamp, desert, heavily timbered, above timberline, access…), sound management of each resource is unique to each location and is as diverse as the Refuge System itself.
• Bill H.R. 3710 is poorly written and encompasses all style, manner and design of trap or restraint equipment and goes so far as to prohibit the use of a mouse-trap.
• Bill H.R. 3710 propagates the concept that Refuge management is unambiguous and is better served by removing sound management practices and restrictions from it’s Regional User Base.
• Bill H.R. 3710 propagates the concept that the responsible use of such tools, in the hands of Professional or Recreational Trappers, on Public Lands, warrants additional non-regional game harvesting oversight beyond each States existing Regulatory Wildlife Agency.
• The National Wildlife Control Operators Association believes Professional Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators have, in the pursuit of our livelihoods, a right to incorporate the responsible use of such trade tools, for the purpose of providing services on Public and Private Lands in accordance with the Law.

The National Wildlife Control Operators Association promotes the professional resolution of Human/Wildlife conflicts through Competence, Integrity and Service.

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The National Wildlife Control Operators Association is a Non-Profit Trade Organization representing the Nuisance Wildlife Control Industry, promoting the professional resolution of Human/Wildlife conflicts through Competence, Integrity and Service.

Washington. DC --(AmmoLand.com)-Global warming alarmists want Americans to believe that humans are killing the planet. But Not Evil Just Wrong, a new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, proves that the only threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the flawed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his allies in environmental extremism.

The film drives home the realities of that extremism. “Turn off your lights. Turn off your heat when you get cold. Turn off your air when you get hot,” one man on the street says. “And then think about that.”

Not Evil Just Wrong warns Americans that their jobs, modest lifestyles and dreams for their children are at stake. Industries that rely on fossil fuels will be crippled if the government imposes job-killing regulations on an economy already mired in recession. Small towns in the heartland, like Vevay, Ind., will become bastions of unemployment and poverty. Breadwinners like Tim McElhany in Vevay will lose their jobs — and will have to start borrowing money again just to buy bread for their families.

The damage that would be wrought is unjustified by the science. Not Evil Just Wrong exposes the deceptions that experts, politicians, educators and the media have been force-feeding the public for years. Man-made pollution is not melting the polar icecaps. The ocean will not rise 20 feet in a flash. And the only polar bears dying because of man are the ones who try to eat men.

McAleer and McElhinney debunk what for a time was the environmental movement’s most powerful weapon of disinformation, the infamous “hockey stick” graph that attributed a supposedly unique burst of warming in the 20th century to humans. They also shatter the myth that the hottest years in the United States were 1998 and 2006. The hottest year was 1934, and the hottest decade was the 1930s — when there were half as many people and no SUVs or jumbo jets.

But environmentalists like actor Ed Begley Jr. and Leo Murray of Plane Stupid, who appear in the film, won’t tell you that. Instead, Begley sheds phony tears for ex-cons who are offered “green” jobs, and Murray decries air travel as the modern world’s worst indulgence. Their hysterical claims have fooled many people into believing that carbon dioxide, an element that is essential to life, is poison.

Organizations like Greenpeace, whose excesses are roundly condemned in Not Evil Just Wrong by founding member Patrick Moore, persistently push the same kind of propaganda that prompted world leaders to ban DDT. They believed environmentalist Rachel Carson’s doomsday scenarios about the mosquito-killing chemical, and millions of children in the Third World may have been infected by malaria and died as a result.

The documentary notes that the World Health Organization lifted its ban on DDT in 2006, but Al Gore and his allies will not accept that verdict any more than they will accept the science that discounts theories about global warming. They are determined to blame humans for everything.

People all across the world will be watching Not Evil Just Wrong starting 8pm ET.

Note: Originally prosecuted by the office of former US Attorney Chris Christie.

New Jersey Outdoor Alliance

Background March 2006:
A federal jury today convicted a militant animal rights group and six of its members on all counts for their roles in a campaign to terrorize officers, employees and shareholders of a company that used animals for laboratory research and testing, as well as companies that did business with the lab and their employees

The stated goal of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was to drive Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a publicly traded company based in East Millstone, N.J., out of business through its so-called “direct action” against HLS and individuals that SHAC designated as targets. SHAC directed its campaign largely via its websites, where it posted and applauded acts of extreme harassment, intimidation, vandalism and violence against HLS, its employees and others.

Court upholds convictions of N.J. animal rights activists
Associated Press • October 15, 2009

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has upheld the convictions of six animal-rights activists in a New Jersey harassment case.

The six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted in 2006 of using their Web site to incite threats and vandalism against employees of Huntingdon Life Science in Franklin Township, Somerset County, N.J.

The group posted home addresses and other information about the workers on the site.

Each activist was sentenced to six years in prison. Three remain in federal custody.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was enough evidence to convict them of violating the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

The trial was believed to be the first to use the statute, which was enacted in 1992.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20091015/NEWS01/91015020

For more information about a local organization, NJARA, (now known as Animal Protection League) that set up defense fund for those convicted please visit:

http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/eco/files/bd370af720926364dec980122dc903f6-4.html

About:
NJOA – New Jersey Outdoor Alliance is the state’s first major political action committee devoted to the task of electing outdoor-minded candidates to public office.
NJOA has formed with the support of leaders of major pro-hunting, pro-angling, and pro-trapping organizations. We are not a hunting, fishing, or trapping “club” or “group,” and do not compete with the interests of such organizations. NJOA helps to ensure that strong wildlife and natural resource protection laws are produced by outdoor-minded elected officials. The best way to ensure a “conservation presence” in Trenton is to support the election campaigns of representatives who understand the relationship between a balanced ecology and hunting, fishing, and trapping.

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

AmmoLand Gun News

New York, NY --(Ammoland.com)- Evil men attacked the U.S.A. on September 11, 2001.

It was a day in hell for all of us. An unthinkable attack by sick, satanic, evil cowards.

I had off that day and was sleeping late when my wife called and told me to turn on the TV.  I turned on my television, and saw the 1st twin tower on fire. Just a few minuets later I watched as the second plane flew into the tower. It was horrifying. I was shocked, numb, in disbelief, deeply saddened, and greatly angered. I had been in the towers many times.

I only live 45 minuets just outside New York City, down the jersey shore.  I had friends and family working in Manhattan that day.  My brother was working in a law office in Manhattan at the time, luckily for all of us he did not go into work that day. Many people who live in my town were killed by these twisted terrorist.

The town where I live is the last stop on the train line out of NY City.  The thought of  cars covered with flowers in the train parking lot for friends and neighbors that did not make it home to their family’s still makes me choke up and feel emotional.

As I stood on the beach that evening with my then six year old daughter I can still remember seeing the vast plumes of smoke drifting out across the ocean to the north of us and the hushed, shocked, talk of adults while children laughed and played in the warm September surf completely unaware of an event that would change America and not for the better.

God bless our missing friends and family. You are in our hearts and prayers.

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!

Remembering 9/11 Least We Never Forget!!