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Feb. 11, 1998 - Bill Cooper
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Right to Keep & Bear Arms #3
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Light and the metal, the metal of the time.
And in time, light and uncritical views of good and bad soon will be gone.
And in time, light and uncritical views of good and bad soon will be gone.
I'm William Cooper.
Ladies and gentlemen, make sure you have pen and paper handy.
We are going to continue today with our reading of the report entitled,
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which is the report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution
of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress,
second session, February 1982.
Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary by the United States Government Printing Office.
It is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.
20402 if you would and you should like to obtain a copy.
Don't go away.
I'll be right back and we'll pick up right where we left off yesterday.
I'll be right back.
I'll be right back.
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Our standards of living have dropped like a rock for four out of every five Americans.
They've foreclosed on our homes, our farms, our factories.
They've exploited your jobs and surrendered our arms.
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I told you!
I am a killer!
The Illuminati wants you to be a slave from birth to grave.
The bankers own the Federal Reserve, it's privates.
They own it.
It's neither Federal nor Reserve.
The cash is made that be a funny money stuff you call dollars, or two, or less.
They lend it back to us at full face value.
Then charge you interest.
You get the deck.
They get the interest.
They get the gold.
You get the job.
They watch this.
A new order of business.
A new order of business.
Are you in your own world?
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I think I have an idea!
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A new world order!
You will come to understand this, you will come to understand this.
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Oh, does that make your blood boil?
Well, it should.
A lot of people call, some write, they want to know, Bill, what's all that Nazi stuff in your music?
Why does it sound like Hitler's coming back?
Because he is, folks.
You see, the Nazis, the Socialists, and the Communists have spent many, many years Turning right into wrong and wrong into right.
And they've pulled the wool so far down over your eyes that you don't even know it's there, for the most part, but it is.
They want you to think that our Founding Fathers were extreme, right-wing, radical maniacs.
Our Founding Fathers were liberals, ladies and gentlemen.
And that their principles and ideals upon which they founded this great nation were all liberal principles and ideals.
That's the truth.
Whether you want to believe it or not, it's the truth.
So, not only are patriots and militia members and real Americans who adhere to those principles and ideals not extreme right-wing, They're not even close to being in the camp with Hitler, are all of those people.
You see, the people who are in charge now, and who are destroying this nation from within, and literally every nation on the face of this earth, are socialists.
Devout socialists, I might add.
They want you to believe that Hitler was somehow extreme right-wing somewhere in the camp with the Founding Fathers.
And it's just not true.
It won't wash at all.
You see, Hitler was a socialist.
Nazi literally means National Socialist German Workers' Party.
That's what it means.
Hitler socialized Germany.
Oh yeah!
It's true!
And that's what Hitler wants to do.
And that's why things in this country are beginning to look more and more like Nazi Germany all the time.
And if they have their way, oh yes, all the stuff that Hitler did is going to be repeated in spades!
And you're all going to wonder, what happened?
Because while you weren't looking, they convinced you that all that stuff is right and you should be looking forward to it.
And all of the things that our founding fathers did to set us free and take the yoke of enslavement off of us is somehow bad.
It was the crowning achievement of all human history.
They want to take you back and make you slaves again.
There's no difference, ladies and gentlemen, between being chained to a computer or chained to a tree.
No difference whatsoever.
You're chained!
Well, enough of that.
For those of you who wondered about the music, that's the reason.
And, uh, maybe sometime next week I'll explain that in much further detail.
But now let's continue with our report.
The right to keep and bear arms.
And here we go.
The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, therefore, is a right of the individual citizen to privately possess and carry in a peaceful manner firearms and similar arms.
Such an individual rights interpretation is in full accord with the history of the right to keep and bear arms as we have previously discussed.
It is, moreover, in accord with contemporaneous statements and formulations of the right by such founders of this nation as Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams, and accurately reflects the majority of the proposals which led up to the Bill of Rights itself.
A number of state constitutions adopted prior to or contemporaneously with the Federal Constitution and Bill of Rights similarly provided for a right of the people to keep and bear arms.
If, in fact, this language creates a right protecting the states only, there might be a reason for it to be inserted in the federal constitution, but no reason for it to be inserted in state constitutions.
State bills of rights necessarily protect only against action by the state, and by definition, a state cannot infringe its own rights.
To attempt to protect a right belonging to the state by inserting in it a limitation of the state's own powers would create an absurdity.
The fact that the contemporaries of the Framers did insert these words into several state constitutions would indicate clearly That they viewed the right as belonging to the individual citizen, thereby making it a right which could be infringed either by state or federal government, and which must be protected against infringement by both.
That, of course, was the intent of the second article in amendment, to give the people a power greater than that possessed by the state.
Finally, the individual rights interpretation gives full meaning to the words chosen by the First Congress to reflect the right to keep and bear arms.
The framers of the Bill of Rights consistently use the words, right of the people, to reflect individual rights, as when these words were used to recognize the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and the right of the people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
They distinguished between the rights of the people and of the state in the Tenth Amendment.
As discussed earlier, the militia itself referred to a concept of a universally armed people, not to any specifically organized unit.
When the framers referred to the equivalent of our National Guard, they uniformly used the term Select Militia and distinguished this from Militia.
Indeed, the debates over the Constitution constantly referred to organized militia units as a threat to freedom comparable to that of a standing army, and stressed that such organized units did not constitute, and indeed were philosophically opposed to, the concept of a militia.
That the National Guard is not the militia referred to in the Second Amendment is even clearer today.
You see, Congress has organized the National Guard under its power to raise and support armies, and not its power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia.
This Congress chose to do in the interests of organizing reserve military units which were not limited in deployment by the structures of our power over the constitutional militia, which can be called forth only Quote, to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, end quote.
The modern National Guard was specifically intended to avoid status as the constitutional militia, a distinction recognized by 10 United States Code, section 311, small a. The conclusion is thus inescapable.
That the history, concepts, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected as an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.
And here is the case law, ladies and gentlemen.
The United States Supreme Court has only three times commented upon the meaning of the Second Amendment to our Constitution.
The first comment, in Dred Scott, indicated strongly that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right.
The Court noted that were it to hold three blacks to be entitled to equality of citizenship, they would be entitled to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
The second, in Miller, indicated that a court cannot take judicial notice that a short-barreled shotgun is covered by the Second Amendment, but the court did not indicate that National Guard status is any way required for protection by that amendment, and indeed defined militia to include all citizens able to bear arms.
The third, A footnote in Lewis v. United States indicated only that these legislative restrictions on the use of firearms, a ban on possession by felons, were permissible.
But since felons may constitutionally be deprived of many of the rights of citizens, including that of voting, this dicta reveals little.
These three comments constitute all significant explanations of the scope of the Second Amendment advanced by our Supreme Court.
The case of Adam v. Williams has been cited as contrary to the principle that the Second Amendment is an individual right.
In fact, that reading of the opinion comes only in Justice Douglas' dissent from the majority ruling of the Court and in no way constitutes a ruling of the Supreme Court.
The appendix which follows represents a listing of twenty-one American decisions spanning the period from 1822 to 1981 which have analyzed right to keep and bear arms provisions in the light of statutes ranging from complete bans on handgun sales to bans on carrying of weapons to regulation of carrying by permit system.
Those decisions not only explained the nature of such a right, but also struck down legislative restrictions as violative of it, and are designated by asterisks.
And I'm not going to read all of those, folks.
If you get the report, you can read them for yourself.
Because it's a long list of things that most of you will not understand.
And just to give you an indication of what I'm talking about, Here's what it sounds like, okay?
It sounds like Jennings v. State, 5, Texas, Primm, App, 298 at 300-01, 1878.
And then it gives a brief quote of what the judges said.
Quote, We believe that portion of the act which provides that in case of conviction the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority.
One of his most sacred rites is that of having arms for his own defense and that of the state.
This rite is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.
And they're all exactly in that vein.
Now for the last portion of...
Oh of the report.
If I can find it.
Here we go.
Here we go.
coming up. This is entitled, this is a portion of the report, the last portion I might add.
And by the way, for those of you who did not We don't know what we're doing.
Let me cite it to you once again.
I am reading directly from a report of the United States Senate entitled, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
It's a report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United
States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session, February 1982, printed for the use of the
Committee on the Judiciary by the United States Government Printing Office.
You can obtain this report.
It is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C., 20402.
That is the address.
You don't need a street.
The post office in Washington, D.C. knows exactly where that office is.
And what you need to do is write them a flight letter.
Ask them if they still have the report in print.
Tell them you would like to have a copy.
Please send you the method by which you can obtain it.
Anyway, here's the last portion of the report.
It's entitled, Enforcement of Federal Firearms Laws from the Perspective of the Second Amendment.
Federal involvement in firearms possession and transfer was not significant prior to 1934, when the National Firearms Act was adopted.
The National Firearms Act, as adopted, covered only fully automatic weapons, machine guns and submachine guns, and rifles and shotguns whose barrel length, or overall length, fell below certain limits.
Not above, but below certain limits.
Since the Act was adopted under the Revenue Power, sale of these firearms was not made subject to a ban or permit system.
Instead, each transfer was made subject to a $200 excise tax, which must be paid prior to transfer.
The identification of the parties to the transfer indirectly accomplished a registration purpose.
The 1934 Act was followed by the Federal Firearms Act of 1938, which placed some limitations upon sale of ordinary firearms.
Persons engaged in the business of selling those firearms in interstate commerce were required to obtain a federal firearms license at an annual cost of one dollar, and to maintain records of the name and address of persons to whom they sold firearms.
Sales to persons convicted of violent felonies were prohibited, as were interstate shipments to persons who lacked the permits required by the law of their state.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have just given you the entire jurisdiction and authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Their authority is only over first sale of a weapon brought into the country from abroad, or over sales of weapons in interstate commerce, which means if a weapon is made in the state of Missouri, for instance, and it stays in the state of Missouri and is sold to a private citizen in the state of Missouri, according to the limitations of the Constitution for the United States of America,
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has absolutely no authority, jurisdiction, or business whatsoever with that sale.
The same thing goes for a weapon that is transferred interstate and has been duly authorized as a sale through two licensed interstate commerce firearms dealers Once it is in the state at its final destination, whoever it is sold to within that state as an intrastate sale is strictly outside of the jurisdiction and authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Regardless of what they say, they are operating under the color of law outside of their jurisdiction and authority as prescribed by the Constitution for the United States of America.
Which is the supreme law of the land.
Virtually every government agency in existence today is operating unconstitutionally as an outlaw agency against the supreme law of the land.
They are slowly but surely stripping us of all of our rights.
And when that process has been completed, you will find yourself once again You may not be able to see the chains, ladies and gentlemen.
I guarantee you a lot of people will.
There are a lot of people right now who feel those chains, who have them on them literally.
But you will nevertheless be chained.
And you will know it, without any doubt whatsoever.
Now let me continue with the last of the reports.
Thirty years after adoption of the Federal Firearms Act, the Gun Control Act of 1968 worked a major revision of federal law.
The Gun Control Act was actually a composite of two statutes.
The first of these, adopted as portions of the Omnibus Crime and Safe Streets Act, imposed limitations upon imported firearms, expanded the requirement of dealer licensing to cover anyone engaged in the business of dealing in firearms Whether in interstate or local commerce, and expanded the record-keeping obligations for dealers.
It also imposed a variety of direct limitations upon sales of handguns.
No transfers were to be permitted between residents of different states unless the recipient was a federally licensed dealer.
Even where the transfer was by gift rather than the sale, and even where the recipient was subject to no state law which could have The category of persons to whom dealers could not sell was
expanded to cover persons convicted of any felony, other than certain business-related felonies
such as antitrust violations, persons subject to a mental commitment order or finding of mental
incompetence, persons who were users of marijuana and other drugs, and a number of other
categories.
Another title of the Act defined persons who were banned from possessing firearms.
Paradoxically, these classes were not identical with the list of classes prohibited from purchasing
or receiving firearms.
And, in effect, the entire Gun Control Act of 1968 was unconstitutional, for the federal government has no authority to regulate anything, period, except just a few enumerated items which they are given power to regulate within the Constitution, such as counterfeiting.
And just a very few other things.
But nothing else, ladies and gentlemen.
Their authority stops when interstate commerce stops.
Their authority is only concerned with, and their jurisdiction lies only with, interstate or international commerce.
That's why this radio station is broadcasting.
It is an intrastate, that means within the state, non-commercial station.
If you hear commercials on this station, they're old, what are called collector's commercials, and they're played strictly for your entertainment.
They're not played to sell you anything, whatsoever.
And everybody who listens to this station knows it.
It is a non-profit community service We are not paid for any commercials.
We do not run any commercials.
What you may hear that sounds like commercials are old collector's items played for your amusement and entertainment.
Nobody pays us to play them.
We don't have any interest in anything.
We don't pay for programming.
We don't get payment for programming.
This station is completely operated.
by the Independence Foundation Trust as a charity.
It is a charitable trust established by my family in order to give back to the community and to the nation that which we have received.
If every citizen did that, this would be a much better country, I can guarantee you.
It's our, well, it's not our contribution, it's just one small portion of a whole lot of contributions that we make as a family.
Now, if you doubt that, read the Constitution for the United States of America.
It is the supreme law of the land, ladies and gentlemen.
The federal government cannot, by law, exceed the limitations of that document.
Nor can it seize, obtain, or use powers not granted to it by that document.
And anything not specifically granted to the federal government in the Constitution for the United States of America, nor prohibited by the Constitution for the United States of America, is retained by the state and by the people.
If the state fails to utilize that power, or to prohibit it from the people, Then all of those powers rest solidly in the hands of the individual people of the United States of America.
I hope you'll all take me up on it.
Just in a couple of weeks, we're going to start reading and studying the Constitution on the air.
And I hope you're ready for that, because that's really going to open your eyes.
You see, if the government is defined within that document and limited by the restrictions of the document, and limited to only those powers given to the federal government by the document.
When we get into this document, known as the Constitution for the United States of America, those of you who have never read it or studied it before are going to be aghast, aghast, at the tyranny that is taking place At the oppressiveness that the federal government has placed across the shoulders of the American people.
At the unlawful, unconstitutional, and outlaw acts that they are performing across this country.
and the manner in which they have convinced many of you who are listening to actually
commit those unlawful, unconstitutional, and outlaw acts for them.
Like Mr. Metal at Apache Title.
www.teamgz.com And many others, I might add.
Taco Bell found out.
They tried to carry out the dictates of the Internal Revenue Service.
And demanded that an employee furnish a social security number.
The employee sued.
Taco Bell paid an awful lot of money, and now in their employment application it clearly states that a social security number would be nice, but it's not mandatory.
You see, the Internal Revenue Service has no right to demand that anyone furnish a social security number.
Don't think so?
Read the fifth article in amendment to the Constitution, ladies and gentlemen.
And then ask yourself, if furnishing a social security number could be used against you in a court of law,
if that is not testifying against yourself.
Also ask yourself that about filing a 1040.
It's true, folks, and the Supreme Court has ruled that filing a tax return is testifying against yourself.
And that is against the Fifth Article and Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America.
You don't have to do it.
If, by filing it, the Internal Revenue Service could use what you filed on that return in a court of law against you.
And not only can they do it, they do it every day.
And under the Fifth Article and Amendment, the Fifth Article of the First Ten Amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, you don't ever have to testify against yourself.
You see what I'm talking about?
You people have been so fooled, so scammed, they pulled the wool down so far over your head, you'll play hell getting out of it.
I'm just opening little cracks so that some light can shine through, just to let you know that the wool is pulled down over your eyes, because until I give you this information, you don't have the slightest idea.
You're stumbling around, bumping into trees, thinking it's broad daylight and you can really see everything, and you can't see anything except the inside of that wool.
Let's continue with this, because it's so interesting.
Safe Streets Act was passed on June 5th, 1968, and set to take effect in December of that year.
Barely two weeks after its passage, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while campaigning for the presidency.
Less than a week after his death, the second bill, which would form part of the Gun Control Act of 1968, was introduced in the House.
It was reported out of Judiciary ten days later, out of Rules Committee two weeks after that, and was on the floor barely a month after its introduction, the second bill worked a variety of changes upon the original Gun Control Act.
Most significantly, it extended to rifles and shotguns the controls which had been imposed solely on handguns.
Extended the class of persons prohibited from possessing firearms to include those who were users of marijuana and certain other drugs.
Expanded a judicial review of dealer license revocations by mandating a de novo hearing once an appeal was taken, and permitted interstate sales of rifles and shotguns only where the parties resided in contiguous states.
Both of which had enacted legislation permitting such sales.
Similar legislation was passed by the Senate and a conference of the Houses produced a bill which was essentially a modification of the House statute.
This became law before the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act and was therefore set for the same effective date.
Now as an aside here folks, haven't you noticed that every time, every single time, That some great bill comes before Congress that would strip the American people of their rights, and in particular, gun control legislation.
An assassination occurs, or somebody walks into a McDonald's and shoots a whole bunch of people.
Every one of them, ladies and gentlemen, I might add, ex-mental patients who are on the drug Prozac.
If you don't believe that, research it for yourself.
It's like somewhere Someone is programming these people to do these things.
And they're set loose right at these specific times in order to make sure that this kind of stuff passes.
It's like the bombing of the Alfred P. Neurath Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
It was blown up when the President's counter-terrorism bill You guys don't even know what that bill did, do you?
It gave the President the power to declare any organization he wishes a terrorist organization.
stripped us of many more of our rights.
You guys don't even know what that bill did, do you?
It gave the President the power to declare any organization he wishes a terrorist organization
without any evidence, without any charges being filed, without being tried and convicted
of anything, and anyone who belongs to those organizations that he declares to be terrorist
organizations can be arrested without charges, held without the right of habeas corpus for
any amount of time without trial, without ever being convicted or sentenced forever
if the President wants to.
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How about that?
You didn't even know that, did you?
Well, Hitler did the same thing.
Had the same power.
And a lot more.
Before it's over, this government's going to have a lot more power, too, unless you people get wise and stop giving it to them.
You think, oh, it doesn't matter, it's never going to affect me because I don't do anything wrong?
That's baloney, folks.
There's so many laws on the books right now that every single citizen in this country every day breaks some law that he or she does not even know exists.
And every day they're passing more and more laws, all the time.
And they are doing this so that any time that they want anybody, whomsoever it may be, all they have to do is follow you around for a few days and they can pick you up and throw you in jail.
And if you belong to an organization and they really want you bad enough, the president can just declare it to be a terrorist organization.
And then you're all going to prison, picked up in the dead of night, nobody will even know where you went, there'll be nothing in the papers, there'll be no trial, there'll be no charges, and nobody will ever see you again.
Wow!
You know, People who have experienced that kind of prejudice and persecution in the history of their organization should be very concerned about these things.
I'm talking about people like those who belong to the Mormon Church.
I'm talking about Catholics and Jews.
You guys never thought of this, have you?
See, if it was done in the past, it can be done again in the future, and they're laying the groundwork for it right now.
Well, let's continue.
It gets worse.
I remember, this report was finalized in 1982.
What's happened since then is unbelievable, in light of the fact that the United States Senate, specifically on the issue of gun control, says that they can't do any of it.
In this report?
Well, anyway, let's continue.
Enforcement of the 1968 Act was delegated to the Department of the Treasury, which had been responsible for enforcing the earlier gun legislation.
This responsibility was in turn given to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service.
This division had traditionally devoted itself to the pursuit of illegal producers of alcohol.
At the time of enactment of the Gun Control Act, only 8.3% of its arrests were for firearms violations.
Following enactment of the Gun Control Act, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division was retitled the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the Internal Revenue Service.
By July 1972, it had nearly doubled in size and became a complete Treasury Bureau under the name of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
And that just goes to show you what they know.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a lie.
There is no agency of the United States government or the Treasury Department or the Department of the Treasury known as the Internal Revenue Service or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
If you don't believe me, in the United States Code, every agency of the United States government must be listed.
In the United States Code, under Title 10, you can look up the Department of the Treasury, and under the Department of the Treasury in the United States Code, it must list every bureau and agency of the Department of the Treasury.
There is no listing for the Internal Revenue Service or for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
They're unlawful, unconstitutional organizations and therefore cannot be listed by law.
Wow!
Does that blow your mind?
Well, the Coast Guard's listed.
The Customs Department is listed.
That's right.
You know who else is not listed?
The Secret Service.
Now you know why the President has to toe the mark.
Blow your mind?
Well, it should!
It should!
It should blow your mind right off the planet!
But it's all true.
If you don't believe me, look it up yourself.
You can go right straight to the United States Code on the Internet.
Or you can just go over to St.
John's, if you're in the Round Valley of Arizona, to the courthouse.
It's all there.
Every bit of it.
If you need help, ask somebody who knows.
They'll help you out.
On the Internet, it's real easy.
You can do searches for keywords or phrases on a computer.
Instead of looking through a whole bunch of books for several hours, it'll pop up within seconds.
That's why you all need a computer and access to the Internet.
It is the greatest educational tool for the common man in the history of the world.
It has opened the door to information that nobody has ever wanted the common man to know.
It's all there for you to find.
Let's continue.
I keep getting sidetracked, but that's the way this stuff is, folks.
The mid-1970s saw rapid increases in sugar prices, and these in turn drove the bulk of the moonshiners out of business.
Over 15,000 illegal distilleries had been raided in 1956, but by 1976 this had fallen to a mere 609.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms thus began to devote the bulk of its efforts to the area of firearms law enforcement.
Complaints regarding the techniques used by the Bureau in an effort to generate firearms cases led to hearings before the Subcommittee on Treasury, Post Office and General Appropriations of the Senate Appropriations Committee in July 1979 and April 1980.
and before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee in October 1980.
At these hearings, evidence was received from various citizens who had been charged by BATF, from experts who had studied the BATF, and from officials of the Bureau itself.
Based upon these hearings, it is apparent that enforcement tactics made possible by current federal firearms laws are constitutionally, legally, and practically reprehensible, which means it's wrong and lawful.
Although Congress adopted the Gun Control Act with the primary object of limiting access of felons and high-risk groups to firearms, the over-breadth of the law has led to neglect of precisely this area of enforcement.
For example, the subcommittee on the Constitution received correspondence from two members of the Illinois judiciary dated in 1980 indicating that they had been totally unable to persuade BATF to accept cases against felons who were in possession of firearms, including sawed-off shotguns.
The Bureau's own figures demonstrate that in recent years the percentage of its arrests devoted to felons in possession and persons knowingly selling to them have dropped from 14% down to 10% of their firearms cases.
To be sure, the genuine criminals are sometimes prosecuted under other sections of the law.
Yet, subsequent to these hearings, the BATF stated that 55% of its gun law prosecutions overall involve persons with no record of a felony conviction and a third involve citizens with no prior police contact whatsoever.
The subcommittee receives evidence that BATF has primarily devoted its firearms enforcement efforts to the apprehension upon technical malum prohibition charges of individuals who lack all criminal intent and knowledge.
Agents anxious to generate an impressive arrest and gun confiscation quota have repeatedly enticed gun collectors into making a small number of sales, often as few as four, from their personal collections Although each of the sales was completely legal under state and federal law, the agents then charged the collector with having engaged in the business of dealing in guns without the required license.
Since existing law permits a felony conviction upon these charges, even where the individual has no criminal knowledge or intent, numerous collectors have been ruined by a felony record carrying a potential sentence of five years in federal prison.
Even in cases where the collectors secured acquittal, or grand juries failed to indict, or prosecutors refused to file criminal charges, agents of the Bureau have generally confiscated the entire collection of the potential defendant upon the ground that he intended to use it in that violation of the law.
In several cases, the agents have refused to return the collection even after acquittal by jury.
You see, folks, when we call these people Nazi jack-booted thugs, we're not making it up.
That's exactly what they are.
And their intent is not to take guns away from criminals.
They want criminals to have guns so that the crime-rape figures will keep them in business while they go about their real business of disarming American citizens.
is the truth that you can take right to the bank.
David Koresh had machine guns, that's why they had to go down there with SWAT teams, and automatic weapons, and helicopters, and tanks, and army psychological warfare units, and British SAS units?
Ladies and gentlemen, Owning a machine gun is not and never has been against the law in this country.
It is not against the law now.
And at the time they went after David Koresh, he had invited them personally to come out and inspect every weapon that he had.
David Koresh was willing to pay a $200 tax if in fact he had a machine gun, which he did not.
No, this was all about many other things.
Most of which are stripping the American citizens of their right to keep and bear arms.
You're all propagandized to think that David Koresh had done some terrible crime by possessing a machine gun.
You yourself can possess a machine gun just by paying the tax.
It's simple.
It's easy.
And in order to get you to accept the murder of all those people, and they were murders,
every one of those people who died in Waco, Texas were murdered, except for the federal agents who were killed in
self-defense.
Thank you.
In order to get you to buy it, They completely ignored the fact that they went in there
supposedly after a machine gun, for which David Koresh had not paid a two hundred dollar
tax, killed over eighty-some-odd people who were not listed on the warrant, had nothing to
do with any crimes, had never committed any crimes whatsoever.
They told you that David Koresh had spanked some children.
Bye.
Or that he was sleeping with teenage girls, with their parents' permission.
Which in the South, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing new, unless you've never been in the South, and in many states
it's perfectly 100% legal, not only to go to bed with young girls, but to marry them also.
The fact is, those charges have been proffered before, and the local...
Child Protection Agency had investigated the Branch Davidians and David Koresh twice.
You know what they found?
There was no grounds whatsoever for those charges, and that the children living at Mount Carmel, on the whole, were the happiest, brightest, most well-educated children that they had seen in a long time.
It's right in their report, which you never bothered to read.
You were too busy listening to the talking propagandists On the big I in your living room.
Sometimes I grieve so much for this nation and for the American people.
Sometimes I get so angry at the stupidity and the ignorance that abounds across this country.
At a people who were given a freedom by founding fathers.
Ladies and gentlemen, who came to this country to escape religious persecution in
the old world would dare to stand there and tell me to my face that the
Branch Davidians deserved what they got because they were a bunch of religious fanatics.
Sometimes I just sit down and cry.
the world.
You see, you take away the freedom of one, just one single person out of 260 million in this whole country.
You have stripped yourself of that same right.
You've stripped all of us of that right.
Once the right has been taken away, you're never going to get it back.
Why would such a prosperous, free people decide to walk freely Down the road back into slavery.
Without even a protest.
For the most part, I'm protesting.
So are many others.
But we truly are a voice in the wilderness.
You know why William Jefferson Clinton really called me the most dangerous radio host in America.
It's because I'm not afraid of him.
Or the Internal Revenue Service, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Or the United States Army.
Or the local sheriff, or police, or anybody.
I'm just not afraid.
I'm not afraid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and I'm not afraid to die.
I know what the truth is and I scream it loudly so that all can hear.
And because I scream that truth and really do practice free speech, and because I can source it and document every word that I say, and because I am not afraid and cannot be intimidated or silenced without killing me and making a martyr out of me, that makes me extremely dangerous!
I am more dangerous than an army of a million men.
And you can be too.
But first you have to know what you're talking about.
You have to learn what the truth is.
Because the truth for you right now is that you've been living most of your life in fantasy.
In lies and in deception.
And you don't have to go back too far to find out where it started.
If your grandfather, just your grandfather if you're my age, could see you now, he would put you over his knee and give you a wallocking that you would never forget.
And that also is the truth for you now.
We'll continue this tomorrow, and I can see right now that we're going to go into next week with the right to keep and bear arms.
It's going to take quite a while to finish this because there's a lot of ground to cover.
An awful lot of ground, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm going to read you the laws on guns and militias from every state of the union.
That's right.
And from the United States Cone.
And you're going to find out that most of you listening to this broadcast, whether you want to be or not, are members of the militia.
All this rhetoric that you've been hearing about people who belong to militias being Terrorists and being unlawful and having private armies and all that?
It's all lies.
The militia is defined under the law.
I am a member of the militia of the United States of America and of the state of Arizona, whether I want to be or not.
The only difference between you and I is I know it and admit it.
And I meet with other militia members so that when we are called up and we will be called up to defend all of our freedoms, I and all of the rest of those with me will be ready, fully trained, and willing to carry out our duty.
Good night, ladies and gentlemen, and God bless each and every single one of you.
All of a sudden, in the middle of the night, there's a loud knock on your door.
Something's not right.
Throw out your arms.
Let's take one last look.
We're here for the betterment.
We're here to help you.
I'm from the IRS.
We're the power of the tax.
Think you've got a complaint?
Say you're the best.
You've had a few shots.
Surrender your guns, give me your gold, and I'll pay you what I owe.
That's the best I can do for your soul.
Hillary Kala, Reno Janet Dyke, reading the words of General Albert Reilly, the money-founder
of the Ku Klux Klan, engineer of the Masonic Master Plan.
Pike said Lucifer is gone across this land.
That's what he's saying hit the mark in your right hand.
But we're all dancing with the drums of uproar of right, because he's preparing it for another new attack.
I... will... have...
Order out of chaos, depression, inflation, create the panic and rape the nation.
Crisis creation, incite black and whites, program agitation.
Don't make this!
You're the rulers of the U.N.
And all of the things that our founding fathers did to set us free and take the yoke of enslavement
off of us is somehow fair.
It was the crowning achievement of all human history.
So I have today just one simple request.
This is a test for all of us.
So I have today just one simple request.
A comprehensive package of health care benefits that are always there and can never be taken
away.
So huge.
media heists, plant infusions, Masonic religions, it's a lie
that's a claim for a Lusiterian Messiah I, or many others, but we truly are a voice in the
wilderness.
I'm a Lusiterian Messiah.
Not back smoking crack for some cheap thrill.
They've numbed us down and gummed us down with fluoride TV drugs, DNA, and public schools.
They've taken your brightest, and our best, and made them public fools.
With many media, brains, and their lies, and the filth, the bankers, Dovier, Wilk, Johnson, Bush, Carter, Reagan, Gore, and Dems.
They've all been pushing pipes.
That's right.
That's their last word.
Rhodes Scholar, old man.
Clinton speaks and enrages the media.
Portal.
Ha ha.
Zootoperian subjugation.
Newer's order.
Illuminati corrugation.
That's me, you're a primal bitch.
Orders of the quest.
They think they're superior.
They think that they're the best.
And you're in jail, you little rat.
Scumbag.
Cronin E.
Knight-Sibler.
Harvard University.
There's nothing but energy.
Back to the golden circle.
Ancient order of the most...
You're listening to 101.1 FM Eager.
Classic radio like you always wished it could be.
Thank you.
Don't forget to tune in again tomorrow for the Hour of the Time with yours truly, William Cooper.
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