The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 52

Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”

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2- Election Avoids Guns

The lamestream media told you:

The gun issue may have caused both John Kerry and Al Gore their presidential election bids. President Clinton specifically attributed Gore's loss to the fears of gun owners, costing the great award-winning environmental champion the humiliating loss of his own home state and the election.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Despite a monumental Supreme Court case on the subject, and quiet rumblings about how guns are a factor in presidential races, the news media is maintaining an eerie silence on the topic of guns, gun rights, gun control and even the Olympic winners of the shooting contests (Great Britain, Germany, China and Russia were big winners, American Kim Rhode took her 4th career Olympic Medal, getting Silver in Women's Skeet). http://www.usashooting.org/viewRelease.php?id=182

The media however continues issuing its routine national "news" reports of many minor local gun-related crimes, creating a false impression that gun violence is random (it is highly localized in "bad" neighborhoods), an intrinsic value of firearms (it is largely related to the federalized war on some drugs), and that guns should be outlawed since outlaws use them (the same as outlaws use getaway cars, stolen cash, knives, clubs, liquor, cigarettes, soft drinks, tattoos and everything else).

The media's highly favored candidate, African American B.H. Obama, has no published platform position on firearms. Read it for yourself http://www.barackobama.com/issues). His opponent, John McCain, has a strong pro-rights position posted at http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/issues.

Posted platforms and performance are not always an exact match, but the difference is startling. Obama did recently publicly deny that he would take away your guns, and denied his anti-rights record of gun-ban laws he's supported, and that if gun confiscation is why you won't vote for him, change your mind, he said.

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9- Socialists Endorse Obama

The lamestream media told you:

Francoise Hollande, the head of France's Socialist Party, has endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. president, and promised "to work for the senator's victory," in the words of the Associated Press in an unbylined article.
http://www.pr-inside.com/france-socialist-chief-endorses-obama-r781222.htm

The article goes on to say, "but he (Hollande) acknowledged that the French Socialists' endorsement could end up tarnishing Obama's image in the eyes of the American electorate, given the way some voters regard socialism."

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The AP has once again reported on an event without identifying who is speaking. The words quoted above are the AP's, probably a paraphrase or summary of Hollande's actual words, not provided in the story. The accuracy of such pseudo quotes is anyone's guess, darkened by AP's failure to identify the writer who framed the remarks. Newspaper editors nationwide ran the piece anyway.

Most disturbing is the editorial comment at the end, concerning, "the way some voters regard socialism." Whether this is Hollande speaking, or even worse, the AP itself, it is a reprehensible distortion of reality that portrays socialism in an almost neutral light.

Socialism is an avowed arch enemy of the American way and personal freedom, not dependent on how "some voters" view it. It detests capitalism, profit and free markets, the very strengths that have made America great, and which have led more people out of abject poverty than any other system in the world. The socialist system disparages any sense of private property, a linchpin of American economic principles and historical success.

Socialism is a politically designed rather than naturally evolved system, dependent on a dictatorial ruling class, state ownership of property, and the subjugation of individual people for the benefit of "the masses," or the "collective," as defined and managed by the rulers. Modern attempts at imposing socialism routinely end in utter failure, with the collapse of the Soviet Union a prime example and the debacle of Castro's Cuba close behind.

"Some voters" and most of the awake world recognize socialism for what it is, a way to defeat individual liberty, freedom, and turn "the working class" into a political tool for elite leaders with a death grip on power.
The AP should be ashamed of itself for the shoddy deceptive anti-freedom reporting. No correction has been made or is expected.

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10- Carry State Clarifications

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing. In fact, they never provide this crucial information to the public, perhaps because only half of all American homes have firearms.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Chris Bird, author of the exceptional Concealed Handgun Manual, reports: The NRA says there are 40 right-to-carry states. That includes Vermont which does not issue licenses so you don't need a license to carry open or concealed. Alaska is a shall-issue state but you don't need a license to carry in the open or concealed under current law. The state has kept the permit process going for Alaskans who want reciprocity with states in the Lower 48.

There are three other states – Alabama, Connecticut and Iowa -- that the NRA considers right-to-carry because they say permits are almost always issued to law-abiding residents. I have no quarrel with Connecticut and Alabama but I do not count Iowa as I have talked to people in one state gun-rights organization and they say it depends on which county you live in. Some counties issue few if any licenses.

So I say there are 36 states that have mandatory issuance if a person qualifies: AK, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KA, KY, LA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WY.

I use the terms license and permit interchangeably, though states are generally dedicated to the word they've chosen. Also note that some states issue permits for concealed weapons that include more than just a handgun, some issue licenses for concealed handguns only, or for any possession, or for a specific firearm listed on the permit. In my home state of Texas, the CHL is for a revolver only, or for semi-auto and revolver, at your choice.

For information on how the wonderful firearm licensing laws attack and diminish your right to keep and bear arms, read this: http://www.gunlaws.com/lostcry.htm and this:
http://www.gunlaws.com/recsch.htm

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Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 1943 (U.S. Supreme Court):
"A state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the Federal Constitution... A person cannot be compelled 'to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the Constitution.'"

"This does not apply to the Second Amendment," said LawyerMan, because it has been "distinguished." That means courts have decided the words only apply in some special context. "I vote for the words meaning what they mean," said LaymanMan. No public rioting has been reported yet.

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Contents:
(searchable by item number)
1- al-Qaida Still Struggling
2- Election Avoids Guns
3- Political Convention Redux
4- Convention Ugliness Unparalleled
5- Convention Drunkenness Omitted
6- Olympic Deception Recap
7- Olympics Threaten Equality
8- Bar Coding People
9- Socialists Endorse Obama
10- Carry State Clarifications

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Alan Korwin
The Uninvited Ombudsman