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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand READERS the dirty trick variety and was for the purpose of enraging its victims and annoying IRS". So, readers, if you annoy the government, you have given up your rights under the constitution. It was evident to the lawyers presenting the appeal that this had become a purely political issue. The law was never seriously considered, and at least one of the judges was irate at the suggestion that these men should think they had a right to trial by jury. On this issue the appeals court ruled that a petty offense does not warrant a jury trial, and they quote these parts of the Constitution: The trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crime shall have been committed..." Art. 1II2C1.3 In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district...." Amendment VI. We cannot understand how the Judges read, except in cases of petty offense into these part sof the Constitution. It will cost each defendant at least $4000 to take this to the Supreme Court, where the issue will most likely not be heard, since the issue if political in nature, and the goal of the government and the IRS is to have all protesters put away in jail. It appears as if these honest, conscientious citizens will spend six months in jail for speaking their minds. April 10, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 3 OUTLOOK ( oniinued from page 2 HANDGUN AMMUNITION Secretary Consumer Product Safety Com- ON COURSE) time. At the present time alcohol is making a slow kill on ap- million eleven proximately alcoholic Americans! If logic, mission reason, and consistency is allowed P.O. Box 8137 to prevail over emotion, alcoholic 20024 D.C. Washington. beverages would naturally be given much higher priority for removal Dear Secretary: as a dangerous product from the market than pistol ammunition. I wish to state to my objection The scope of your powers the proposed ban on handgun amwould be to determine if the I believe the ban to be handgun ammunition is manufacmunition. unconstitutional tured to safe standards, so that it absolutely because of its arbitrary nature. If will not blow up the gun that it is handgun ammunition can be shot in not to the user of it who banned as a dangerous product, so might be the dangerous part of the can rifle and shotgun ammunition equation. If the user of the ambe banned for the same reason. munition is dangerous, he would in a allow effect, would This, come under the police and judicial federal bureau to nullify a powers not yours. So if you rule constitutional amendment in this to ban handgun ammunition from case, the second amendment which the market, you. in effect, rule to guarantees the people (not the state ban it by its misuse rather than if it or federal government) the right to is a safe product to be used by its Do you really think keep (at home) and bear arms (in purchaser. their own Congress invested you with the Secondly, it would be power to rule a product off the arbitrarily inconsistent to rule any market by its misuse? If so, to form of ammunition as dangerous remain consistent, you should ban to the public with its resultant all knives, since one third as many removal from the market and not people are killed by stabbings as also rule on many more products are killed by handgun ammunition that are far more dangerous, as in homicides. It would be another measured by the greater number of case of the user being the people that are killed by the dangerous part of the equation product's use. For example, the rather than the product. Also, a kills over sixty ban on handgun ammunition, automobile thousand people a year while the while leaving much more is kill homicidal pistol apdangerous products of much for the ten thousand proximately greater distribution on the market same period. Reason and conindicate an would certainly dictate would the that sistency arbitrary ruling with emotion or be given lack should automobile of understanding or a priority over handgun ammunition deliberate misuse of authority as its in its removal from the market. basis. Hence, it would be an Sincerely, Dr. Alton to indefensible ruling. .1 am very According Ochsner, M.D., senior consultant much surprised that Judge Judith Goeltz to the Ochsner Foundation HosFlannery missed these points. Fairview, Utah 84629 in It has been New Orleans: pital Hoping the foregoing presenACTION NOT WORDS estimated that tobacco use kills tation will have given a more about three hundred and sixty correct perspective of the issue inDear Editor.- thousand people a year in this volved, I remain alone." (January 1975 isAfter reading the U.I. for country sue of READERS DIGEST page Respectfully yours, several months 1 have come to the 105.) From the foregoing figure, conclusion that exposure is the key the total tobacco kill of the H. W. Bigelow topic. How much educating can American people is approximately Douglas. Arizona one paper possibly do? I am sure it x times that of the thirty-sidoes not have a 2 or 3 million paper kill of the pistol, which homicidal circulation. Even so. the average make it would automatically reader would no doubt only shrug times more dangerous thirty-si- x his shoulders and change channels than the pistols homicidal misuse. Because my grandparents on the boob tube. Personally I conand reason died in Siberia at the hands of think the whole governments are Again.'wouldnt dictate that tobacco Soviet sistency and made up of Reds, I always had a be given priority over should The two king pins hatred of parasites. in its personal I ammunition handgun never knew communism. on the federal level need no inas a removal product dangerous I much about China, but lately troduction in many homes and from the market? have been learning fast. Its think they both should be hung by It is a well known fact, because run by a much the same until sunthe neck from its widespread publication, that of group of international thugs down, or longer, for their is involved in over fifty alcohol trying to get control of the colleagues to admire. They could the fatal automobile ac- world ! of percent be proud that their buddies were cidents. This would make alcohol, is one of the Mao Tse-tun- g hung with utmost respect due all because of its mind dangerous criminals, which they are. biggest murderers of all time. rescharacteristics, altering 1 so well remember He makes Hitler look like a my class for over thirty thousand ponsible motto of 1934, Action, not piker. The Senate Internal deaths by automobile per peoplcs' words." If some of the written Security Subcommittee in Its removal from the market 1971 year. published a study of prophesies are even close to right, as a dangerous product would Maos mass murders entitled time is of the essence, perhaps make the public use of the Human Cost of days, maybe weeks, possibly mon- . automobile twice as safe. It has The Communism in China. They ths. I would like to see each U.S. come to light recently that alcohol figured the number of murders tax payer chip in $ .00, not to supis involved in over fifty percent of Cultural by category port an election,' but to furnish a the gun killings within families or forced labor Revolution, bounty for at least two scalps of Its removal from the neighbors. and the grand camps, etc. federal prominence. market would additionally reduce total is 63.7 million. Thats a My contribution is available the gun's misuse to half of its lot of murders! Quite a few anytime. homicidal rate. However, present Americans, though-actress- es, the insurious and dangerous in- former A Tax Rebel attorneys general, fluence that alcohol exercises in David Rockefeller, and even automobile accidental deaths and have Government causes gun homicides is not its greatest Gerald Ford himself China from come home raving inflation by creating and danger to man. Heavy use of about the virtues of these spending too jmieh money, alcohol destroys the brain and liver comrades. and inflation won't ever end which results in the killing of its Gerald Ford as Vice until government stops doing user about ten vears before his self-defens- e). with Capt. Joe H. Ferguson BUREAUCRATS VERSUS APPLE PIE Captain Joe H. Ferguson FEDERAL LAW AGAINST issue of AMERICAN VEGETABLE GROWER magazine reported a new bomb the federal bureaucrats are planning to drop on the American fruit and vegetable industry. Specifically, the new proposed law would forbid any advertiser to claim that his food produce is Nourishing, wholesome, or nutritious unless a serving of such food contains a specific minimum of protein and other constituents. Well, now practically federal bureaucrats) everybody (except the thick-skullknows that virtually all fruits and vegetables are low in protein. Consequently, even though they are extremely high in vitamins and other food values, the proposed law would make it a crime to call them nourishing, wholesome or nutritious. A recent ed LAW AGAINST TELLING THE TRUTH What it all boils down to is that the proposed law would make it a crime to tell the truth. Perhaps this has resulted from the fact that in Washington the idea has prevailed for so long that it is all right to lie to the people that they feel they have to go one step further and make it a crime to tell the truth. We all agree with the principle of honest advertising. But any sane person can see that the above proposed law not only does not enhance honest advertising, it is detrimental to it! Bureaucratic decree or not, the fact is that apples, oranges, lettuce, tomatoes and well-prov- - False words are not only evil in themselves but they inject the soul with evil. -- Socrates I would impressionable think The young Americans. You think maybe theyre using him as an errand boy, to soften us up for whats ahead? If Ford had any concern for those young graduates, and his country, he would have ended by reminding them that Chairman Maos Little Red Book also says: Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of a gun. - Victor Reinick Desert Hot Springs, California the President, especially now, could quote some American iM Independent Salt Lake City, Utah - - hero, instead of pumping the Red Chinese line into those President of the United States, in a commencement address at the University of Michigan on May 4, called Mao one of the great world leaders of this century whose words have and been read by millions, urged the graduates to take Maos advice: We cannot do without freedom nor can we do without discipline. Pure double talk, 1984 style! 1 - en other produce ARE wholesome, nourishing and nutritious. Now, if the bureaucrats want to prosecute anybody for telling the truth, just let them start on me. Communist Thugs hi-no- on HONEST ADVERTISING The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City Send change ol address forms and correspondence to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly |