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Show 1 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand March 20. 1975 The Utah Independent Page Gun Control Means People Control Thus Nixon's actions are a What is behind this drive to disarm iolation of the U.S. Constitution, according to Article IV. Section 4. Article IV. Section 3. Clause I. of the U.S. Constitution clear law-abidin- g citizens ? stipulates: New "New States may be admitted sachusetts. Hampshire. Rhode Island, and Vermont. by the Congress into this Union; REGION II (New York but no new State shall beformed or City) New York. New Jersey. erected within the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin any other State, nor any State be Islands. formed by the junction of two or III more Stales, or parts of Stales, REGION (Philadelphia) Delaware. District without the consent of the - of Columbia, Maryland. Pennsylvania. Virginia, and West Virginia. IV (AtlantREGION a) Alabama. Florida, Georgia. North Mississippi, Kentucky. Carolina. South Carolina, and Tennessee. A NATIONAL POLICE FORCE? Copyright 1974 THE POLICE FOR FEDERAL CONTROL V Minnesota. Michigan. Ohio, and Wisconsin. REGION VI (Dallas-Fo- rt Louisiana. Worth) Arkansas. New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. REGION On February 10, 1972 President Nixon signed Executive Order No. 11647 which then in the FEDERAL appeared REGISTER of February 12. There was virtually no comment in the nation's press on this action. In Executive Order No. 1647 the President decreed: There is hereby established a Federal Regional Council for each of the ten standard federal regions. Each Council shall he composed of the directors of the regional offices of the Departments of Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1 Indiana. Illinois. (Chicago) by Phoebe Courtney REGIONALIZING" REGION VII (Kansas City) Iowa. Kansas, and Nebraska. Missouri, VIII REGION Montana. (Denver) Colorado. North Dakota. South Dakota. Utah, and Wyoming. REGION IX (San Fran- cisco) California. Arizona. Hawaii, and Nevada. REGION X (Seattle) Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. As can be noted in the foregoing list, in all cases the lines drawn for these federal regions cross State lines, thus to all intents and Housing and Urban and purposes obliterating the the Secretarial sovereignty of the States. Development, Article IV. Section 4 of the Representative of the Department directhe and U.S. Constitution declares: of Transportation, tors of the regional offices of the The United States shall Office of Economic Opportunity, guarantee to every State in this the Environmental Protection Union a republican form of LA W EX- government..." the and Agency, FORCE MET ASSISTANCE ADMIXISTRA TIOX. (Emphasis added.) The ten standard federal regions" referred to by Nixon were delineated by him in a press release issued by the White House on May 21. 1969. Purporting to streamline the structure and processes of federal agencies in the field, the President then gave the alignment for the federal regions as follows: (The city in parentheses is the federal capital of each region.) REGION (Boston) Connecticut, Maine, Mas- 1 A republican is form of defined in Webster's government New Collegiate Dictionary as one in which the sovereign power resides in a certain body of the people the electorate and is exercised representatives by elected by. and responsible to. them." Under the Federal Regional Councils proclaimed by President Nixon, Government in the ten federal regions would be administered by federal appointed bureaucrats accountable only to Washington. D.C. Legislatures of the concerned as Congress." well Nixon's States as of the unilateral es- tablishment of the ten federal regions violates this Clause in the U.S. Constitution inasmuch as. prior to the issuance of this edict, the President did not obtain the consent of all the State Legislatures concerned, nor of Congress. R. Gary previously-mentione- Handy in his article d stated: of course, that a conspiracy working to create a dictatorship in America would have to do away with State and local government in favor of conregional administrations trolled by thefederal government. In accordance with that goal. local police agencies would have to be consolidated and managed by That, regional administrators. w is set Nixon hen then, why up the composition of each of the ten Federal Regional Councils he established by edict, he included the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). In his article Handy also pointed out: When police departments have been consolidated, made dependent on federal money and subject to federal guidelines, the management will be assumed by the regional office of LEAA. " When that happens, America will have a national police force." And, the LEAA is becoming increasingly involved in dishing out taxpayers dollars to finance programs of merger, consolidation and regionalization of local police forces. According to the LEAA XEWSl.ETTER of July 1971: "Special grants of up to $75,000 each are available to large counties for projects involving pooling, coordination or consolidation of services on a multicounty or joint government basis. It is axiomatic, ORDER BLANK NOTE DISCOUNTS FOR QUANTITY ORDERS THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAN P.O. Box 636 Littleton, Colorado 80120 n r copy.. .$1.75 copies.. 5.00 10 copies.. 9. 50 1 5 25 100 copies.. .$21. 00 copies... 78.00 Please send me .copies of "Gun Control Means People Control Payment of .is enclosed. (Please send check or money order) $ by Phoebe Courtney (192 pages, paperback, indexed) 4 i i Mrs. Mr. Miss ? Street . Zip City and State CUT OUT AND MAIL Code Another $ 500.000 was ear marked for Stute or local programs to merge, consolidate, or integrate police, court, or correctional services now provided by separate jurisdiction; $500,000 for design of regional police facilities such as academies or comtraining munications centers; and $ 750.000 for other programs to consolidate local police services." Promoting regionalization of all police forces, Clarence Coster. Associate Administrator ?, jugt jp 1 1 Cloth FLAG WAVING Some Thoughts From FREEDOM CENTER of to wave the Hag too much? Provided that you wave Is it possible to it with integrity? sachusetts: study Lincoln or Shakespeare too we this in country Today much? Is it possible to read the have 40,235 agenBible too much? one-ma- n cies. ranging from The great, the good, the true .YenYork City are inexhaustible for inspiration, departments to with more than 40.000 police ofMany example and strength. ficers. believe that we are not waging our "This many units form a comHag enough, not nearly enough. It seems that we are pletely ungovernable body." What a chilling admission by developing a tendency to be timid an I.EAA official! or even apologetic about waving whom? by Ungovernable" the stars and stripes. Walk up and All of those police departments are down the streets on Memorial Day 40.235 easily governable by the or I lag Day and count the Hags. serve. communities they I rv it again on the Fourth of July, LEAA on Commenting our nation's birthday, a sacred day Costers statement. THE HOUSin world history, the most im1971 TON TRIBUNE oi June 10. portant day of America. Why isnt had this to say: t he Hag Hying on every rooftop and What this official evidently from every home and building? means is that 40,235 This complacent attitude is are agencies strong evidence of cancerous central the by ungovernable patriotic decay. The Hag is a A is nd that exactly as symbol of our national unity. It is government. be. it should the spirit or our undying devotion remain should "Police powers to our country. It stands for the local powers, as they have been hisbest that is in us. . . for loyalty, is This an this in torically country. character and faith in democracy. essential safeguard against Isnt our Hag a synonym of the totalitarian power." United States of America? Does it observed: has As Dan Smoot not represent man's greatest, When a national police force noblest, most sublime dream? Is it becomes a recognized, accepted, not the zenith of achievement, the will no it longer reality, operating goal to which all generations have It be ineffective and permissive. aspired? will be ruthlessly efficient and It is time for us. ..for the mad repressive." rushing. Twentieth Century in his R. Ileinan. Timothy American. ..to stop for a moment aforementioned article, summed it and think. Let us arrest our up this way: reverent admiration of material "The object of the game is to success and return to the spiritual finance , and encourage permisand ethical values. Let us rekindle siveness. then to use the popular in ourselves and our children the outrage to justify further federal way of patriotism, a control. burning devotion to the principles will then Our police officers and ideals upon which our country take their orders front was founded. Should not every Washington. They will do as they home own and proudly display the are told, for they will no longer be colors on. holidays and other ocour local police but the agents of a casions? a federal Gestapo directed from the Isnt the flag Patrick Henry. " ten regional capitals. Jefferson, Franklin. Washington. And. of course, if the Nathan Hale. Gettysburg and American people permit a national Valley Paul Revere. Forge. police force to be established, no Jackson and other great men and citizen will be permitted to have a women and events that have given gun in his possession to detend us our heritage? When you look at himself and his family against this the flag, cant you see the Alamo. planned federal tyranny. Corregidor. Pearl Harbor, The Monitor. The Merrimac. Wake Island, and Korea? Lest we forget, AN OBSERVATION isnt the flag Handers Field. Bataan. Iwo Jima. Normandy. and A beautiful woman is one Davy Crockett? you notice; a charming woman The great events of our past is one who notices you. and present are wrapped up in our Globe Mason City, Louisiana flag. It is a symbol of this blessed nation, a giant in industry, education and commerce. Millions of fertile square miles, wheatlands. The reason so many coal mines, steel plants. Our great people never get anywhere in life is because, when republic, the chosen infant destined to be man's last, best hope for opportunity knocks, they are freedom and dignity, a shining out in the back yard looking beacon of light, noble and glorious, for four-lea- f clovers. - Walter P. Chrysler haven for the oppressed and persecuted, and truly God's gift to Its called the division of manking. is what the flag means. That labor - they (the bureaucrats) Can we wave it too much? No!. make the mistakes and we (the Is it possible l.F.AA. on March 3. 1971 told a gathering of police chiefs in Mas- - ed taxpayers) make the -- Steve Miller sacritiees. Reason Magazine, Feb. 1975 Knotfs Berry Farm Buena Park, Ca. 90620 |