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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand March 27, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 7 G. GORDON LIDDY Continued From ven more important I v. an entire class ot exploited persons had for the first time the technological capa- to attack successfully their previously invulner- able masters: an atrocity indeed if, as was the Pope, one happened to be a master. The medieval aristocracy had no intention of shar- ing the power of life and death if that sharing could be prevented. Fortunately, for the peasants, crossbow control was as effective then as gun control is today, which is to say not at all. The reason is the same. It has hot and will not achieve the support of a huge portion of the population. People do not readily sur- render power, and power is what the argument is really all about. Cellblock 4 of the District of Columbia Jail has. on third floor, a common room where prisoners mav view television. One evening recently, following the local news, a voung white man appeared on screen and delivered himself of an editorial calling for the confiscation of handguns owned privately. Save one observer, myself a convict, all those in the room were black. The listeners reacted to the editorial not as convicts but as black citizens. The editorial was viewed unanimously as a threat to what little power a black man. especially a poor one, had in a white, affluent nation. The barons did not want the peasants to have the power inherent in the possession of a crossbow, and Whiter does not want a Brother to have the power inherent in the possesion of a gun. -- The old arguments about registration, licensing. owner identification cards and the like are passe now. Few serious men on either side of the controversy bother to deny any longer that the issue is private possession of firearms: of a handgun today, of a Ionaw gun tomorrow (a long wgun plus a hacksaw equals a handaun). Feeling on both sides is intense. How could it be otherwise when such elemental and opposite emotions as fear, on the one hand, and a sense of security on W street victim as of someone who should have known better than to have been abroad at that hour in the first place. We have not, however, abandoned our There we stand and fight. Indeed, what choice there? Further retreat is impossible. Years ago someone engraved on the barrel of a revolver:' Be not afraid of any man, no matter what his size. When danger threatens, call on me. I will on man-stoppi- ng ... Western civilization must be cleansed, or else it had better make way for something better.A world, cruihing out all chivalry, decency, and humanity in human nature. (How desof the criptive Women's Liberation Movement so-call- ed via the E.R.A.) Contributed by Fred Morrison rest white in Las Vegas. Racial unrest and reverse discrimination arc rampant in that city. There will always be among us those who do not choose to delay gratification and who elect to prey upon others. Such persons are not confined to any social class, educational background, race or other identifiable grouping factor. Such persons, however, cannot account for the extraordinary amount of lfcnt crime in the United States. There are other rea-i- s sons for that, not the least being the fact that millions lt of our people perceive themselves, not without son. as members of an underclass, without power and without access to power by ordinary means. s. rea-Co- strut8les fr power, people get hurt. Sooner or responsible leaders will have to stop occupying lbeir time with such symptom-treatin- g approaches as attack the real problerti. The only u.n cntrol an aristocracy that can last is that based upon ihetit, the crossbows will Joining with the Pope in cursing . F "TparenV" , Up0" 0"CS P'6men' NEVDA HAS CONSOLIDATION TROUBLES, TOOl Last week my husband and I drove down to Las Vegas for a three-da- y visit with our relatives. We drove our new economy car 60 miles an hour, ignoring the 55 mile speed limit, like every other car that passed us on the road, and achieved 35 miles to the gallon of gasoline. At St. George we filled up with 8.7 gallons for $4.00. We felt completely satisfied with our small car purchase, and smug in the belief that we were saving energy. We have quite a large family in Las Vegas, who, having lived there about 26 years are the pioneers, the solid citizens living among the gamblers, the cosmopolitan and various denizens of other areas of our country who gather in Las Vegas to enjoy the bright lights and games of chance on the Strip and Fremont Street. Our visit was a memorable one because of the happy visits with our numerous family who arc all wide awake, progressive by Erma J , Christensen father, a former state Senator, were and buy new absent having driven up to Carson City, capital of Nevada, to protest a bill the Legislature was in the process of passing one that proposed to consolidate Las Vegas with Clark County including all the ramifications of the same AC1R UNIGOV we had voted down in Salt Lake City on March 4. With the help of numerous officials of different departments, fire, water and some from the small municipalities such as Henderson, they succeeded in defeating the bill. One more victory for patriotic Americans! The next evening after Paul and his father arrived home with the good news, Paul took us over to the new City Hall which houses the Metro consolidated police and sheriffs department and the offices of the commissioners and the mayor. There we met the Mayor and attended a public hearing on the proposed takeover of the mass patriots. The day we arrived we learned transit system presently being that our nephew, Paul, who is Las provided by free enterprise, which reroute Vegas City Commissioner and his needs additional funds to buses for better San transportation facilities. Francisco, capital of Region 9. was to control the whole setup. I asked Paul after hearing what would if all transportation happen systems in every city and county in the United States which were now functioning under free enterprise were taken over by the regional dictators. (My husband had to restrain me to keep me from getting up in the meeting and asking this question!) Paul replied that we in Las Vegas are going to keep our free enterprise bus system that is now operating, and arc going to subsidize it to make it more efficient. We don't like the regional plans for our state. We have had our fill of federal guidelines. Paul also told us about the flood insurance plan proposed to the City of Las Vegas. He said that a map was drawn up by the regional experts with a statement that Las Vegas was in the path of a flood plain and would require federal flood insurance. The map showed the flood danger stopping closely fembling insanity is running s 'ssue- - vio-home- panic like an epidemic over the whole Fewer than three tenths ol one percent ol firearms owners are involved in any crime in which, in any would a way, a firearm is used. In no other issue-are- a civil libertarian even suggest that one could justify the deprivation of a right and the confiscation of property from a majority on the ground that a piinis- cule minority had abused that right or misused that property. What those who call for gun control really mean is people control, but they lack the courage to say so. Gun control has always been a convenient scapegoat for those unwilling or unable to address themselves to the real problems of our society. But gun control will "ot Pro,ect its advocates from those who believe that thev urc pxi ; ami m!&h as. well become outlaws in fact to take by force ,hat whlch fc are not equipped to acquire by acceptable means or which they believe, correctly or incorrectly, they will not be permitted the opportunity to acquire whether equipped to do so or not. atr 220 1 out there tries to break into the last sanctuary, the home, there is a powerful last resort. Anyone believ-bilit- y ing that such a person is going to turn in the gun the government doesn't know he or she possesses, and with it whal little sense of security' he or she has left, because a law purports to make criminal what has existed as a right for two hundred years, is mistaken, It. is aiso vain to expect those who do not own firearms, are not familiar with them and thus fear them, to care that a firearms confiscation program: would entail billions in direct and indirect costs; would be as effective as prohibition: would not prevent a robber from arming himself with a handgun: or prevent a person in a murderous rage from using on a spouse, or oneself if determined upon commit-it- s suicide. ne wishing to gauge the impact of the emotional character of this argument need but reflect upon the Posi,ion. takcn bv many an erstwhile civil libertarian equalize. There is a profound sense of security felt bv some forty-fiv- e million firearms-ownin- g citizens in the knowledge that they have in their homes a gun. It mav not be an appropriate weapon in fact (many a woman places her faith in a .22 caliber pistol when, for is marginal) purposes, a but .he feeling of security is thereP If someonefrom Pje TRUTH Vol. 4, P. at Sahara Boulevard right where the Strip begins. Paul stated. In no way would a flood, if it ever did come to our desert area, stop at Sahara Street." I asked if they had purchased the flood insurance and he said, We killed that bill, pronto. Las Vegas is also having dcsegration troubles. At Valley High School the police have rounded up young people with knives and chains and other dangerous weapons, tied rope around their hands and taken them to the jail for questioning. The TV newscasters were broadcasting this information every hour on the hour. Their populace, both white and black, are protesting the Supreme Court's decision for them to desegregate by mixing up the children, colored and white. Most of the people 1 talked to stated that they were putting their children into private schools and would not tolerate the forced bussing of their children. Both races feel the same. The black people arc in greater percentage by far than in Utah I believe about 35 black and the One more little problem 1 noticed in Las Vegas. Socialism is creeping into their city in the form of other controls of the children. I. brought home a book called People which is a publication of the Nevada Division of Mental Hygiene and Mental Retardation. Here is a quote from this booklet: The Rights of a Silent Majority What rights do mentally retarded people have?... What rights rights are being denied them?.. .EDUCATION. ..VOTING ...DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW, the right to work, to live in groups in the community, to own and dispose of property, to marry and rear children..... As a society Americans have done little to overcome poverty, discrimination and deprivation and their disastrous effects upon millions of children. Any serious student of child life in American society would have to conclude that, however high the prevalence of physical abuse of individual children within their families and homes may be. the abuse inflicted upon children collectively by society as a whole is far larger in scope and far more serious in its consequences. Yet public and professional concern with child abuse in individual homes tends to exceed by far the concern with this massive, collective abuse of children by society as a whole.... From David G. Gil in Violence Against Children. Now Nevada has a plan for beginning to deal with the problem. The proposal, developed by the Division of Mental Hygiene and Mental Retardation staff, is awaiting funding by the Federal Office of Child Development. (Shades of Big Brother and Socialism!) (Dont get me wrong, I sincerely disapprove of child abuse, and mentally retarded children need help and are getting it these people are blaming our free and Christian society for the child abuse problem and mental retardation deprivation!) Where do our tax dollars go??? Our trip home was uneventful. The little car perked along smoothly. The weather was snowy for a few miles, then rainy, then partly cloudy. As we drove home I couldn't help but be grateful to have had the privilege of getting away from the hurry and flurry of everyday workaday world, to visit with our good people from another state, and to find out that they are having the same troubles and trying their best to cure them with the knowledge they have, trying to make their state safe for their children and grandchildren, as we are doing here in Utah. . |