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Show The Paper That Dares To Take I A Stand J February 26, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 Continued from page 6 security file, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger put Louis A. Wiesner in charge of State Department refugee matters, which includes the granting of political asylum. He was able to recommend admission into the United States of Communists and subversives and refusal of admission to and genuine defectors. The U.S. Attorney General, of course, still has the ultimate right to invoke security requirements and prevent Communists from coming into this country. But it is simply not done. While he was Attorney General, John Mitchell stated that he was personally willing to waive security regulations and admit 30,000 emigrants from the Soviet Union. And Mr. Mitchell was far from being the most Liberal Attorney General in recent years. The result is that almost every conceivable gate has been opened for Communist aliens to enter the United States. Where this might prove embarrassing, other measures are used. For instance, large numbers of Chinese Communist agents are entering the U.S. by jumping ship in our ports and in Canada. Many thousands of students of mature age come to the U.S. to attend colleges which they never reach. Our border with Mexico is a sieve. And the result is that the number of illegal aliens in the United States, including those who are Communist agents, subversives, and being blackmailed into subservience by subversives, staggers the imagination. These people constitute an army more than triple the size of our Armed Forces. And an already bad situation has been made infinitely worse by the recent virtual destruction of our interanti-Com-muni- sts nal security agencies at every level. Meanwhile, we may safely assume that whatever, differences exist be- tween the Commu- Moscow-oriente- d nists and the Maoists, Trotskyites, Castroites, etc., will disappear the minute orders are given to initiate revolutionary terrorism on a grand scale. The Reds will have little need to invade the United States; their invading army is alreadyhere. Communist Underground In America by Frank A. Capell first appeared in the January 28, 1976 issue of The Review Of The News (Belmont, Massachusetts 02178) and is reprinted by permission of the publisher. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -- Shakespeare for Conventions Business Meetings Luncheons Dinners and that Out Of Town Guest WE SERVE YOU BETTER Hotel Newhouse Main St Fourth South Salt Lake City, Utah 8410 Telephone j (801)533-860- 0 (800) S TELEX 453-462- 7 388-43- 5 Answer Back Newhouse S.L.C. Unless You, The Little Guy Get Out And Get Involved, Politically. Lloyd Carlson There have been many articles about the importance your legislative representative at the State and Local levels regarding your opposition to gun control. This is important but it is somewhat like locking the door after the horse has been stolen. Tun-ne- y follows Senator Kennedy like a little sheep dog and Cranston has his own devious reasons for wanting to take the guns out of the hand of the people. Senator Percy of Illinois has publicly stated he will pay no attention to letters from his constituents against gun control. Senators and Representatives of this stripe MUST be defeated in the next election. The same is true in other parts of the country and the answer to this sad situation is to nominate and elect those who are favorable to preserving the second ammendment of the Constitution which does give every American citizen the right to keep and bear arms. may run in . the primary election but only one of each party is nominated and he will then face the other parties nominee in the general election. This is why primary elections are so important as they limit our choice in the general election. If both Democrat and Republican nominees are anti-gu- n you have no choice or chance to elect a pro-gu- n candidate. Therefore the primaries are where we will have to concentrate our first efforts and work for the nomination candidate in each party. of a pro-gu- n If you have had no experience in politics or political organizations you are going to ask, How can I as an amateur who knows nothing of politics carry any weight or do anything which might help nominate or elect the person of my choice. Here is how; find out which candidate of your political party up for nomination is against gun con- -' trol. You will have to search out and ask every one who is How you can do this will be set forth clearly and concisely but it is going to take a lot of effort on the part of those who sincerely believe we do have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. It may already be too late. The present liberal congress seems ready to deny us this basic constitutional right. Fortunately President Ford has publicly stated he will veto any bills calling for regisr tration, confiscation or licensing of firearms or their owners. But he will be up for election this year and if the Democrats nominate and elect Senator Kennedy President the fat will really be in the fire. A clear and comprehensive understanding of how political organizations operate, the methods of men and women who make up these organizations is essential to a complete understanding of our political system. Without this knowledge you will have no base from which to operate. Some of these organizations are called political machines and as such are looked on by the electorate as sinister, ugly and corrupt. Some are but many are not and without these political machines our two party system would not function. They lend cohesion and purpose to our system. The extent to which the machines become a burden to the taxpayer by any abuse of the power they hold is entirely dependant on the tolerance of the electorate. Political machines are here to stay and as you will see they effectively dominate the primaries, easily nominating the men and women of their choice. They may lose the general election but the machine rarely fails to nominate their choice in the primaries. Candidates for political office must face the electorate twice to win, once in the primaries and once in the general election. Many aspirants for public office in each party up for nomination. When you find one who is favorable to your right to keep and bear arms tell him you want to work for him and what can you do to help. He may ask you to work on a telephone canvas, or stuff envelopes with his campaign leaflets, or tack up posters on telephone poles (which is illegal but they all do it) or on fence posts or wherever, he may ask you to contact the neighbors in your particular area (you will find their names, addresses, telephone numbers and political affiliations from the list he gives you, (which he got from the Board of Elections). He may want permission to use your name in an advertised endorsement of his candidacy and he will certainly ask you to help on primary and general election day to check the list of voters who have not voted and to urge them to the polls. There are many other small things which need to be done in any campaign and if you make yourself available and be a willing worker in your spare time you will have a good solid base from which to remind him of his promise to you regarding gun control. Your letter to him then should include the reminder that you worked for his elec tion and will carry a lot of weight in comparison to a piece of correspondence from someone he does not know. An ideal situation, of course, would be to have both Democrat and Republican nominees in favor of oiir right to keep and bear arms. Therefore you should urge someone of your opposite political party to work for the nomicandidate of his party in the primaries. nation of a pro-gu- n Now, if the pro-gu- n Republican is nominated and the nominee for the Democrats is anti-gu- n you should both get behind the Republican nominee, work and vote for him in the general election crossing party lines at this time. During the general election party lines should mean nothing to us, candidates. If we must cross party lines to elect pro-gu- n is for nominee Democratic and the Democrat a are you is on our side gun control while the Republican nominee even for the all vote means though you Republican, by might gag while doinjg it, this must be done. While we are on the subject of crossing party lines, most States allow the Democrats to vote only for Democrats and Republicans can vole only for Republicans in the primaries and. although you as a Democrat cannot vote for a Republican in the primaries you can and should vote and work for in the if the Democrat is decidedly anti-gu- n general election. The. precinct is the smallest political unit in our political system and the precinct chairman of each party is the low man on the political totem pole. While he is the smallest unit they are the most vital to the political machine for they wield tremendous power, all out of proportion to their small stature in the foundation and real source of machine ' strength and power for they are the only connecting link between the machine and the people and the only one who has any real influence with the voter. You may or may not know the precinct chairman of your party in your precinct but he knows you and he knows a lot about you. He knows where you live, your phone number, whether you are married or single, how old you are, what your job is, whether you go to church, what clubs you belong to, your party affiliation, if you vote in both primary and general elections and a lot more. It is his business to know these things. He keeps a frequently revised list of registered voters in his precinct which he obtains from the Board of Elections. The Democratic chairman will pay particular attention to the registered Democrats as will the Republican chairman to those registered as Republicans. They know from past records if you vote in the primaries or just in the general election and in the primaries he can concentrate his attention on those who do vote in the primaries. The precinct chairman and the ward leader recommend to the party boss who they want nominated and unless the boss has a personal preference this recommendation is tantamount to nomination in the primary. Get to know your precinct chairman and use whatever influence you may have to encourage his recommendation of a candidate who' . is favorable to gun ownership. Generally speaking only a small number of voters turn out for the primary election which will make it easier to candidate. As a rule each precinct is nominate a pro-gu- n made up of from 500 to 600 registered voters and if they are evenly divided, which they rarely are, thats 250 to 300 for each party except for a few to the splinter parties. A common percentage of voters participating in the primary election is about 30 and 30 of 300 voters means that 90 votes will nominate the machines choice in that precinct. If every precinct goes the same way and the machine generally sees to it they do. their choice will be nominated and will be their standard bearer in the general election. In the primaries of 1976 you will be faced with the choice of the local political machine among the many candidates. It is important to find out who the machine is you really have a problem for backing for if he is anti-gu- n as pointed out above there will be at least 90 sure votes for the machines choice and you must have at least 91 in each precinct to nominate your man. Contact the precinct chairman. and find out his choice for nomination and then check that candidates thought on gun control, if he is favorable then go to work and help nominate him for your battle is already half won. but the candidate needs to know you are working for him and why. If none of the candidates in your party favor gun ownership you must then urge someone who is favorable to run in the primaries and work to nominate him. This is an uphill battle and will require much work but it can and has been done. n Continued on page 11 . |