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OFF ALERT 01/19/07
Free Speech Safe For Now. |
Your
right to receive information from activist organizations like
OFF is safe, for the time being.
Yesterday, the US Senate voted to approve the Bennett Amendment
to a "lobbying reform bill" ,"S1."
As we have reported previously, without the amendment, we would
no longer have been able to send out legislative alerts(like
this one) to you without onerous restrictions and reporting
requirements.
It was because of your efforts, and the efforts of activists
from across the country, that this very dangerous provision
in the bill was killed.
However,
43 Senators, all Democrats, voted AGAINST the amendment.
It's hard to imagine a more blatant attack on American's rights
than to refuse to allow them to speak without Congressional
approval.
If the Democrats have this little regard for the First Amendment
, it's a safe bet they will continue to attempt assaults on
the Second Amendment.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden was among those who voted to silence
organizations or individuals who wanted to communicate with
you about legislative issues.
Contact information for Wyden's Washington office, and all his
local offices can be found here.
If you prefer to e-mail Wyden, with the simple message that
you are outraged at his attempts to silence dissent, you must
use his webform.
Tell him that his vote against the Bennett Amendment to S1 was
a cowardly attempt to crush free speech rights.
Here in Oregon, as we have told you, a bill to mandate locking
up your self defense firearms has been introduced in the Oregon
Legislature. That bill is SB 283.
An in-depth analysis demonstrates this bill to be among the
most poorly written we have ever seen. To see the bill and our
analysis of it, please use this link.
In a past sessions, an example was used to justify the need
to require that guns be locked up. That example was when Matthew
Randall (13) used his father's gun to shoot and kill his 10
year old sister.
Matthew's father was a Clark County Sheriff's Sergeant.
We were told over and over that this tragedy was a justification
for mandating locked guns. Oddly though, SB 283 EXEMPTS police.
On another note, we have added a page to our website that should
make your activism a bit easier.
It's a collection of links to help you find information on local
legislation and act on it. If you have suggestions for added
links, please let us know. That page can be viewed here.
Thanks for all you have done to protect our First AND
Second Amendment rights. |
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