Were you aware of House Resolution 45, the Blair Holt act?

HOUSE RESOLUTION 45

Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing
and Record of Sale Act of 2009

The Congressional Plan to Disarm Americans

You need to be aware of what is going on in Congress regarding gun ownership. The Blair Holt Act is sweeping legislation that forces you to take extensive and numerous actions in order to own a gun or you will be criminalized.

Bill: House Resolution 45

Sponsor: Rep. Bobby Rush, Democrat from Illinois

Referred to: House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security

Here is the breakdown:

Sec. 102(8)- an authorization by the applicant to release to the Attorney General or an authorized representative of the Attorney General any mental health records pertaining to the applicant. Citizen will be giving the Federal Government and a representative of the Federal Government the authority to access private medical records. No more doctor/patient confidentiality.

Section 104 (a) (1)- Renewal not later than 30 days prior to expiration date. Using Attorney General approved form. If you do not request a renewal within time limits or using the approved form, you are subject to losing the license altogether.

Sec. 104 (3) Attorney General shall promulgate regulations specifying procedures for the submission of applications under this subsection. Federal Government can change the rules for application submissions at any time.

Sec. 102(7)(E)- Any other subjects, as the Attorney General determines to be appropriate. Attorney General can change the rules at any time. If a citizen is not in compliance, the license can be revoked.

Sec. 401- CRIMINAL PENALTIES- Failure to comply with these regulations will result in fines and imprisonment. Fines are not defined and imprisonment is 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, depending on the offense.

Sec. 402 (a)- In General- The Attorney General shall issue regulations governing the licensing of possessors of qualifying firearms and the recorded sale of qualifying firearms, consistent with this Act and the amendments made by this Act, as the Attorney General determines to be reasonably necessary to reduce or prevent deaths or injuries resulting from qualifying firearms, and to assist law enforcement in the apprehension of owners or users of qualifying firearms used in criminal activity. Federal Government will issue laws, rather than States issuing regulations, as is the case now.

Sec. 403 INSPECTIONS- In order to ascertain compliance with this Act, the amendments made by this Act, and the regulations and orders issued under this Act, the Attorney General may, during regular business hours, enter any place in which firearms or firearms products are manufactured, stored, or held, for distribution in commerce, and inspect those areas where the products are so manufactured, stored or held. Federal Government will have the authority to enter any business or private property to determine compliance with this Act.

Section 601 (a)- In General- this Act and the amendments made by this Act may not be construed to preempt any provision of the law of any State or political subdivision of that State, or prevent a State or political subdivision of the State from enacting any provision of law regulating or prohibiting conduct with respect to firearms, except to the extent that the prevision of law is inconsistent with any provision of this Act or an amendment made by this Act, and then only to the extent of the inconsistency. State law stands as long as it is the same as the Federal regulation. Any changes to the Federal regulation will supercede State laws.

(b) Rule of Interpretation- A provision of State law is not inconsistent with this Act of an amendment made by this Act if the provision imposes a regulation or prohibition of greater scope or a penalty of greater severity than a corresponding prohibition or penalty imposed by this Act or an amendment made by this Act. If State law imposes a more strict regulation than this Act, State law will be allowed to stand.

Sec. 801- INAPPLICABILITY TO GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES- This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not apply to any department or agency of the United States, of a State, or of a political subdivision of a State, or to any official conduct of any officer or employee of such a department or agency. This Act only regulates PRIVATE CITIZENS, not government officers or employees, Federal or State.

THINK:

• It is a fundamental right as an American to own and bear arms. Your 2^nd Amendment right is under assault.
• This regulation will require private citizens to jump through bureaucratic hoops in order to apply for firearms license and to stay in compliance with said licenses.
• The Federal Government seeks to remove States’ rights regarding firearms. The federal government is seeking to have the authority to overrule States’ Rights to regulate firearms.
• The Federal Government is seeking the authority to enter private businesses and properties under the guise of “inspecting for proper compliance” with this regulation.
• The legislation does not apply to government employees.
• The Federal government reserves the right to change the rules of the Act at any time.
• If at any time, a citizen is not in compliance with the Act, fines and imprisonment will be imposed.

Where is the debate on this issue?

Why is the media not reporting this?

You can get your PDF copy of the bill from the House of Representatives website. Read it and see how it decimates the rights enumerated in our 2 ^nd Amendment. To get your copy of the bill click here

Declan McCullagh, a contributor to CNET News and correspondent for CBSNews.com, has an article on news.cnet.com that lays out yet another cause for concern for citizens of the United States.

The story is this:

This past Spring the U.S. Senate proposed a bill that would essentially hand the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. Of course, internet companies and some civil liberties groups were upset about this. So…It was back to the drawing board for Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and his aides. The Senator’s aides have spent several months behind closed doors working on a new 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still authorizes the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a “cybersecurity emergency.”

This new version continues to allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license. [1]

According to the report, Rockefeller’s revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a “cybersecurity workforce plan” from every federal agency, a “dashboard” pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a “comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy” in six months–even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.[1]

Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco has said “As soon as you’re saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it’s going to be a really big issue.”

The revised version of the bill offers even more for Americans to be concerned about.  Section 201 permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. (”Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.) [1]

“The language has changed but it doesn’t contain any real additional limits,” EFF’s Tien says. “It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)…The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There’s no provision for any administrative process or review. That’s where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it.”

The breakdown:

The bill would give the president emergency control over the Internet to control personal computers and networks, private sector computers and networks.   If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network

THINK:

• What constitutes a “cyber emergency”?
• Who decides to declare a “cyber emergency”?
• There is no administrative process or review. You will not have any recourse to defend or defeat an accusation against you
• Cyber professionals will be awarded license by the federal government. (Government decides who is authorized to hold the license.)
• Requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license. (Government decides which computer systems and networks will be managed by the government appointed licensees.)

The Obama administration, the president himself, will have the authority to seize your computer.

Let’s look at the last 7 months. What do we have? A president and his administration who want to control the banks, auto makers, healthcare, energy, census, airwaves and now personal computers.

1. See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

President Barack Obama has at least 32 Czars that he has appointed to advise him and make decisions that affect the citizens of this country. It is important to understand who these people are, what their beliefs and backgrounds are and to know how they impact the President of the United States of America.

Let’s start with the Green Jobs Czar – Van Jones. Jones’ official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. It is unclear exactly what the salary is for this position. Van Jones reports to Nancy Sutley, the Head of Council of Environmental Quality. This department shares issues with the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Labor Department.

So, the question now: Who is Van Jones?

• 41-year-old Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer.
• Founder of Color of Change, which includes Bay Area PoliceWatch, a group devoted to “protect[ing] the community from police misconduct” (The old page still exists in the Google cache.  The cache will eventually be cleared, so for safekeeping, here is a PDF of the page.)
• 1993: was arrested at the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of cops in the Rodney King beating. “I was arrested simply for being a police observer,” says Jones, who had just graduated from Yale Law School and was working with the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
• 1994: the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades.
• 1996: Jones decided to launch his own operation, which he named the Ella Baker Center after an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in California, claims to be “a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace.”  The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a “multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences” with which Jones was involved.
• Started career as a prison-reform advocate in Oakland, Calif., lobbying for reform of the juvenile justice system and youth-violence prevention programs
• 1999: was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization
• Excerpt from a Nov. 2005 interview in the East Bay Express:
  Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”
• 2007: worked on the Green Jobs Act with then-Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), who co-sponsored the bill in the House
• Published New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, in October 2008

This brings us to today: Van Jones was on the board of the Apollo Alliance, which has ties to ACORN, SEIU, and Center for American Progress, whose  president John Podesta, has significant pull in Congress and helped to write the stimulus bill. The $60 billion in funding for “green jobs,” a utopian fantasy not taken seriously by economists, was inserted at the request of the Apollo Alliance into the stimulus legislation President Obama signed in February. In Van Jones’ own words, the money was “smuggled” into the stimulus bill.

Phil Kerpen, director of policy for Americans for Prosperity, has reported that the Center for American Progress sends out the daily marching orders, the talking points for the left side of the blogs and the online activists. And those organizers out on the street, the ACORN and SEIU folks, they get their daily talking points from that Center for American Progress e-mail.

The Apollo Alliance “is designed to bring together the elements of organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money that’s been supportive of those causes in the past,” said Kerpen.

Apollo Alliance was co-founded by Campaign for America’s Future, the George Soros-funded organization that supports an ever-expanding welfare state.

This is a slow march that began with the Green Jobs Act during the Bush administration. Many on Capitol Hill voted for it because they claimed it was unfunded with meaningless language, tucked into a 900-page bill. It only asked for $125 million (requested by the special interest group, the Apollo Alliance). Now, that meaningless, unfunded, green act doesn’t have $125 million, but rather $500 million.

THINK: A self proclaimed communist, sits on the board of the group that is behind the stimulus bill. Van Jones has been handed a check book with $500 million dollars to spend on “green jobs”. Not a single job has been created by Mr. Jones.  The money is now being funneled to organizations and programs of Van Jones’ design and choosing.

You need to be asking yourself these questions:

• Should a communist be advising the president of the United States of America?
• Should the Apollo Alliance be writing the stimulus package?

You need to be asking these questions of the people around you. You have been confronted with the facts. There is no disputing this. The White House does not respond to these facts because there is no disputing them.

Finally:

Do you want to live in a world where you base yourself in facts? Or do you want to live in a world where you base yourself in feelings?

For further reference, see:

(The old page still exists in the Google cache.  (The cache will eventually be cleared, so for safekeeping,  here is a PDF of the page.)

Apollo Alliance was co-founded by Campaign for America’s Future, the George Soros-funded organization that supports an ever-expanding welfare state.

East Bay Express

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Van-Jones-Green-Jobs-Czar-a-selfdescribed-communist-arrested-during-Rodney-King-riots

www.newsrealblog.com

Spectator.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgmwyfKuL8

http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/colorofchange_oldbiopage.pdf

This blog was originally posted on August 21, 2009.

President Barack Obama and his administration sure have been busy this summer! In just a few short months they have worked to invade the privacy of Americans through several different methods. Do you suppose the three separate avenues are to distract attention in hopes that we wouldn’t notice? Or, do you think each attempt is designed to cover the next; in the event one attempt doesn’t work, they have back up?

Here’s how this breaks down:

First, let’s look at the Healthcare Reform Bill that the President and his administration are working diligently to ram down the throat s of the American people:

Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcare.

Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

THINK: Your medical records will no longer be private.  You will be handing over control of your bank accounts to the government! They will have the option of taking your money without question. There is no appeals process

Second, look closely at the Cash for Clunkers program. This program has been billed as a stimulus for Americans and car dealers right? This is for the good of the country and the economy, right?  Here is what the state run media is not reporting:

When a dealer is logged onto the CARS.gov website in preparation to submit an application for a consumer who is participating in the Cash for Clunkers program, this statement appears on the computer screen:

“This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U.S.Government.”

Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign.” [1]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) mandates car dealers register in order to participate in the program. However, a condition of registration requires the dealers to surrender all data on their computers and treats those car dealer computers as if they were owned by the federal government.

When questioned about the statement, The Department of Transportation confirmed the language was on the cars.gov Web site, On Aug. 3, 2009 it was removed. The DOT released this statement to PolitiFact: “A security warning on the CARS.gov dealer support page that stated computers logged into the system were considered property of the Federal Government has been removed.  We are working to revise the language.  The language was posted on the portion of the website accessible by car dealers and not the general public.” [2]

THINK: Does the reality of the situation change simply because the language does? Will the Federal Government continue to consider the computers logged onto the CARS.gov system Federal property? We are supposed to believe the answer to that is “no”. How do you know for sure? Trust your government?

The third and most recent example of intervention into the private lives of private citizens is the call from the White House for Americans to report their fellow citizens to the government. The following call from President Obama was presented as an attempt to “clarify misinformation”.

From the White House: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

The reality is the White House is calling for civilians to report their fellow Americans who disagree with the propaganda that the administration is presenting to the country.  Once the email addresses of those with opposing thoughts were received, the White House began sending the propaganda directly to the in-boxes of the “offenders.”

Proof of this is demonstrated by the exchange between Fox News’ Major Garrett and President Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs that took place on August 14, 2009.  Garrett asked Gibbs about the unsolicited emails that were being sent to people who had never requested to receive information from the White House. When pressed by Garrett to answer the question, Robert Gibbs answered with, “Let me go someplace else that might be constructive.”

When Americans began reporting to FOX News that they were receiving emails from President Obama’s Senior Advisor, David Axelrod, Major Garrett did what a journalist should do. He went to the source and asked for an explanation. The question was not answered. Garrett was dismissed so Mr. Gibbs could move on to something “more constructive.’  [3]

By Monday, August 17, 2009, The White House had implemented several new changes to its Web site, apparently aimed at reducing the number of people who receive unsolicited e-mails from the administration and at battling charges that it’s collecting personal information on critics.  [4] Again, this is a reaction to public outcry.

THNIK: In the past three months, the citizens of the United States of America have had to fight off three attempts by the President and his administration to invade privacy rights of individuals.  Two of these attempts have been “retracted” only when the White House was called out by the people.   The third attempt (as written in healthcare reform), we have been told, will be passed into law, no matter what the people say. The president and his loyalists say they know what is best for America and they will pass Heath Care Reform, no matter what.

Statists know that even as they make strides to gain control over the people, there are enough citizens who are skeptical and distrustful of politicians and government. These citizens will not allow the Statist to force his will all at once. Beware, though, the Statist is patient and will march on in incremental steps, adjusting his pace as circumstances dictate. We must remember what our Founding Fathers understood:  The greatest threat to liberty is an all-powerful central government, where the few dictate to the many. Keep fighting America!

[1] see: http://www.cars.gov/

[2] see: www.Politifact.com

[3] see: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/14/white-house-expected-explain-creation-health-care-e-mail-list/

[4] see: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/17/white-house-makes-security-changes-web-site-following-complaints-unwanted-e/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r4:c0.163905:b27184068:z0