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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 1 Num. 55
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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[From an interview with Linda Thompson on the *For the People*
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radio show, Feb. 11, 1994. Host is Chuck Harder.]
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[Continued...]
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CHUCK HARDER: Linda Thompson is our guest.
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And Linda, what you're saying is that from your, from your
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perspective, when Gore and Reno and that bunch had their press
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conference... and it is the worst nightmare of those who *do*
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want to be able to own their own firearms.
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Uh, we understand that in New York, a number of years ago, New
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York said to people who had either semi-automatics or that type
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of thing, "Just register them with us. Let us know that they're
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there. Don't worry. We'll never bother you." And now, we
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understand that they have actually gone house-to-house and picked
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up these weapons.
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Have you heard that?
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LINDA THOMPSON: Oh absolutely. They use the 4473s [CN -- 4473s,
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apparently some type of federal form] as a "shopping list."
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Now the new crime bill, the Feinstein amendment to the crime bill
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bans semi-automatic rifles; everything but the M-14, which um,
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Ruger(?) was very successful in lobbying for his own exception.
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But all the other semi-automatic rifles, any gun, any handgun,
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that holds more than 10 rounds, any magazine that holds more than
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10 rounds, are banned.
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This was a very important piece of legislation that was virtually
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*ignored* by the NRA [National Rifle Association], for instance,
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and groups that are supposedly lobbying for gun rights.
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Now once that passes, there's a so-called "grandfather clause"
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that says, if you already own these guns you can keep 'em, but
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you have to register them. And if you don't register them, you're
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a felon! Now how are they going to find out, number one, that you
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already have 'em? For instance, in a state like Indiana you could
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buy them from another person and you don't have to register
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anything. Um, so how are they gonna, first of all, find out that
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you already have them, to enforce this? And number two, what are
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they gonna do with the information about who already *does* own
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them?
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Now then. This week, a companion piece of so-called "law," that I
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don't consider law at all, was when John McGaw, the head of the
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ATF, former head of Secret Service, and former person in charge
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of Presidential bodyguards -- he's now in charge of ATF -- passed
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an administrative ruling banning .762 ammo. .762 x .39 ammo is
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completely banned in this country right now. Now a lot of people
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don't know that either.
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Now that .762 ammo is used in AKS rifles, it's used in Mach-90s,
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it's used in SKS rifles... essentially all of the rifles that are
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the ones listed in the Feinstein amendment.
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HARDER: Um-hmm [understands].
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THOMPSON: Now. There's 2 ways that they can demand search and
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seizure of your home: if you've been at a gun show and bought
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this ammo, if you try to buy ammo. If you don't register your
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guns, the very fact that you have the ammo now is illegal.
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Um, so they can... This is going to be, I believe, a pretext for
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doing house-to-house searches. And we already have them saying
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then, on Thursday, they're going to *do* house-to-house searches!
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This is happening. This is going to come down *now*. I don't
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think we need it written on our foreheads to realize what's
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happening here.
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HARDER: All right. What does the government want? They, they want
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all our guns, don't they?
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THOMPSON: Uh, yeah. They want to disarm the American public, and
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that accomplishes several purposes. One, they're not ever gonna
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be able to disarm the American public. One of the polls that they
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*don't* tell us is the CBS poll that says 67 percent of the
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American public *will not* give up their guns. Uh, so they know
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that. They're provoking a confrontation. First of all, we all
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know that it is unconstitutional. What is being done here is
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completely unconstitutional. Our second amendment rights were
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never for hunting purposes. I've looked up and down the
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Constitution, and I can't find the word "hunting" or "sporting"
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in it anywhere. Our forefathers, if you read *any* of the
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documents that are available about the writings of the founders
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of the Constitution, things that they were *most* afraid of was
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an over-powerful, centralized government...
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HARDER: Um-hmm [agrees].
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THOMPSON: ... a government that would disarm the public. They
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were afraid of a standing army [i.e. a permanent army], for fear
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that that army would be used on the American public. And
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basically, the reason that they wrote the 2nd amendment (and at
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that time, every man between the ages of 17 and 45 *was* "the
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militia." So when they wrote that "a well-regulated militia being
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necessary to a free state," they were talking about the entire
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population of the united States. That was the "militia."), "the
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right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
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infringed," that was, that is an absolute right. It's one of the
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rights that is articulated as existing without any government
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approval. You have that right, period, in this country.
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So everything that's being done on gun regulation is
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unconstitutional. And they... These people do not care! They're
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very brazen about it. They're *promoting* a confrontation between
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people that understand the Constitution and are demanding their
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liberty. Because that one point is so essential to liberty. The
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very reason to have guns is to *fight* tyranny! That's the
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purpose of... in our Constitution.
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HARDER: All right. But you and I both know, let's just be honest
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here, you and I both know that the united States government plans
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to disarm the united States of America, to take the guns from the
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people...
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THOMPSON: I don't think they do plan to disarm the people. I
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think they plan to use it as a method of confrontation and
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provocation.
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HARDER: All right. Let's... all right. What do you mean by... all
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right, what do you think the government is trying to do?
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THOMPSON: They're trying to identify who will fight the New World
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Order. And the best way to do that is target people that will
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stand up and fight for their rights. You know, you shoot into a
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crowd and see who screams. Well, they fired several different
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volleys. What is getting the biggest reaction around the country,
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causing controversy? Well gun control. What's the issue that's
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most likely to provoke a confrontation and most likely to cause
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chaos and terror and so forth in this country? Well they've found
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it. This is the issue.
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HARDER: This is the hot button. Well what frightens me, very
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bluntly, and concerns me: First of all, the united States of
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America *needs* taxpayers. And when people are out of work and
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they become welfare cases, they cannot pay their taxes. As you
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know, Zenith closed, essentially, their last plant in the united
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States.
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THOMPSON: But they must do this. They must make us all dependent
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on the government teat.
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HARDER: O.K. But my question is this: What they're going to wind
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up doing is having it so that we have no guns, and there is no
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economy {1}. So what do we do then, just starve at gunpoint?
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We'll be right back with Linda Thompson.
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(to be continued)
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-----------------------<< Notes >>-------------------------------
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{1} "...we have no guns, and there is no economy." Exactly. What
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we are moving to is a society in which half of us are imprisoned
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and the other half are guards. *That* is not going to work. At
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some point something is going to have to give. We cannot have a
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society where everyone is either a guard, a prisoner, a
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bureaucrat, or a politician.
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Along these same lines, you may ask: Well why not just make
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*everyone* a policeman? We all know that policemen always obey
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the law, so why not just make us all policemen? *That* would
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solve the crime problem!
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