JPFO ALERT: ANOTHER WAY FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO REGISTER GUN
OWNERS?

Recent revelations of the NSA’s policy of domestic spying
on American citizens (
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70619-0.html ) have
resulted in a class-action lawsuit targeting one of the
telecommunication companies that handed over call records
to the federal government. The Electronic Freedom Frontier
(www.eff.org) filed suit agains the US AT&T for handing
over call record data, including telephone and internet
records and communications, to the NSA.

EFF, however, is discovering just how duplicitous the
Department of Justice can be. The government has sent in a
legal brief and two affidavits from senior intelligence
officials in an effort to get the lawsuit dismissed.
Outrageously, they are claiming these documents are
_classified_, preventing even EFF and AT&T from seeing
them! http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004662

Read that again: our federal government is attempting to
quash a lawsuit between two private entities, using
documents that _neither entity is allowed to see!_

Not that this should surprise anyone, however. In addition
to protecting one of their cooperative corporate lapdogs,
the precedent of suppressing this lawsuit would benefit the
Department of Justice in other ways. The DEA, for instance,
could attempt to locate “meth manufacturers” or “cannabis
growers” by singling out those who call (or are called by)
pharmacies or garden shops. The IRS or FBI may choose to
focus on banks, casinos, or other “financial institutions”
(as they loosely define them).

And gun owners? The BATFE could locate potential “gun
criminals” (or identify targets for later seizure) simply
by matching call records to and from dealers of firearms or
firearm accessories…and you’d never have a clue until
they broke down your door in a midnight raid.

Obviously there are millions of perfectly innocent phone
calls made to and from these institutions on a daily basis.
Obviously using these call records to “weed out” criminals
or terrorists makes little sense. But that’s never stopped
our government before. And it’s a virtual certainty that
should the DoJ begin trolling call records for potential
suspects on a regular basis, many of those “suspects” will
be railroaded into prison on trumped-up charges, merely to
increase the DoJ’s conviction rates and ensure future
funding for the program.

In the short time since _The State vs The People: The
Coming American Police State_ ( www.jpfo.org/tsvtp.htm )
was published, several more of the identifying
characteristics of a police state have come to pass in the
US. Ominously, each step on that path is done “legally,” if
not Constitutionally (see our _Talkin’ to America_
interview with Len Savage at
http://www.jpfo.org/tta060508.htm , in which we discuss how
the BATFE makes previously-legal items illegal simply by
arbitrarily redefining them!)

It is critical that we not only understand what rights we
have, but how our government is attempting to infringe upon
them. To encourage you, we’re offering the following
special until May 19: order either _The State vs The People
(www.jpfo.org/tsvtp.htm) or our documentary _Bill of Rights
or Bust_ (www.your10rights.com) and get the following
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– #5: The UN is Killing Your Freedoms!
– #8: Is America Becoming a Police State?
– and FOUR copies of #3: It’s Only Common Sense to Use
Your Bill of Rights

It’s only 213 days until Bill of Rights Day (
www.jpfo.org/bor.htm ) on December 15. Haven’t we had
enough?

- The Liberty Crew

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