From: BoBox@webtv.net (Bo Tomlyn) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 01:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fwd: One cop who doesn't mince words! From: Dave Champion Subject: One cop who doesn't mince words! Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 21:21:04 -0700 Subject: Lt. Harry Thomas, Cincinnati Police Division (http://www.devvy.com/harryt.html) "Gun Control" . . . anyone? http://www.devvy.com/harryt.html Give 'Em Hell Harry A Speech by Lt. Harry Thomas, Cincinnati Police Division Fountain Square, Cincinnati, Ohio February 27, 1994 "Welcome to the People's Republic of Cincinnati! As usual, since I am speaking publicly, I must make the following disclaimer: I am not speaking to you as an official spokesman or representative of the Cincinnati Police Division. If I don't say that, I'm liable to have visitors waiting for me when I get back to work. For the past 21 years, I have been a member of the Cincinnati Police Division. On three occasions, I have sworn a solemn oath; once when I was promoted from cadet to patrolman, once when I was promoted from patrolman to sergeant, and yet again when I was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant. That oath was to support the Constitution of the United States of America. I have buried almost a dozen of my fellow police officers who died defending that oath. The last one died right before my eyes in the major trauma room of University Hospital. I signed the receipt for his body so that he could be transported to the morgue. I think about those men often, and I think about what they died for. And that is why I become furiously angry when I see our Constitution, the most remarkable document ever written in the course of human existence, being used as toilet paper at every level of government. The Brady Bill is now a reality. For the first time in the history of our country, American citizens must request the government's permission to exercise a constitutional right. And if the government sees its way clear to grant permission, we must wait 5 days to exercise that right. But even this is not enough to please our keepers in Sodom-by-the-Potomac. Gun laws are not being passed quickly enough to suit our federal law enforcement agencies, so they have formulated their own plan to discourage gun ownership. In Ruby Ridge, Idaho, Sammy Weaver, age 14, the son of Randy Weaver, a man who had taken his family to the mountains to escape the tyranny of a government run amok, was hunting in the forest near the Weaver cabin with his dog. He wasn't the only person hunting in the forest that day. Sammy Weaver was ambushed and fatally shot in the back by two United States Marshals. And lest anyone accuse the U.S. Marshals of not being thorough in the performance of their assigned tasks, I would point out that they also shot the dog, also in the back. Later, Vicki Weaver, Randy's wife and the mother of the Weaver children, opened the door of the Weaver cabin to admit her husband, who had been in a nearby shed to visit the body of his son. Vicki Weaver was holding her 10 month old infant daughter in her arms. That proved to be only a slight inconvenience to FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, as he shot Vicki Weaver through the head. She fell dead to the floor, her skull exploded, still clutching her daughter in her lifeless arms. It would appear that it is now a capital offense to be the son, wife, or dog of a gun owner. Waco. "Waco" is a word which, among American patriots, engenders the same anguished feelings of outrage as the word "Alamo." Last year at the NRA Convention in Nashville, my wife and I returned to our hotel room and flipped on CNN to see the latest developments in Waco. The Branch Davidian compound was burning. My wife cried. She knew that there were many children in that compound. She asked me why. Why are they burning the compound? I told her the simple truth: They have to burn it. Has anyone here seen and read the Waco search warrant affidavit? It's crap. It didn't establish enough probable cause to even knock on the Branch Davidian's door. When the FBI took over from the BATF (which some people say actually stands for Burn All Toddlers First), they knew that they would find no illegal weapons in the Branch Davidian compound. They were between a rock and a hard place. 4 ATF men dead, an unknown number of Branch Davidians dead, the FBI had only one choice: destroy the compound so that no one could ever prove whether illegal weapons were present or not. For hours, the FBI pumped supposedly non-lethal CS gas into the compound. Those of us in law enforcement and the military know differently. CS gas, in high concentrations in an enclosed area is lethal. The first ones to be affected by vomiting, convulsions unconsciousness and death, would be the children. The same children that local Texas authorities found to be happy and healthy under the care of the Branch Davidians. The FBI did not pump CS gas into the Branch Davidian compound to force its occupants to come out. They pumped gas in to make sure the occupants couldn't come out. Dead gun owners, and dead gun owner's children, tell no tales. The time has come for us to openly discuss something that up to this time we have mainly whispered about. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to threaten the government. The framers of our Constitution knew that government is a necessary evil, which, as in the case of the British government, could easily become more evil than necessary. The Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that should that situation again come to pass, the American people would have the capability to reclaim their country by force of arms. I believe that we are dangerously close to that day when we will have to use the 2nd Amendment in exactly the manner that our forefathers anticipated. When I was a boy, my father could buy firearms through the mail. It was rightly believed at the time that such a transaction was the business of the buyer, the gun dealer and no one else. I lost that right with the passage of the GCA in 1968. In my lifetime, I have been able to walk into a gun store, select a handgun, and walk out of that store with that gun in my hand. My children lost that right with the passage of the Brady Bill. I'm not giving up any more rights. I sincerely hope that a political solution to this problem is still possible, and I will continue to work on the NRA Board of Directors to try to find that solution. But if that solution cannot be found, I say this to the megalomaniacs in Washington: Pass your gun laws. I will not beg the government for a license to continue to be a handgun owner. I will not submit to being fingerprinted or photographed or interrogated like a criminal for claiming my birthright as a free American. I will not register a single gun that I own. I will not surrender a single gun that I own. I will not apply for an "arsenal" license because I own more than 20 guns or more than a thousand rounds of ammunition. I will not attend mandatory safety training, nor will I submit to a test to prove that I'm fit to be a gun owner. And Miss Reno, I have this to say to you: If you send your jack-booted, baby-burning bushwhackers to confiscate my guns, pack them a lunch; it will be a damned long day. The Branch Davidians were amateurs; I'm a professional. Patrick Henry, while addressing the Virginia House of Burgess on March 23, 1775, put these concepts into words in a manner far better than I can ever hope to: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!" End of Lt. Harry Thomas' speech. This was printed in a newsletter called Aid & Abet published by former Arizona law enforcement officer and one of the nicest people you ever want to meet: Jack McLamb. His organization also puts out a manual for law enforcement officer's that I can't recommend highly enough: Operation Vampire Killer 2000 - American Police-Military Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule published by Police Against A New World Order. Of course Jack must be another one of those gun-crazy, anti-government, radical, extremists one hears about from Bill Clinton, his mafia mob commonly referred to as an "administration" and of course, the government's media apparatus. That's right! We're all just a bunch of wackos! When are the scared little ninnies out there going to find some backbone, wake up and realize how badly they have been manipulated? Well, probably not too soon, after all, summer is just about here and it's time to run to Disneyland or hop in the Winnebago! You can order this manual from Jack's organization for $6 bux + a buck and a half S/H. For further information, you can call: 1-800-850-9525 or write: P.O. Box 8712, Phoenix, AZ 85066 If you don't have the video: WACO - The Rules of Engagement, please get it. Pass it around to everyone you know and even people you don't know. This video contains the truth of what the government's media lackey's refuse to expose. This video was actually nominated for an Oscar in early 1998; it did not win but by golly, it got people to order it and watch the truth unfold and see the government's heinous lies. To order call: 505-423-3250. And, if you think I'm kidding about the reprehensible smear by the media about Waco, Texas, the following appeared in our local (Sacramento, CA) tv guide when this video was shown on HBO (we subscribe to none of these channels) during the week of April 3, 1999: "Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997) Sect chooses self-immolation* over surrender in '93." (Immolation is defined as: to kill as a sacrifice, to destroy. This is enough to choke a maggot when you know the truth. As for Randy Weaver, I met him in February 1999 at an event in Sacramento. I'm going to say this just once: we don't have to approve of or like Randy's religion but we must respect his right to believe as he chooses. Contrary to the smear campaign by the media, the government and the pedophile who heads of the phony "Southern Law Poverty Center," the Morris Dees, Randy is not a white supremacist. His interpretation of the Bible is that the races should not intermarry - there is a world of difference but of course, butchers like Janet Waco Reno, her murdering henchmen who all retired with their pensions intact and the media have brainwashed the American people into stupidity. I am a Catholic and while I don't agree with the religious teachings of Hinduism, Judaism, the nation of Islam or others, I respect people's right to worship as they choose. I don't force my beliefs down anyone's throat nor do I go out of my way to bother anyone because of their religious beliefs. There are few men in this country who could walk in Randy Weaver's shoes when you see the photos of his poor cabin overrun with hundreds of gun-toting, killer droids sent by your government. Few. Most would cave in a heartbeat and I can tell you from standing there and talking with this soft-spoken man, he's not physically big and tall but by God, when his family was threatened, he stood up like a man. I have read Randy's book, The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge, co-authored with his daughter Sara who witnessed the slaughter of her mother by your government. These are their words from the back cover of the book: My name is Randy Weaver. I have been labeled a murdered, white supremacist, Aryan Nations gun runner and more. I was accused of killing my own son. My wife and children have been portrayed as cold-blooded killers and religious fanatics. Government agents said we lived in a mountain-top fortress surrounded by foxholes and booby traps. We were told that the Feds had to take Vicki out because she would have killed her children rather than let them be taken alive. Ridiculous! None of these accusations are true. They are all lies created by, or at least condoned by, the federal agencies involved. The mainstream media was only too happy to headline them as fact. For several years family and friends have encouraged us to do this book and let the whole world know the truth about the Federal siege on Ruby Ridge. We apologize for taking so long. It took at least three years after the siege for us to feel comfortable discussing this among ourselves, let alone share it with the world. The government believed we needed to be punished. After all, I broke a federal firearm law. They in turn, broke several laws, violated our civil rights and murdered my wife and son. Did my punishment fit the crime? According to the Feds, it did. You be the judge. Sara Weaver: I am scared to remember those horrible days in August of 1992. It's private and personal, but it's not. I have no privacy left. It was gone with the first reports, gone with the first camera. It was gone with the first journalist out to get the big story. The problem is, they don't know the story. No one does except my family. We lived it. With a heavy heart I begin the task of sharing our story with the world. Even now, sometimes my mind tricks me into believing it was all a dream. I am afraid that once I put it all down on paper, my mind will never trick me again. Randy Weaver did sell a shotgun 1/4" too small. He was given the wrong court date to appear. As a result, your government, because they sure as hell aren't mine, spent $21 million dollars, sent in hundreds of law enforcement and murdered a 14-year old boy, a dog and a mom holding an infant. One federal law enforcement officer died during this travesty - for no reason. Randy was found not guilty by a jury. Last year the Department of Injustice, headed up by that drunken butcher, Janet Reno, paid the Weaver children $3.1 million and $100,000 to Randy. If they did nothing wrong, why the big payout? Ask yourself that. Yes, Randy made a mistake and he's the first to admit it. But, how many heinous criminals are on the FBI's most wanted list? How many killers and murderers are there out there with warrants pinned to their name? Thousands. When was the last time America saw the kind of brute and deadly force used at Waco and Ruby Ridge to serve a search warrant? Find out why, please do your homework. If you want to read this sad book, send $20 to: Ruby Ridge, Inc., P.O. Box 1101, Marion, Montana 59925 Lt. Thomas referenced the passage of something called the GCA in 1968. This was LBJ's gun control legislation of 1968. After the release of documents from his presidential library, some interesting facts become known. The NRA's boy, Moses, I mean Charlton Heston, seems to have had an epiphany from 1968 when he played a major role in assisting the passage of this legislation. He was also involved in an anti-gun group which had formed at the time with another Hollywood "move star" by the name of Tom Laughlin. Heston's recent speech at the Harvard University Law School, February 16, 1999, has been blasted all over the Internet and worshiped by all who have read it. Well, almost all. It is a very good speech, no question. Mr. Heston appears to be sincere in his push to educate Americans about how important the 2nd Amendment really is and without it, all these useful fools, I mean anti-gunners like Sara Brady wouldn't be able to spout their Nazi propaganda. Without the 2nd Amendment, the rest of the Bill of Rights would be toast. Like I said, Heston must have had a change of heart but he and his fellow anti-gun Hollywood crowd did America and the 2nd Amendment a grave, disservice as a result of his anti-gun efforts back in '68. Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.... Devvy Kidd 1 May 1999