NIGHTWATCH
Member
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Last month, Gun Owners of America alerted you to legislation that
would continue the dangerous trend towards erasing our foundational
principles from America's schools -- principles such as the right to
keep and bear arms.
It now appears that the bill may be "fast tracked" to the
House floor for a vote.
That legislation is H.R. 1078, a bill which gives unelected
bureaucrats the power to set up Presidential Academies to train
educators -- educators who will end up teaching revisionist history
and civics.
Already, federally subsidized curricula in the schools have been
chipping away at national sovereignty and the notion of God-given
rights for several years. For example, We the People -- a federally
subsidized textbook -- is so welded to a revisionist view, the
Second Amendment isn't even mentioned in the section discussing
which of the Bill of Rights are relevant today!
And while the book does discuss the Second Amendment in a historical
context, it does so in a way that causes the student to start
questioning the wisdom of the amendment, asking the student whether
the right to keep and bear arms is still as "important
today" as it was in the eighteenth century and to decide what
"limitations"should be placed on the right.
In other words, our gun rights evolve with the times.
We the People also pushes global citizenship over national
citizenship, encouraging students to think in terms of global (i.e.,
UN) solutions. This gets kids used to the notion that unelected UN
bureaucrats can override and change our ways of doing things in this
country, in order to bring our nation into greater"harmony" with
the rest of the world.
If that happens, you can kiss your gun rights goodbye.
This legislation could be voted on as early as Wednesday (9/9/03) or
Thursday (9/10/03). Please contact your Representative immediately
and ask him or her to oppose both H.R. 1078 and S. 504.
ACTION: Time is of the essence. Please urge your Representative to
oppose H.R. 1078 and S. 504, bills which will contribute to dumbing
down the next generation of Americans -- at least as far as our
constitutional rights are concerned.
NOTE: Currently, the GOA website is experiencing technical
difficulties. Therefore, please go to the House of Representatives
website at http://www.house.gov/writerep as an alternate
way to contact your Congressman via e-mail. A sample letter, which you can
copy and paste into the House website, is appended below for your
convenience.
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8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Last month, Gun Owners of America alerted you to legislation that
would continue the dangerous trend towards erasing our foundational
principles from America's schools -- principles such as the right to
keep and bear arms.
It now appears that the bill may be "fast tracked" to the
House floor for a vote.
That legislation is H.R. 1078, a bill which gives unelected
bureaucrats the power to set up Presidential Academies to train
educators -- educators who will end up teaching revisionist history
and civics.
Already, federally subsidized curricula in the schools have been
chipping away at national sovereignty and the notion of God-given
rights for several years. For example, We the People -- a federally
subsidized textbook -- is so welded to a revisionist view, the
Second Amendment isn't even mentioned in the section discussing
which of the Bill of Rights are relevant today!
And while the book does discuss the Second Amendment in a historical
context, it does so in a way that causes the student to start
questioning the wisdom of the amendment, asking the student whether
the right to keep and bear arms is still as "important
today" as it was in the eighteenth century and to decide what
"limitations"should be placed on the right.
In other words, our gun rights evolve with the times.
We the People also pushes global citizenship over national
citizenship, encouraging students to think in terms of global (i.e.,
UN) solutions. This gets kids used to the notion that unelected UN
bureaucrats can override and change our ways of doing things in this
country, in order to bring our nation into greater"harmony" with
the rest of the world.
If that happens, you can kiss your gun rights goodbye.
This legislation could be voted on as early as Wednesday (9/9/03) or
Thursday (9/10/03). Please contact your Representative immediately
and ask him or her to oppose both H.R. 1078 and S. 504.
ACTION: Time is of the essence. Please urge your Representative to
oppose H.R. 1078 and S. 504, bills which will contribute to dumbing
down the next generation of Americans -- at least as far as our
constitutional rights are concerned.
NOTE: Currently, the GOA website is experiencing technical
difficulties. Therefore, please go to the House of Representatives
website at http://www.house.gov/writerep as an alternate
way to contact your Congressman via e-mail. A sample letter, which you can
copy and paste into the House website, is appended below for your
convenience.
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