Important! Please read, we need ALL the help we can get.

[NineseveN]

http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119109&perpage=30&pagenumber=1

Please see this thread at the FAL Files, one of our members has come up with a genius idea and I think we need to give all the support we can. Things like this can make a difference folks, if we sit down and take it, when they take our firearms, we'll be the only ones to blame.


Thanks.

 

[Rimmer]

Good stuff, I printed 10 copies for myself and friends, will mail tomorrow...

 

[txgho1911]

I just sent a copy and link to a few admins at packing

I just sent a copy and link to a few admins at packing.

This instead of just posting so they can review it and place it on the headlines area.

 

[Justin]

I ran the letter through a spell checker and fixed a couple of things. Here's the new one:

FCC
Enforcement Bureau
Investigations and Hearings
Division 455
12th. St. S.W.
Washington, DC. 20554

Att: David H. Solomon, Chief

Dear Mr. Solomon,

I am filing this Official Complaint and Notice regarding the violation of Rule 47 C.F.R Sect. 73.1217 against the American Broadcasting Corporation, it's affiliates and parent company.

On Wednesday, September 8th, 2004, Peter Jennings of 'World News Tonight’, subsegment 'Closer Look' and Ted Koppel of 'Nightline' did egregiously and blatantly violate the aforesaid rules, along with common decency, journalistic integrity and balanced news coverage.

To wit: The Messrs. Jennings and Koppel have recklessly reported and endorsed egregious material errors in an inflammatory, negligent and grossly inaccurate way, therefore endangering my person, welfare, and emotional state.

The above-referenced programs discussed the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 and speculating the consequences of its legislated demise. In doing so, to ostensibly clarify the characteristics of the weapons in question, they willfully and with malice and disregard for truth showed catastrophic crimes being committed with machine guns that are cosmetically identical to my personal semi-automatic rifles.

As a direct result of these intentionally shocking and catastrophic massacres being associated with totally legal weapons, I am now labeled as such a person by inference, as I am a collector and shooter of the visually identical firearms and have been stigmatized to the point of mental distress and anguish.

There must be truth in journalism, or the malefactors who defy such ethics should be censured and removed from the air for a 30 day period as would an athlete be for committing a blatant foul injuring others. I'm sure that you have rules for such a blatant breach of responsible practices. I would suggest a fine of $5,000,000 paid to the FCC for said violation, further a broadcast and print apology to gun owners citing their breach of objectivity and ethics. Finally, a mandated donation of $5,000,000 to a minority university to fund or chair a seat for 'Broadcast journalism ethics'.

Please investigate this gross breach of your hoax rulings and others that you may find, as applicable. I will not sit idly by and have my hobby, my rights as an American stigmatized in such a manner as to make me in fear of my own safety, reputation, and mental state in exercising same.

Sincerely,

 

[Justin]

I have no idea if this will work or not, but the irony of printing this out on my employer's equipment is just too tasty to pass up.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Minor editorial fix needed-- the word "it's" should not have an apostrophe. "It's" (with an apostrophe) is the contraction for "it is." "Its" (without an apostrophe) is the possessive pronoun.

 

[Justin]

Correction made.

 

[NineseveN]

Good work folks, let's keep it up!

 

[Stickjockey]

Bloody Hell, my printer's out of ink! I'll have to do it tomorrow at work. This is the kind of activism I can get into.