"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant@mindspring.net> wrote in message
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> ....and Hillary wants to be Prez?
>
> jeez....
>
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> [url]http://www.judicialwatch.org/5813.shtml[/url]
>
> New Documents Detail Clinton White House Behind-the-Scenes Role in
> "War" on Gun Rights
>
> (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch, the public interest group that
> fights government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered
> new documents from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock,
> Arkansas which shed light on the Clintons' plan to attack the gun
> industry. The following are highlights from the documents:
>
>
>
> *
> A March 6, 2000 letter from New York Attorney General Eliot
> Spitzer includes a handwritten note at the top from Bill Clinton to
> then-White House Deputy Counsel Bruce Lindsey, which reads: "Bruce,
> See me re: this.has some good ideas for future." Among the "good
> ideas" -- denying gun manufacturers the right to sell guns to the
> military and law enforcement unless they sign an anti-gun "code of
> conduct" that would have crippled the industry.
>
>
>
> *
> A memorandum from former Clinton Advisor Sidney Blumenthal to
> Bruce Reed, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, dated
> November 9, 1998, reads: "I've enclosed an article and a press
> release about the new effort to file class action suits against gun
> manufacturers. I think this is a very promising idea. Let's talk
> about it soon." The press release, from the Mayor's Office in New
> Orleans, was in draft form, suggesting the Mayor coordinated the
> strategy with the White House.
>
>
>
> *
> The "promising idea" identified by Blumenthal involved filing
> massive product liability and negligence lawsuits against major
> handgun makers, "the opening salvo in a campaign against the gun
> industry by an alliance of anti-tobacco attorneys and local
> governments," wrote The Los Angeles Times. According to one of the
> lawyers involved in the lawsuits: "We are going to do to [the gun
> industry] what we did to tobacco. It's going to be a very large war."
>
>
>
> In March 2000, less than two years after the Blumenthal memo
> referenced above, the Clinton strategy was used to strong-arm gun
> manufacturer Smith and Wesson to install gun locks, introduce
> so-called "smart gun" strategy, and to ban the sale of its weapons at
> trade shows. Smith and Wesson broke ranks with other gun
> manufacturers and agreed to execute this strategy if a lawsuit against
> the company would be dropped.
>
>
>
> "These new documents clearly show that the Clinton administration put
> into motion an organized plan to attack the gun industry," said
> Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Tough questions about these
> extortive methods ought to be asked of both Clintons."
>
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>
> Scott in Florida
>
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It's actually ok for people to spy on Americans as long as it's the
democrats doing it.
Say it ain't so joe...
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