by the El Reportero’s staff
The Constitution clearly states that everyone who lives under the protection of the U.S. Constitution or that the Constitution is for the protection of everyone, knows that the 2nd Amendment gives everyone the right to bear arms, and of course the right to transport your own gun everywhere within the country if you needed so.
But agencies’ regulations sometimes infringe on these rights.
Currently, under Amtrak train regulations, passengers are prohibited from transporting firearms onboard, whether in checked or carry-on baggage. Problem is, contends Erich Pratt, Communications Director of the Gun Owners of America (GOA), it’s an unrighteous fact that must be changed. However, a Republican Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), has made a move to do just that.
Erich points out that, interestingly enough, that law-abiding gun owners can transport fi rearms on a commercial plane, as long as they declare the weapon and check it properly with the airline.
Wicker’s proposal, in the form of an amendment to the 2010 Transportation Housing & Urban Devel- opment Appropriations bill, calls for blocking any federal taxpayer money to Amtrak if the railway does not lift its gun restriction and allow its passengers to travel with their guns similar to the way they can on a plane.
Groups condemn and accuse Senator Mark Leno for betrayal
A diverse coalition of environmental and social justice organizations roundly condemned California State Senator Mark Leno for using the power of his offi ce to betray community process and environmental protection, in order to enrich the profi ts of Miami based Lennar Corporation.
The condemnation followed Senator Leno’s authoring, and passage on Thursday, September 10, of Senate Bill 792, which will privatize and destroy portions of San Francisco’s Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, California’s only urban state park wetland and wildlife habitat. Lennar will build luxury condominiums and a yacht harbor development onthe parkland.
Candlestick is the only signifi cant open space and hiking area for residents in the San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood which has long been plagued by environmental injustice and toxic emissions from various industries, freeway bypasses, and the contaminated remnants of the U.S. naval shipyard which was once housed there.
Ron Paul gets his hearing on Fed Audit , Friday morning
The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a full committee on Friday, Sept. 25 a hearing on Ron Paul’s HR.1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. The hearing is slated to begin at 9 a.m. eastern time.
For details and a link to the (eventual) live streaming video of the hearing check out the committee website.
As with many of these committee hearings, the 4schedule is tentative and right now there are no witnesses listed.
“By now we know what the opponents of the bill will argue, but it doesn’t change the fact that the bill has over 290 bipartisan cosponsors and 75 percent of the American people want a Fed audit,” said a written announcement received at NOTICEEl Reportero.
If the Federal Reserve, a private corportation, is audited, many predict it will be the end of the IRS and the national debt. The United States would stop borrowing money and ultimately end its bankruptcy status that makes her borrow money every year, hence the trillions plus the country owes now to the private bank.
