From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #28 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Cdn-Firearms Digest Monday, April 2 2012 Volume 15 : Number 028 In this issue: Re: CSSA E-NEWS COMMENTARY: Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee "Internet activity to be monitored under new laws."-Telegraph RE: "Internet activity to be monitored under new laws."-Telegraph Profiling whites WINDSOR STAR: 'Justifiable homicide' rulings double in U.S Re: Cdn Firearms Advisory Committee discusses firearms future [none] [none] [none] Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days [none] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, April 1, 2012 6:53 pm From: "Al Muir" Subject: Re: CSSA E-NEWS COMMENTARY: Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee discusses firearms future Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca The elephant got smaller and turned into a pie but at the same time it will take longer to eat it. They cannot do anything without a majority turned into without two or three majorities. Meanwhile send more money to the CSSA (note the donation request on the bottom of the message) and the Conservatives. No explanation as to how we keep the pressure on after C-19 solves our problems. No mention that the Cons have been around for 8 years now and are starting to stale. No mention of how it will be easier to do something five years from now as opposed to now. No mention of what unlicensed paper criminals are to do for the next 4-8 years. It looks more like the government is advising the rubber stamp Firearms Advisory Committee (4 members from the CSSA) then the other way around. It is the CSSA on the hook not the government. They swallowed it hook, line and sinker. What I wish for the Firearms Advisory Committee is that they stop selling us out and ask Garry B. and the rest of them to do the same. Al - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis R. Young" To: "Firearms Digest" Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:12 PM Subject: CSSA E-NEWS COMMENTARY: Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee discusses firearms future From: cssa-cila-e-news-bounces@lists.cssa-cila.org Sent: April-01-12 6:00 PM To: Team CSSA E-NEWS Subject: [CSSA-CILA E-News] TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - Apr 1, 2012 CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - Apr 1, 2012 COMMENTARY: Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee discusses firearms future The Minister of Public Safety convened the Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee this past week to examine the best policy direction for gun ownership in Canada. The Canadian Shooting Sports Association was represented at the three-day session by President Steve Torino, CILA Executive Director Tony Bernardo, and directors Linda Baggeley and Gerry Gamble. The agenda and discussions are strictly confidential, but there are a few things we can say. Not surprisingly, opinions differ on how quickly responsible firearms owners should urge the Conservative Party of Canada to kick-start more pro-gun legislation. Governments live to be re-elected and no administration will adopt policy that could jeopardize its own extension of tenure. It seems unlikely that no-holds-barred pro-firearms legislation would be a winner at the polls in three and a half years. The CSSA's steady progress with incrementalism has been paying off and we believe there will be bigger dividends in the future. But first, Canadians need to see the sky isn't falling in the wake of legislative change. We know that the anti-gun coalitions are poised to launch a propaganda campaign as soon as they catch a whiff of sudden widespread legislative change. There is no way to predict if the pros or cons would capture the hearts of the undecided mushy middle, but the recent NDP billboards bearing sinister black so-called "assault rifles" with 10-foot warnings are just a pale hint of what lies ahead. The risk of alienating the undecided is a gamble no government would take, and it is unreasonable to expect them to take that plunge. It is also most unwise to incite a propaganda war that you could lose. We have no intention of letting the Conservatives off the hook. But, if they recklessly force through a glut of legislation that turns undecided voters into anti's, the consequences could be disastrous for gun owners. Imagine a coalition Liberal/NDP government getting elected with a perceived mandate to take guns away from Canadians. We could be far worse off because the next anti-gun bill would be even more draconian than anything we have seen to date. Firearms owners need to appreciate that it's not worth the risk. CSSA feels we serve our members better by recognizing this risk and acting accordingly. Let's wish the Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee luck in helping the government choose a course that helps both gun owners and placates the undecided. This pie needs to be consumed one piece at a time, lest Canadians vicariously choke over an impatient government trying to swallow it in a single gulp. - -------- Help us oppose the anti-firearms groups that want to take away our sporting firearms. To join or donate to the CSSA, click here: http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/membership.html - ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 22:37:39 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "Internet activity to be monitored under new laws."-Telegraph "Internet activity 'to be monitored' under new laws Ministers are preparing a major expansion of the Government's powers to monitor the email exchanges and website visits of every person in the UK, it was reported today." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9179087/Internet-activity-to-be-monitored-under-new-laws.html This sounds familiar, isn't it much like the current federal government moves to impose the same on Canadians. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 06:58:59 -0700 From: "Clive Edwards" <45clive@telus.net> Subject: RE: "Internet activity to be monitored under new laws."-Telegraph And yet there are still those who can't see or don't understand the global conspiracy of all this. Time to exchange the tinfoil hats for Kevlar hats. Clive > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9179087/Internet-activity-to-be-monitored-under-new-laws.html > This sounds familiar, isn't it much like the current federal > government moves to impose the same on Canadians. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:21:28 -0400 From: Barry Glasgow Subject: Profiling whites - -----Original Message----- From: Barry Glasgow [mailto:barryglasgow@yahoo.com] Sent: April-02-12 10:16 AM To: letters@washpost.com Cc: kathleenparker@washpost.com Subject: Profiling whites You want to talk about racial profiling? Start with President Obama publicly trashing the white side in two high-profile racial stories he had no business sticking his nose into - without even knowing the facts. Rather than keeping his promise to transcend race and unite us all, he and his swooning fans in the media are doing their best to widen the racial divide by creating racism where most often there isn't any. As new information surfaces to tear down their carefully crafted facade, they are being forced to try and convince us that Trayvon Martin's thug persona on Twitter and getting kicked out of school over illegal drugs is irrelevant and "doesn't matter". Wrong, when these same pundits are tripping all over themselves trying to portray a six-foot football player as an angelic "child" in order to crucify George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion then we have every right to know the truth about the so-called victim's background. The mainstream media has been loath to report that Martin's Twitter account shows a tatooed young man calling himself No_Limit_Nigga, flipping the world the bird and advising someone to “Plzz shoot da #mf dat lied 2 u!”. They dismiss this as youthful exuberance yet are the same people who, when some teen shoots up his classmates after posting violent thoughts on the Internet, wring their hands and ask why we didn't we see the signs. As for the youth factor, 10% murderers in the U.S. are under 18, 25% under 21 and 50% under 25. So it wouldn't exactly be profiling if we might look with some trepidation at a hooded stranger in our neighborhood, no matter how young or what color. There's a simple reason why anyone would wear a hoodie in sweltering heat - to avoid identification. Most stores have video surveillance and that's why they post signs prohibiting hoodies. Because of media distortion, our rights to challenge thugs prowling our neighborhoods and to arm ourselves against violent predators will be challenged and compromised - and that's the way they want it. ====================== Barry Glasgow Woodlawn, Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, April 2, 2012 9:00 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: WINDSOR STAR: 'Justifiable homicide' rulings double in U.S THE WINDSOR STAR - APRIL 2, 2012 'Justifiable homicide' rulings double in U.S BY ROSA PRINCE, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Justifiable+homicide+rulings+double/6395841/story.html The number of killings treated as "justifiable homicide" has doubled in a decade following the introduction of controversial self-defence laws in the United States. Rates tripled in Florida, where the black teenager Trayvon Martin was shot dead by a neighbourhood watch captain whom police did not arrest after he claimed he acted in self-defence. The case has shone a spotlight on rising levels of socalled "justifiable homicide," which stood at 326 across the U.S. in 2010 compared with 176 in 2000. Florida has one of the loosest laws, called "Stand Your Ground," which allows people to kill if they believe their own life is at risk. While most states use the "Castle Doctrine," based on the expression "a man's home is his castle," meaning self-defence can be used to justify a homicide only if a person kills an intruder in their home or car, the Florida law applies anywhere. Before the introduction of Stand Your Ground in 2005, rates of justifiable homicide in Florida stood at an average of 12 a year. That has risen to 33. On Saturday, thousands of people protested in Sanford, where 17-year-old Trayvon was killed last month, to demand the arrest of his killer, George Zimmerman. They said Zimmerman was guilty of an unprovoked attack on the teenager, whom he allegedly saw as suspicious because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and was black. The decision by Sanford police not to prosecute Zimmerman, 28, is being reviewed by prosecutors. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, April 2, 2012 9:01 am From: "Bruce Mills" Subject: Re: Cdn Firearms Advisory Committee discusses firearms future - --- On Sun, 4/1/12, Dennis R. Young wrote: > TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - Apr 1, 2012 > > COMMENTARY: Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee discusses > firearms future > The Minister of Public Safety convened the Canadian Firearms > Advisory > Committee this past week to examine the best policy > direction for gun > ownership in Canada. Is there a "secretary" for the Committee, where we can send info for all the members to receive? Yours in TYRANNY! Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:34:36 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca (Majordomo) Subject: [none] Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:57:38 -0600 From: Matthew Gerspacher To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: US Feds Turn to Warrantless Phone Tracking Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/feds-move-to-cell-site-data/ Prosecutors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move, according to court records. The change of strategy comes in the case the justices decided in January, when it reversed the life sentence of a District of Columbia area drug dealer, Antoine Jones, who was the subject of 28 days of warrantless GPS surveillance via a device the FBI secretly attached to his vehicle. In the wake of Jones decision, the FBI has pulled the plug on 3,000 GPS tracking devices http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/25/fbi-turns-off-thousands-of-gps-devices-after-supreme-court-ruling/ In a Friday filing in pre-trial proceedings of Jones retrial, Jones attorney said the government has five months worth of a different kind of locational tracking information on his client: So-called cell-site information, obtained without a warrant, chronicling where Jones was when he made and received mobile phone calls in 2005. In this case, the government seeks to do with cell site data what it cannot do with the suppressed GPS data, attorney Eduardo Balarezo wrote http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/03/jones_gps.pdf U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle. Balarezo added: The government has produced material obtained through court orders for the relevant cellular telephone numbers. Upon information and belief, now that the illegally obtained GPS data cannot be used as evidence in this case, the government will seek to introduce cell site data in its place in an attempt to demonstrate Mr. Jones movements and whereabouts during relevant times. Mr. Jones submits that the government obtained the cell site data in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and therefore it must be suppressed. Just as the lower courts were mixed on whether the police could secretly affix a GPS device on a suspects car without a warrant, the same is now true about whether a probable-cause warrant is required to obtain so-called cell-site data . A lower court judge in the Jones case had authorized the five months of the cell-site data without probable cause, based on government assertions that the data was relevant and material to an investigation. Knowing the location of the trafficker when such telephone calls are made will assist law enforcement in discovering the location of the premises in which the trafficker maintains his supply narcotics, paraphernalia used in narcotics trafficking such as cutting and packaging materials, and other evident of illegal narcotics trafficking, including records and financial information, the government wrote in 2005, when requesting Jones cell-site data. That cell-site information was not introduced at trial, as the authorities used the GPS data for the same function. The Supreme Court tossed that GPS data, along with Jones conviction, on Jan. 23. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:42:12 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca (Majordomo) Subject: [none] Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:59:42 -0600 From: Matthew Gerspacher To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Forget SOPA, You Should Be Worried About This Cybersecurity Bill Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120402/04425118325/forget-sopa-you-should-be-worried-about-this-cybersecurity-bill.shtml While most folks are looking elsewhere, it appears that Congress is trying to see if it can sneak an absolutely awful "cybersecurity" bill through Congress. We've discussed how there's been some fighting http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17430217786/senators-ramp-up-fear-mongering-to-try-to-rush-through-cybersecurity-bill.shtml on the Senate side concerning which cybersecurity bill to support, but there's a similar battle going on in the House, and it appears that the Rogers-Ruppersberger bill, known as CISPA (for Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) or HR3523 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3523> is winning out, with a planned attempt to move it through Congress later this month. The bill is *awful* -- and yet has somehow already gained over 100 sponsors. http://intelligence.house.gov/press-release/co-sponsors-top-100-rogers-ruppersberger-bipartisan-cyber-bill In an attempt to pretend that this isn't a "SOPA-like" problem, the supporters of this bill are highlighting the fact that Facebook, Microsoft and TechAmerica are supporting this bill. However, this is a terrible bill for a variety of reasons. Even if we accept the mantra that new cybersecurity laws are needed http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120308/12180318040/slow-down-homeland-security-does-everyone-really-agree-that-we-need-cybersecurity-legislation-now.shtml (despite a near total lack of evidence to support this -- and, no, fearmongering http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17430217786/senators-ramp-up-fear-mongering-to-try-to-rush-through-cybersecurity-bill.shtml about planes falling from the sky doesn't count), this bill has serious problems. As CDT warned https://www.cdt.org/blogs/greg-nojeim/112cyber-intelligence-bill-threatens-privacy-and-civilian-control when this bill first came out, it's way too broad and overreaching: * However, the bill goes much further, permitting ISPs to funnel private communications and related information back to the government without adequate privacy protections and controls. The bill does not specify which agencies ISPs could disclose customer data to, but the structure and incentives in the bill raise a very real possibility that the National Security Agency or the DODs Cybercommand would be the primary recipient. * If it's confusing to keep track of these different cybersecurity bills, the ACLU has put together a handy dandy (scary) chart http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu_cs_info_sharing_leg_chart_march_2012__final.pdf comparing them all. And what comes through loud and clear is that the Rogers-Ruppersberger CISPA bill will allow for much greater information sharing of companies sending private communication data to the government - -- including the NSA, who has been trying very, very hard to get this data http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120317/00381118147/terrifying-look-into-nsas-ability-to-capture-analyze-pretty-much-every-communication.shtml not for cybersecurity reasons, but to spy on people. CISPA has broad definitions, very few limits on who can get the data, almost no limitations on how the government can use the data (i.e. they can use it to monitor, not just for cybersecurity reasons) and (of course) no real oversight at all for how the data is (ab)used. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:48:52 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca (Majordomo) Subject: [none] Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 15:02:01 -0600 From: Matthew Gerspacher To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time. The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and terrorism, but civil liberties groups have criticised it. Tory MP David Davis called it "an unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people". Attempts by the last Labour government to take similar steps failed after huge opposition, including from the Tories. 'Unprecedented step' A new law - which may be announced in the forthcoming Queen's Speech in May - - would not allow GCHQ to access the content of emails, calls or messages without a warrant. But it would enable intelligence officers to identify who an individual or group is in contact with, how often and for how long. They would also be able to see which websites someone had visited. In a statement, the Home Office said action was needed to "maintain the continued availability of communications data as technology changes". David Davis Conservative MP and former shadow home secretary "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public," a spokesman said. "As set out in the Strategic Defence and Security Review we will legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows to ensure that the use of communications data is compatible with the government's approach to civil liberties." But Conservative MP and former shadow home secretary David Davis said it would make it easier for the government "to eavesdrop on vast numbers of people". "What this is talking about doing is not focusing on terrorists or criminals, it's absolutely everybody's emails, phone calls, web access..." he told the BBC. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 15:03:31 -0600 From: Matthew Gerspacher Subject: Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992 A student who admitted posting racially offensive comments on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba has been jailed for 56 days. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 23:02:51 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca (Majordomo) Subject: [none] Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 15:10:15 -0600 From: Matthew Gerspacher To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: The NSA Is Building the Countrys Biggest Spy Center Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 And then there was this anomaly: Although this was supposedly the official ground-breaking for the nations largest and most expensive cybersecurity project, no one from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for protecting civilian networks from cyberattack, spoke from the lectern. In fact, the official whod originally introduced the data center, at a press conference in Salt Lake City in October 2009, had nothing to do with cybersecurity. It was Glenn A. Gaffney, deputy director of national intelligence for collection, a man who had spent almost his entire career at the CIA. As head of collection for the intelligence community, he managed the countrys human and electronic spies. In the processand for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administrationthe NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, its all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever. Top Comment on this article from Wired: * * *Not very long ago..... I actually believed that I would be willing to sacrifice a bit of freedom for security. I believed that a guard or cop at the entrance to my community, checking I.D. would be better than car loads of gang members roaming through creating havoc. I once laughed at those who mistrusted the government and prepared for survival, should things go dsideways. I supported efforts by our so called "leaders" to monitor society, in search for the ever present evil. Not long ago..... I slept.* *I just finished building my fourth M-4. I just finished loading my 3rd case of 5.56. Today my Saiga 12 arrives. My wife has canned enough food to feed a city. I have taken great steps at a great cost to ensure that I am fully self reliant under any circumstance. I am awake.* *Anyone who really believes that the simple act of discussing this on the internet, has not steered electronic ears in your direction.... is sound asleep and I understand that. Someone eluded to it and I repeat this truth. In 1935 Germany... many citizens felt uneasy and sensed that doom was on the way. More laughed such talk off and continued to find reasons to smile and enjoy the day. We all know the end of that story.* *The new I Pad was released!!!!! Snooky had a meltdown! My Mac Pro is awesome!!! These trinkets that keep us giggling and focused on nothing.... this addiction to instant gratification........ this will be our downfall. * *There's a storm brewing.* ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #28 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)