From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #733 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 owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Cdn-Firearms Digest Monday, May 27 2013 Volume 15 : Number 733 In this issue: How John Kennedy secretly admired Hitler letter to Globe and Mail (just sent) Robson: Dole out to Duffy honourable? No, it's just plain ... [Fwd: Disarmed Brits Can Only Shoot Savage … With A Camera ... "North Battleford man target of possible drive-by shooting" Leaders must take a stronger approach in defending Western Values WASH. POST: FBI probes alleged LAPD pistol resales ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 12:56:15 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: How John Kennedy secretly admired Hitler http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329556/How-JFK-secretly-ADMIRED-Hitler-Explosive-book-reveals-Presidents-praise-Nazis-travelled-Germany-Second-World-War.html How JFK secretly admired Hitler By Allan Hall PUBLISHED: 11:39 GMT, 23 May 2013 A new book out in Germany reveals how President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis. The news comes embarrassingly close to a visit being paid to Berlin next month by President Obama - one week before 50th anniversary commemorations of JFK's memorable 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech pledging US solidarity with Europe during the Cold War. President Kennedy's travelogues and letters chronicling his wanderings through Germany before WWII, when Adolf Hitler was in power, have been unearthed and show him generally in favour of the movement that was to plunge the world into the greatest war in history. 'Fascism?' wrote the youthful president-to-be in one. 'The right thing for Germany.' In another; 'What are the evils of fascism compared to communism?' And on August 21, 1937 - two years before the war that would claim 50 million lives broke out - he wrote: 'The Germans really are too good - therefore people have ganged up on them to protect themselves.' And in a line which seems directly plugged into the racial superiority line plugged by the Third Reich he wrote after travelling through the Rhineland: 'The Nordic races certainly seem to be superior to the Romans.' The future president's praise is now embarrassing in hindsight - a few years later he fought in War War Two against the Nazis and his elder brother Lt. Joseph Patrick 'Joe' Kennedy, Jr was killed Other musings concern how great the autobahns were - 'the best roads in the world' - and how, having visited Hitler's Bavarian holiday home in Berchtesgaden and the tea house built on top of the mountain for him. He declared; 'Who has visited these two places can easily imagine how Hitler will emerge from the hatred currently surrounding him to emerge in a few years as one of the most important personalities that ever lived.' Kennedy's admiration for Nazi Germany is revealed in a book entitled 'John F. Kennedy - Among the Germans. Travel diaries and letters 1937-1945.' When World War II did arrive, the future president's father, Joe P Kennedy, strongly opposed going into battle with Germany and made several missteps that severely damaged his political career. He adopted a defeatist, anti-war stance and tried to arrange a meeting with Adolf Hitler without the approval of the Department of State. The reasons for this are unclear - some speculate he was eager to do anything to avoid war because he feared that American capitalism - which he profited from - would not survive the country's entry into the conflict. In his role as US ambassador to Britain he also opposed providing the UK with military and economic aid. He said in an interview 'Democracy is finished in England. It may be here [in the US]. During the World War II, JFK's older brother Joe volunteered for a secret mission testing an experimental drone plane packed with explosives - a weapon the Allies hoped to use as a guided missile. On the first test flight, the explosives detonated prematurely and the plane exploded - his body was never found. The youthful president carved his own place in history when he stood outside the West Berlin town hall of Schoeneberg on June 26 1963 to declare US solidarity with the city and the continent with the immortal words; 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' The fact that, strictly speaking, he was referring to himself as a doughnut - a Berliner - did not diminish the wild enthusiasm for him. But his praise of Hitler in a country still struggling to come to terms with his legacy may prove awkward for Obama who will visit Berlin for wide-ranging talks with Chancellor Merkel on June 18 and 19. But his praise was not entirely without caveats. 'It is evident that the Germans were scary for him,' said Spiegel magazine in Berlin. In the diaries of the three trips he made to prewar Germany he also recognised; 'Hitler seems to be as popular here as Mussolini in Germany, although propaganda is probably his most powerful weapon.' Observers say his writings ranged between aversion and attraction for Germany. The book also contains his impressions when walking through a shattered Berlin after the war: 'An overwhelming stench of bodies - sweet and nauseating'. And of the recently deceased Fuehrer he said; 'His boundless ambition for his country made him a threat to peace in the world, but he had something mysterious about him. He was the stuff of legends.' The book editor's believe that he was 'eerily fascinated' by fascism. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:50:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Sciuk Subject: letter to Globe and Mail (just sent) ... all you need is a cleaver ... (fwd) Dear Sir/Madame, Margaret Wente implies that it was "jihadis" who attacked a young British soldier using a cleaver, but ommitted the fact that they first used a car to run the poor devil down while he was walking on the sidewalk, unaware. From behind. Worse, Wente goes on to name the attackers, but not the victim, Lee Rigby. Further, I believe the police shooting of these jackals was improper, as they both seemed to have survived their wounds. The attending officers might have dealt with them summarily, and so they should, sparing the world a trial, the spotlight and the bully pulpit these creeps seem to crave. To call them "jihadis" is to give them credit for a higher cause, but this was simply a senseless and viscious crime and nothing more. My deepest condolences to the young widow and to Mr. Rigby's family. Meanwhile, the press should voluntarily cast a veil over the remaining proceedings, and deny the "alleged assailants" their fifteen minutes. Sincerely, Robert S. Sciuk ------------------------------ Date: Sat, May 25, 2013 4:25 pm From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: Robson: Dole out to Duffy honourable? No, it's just plain ... ...scandalous Robson: Dole out to Duffy honourable? No, it's just plain scandalous By John Robson, Parliamentary Bureau Friday, May 24, 2013 5:23:27 EDT PM http://www.lfpress.com/2013/05/24/robson-dole-out-to-duffy-honourable-no-its -just-plain-scandalous If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It's wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution. Watching Democratic as well as Republican legislators pry into American scandals involving the IRS targeting of conservatives, Department of Justice snooping on journalists and White House fiddling of talking points on an ambassador's murder, I'm reminded how important the separation of powers is there. Listening to the Tories babble about the Prime Minister's chief of staff writing a big personal cheque to a Senator, I desperately miss it here. We have it in theory. But it's so badly eroded in practice that, on CBC's Power & Politics, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre could brazenly claim Nigel Wright wrote Mike Duffy a $90,000 cheque "Because we didn't believe taxpayers should have to pay the cost and Mr. Duffy was not in a position to pay them himself." I don't know who "we" is, since Poilievre said Harper knew nothing. But I do know Poilievre said "Nigel Wright did an exceptionally honourable thing. He reached in to his own resources, wrote a personal cheque out of his own bank account to cover the costs of these ineligible expenses and to protect taxpayers." It's not "honourable" for someone in the PMO to give a big wad of cash to a legislator. It's scandalous. And it doesn't protect taxpayers. What protects them is legislative scrutiny of the executive branch. How likely is a Senator, or MP, to obstruct or chastise a cabinet that just bailed him out of a gruesome, self-inflicted ethical, financial and possibly even legal problem? A cabinet to whom, for instance, the police force is ultimately answerable? I am astounded that news stories say there appears to be nothing illegal about this payment. Even if that is true, it is patently unconstitutional. The separation of powers is neither an American concept nor a quaint anachronism. Among other things, our House of Commons is constitutionally forbidden (S. 54) to pass any money bill "that has not been first recommended to that House by Message of the Governor General" in that session. Legislators are executive watchdogs not lapdogs. They must be duly warned of things cabinet wants; they can't be blindsided or stampeded. In theory. In practice, well, would five figures cover it? Suppose someone in the PMO suddenly paid a restless backbencher $90,000? Or someone on a committee about to look into something potentially embarrassing? Remember, a discreet procedural vote can smother an awkward investigation. What would Tory spinners be saying if Jean Chretien had done it? Or Kathleen Wynne's chief of staff suddenly wrote a cheque to Andrea Horwath, or some financially embarrassed member of Horwath's caucus? Or, in the middle of Obama's scandal trifecta, we found his chief of staff slipping nearly a hundred grand to a congressman under murky circumstances? My first reaction was we were dealing here with separation of brain and wallet. How could anyone can have thought they would get away with it? But they seem in part to have been counting on Canadians not understanding why the PMO shouldn't be writing fat cheques to desperate legislators. After all, cabinet already owns the legislature. Why not make it overt and official? Well, suppose someone in the PMO handed me $90,000. Someone splendid. A fine public servant. Above reproach. You can trust me on that. Pay no attention to that pile of money behind the curtain. And I don't get to write laws or compel testimony. Sen. Duffy must resign. Nigel Wright must resign. So must anyone involved in negotiating or concealing this obscene transaction. It corrupts our system of government. john.robson@sunmedia.ca ------------------------------ CBC - Greg Weston: Senate scandal may be Harper's worst hour Prime minister's credibility at stake in growing political crisis by Greg Weston, National Affairs Specialist, CBC News Posted: May 24, 2013 5:07 AM ET Last Updated: May 24, 2013 10:01 AM ET Read 1353 comments1353 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/24/f-greg-weston-harper-duffy.html Harper's ex-chief of staff kept close tabs on Senate expenses audit BILL CURRY AND STEVEN CHASE, OTTAWA - The Globe and Mail - Last updated Friday, May. 24 2013, 8:31 AM EDT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/wright-spoke-with-audit-head-directly-before-duffy-bailout/article12121625/?cmpid=rss1 Ten unanswered questions on the Duffy affair Kelly McParland | 13/05/23 11:46 AM ET http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/05/23/ten-unanswered-questions-on-the-duffy-affair/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, May 25, 2013 6:49 pm From: decline@pteradon.tera-byte.com Subject: [Fwd: Disarmed Brits Can Only Shoot Savage … With A Camera ... ...By ilana mercer] BCC to all members, judiciary, legal, media, and other concerned parties. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Disarmed Brits Can Only Shoot Savage … With A Camera By ilana mercer From: "Mercer Mailing List" Date: Thu, May 23, 2013 9:04 pm To: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Disarmed Brits Can Only Shoot Savage … With A Camera" is the current WND column. An excerpt: A "frenzied machete attack." "The most appalling crime." "Sickening." "Barbaric." "A deluded, deranged act of violence." "Gruesome and shocking." These were press-cited descriptions of the butchering of a British soldier by a black man with a meat-cleaver, on a south-east London street. By the sound of the killer's common vernacular and accent, he, too, was British. A “frenzied machete attack.” “The most appalling crime.” “Sickening.” “Barbaric.” “A deluded, deranged act of violence.” “Gruesome and shocking.” These were press-cited descriptions of the butchering of a British soldier by a black man with a meat-cleaver, on a southeast London street. By the sound of the killer’s common vernacular and accent, he, too, was British. The slaying occurred in Woolwich, just yards from the Royal Artillery Barracks. Ads by GoogleUsd Canadian Dollar The Dollar And Euro Are Doomed. These 3 Currencies Will Take Over. WallStreetDaily.com/Free-ReportNext big U.S. bankruptcy? You’ll never guess who’s likely to go bankrupt next in America. www.YouTube.comNot content with carving up his countryman on the pavement, the savage also managed to carve out for himself a Speakers’ Corner, away from the famous, and once so civilized, corner in Hyde Park. Slick with the blood of his victim – and befitting the YouTube era – the killer then asked a passerby to film his splenetic screed. The result was a mini-manifesto, delivered to the world, as the still-warm body of the grunt loomed in the background. The butchered soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, was reported to have been wearing a “Help for Heroes” T-shirt, the equivalent of America’s “Wounded Warrior” project. Same wars, waged by the same politicians, to the detriment of the same people at home and abroad. Before finishing him off on foot, his assailants had run Drummer Rigby over by car. Since this occurred in barbaric Britannia, where a man’s right to life is purely nominal or theoretical, the victim was defenseless. At the risk of repeating what ought to be obvious, a right that can’t be defended is a right in name only. Inherent in the idea of an inalienable right is the right to mount a vigorous defense of the same right. If you cannot by law defend your life, you have no right to life. By logical extension, Britons are bereft of the right to life. Not only are the traditional “Rights of Englishmen” – the inspiration for the American founders – no longer cool in Cool Britannia, but they’ve been eroded in law. The great system of law that the English people once held dear, including the 1689 English Bill of Rights – subsumed within which was the right to possess arms – is no longer. British legislators have disarmed their law-abiding subjects, who now defend themselves against a pampered, protected and armed criminal class at their own peril. Naturally, most of the (unnatural) elites enjoy taxpayer-funded security details. Order lIana Mercer’s brilliant polemical work, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa” Thus could Prime Minister David Cameron, full of bravado, declare that “Britain will ‘never buckle,’” in the face of such craven attacks. Unlike his subjects, who must wait on unarmed police to ride to the rescue, Cameron is, indubitably, protected by beefed-up bodyguards. And thus are the barbarians within Britain able to carry-on as this last specimen did. With brio did the homeboy strut his stuff for the cameras. The Nameless Savage knew full well that nobody was gunning for him. Police – in whom Piers Morgan wants Americans to misplace their trust – took around 20 minutes to arrive. Hardly unusual. (Morgan, a CNN redcoat turncoat, is currently suborning treason against his American hosts by campaigning against their Second Amendment natural right of self-defense.) There are excellent arguments to be made for an armed citizenry and an unarmed police force. In the United Kingdom, however, both the people and the police have been disarmed. No wonder “bobbies” carrying wooden truncheons are often late to the crime scene; it’s a miracle that they pitch up at all. When Authorized Firearms Officers (AFO) eventually arrived in Woolwich, it was too late. In sight, the AFO had two confirmed killers. Yet, as the latter anticipated, the police did not aim to kill them. They only injured the criminals. Nevertheless, the officers were promptly placed under the investigation of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), despite a belated and inadequate response. As my lead-in would suggest, the British surpass Americans in adjectival creativity. This time, however, the Queen’s English fell flat. Or, rather, the English language was perfectly up-to-the-task. It is the English-speaking people who are incapable of distilling in words the significance of the scene. Jihadi chasers complicate the task; they are part of the problem, because they mask the salient issue here. Shouting about abstractions from the rooftops – “Jihad, Jihad” – serves only to conceal a concrete reality, and that is that Islam is but a catalyst. Islam is muscular and murderous all right. It feeds those with compatible cravings. That these murderers mouth Muhammadan mantras is, however, incidental to the fact that they know they can act on their fantasies with impunity. After all, they live among an emasculated, enfeebled people, lacking in core beliefs. (Invading Muslim countries does not constitute a respectable creed.) The Boston bombers were made in America. Ditto the butcher from Woolwich; he is a British issue. These out-of-wack yobbos – in this case, likely of Nigerian descent – have been raised in progressive, libertine societies, distinguished primarily by their tolerance for the intolerable. The affinity for Islam these made-in-the-West murderers exhibit is secondary to their contempt for our helplessness. They are killers first, who prey on the kind of people who look to Big Brother to rescue them, dupe them and tell them what’s what, i.e., manage the message. Indeed, Jihadi chasers here are helping the state manage the message. And the state’s message is that being stuck like a pig on the streets of our great cities is a function not of our blind faith in government and our dependence on it – but of being free and righteous. Rubbish. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/disarmed-brits-can-only-shoot-savage-with-a-camera/#6omiEiBkIuJPw2wd.99 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 20:17:25 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "North Battleford man target of possible drive-by shooting" Twenty 22 years of restrictive gun control, and we have the formerly quiet, laid back, little city of North Battleford having drive-by shootings, on a Saturday morning no less. Criminals are out of control while the law abiding live on their knees fettered and abused, subject to arbitrary measures. It's all so... progressive. ========================= ================ North Battleford man target of possible drive-by shooting 24 year old in critical condition Reported by Kurtis Doering First Posted: May 25, 2013 5:02pm Change text size: + - The RCMP in North Battleford say a 24 year old man appears to be the target of a drive-by shooting in a residential neighborhood. Multiple shots rang out at around 10:00 Saturday morning on the 1700 block of 104th street. The man was taken to the local hospital in critical condition. He has since been transferred to Sasktoon for more surgery. Police are continuing to interview witnesses as they look for suspects in the shooting. The victim is said to be from North Battleford, but does not live near where the shooting took place. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, May 26, 2013 11:12 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: Leaders must take a stronger approach in defending Western Values by Lorne Gunter Leaders must take a stronger approach in defending Western Values LORNE GUNTER | QMI AGENCY - 10:21 am, May 26th, 2013 http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/05/20130526-102126.html At least five people have been arrested in Britain since Wednesday's gruesome street butchering of a British soldier, allegedly by a pair of Muslim fanatics. The five are not suspected co-conspirators with Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo, the alleged murderers of Drummer Lee Rigby. Rather, the five are all ordinary Britons taken into custody for shouting unpleasant remarks about Muslims or, in two cases, vandalizing a mosque and Muslim-owned shops. Vandalizing places of worship and small businesses is not the same as standing on a street corner and shouting "go back to your own country." The former are crimes, the latter, at worst, is a public-disorder misdemeanor (and shouldn't even be that). Still, both actions stem from the same frustration with politically correct officials who refuse to deal with the growing number of radical Muslims fomenting and festering in Western countries or even refuse to acknowledge that a growing number of domestic Muslims are becoming dangerous extremists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing attacks on Muslims or their institutions. Instead, I am merely predicting that such attacks could become more common if Western leaders refuse to take more concrete steps to curtail Muslim radicalization. And I don't mean police and national security steps, I mean cultural steps. For the most part, I think security forces are doing a good job keeping civilians safe. That fact that last month's Boston Marathon bombing and this week's Woolwich butchering were the first successful terror attacks on American and British soil, respectively, since 9-11 and London's 7/7 attacks in 2005 is proof police and intelligence agencies are doing a good job, by and large. Most terror schemes, like the plot to blow up a VIA Rail bridge connecting New York state with Canada, have been thwarted in advance, thankfully. Certainly there are some things security services could be doing better. One of the two suspects in the Boston bombing was known to the FBI two years before their deadly attack, while Adebolajo had been watched by MI5, Britain's domestic spy agency, for the past eight years. Perhaps in both cases more could have been done sooner, but no security system will ever be perfect. So rather than saying those who keep us safe need to do a better job, it is more useful to demand that those who lead us politically do a better job of preserving Western, democratic, pluralistic values. Until we defend our cultural values, all the snooping in the world won't much us much better off. I've had enough of the cultural equivalence that has fogged elite thinking for the past four decades. Not all cultures are equally worthy. Radical Islam is a pernicious, cancerous ideology - not a religion, but a violent, authoritarian ideology like Fascism and Communism. It is a threat to peace, order and good government in Canada, as well as to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the United States. Official multiculturalism is fine in so far as it encourages newcomers to remain proud of their heritages while embracing Canadian values. But to the extent multiculturalism excuses the retention of anti-democratic ideals (and it does), it is a failed theory. My colleague Michael Coren has suggested immigrants be asked up front whether they support everyone's right to practice their religion in peace, whether they support equality for women, the separation of church and state, Common and statute law over Sharia law, the adoption of modest Western dress versus hijabs, and so on. If they say "no," they cannot be let into a Western country. We can support all the liberty-infringing security measure we want, but we will never be much safer until our leaders take up a more robust defence of Western values. ------------------------------- French police hunt man who stabbed soldier in Paris Anti-terrorist police seek man who stabbed 25-year-old Private Cedric Cordier in the neck before fleeing the scene Angelique Chrisafis in Paris - guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 May 2013 09.58 BST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/french-police-soldier-stabbed-paris ------------------------------ Date: Sun, May 26, 2013 11:27 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: WASH. POST: FBI probes alleged LAPD pistol resales WASH. POST: FBI probes alleged LAPD pistol resales By Joel Rubin, Published: May 25 http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-probes-alleged-lapd-pistol-resales/2013/05/25/b0949b0c-c582-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html LOS ANGELES - The FBI is investigating whether members of the Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT and special-investigations units violated the law by purchasing large numbers of custom-made handguns and reselling them for profit, according to interviews. Federal authorities opened the inquiry into the alleged gun sales in recent weeks after police officials alerted them to possible gun violations, multiple sources told the Los Angeles Times. The move comes after an earlier police investigation found no wrongdoing on the part of officers. But on Friday, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck acknowledged that the probe was "clearly lacking" and said the department has opened a second investigation of the weapons transactions that is still ongoing. Suspicion over the guns arose in May 2010, when a lieutenant in the department's metropolitan division, which includes the SWAT unit, attempted to inventory the division's weapons, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed by the lieutenant and a report last year by the department's inspector general, Alex Bustamante. While accounting for the weapons, Lt. Armando Perez discovered that SWAT members had purchased an unknown number of pistols from the gunmaker Kimber Manufacturing and were "possibly reselling these Kimber firearms for large profits to people outside of Metro SWAT," according to the lawsuit and Bustamante's report. There are some indications the guns were sold to other officers outside the units and others outside law enforcement. The FBI is expected to look as well into the possibility that officers from the department's special-investigations section, which conducts surveillance in major, high-risk cases, were also improperly reselling Kimber guns, the sources said. A spokeswoman for the FBI declined to comment. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment. - Los Angeles Times ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #733 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator 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".)