From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #899 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 Saturday, August 31 2013 Volume 15 : Number 899 In this issue: Re:'"RCMP seize massive arsenal"- Digest V15 #897 Re: "Congress should veto Obama's war" Digest V15 #896 Re: "Four men convicted in separate incidents...at B.C. border Court says White House visitor logs can be kept from public "Monkey business, our broken Army"-Michael Yon Re: CBC - Massive arsenal of guns, ammunition seized in B.C. THE DAY THE RCMP STARTED LYING TO THE MEDIA: SEPT. 22, 1998 CBC - Waterfowl hunting season extended on P.E.I. "John Diefenbaker's vision of Canada"-paherald Will Boehner stop our rogue president? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:41:17 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Re:'"RCMP seize massive arsenal"- Digest V15 #897 On 2013-08-30, at 8:21 AM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > Date: Thu, August 29, 2013 1:35 pm > From: "Dennis R. Young" > Subject: B.C. RCMP seize massive arsenal, lay trafficking charges > > B.C. RCMP seize massive arsenal, lay trafficking charges > 183 firearms and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized > BY THE CANADIAN PRESS AUGUST 29, 2013 1:00 PM > http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/national/RCMP+seize+massive+arsenal+trafficking+charges/8848623/story.html > > VANCOUVER, B.C., - Police in B.C. have seized a massive arsenal of weapons > and ammunition and have laid firearms charges against a 63-year-old man. > Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, > says 183 firearms and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized > from a house in Tatla Lake, 220 kilometres west of Williams Lake. Houghton > says police were tipped that the man was selling assault-style > semi-automatic rifles, among other weapons. He says many of the guns are > capable of firing rounds that can pass through vehicles, doors, walls and > body armour. Officers must now figure out where the guns came from, and how > they got into Canada and then into the possession of the man, who has no > criminal record. Houghton says the seizure isn't believed to be linked to > gangs, but he says the weapons would likely have been sold to the highest > bidder, which could mean they'd end up in the hands of gangsters. Clearly, this is another propaganda photo op demonizing the civilian possession of firearms, particularly hunting rifles and shotguns. The sentence about "must figure out where the guns came from and how they got into Canada and into the possession of the man" is a political diatribe to support the now abolished long gun registry. If you were serving on a jury and this officer was sworn in before you, promising to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, would you believe him? When the present Harper government choose to retain unreasonable gun laws based on lies, distortions, misrepresentations and outright falsehoods. Logically, that was taken, by agents of the state, as an endorsement of both the laws and the bearing of false witness upon which they are based. This press conference is the kind of thing that former Commissioner Murray saw would result from C-68(1995), and he refused to sign onto falsified evidence concocted by then Alan Rock's Federal Ministry of (in)Justice. Add about that time I happened to meet an off duty C.O. Sgt., while we stood in a retail line-up. During our conversation, he indicated he would be taking early retirement rather than having to enforce the upcoming C-68. In the CBC version of this story there is a photo of all the firearms. Those that I could identify would be common hunting rifles or shotguns in Canada. I'm most drawn to the muzzleloader, with the brass patch box and curved metal butt plate. patchbox. Of course, like this RCMP officer, I am terrified if such were to fall into the "hands of gangsters". All these firearms will be destroyed as per the Harper Conservative gun laws. Suppose a community where 183 homes have these firearms and another one where they do not. Which would have members more likely to report and testify against criminals in their neighbourhood? I rest my case. P.S. That B.C. has seen a notable increase* in people, including children, being mauled and/or eaten and killed by wild predators since the introduction of Restrictive Gun Laws(C-17, 1991 "safe storage", lengthy anti-rural F.A.C. procedure) cannot but colour the perception of those enforcing such laws. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:02:36 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Re: "Congress should veto Obama's war" Digest V15 #896 Buchanan sums it up well enough and as Britain's Parliament just voted down military involvement in Syria, the Obama administration is becoming more isolated. How they will continue to follow the guidance the White House receives from the Muslim Brotherhood is becoming less clear. Developed countries co-operation against Somalian piracy has been a relatively effective policy use of naval power. A prolonged war in Syria weakening both sides in the process may, indeed, be "the lesser evil". Sometimes, snakepits are best left to the snakes to fight it out. But as there are millions of Islamist immigrants in the West, this isn't an issue that can de solved simply with isolationism, alone. Also, preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons with which to extort their neighbours and Europe is going to be cheaper than dealing with them after they've been acquired. Israel's massive natural gas production will begin by 2016 and may affect the regions and Europe's balance of power. On 2013-08-29, at 3:27 PM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:50:24 -0600 > From: "Joe Gingrich" > Subject: Congress should veto Obama's war > > http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/27/congress-should-vetoobamas-war/ > > Congress should veto Obama's war > > > "The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from > history." > By: Patrick J. Buchanan > 8/27/2013 > > "Congress doesn't have a whole lot of core responsibilities," said > Barack Obama last week in an astonishing remark. > > For in the Constitution, Congress appears as the first branch of > government. And among its enumerated powers are the power to tax, > coin money, create courts, provide for the common defense, raise and > support an army, maintain a navy and declare war. > > But, then, perhaps Obama's contempt is justified. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:46:45 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Re: "Four men convicted in separate incidents...at B.C. border On 2013-08-30, at 8:21 AM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > Date: Thu, August 29, 2013 1:08 pm > From: "Dennis R. Young" > Subject: Four men convicted in separate incidents after guns found at > B.C. border > > > Four men convicted in separate incidents after guns found at B.C. > border > Vancouver Sun August 28, 2013 > http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Four+convicted+separate+incidents+after+guns+found+border/8843567/story.html > > The Canada Border Services Agency says four U.S. residents have been > convicted after being caught with guns at the border. On May 21, > Pennsylvania resident Robert Scott Keller arrived at the Pacific Highway > Commercial port of entry had a loaded, .380 calibre handgun in a cabinet > behind the driver's seat. He pled guilty and was fined $2,500. Then on Aug. > 12, Alabama resident Edward Laverne Blair told officers at the Douglas Peace > Arch that he had no firearms to declare. However, CBSA officers found a > loaded .40 calibre pistol in a duffle bag on his motorcycle. He also pled > guilty and was fined total of $5,000. On the same day, officers arrested > Vaughn Michael Wells, a Texas resident, for smuggling firearms into Canada. > Officers seized a plastic rifle case containing an undeclared AR15 assault > rifle, and two empty over-capacity magazines for the rifle, along with 40 > rounds of ammunition. They also found a .45 calibre firearm, a duty belt > with an empty holster, handcuffs and two over-capacity magazines, containing > .45 ammunition. He pled guilty and was fined a total of $8,000. A day later, > California resident Ronald Dean Watkins arrived in Victoria on the Coho > Ferry from Port Angeles, Washington with an unloaded .22 pistol and a > magazine containing eight rounds. Watkins pled guilty to smuggling and was > sentenced to three days in jail. > > ticrawford@vancouversun.com If the federal government truly believed, this "unauthourized possession of these firearms by those with no intent to commit criminal violence were such a threat to "public safety", they would prosecute them to the full extent of the law. Soon, they would fill up the federal jails with the morally innocent, would be U.S. tourists. The prosecution of genuinely dangerous violent criminals in Canada would be delayed and they would be released on court order of being subject to an unreasonable delay in their due process. As the U.S. news media informed the American population of the thousands of morally innocent U.S. citizens languishing in Canadian jails, tourism from the U.S. would drop off significantly. "Mexico Norte", they'd call us. The heavier sentences are saved for threatening Canadians who are found in "illegal" possession of those same arms, even though, they too, are just as morally innocent as the American tourists. The heavier sentence is to remind Canadian citizens that their once shared Common-Law/Natural Right to keep and bear arms is no more. That instead of the Natural Rights Theory of government, Canada is in the process of gradually switching to a different form of government... perhaps, one which our ancestors fought, bled and died to save us from. One which will not depend on the consent of the governed. After all why would a government worry about the consent or not of a pacified, disarmed population. Just another interesting question of Canadian politics that gets no official public discussion. Such will only come from the citizenry, not from the government. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:39:33 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Court says White House visitor logs can be kept from public http://washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-says-white-house-visitor-logs-can-be-kept-from-public/article/2534954 Appeals court says White House visitor logs can be kept from public By MARK TAPSCOTT | AUGUST 30, 2013 President Obama and his successors in the Oval Office are not obligated to make public the names of individuals visiting the White House, according to a decision of the federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia made public Friday. The case was brought by Judicial Watch, the government watchdog nonprofit that has been fighting a long legal battle seeking to force release of the White House visitor logs as public records under the Freedom of Information Act. But in a decision that is drawing intense criticism from across the ideological spectrum, the circuit court said the president has a "constitutional perogative" not to tell the American people who he or his staff meets with in the White House. The court said the president has such a prerogative because he is not covered by the FOIA and because of "special policy considerations" that allow exemption of visitor logs from classification as agency records subject to release under the public records law. President Obama began making public some of the White House visitor logs in 2009, but refused a Judicial Watch request for all of the logs. Administration spokesmen have often pointed to the partial release of the logs to support the president's claim that his is "the most transparent administration in history." Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton was extremely disappointed by the decision, saying "a president that doesn't want Americans, under law, to know who his visitors are is a president who doesn't want to be accountable. The appellate court decision punches another hole in the Freedom of Information Act, the law which allows Americans to know what their government is up to." Fitton's group is considering filing an appeal, which would be to the Supreme Court. There is no guarantee that the high court would accept the case. "The legal gymnastics in this unprecedented decision shows that President Obama is not only one willing rewrite laws without going through Congress. And this legal fight, in which President Obama is fighting tooth and nail full disclosure under law of his White House visitors, further exposes his big lie that his administration is the most transparent in history. The silver lining is that at least the appellate court opened up the records of tens of thousands of White House visits that Obama was trying to keep secret," Fitton said. The Obama administration is not solely responsible for the status of the logs, however, as the court repeatedly cited in its decision a 2006 memorandum of understanding between President George W. Bush and the U.S. Secret Service, which has custody of the records. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, another nonprofit watchdog group that, like Judicial Watch, often focuses on FOIA-related issues, pointed to the MOU's role in the decision: "Central to the court's ruling was a 2006 memorandum of understanding (MOU) the White House and Secret Service entered into after CREW made requests and then sued for access to the visitor logs. That MOU specified that White House visitor records are controlled at all times by the White House. The timing and circumstances surrounding the creation of the MOU strongly suggest it was manufactured solely to buttress the government's litigation posture, but the D.C. Circuit refused to consider the government's motives." Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, said the "White House visitor records have proven of enormous value to the public in exposing the outside influences brought to bear on presidential decisions and policies. With this ruling, that window on the White House is now shut." Go here to read the court decision. http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/usca115258/ Go here to view the visitor logs that have been made public prior to the decision. http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records Mark Tapscott is executive editor of the Washington Examiner. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:53:49 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "Monkey business, our broken Army"-Michael Yon This isn't pretty, but I doubt reform will occur or be complete until after the end of the Obama Administration's 2nd term in office. Hopefully, re-instatement of higher standards will occur before the next deployment. Political Correctness is another term for incompetence in most human endeavours. Like dud rounds in a belt fed weapon, they better be few and far between. Like their economy, our cousins will recover but it's painfully slow in the meantime. http://www.michaelyon-online.com/monkey-business-our-broken-army/All-Pages.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, August 30, 2013 10:22 pm From: decline@pteradon.tera-byte.com Subject: Re: CBC - Massive arsenal of guns, ammunition seized in B.C. Sounds like propaganda. "all legal in Canada" so what is this "arsenal" and they say "intended to sell" but were they to be sold to legitimate buyers? In a remote area most hunting guns are semi-auto. None of the guns are obviously "assault rifles" which are fully automatic, thus they had to let him go while they "investigate." So it would appear that the guy is a collector. Many people have had over 200 guns in their collections as did members of the Canadian Historical Arms Society before I sold all my collection which consisted of over 100 antique and fine firearms. None of us were "trafficers" but we did sell and trade among each other or to outsiders. No one thought anything of it, as some police were also members. We didn't need a criminalizing PAL at that time. Just a few cases of .22 ammunition and a few cases of shotgun shells for trap or skeet shooting, and you could easily have 10,000 rounds. Any one of those collectors could be falsly accused of the lable given in this addled and accusatory article. MAYBE the guy is guilty of something, but they obviously need to search further to find anything to charge him with. As an aside, as more demands to remove lead from bullets, manufacturers are making copper slugs that are expandable and frangible for hunting. Is that the "dangerous to police" bullets they talk about here? You can buy them in any Cabela's or other Sporting goods stores. > CBC - Massive arsenal of guns, ammunition seized in B.C. > Tatla Lake, B.C., man had 183 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition > CBC News Posted: Aug 29, 2013 12:01 PM PT Last Updated: Aug 29, 2013 3:20 > PM PT > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/08/29/bc-weapons-guns-ammunition-seized.html > > Police in northern B.C. have arrested a 63-year-old man after seizing a > massive arsenal of semi-automatic rifles, illegal large capacity magazines > and ammunition from his home. Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, with the province's > Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, says 183 firearms and tens of > thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized from the man's house in > Tatla > Lake, 220 kilometres west of Williams Lake. Houghton says police were > tipped > that the man was selling a wide range of weapons including AR-type rifles, > SKS semi-automatic rifles and handguns. "Many of these guns are capable of > firing rounds that could pass through vehicles, doors, walls and even body > armour. That is an unacceptable risk to the public and the police," said > Houghton. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, August 31, 2013 12:06 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: THE DAY THE RCMP STARTED LYING TO THE MEDIA: SEPT. 22, 1998 News Release - April 27, 1999 RCMP NOW ADMIT THEY HAD FOUR SNIPERS ON THE HILL DURING GUN LAW PROTEST "Documents prove officers had four .308 rifles and seventeen sub-machine guns on the Hill that day." http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/breitkreuzgpress/fire39.html Ottawa - Today, Garry Breitkreuz, MP for Yorkton-Melville, released RCMP documents listing the firearms that were signed out on the day of the Fed-Up II Rally on Parliament Hill last September 22nd. The documents verify that RCMP officers signed out the following firearms for security on Parliament Hill that day: Four (4) .308 rifles and seventeen (17) - MP5, H&K sub-machine guns. In addition to these firearms, ten (10) Emergency Response Team (ERT) members had their special SIG 9 MM handguns and all regular RCMP officers had their standard issue side arms. "During the rally everyone was talking about the snipers on the roof-tops of the Parliament buildings. While many were a little surprised at the display of firepower for a peaceful demonstration, I thought it was probably standard operating procedure for any rally with such a huge attendance," said Breitkreuz. "Then I read a quote from RCMP Inspector Al Nause in the paper the next day and he was denying that there were snipers on the rooftops. Inspector Nause, the man The Ottawa Citizen said was in charge of security during the anti-Bill C-68 (The Firearms Act) protest, was reported to have said, "When someone has binoculars we don't normally call them a sniper. We call them observers." (The Ottawa Citizen, "Shooting down the conspiracy myth" by Ron Corbett, page A3, September 23, 1998). "Yes, the RCMP documents show that the ERT officers with the .308 rifles were also issued with binoculars that day," clarified Breitkreuz. "Following the report in the newspaper, many firearms experts came forward willing to testify in court to what they saw. I even received a picture of a police officer carrying a rifle case off one of the Parliament Hill buildings. Based on this evidence, I filed an Access to Information Request with the RCMP asking for copies of all documents related to the numbers and types of firearms signed out by police officers assigned to security on Parliament Hill on the day of the rally," explained Breitkreuz. Breitkreuz notified The Ottawa Citizen of their mistake on April 21st and had the documents hand delivered to the Managing Editor on Friday, April 23rd. "Now that we have the documented proof, what we're left with is four unanswered questions: (1) Why did RCMP Inspector Nause make the statements he did to a reporter when the Operational Plan he signed included details of the ten Emergency Response Team members? (2) Why did The Ottawa Citizen reporter take the word of one RCMP Inspector over the word of many honest, peaceful people attending the rally? (3) Why did the RCMP not correct the story as soon as it appeared in The Ottawa Citizen? And finally, (4) Is it standard operating procedure for the RCMP to have sniper rifles and machine guns at peaceful rallies on Parliament Hill or is this type of welcome reserved only for law-abiding, responsible firearm owners?" asked Breitkreuz. "It's time for the RCMP and The Ottawa Citizen to tell Canadians the truth." -30- READ MORE: http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/breitkreuzgpress/fire39.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, August 31, 2013 10:16 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: CBC - Waterfowl hunting season extended on P.E.I. CBC - Waterfowl hunting season extended on the Island "Hunters and other outdoor people do contribute quite a bit to the economy." CBC News Posted: Aug 31, 2013 10:45 AM AT Last Updated: Aug 31, 2013 10:44 AM AT http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2013/08/31/pei-goose-hunting-waterfowl.html The waterfowl hunting season has been extended on Prince Edward Island to curb the growing population. Provincial wildlife biologist Brad Potter said hunters can now take part in an early goose season from Sept. 3-16. They can also hunt all waterfowl for an extra two weeks at the end of the regular season in the fall. "Hunters and other outdoor people do contribute quite a bit to the economy. It's also good news from a wildlife point of view because in order to be able to sustain harvest, populations have to be healthy. Healthy and increasing," Potter said. Hunters with a federal migratory bird hunting permit and a provincial hunting licence will also need an early September special permit. The permits are free and can be picked up at the Department of Agriculture and Forestry's forest, fish and wildlife offices in Southampton, Charlottetown and Wellington. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:52:19 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "John Diefenbaker's vision of Canada"-paherald Some reflections on the principle of equality vs. identity politics, on the supremacy of Parliament vs. the P.M.O. , from a handful of ethnic enclaves to hundreds, about individual rights and the history of Parliamentary democracy. It does seem notable that as the role of Parliament in government has been reduced so has the status of individual M.P.s, who have become what Trudeau viewed them as nobodies once they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill. As far as I can discern the teaching of the history and development of parliamentary democracy in Britain has not been taught in schools here for a considerable length of time. While still important to lobby Parliamentarians on our behalf, I do not expect them to carry any reform federally. If there is a defence politically and in law, it will have to come first from a province. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2013-08-24/article-3363483/John-Diefenbakers-vision-of-Canada/1 http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2013-08-26/article-3364355/Diefenbakers-Canada%3A-history%2C-tradition-and-the-British-connection./1 http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2013-08-27/article-3365974/Diefenbakers-Canada%3A-equality%2C-populism-and-the-Bill-of-Rights/1 http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2013-08-28/article-3367516/Diefenbakers-Canada-The-dream-of-Confederation/1 http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2013-08-29/article-3368940/One-Canada-vs.-the-multicultural-mosaic/1 http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2013-08-30/article-3370213/Dief-was-right-about-decline-of-Parliament%2C-prof-says/1 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:17:58 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Will Boehner stop our rogue president? http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/30/will-boehner-stop-our-rogue-president/ Will Boehner stop our rogue president? By: Patrick J. Buchanan 8/30/2013 The next 72 hours will be decisive in the career of the speaker of the House. The alternatives he faces are these: John Boehner can, after "consultation," give his blessing to Barack Obama's decision to launch a war on Syria, a nation that has neither attacked nor threatened us. Or Boehner can instruct Obama that, under our Constitution, in the absence of an attack on the United States, Congress alone has the authority to decide whether the United States goes to war. As speaker, he can call the House back on Monday to debate, and decide, whether to authorize the war Obama is about to start. In the absence of a Congressional vote for war, Boehner should remind the president that U.S. cruise missile strikes on Syria, killing soldiers and civilians alike, would be the unconstitutional and impeachable acts of a rogue president. Moreover, an attack on Syria would be an act of stupidity. Why this rush to war? Why the hysteria? Why the panic? Syria and Assad will still be there two weeks from now or a month from now, and we will know far more then about what happened last week. Understandably, Obama wants to get the egg off his face from having foolishly drawn his "red line" against chemical weapons, and then watching Syria, allegedly, defy His Majesty. But saving Obama's face does not justify plunging his country into another Mideast war. Does Obama realize what a fool history will make of him if he is stampeded into a new war by propaganda that turns out to be yet another stew of ideological zealotry and mendacity? As of today, we do not know exactly what gas was used around Damascus, how it was delivered, who authorized it and whether President Bashar Assad ever issued such an order. Yet, one Wall Street Journal columnist is already calling on Obama to assassinate Assad along with his family. Do we really want back into that game? When John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy explored the assassination option with Fidel Castro, blowback came awfully swift in Dallas. Again, what is the urgency of war now if we are certain we are right? What do we lose by waiting for more solid evidence, and then presenting our case to the Security Council? Kennedy did that in the Cuban missile crisis. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson made the case. And the world saw we were right. If, in the face of incontrovertible proof, Russia and China veto sanctions, the world will see that. Then let John Kerry make his case to Congress and convince that body to authorize war, if he can. But if Obama cannot convince Congress, we cannot - and ought not - go to war. The last thing America needs is an unnecessary, unconstitutional war in that God-forsaken region that both Congress and the country oppose. Indeed, the reports about this gas attack on Syrian civilians have already begun to give off the distinct aroma of a false-flag operation. Assad has offered U.N. inspectors secure access to where gas was allegedly used. It is the rebels who seem not to want too deep or long an investigation. Our leaders should ask themselves. If we are stampeded into this war, whose interests are served? For it is certainly not Assad's and certainly not America's. We are told Obama intends to hit Syria with cruise missiles for just a few days to punish Assad and deter any future use of gas, not to topple his regime. After a few hundred missiles and a thousand dead Syrians, presumably, we call it off. Excuse me, but as Casey Stengel said, "Can't anybody here play this game?" Nations that start wars and attack countries, as Gen. Tojo and Adm. Yamamoto can testify, do not get to decide how wide the war gets, how long it goes on or how it ends. If the United States attacks Damascus and Syria's command and control, under the rules of war Syria would be within its rights to strike Washington, the Pentagon and U.S. bases all across the Middle East. Does Obama really want to start a war, the extent and end of which he cannot see, that is likely to escalate, as its promoters intend and have long plotted, into a U.S. war on Iran? Has the election in Iran of a new president anxious to do a deal with America on Iran's nuclear program caused this panic in the War Party? If we think the markets reacted badly to a potential U.S. strike on Syria, just wait for that big one to start. Iran has a population the size of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq combined, and sits astride the Straits of Hormuz through which the free world's oil flows. And who will be our foremost fighting ally in Syria should we attack Assad's army? The Al-Nusra Front, an arm of al-Qaida and likely successor to power, should Assad fall. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #899 *********************************** 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".)