Bob Barr- Watch lists, guns and government

http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/06/29/watch-lists-guns-and-government/?cxntfid=blogs_bob_barr_blog

The secret government “Terrorist Watch List,” reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way. This new addendum — also to be cloaked in secrecy — would empower the U.S. Attorney General to deny a person the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights to purchase a firearm.

While it is not surprising that some members of Congress are again using fear of terrorism to implement a gun-control agenda, the openly unconstitutional legislative language proponents are employing is troubling.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is leading the effort in the Senate, while another well-known gun control advocate — Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) — is directing the House initiative. They have introduced identical bills — the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009.” This proposal would give the attorney general the power to unilaterally and in secret develop a watch list of persons believed to be unworthy of possessing a firearm or any explosive.

This new “dangerous terrorist” watch list would include names based not on hard evidence of criminal activity, but on nothing more than the subjective conclusion by the attorney general that a person is “appropriately suspected” (whatever that means) of engaging in some manner of assisting or preparing for acts of domestic or international terrorism. The American people would never be privy to what criteria might be employed by the attorney general to determine whether someone is an “appropriate suspect,” and they would have no way of knowing why they might be denied the ability to purchase a firearm.

If a person were to be refused “permission” to purchase a firearm or explosive, and if they subsequently filed a lawsuit in federal court to find out why, the governm

NYTIMES- This Land - Holding Firm Against Plots by Evildoers

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/26Land.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=us

"Yet for others, the John Birch Society is urgently relevant to the matters of today, in its support of secure borders and limited government, its distrust of the Federal Reserve and the United Nations, and its belief in a conspiracy to merge Mexico, Canada and the United States.

This so-called North American Union, it asserts, is part of a larger plot by an amorphous, amoral group of powerful elite — including but not limited to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Rockefellers — to take over planet Earth. Call it the New World Order."

They want to push HPV vaccine on men now too...

HPV vaccine can protect men too

http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/vaccine+protect/959176/story.html

MONTREAL - Soon girls may not be the only ones getting Gardasil injections.

Merck Frosst is moving ahead with plans to extend the use of its controversial Gardasil vaccine to boys and young men.

The cancer vaccine for women could be just as effective for men, Universite de Montreal professor and microbiologist Francois Coutlee said Thursday in a telephone interview at a scientific meeting in Nice, France.

Coutlee was part of the team reporting early results of a Merck-sponsored study showing that 90 per cent fewer men ages 16 to 26 years old developed genital warts and other lesions after receiving Gardasil, a vaccine that targets four human papillomavirus strains that can lead to cancer.

But HPV isn't just a problem for women, Coutlee said. In men, HPV can lead to genital warts, anal cancer, and penile cancer.

"The study is still ongoing, but we're relieved to know that it is as effective in men as it is in women," said Coutlee, who was involved in recruiting test subjects in Montreal.

The vaccine was tested against a placebo in 4,000 men. The vaccinated group had three cases of genital warts compared to 35 cases in the control group that didn't get the vaccine.

HPV is contracted though skin-to-skin sexual contact and is considered the most prevalent STD in modern society.

"Almost everyone will acquire an HPV infection in their lifetime and these infections cause a significant burden of disease in Canada," Coutlee said, adding that the vaccine seems to interrupt transmission of HPV from men to women and vice-versa.

Merck plans to file an application this year asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve Gardasil for boys and men aged nine to 26.

Gardasil is already being given to girls and wom

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