Your View: NDAA sections threaten freedom

Are Americans safe from the threat of indefinite detention and should local representatives do something to ensure the right to trial?

 The Department of Defense’s budget is funded with the annual passage of The National Defense Authorization Act. With each year’s passing Congress adds more provisions to the law, compounding the already controversial nature of its intent. In 2012, Congress added Sections 1021 and 1022 to the bill, which codified the indefinite military detention without charge or trial of citizens
for the first time in American history.

The application of the “law of war” covers all U.S. citizens. The law purports to reaffirm the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was a poor substitute for a legitimate declaration of war for the invasion of Afghanistan.

Response from Larry Campbell editor of The World Newspaper

Bandon, Whale Cove, Grant County
land exchange approved by Oregon parks commission

A complex land exchange, one of the most significant in Oregon State Park history, was approved unanimously Wednesday by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission at a scheduled meeting in Corvallis.

The exchange still depends on another vote by the commission in February, following additional field work by state parks staff and completion of land appraisals, but the Wednesday vote "clearly shows that the commission fully expects complete affirmation of all elements of the exchange,'' said Chris Havel, spokesman for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.

Cascade Policy Institute Responds to
Challenges from the Center for Media and Democracy

CHEESE FACTORY WILL BE EXPANDING

Coquille Watershed Association Monthly Meeting

Convention of States: Another Founding Fathers Power-Grab Safeguard

Open Letter to OR State Representative Wayne Krieger for a RCG Amendment 

Response from OR State Representative Wayne Krieger to Mr. McKirgan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rep Krieger <rep.waynekrieger@state.or.us>
Date:  Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Subject: RE: Contact
To: Tom McKirgan <tmckirgan@gmail.com>
 
 
Tom.

If you talked to Colleen about your issue that is basically the same as talking with me.  With 70,000 constituents it is impossible to personally speak to everyone who contacts my office.  Though I do try to.

You refer to the 2012 Nation Defense Authorization Act.  Note the word “National”.  I am a State Rep not a Federal Congressman or Senator.   Federal laws and Acts in nearly all cases preempt State Statutes. 

I don’t recall your exact words as to asking Senator Kruze or me to sponsor or support a bill.  I was under the impression that you were asking that if there was a way to have a provision available to reject this bill or reject section  would we be willing to do so, not that we do a bill or a resolution. And, yes we would, but in fact we can do little else.  Federal law trumps anything we might propose. 

We are also in the minority.  The Democrats would not give a hearing on any legislation that was counter to a Federal Act.

 You mentioned there had been “Positive Actions” against the NDAA at the County level. A House or Senate Resolution could be drafted , but has no legal effect against the Federal Act.  Again getting a hearing this session and work session on the bill  would be beyond unlikely.

It is frustration to see President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder violate our rights and liberties, lie daily, fail to enforce laws passed by Congress and use their power in the most corrupt ways.

Our problem is a Federal Government out of Control.

 Wayne

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take a video tour of an Oregon cranberry farm

Bandon Biota Changes Boundary of State Park Lands Desired for Golf Course

Here are my comments to the ODPR

Please send comments to: OPRD.publiccomment@state.or.us

News from a Lady Watchdog in Coos Bay

It’s time to submit comments on proprosed NFA rule changes!
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It’s time to submit comments on proprosed NFA rule changes!

As many of you may have heard, the ATF recently published a proposed rule that, if adopted, would place new and cumbersome requirements on purchases of NFA items, including silencers, by trusts and other entities.  The proposed rule would require each person listed on a trust to submit fingerprints and photographs, and to obtain a “sign-off” from their chief law enforcement officer (“CLEO”).  As many of you have personally experienced, obtaining a CLEO sign-off is virtually impossible in many parts of the country.  CLEO’s often withhold their signatures based purely on either a lack of department resources, or their own political philosophies or biases regarding firearm ownership - not because the buyer is prohibited from owning the item.

Historically, our customers have used trusts and other entities as an accepted and lawful means to acquire suppressors.  We believe that if this proposed regulation passes, many of our law-abiding customers will no longer be able to obtain these hearing-saving devices; and, consequently, we are taking a stand to fight the proposed rule.  Silencer Shop has engaged an international law firm to draft a public comment to publicize the significant negative impacts of the proposed regulation and to oppose the regulation as both unnecessary and illegal.

We also encourage our customers and friends to file thoughtful comments opposing the proposed rule.  You may file a comment online any time before December 9, 2013 by visiting: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=ATF_FRDOC_0001-0016

Please take some time to make your comment well-reasoned and fact intensive; submitting rants and generalized, unsupported statements are often satisfying but ultimately ineffective. Some areas you might consider writing on include:

• Your personal experiences in trying to obtain a CLEO sign-off
• The difficulty, burden, and cost you would have getting a CELO sign-off, fingerprints, and photos for each person listed on your trust
• The reason you chose to use an entity rather than going the estate route, such as estate planning
• How you and your family benefit from owning a silencer.

Silencer Shop is dedicated to supporting our customers and working to protect their rights to lawfully acquire silencers without unreasonable and senseless regulatory obstacles.  Today, with your help and support, we continue our fight.

Posted October 18, 2013

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You may borrow from or copy these sample comments…

 Like almost every other year, the premier reason to pass the Read the Bills Act is the NDAA.

This year's bill (HR 1960) is 1,104 pages long — and that's BEFORE the Senate gets its hands on it.

The SUMMARY of the bill at the Library of Congress site is nearly 22,000 words — one-third the length of the average BOOK.

I know you won't even read the summary, let alone the bill itself.

There may be a few debates on some issues, but the majority will pass it… WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT'S IN IT.

Do you call that "representative government?"

Also, the bill will cost the average family nearly $5,700. But how much will…

* go to actual national defense?
* instead go to your contractor lobbyist cronies?
* pay for foreign aid and 1,000 military bases across the globe?
* pay for warrantless spying?

Do you even know?

The Read the Bills Act would FORCE you to know. Plus, it would give the public time to find out what's in the bill and give you feedback.

That's REPRESENTATIVE government!

If you find that doing your job - reading the bills you support - is impractical and inconvenient, perhaps you should consider stepping aside.

—END OF SAMPLE LETTER--

Curry County votes on raising taxes

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A new Oregon law that gives state and local officials an emergency pathway to raising taxes if voters won't pay for a minimum level of public safety faces its first test in Curry County, where declining federal timber revenues and a struggling local economy have left law enforcement on the brink of going broke.

Both the governor and Curry County Commission Chairman David Brock Smith hope voters will approve more than doubling their county property taxes, currently the lowest rate in the state, on Tuesday.

Curry County is not the only rural timber county facing a funding crisis. Josephine, Jackson, Douglas, Coos, Klamath and Lane counties have all struggled to keep jails open and law enforcement functioning.