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PRIVACY? FREEDOM? THE HOUR GROWS LATE
Where will you be as the twilight falls?
America has progressed beyond the point where we could have restored the small and limited government -- the freedom to live, spend our wealth and raise our children and grandkids as we see fit -- that the Founders had in mind. Our institutions have veered too far toward a police state. They're on the wrong track and headed for you.
I've watched my friends devote years and small fortunes in the past 15 years in increasingly forlorn efforts to gather petition signatures, to bring court suits against abusive bureaucrats, to educate our neighbors and to get "our kind of guys" on the ballot -- while vainly pleading with the knee-jerk, statist, "mainstream" press to even listen.
Did the federal judges and the zoning code enforcement officers finally slap themselves upside the head, saying "Oh, that's what the people want -- simply to be left alone with their guns, their gold, and their freedoms"?
Even the stupidest rat will eventually stop running a maze with no exit. Putting on a straw hat that says "Independent" or "Constitutionalist" or "Libertarian" in an attempt to convert two generations of American kids back to the philosophy of freedom and the independent, entrepreneurial, "can-do" spirit that made this country great -- after they've been taught the collectivist welfare catechism by unionized schoolmarms in 12 years of government schooling -- is like bailing against the tide with a teaspoon.
I'm a daily editorial writer and syndicated columnist. My small part has been attempting to chronicle these struggles -- our victories as well as our all-too-frequent defeats -- in my nationally syndicated newspaper column, and in books like "Send in the Waco Killers" (no, it's not about Waco) and my latest, the bigger and better, "The Ballad of Carl Drega."
You've been reading those efforts -- at least off and on -- or you wouldn't be on this "subscribe me" e-mail list.
The good news is, there are many thousands of you. A couple dozen newspapers have been running my columns over the past decade, as well -- from Saginaw, Michigan to Yreka, California; from New Bern, North Carolina to Harlingen, Texas.
But there are only so many eyes we can open with an occasional 900-word op-ed, written to the restrictive conventions of the typical American "family newspaper." The million folks (give or take) who read the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Orange County Register and the Colorado Springs Gazette -- all of which run my stuff, from time to time -- are less than half of one percent of the American populace. We're going to keep trying. But it hasn't "done the job." Something more is needed.
Now the hour grows late. The few of us who remember or can grasp what real freedom was, and who wish to see that legacy preserved and passed on to another generation, no longer have the luxury -- the remaining time and wealth and opportunity -- to "save the world." At this point, we've got to concentrate on saving our own children and grandchildren, teaching them there's a reason to keep our gold and our guns and our liberties -- and showing them how.
You want to know how, as well.
How do we keep our guns, our gold, our freedoms and our privacy?
What if I told you one membership could get you on the select mailing list (fewer than 10,000) for the nation's only monthly direct-mail newsletter earnestly digging for those answers ... and unlimited access to America's leading Freedom web site (at least, that's what we're determined to make it -- PrivacyAlertOnline is being launched as we speak, consolidated from a number of fine, earlier efforts by selfless volunteers without whose help and innovation this whole thing never would have happened) ... AND a free copy of one OR BOTH of my hefty, award-winning books, "Send in the Waco Killers" and/or "The Ballad of Carl Drega"?
You already know my columns. Now have a look at what readers are saying about my books, and the phenomenal reception of my year-old, direct-mail newsletter, "Privacy Alert":
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"I just finished reading your excellent speech, 'That Every Man Be Armed.' I was a mushy headed, compassionate liberal who was truly terrified of those gun nuts who think they ought to be able to shoot off machine guns in their backyards. Then came the Tiananmen Square Massacre. ... As the shocking truths hit me one after the other, I realized that no, a deer rifle was not going to be enough, not if the point of the 2nd Amendment was that we be able to hold off a tyrannical central government with tanks and planes and weapons our founders never dreamed of. ... But deep understanding of an issue is not the same as being able to articulate it, and I thank you for putting the arguments into such concise, easy-to-understand words. I can now explain myself to my liberal friends. ... -- (Ms.) J.W., Lawrenceville, Georgia
"I have just read up to page 43 in your fine book: 'Those who would reduce their forward speed to 55 (mph, toward socialism) ... are the kind of socialists who call themselves Republicans.' I was borne of two Christian Republicans, and always thought of myself in the same way. Then I started to read your book, and I realized that I was wrong. I am but 16, and have many years ahead of me, and I am glad I have realized what I am now. I am sick of being raped by the government. I am so grateful that there are still heroes today. But more significant than the hero is the messenger. Our ideals cannot be implemented without a serious following. I will do everything in my power to save America." -- Kyle
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"Dear Vin and company -- your Privacy Alert publications are excellent reading. ... Your latest issue ... contained some of the most enjoyable libertarian articles I've ever had the pleasure to read. What a sensational compilation in that issue! I'd very much like to purchase additional copies of Vol. 1, No. 5 from you, if possible, so that I might give them to friends, family and potential libertarian recruits. ... I've been reading you for something like 15 years now, and I’ve frequently regarded you as America's pre-eminent voice of liberty. ... I just want you to know that I'm astonished that you just get better and better. Your recent articles from Sept. 19 ('Primping Fauntleroys') and Sept. 23 ('Tear Down the Taliban') are going on my wall, possibly in frames." -- B.G., Highlands Ranch, Colo.
"Mr. Suprynowicz -- Your article, 'A nation of primping Fauntleroys readies for war' is EXCELLENT! I'm thankful that your brains and balls did not fall victim to the schoolmarm and Uncle Sugar that you have warned us about. The people who make the claim that you sound bellicose are full of nonsense and are probably victims of the schoolmarm and Uncle Sugar. Without you, America does not have a principled journalist that is smart enough and strong enough to cut against the current tide of uninformed, politically-correct, damn-the-Constitution flag-waving that passes for patriotism! All the best." -- D.F.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The more they talk the more money this is going to cost you, right? :-)
Actually, no. This is the good part. How does "free" sound?
You might want to read this section closely:
How can you get aboard, and see what I'm talking about? So confident am I in the importance and value of "Privacy Alert" that I've now created three levels at which you can join up, with the third, "Introductory" level being, in essence, FREE.
You read it right: When we mail you the three-month trial subscription detailed under Item Three (below), we do it at no added cost to you. It's free. To get you to try it, see?
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(Notice how we slipped that in, there?)
The newsletter will be mailed to you every month for two full years (at our normal rate of $128 per year, that alone is a $256 value) ... and those big special Privacy Alert supplements, which last year included special sections on the federal War Against the Ranchers for the Western Lands; a special report on the way our Washington gun-rights lobbyists are being de-fanged; and another exclusive expose on state "child welfare" agencies that we called "We're from the Government; We're Here to Take Your Kids." That's another $45 in value.
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Look, that's well over $450 in value already. We're pausing for breath, here ...
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-- OR ...
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3) STILL NOT SURE? HOW ABOUT THIS!
Finally, if you're new to this list; have never read "Send in the Waco Killers"; find all this too much to cope with right now; just trashed the top half of this message along with last week's Nigerian investment opportunity e-mails; or for whatever reason just aren't ready to "dive in whole hog" -- here's an unbelievable bargain designed to allow and encourage the maximum number of folks on our side of this struggle -- quite possibly you -- to "test drive" us and find out what this is all about:
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What's that? A little more about my new book, please?
Oh, OK. ...
-- They'd been hassling Carl Drega, retired carpenter, for years. He was cited for not finishing a tarpaper outbuilding on his property "soon enough." He was cited for shifting rocks and fill to rebuild 80 feet of his property's shoreline -- along the Connecticut River in upstate New Hampshire -- after it washed out in a 1981 flood.
Drega tried to fight them in court, and to get the daily Boston Globe interested in his plight. But he was an unsophisticated man, and no one paid any attention to his rambling letters until that hot day in August 1997 when two local cops pulled him over in the parking lot of LaPerle's IGA supermarket in Colebrook, N.H., for having "rust holes in the bed of his pickup." Then they started to pay attention. ...
-- In San Leandro, Calif. -- 20 miles southeast of San Francisco -- the mostly Portuguese clientele of the 78-year-old Santos Linguisa factory had grown used to the kind of signs recently displayed outside the shop by proprietor Stuart Alexander, great-grandson of the factory's founder. "To all our great customers," read the most prominent one that June, "the USDA is coming into our plant harassing my employees and me, making it impossible to make our great product. Gee, if all meat plants could be in business for 79 years without one complaint, the meat inspectors would not have jobs."
Then, on June 22 of the year 2000, just after the facility reopened after being closed for alleged health violations, two state and two federal food inspectors decided to pay Mr. Alexander another visit. They would come to regret doing that. ...
-- For years, Garry Watson, 49, of little Bunker, Missouri (population 390), had been squabbling with town officials over the sewage line easement which ran across his property to the adjoining, town-operated sewage lagoon.
He told them, "If you come on my land, I'll kill you." They came anyway, and started digging up the place under a police escort, while Garry was away at work. Then Garry came home ...
-- In October of 1992, millionaire recluse Donald Scott and his bride of two months, Frances Plante Scott, lived in a storybook wooded valley in the mountains high above Malibu, Calif. Trails End Ranch is almost completely surrounded by state and federal park land, and the neighboring government entities had made numerous attempts to buy out Scott and annex his property in the years immediately preceding.
Stymied in their attempt to buy the Scott ranch, government officials hit on an alternative plan. Contending an officer had seen "marijuana plants growing under the trees" during a drug-seeking overflight, agents from various jurisdictions gathered quietly outside the locked gate to the ranch in the morning mists of Oct. 2, 1992. ...
What happened to Carl Drega? To Stuart Alexander? To Garry Watson? To Donald Scott?
And what happened to the bureaucrats who thought these peace-loving Americans could be shoved and shoved and shoved, and would never shove back?
What has happened to our freedoms in America?
Award-winning newspaper columnist Vin Suprynowicz laid the groundwork for answering these questions in his celebrated first book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," named the 1999 "Freedom Book of the Year" by the fine folks at Freemarket.net. (No, it's not about Waco.) Now, Mountain Media is proud to announce the April 15, 2002 release of the sequel: "The Ballad of Carl Drega," with chapters on The Regulatory State; The Right to Bear Arms; The Government Vaccination Machine; America's "Child Welfare" kidnappers; the War for the Western Lands; our counterproductive government schools; the deadly War on Drugs; Environmentalism as a State Religion ... and the Tyranny of Taxation.
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It's been a long road. Now it gets interesting. :-)
I appreciate your help and support.
-- Vin
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