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To: The Street who wrote (1104)	6/28/2000 3:34:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 10167

The 5th Graders in Utah make an informed choice. worldnetdaily.com ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ 5th-graders vote for guns in school Mock trial's unanimous verdict: Kids safer with armed teachers By David M. Bresnahan ¸ 2000 WorldNetDaily.com SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- A group of fifth-grade students here held a mock trial and delivered a unanimous decision -- that adults with concealed firearm permits should be permitted to have guns in schools. Students at the South Jordan Elementary School have conducted mock court trials for the past seven years. Teacher Laurie Erickson explained that the students selected the topic from a list of several presented to them. The students asked members of the community to participate in the trial and to offer their testimony on the subject of gun control in schools. Students took part as attorneys, judge and bailiff, while the rest of the class members served as the jury. Erickson said the students spent the past two weeks preparing arguments and contacting witnesses to testify on both sides of the issue. Rep. Merrill Cook, R-Utah, was the star of the show. He told the young jurors that he did not personally want teachers to have firearms in school, but he also did not want to deny them their right to carry a firearm if that is their choice and if they have a concealed firearm permit. Janalee Tobias, the founder of Women Against Gun Control, also testified at the "trial." Tobias spoke as a mother, and said she was concerned about violence in schools, telling the students, "I want my kids to be protected." She complained that gun-control advocates often use "their children as props for gun control." She said she was happy the students chose such an important topic and asked such good questions on their own. Three gun control advocates who want all guns banned from schools testified. The students invited their own principal, Richard Allred, to speak on behalf of banning guns in school. Jeremy DeWall, a sophomore at Bingham High School, also testified against allowing in-school firearm possession. PTA President KaRynn Christensen, spoke in direct opposition to the pro-gun Tobias. She told the students that as a mother, she was concerned that a teacher with a gun might suddenly use it on a student. She told them that she is also against using violent means to stop a violent person. In the end, the student jurors declared Cook and Tobias the winners in a unanimous decision. Court is still in session. Before the week is over the fifth-graders will decide on whether to drain Lake Powell, and whether to do chemical testing on animals. David M. Bresnahan is an investigative journalist for WorldNetDaily.com

To: The Street who wrote (1104)	7/9/2000 12:38:45 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10167

YEA Anti-Federalism & A New America From Doretta Wildes <dorettaw@earthlink.net> Les Coleman, the Pan Am 103 whistleblower, continues to write while incarcerated in a Brooklyn federal prison. Below is one of his recent articles. By Lester K. Coleman 7-8-00 In Bighorn County, Wyoming, federal law enforcement agents no longer roam freely, chasing the "bad guys." A federal court decision requires all federal enforcement and regulatory agents to clear their activities with a Wyoming county sheriff's office first. How did it happen? Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis and other members of the state's Sheriffs Association sued the BATF and the IRS in federal court. And won. The U.S. District Court ruled that "all federal officials are forbidden to enter a Wyoming county without prior approval of the local sheriff." "If a sheriff doesn't want the feds in his county, he has the constitutional power and right to keep them out or ask them to leave," explains Mattis. "Or retain them in custody." sightings.com