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 There has been
much speculation about the economic effect of this war on the
U.S. economy. We will have a guest tomorrow night (Thursday) who
will discuss the realities of the war and our economy. Ron
Johansson, is a senior partner in New Horizons Corporate
Advisors.
Mr. Johansson has
tremendous credentials in economics and finances. He has been a
partner in some of the largest financial firms in the world. We will
go into greater detail on his background during the
show.
This may be one of
the most educational segments we have ever done. Flee from the
shadows of ignorance and bask in the light of knowledge. This
segment will be entertaining as well as informative. Would we do it
any other way?
That is Thursday
evening around 8pm.
We will be taking
calls from listeners.
Lori Pearson on as guest to discuss her website for parents, www.kidsinmind.com Kidsinmind.com is a site for parents and others
who like to be aware of the content of movies before they see them.
They present reviews of the movies in a non-judgemental way; they
don't tell you if a movie is good or bad for you, they tell you what
it contains. For example, they list the nature of sexual content and
count the F-words for you. They also talk about subject matter so
you can stay away from movies which you might not realize have
things you might be sensitive
to.
Ken's wife, Laurie Goldberg who is the Executive Vice President of Public Relations for the Cartoon Network on as guest to discuss what is going on at the Cartoon Network. Kenn Blanchard will our guest, and a speaker at CounterAttack 2003 this weekend. For more information, please visit his website at http://www.blackmanwithagun.com/ Clayton Cramer from http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/blogger.html will be on as guest. Broadly speaking, he is a conservative with libertarian sympathies (getting more conservative as his children get older). He's written a number of history books, as well as scholarly and popular articles, (see his web page). No guests. No
John, the co-host. Just me and the gang talking about current
events, like how come North Korea isn't being threatened by the US
like Iraq? Is this really all
about oil?
Meet our new lady
Malanie and our not so new lady Rachael and our new board operator
Paco as they join me and our resident gun proctologist to discuss
the latest news about guns, drugs, and sex.
If I run out of things to talk about I could
tell you how my colonoscopy went yesterday. But I will only stoop to
that if you don't call in and talk to us. That could result in my
running out of other matters to discuss and filling the time with my
medical matters.
If you turn on the
radio early, no fear, The Cigar Show will be there from 4-6pm. They
support us and we support them.
PS. Rachael posted
some new photos of herself on our website (see address below) and
they re worth a trip to our Crew page to catch a glimpse.
Civil liberties are in jeopardy in America. You
don't have to agree but at least tune in and hear why I believe it.
If you want to do some home work before we air, go check this out.
WASHINGTON — A massive database that the government will use to monitor every purchase made by every American citizen is a necessary tool in the war on terror, the Pentagon said Wednesday. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70992,00.html Special guest this week will be Ray Hill, from the Prison Show. He is an ex con who has been dedicated to helping Texas prisons be all it should be. More homework for you overachievers. His website: http://www.rayhill.info Profile/Story in Mother Jones magazine: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/45/ma_146_01.html Mark Stepnoski, former Dallas Cowboy, and
current President of Texas NORML as guest, talking about drug
decrimilization.
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College: Pittsburgh Rookie Yr: 1989 Ht., Wt.: 6'2", 265 Contract Status: retired NFL Experience.:
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Born: January 20, 1967 in Erie , PA Now working to decriminalize marijuana inTexas. He put his
money and his mouth to work for all of us who believe that
personal freedoms should include the choice to get high if; we are
adults, we are responsible, and we aren't hypocritical. Tune in at
6pm and hear Mark talk about his recent efforts to lobby the
legislature to stop demonizing and criminalizing you stoners out
there. Remember my conservative gun loving buddies, we are only free
if we are all
free. How patriotic are you?????? Let's discuss this
on tonight's show.
Because the Taliban cannot stand nudity and consider it a sin to see a naked woman who is not his wife, next Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. EST, all American women are asked to walk out of their houses completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists. Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort. All men should position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their homes to prove that they think it's OK to see other women nude. (Since the enemy does not approve of alcohol, a cold six-pack at your side is further proof of your anti-Taliban sentiment.) Please notify the FBI of any neighbors who do not participate. Your efforts to root out terrorists will be greatly appreciated and indicate your desire to demonstrate your patriotism. To achieve 100% participation, forward this note to other similarly minded patriots. Play-off between moby & eminem for our music selections tonight, brought to you by CD Central We will be
speaking to Tom Leyden of Strhatetalk Cnsulting and formerly of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center on 9/21 (via phone) about hate groups, their
methods of recruiting, and how to fight them. Tom is a former
skinhead and recruiter for the Hammerskin Nations. More info on him
is at www.strhatetalk.com
and http://www.wiesenthal.com/taskforce/skinhead.cfm
I am excited about
this.
I've seen him on
HBO and the Learning Channel a couple of times... He's a cool
guy.
Dr. Joyce Lee
Malcolm, author of Guns and Violence, will be on this week's
show. More info on her book can be found here.
ACLU Cooperating
Attorney Michael Linz will then be with us (on the = phone) to give
us more detailed information on the TIPS program. That is the
Bush proposal to enlist American's into a monitoring network.
(some say a plan to make us all spies on our neighbors). I
don't know enough about it so learn along with me.
Andrea Morie (sp?) from www.passionsource.com as guest, discussing
sex terminology, and members of our repressed staff.
:)
Then, what's in the news, such as the
new "spying on neighbors" plan.
In the first hour, our guest is the creator of
Pastor Tammy of www.fullgospelranch.com. She talks
about the origins of the idea for the satirical
website, and other issues involving the religious
right.
In
the second hour, we have Captain Scott Lewis of www.secure-skies.org on as our guest. We
talk about the subject of arming pilots in the
cockpit.
Besides our usual
coverage of all things, hear from the author of the new book,
"Harmful to Minors", Judith Levine(University of Minnesota Press). I
am including some reviews of her new book. She sounds
like a perfect guest for our show.
From the Boston
Phoenix;
JUDITH LEVINE is
one of a rare species — she's an
independent scholar and journalist who publishes in mainstream venues such as the Village Voice,Nerve.com, and Ms, and who, unlike many in the academy, writes clearly and with great force. Already noted for her 1992 book My Enemy, My Love: Man-Hating and Ambivalence in Women’s Lives (Doubleday), Levine is a social activist and public intellectual who believes passionately that ideas matter. from the Village
Voice,
The New York Times
explained the witch-hunting of Levine by her book's release in the
midst of the Catholic Church's explosive sexual abuse scandal. From
a publicist's perspective, at least, the timing has been a boon;
Levine's footnoted, scholarly work made it up to No. 25 on the
Amazon.com bestseller list and has just gone into a 20,000-copy
second printing. But what's so frustrating about the hysteria (aside
from giving groups like the conservative Family Institute an excuse
to host press conferences with lurid titles like "Pedophilia Book")
is that it obscures Levine's astute analysis of what's gone wrong
between adults and children in the U.S.
Drawing on social science and history, Levine makes a strong case that the denial of sexuality is the true cause of harm to minors. The book uses most of its 300 pages to detail the mounting anxiety over sex play between children, the restriction of youth access to the Internet, and a blackout on critical sexual information in the name of government-funded abstinence education. But Levine might just as well have focused on abusive priests. "If I wanted to design a historically accurate, long-term study to prove the point of my book, [the subject] would be the Catholic Church," the author sighed wearily across the phone lines from California. In the section
that secured her a central spot on the right's radar, Levine teases
apart the disproportionately large spot the pedophile occupies in
the American psyche. She doesn't deny that strangers sometimes rape
children ("I can't believe I've had to clarify that," said the
exasperated author), but points out that such crimes are far more
often committed by family members. Levine describes the obsession
with pedophiles as stemming both from a reluctance to confront
incest and the rampant sexualization of children throughout the
culture. Rather than focus on ourselves, she says, adults "project
that eroticized desire outward, creating a monster to hate, hunt
down, and punish."
And while her
criticisms of statutory-rape laws, say, are astute (she points out
that age-of-consent laws originated to protect girls' virginity as
their fathers' property and now define sex as nonconsensual solely
on the basis of age), her own sexy camp tale, told this week in
the Voice, is worth several such tightly
reasoned analyses. "Jake," the 26-year-old embodiment of the gray
areas in sexual relations, photographed a 14-year-old Levine with
her shirt off. As she tells it, the experience was thoroughly
enjoyable, though today such an encounter has been made all but
impossible by the panic over sexual predators.
Levine does write about young children's sexual pleasure through masturbation and touch, though, defending the exploration of their bodies as natural and—gasp!—good. Perhaps the saddest chapter details how adult discomfort with children's sex play has, in some cases, turned kids' curiosity into pathology and crime, with hundreds of juvenile sex offender programs springing up to accommodate this new "epidemic." Levine tells of Tony Diamond, an unfortunate nine-year-old who was diagnosed with a sexual behavior problem and made to live in a foster home after touching his younger sister's genitals and poking her butt cheek with a pencil. Other kids caught up in the punitive mania include a 13-year-old boy accused of rubbing against his sister, and an eight-year-old girl who sent a note to a classmate asking if he wanted to be her boyfriend. She chews out sex
educators for adopting new blend-in-with-the-conservatives names for
their curricula like "abstinence plus" and "abstinence-based." She
criticizes the nonprofit Sexual Information and Education Council of
the U.S.—a frequent target of the right—for recommending that
parents intervene if they stumble on their five-year-old
consensually touching his friend's penis. (Better just to have "no
reaction at all.") Even Planned Parenthood has apparently been
running scared. Levine says the group's pamphlet "Birth Control
Choices for Teens" originally contained a list of "outercourse"
options, including reading erotica, fantasizing, and role play. But
the racy suggestions were later deleted, and while the sanitized
version was distributed, according to Levine, the contraband copies
were burned.
7-7-02 Despite the regurgitated talk being broadcast
on KYNG this week while all the hosts vacation, I haven't gone
anywhere. So this week's show is live and unpredictable. Our staff
has worked all week finding news to discuss in that unique way that
only happens on Law & Disorder.
6-2-02 Don't forget we
will be in our new time slot this week. Our new time is 3-5PM. Our
guest this week is John Shanks, Associate Director of The Law
Enforcement Relations Staff at the Brady Center. He is in San
Antonio and was a policeman there for 20 years. This should be
truly interesting as we rarely hear from the gun control advocates
on our show. Please tune in. And don't forget to patronize the
DFW Gun Range. Everyone who shoots there this next two weeks
and saves their receipt will have a chance to win 2 free
tickets to the KYNG Anniversary party at the Texas Motorplex,
Saturday, June 22.
5-26-02 Special guest this
week is John Lott, author and a senior researcher at the Yale
Law School.
John Lott had no
personal experience with firearms, aside from one day of riflery in
summer camp when he was 12. That fact did not stop a reviewer of
Lott's 1998 book, "More Guns, Less Crime" (University of
Chicago Press), from labeling him a "gun nut." Writing
in The American Prospect, Edward Cohn also identified Lott as
"a leading loon of the Chicago School of economics, known for its
ultra-market ideology." Lott, now a senior research scholar at Yale
Law School, used to be the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow at
the University of Chicago. Analyzing 18 years of data for more than
3,000 counties, Lott found that violent crime drops
significantly when states switch from discretionary permit policies,
which give local officials the authority to determine who may carry
a gun, to "shall issue" or "right-to-carry" laws, which require that
permits be granted to everyone who meets certain objective criteria.
The 41-year-old economist, who earned his Ph.D. at UCLA, has
published papers on a wide variety of topics, including professional
licensing, criminal punishment, campaign finance, and public
education. Last summer he published "Are Predatory Commitments
Credible? "(University of Chicago Press), a skeptical look at
theories of predatory pricing, and he is working on a book about the
reputational penalties faced by criminals, a longstanding interest.
In addition to his positions at Yale and the University of Chicago,
Lott has served as chief economist at the U.S. Sentencing Commission
and taught at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania, among other
schools. He lives in Swarth-more, Pennsylvania, with his wife and
four children.
We have 2 guests
this week, very cool people. Dr. Ronald Huff is a Professor of
Criminology at the University of California. He authored a
book on the criminal justice system "Convicted But Innocent". We
will look at how and why innocent people are convicted and how
to improve justice in America.
Our other guest is
Dr. Phillip Leveque, the Oregon physician who was punished for
writing medical marijuana prescriptions to patients throughout
Oregon when other doctors turned their backs on this method of
care. He is another casualty in the drug war. The following is an
article written about his case published on http://www.reason.com
"How Oregon Punished a Doctor for Legally
Recommending By David Wallis Reason: You've approved more applications
than for medical marijuana in Oregon... Reason: What does that say about your
colleagues? Reason: Pot helps people concentrate? Reason: So why take the risk? Have you been
following the extraordinary controversy regarding the airing of
Speedy Gonzalez cartoons? A nationwide furor has been ignited
regarding the cartoon Network's refusal to air the cartoon.
They consider it politically insensitive to run these old
cartoons. We have secured an exclusive interview with the
spokesperson for the Cartoon Network. Get the latest, most
complete information on this raging debate.
Gun Rights and the need to maintain responsibility for the guns you choose to own. 3-17-02 Back from Austin, and the High Times Magazine's 6th Annual Party. Featured music from a band we met at the Festival, the Tellers from Cincinnati, Ohio. Here are a few photos from the trip.
  Rick Day with High Times Magazine's ......  Ken and Rachael   Rick & Rachael   Featured
guest, Ralph Williams, the first person in Tarrant County to use his
gun, carried with a CHL for self defense.
Paperwork from FDA and prescription labels on canisters permit him to use marijuana in public. The marijuana is grown and provided by the government. George has been knocking on doors of legislators in an attempt to provide education through his living testimony to the efficacy of marijuana. Also sitting in on the show is Christopher Largen, 32, a writer and close friend of George. He is writing a book about the issues, which will be published as "The Green Path; a Journey to Uncle Sam's Marijuana Garden" (in conjunction with a documentary). Christopher has been published in the Village Voice, Nashville Scene, High Times, and Whole Life Times This proved to be a fascinating exploration of the medical marijuana issue. George insists that the prescribed use has dramatically improved the quality of his life.  12-2-01 America Returning to Normalcy The government can't protect us from every harm. It hasn't protected us from the evil drugs, alcohol, pollution, etc. Bad things are going to happen, and maybe more bad things than we had ever imagined are gonne happen now. That is a price we pay for the bigger population, increased access to the world, greater affluence and more leisure time. What happens when bad things happen to good people? Is there evil in the world? Can God be the answer? Can our government do what God hasn't done? Jesus couldn't defend himself. Why do we expect to ward off all the evil acts that the world vivits upon us? Is this not a natural flow? Maybe our fear needs to be tempered by an acceptance. Then when we hear these politicians and corporations tell us that we have to return to normal we can ignore there self-centered pleas. Maybe it is ok not to feel good about spending money now. Maybe it is ok not to get out of the house and travel or go to sporting events just to show we can not be disrupted. I for one can be disrupted, and I have been. I fear travel. I fear bio-terrorism, even though it is not likely to strike me personally. I fear financial insecurity, especially as I approach the age where if I lose it there may not be enough time to get it all back. Am I less a patriot because I don't heed the sirens call of my government telling me to resume life as usual? Life will never be the same to me. I have seen events I could never imagine on a magnitude that freaks me out to the core of my soul. If my life were ever to be what it once was, that would now be the unimaginable. I never expect to feel as safe as I did before, ever! Flying will not, and should not be the comfy trip it once was. There will always be guards at the gate, and if they aren't there then we didn't learn a damn thing. Osama isn't the devil. Evil has many disciples, and they will not be thwarted by legislation, affluence or prayer. They will be corralled by vigilance and acceptance of there existence. America's War on Terrorism I BESEECH MY GOVERNMENT TO USE ALL CAUTION TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF NON-COMBATANTS DURING THIS SEEK AND DESTROY MISSION WE HAVE EMBARKED ON. I IMPLORE ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO ENTER A COMBAT ZONE TO ABIDE BY THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS GOVERNING WARFARE AND TO BE FAIR and GRACIOUS TO ANY PRISONERS THEY MAY BECOME RESPONSIBLE FOR. THAT ASIDE LET ME SAY THIS. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT CIVILIAN CASUALTIES UNTIL YOU GET TO 6,000 of them. ASSUMING THAT THESE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES ARE ACCIDENTAL AND NOT DELIBERATE, I DON'T CARE. Spare me the sad song. In order for me to care, there would have to be room in my heart. That space is presently occupied by the fallen American civilians who were pitter pattering about their business when a plane dropped on them. The way I figure it, at least the Afghans knew they were at war. Which is more than I can say for the innocents at the World Trade Center. Furthermore, I don't care to be politically correct. I don't need to feel good about giving food to starving Afghans, which is then stolen by the Taliban. In any other war, we would do everything possible to cut off the enemy from food, fuel, and medicine. Here we permit the enemy to walk into UN warehouses and cart off millions of tons of needed supplies. Please spend my tax money differently. The doctor without borders has asked for a cease fire so they can restock. SCREW THAT. When you endeavor to assist the unassistable or evangelize to the unevangalizable, then you assume the risk of the danger inherent in such an opperation. It is akin to sitting behind third base at the game. Get hit by a ball, you can't sue the park. You assume the risk by being in that place. And so it should be with doctors, evangelists, and all the other do-gooders. God bless the do-gooders. May they live long and prosper. But, we are on a mission too. A more serious mission has never been undertaken in my life time. The question is being posed - Does America have the heart for war? Can we sustain casualties without pulling up short of victory? Will our media take a cynical view of all our military forays to scare us into thinking we have abandoned our value system? How far should we go to win this war? What civil liberties, if any, should we be willing to sacrifice to contain the threat? Is Anthrax now a legitimate weapon, which the other side has introduced, and we should feel free to fight back with our own bio-terrorist arsenal? Can middle easterners go buy a flag and hang it to cloak themselves in its protection? It is reminiscent of the inner city riots of the 70s where stores hung signs declaring themselves Soul Brothers, in hopes the looters and arsonists would pass over them without harming them. If Muslims are offended by our scanty clothing and heathen pursuits, is it not then appropriate to be offended by their veil covered women who seek to retain their ways and undermine our ways? If it is to be a sin in Afghanistan to preach Christianity, then should it not be a sin to preach Islam here? If their religious fervor is justified, then Allah would certainly understand if we were narrow-minded about their affronts to our sensibilities by their garb and practices. The gauntlet has been tossed. I am rising up angry at this threat to my country, my family, and myself. Were I asked to get blood on my hands now, I could do so without reservation. Were I asked to terminate the existence of just one terrorist responsible for the carnage I saw wreaked on New York and the Pentagon, I would do so with no regard to the legality or morality of my action. I would do it even if I were promised I would be sent to hell for it. America is not infallible. Americans are not the most moral, the most intellectual, or the most anything. We are just folks. We are moral enough to fight fair, and we are smart enough to win. Let's get busy doing what needs to be done. KICK SOME ASS! America's Response to Terrorist Acts We should track down the rats living amongst us. The FBI spies, CIA, Pentagon double agents who are born American and commit acts of treason. Guest-Gerry Spence K-Mart being sued for gun sale in the first half. Second hour features an interview with Gerry Spence about his new novel, "Half-Moon and Empty Stars", the Ruby Ridge trial, and the death penalty. Best of Law & Disorder Current News Stories What should we do about kids bringing guns to school? 2 Young boys arrested for a paper gun. Current News Stories 11 yr old
arrested & handcuffed because of drawings found of weapons at
school.... 6-10-01 Open Mindedness Social issues derived from the book by Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love. You don't have to like me but you got to love me but that doesn't work, you can't make someone love me, but you can make them hire me be empathic to others.....be open-minded Texas CHL Laws Texas NORML's Rick Day as Guest Guns in the news stories. Teaching gun safety in schools... Juvenile crime....14 yr. old tried as an adult and given life in prison, without parole is wrong. Also discussed deadly force, and the difference between burglary Vs robbery Guests Peter Graham, Criminal Defense Attorney and Rick Day of Texas NORML Rick Day from NORML in the second half discussing marijuana laws. NICS Check For Gun Sales Discussion on the NICS check and the need for everyone to be held responsible for who they sell their guns to. Whether at a gun show or wherever... Police officers shouldn't be wearing face masks on raids, OJ- Guilty, but not of murder? None of this is very significant until it is you who are being judged by this forensic gaboleygook. Many times over the years I have had to defend my client from friends, relatives, prosecutors and juries who intended to rely upon hearsay rather than facts. The trial starts the moment a police officer arrives at the scene and begins to make determinations based upon his initial observations. He perceives facts, which often times are merely prejudices he harbors but doesn't recognize or admit. Now he will gather information which tends to support his assumptions. Then the witness interviews will take place and once again the process will be tainted by a calloused or lazy cops inclination to ignore that which will require more work or a departure from his assumptions. Even hard physical evidence which tends to be immutable in the scientific realm will become meaningless as results become subject to human interpretation. Government scientists working in conjunction with government prosecutors and government cops will interpret results favorably for the government. No defendant, including OJ has ever entered a courtroom on an equal basis with the prosecutor. The resources available to the prosecution are immeasurable and immense. Phone calls without retainers will be amazingly productive. Contrasted with defense lawyers seeking rebuttal by seeking experts who are affordable, willing to perform tests and testify, and don't mind being characterized as a defense whore whose only reason for being in the courtroom is his lust for gold. Unlike all the public service, public minded government personnel who receive only their meager salaries. If the defense spends 5 mil, the government will spend 10. It is a law of physics that the government will spend a disapportionate amount to prosecute relative to the ability and willingness of the defense. How often have you heard some information represented as true which you knew to be false? Have you ever engaged someone in an argument where the opposing view was based on false premises, yet you were hardpressed to convince opponent that they were simply wrong. Well, that same pigheadedness prevails all over. Cops are people. They will cling to the notion that they are error free. But, anything not personally observed is not reliable. Play a game of telephone with your friends. Sit in a circle and start a brief phrase at the beginning whisper into the first persons ear the phrase. Then have them whisper the same phrase to the next person and so on. At the end of the line have the last person say it out loud. It never matches what was the actual original phrase. That series of communications will be limited in number and time. Contrast that with a story often repeated over days and without correction each time. That is about what you know of the average reported criminal act. Open your mind to the possibility that you know nothing you didn't see, that what you did see is fallible and subject to interpretation, that all persons should be given a forum to examine the evidence against them and proffer evidence which favors them. Even the guilty require this forum, for it is only when it is known that the evidence will be subject to scrutiny and impeachment that there is an incentive for the police to do their jobs properly. We will never have a perfect judicial system, but as we are all jurors in life it behooves us to live by the jurors oath to consider only the evidence presented and to weigh the credibility of that evidence. And while there is reasonable doubt, to grant the defendant the reasonable doubt which is theirs by law. Try to carry that same attitude to the breakfast table when you read your personal daily newspaper. Read with a jaundiced eye. Challenge the article which bootstraps its suppositions and supports the premature proposition that where there is smoke there is fire. 2nd Anniversary of Columbine Media coverage will not make mention of the fact that mental illness is at the heart of the problem. You cannot legislate good mental health. The media will focus on the guns. Since Reagan was in office, the government has cut back on providing help for those mentally ill that are poor. Little mention will be made of the many pipe bombs that caused so much of the carnage, and little will be said about the 2 men now serving time in prison for selling the guns to the 2 boys. No mention is made of the armed teacher that the boys steered clear of or the fact that an armed police officer working at the school, actually shot at the boys and missed. In local News Easter Sunday......Dallas Observer article written about Laura Miller being picketed at her home by police in defense of police chief Bolton. Police did not do anything about the protesters and the threats that were made. Did Bolton, now the police chief take money from Caligula club? Observer reported this story as big news break with a slap at the Dallas Morning News for not reporting on it. But both periodicals are whores, but if the cops can suspend the rule of law at miller's house then it can happen to any of us. DWI discussion with Attorney Peter Graham Head shops...why can you not say bong? Ken's head shop experience... Peter J. Graham in the studio to discuss DWI laws. Victimless Crime - Is there such a thing? 2. DO you believe that drug abuse, prostitution, topless dancing, etc., can be victimless? 3. SHOULD morality be a part of our criminal code or merely actual harm? 4. CAN a drug user who seeks drugs be victimized by a drug seller? Can a drug lord be victimizing persons who seek their product willingly? Why should we distinguish between drug distributor, dealer and user? Should the prostitutes customer be less, same or more culpable of the crime? 5. IS marijuana a gateway drug? More so than alcohol or cigarettes? Should proof a drug leads to bad behavior in some people justify prohibition to all users? Juvenile Crime and Punishment Late 80s or early 90s I suppose. A new pattern of violence. Shootings that were not based on control or rivalries. These new shootings seem to be an expression of frustration and/or hate. The target is not focused but rather appears to be anyone who is unlucky enough to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Rather than be an outgrowth of some code and some dealing on the street, the crime and the weapon seem to originate within the home of the shooter or a neighbor. A parochial school student goes to her girls only school and settles a rivalry with a classmate by shooting her. Simultaneous to the brutal shootings is the rise in even more brutal killings committed without a weapon. In Chicago, 2 preteen boys robbed a young boy and his younger brother. the robbery culminated in the youngest boy being tossed out of a high rise window. In Florida an oversized 12 year old brutally beat and killed a 5 year old girl he was babysitting. Another young boy killed his neighbor, a much younger girl, and stuffed her body in his waterbed matress. The list would seem to grow unbearably long. Why are these crimes taking place? What can be done to prevent them? What is the appropriate punishment? The present system varies from state to state. Generally a juvenile will have their fate determined by a judge who approves the transfer of the child to an adult court or requires the case to be tried in a juvenile court. The distinction is usually , if tried in a juvenile court the punishment can rarely exceed the childs 21st birthday. Juveniles can not be incarcerated with adults. The child is held in a juvenile prison until their 17th year and then transferred to an adult prison. If tried as an adult, the same form of incarceration is applied but the sentence shall be identical to that of an adult, up to and including life in prison without the possibility of parole. A juvenile may not be sentenced to death. The task of the judge is to determine if the juvenile will best be served by a juvenile sentence which is to place emphasis on rehabilitation and reformation. The judge generally looks at prior criminal history and prior treatment if any, available resources in the system to treat the child, the nature and seriousness of the offense, and the risk of future harm to the community. The reality is that the heinousness of the offense is the single most significant factor. In other words it is often a political decision rather than a legal decision whether to try the case in juvenile or adult court. Some medical and psychological doctors say that a teen's mind is still under developement. That juveniles simply do not process information and make decisions like an adult because of the status of their physiology rather than their mentality. The intent that a teenager brings to a crime then would simply be different from an adults'. In the law, most felonies require a "mens rea" to find guilt. That is, there must be a specific intent by the perpetrator to commit the specific crime. Usually it can be said that a juvenile has the specific intent to commit the crime, But should there be a distinction if that intent is truly and significantly different from an adult? Frustration management is different for kids. They must often suffer in silence. They can not quit their family, jump on a plane and take a vacation or go out and buy a new wardrobe. Typically the pain must be bottled up. If the source of their frustration is a bully they may feel powerless to speak out. Adults can change jobs, negotiate transfers, go to the union, or confront tormentors as a means of coping with bullying. Since children don't have the resources or the tools to negotiate these difficulties, is it fair to hold them to the same standard you would an adult when they fail to cope? I am poorly educated. I dropped out of high school at age 16. after 4 years, 2 Chicago public high schools, 1boarding and 1commuter school I was still a junior and wasn't making a lot of headway. I attended one college class in my life. to finish law school required a variety of tutors. I was a bona fide criminal as a teen ager. I committed the crimes of burglary and drug sales hundreds of times. I gleefully transformed my innocent friends into drug abusers, which was what we all did for each other in 1967. I rallied against the war in Vietnam. I was a hippie gangster. I meant no harm to others. society saw me as a criminal. I saw myself as a capitalist. My perception of self differed from others. maybe because I was battered as a child. I am short-tempered and have no tolerance for bullies, none, zip! So I am a ruff tuff, cream puff. I am yin and yang. I am good and I am bad. I fear talking about myself on the air because I fear rejection from all the listeners I never even met. Yet , I have looked down the barrel of a loaded pistol and advised the holder of the weapon that I would terminate them if they failed to terminate me. So, I am fearful and fearless. I can be quite courageous and quite cowardly. Do I believe in any form of gun control? Nothing is simple, much less people. So how do we simplify an issue like gun control. I want to talk about the use of deadly force. I want to talk about unlawful search and seizure. I want everyone to agree with me. But as I have said on this show before, hardly anyone agrees with me. Now I am going to go off on a tangent. I do this show because my veiwpoint is not represented in the media. My wanna-be advocates say that the problem isn't guns but it is that federal prosecutors don't prosecute enough gun cases. But see, I don't need government to fix the problem of too much government. Gun control measures will not be thwarted by more reliance on government. I don't believe there is an unassailable right to keep and bear arms. I don't believe that the drafters of the constitution would counsel against reasonable restraints on firearms in the midst of our present crisis. I am not talking about my right to have guns. I am talking about my rights being saddled with responsibility. I believe in accountability. Citizenship is not an insular event. By definition it is participation in a larger community. But every time the issue of responsibility comes along everyone hides behind the skirts of the 2nd amendment. this ain't your momma. this is adulthood. We got a right to work, and pray. but you can't hold a church service in the middle of the street with traffic. You can't work where you weren't hired. Every action has a reaction. Every gift has a cost. every blessing has its burden. This is a time of s piritual crisis in our country. this is a time of spiritual bankruptcy. there is a deep divide between the haves and the have nots. And we flock like sheep to spend our money with Walmart while giving lip service to entrepenurial individuals. We abandon our community hardware stores so we can enjoy the convenience of Home Depot. We want the best, demand the best but will pay the least. Last segment of show, Ken offered the following; If our country went for a doctor's exam it would be diagnosed with a plethora of physical and mental illness. The good Dr. would do well to prescribe an abundance of anti-biotics, anti-psychotic and anti-depressants. we manifest symptoms of serious scizophrenia and heart disease. This is no time to tuff it out. We are past the point of aspirin. A study of rats conducted years ago showed that as the available room for movement was limited and the community enlarged, the rats became increasingly anti-social. So too are our urban environments causing anti-social behavior in humans. The frontier days are gone. So get ready to arrest the fever and attack the infection. Take your medicine like an adult. For most of us in the gun community that may mean we maybe need to compromise. Maybe if we want to reduce the polarization with our fellow Americans we can take a prescription for personal accountability. Maybe we can quit creating gun bazarres and then refusing to acknowledge that we create an inviting arena for bad people to circumvent any controls on their access to guns. This isn't about the casual exchange of firearms in our little town. This is about the overnight creation of a super gun store in the middle of a big city, that folds up its tent at the end of the day and dissolves into the mist. Like I said I am no scholar and my personal life is a mess. And I love my guns. But I don't have a problem with knowing who I give a gun to. I don't need an absolute right to sell or give my gun away. As long as there is a legitimate market for my weapons, I need not rely upon the kindness of others for the disposal of my weapons.. You can argue for unfettered constitutional rights, but you can't yell fire in a theatre. No right is absolute when it conflicts with the right I have to pursue life liberty and happiness. What right is served by an unregulated stream of firearm sales? what harm would come of some regulation of the secondary market place? forget that the gun control people want to take away the guns and that this is a movement towards the center where the liberal lurks in darkness waiting to take our guns. we aren't giving the guns up. so despite your fear of national registration and confiscation of our guns it isn't going to happen. not because there are not those who will seek it. but because we will not give it. but there are compromises which may be appropriate. there may be concessions which are legitimate. There is a crisis of violence in our country. We can look anywhere else for solace that it is worse there, than here. but the bottom line is we are having a real bad time of it. And a responsible, and accountable gun community doesn't have to barricade the doors against the rest of the country. We can do our share to preserve our freedoms and rights. we can retain the actual right to own and possess while giving up the uneccessary ability to sell our guns any damn time we please. Now you can come after me and revile me. But I am not the enemy. I am just a simple minded guy who doesn't understand why I am living in a foxhole all the time with my head up our collective ass spouting sound bites about the assault of the 2nd amendment and federal prosecutors causing our predicament. My issue is self- defense, hunting rights and sporting rights. So if I can make changes in the law and still keep my real rights then I am ready to take my medicine. Ken, on Gun Control Why is it that in a country where so many of my friends would zealously guard my right of free speech, so few want to preserve my other rights? If the pen is mightier than the sword, then speech is more dangerous than a gun, and worse in the hands of amateurs. One man with a gun can do only so much damage. Then he is apprehended or terminated. Tim McVeigh, the century's greatest American criminal didn't even have a gun, but he killed over a hundred people and injured hundreds of others. Now he will pay the ultimate price for his acts. But the people that preached the hate that the McVeighs hear and take to heart, can't be executed. In fact many of us who would prosecute McVeigh would protect the Nazi criminals that inflamed him, because their weapon is speech. While you despise what they stand for you respect the right of these militant maladjusted mutants to poison the well that these weak minded McVeighs drink from, while paradoxically spurning my right to protect myself from these 3rd reich rapping rejects. It has been argued that I can trust my government to protect me when I can't protect itself. It is argued that our democracy can't be thwarted by narrow minded bigots intent on the overthrow of a principaled democracy. Yet you stammer in protest at the election of right wing, moral majority politicians who would lay waste to Roe VS Wade. While you stand tall for your recently discovered right to abortion, you have no heart to defend my long established right to bear arms. You need not embrace my rights for yourself. In fact, you are free to not exercise any of your fundamental rights. But I respectfully request that you refrain from actively attempting to usurp my rights. I suspect you are driven by fear. Let me acknowledge your fear. It is real, it is valid and it is as follows; it is a fear of violent assault against your home and family. Here is my secret which no one has shared with you. I am afraid of the same thing! I fear the violence that visits when bad or good people lose their mental or moral compass and strike violently whether intentionally or negligently into my life. Because it is not only bad people who do bad things. Good people under the influence of mental illness, drugs, alcohol, or passion do very bad things too. I know you want to keep the demons of darkness from descending on your home and family. I feel your fear. It is mine! While you would feel better disarming us of firearms, I would slip into the chaos of paranioa as I recognize that bad people are more prevalent than guns. Bad things have been happening for far longer than guns have been around. Evil has been with us before we even knew how to craft a weapon. You would ask me to trust you that no harm will come to me if I let you take my guns? Then ask yourself if you can protect me. Can you silence the crescendo of hate that has been directed at Jews, Blacks & other minorities? Can free speech prevent the rise of another Hitler? Hitler rose to power via politics. He took over Germany not by force, but by ballot boxes filled with the votes of people who were drawn to a leader who made them feel better about themselves at the cost of their humanity. Are we Americans so superior spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually and morally to Germans? They build better cars and guns and electronics than we do. They are better educated. They have survived many more years of alterations to their economy, agriculture and infrastructure. Our 200 years of management are infantile and poor compared to the richness and maturity of the European culture. We aren't smarter or more sound of mind body and spirit than they, our language no more articulate or our heritage richer. What we have that all of Europe lacks is a constitution, and its accompaning inalienable rights. All these rights are dependent upon each other. Like the nutritional chart which requires contributions from all the food groups to have a healthy body, it takes a foundation of rights to have a healthy democracy. Many European cities have a richness of dialogue through numerous daily newspapers than do most American cities. London has a cascade of daily opinions which flow from its multitude of dailies, while Dallas has only one daily. One veiw point published daily, there is no challenge to the status quo here and no venue to try. But England took the guns. Because despite the intellectual lip service that flows bohemian like from its media, England doesn't trust its citizens. If a gun in my hand is a danger then your mouth is absolutely explosive. The ability to inflame others thru speech is a far greater threat to my well being than a crazed criminal with a gun. I am not a caraciture or a cartoon. I am a jew. I have been run out of every country I ever resided in, and the bigots followed me here, ready and willing to scapegoat me once again for their miseries. Or just as bad, ready to convert me in the name of all that is holy, invoking powers greater than Hitler or any human hubris. You would strip me of all I have stood for for 5600 years, convinced that you can save me by destroying my culture which is rich in intellect and character and a wealth of spirit. This which was acheived while you worked up a good moral superiority. Sorry, I can't give up my guns. I won't give up my guns. I won't be marched to ovens whether they kill with gas or with kindness. Because I respect your rights to proselytize your religion or your hate. Because I respect your right to believe differently from me. Because I respect your right to persuade others to your point of veiw, whether I agree with it or not. But, I ain't gonna trust you not to misuse your rights, and you are welcome not to trust me to misuse my gun. And I will defend to the death your right to speak freely. But I want you in exchange, to preserve my right to protect my family and home from the criminals and crazies, dope fiends and zealots. and I want you to defend my right to defend my life, liberty and my pursuit of happiness.
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