Cdn-Firearms Digest Tuesday, December 8 2009 Volume 13 : Number 608 In this issue: Ohio Killer to Be 1st Person in US to Die by 1-Drug ... THE CRITICAL DECISION FOR THE BILL OF RIGHTS New headquarters 'functional, safe' Indiana 4-H Shooting Sports Program Low prices kept most sealers home G&M - Column - Montreal massacre death cult ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:14:18 -0600 From: Joe Gingrich Subject: Ohio Killer to Be 1st Person in US to Die by 1-Drug ... ... Lethal Injection http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579609,00.html?test=latestnews Ohio Killer to Become First Person in U.S. to Die by 1-Drug Lethal Injection Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Associated Press LUCASVILLE, Ohio - Ohio has begun final preparations for executing the first person in the U.S. to die by lethal injection with a single drug rather than a three-drug method. The execution of Kenneth Biros, originally scheduled for 10 a.m. EST, was delayed about an hour while Biros awaited word from the U.S. Supreme Court on a last emergency appeal. The court turned down Biros shortly before 10 a.m. and prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said the execution would begin about an hour later. In a brief statement Tuesday, the court said it was denying Kenneth Biros' request for a stay of execution. Biros had argued the state's new method would be painful. The state's switch to one drug was meant to end a lawsuit that claims the three-drug system could cause severe pain, and experts have agreed that the single anesthetic will not cause pain. Witnesses to the scheduled Tuesday morning execution of Biros, who scattered a woman's remains across two states, could have an even more somber experience than those who watched previously when Ohio put nearly three dozen other inmates to death. As the first person in the U.S. to die by lethal injection with a single drug, Biros will be subjected to a process that most death penalty experts agree will take longer than the old method. If that method fails, a backup plan allows executioners to inject drugs directly into muscles instead of veins. Ohio overhauled its procedure after the failed attempt at rapist Romell Broom's execution, which was halted by Gov. Ted Strickland in September. Executioners tried for two hours to find a usable vein for injection, hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 needle sticks that Broom said were very painful. Broom, 53, was sentenced to die for the rape and stabbing death of a 14-year-old girl. He has appealed the state's attempt to try to execute him again. The state had two goals in changing its lethal-injection process. Switching to one drug was meant to end a 5-year-old lawsuit that claims the state's three-drug system was capable of causing severe pain. Injection experts and defense attorneys agree the single dose of thiopental sodium will not cause pain. The backup procedure allowing muscle injection was created in case a situation like Broom's attempted execution happens again. Other states are watching Ohio's change, but none has made a similar switch. Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia are among those saying they will keep the three-drug method. Biros reached the holding area for death row inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville on Monday morning. The small cell is about 15 feet from the chamber where inmates are put to death. In the afternoon, he had a snack of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. At night, he was to be served a meal of cheese pizza, onion rings, fried mushrooms, Doritos chips, French onion dip, blueberry ice cream, cherry pie and Dr Pepper soda. It's the second trip to Lucasville for Biros, who spent more than 30 hours in the holding cell in March 2007 before the U.S. Supreme Court stopped his execution and allowed him to challenge the state's method at the time, involving three drugs. Biros, 51, was resting and appeared relaxed, prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said. Ohio inmates generally have taken about seven minutes to die after injection. That's part of a total process lasting about 30 minutes, from the time witnesses start watching the insertion of the intravenous needles until the warden announces the time of death. In most cases, an inmate lies still after giving a final statement and following a slight heaving of the chest appears no different from someone who is sleeping. Anesthesiologist Mark Dershwitz, who consulted with Ohio, estimated death could now come after 15 minutes. Witnesses will be allowed to stay and watch for as long as it takes, Walburn said Monday. Biros' attorney John Parker and two friends will witness on Biros' behalf. The mother, brother and sister of Biros' victim, 22-year-old Tami Engstrom, also will witness. Biros killed Engstrom near Warren, in northeastern Ohio, in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattered her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He acknowledged killing her but said it was done during a drunken rage. Trumbull County Sheriff Tom Altiere, allowed a witness spot under state law, will be the first sheriff to witness an execution since the state resumed putting people to death in 1999, Walburn said. A federal judge earlier Monday refused to delay the execution, and Biros immediately appealed to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The appeals court rejected his request for a stay Monday night, so Biros then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Biros argued that the state has failed to fix the problems that led to the unsuccessful execution attempt in September. He said the state still relies on unqualified executioners and lacks limits on how long they are allowed to try to find a vein. District Judge Gregory Frost, in Columbus, said in his ruling that it appears unlikely that Biros can "demonstrate that those risks rise to the level of violating the United States Constitution." The state opposes a delay and says Biros has not shown that its method presents a substantial risk that he would suffer severe pain. In asking Frost for a stay, Biros had argued that the new execution method still left vein access issues unresolved, subjecting him to the risk of severe pain, and he had described the one-drug approach as "impermissible human experimentation." The judge called the arguments unpersuasive. All 36 death penalty states use lethal injection, and 35 rely on the three-drug method. Nebraska, which recently adopted injection over electrocution, has proposed the three-drug method but hasn't finalized it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:48:25 -0600 From: Joe Gingrich Subject: THE CRITICAL DECISION FOR THE BILL OF RIGHTS December 8th 2009 JPFO ALERT: THE CRITICAL DECISION FOR THE BILL OF RIGHTS As the nation edges ever closer to possible unrest we have to wonder again whether our military will fire upon its own citizens if so directed. A new article looks at this question - http://www.jpfo.org/articles-assd/critical-decision.htm. Another article - http://www.jpfo.org/articles-assd/grigg-question-46.htm - - also discussed the same matter and included reference to the May 10, 1994 29 Palms survey by Commander Cunningham. Read more about The Combat Arms Survey - http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/419.html and http://www.mikenew.com/29palms.html and http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/militarysurvey.htm Possible factors which might initiate military intervention include - - a crisis, real or contrived such that there is imposition of martial law. We could see factors such as economic collapse with massive inflation, shortages of food and/or energy (grid collapse), racial strife, and gun confiscations. Whose side will our military be on? Take the new JPFO poll - http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/milshoot-poll.htm - and cast your vote as to whether you feel the US military would, if ordered to confiscate your guns and you resisted, fire on its own countrymen. On December 15th,1791 the Bill of Rights was ratified. Do you still want to keep it in force? Please tell us how you plan to protect the BoR a week from today and every day. This alert, on JPFO - http://www.jpfo.org/alerts03/alert20091208.htm If you like what we do for you, then please support us. It is less than 7c a day, only $25 a year - http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/member.htm The Liberty Crew Protecting you by creating solutions to destroy "gun control" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:19:46 -0500 From: Lee Jasper Subject: New headquarters 'functional, safe' [Looked pretty plush to me from the media tour shown on TV. Nothing but the absolute best for our poelease. London Mayor Ann Marie Decicco-Best with her 60's baby doll hairdo was on the London 'A' Ch News Monday eve'g raving about the new cop shop addition and reno job - while decrying the London Transit worker's (the little people's) rejection of the City's latest contact offer]. New headquarters 'functional, safe' By KATE DUBINSKI > http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2009/12/08/12075066-sun.html London's police officers now have what their chief calls "the best (shooting) range in Ontario." The media got a sneak peak yesterday at the $22-million London police headquarters addition, complete with the new gun range, locker rooms, vehicle bay and offices. "Police work is difficult work and by having a good space for the officers to come back to -- clean locker rooms, places to drop off their wet equipment -- we think it will be a positive work environment for them," said Deputy Chief Brad Duncan. "When the old building was built in 1974, the equipment was very basic. You had your hand gun, your hat and a billy club. Now it's a lot more sophisticated." Phase one of the renovation project -- a massive new addition -- is finished and uniformed officers are starting to move into their new space. Phase two, the renovation of the old building, is still about a year away from completion. The project costs nearly $34 million. "There's no looking back. We have a building that is functional, efficient and safe for our officers," said Chief Murray Faulkner. Besides the day-to-day improvements for officers, the addition also has an outdoor storage area for the new mobile command unit and a hostage-negotiation vehicle, which is easier to access for officers than the former location, which was off-site. A new diesel generator can be up and running within five seconds of a brownout and can operate for 36 hours without a refuelling. London police headquarters is the main site for the city's managers in case of an emergency, so it's important for the building be operational no matter what. Although the addition was supposed to be finished in April, problems with the roof pushed back the expansion until now. But after working out kinks and last-minute details, officers will be able to move into their new building in the next few weeks, Faulkner said. After that, work will continue on the old part of the police headquarters, which should be finished in about 10 months. "The old building was built in a citadel-style, with tiny windows and we were very closed off," Faulkner said. "Now, it's all about brightness and community policing so we have to move that way, too." AMONG THE FEATURES OF THE NEW HEADQUARTERS * A new parking bay with 93 spaces for parking, up from the former bay that had 78 spaces. The new parking area also has two exits -- the old one only had one -- and heated floors so cruisers don't have to deal with ice buildup as they did before. * New locker rooms. There are 564 lockers for male officers and 148 for female officers. A removable wall between the two rooms can be adjusted when gender ratios change. The lockers are almost twice as big as the old ones, and offices won't have to keep their shoes, coats and bags outside the lockers, as they do now, because there's so little space. There's also a new drying room for any equipment or uniforms that get wet during a shift. * A shooting range that will allow officers to qualify twice-yearly to use their firearms. The room is insulated so shots can't be heard outside, and includes targets that can move forward and backward and sideways to better simulate a fleeing suspect. The shooting range also allows officers to play recorded sounds such as shouting, sirens and gunfire, as well as flashing and dimmed lights that can better reflect a night-time or real-emergency scenario. * An expanded space for working out. The equipment is the same, but the space is larger, made with special flooring and ventilation for a more comfortable atmosphere. * The addition is generally roomier, better ventilated and brighter. *Comments* If the new shooting range is the best in Ontario can we get that Barney Fife with the 19 stray shots a few hours of training? Let him be the first one. CanShootStraight, December 8th 2009, 7:45am [Chief Murray Faulkner who I once likened to Buford Pusser in Walking Tall for his melodramatic performance over banning a sex offender from relocating to London - has yet to hint what he might do with the trigger happy cop]. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, December 8, 2009 1:38 pm From: "Dennis & Hazel Young" Subject: Indiana 4-H Shooting Sports Program 4-H shooting sports programs to begin http://www.fwdailynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6039 :4-H-shooting-sports-programs-to-begin&catid=61:times-online2&Itemid=6 The 4-H Shooting Sports .22 Rifle program will begin January 6, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at Concordia Lutheran High School, 1601 St Joe River Drive. All meetings will be held at Concordia High School Shooting Range, Concordia Lutheran High School. Enrollment in this discipline is limited to 30 participants. This program is sponsored by Allen County 4?H Clubs, Inc., and is open to youth in grades 5-12. The cost of the program is $25. Equipment will be provided. If you are interested, you must call 481-6826 or visit www/extension.purdue.edu/allen to download a registration form. Fee and registration must be returned to secure a spot in the class. Enrollment in the program is on a first come, first paid basis. Classes will be held on 10 consecutive Wednesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. January 6 - March 10, 2010 Air Rifle Program The 4-H Shooting Sports Air Rifle program will begin January 5, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hoagland Pavilion, Hoagland, Indiana. Enrollment in this discipline is limited to 12 participants. This program is sponsored by Allen County 4?H Clubs, Inc., and is open to youth in grades 3-12. The cost of the program is $25.00. Equipment will be provided. If you are interested, you must call 481-6826 or visit www/extension.purdue.edu/allen to download a registration form. Fee and registration must be returned to secure a spot in the class. Enrollment in the program is on a first come, first paid basis. This program sponsored by Allen County 4-H Clubs, Inc., is open to youth in grades 3-12. Equipment will be provided. Participants will meet ten times on January 5, 12, 19, 26 February 2, 9, 16, 23, and March 2, 9, 2010. Classes will be held from 6:30 -8:30 p.m., on two 1 hour shifts. Both programs teach safe handling of firearms, proper use of equipment, shooting techniques and ethics of good shooters. Instructors are certified through the Indiana 4-H Shooting Sports Program of Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. For more information please call Barb Thuma, Extension Educator, 4-H Youth, Allen County Extension Office at 481-6826. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, December 8, 2009 1:42 pm From: "Dennis & Hazel Young" Subject: Low prices kept most sealers home WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - DECEMBER 8, 2009 Low prices kept most sealers home as Twillingate braces for EU ban By: Sue Bailey, THE CANADIAN PRESS http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/78707612.html TWILLINGATE, N.L. - Hardy Troake loves being a fisherman just as much as his father, and his father before him, loved a life earned from the sea. But it's a passion he hopes will wane in his own young son. After one of the bleakest sealing seasons on record in this picture-pretty outport town, Troake would rather his 13-year-old boy "go on and do something else. "But he does have a real love for the water." For the first time in 38 years, Troake, 53, stayed warm onshore last spring rather than risk the ice-laden North Atlantic hunting seals for $14 a pelt. Prices plunged from a high of $105 in 2006 as the global recession drove down demand for fur and the European Union mulled an animal rights-fuelled ban on seal products. Twillingate, once a global capital of the commercial harp seal hunt off Newfoundland's northeast coast, has felt the economic brunt. Just three longliners headed to the ice floes this year, down from about 25 the year before and hundreds when pelt prices peaked. Saddled with growing debt and a dwindling population, Twillingate now bills itself as the Iceberg Capital of North America. But the bustling tourist trade on this scenic island about a six-hour drive north of St. John's is just seasonal. "It's been devastating," Troake said during a break sawing wood near his home overlooking the water. It's a handsome two-storey house a stone's throw from the home where he grew up and where his parents still live. Next door is where his brother Garry, also a fisherman, lived before he drowned in a fishing accident on Oct. 8, 2000. It irks many people in this close-knit community that Europe, birthplace of the bull fight, should ethically oppose a sealing tradition that has put food on tables in some of the poorest parts of Canada for generations. "We used to always depend on the seal hunt in the spring to supply us with enough cash to get ready to go at our other fish like crab, lobster, ground fish, shrimp," Troake said. "This year you never had that so we had to start from scratch. And with the economy the way it was, all the rest of the prices were down. It affected the whole community." Twillingate's population of about 2,400 is literally dying off. It's down by almost half in the last 25 years as the battered fishery forces young people away to find work. Mayor Gordon Noseworthy fears a looming European Union ban on seal products - - set to take full effect in August - will only make things worse. "The employment has gone down. The income from the harbour authority has gone down. Everything has gone down. They've got some stuffed idiot saying that you can't kill a baby seal. There ain't been one killed for 20 years. "And it's costing outport Newfoundland a fortune." An online video by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) urges viewers to help stop the "seal massacre." It begins with the plaintive stare of a dewy-eyed whitecoat pup, despite the fact that Canada banned the killing of harp seal newborns for commercial purposes in 1987. Dan Mathews, PETA's vice-president of campaigns based in Norfolk, Va., downplayed the economic importance of what he called a cruel slaughter. "It contributes a tiny per cent of the local economy, and it's just giving all of Canada a black eye. "With the numbers in after this year's hunt, the writing's on the wall. The government is looking ridiculous to try to prop up this dying industry." The Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported in May that just 306 sealing enterprises from Newfoundland and Labrador took part this year, compared to 977 last year. Bloody images of sealing have helped spur the European Union ban - a move Canada is challenging before the World Trade Organization. "Ottawa is doing what it can," Premier Danny Williams of Newfoundland and Labrador said in an interview. "I know the prime minister has spoken with people at the highest levels." In turn, Williams has urged sealers across Atlantic Canada to hunt with rifles, as most do, instead of the pointed hakapiks traditionally used to club seals to death. "There's small usage of that (hakapik) already, less than 10 per cent. The use of that should be terminated completely so there's no longer an argument of any bludgeoning of seals." Williams, like many fishermen here, fears the toll on already depleted fish stocks as an exploding seal population feasts on herring and cod. Twillingate old-timers snapped photos this fall of a phenomenon they hadn't seen before: seals by the dozen bobbing in the water as they trapped herring in the rocky enclave of Sleepy Cove. Asked in an interview about the possibility of a seal cull, federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea replied: "We are aware that there's a problem." But she's hopeful that new domestic and international markets can be developed for seal meat and possible medical uses for other parts of the adult mammals. Seal is to be added to the menu of the parliamentary restaurant in Ottawa, and MPs recently held a tasting of smoked and stewed recipes. Shea said new research on the potential use of seal heart valves in human cardiac patients is an exciting prospect. "We're going to work with (researchers)," she said. "Hopefully we'll be able to curb the seal population at the same time." Five longliners out of Twillingate took part in a pilot project last spring to harvest adult seals, bringing back the entire carcass for research purposes. Shea said she hopes to see the project expand next year. Fishermen like Hardy Troake will be watching for fresh opportunities. "You can't make it pretty," he said of sealing. "If you kill a moose or whatever, it's not pretty. But people have to realize that, you know, in certain places in this country this is a way of life. "And we depend on it." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:58:26 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: G&M - Column - Montreal massacre death cult http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/montreal-massacre-death-cult/article1392013/ Montreal massacre death cult Mourn, yes, but let's stop insisting these women were victims of deep-rooted cultural misogyny Margaret Wente From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Dec. 07, 2009 7:26PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Dec. 08, 2009 2:23AM EST It won't have escaped you that Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, that horrific day when a man walked into the city's l'ecole Polytechnique, separated out the female students, screamed "You are all a bunch of feminists!" and shot them with a semi-automatic rifle, leaving 14 dead. As always, the day was marked by memorials and candlelight vigils across the country, affecting interviews with families and survivors, and a large helping of overheated nonsense. "Twenty years on, little has changed," opined the Toronto Star, which cited the fact that women continue to be killed "in their homes, on the streets, on university campuses and on lonely stretches of highway." It blamed the government, for cutting aid to violence-fighting groups and for voting to scrap the long-gun registry. "But the government is not solely to blame," it said. So who else is? "We all are." Why? Because we tolerate a viciously misogynist society. How much sophistry can you stuff in one small space? The truth is that women in Canada have never been safer than they are today. Violent crime is trending down, and the vast majority of its victims are men. The gun registry has been written off as useless =E2=80=93 by the Liberals. Women still suffer far too often from spousal abuse. But social tolerance of it has all but disappeared, and the laws are tough. In the narrative of the Montreal massacre, the students were killed for being feminists, for daring to pursue their dream. That's true, so far as it goes. But this narrative also implies that the rage of Marc Lepine reflected the rage of ordinary men embittered by seeing women get ahead. That's a misandrist slur. And Mr. Lepine's deeply troubled background is usually ignored. The son of an Algerian-born businessman, he was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi. His father had a deep contempt for women, and severely abused both the boy and his mother before abandoning them. Mr. Lepine obviously contracted his father's rage. But he no more resembled ordinary men than Robert Pickton does. It's natural to try to make meaning out of ghastly events. Yet, sick and twisted people sometimes do sick and twisted things, and such crimes are largely random. The Montreal massacre is said to be different from other mass murders because a specific group (women) were the targets. But the Fort Hood killer singled out a specific group, too. For two decades, Dec. 6 has been an annual excuse for fevered breast- beating over the moral failings of society and the persistent inequality of women, as if the glass ceiling or the lack of universal daycare existed on the same moral continuum as homicidal misogyny. "I'm not very optimistic," warned Nayyar Javed, who spoke at a vigil in Saskatchewan. "Women in Canada in all sectors are not equal to men." Monique Frize, an engineer at Carleton University, allowed that there's been "progress and regress" in women's rights, and suggested that young women are reluctant to call themselves feminists because they're being "gagged." Yet, according to yesterday's Globe and Mail, women now make up three- fifths of all university students and most of the PhD candidates. University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera, a woman and an engineer, warns that society can no longer ignore the problem of what's happening to men. It's true that hundreds of aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in recent years. But so have an even greater number of aboriginal men. By all means, let's mourn the exceptional young women whose lives were cut short one awful day in 1989. But let's stop insisting they were victims of deep-rooted cultural misogyny. There's plenty of that in the world already. In Afghanistan, women are routinely killed for defying men. In South Asia, vast numbers of female fetuses are aborted, and girls are routinely neglected in favour of their brothers. In Canada, it's time to get a grip and move on. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V13 #608 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)