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COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES
A government no-fly list will damage Bill of Rights
WHERE I STAND inquire as to your status Amendment 5, as the accused
with respect to the list the is denied "liberty" (he
HAROLD PEASE, PH.D typical answer is, "as acannot fly as do others)
CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERTnational security issue the "without due process of
government can neither law"--a way to challenge the
"No one on the confirm nor deny your punishment. The
government's no-fly list listing." amendment guarantees the
should be able to purchase a George W. Bush created the person the right to be
firearm," was the immediate no-fly list after 9/11, which accused before punishment,
response from both Hillary today forbids perhaps asbut no accusation was made
Clinton and President many as 80,000 from flying in nor was evidence presented
Barack Obama to the or out of the country, to anyone outside the
massacre in an LGBT Whether maintained by Bush government to evaluate, such
nightclub in Orlando, Florida or Obama, a secret no-fly list as to a jury States too, in
byradical Muslim extremistfor U.S. citizens is a Amendment 14, abe
Omar Mateen. restriction on someone forbidden the same in
Perhaps even Donald because of a perceived belief, similar wordage, "...nor shall
Trump, the presumptive practice or action (a any state deprive any person
Republic nominee for punishment if you will) of life, liberty, or property,
president who plans to mee t applied without any evidence without due process of
with the NRA to talk aboutof unlawful behavior he law .... "
the no-fly list, could be may not fly If there had been It also violates Amendment
vacillating on this issue, unlawful behavior the person 6, which guarantees the
Moreover, nine senators led ' would be incarcerated and accused of his right "to be
by Republican Susan Collins, the issue of a no-fly list informed of the nature and
want the no-fly list to apply would be irrelevant. A cause of the accusation; to be
to purchasing firearms as second punishment is confronted with the
well. They all need to be applied if he is also denied witnesses against him; to
reminded that' there exist the right of a firearm. This have compulsory process for
serious Bill of Rights turns upside down the obtaining witnesses in his
concerns in doing so. judicial standard, "innocent favor, and to have the
The president refers to until proven guilty." Assistance of Counsel for his
those on the list he creates as Remember U.S. Senator defense." None of this
terrorist suspects, but Ted Kennedy was once on the happens for the no-fly list
terrorist is only loosely government's no-fly list as people as the government
defined. Both Vice President was a six-year-old boy, a has already effectively
Joe Biden and former House number of persons over 80 convicted and rendered
Speaker Nancy Pelosi have years of age, and an 18-punishment, sometimes
used the word in reference to month old toddler Reianna indefinitely
the Tea Party movement. (last name not given in the Should Congress adhere to
How many are listed varies CNN report to protect family the Obama/Clinton, and
with respect to who one cites identity). The accused rarely perhaps Trump, request to
but it is many is informed of the "make sure no one on a no-
thousands. Everything is so government's intention to fly list is able to buy a gun"
clouded in government punish him until he attempts they will amplify the already
secrecy that virtually no one to fly and is forbidden doing existing constitutional
knows how he or she got on so. infractions of Amendments
or get off the list. Should you No-fly restrictions violate 5, 6 and 14 and keep
REMEMBER WHEN
130 years ago Rocket nose cones, bombs, and artillery
In consequence of many sheep being shells were on display around the depot's old
driven into this section for summer range, railroad caboose, thanks to base Public
the grocers are doing an extra business in Affairs Officer Larry Rogers.
their line. We notice an almost continual Rogers has been busy building an
string of wagons and pack animals going out interesting collection of Korean and
into the mountains loaded with flour, bacon Vietnam War era military weapons, as well
and other camp necessities, as volumes of base memorabilia, including
an Olympic torch that passed through
90 years ago Herlong.
There will be no fireworks sold in
Susanville for the Fourth of July This 15 years ago
announcement has been made by M.J. Tilley, City officials considered banning all
who made a canvas of the stores and sales fireworks this year because of the fire
agencies which had purchased fireworks for danger. Fire Chief Steve Rose convinced the
this year's holiday, and who said they would Susanville City Council to restrict use of
withhold them from sale as a preventative legal fireworks to a 48-hour period.
measure against fire and accidents.
35 years ago
The Susanville Department of Parks and
Recreation completed the planting of 130
trees at Riverside Park.
Other benches, sanitary facilities, lighting
and the planting of grass were under way
and expected to be ready for public use in
the fall.
25 years ago
The darkness of the night, combined with
the music provided by radio station KCMT,
lent an air of romance to the Historic
Uptown Susanville Association's first street
dance. The dance was held on South Lassen
Street from 9 p.m. to I a.m. The association
scheduled several more outdoor events to
take place in the Uptown areas as the
summer progresses.
20 years ago
Relics of the Cold War's nuclear age were
on display at the Sierra Army Depot's new
visitor center in Herlong.
10 years ago
A young Susanville Marine currently
serving in Iraq with Company W, 1st
Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was
attacked with small arms fire and a roadside
bomb while his unit conducted a mission on
June 11.
The company's 5th Mobile Assault Platoon
received a lone shot midway through a
presence patrol conducted through
neighborhoods of Ar Ramadi, in the
southern portion of A1 Anbar's capital in the
heart of the Sunni Triangle.
Luckily it missed its target -- Private First
Class Travis T. Fitzpatrick.
Last year
Based on records and data kept by one
local resident, Eagle Lake's water level will
drop to a historic low this summer.
Dec Bateson measured the water level at
5,091.83 feet on June 20, which he said is
down four inches from three weeks prior.
"If it continues at that rate, it will break
that all-time record by Aug. 5," he said.
FOURTH, from page 8B
Traffic Safety alcohol and boating also
Administration, 33,561 people make a bad match. Almost
died in traffic crashes in 2012 haft of all boating accidents
including an estimated 10,076 involve alcohol. Here's a
people killed in drunk sobering statistic. According
driving crashes. According to to the U.S. Coast Guard a
the statistics, 6,688 of those boat operator with a .10
victims were drivers (65 percent blood alcohol
percent), 2,824 were concentration or higher is 10
passengers (27 percent) and times more likely to be killed
810 were not in the vehicle (8 in a boating accident that a
percent), boater who has not been
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thousands of lawful Obama, Clinton, or possibly trusted presidential
Americans from protecting Trump can change these candidate in U.S. History,
themselves with arms. amendments is with a new used every government
Amendment 2 guarantees constitutional amendment, organization at her disposal
"the right of the people to which a president cannot to punish or vilify the
keep and bear arms," and constitutionally initiate (see women who :had affairs with
certifies that this right "shall Article V). her husband while he served
not be infringed." This too Remember too, a as governor of Arkansas and
would be violated for 80,000 government secret list of president of the U.S. With
persons without any real "bad guys," has already been her personal integrity
evidence of wrongdoing, used by the Obama ratings so low it would be
Moreover, even if such a administration to punish his expected that she would use
law were passed it is well to political enemies. The IRS . a no-fly law against her
reinember that--a mere used such a list to punishpolitical enemies.
law---cannot trump a perhaps 200 Tea Party Hopefully, presidential
constitutional amendment-- Organizations. Louis Lerner, candidate Trump will not
most especially four one of those most take too long to see the
amendments, as using a no- responsible for doing so, pled damage to the Bill of Rights
fly list to prohibit purchase the Fifth Amendment to by theproposed no-fly
of a firearm would do, The avoid perjuring herself, legislation and use his
only constitutional way that Hillary Clinton, the leastinfluence to defeat it.
On poverty, militarism
and our public school
WHERE I STAND neighborhoods of erupted sporadically, driven
..................................hopelessness. Joining the by the drumbeat of certainty
ROBERT C. KOEHLER U.S. military is the only Some of the boys and girls
• JOURNALIST AND EDITOR opportunity available to seemed as young as 10 or 11.
PEACEVOICE millions of young Americans One boy walked past me
to escape poverW. We have no twirling a rifle like it was a
What's the difference government programs to baton. Was it real? Was it
between education and build the infrastructure of loaded?
obedience? If you see very peace and environmental The concept of America is
little, you probably have no sustainabllity we can't a totally military
problem with the afford that, so it has to phenomenon, I thought as I
militarization of the • happen on its own (or not at walked along the parade
American school system -- all) but our military route. This is what holds it
or rather, the militarization marches on, funded at more together, not culturally, but
of the impoverished schools, than haft a trillion dollars a as a legally organized entity
the ones that can't afford year, into ever more The flags, the rifles, the
new textbooks or functional pointless wars of aggression. Humvees, the names of the
plumbing, much less art Glory, glory, hallelujah. I'd dead and the uniformed
supplies or band equipment, never been to a Memorial Children. For a moment I
My town, Chicago, is a case Day parade in my life, but I wondered if I could continue
study in this national trend, went to this year's parade in calling myself an American.
The Pentagon has been downtown Chicago because Then I met up with
eyeing these schools -- members of the Chicago the Vets for Peace people at
broken and gang-ridden chapter of Veterans for State and Lake a small
for a decade now, and seeing Peace were going to be there, group of men and women
its future there. It comes in protesting the militarization handing out stickers that
like a cammy-clad Santa, of the city's schools, read: "No military in
bringing money and I arrived as the parade was Chicago Public Schools.
. di.'scipliae. In return it gets • still assembling itself along Education, not
young minds to shape, to (I Wacker Drive. What I saw, militarization."
fear) possess: to turn into the along with the Humvees and "The idea is, just by being
next.generation of soldiers, the floats (Gold Star Families here, we're having people
available for the coming of the Fallen, Paralyzed stop for a moment and think
wars. Veterans of America: about the militarization of
The United States no Making a difference for 70 Chicago schools," Kevin
longer has a draft because years) were thousands of Merwin told me. "There's
the nation no longer believes young people mostly kids opposition to the wholesale
in war, except abstractly, as of color, of course -- militarization of youth in
background noise. But it has bedecked in various
an economic draft: It claims uniforms, standing in
recruits largely from the formation as martial music gee Schools, page 10B
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