L. Neil Smith is auctioning off the manuscript to his new as-yet-unpublished book Ceres. Current High Bid: Russell Whitaker, $350. Email your bid to: auction@ncc-1776.org More information: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle360-20060326-02.html Bidding closes April 18, midnight, Arizona Mountain Standard Time (not Daylight Savings Time)
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Dear Friends of Angel, Angel had his day in court today. His attorney and the prosecutors had worked out an agreement, which the judge accepted. Here are the results. The judge overseeing the case ordered the police to give Angel's guns back, but he must register the handguns in compliance with Michigan law (euphemistically called a "safety inspection", but it is clearly registration, a law adopted in the 20s to keep guns out of the hands of Blacks). The only charges on the table were four misdemeanor counts of failure to present a handgun for a safety inspection. The theoried charge discussed in the media and on the Net about "menacing" and threats was not advanced by prosecutors, because there was no substance to the theoried charge. Police and prosecutors figured this out after looking at the facts and evidence. Angel will be on non-reporting probation on the failure to register charges for a year and a half. Angel will have on his record forever four misdemeanor violations of failure to present his handguns for "safety inspection". Angel must perform three days of community service, which will hold him in Michigan for almost a month (because they are court-scheduled days). I've been saying for too long now that the attorneys have insisted on silence from anyone having inside information about this situation, because release of such information could very well have torpedoed the deal Angel's attorney had worked out with the prosecutors. Frankly, the prosecutors were not anxious to go to trial on this case, and Angel is too clearly a clean and good guy to be able to spin him as some dangerous nut case. Now is probably time for me to confess a bit of an ulterior motive in all of this. Angel plans to move to Montana where can live under what legal scholar Dave Kopel calls the freest gun laws in the World (see Dave's Foreword to my book, Gun Laws of Montana), where he can go Prairie Dog hunting with my son Ty and myself, and where he will undertake the needful task of recruiting scads of members for MSSA. According to the plan, recruiting membership for MSSA will be Angel's vocation for the indefinite future. I suspect you may be hearing a pitch from Angel (an MSSA Member since 2003) to join MSSA (hey, a lot of our members don't live in Montana). So, stay tuned for more info about how this all happened to Angel. In the meantime, if you haven't donated to Angel's legal defense, but wish to do so, there is information about this at: There IS a deficit of about $10,000 to pay the legal expenses incurred so far. Thanks loads to all of you for your tolerance of the imposed silence, for your now-justified faith in Angel, for your support letters, and for your donations to Angel's legal defense. Gary Marbut, president
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Y'all know, don't you, that L. Neil Smith is auctioning off the hand-corrected manuscript to his latest book Ceres? Y'all know, don't you, that Neil mostly does his writing on the computer these days, and rarely produces a printed version? In other words, this chance may not come again! So read all about it in that little box up top of the page and then check your bank account! Speaking of money, your donations will help keep TLE on the air (so to speak). And so would using our advertiser and affiliate links to buy yourself the stuff you want and need. You'll notice that The Free State Project didn't renew their Ad Brite advertisement this month ... which tells me they didn't generate any meaningful traffic from advertising on TLE. Bummer. To make a donation, click on this link right here: http://www.ncc-1776.org/donate.html Ken Holder
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