Traitors to the state. Enemies Within. HB 3200, SB 347

The following is testimony written in March for House and Senate bills coming up to be heard on issues involving our gun  rights on many levels. I encourage you to read Dons letter, and to write, email, or call your senators and representatives.

March 12, 2013

Annola DeJong

Judiciary Office Coordinator

annola.dejong@state.or.us.

503.986.1512

Testimony in the matters of HB 3114, 3200, and SB 347, 699, 700, 758, and 796

Cover Letter

Cover Letter

Dear Ms. DeJong:

            I appreciate the opportunity to address the above House and Senate Bills. My advance apologies for spelling and grammar issues. In defense; I am a product of the public schools systems in Oregon and simply did not have enough time to have an editor work magic.

            The short version of the following missive is that each and every one of these bills is a violation of my constitutional rights set forth in the Oregon Constitution Bill of Rights with a focus on Article I, Section 27.

            I state/declare I believe the authors/supporters of these bills are in the actual commission of the crime of Treason engaging the process as they have. I have supported that position throughout this testimony as I have in the past. See Endnote[i] for a representative example.

            I understand the first real audience is the court system if any of these bills should pass. I also understand in matters of fundamental and inalienable rights the ultimate real audience is the responsible population of the state of Oregon.

            In my submissions to the last group of such bills in the 2012 Legislature insiders told me the legislators who submitted SB 1500, 1501 and 1596 (? - Peter Courtney) were personally offended by my submissions. I too was personally offended. It offends my core belief in our system of government when legislators take oaths of office and then blatantly violate that oath.

            With that said, what this testimony is not about are the Ds or Rs. What this testimony is about the duty of the Ds and Rs to protect me, my family, my friends. And they have deliberately failed to do so by their failure to appropriately fund our sheriffs in Oregon.

            What is worse, reprehensible, vile, and evil, is that in violation of the protections guaranteed to me, and in violation of their oaths of office these legislators have began to engage a process that could lead to circumvention of said protections belonging to me and generally to the citizens of the state of Oregon.

            I find myself getting exercised in writing this cover letter. It should be enough to end this with my assurances my intentions are noble and in appreciation for what you do. If I have failed in some way in the process of this submission, please let me know.

            A complete copy of this submission is available at:  http://www.oregonconcealedlaw.com/Oregon-Concealed-Law-and-Politics-d18.htm. There click on the red  March 2013 Testimony to the State tab.

Most sincerely and respectfully,

Don W. Leach

This content page was too large to publish in its entirety. The testimony and content can be read at http://www.ochlc.com/Testimony-2013-d23.htm?  I encourage you to read this and share it. Write, email, or call your representatives and senators.

 Thank you,

Roger Leach

Ruby Ridge, Waco, I see the similarities

Reflecting on Dorner

What will happen if and when this nation has to face not a whack job, but millions of constitutionalists who at their core believe the Bill of Rights and the 2nd Amendment that flows from that sacred document have been attacked. Those who will and do believe the 2nd Amendment is anchored in religious freedom, free speech, and the right to protect themselves from the tyranny of government and lawless elements. Those who are prepared to defend themselves, their neighbors from the lawless intrusions of government trying to limit their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

I speculated as I watched a little "news" yesterday. The massive enforcement turn out, the probable death of that Dorner nut job. The fire. I could not think my way through the musings. So many people for 1 wacko who had no meaningful support.

Friends at Ruby Ridge called me with firsthand accounts not seen through the eyes of the media, calls from people wanting to know what their legal rights were. Government at Ruby Ridge were outnumbered more than 10 to 1 by people calling themselves patriots. Guns ready for the defense of the Weavers, trunks full of both guns and ammunition.

I speculate. If there are those who also speculate on possible outcomes of a people united in the defense of their nation, and have some thoughts they can share, I am sure I could learn from the discussion.

Is the State of the Union a civil war? Or, a revolution?

As we approach the abyss of civil war driven by the outrageous conduct of factions of the federal and various state governments, we are well guided by our founding fathers and their then declared terrorists actions to wrench with bloody hands the foundations of true freedom. Today they are called the patriots. 

Core to that freedom upon which this country was made great was the ability of the individual in defense of self, family, community, and the state to keep and bear arms. It is noted that when King George III attempted to disarm the colonies they rose up in defiance leading to the Revolutionary War.

The broad understanding of the Federal 2nd amendment in its day was correctly declared in the United States Supreme Court cases of the Heller and McDonald rulings to provide the people not only the ability to defend themselves from the tyranny of governments, but to be able to personally defend themselves by the right and force of arms.

For the state of Oregon to be admitted to the union of states comprising the Republic of the United States of America it had to submit a constitution that was not only ratified by the people of Oregon but then in turn it had to be accepted by that said Republic, which it was without reservation from the Republic. The State of Oregon reserved to its citizenry certain state constitutional fundamental guaranteed rights. One of those fundamental guaranteed rights accepted by the Republic is: "The people [of Oregon] shall have the right to bear arms for the defence [sic] of themselves, and the State, but the Military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power[.]" Oregon Constitution, Article 1, Section 27.

Not only is this reserved right guaranteed by the state of Oregon, it is guaranteed by the Federal government, not through the Heller and McDonald cases mentioned above, but even more directly by acceptance of these peoples declared rights through their constitution protecting them and me. See the Federal Constitution, 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

It is not a federal right, but a right guaranteed to the people through the state to bear arms for our personal defense. Because the state reserved this to us with no further commentary it is not up to the Oregon State Legislature to determine limitations (gun controls) on this fundamental guaranteed right. It follows we should not have to obtain a license to carry a concealed firearms. We should not be restricted on the highways and byways in our travels with arms. We should not stand for limitations on the arms we choose to bear, whether single shot, semi automatic, or fully automatic. We should reject limitations on the magazine sizes of those arms.

There is a principal announced in all of the federal courts and state courts. That which government can regulate it can regulate to extinction. Each and every such arms regulation flies in the face of our guaranteed fundamental constitutional rights. It not only diminishes that right but can diminish that right to the point of extinction of any such rights we allow to be regulated.

Today we are challenged by the prostitutes and whores of government, those who attack the very foundations of freedom among which is the ability to stay free. They are those who would bend our will by force of unconstitutional laws such that we become political slaves, and even worse, actual slaves. As a necessary part of that process, to be successful they have to disarm us. They color those actions under the broad brushed tyranny of good intentions, and like the proverbial frog swimming in the pot, as they slowly turn up the heat of restrictions we will languish, and we will perish if we do nothing about it.

Our state, the state of Oregon, has declared that, "[A]ll men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may thing proper." Oregon Constitution Article 1, Section 1.

As I go to bed tonight I shall pray for understanding of what 1:1 means and how to implement it in the face of the political whores and prostitutes who would deny me my fundamental God given constitutional rights. I give thanks my 1st Amendment Right has yet to be so burdened I cannot freely engage political free speech.