Dons testimony to the state opposing SB347

Annola DeJong 
Judiciary Office Coordinator 
503-986-1512 
annola.dejong@state.or.us



Ms. DeJong works as the judiciary officer for the state of Oregon



Dear Ms. DeJong:

Please see that the following testimony is provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the hearing and work session tomorrow in these matters: SB347, 699, 700, 796

Dear Judiciary Committee:

I write in total opposition to SB347, 699, 700, 758, and 796; what have become known as this Legislature's Gun Control bills.

There is no compromise form or change of these bills that can meet constitutional muster other than their total rejection. They are in violation of our constitutional rights here in Oregon by operation of our Bill of Rights under Article I, Section 27. It is my belief if you all continue in these actions you will be making yourselves personal targets of those who reject slavery, love freedom and liberty, and have reserved unto themselves the power to insure they will stay free from the tyranny of governments, including our own. From my understanding of history today you have the choice to build your own personal Concord Bridge. If you do you will become the "Red Coats." Only this time the coats you wear will be stained with the blood of patriots you dishonor and reject. If it is to be, then so be it and may God have mercy on you.

As I reflect on these words, three American flags hang on my wall from those who served in time of war. Each was a Veteran of WWII and other places. One has a posthumous purple heart. If you proceed in any direction other than to kill these bills, you will spitting on the graves of these Americans and all others who have served at their peril as surely as if you were personally standing on those graves engaged in that act.

To let these bills get to this point you collectively have shown a lack of integrity as oath givers and a willingness to consider compromise of those fundamental rights guaranteeing our freedoms. I can think of nothing more degrading to you collectively, or personally.

More sincerely than you can begin to possibly understand

Don W. Leach

84058 N. Pacific Highway

Creswell, Oregon 97426

Texas school stabbing, New York Gun confiscation Watch out America

 While I focus on my rights and freedoms, I try to keep up on everyone elses as well. And it does not look great from where I am sitting.
 While it is easy to see that some politicians feel compelled to protect us from ourselves, I can not help but ask myself over and over, "Why does the government want to take away our ability to defend ourselves?".
 The answer is simple. "CONTROL". The United States government does not really care about a small number of people being executed (Some politicians truly believe they will stop this from ever happening again).

http://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/new-york-gun-confiscation-underway/#axzz2PzplhjSj
http://www.2ampd.net/Articles/Mortellaro/jm02.htm
 I was planning on writing about the cases I have been introduced to regarding the confiscation of guns in New York when my wife called me to tell me about the stabbing at the school in Texas. Lone Star College's CyFair campus had an incident this morning where a 21ish male (presumably student) went on a stabbing spree. There are 14 injuries related to the incident and two of those are critical injuries.
 http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/justice/texas-college-stabbing/index.html
 I can not tell you how much this worries me. It is hard enough with all of the restrictions that some states have implemented and others are talking about.We even have some of our gun right lobbying groups pushing gun control. With this and the recent China school stabbing at the time of the Sandy Hook shooting that left 23 students injured  http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/24/world/asia/china-school-knife-attack I worry increasingly about the stripping of our rights, our tools, and our means of defense.
  The way our government works, this should be enough for them to start a knife ban. Where should we start? High capacity knives? Knives that are more than 12 inches? Should we implement a requirement for a license to conceal a knife in our pocket. I imagine that we will soon hear that knives should not be allowed in school zones and that Americans should not own knives.
 I have talked to many people/democrats that say it is not comparable.
 I call Bullshit. they do not want to give up their knives. Ask them why.
 Don't give up your guns
 Don't give up your rights

Let me tie this together by saying that I do not plan on registering my knives, and I am sorry New York, but don't plan on taking them from me. I love my knives and you can not have them.

 P.S. that goes for my guns too.
and my freedom of speech
and religion
etc
etc

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

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.