Volume 6 ©

Issue 20

October 2, 2017 2013

In God We Trust

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By Michael Cutler, September 22, 2917, frontpagemag.com

On September 18, 2017, roughly one week after the 16th

anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001,

the LA Times reported on California's "sanctuary

state" bill-SB 54 that would ostensibly “expand

protections for immigrants” by preventing officers from

questioning and holding people on immigration

violations.

To understand the ominousness of this measure, we must

look back to the 9/11 Commission's official “9/11 and

Terrorist Travel” report, which focused on the multiple

failures of the immigration system that enabled the 9/11

terrorists and other international terrorists to enter the

United States and embed themselves as they went about

their deadly preparations.

This explicit paragraph explains how sanctuary policies

that confound DHS efforts to enforce immigration

laws undermine America’s counterterrorism operations:

This is why each and every illegal alien, irrespective of

whether or not he/she has a criminal record, must not be

shielded from detection by Immigration and Customs

Enforcement (ICE).

However, commonsense regarding the need for proper

immigration law enforcement is being overshadowed by

the manipulations of proponents of immigration anarchy.

The LA Times article’s very headline -- referring to

"immigrants" -- highlights the insidious manipulation of

language that has made honest discussions about

immigration virtually impossible. The process was

initiated long ago by the Carter administration, which

demanded that the term “Illegal alien” be stricken from

the lexicon of INS employees and replaced with the term

“undocumented immigrant.”

The removal of that single word -- alien -- from the

vernacular has had a huge impact on the entire

immigration debate, causing many decent and otherwise

sensible Americans to be deceived into believing

"sanctuary cities" exemplify altruism when quite the

opposite is true.

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the term

alien simply means, “any person, not a citizen or national

of the United States.” There is no insult in the term

“alien” -- only clarity. In fact, the title of the DREAM

actually includes the verboten term “alien" (the DREAM

Act is an acronym for Development, Relief, and

Education for Alien Minors Act).

Going back to the LA Times headline, in

reality, lawful immigrants have absolutely no need for

protection from immigration law enforcement

officers. The only aliens who are at risk from adverse

actions being taken against them by ICE agents are those

aliens who either entered the United States illegally or,

following lawful entry through a port of entry, either

violated the terms of their admission into the United

States or have committed criminal offenses in the United

States.

Lawful immigrants do, however, have serious need for

protection: they need protection from criminal aliens

who lurk in their ethnic immigrant communities, plying

their criminal trades. These individuals pose the greatest

threat to the immigrants among whom they live

irrespective of their ethnicities or countries of birth.

“Sanctuary cities” and “sanctuary states” such as

California, which shield illegal aliens and the criminals

and terrorists among them from immigration law

enforcement authorities, create a life and death

nightmare for the residents of the towns, cities and states

that attract aliens who face deportation from the country.

During his administration, President George W. Bush

attempted, fortunately without success, to create a “guest

worker” program for millions of illegal aliens. Bush also

played the “name game” and frequently called for

“making immigrants legal” while he was, in actuality,

calling for a massive amnesty program for unknown

millions of illegal aliens.

Back then, Senate Bill S. 2611, legislation that would

have created such an amnesty program, attracted the ire

and concern of House Republicans who understood the

dangers that such an ill-conceived program would create

for America’s national security. Consequently, on July

27, 2006 a hearing. called by the House Subcommittee

on Immigration, Border Security and Claims addressed

the dangers inherent in such a program.

During my testimony at this hearing, I stated that any

member of Congress who would vote to provide lawful

status and identity documents to millions of illegal

aliens should be given the "MVP Award" by Al-Qaeda.

Effective enforcement of our immigration laws from

within the interior of the United States, not only helps to

prevent terrorists from setting up shop in communities

(Continued on page 2)

Roy Moore Defeats Trump-Backed Senator to Win Alabama GOP Senate Primary

By Alix Pfeiffer, White House Correspondent, September 26, 2017,

dailycaller.com

Roy Moore defeated Alabama Sen. Luther Strange in

Tuesday’s Alabama Republican Senate primary runoff.

With 82 percent of precincts reporting, Moore

received 55.8 percent of the vote, while Strange received

44.2 percent, according to the New York Times.

The primary took on national importance as President

Trump endorsed Strange, while traditional Trump allies,

such as former White House chief strategist Steve

Bannon, backed Moore.

“They’re going to say, ‘Donald Trump, the President of

the United States, was unable to pull his candidate across

the line. It is a terrible, terrible moment for Trump,'” the

president said while imitating news anchors at a Friday

rally in Alabama in support of Strange.

Strange become a senator when Jeff Sessions left his seat

to become attorney general. The senator is a former

lobbyist and was backed by a super PAC linked to

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the Chamber of

Commerce, a typical establishment GOP partner.

“Mitch McConnell and this permanent political class is

the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in

this country. They think you’re a pack of morons. They

think you’re nothing but rubes,” Bannon said at a rally

Monday in support of Moore. “They have no interest at

all in what you have to say, what you have to think or

what you want to do.”

However, Trump contended at his Friday rally in support

of Strange that the senator barely knew McConnell, and

that Strange is “determined to drain that swamp.”

The president would go on to say, “I’ll be honest, I might

have made a mistake,” and said he would campaign “like

hell” for Moore if he were to win the primary. The former

Alabama Supreme Court chief justice led the race

throughout in the polls, and was up by 11 points in the

final public poll.

Moore is a major figure in Alabama and became

nationally known in 2003 when he was removed from

office after defying a federal court’s ruling to remove a

Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama state

Supreme Court building.

Like Trump, the former judge has a brash, and sometimes

offensive manner of speaking.

“Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and

yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting,

men and women fighting. What’s going to unite us?

What’s going to bring us back together? A president? A

Congress? No. It’s going to be God,” Moore said in a

campaign speech.

Moore also presented himself as an anti-establishment,

anti-free trade, and anti-immigration candidate, even

though he didn’t know what the Deferred Action for

Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program was in a

radio interview.

Trump chose to back Strange over Moore and Rep. Mo

Brooks in early August before the runoff election. Steve

Bannon privately blamed presidential son-in-law and

senior adviser Jared Kushner for the endorsement,

according to a Republican Alabama political operative.

A White House official, however, denied that Kushner

ever discussed an endorsement with the president.

Moore’s victory nonetheless is already being spun as

being a positive for Trump.

(Continued on page 2)

California Poised to Provide “Sanctuary” to Alien Criminals and Terrorists Playing politics with national security and public safety.

2

(California, Sanctuary State, Continued from page 1)

around the country, but similarly combats pernicious

transnational gangs, as well as drug trafficking and

human trafficking organizations.

The protection of law abiding US citizens, including

lawful immigrants, is not a concern for illegal

immigration extremists. Case in point: On September 14,

2017 L.A. Times reported on how, under proposed

legislation, the California Justice Department would

oversee shared gang databases across the state.

Sharing such data is vital for effective law enforcement

to achieve essential goals. Indeed, the 9/11 Commission

report highlighted the lack of interagency cooperation to

share data. However, this news article reported that the

proposed creation of a technical advisory council would,

under a new amendment, make certain to shield the gang

databases from review by immigration law enforcement.

This is nothing short of obstruction of justice.

Here is the relevant and infuriating paragraph:

The state attorney general also would establish a

technical advisory council — comprising law

enforcement officials, gang intervention experts and

community members — to help ensure law enforcement

agencies are following the statewide standards. New

amendments would prevent agencies from sharing

records from the database with federal authorities for the

purpose of immigration enforcement, part of

negotiations that also scaled back a separate "sanctuary

state" bill in the state Senate.

Hypocritically, the open borders/immigration anarchists

insist that “Undocumented Immigrants” seldom commit

crimes” yet members of the California government are

concerned about providing information to ICE about

aliens who are members of violent gangs.

Jails and prison are often optimistically referred to as

“correctional facilities.” The hope is that criminals can

be reformed during their periods of incarceration.

Unfortunately, all too often convicted felons return to

their lives of crime upon their release, victimizing still

more innocent people.

Deportation (removal) is the best solution when we are

dealing with criminal aliens and recidivism. Therefore,

orders of deportation are tantamount to orders of

protection for Americans.

Furthermore, in the early 1980s I convinced then-New

York Senator Al D’Amato to draft a bill that would

impose a 20-year maximum penalty on aliens who had

been convicted of serious crimes, were deported and then

unlawfully reentered the United States. That bill was

enacted and is an element of Title 8 U.S. Code § 1326.

The point is to deter criminal aliens from reentering the

United States, thereby protecting their potential

victims. Sanctuary cities and states shield such alien

convicts from detection by ICE, thereby endangering the

lives of innocent people including members of the ethnic

immigrant communities that attract these violent

criminals seeking to evade the long arm of the

immigration law enforcement.

Today, members of international terrorist organizations

and transnational gangs should give political proponents

of sanctuary cities and states their MVP Award.

(Judge Roy Moore runoff, Continued from page 1)

“Judge Moore is an American hero who will be a

tremendous asset to the President in the Senate. So

tonight is actually a huge victory for President Trump,”

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, told The

Daily Caller.

The general election for the Alabama Senate race is on

December 12 and Moore will face-off against Democrat

Doug Jones. Alabama has not elected a Democrat to the

Senate since 1992.

Rep. Gohmert: Time to Recall Sen. McCain

Screen Shot Rep. Louie Gohmert (Fox: Sep 25, 2017)

By Amber Athey, Media Reporter, Sept. 25, 2017, dailycaller.com

Republican congressman from Texas, Louie Gohmert,

said Monday that he believes Arizona should recall Sen.

John McCain over his position on health care and his

battle with cancer.

Gohmert suggested on Fox News that a recall of

McCain would be a win-win situation for both McCain

and those who support repeal and replace of Obamacare.

“If he had said last year what he was gonna do, Kelli

Ward woulda beat him and Kirkpatrick woulda beat

him,” Gohmert began, “but you know nothing inhibits

recovery and I think Arizona can help him and us recall

him, you know, fight successfully this terrible cancer.”

Fox host Steve Doocy seemed caught off guard by Rep.

Gohmert’s assertion, asking again, “what are you

suggesting–that he be recalled?”

“Yeah, I think it would be very helpful to him and the

country,” Gohmert said, doubling down. “He’s got

cancer, it’s a tough battle, but stress is a real inhibitor

toward getting over cancer…let Arizona recall him so

we can get somebody who will keep his word from last

year.”

22-Year-old With Concealed Carry Stops Tennessee Church Shooter

Concealed handgun (Photo: Shutterstock/Maksym Dykha)

By Thomas Phippen, Reporter, September 24,

2017, dailycaller.com

A 22-year-old with a concealed carry

license stopped a shooter at a

Tennessee church after being “pistol-

whipped” in the face.

Robert Engle “physically engaged” shooting suspect

Emanuel K. Samson on Sunday, stopping a rampage that

already had killed one and wounded seven other people,

Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said during a

news conference.

“He’s the hero. He’s the person who stopped this

madness,” Anderson said.

Samson allegedly entered Burnette Chapel Church of

Christ in Antioch, Tenn., around 11 a.m. CST and

opened fire on more than 40 people inside. Samson had

two firearms, according to police, but it’s unclear

whether he used both weapons.

Engle, who apparently did not have his concealed

weapon with him inside the church, confronted the

shooter and was beaten with a pistol. During the fight,

the shooter was shot in the chest with his own gun,

according to police.

Engle then went to his car to retrieve his concealed

weapon and returned to the church to await the arrival of

police.

Friends of Engle, who serves as an usher at the church,

said he is like a gentle giant. “He’s just a great guy,”

Blake Langrod, 20, told The Tennessean. “Just one of

the kindest human beings you’ll ever meet.”

“That’s like him. He’s just someone who cares about a

lot of people. He has all their feelings at heart,” Engle’s

grandmother Rheta Engle said. “It would make any

parent, grandparent very, very proud of him.”

Samson and Engle are being treated for injuries at

separate hospitals.

Samson, a 25-year-old resident of Murfreesboro, Tenn.,

who came to the U.S. from Sudan in the 1990s, will be

charged with murder and multiple accounts of attempted

murder. Police have not released Samson’s motive.

NFL Stadium Worker Quits After Anthem Protests, Says He Will Never Watch an NFL Game Again

ORCHARD PARK, NY - SEPTEMBER 10: Fans stand during the national anthem before a game between the Buffalo Bills and New York

Jets on September 10, 2017 at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New

York. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)

By Liam Clancy, Media Reporter, September

25, 2017, dailycaller.com

A stadium worker at New Era Field

quit after almost 30 years on the job

due to protests against the National

Anthem, WCNC reported Monday.

Erich Nikischer quit after he witnessed several Buffallo

Bills players kneel during the National Anthem on

Sunday.

“I waited until the National Anthem ended, I took off my

shirt, threw my Bills hat on the ground, walked out,”

Nikischer told WCNC in an interview.

While Nikischer said he does not take issue with players

protesting before the anthem, he took offense to players

kneeling during the song.

“During the National Anthem…the song that is about our

country, our veterans that fight and die for us, it’s just

something I feel you shouldn’t disrespect that way,”

Nikischer added.

“I believe people have the right to protest; I just don’t

believe that’s the proper venue for it,” he continued.

Nikischer did not take the decision lightly, and says he

will miss his fellow coworkers. However, he will

continue to boycott the NFL until the protests stop.

“I will never step foot in the that place again, I will never

watch an NFL football game again until this ends,”

Nikischer concluded.

Taliban and ISIS Claim Responsibility for Rocket Attack Targeting James Mattis

By Tracy Mastaler, September 27, 2017, westernjournalism.com

The Taliban and ISIS have both claimed responsibility

for a failed rocket attack at Afghanistan’s main airport

Wednesday which targeted Defense Secretary James

Mattis.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said via Twitter

that the Taliban launched the attack at Kabul’s Hamid

Karzai International Airport and that the main target was

Mattis, according to CNN.

Continue reading at westernjournalism.com

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Price-gouging Laws Guarantee Shortages in Miami

Photo: AP Images

By Bob Adelmann, September 8, 2017, thenewamerican.com

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (shown) railed

against so-called price gougers at a press conference in

Tallahassee on Wednesday night: “It’s sickening. It’s

disgusting. It’s unacceptable and we’re not going to have

any of it.” She then provided the number for Floridians

who think they’re being ripped off to call to complain: 1-

866-9NO-SCAM.

Bondi doubled down the next day, telling would-be

"gougers": “I will be saying your name all over national

television and telling people not to go to your business

ever again, if you’re stealing from Floridians and taking

advantage of Floridians in a time of need. It is not just

about the money, it’s about commodities that are helping

to keep people alive, keep their children safe.”

If Bondi is successful in scaring off entrepreneurs seeking

to provide products that are in short supply, then those she

professes to want to help will be forced to do without.

In Florida, price gouging comes at a price: $1,000 per

instance and up to $25,000 for multiple violations

committed in a single 24-hour period. Price gouging is

remarkably undefined, usually referred to as selling any

“essential” item “at an unconscionable price.” Such

flexible definitions give Bondi the power to declare that

anyone who raises his price on anything during the

emergency is a gouger. If this rule is effectively enforced,

she could shut down the entire economy where prices

change daily, if not hourly, based on supply and demand.

Two college professors who actually understand all of this

used a popular example to prove the point, writing for

Florida’s Sun-Sentinel: Laws against price-gouging are

essentially the same thing as price-fixing, and result

predictably in shortages and long lines of people waiting

to buy whatever goods might remain on the shelves.

It’s the example of generators: “Let’s say you sell

generators in Georgia. After a hurricane hits further south,

you notice that the price of generators in Florida is double

what you can make at home. What might you do? It’s

reasonable that some suppliers will load up cars and

trucks with generators and take them to Florida, offering

Floridians the chance to buy the much sought-after

product. Those consumers who really value the generators

offer to pay the higher price, while those who do not

refrain from buying them.”

What happens next? More sellers of generators come into

the market: "Further, as more sellers come to the market

with generators, they will have to compete with other

suppliers, thus lowering the price of generators." In other

words, without saying it in so many words, the cure for

high prices for generators is high prices!

In the real world, that is exactly what happened to John

Shepperson. His sad story is told by Veronique de Rugy

for The New American:

Consider John Shepperson, who, after Hurricane Katrina,

rented a U-Haul, bought 19 generators in Kentucky and

drove them to Mississippi, where there was greater need.

He did this because he thought that he could sell the

generators for twice as much as he paid, because people

really needed them.

Unfortunately for him and his potential buyers, he was

arrested and spent four days in jail, and the generators

were confiscated, causing people to stay in the dark. The

experience also stopped those who were going to follow

in Shepperson's footsteps by bringing more generators to

New Orleans, which would have not only increased the

number of people with power but also decreased the price

of generators, as the supply would have increased with

every new gouger.

In other words, those who could afford to buy

Shepperson’s generators were left in the dark, and those

who couldn’t afford to buy them remained in the dark.

Worse, those who couldn’t afford Shepperson’s

generators today had little hope of buying one from one of

his competitors in the future who might be selling them

cheaper.

The free market operates on “signals,” telling

entrepreneurs where their skills, abilities, talents, and

capital are best rewarded. If those signals are disrupted or,

in Bondi’s Florida, turned off altogether, Floridians might

just as well be living in Venezuela, where Nicolás

Maduro has been doing it her way for years.

Daniel Perez Sweeps HD116 Election Against Gabriele Mayaudon

Daniel Perez

By Allison Nielsen, September 26, 2017, sunshinestatenews.com

Republican political newcomer Daniel Perez knocked out

Democrat Gabriele Mayaudon to win the election for

Florida’s 116th House District on Tuesday.

Perez bested Mayaudon by a wide margin, taking nearly

66 percent of the vote compared to Mayaudon’s 34

percent.

Perez will replace Jose Felix Diaz in HD116, which

covers parts of southwest Miami-Dade county and has

historically leaned Republican.

Approximately 13,000 voters cast their ballots in HD116

with 42 of 47 precincts reporting, with Perez receiving

nearly 9,000 votes to Mayaudon’s 4,500 votes.

The HD116 seat became vacated in a political chain-

reaction when Sen. Frank Artiles, R-Kendall, resigned in

April after making profanity-laced comments and racial

slurs towards a fellow lawmaker.

Rep. Jose Felix Diaz then jumped in the race to replace

Artiles, leaving his seat open for the taking.

Perez, 29, was a newcomer to the political scene, but

quickly equipped himself with a high-profile political

team which included Republican veteran consultant David

Custin.

The young lawyer defeated political insider Jose Mallea

to nab the GOP nomination in July after a brutal primary

campaign.

Mallea was a well-connected GOP operative who jumped

from campaign to campaign over the years, heading up

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s senatorial campaign committee

in 2010 before joining Newt Gingrich’s Florida team in

2011.

The South Florida Republican also served as a senior

adviser for Hispanic outreach to former Florida Gov. Jeb

Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign, but his connections

and endorsements from former stars in Florida politics --

like Bush and former House Speaker Will Weatherford --

couldn’t secure him a win on primary day.

Hillary Clinton won HD116 last November, but HD116 is

susceptible to ticket-splitting, with Republicans like Diaz

handily winning elections each cycle.

The HD116 election ran simultaneously with SD40,

where Democrat Annette Taddeo caused a huge upset,

defeating Republican Jose Felix Diaz by nearly three

percent.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Dad’s Letter Tells Two Little Girls, Why He Went to Korea-And Died

Passing Parade, by Nelson A. Pryor, Guest Columnist

“War is Hell!” The September 16, 1950 New York Times

4L, ran this letter, a letter written by Pfc. John J.

McCormick, in anticipation of that telegram, the one

saying: “The Defense Department regrets to inform you

that Pfc. John J. McCormick was killed in action August

10.”

Two little girls who can’t yet read, and their mother,

received that letter. A letter they would treasure all their

lives.

Reads to Children

Mrs. Mary McCormick read that letter herself, first, then

read it to her daughters, 6-year-old Rose Marie and her

sister Joan, 3.

This is that letter:

“This is Daddy. I want you to listen and pay attention

while Mummie reads this to you. Just try and make

believe I was there, talking to you.

“Joannie, I don’t think you’ll remember me because you

were a little baby when I had to go away, but I used to sit

and hold you a lot, and if you were a bad little girl, I used

to make you sit in a chair until you were good, but I

always loved you a lot and I was very proud of you.

Rose Marie, you should remember me because I used to

take you out with me a lot, and I used to buy you a lot of

candy and sodas, and I used to feel so good when people

used to say you had eyes like mine. Remember the little

puppy I bought you? Your Mummy used to tie a little

pink ribbon around its neck and you used to carry it in

your arms. You looked awfully cute.

“I want you both to know that I’d be with you if I could,

but there are a lot of bad men in the world, and if they

were allowed to do what they wanted to do, little girls like

you wouldn’t be allowed to go to church on Sunday or be

able to go to the school you wanted to.

(Continued on page 4)

(Continued from page 3)

“So I have to help fight these men and keep them from

coming where you and I live. It might take a long while,

and maybe Daddy will have to go and help God up in

heaven, and if I do, I always want you both to be good for

Mummie, because she is the best Mummie in the whole

wide world.

“She has always taken care of you while I have been

away. You see, kids, I happened to be caught in two wars

inside ten years, and the reason I am where I am today is

because I am fighting for what I think is right.

“That’s one thing I always want both of you to

remember. If your conscience tells you something is

right, always stand up for it. You might be ridiculed for

doing so, but in the long run you’ll always find out that

people respect you more for doing so.

“When you grow up to be young ladies, don’t ever forget

all that Mummie has done for you. She has often gone

without clothes for herself so that both of you could have

nice things. I want you to do as she says: go to church on

Sundays and you can always pray for Daddy.

“Because I Love You”

“So remember, kids, when you grow up, save this letter

in case I’m not there to talk to you, and try and remember

all I am saying, for it’s for your good, and because I love

you and Mummie so much.

“I’ll be in a hole, fighting, in a few days, in a place called

Korea, so I’m sending you all the love that’s in my heart

on this sheet of paper. I carry your picture, and

Mummie’s next to my heart, and if I have to go help God,

you’ll know that last thought I had on this earth was for

the two of you and Mummie. All my love and kisses. Be

good and God bless you. DADDY.”

We Must Preserve Our History

By CS Bennett

It is no surprise to me that the

left is stirring the pot of hatred

and defiance when it comes to

subject matters related to

American history. They cannot

even be truthful about their own nefarious role in this

country’s perilous days when slavery reared its ugly

head. So entwined is their involvement in the institution

of slavery that they have set about erasing their

handiwork in it. Generations from now, when the

question is asked about their party’s role in slavery,

democrats hope their party will be able to say, where’s

the proof of our involvement? There’s nothing in the

history books, or anything carved in stone statues to

implement us. So, where is your proof that we were

involved?

Actually, democrats started erasing their role in slavery,

slowly and methodically, by taking over our educational

system in the early 1900s. He who controls the message

controls the masses, one must remember. Overtime, they

began to revise our history and their shameful place in it.

On the Democrat Party’s website, they boldly claim that

they have been on the frontlines the past 200 years,

fighting for the rights of minorities and the downtrodden.

At the very least, they are being disingenuous. At best,

they are outright liars.

Here is the truth. Democrats have fought every Civil

Rights bill republicans authored and presented before the

main body of Congress for a vote. They have also made it

a point to define their opposition and in a bad light,

meaning the Republican Party, who never fought back in

modern times. Now they want to remove any statue that

reminds people of the Confederacy and Southern

Heritage, both terms synonymous with the worst of the

Democrat Party, as it relates to that party’s historical

oppression of Blacks.

Their sudden outrage is one of intolerance, and more

insidiously at its core, one of revisionism. When talking

history, one must take the bad with the good. You cannot

speak of Germany, or France, historically without

mentioning, or referencing, Adolf Hitler or Napoleon

Bonaparte. One cannot speak of the Bible without

bringing up Satan. One cannot truly define the doctrine of

Islam, without bringing up jihad, beheadings, the

Crusades and religious oppression brought to others in

the name of Islam.

Most Americans pass by these statues every day without

giving them one thought. But suddenly, because a small

group of revisionists want to tear them down, we must rid

ourselves of that part of our history and American

heritage. As a Black American, these statues were never a

threat to me. If anything, a good write up about why these

men were fighting, rather than just focusing on their

military exploits in the dark days of slavery, would have

gone a long way in letting me, and others, learn who the

real perpetrators of this social injustice truly were.

All of us have taken history courses at some time in our

educational experience, but never once was I taught about

the true oppressors (southern democrats) of Blacks during

slavery or their liberators (republicans). But then again,

liberals have controlled the flow of information being

taught and what was being taught and their aim has

always been to conceal, even erase, their role in slavery. It

would have profited all Americans to have such statues

remain, to include a write up, and a historical educational

background about who were the good guys and who were

the bad guys in all of this.

From the history classes I took in government run

schools, it was never defined, or established, about which

political party supported slavery and what political party

opposed. It is not even talked about. Black leaders are to

blame, too. How can we talk about slavery and the Civil

War during Black History Month and never mention the

roles both parties played in it? And it is never mentioned

that once liberated, the black community voted

republican.

Put this blatant omission back into the history classes and

I grant you, children will begin to start looking at the

democrats with a better understanding of what it is that

party stands for. People tend to make better choices, and

decisions when they have the best information at hand.

Republicans are going to have to reclaim the educational

system and restore truth to the curriculum. We do this,

and we cripple the propaganda machine of the left big

time. We are also in a better position to restore America

to its greatness…

As for the democrats…they will have to answer for their

sins. This was the party that wanted to remove God from

their platform. This is the party that educated all the

athletes you see kneeling during the National Anthem.

Yes, they will have to face the wrath of the Almighty for

what they are trying to do to this president and this nation.

Their downfall will continue in 2018, that I can assure

you. And you will be instrumental in their demise if only

you vote yes for freedom and no for socialism. Yes, let

freedom ring….

D.C. Court Rules Unwarranted Use of Cellphone Spying Tools is Unconstitutional

By C. Mitchell Shaw, September 23, 2017, thenewamerican.com

The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that police

using cell-site simulators to track mobile phones without a

warrant is unconstitutional. In making its decision, the

court overturned the conviction of a man found guilty in

2014 of robbery and sexual assault, since D.C. police had

used location information from his phone without a

warrant to gather evidence that led to the conviction.

In making the 2-1 decision, the court joined a growing

number of courts that have similarly ruled the

unwarranted use of cell-site simulators as

unconstitutional. One other such court is Maryland’s

Court of Special Appeals, which ruled in April 2016 that

“cellphone users have an objectively reasonable

expectation that their cellphones will not be used as real-

time tracking devices, through the direct and active

interference of law enforcement.” In that case, the

Maryland court’s decision resulted in overturning a

conviction for attempted murder.

Cell-cite simulators — popularly known as “Stingrays”

after one of the earliest and most used models — are

highly sophisticated and expensive surveillance tools that

capture information from cell tower traffic. They

essentially conduct a "man-in-the-middle" attack by

mimicking a cell tower and fooling all mobile phones in

the area into connecting to them. The devices — which

are about the size of a suitcase and can be transported in

the back of a police car — then harvest data from the

phones including the numbers of the phones, the numbers

the phones are calling or texting, the location of the

phones, and information about the phones themselves.

Once the cell-site simulators have that information, they

relay the connection to the nearest real tower in the area

and then repeat the process in reverse to capture data

going from the tower to the phone.

Echoing the sentiment of the Maryland court’s previous

decision about these devices, the D.C. Court of Appeals

— which has appellate jurisdiction over cases arising

from the D.C court system and should not be confused

with the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of

Columbia Circuit — ruled that the use of cell-site

simulators without a warrant in the case it was deciding

“invaded a reasonable expectation of privacy” and was

therefore a violation of the protection against

unreasonable searches and seizures enshrined in the

Fourth Amendment. Judge Corinne Beckwith wrote in

the majority opinion: “The simulator’s operation involved

exploitation of a security flaw in a device that most

people now feel obligated to carry with them at all times.

Allowing the government to deploy such a powerful tool

without judicial oversight would surely ‘shrink the realm

of guaranteed privacy’ far below that which ‘existed

when the Fourth Amendment was adopted.’” She added

that the court’s acquiescence of the unwarranted use of

cell-site simulators would “place an individual in the

difficult position either of accepting the risk that at any

moment his or her cellphone could be converted into a

tracking device or of foregoing ‘necessary use of’ the cell

phone.”

The court’s decision stems from the case of Prince Jones,

who had been sentenced to 66 years in prison. Jones was

accused of sexually assaulting and robbing two women

within days of each other in 2013. The women both said

they had agreed to meet a man they had met online and

that when they met with him, he threatened them with a

knife, sexually assaulted them, and robbed them.

Police — taking the shortest path instead of using tried

and true investigative techniques — used a cell-site

simulator to track the phone used to contact the women.

The location led them to Jones, and when police searched

the car he was in, they found items taken in the robberies.

This case — which is a victory for privacy and liberty —

underscores the risks of police departments cutting

constitutional corners. This is far from the first — and

likely far from the last — case to be tossed out because

the evidence was properly declared “fruit of the poisoned

tree” because of the use of a cell-site simulator without a

warrant. In fact, what makes this case different from

previous ones is that D.C. police admitted they used the

device. As this writer reported in a previous article from

August 2015:

While the use of Stingrays does bring about arrests, many

of the cases are dropped or reduced to get a conviction on

lesser charges in exchange for a confession. Why is that?

Because police departments have to sign non-disclosure

agreements with the FBI to even obtain or use Stingrays.

As a result, police often do not — cannot — disclose

(even to prosecutors) that they used the device. This

means that police are caught between a rock and a hard

place when it comes to testifying in court. If the officer

discloses the fact that the reason he knew where to find

the suspect was that he used a Stingray to sniff out his

phone, the officer could be liable for violating the non-

disclosure agreement. If he testifies falsely, he would be

guilty of perjury. So the case is either dropped or the

charges are reduced.

So, while that trend may be shifting and courts are lining

up to declare the unwarranted use of these devices

verboten, the fact remains that police departments all

over the country continue to use them without a warrant

since those departments are not bound by a DOJ policy

from September 2015 requiring a warrant for their use.

While requiring police everywhere to obtain a warrant

before using a cell-site simulator would go part of the

way to answering the constitutional conundrum of where

privacy and liberty must yield the right of way to

intrusive investigative practices, there are concerns that a

warrant cannot allay. The very nature of cell-site

simulators means that all traffic within the range of the

device is captured — not just the particular phone that is

being “targeted.” Because of this, the use of these devices

always constitutes an invasion of privacy for the people

whose phone traffic is vacuumed up in the process.

What should happen — though in this age of nearly

ubiquitous surveillance, is not likely to — is for cell-site

simulators to be added to the ash heap of items and

practices that — because they never should have existed

— are no longer used. Police departments have a plethora

of tools in their toolboxes for investigating crimes,

identifying criminals, making arrests, and bringing about

convictions. Tools that require infringing on the rights of

citizens don’t belong in that toolbox.

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Why should you attend the Denver Nalty-Byfield Enterprise Trial? By NMI, September 25, 2017, notmytribe.com

Why support the We-The-People public oath sticklers who the state is prosecuting like a criminal enterprise? A few

reasons: Solidarity. Because as hardheaded as they might be, defendants Stephen Nalty and Steve Byfield are still

JUDICIAL REFORM ACTIVISTS. Sense of fair play. Half a courtroom gallery filled with Colorado Attorney General

staffers and FBI special agents chumming it up with jurors and briefing their THREE FBI UNDERCOVER WITNESSES

while the defendant pariah side of the audience is warned by the judge that even a whisper will result in ejection. Thrills.

Where else are you going to see this many federal agents pushing their weight around, barking at you in the hallways,

swaggering gleefully about how much smarter they are than the defendants? Pathos. Come watch the Assistant Fucking

Colorado Attorney General, Robert Shapiro himself, lead a team of prosecutors against the unrepresented defendants,

watch Shapiro belittle them, lecture them, trivialize their difficulties defending themselves in jail, and pretend they can

review “tens of thousands” of pages of evidence and “hours and hours” of undercover surveillance tapes in a single day.

Because you can make a difference. Come push the FBI-guys’ buttons. Come witness and document the abuses of the

overbearing prosecution team. Come lend public pressure on the judge, whose conscience is already bothering him about

how unfair this sham trial has become. (Continued on page 6)

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Liens

You don’t have to agree with how Nalty and Byfield went

about trying to reform the judicial system, but aren’t they

mostly right? Judges are corrupt. Local officials are not

accountable to the people. Law enforcement won’t pursue

charges of their own corruption and the media certainly

won’t side with the reformers. When Nalty, Byfield and Co,

served commercial liens valued at billions and trillions of

dollar against corrupt officials, it was an effort of last resort

to get someone’s attention. No one was thinking, hey,

maybe this billion dollar demand will slip through the

cracks and the money will be ours!

Each lien was calculated to represent the sum defrauded

from and owed to the American People. Prosecutors can tap

these defendants for conspiring and racketeering and

extorting and attempting to influence public officials, but

they can’t say it aimed to earn the accused one single

penny. Throwing three undercover infiltrators at a twenty

member judicial reform group, throwing thousands of

manpower hours toward locking these defendants away, is

gross abuse of authority and it’s hubris.

Authentic transgressions

So the pieces are coming together on the cases of Nalty and

crew. It turns out federal investigators labeled them

“sovereigns” because they’ve held themselves not

responsible for paying traffic tickets, property taxes, and the

like. In the end I’ll grant you Nalty’s group may be guilty

of those. I say “may” because such citations may have been

retaliatory for their political beliefs.

As to the punishment, I believe adjudicators should take

into account that the defendants acted not to enrich

themselves, nor to flaunt the law per se, but to assert

political rights about which they may have been misguided.

Again I say may because the defendants are being tried,

after all, according to a set of laws, which enforce a social

contract, the terms of which the parties do not agree.

Economic slavery

Ours is a system of peonage to which this crew feels they

never indentured themselves. The ersatz writs and liens

they spammed to every official they encountered were the

legal loopholes they thought could break the bank and

liberate everyone from financial tyranny. While Nalty’s

scheme intended insurrection, it wasn’t against democracy

or the republic, it was against taxation without

representation, the same beast Americans pretend to have

overthrown with the Declaration of Independence.

Instead of tea into Boston Harbor, this crew dumped a

bunch of junk paper unto the reception counters of

Colorado public offices. Charge Nalty’s crew with littering

maybe, at most, vandalism, though it’s hard to say these

vandals caused even a scratch. Every public official who

testified as a victim said they didn’t take the ersatz

documents seriously.

The writs and liens looked officious, but weren’t attributed

to known government or banking institutions. Likewise

signatures were signed in red, the color chosen to represent

the signer’s blood, even though red is the single color

which automated banking systems reject as unreadable.

Not one witness was confused about the validity of the

papers. They cited too the rambling diatribes passing as

block text.

To call the defendants “paper terrorists” wildly overstates

the effect they achieved. They didn’t terrorize anyone.

Governments like to accuse rebellious insurgents of

“terrorism”, but that’s another paralegal threshold with

which most common citizens, and certainly these

“sovereigns” disagree.

These guys did the equivalent of feed Monopoly money

into ATMs.

Government Scorekeepers are Wrong. Corporate Tax Reform Would Mostly Help Workers, Not the Rich Commentary by Adam Michel, September 22, 2017, dailysignal.com

Adam Michel focuses on tax policy and the federal

budget as a policy analyst in the Thomas A. Roe

Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

Studies show that at least 75 percent of the cost of corporate taxes are

passed on to workers in the form of lower wages. (Photo: iStock Photos)

Politicians who don’t want tax reform are busy making

the case that cutting taxes for business will not help

workers.

Those politicians are backed up by government

scorekeepers who, unfortunately, have their economic

analysis exactly backward.

Despite the name—“corporate” tax reform—the burden of

the corporate income tax falls almost entirely on workers

in the form of lower wages. Americans are undoubtedly

skeptical about this claim, but the realities on the ground

are actually quite simple.

Businesses invest money in their workplace so that their

employees can be more productive. Part of this involves

paying higher wages to employees who become more

productive and are in higher demand from other firms

who are making similar investments.

American corporations pay a federal corporate income tax

rate of 35 percent—one of the highest in the world. High

corporate taxes discourage this kind of investment in

American workplaces, thus killing the potential for

workers to earn higher wages.

Most of the cost of corporate taxes—between 75 and 100

percent—is passed on to workers in the form of lower

wages. This fact is shown in the results of 10 separate

economic studies.

On the flip side of the coin, American households would

share in the benefits of a corporate tax cut in receiving

higher wages.

This is where government scorekeepers like the Joint

Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget

Office get it wrong.

In contradiction to the relevant economic literature, they

maintain that only one quarter of the corporate tax is

passed on to workers. The other 75 percent is assumed to

go to owners of capital—the corporate owners.

This misguided view is posing an obstacle to tax reform,

as government modeling assumptions have a bias toward

viewing the wealthy as beneficiaries of corporate tax

reform. They do not properly account for the benefits that

will accrue to lower-income wage earners.

Contrary to what these government models would

suggest, slashing the corporate tax rate would help the

poor far more than the rich.

A 20-point reduction of the corporate income tax—from

35 percent to 15 percent—could boost the relative market

incomes of the poorest Americans by 2.4 percent. That’s

$365 for a household that earns $15,000 a year, and more

than twice the 1.1 percent increase for the richest 1

percent.

And that’s not even accounting for the economic growth

that would compound over time as a result of tax reform.

When accounting for that growth, others have estimated

that wages could increase by as much as 28 percent.

When Congress finally releases a detailed tax reform

plan, the distributional analysis could make or break its

political viability. If government scorekeepers continue to

assume that owners of capital will benefit the most from

tax reform, they will mislead the public.

It would be a shame if backward assumptions

misinformed the public and obstructed this historic

opportunity to update the U.S. tax code. The current

corporate tax code is largely responsible for our anemic

economic growth, the historically low rate of business

start-ups, and reduced economic dynamism.

Across the U.S., corporations employ 55 million

hardworking people who create products for global and

domestic markets. A lower corporate income tax rate will

benefit not only those 55 million Americans, but all

Americans, as increased investment and job creation

would put upward pressure on all wages.

Moreover, by attracting business and investment back to

the U.S. with a more favorable tax environment, tax

reform will renew America’s place as a top global

destination to do business and hire workers.

That’s a change that all lawmakers who care about the

well-being of American families should embrace.

Paul Predicts 'Big News' from White House Soon on Obamacare Tweaks

Sen Rand Paul (R-Ky.) talks to reporters Sept. 25, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)

By Bridget Johnson, September 27, 2017, pjmedia.com

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose "no" vote was among

the GOP dissent that kept the Graham-Cassidy bill to

repeal and replace Obamacare from coming to the floor

for a vote this week, predicted today that there are

executive actions in the works to alter the Affordable

Care Act.

"I think there is going to be big news from the White

House in the next week or two of something they can

do on their own. This is something I've been advocating

for six months. I think it's bigger than Graham-Cassidy,

it's bigger than any reform we've even talked about to

date but hasn't gotten enough attention," Paul told

MSNBC this morning.

"I believe that President Trump can legalize, on his

own, the ability of individuals to join a group or a

health association across state lines and buy insurance,"

he added. "This would give enormous leverage to

bringing down prices. It would also give protection to

individuals that feel left out, you know, hung out to dry,

basically."

"If you and your spouse buy insurance by yourself and

if your spouse gets sick, you'll be punished by the

insurance industry. If these individuals can join large

groups across state lines, I think they'll get protection,

less expensive insurance and really it will solve a lot of

the problems we have in the individual market. I think

President Trump is going to do this on his own."

Trump was hammering Paul to vote "yes" on Graham-

Cassidy, in which Republicans were trying to push

through Obamacare repeal on a simply majority vote

using budget reconciliation before the end of the

month.

"Rand Paul, or whoever votes against Hcare Bill, will

forever (future political campaigns) be known as 'the

Republican who saved ObamaCare,'" Trump tweeted

Friday.

"No one is more opposed to Obamacare than I am, and

I've voted multiple times for repeal. The current bill

isn't repeal," Paul retorted about an hour later. "I won't

vote for Obamacare Lite that keeps 90% of the taxes &

spending just so some people can claim credit for

something that didn't happen."

"Calling a bill that KEEPS most of Obamacare 'repeal'

doesn't make it true. That's what the swamp does. I

won't be bribed or bullied," Paul added.

"I know Rand Paul and I think he may find a way to get

there for the good of the Party!" Trump tweeted

Saturday, before the bill's demise.

Paul said he's talked to Trump "multiple times" about

going around Congress, and said the president is

"enthusiastic" about the senator's particular idea.

"There was a law passed in the 1970s called the ERISA

law. It already allows corporations -- if my corporation

is in 20 different states, I already can buy insurance

across state lines. It's called large group ERISA. It's a

self-insured type of insurance but it's the insurance

people liked the most and it's had the least rise in

premiums," he said. "It's about 36 percent of the

market. It already exists. What I'm trying to do is let

individuals get into that marketplace. And this would

be an enormous benefit. And it's not necessarily an

executive order. I think it will be a reinterpretation of

existing law with a more expansive definition of who

can form an association."

"The good thing about my proposal, it costs zero

dollars. I don't think people on the left are going to hate

it. It basically is legalizing the ability of consumers to

collectively come together, to bargain for cheaper

prices. We need to do this because the insurance

companies have all the power. If you watched any of

the debate recently over this, both left and right think

insurance companies have too much power."

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The Flag and FootballBy: Pam Hess

Okay, this is my two cents on this debate. Sorry if it is priced too high!

I understand about everyone having their opinions and it is their Constitutional Right to think what they want to think. I get it, I really do. But now, as Paul Harvey would say,here is the rest of the story.

The National Football League is a private organization that is made up of 18 billionaires among the NFL's 31 team owners (the Green

Bay Packers are owned by public shares). Roger Goodell is the NFL Commissioner whose net worthis about $75 million. He needs to be FIRED!

The NFL and the Team owners are always holding the taxpayers hostage. If you don't want us to pull our team from your city, you will have to build us anew stadium....cha ching. Taxpayers pay out millions to build a new stadium for rich owners and selfish players.

Get this one! The Department of Defense paid the NFL $5.4 million dollars to salute troops. WHAT?The NFL should have done it for free but if they weren't going to why does the tax payer have to pay it?

The average player makes $1.9 million dollars per year. The leagues minimum base salary is $450,000 per year. Who reading this article wouldn't like to make that? Heck, if you make $25,000 per year you would have to work 18 years to make $450,000. Boo Hoo, my heart bleeds for you! NOT!

Then when you consider all the money these fine gentlemen (sarcasm on) make and they still can't keep their self in check. In the past 5 years, there have been 258 NFL players arrested for a range of crimes. The most common ones are drugs, DUI, rape, assault, felony burglary, and even shoplifting. You make a ton of money and you have to shoplift? They have no morals and no souls and they expect us to pay our hard earned money to go to the stadium to see them play. Theyeven get rewarded when you watch them on TV. The sad thing is they don't get penalized like you or I would if we had committed the same crimes. Can you say entitled?

But the biggest problem I see is the NFL is influencing our younger people. They don't even realize what they are copying. They strive to divide our country.

So excuse me for getting my big girl panties in a wad.....it might be their right to take a knee but it is my right to boycott them. It is my right not to turn on a game. When the NFL and their rich owners and players start thinking about everyone else and stop asking for taxpayer money they can push their agenda. Until then....BOYCOTT!

Calling for a National boycott of the NFL for Sunday November 12th, Veterans Day Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums.

So go for it. Take a knee. While you are down there thank God for what this country has allowedyou to achieve!

Key To Understanding the ConstitutionBy: KrisAnne Hall

When a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, a founder of our Constitutional Republic, what kind of government the States created, he answered, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” The key to keeping that Republic exists in the understanding how the Constitution was designed to function.

The Constitution of these United States is not arbitrary. It is a document of standards established to keep the GOVERNMENT from becoming arbitrary. These standards were not invented by the men who wrote the Constitution. These standards were axiomatic truths that had proven themselves for over a millennium. Many of these truths can be found in five historic liberty charters, the very liberty charters that gave birth to America’s founding documents. The US Constitution is not an invention, it is an inheritance. Those who claim that America’s Constitution is vague, arbitrary, or even irrelevant do so because they are uneducated about where our Constitution came from and why it was formed. The US Constitution and the govt it created was designed to protect Liberty. This purpose is declared in the Declaration of Independence. It is recorded in the Pre-amble to the Constitution. And The Bill of Rights (the 1st 10 amds) was incorporated into the Constitutionto trigger an alarm when this liberty is being threatened.And yet, nothing in either of these three documents is an invention of the men who wrote them. Everything, every principle of government, every security to Liberty, and even at times the very language itself was taken from lessons learned from over 700 years of history and five essential Liberty Charters. It is this history that proves that the Constitution is not an arbitrary, living breathing document, but a document designed from blood-bought lessons in the historic struggle between liberty and tyranny. Once this history is understood, today’s claim that theConstitution is irrelevant falls away and we begin to see not only how the Constitution is designed to limit government and preserve Liberty, but why we must adhere to this standard. The living breathing deception can only exist by eliminating these historical truths and isolating men from their own history. Originalism or original intent means looking at the history that gave us our founding principles and realizing why they are important, it means understanding the Constitution in its historical context. This is the only way to ensure that this government operates to preserve the essential principles of liberty, toignore the origin of our constitutional principles is to invite the same threats that prompted the necessity of their protection. To throw off the lessons of history invites despotism and inequality, apathy and corruption, slavery and oppression. Originalism is the shield against slavery, masters, andoppressors. Originalism not only understands these essential principles of liberty, but embraces it with the knowledge that Liberty was the stated goal of the designers of the Constitution. Originalism is not only the correct legal way to apply the Constitution, it is the only way that guarantees and secures Liberty. Originalism declares, “we don’t care what the mob says, we don’t care what the powerful say, we will ensurethat all are treated equally with dignity. We are not ruled by mob mentality, but by the principles of Liberty because we know our history.”However, a living breathing constitution is arbitrary. It creates government that is dependent upon current social trends and the will of the powerful. It is just another name for a Banana Republic. A living breathingconstitution allows those in government to say there were no cell phones in 1789 so we have the right to arbitrarily control your communications. The living breathing constitution allows those in government to say since there was no internet in 1789, we can define who is a journalist and what can be said. A living breathing constitution gives power to the oppressor through interpretation by the powerful, the majority, or the deceptive who distort history. So if the majority or the powerful decides that one group of people deserve less or more protection, less or more property, less or more liberty, then there is no recourse for the powerless or the minority. A living breathing constitution is slavery. If we ignore that history and the Constitution in its proper context ceases to be the fixed standard for govt, then we are left to be ruled by the powerful or by the whim of the majority or by those at the controls of information who would distort history and truth. If we do not know these essential principles of liberty and where they came from, we cannot evaluate and ensure

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the solutions are proper and not tragic. Some call these unseen consequences, but when you can see through the lenses of history you know that they are no unseen; they are proven facets of human nature.There is no magic pill. History and truth tells us thereis no quick fix. If we truly want to make America great, we must reacquaint ourselves with some essential truths. Without these foundational building blocks, we cannot achieve the successful ends we are all looking for and we continue to spin our wheels, haphazardly maneuvering government, sometimes to good ends, sometimes to destruction. Our problem is that our policies are not driven by these foundational principles, but instead are driven by the phantoms of prosperity or security.

Our Constitution is not arbitrary and neither are the solutions. They are time tested and essential. The designers of our Constitution put these solutions in our hands. It was the greatest gift they gave us…the opportunity to self-governance. It’s time we remember who we are and the power that we hold. I am convinced that Reconnecting with this truth will reignite the lamp of liberty. Let’s learn from history so we will not be doomed to repeat its mistakes. Let’s stand for liberty today so our children will not have to bow tomorrow.

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LAND FOR SALE in Beachville

Planted pines on 65th and 69th Road $68,000

North Florida Homeland Realty386-466-2254

John Lacquey Pinestraw, Inc.

LAKE CITY INDUSTRIES

250 N. W. Railroad Street • Lake City, FL 32055

Building SuppliesLumber 386-752-3511Hardware 800-756-3511Insulation Fax 386-758-4735Windows