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   I don't have the magazine in front of me, but if you'd like, I could
   scan the page and send you a JPEG or something like that of it. I
   don't think the NRA is as good a defender of the Second Amendment as
   it could be, and ditto with John Ashcroft, but at least they aren't
   trying to totally nuke our freedoms like Clinton, Janet Reno &
   Handgun Control Incorporated.

   Jonathan Wienke

   - -----Original Message-----
   From: Richard Stevens [[1]mailto:dial911book@yahoo.com]
   Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:51 AM
   To: Jonathan Wienke; freematt@coil.com
   Cc: George@Orwellian.Org; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net;
   Director@KeepAndBearArms.com; air.man@att.net;
   brian@citizensofamerica.org
   Subject: Mr. Wienke, help me out on this -- Re: FW: General Ashcroft
   make his move

   - --- Jonathan Wienke <JonathanW@gbgcorp.com> wrote:
   >
   > I get the NRA's American Rifleman magazine. The July
   > issue also has
   > an article about Ashcroft's letter, which does not
   > quote the rather
   > lengthy footnote. However, it does contain a legible
   > image of BOTH
   > pages of the letter, including the ENTIRE text of
   > the footnote. This
   > is hardly the action of an organization bent on
   > distorting Ashcroft's
   > view on the Second Amendment. Stupid editing on the
   > part of the
   > America's First Freedom team, perhaps, but not an
   > organization-wide
   > conspiracy.
   >
   > Jonathan Wienke
   >

   Mr. Wienke,

   I paged through the entire July 2001 issue of American
   Rifleman, and maybe I'm just blind as the proverbial
   bat, but I don't see the article to which you refer
   that quotes the entire Ashcroft letter.  On what page
   is it?

   The July 2001 issue of First Freedom is the one
   featuring the Ashcroft letter -- that I have received
   thus far.

   On the point you raise:  maybe it was merely a bad
   editorial decision for the one magazine.  Fine, and we
   can forgive that.  But, ask this question:  in what
   kind of workplace environment could this kind of
   editing decision be made?

   Remember that more than one editor had to approve the
   final copy. This is not just a typo.  More than one
   person had to consciously decide to omit relevant
   material without telling the reader.

   I have to wonder if other sorts of "editing decisions"
   that massage the facts and distort the truth are being
   made ... and we readers don't know it.

   Maybe it was entirely innocent.  Then NRA should
   promptly apologize, correct it and publish the full
   text in the following issue.  Let's see if they do.

   - --Richard Stevens

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