I've created this special feature for the print media and broadcasters ("Page Nine" regardless of where it runs), that covers stories afresh, not the way news rooms typically flavor things. It will help reduce the distrust so many news consumers feel and could be the most avidly followed item you carry -- if you carry it. It certainly is well received by my audience. This casual sample might make you say, "We'll NEVER run that!" but Page Nine is built around ad revenues from clear-thinking mainstream businesses.
Author Alan
Korwin
as drawn by Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist Steve
Benson
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I need a break from dissecting the endless nonsense from the "news" media. It's the same old same old -- the global Muslim jihad is disguised as "terrorism," political coverage is a horse race with little factual content allowed; abject silliness and fluff is presented as "news" virtually non-stop; statist (government) perspective permeates so much of the material.
Remember -- If you watch ABC or NBC you'll C... BS.
One main subject in Page Nine this time --
Fifty of these illuminated street signs were posted under contract -- and torn down by the city of Phoenix!
1. The city of Phoenix has censored a set of 50 gun-safety advertisements aimed at children and their parents. Outrage is spreading statewide, after the city tore down the bus-stop billboards -- while we were negotiating a resolution! They claimed the ads were unacceptable public-service announcements -- as if that's wrong in the first place -- and the ads are 100% commercial, posted by a for-profit company, with sponsorship from businesses seeking firearms-training students and selling range time. Complete details below!
Also: The gaping hole in American self-defense law has been identified and is the subject of my next book, due out in the next few days:
You can place an advance order and be among the first to get a copy! This is going to shake up the self-defense world. Do you have the right to remain silent? Then how do you call 911?
Do you have the right to an attorney during questioning? Then how do you justify calling 911, enduring their grilling, and spilling your guts into a police voice recorder? Criminal defense attorneys know that half of all convictions in self-defense cases rely on frantic 911 tapes. So what do you do?
Five separate solutions to this dilemma are included, along with a thorough analysis of the problem that involved more than 70 experts -- cops, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, trainers, lobbyists...
Owning a gun and knowing how to shoot is not enough to protect your safety. Be sure to get After You Shoot.
And:
The first of a series of billboards is now up on U.S. Interstate 17, facing southbound traffic into Phoenix at the Peoria exit, reaching 135,000 people daily. Phoenix doesn't control these as they do the bus stops, so they are unaffected by the city censorship czar. Bill boards are expected to be popping up all over the state in a matter of weeks.
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The city of Phoenix, in an apparently arbitrary move and without formal legal process, has forced CBS Outdoors to tear down 50 illuminated bus-shelter billboards under contract to promote gun safety training for children and their parents.
The posters were placed by TrainMeAZ.com, a commercial joint-educational effort of the firearms industry in Arizona, and had been up all over the Phoenix metro area for a little over one week before the city acted.
“The Phoenix attorney's office claimed these were public service announcements, and those are banned,” said Alan Korwin, manager of the TrainMeAZ campaign and the Publisher at Bloomfield Press, a sponsor of the program. “It's a bogus excuse -- and they know full well we're an LLC and not a non-profit. The commercial sponsors, shooting ranges and trainers on the website expect to attract customers. The ads are aimed at parents, so they can teach gun safety and the values of marksmanship to their kids,” he said. “We're promoting a culture of marksmanship, where everyone learns to shoot and understands gun safety.”
Assistant Phoenix city attorney Ted Mariscal claimed in a conference call with Mr. Korwin and CBS Outdoor that the billboards weren't commercial enough, the message was too vague, and then demanded the message be changed to his satisfaction. When pressed for a definition of what is either sufficiently commercial or what defines a public service ad he declined to respond, referring instead to a 12-year-old 9th Circuit court case concerning a religious group (Children of the Rosary) and abortion ads. CBS is designing new art to please the city, but without guidelines of what's acceptable, there's no way to predict the result, and the TrainMeAZ campaign isn't exactly keen on this approach.
Mariscal offered to provide the case he says matters, and the lease agreement he says allows the city to remove the ads. The case is now under review. No lease agreement has been provided, and the city apparently has no definitions in place, apparently leaving Mr. Mariscal to act on his own unfettered accord. Nothing in the city's advertising guidelines, provided by Mr. Mariscal, appear to justify the censored ads.
In the meanwhile, TrainMeAZ is losing more than 800,000 impressions per day it had been receiving through this Phase One of the campaign. A bulletin billboard with a similar message and goal remains up on Interstate 17, through another company. It gets about 135,000 eyes driving by daily (facing southbound traffic near Peoria exit). Several outdoor advertisers have contacted TrainMeAZ in an effort to pick up the lost business for themselves. CBS has offered a slate of city billboards to replace the messages the city has banned.
“Mariscal has offered to approve some other advertisements to replace the ones we designed at great expense and want,” Korwin said. “We'll be reasonable and look, but we don't exactly want the city of Phoenix writing our advertisements for us. If anything is absolutely an affront to free speech and the First Amendment, there it is on a platter. Who do these people think they are?”
Government should stay out of the way of businesses trying to make it in these tough economic times, or in any times. Instead, government has become one of the biggest obstacles we face, Korwin noted. It's bad enough Phoenix has attacked our free speech, but now they're messing with our Second Amendment rights, and right before an election too. People who support this ought to be removed from office and punished for such malfeasance.
Legislators aware of the problem have expressed outrage at the censorship effort by the city, and are preparing a plan of action. More news will follow soon.
The program is an outgrowth of the Constitutional Carry law, effective in July this year, that frees all law abiding adults in Arizona to discreetly carry firearms. With the audience expanding from 2% of the public willing to apply and pay for a government permission slip to carry, to 50% of the public that possesses firearms, private industry figured this 25-fold increase in potential market was worth attracting.
TrainMeAZ CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS thus far:
Arizona
Citizens Defense League
"Protecting and expanding the rights of law-abiding gun owners." http://www.azcdl.org
Arizona
State Rifle and Pistol Association
"Dedicated to promoting
the shooting sports. Established 1909."
Local media has jumped all over this censorship/Second Amendment story, with nearly non-stop radio and TV broadcasts. If you're ambitious, Google for links, and send me copies, I've been so swamped there is no time, you'd be helping out a lot. Try KFYI-AM, KTAR-FM, NBC-TV 12 in AZ, AZ TV 13, AZ TV 3.
Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts, often thought of as left-of-center, did a tremendous job of getting the facts straight, and excoriating city officials for their heavy-handed arbitrary censorship and denying the children a chance to get gun-safety training. She provides additional evidence we hadn't thought of, and helps make the case against the city's abridgment of our free speech:
You’re gasping for air. You’ve just stopped a would-be murderer cold
with your sidearm—four rounds to the chest. Do you have the right to
remain silent? Then why would you immediately dial 911 and talk into a
police voice recorder? How do you make that call and stand on the advice
that says, “Don’t say anything”?
After You Shoot, my latest book (due out in the next few days) answers these life-or-death questions. After you shoot in self defense, you
face a possible murder trial. Even if you're completely innocent. And
that may be a bigger risk to you than the would-be killer you just
stopped.
According to criminal-defense attorneys, half of all convictions for self-defense incidents rely on frantic traumatized 911 tapes. As a bonus, the media will air your voice nationwide for weeks. That can’t be right.
Do you have the right to an attorney during questioning?
What about Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination? Can you
call 911 and protect yourself?
You cannot. When you call 911 after saving your life
with gunfire, you are giving up the crucial life-saving rights you think
you have. And that’s wrong.
The dangerous snare of 911 recordings is built right
into our American self-defense system—and nobody has looked at it
hard—until now.
After You Shoot lights up this overlooked
problem and provides common-sense, workable solutions to these
horrors—vicious traps that threaten every gun owner and innocent crime
victim in America. If you have a gun for self defense, find out how you
should protect yourself—After You Shoot.
More than 75 experts spoke with me and wrote to me about
this. People like cops, prosecutors, judges, lobbyists, top-level
firearm trainers, other authors, attorneys by the dozen. Their reactions
are stunning. Many had never considered the problems very deeply -- it
never dawned on them! Too many took a statist (government) approach that
you should simply call 911 and not worry! Or only say X, Y and Z, so
you'd "get off" later, as if you could do that with your blood pressure
through the roof and your body shaking from the adrenaline dump.
The controversial Adnarim Statement
And what about when the second responders -- you
are the first responder -- arrive on the scene. Should you babble as
most people do? Stand in mute silence? Try to exonerate yourself and
"get yourself off"? Well for one thing, when they (the state) read you
your rights, would it be unreasonable for you to read them your rights? The proposed Adnarim
(reverse Miranda) statement addresses this head on. It's not uncommon
for defense attorneys to put a statement on the backs of their cards for
clients to use. Is that a good idea? What should it say? This book fires that concept up a few notches.
Bottom Line -- If you have a gun, you must
know what your options are, after you shoot. This book will open your
eyes like never before, and provide you with options you need to know to
stay safe and free, After You Shoot.
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Arizona is rekindling the idea of a nation of marksmen.
TrainMeAZ.com is a non-partisan joint effort by the firearms community to promote voluntary firearms training, replacing the government mandate that came with the state's 1994 CCW-permit law. Trainers, shooting ranges and industry are encouraged to contact the organizers to participate and attract new business. info@TrainMeAZ.com
CATO Institute Chairman Bob Levy (Heller case attorney)
"... TrainMeAZ is a no-lose proposition. It will promote gun safety
and marksmanship as an integral component of American citizenship ..."
On behalf of the five NRA Board Members who make
Arizona their home (including two past presidents), we’re asking you to take a stand on gun rights and
support the TrainMeAZ campaign now being organized.
Our new Constitutional Carry law changes everything.
Now that any law-abiding adult in Arizona can discreetly carry
firearms, Arizona leads the nation in demonstrated support for the
Second Amendment. It’s in your interest as Arizonans, and the nation
needs to know, what we’ve accomplished.
We have a priceless opportunity to launch “a culture
of marksmanship” here in Arizona that can sweep across the country, but
it can only happen with your direct involvement. Now that government
no longer dictates the training environment, private enterprise and the
free market should take advantage and fill that vacuum.
This will help your business, build your customer
base, and bolster the right to keep and bear arms. By acting as a state
instead of separately, we will present an image to the nation that
pushes all our independent interests ahead... Read the rest.
TrainMeAZ CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS thus far:
Arizona
Citizens Defense League
"Protecting and expanding the rights of law-abiding gun owners." http://www.azcdl.org
Arizona
State Rifle and Pistol Association
"Dedicated to promoting
the shooting sports. Established 1909."
The Texas Gun Owner's Guide https://www.gunlaws.com/tgog.htm Texas enacted Freedom to Carry for travelers, an enormous advance for our right to arms. Will the next step be full Constitutional Carry? Read all about your rights and responsibilities. https://www.gunlaws.com/tgog.htm
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Responsible parents take their kids to the range. Gun safety is everyone's business.
A main operating principle behind TrainMeAz is to get the entire public on the bandwagon and out to the range. What a marvelous state that would make us, the envy of the nation and the free world. "Make it so."
When I give a speech (and I give a lot -- your group can be next, call me) I encourage the audience to organize a Range Day. The average person on the conservative side of the fence voices support for the Second Amendment but -- have they demonstrated that support? When was the last time they went to the range and exercised liberty's teeth?
For some of them, it's never. Some have never actually held a real gun in hand. What a shame, but what an opportunity! Don't just talk the talk, walk the walk! It's easy to get them fired up about learning a stance (they watch me take one), grip (I draw an imaginary sidearm and show Weaver), and align eyes and body for a shot. They get a thrill, buoyed by the numbers of their group they imagine might actually do this with them. Many groups have taken the challenge -- and man oh man do they come away with bragging rights and ear-to-ear grins!
Let them know the inner secret for coming back home with a perfect target souvenir. Set out a blank piece of paper, shoot it once at close range, and then draw a target around the bullet hole. Works every time!
You want to DO SOMETHING to move the cause of freedom ahead? Get your Tea Party or Legislative District meeting to organize a Range Day. Put them through a gun-safety routine. Let them handle a firearm (be sure to start beginners with a .22). Get them charged up about the rights they have -- by exercising those rights.
THE BEST PART
The best part may be hard to measure. How do you think the democrats are going to feel when they find out that all the republicans are learning how to shoot?!
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Thanks for reading!
Alan Korwin
The Uninvited Ombudsman
Now carrying Page Nine!
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Author Alan Korwin as drawn by Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist Steve Benson
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