Update to Regulations Update #2!! (
chicken@maria.wustl.edu
02 Feb 1993 18:36:32
Sorry this is a duplication of an earlier message for some of you.
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Thomas prop1@uujobs.com
iN the Spirit and with Love
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> From: prop1@uujobs.com (Peace Through Reason)
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 00:00:11 EST
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> LEGALIAISON/D.C. CREW
> c/o P.O. Box 27217
> Washington, D.C. 20038
> (202) 265-5389
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> URGENT -- URGENT -- URGENT -- URGENT -- URGENT -- URGENT
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> IGNORE ALL RUMORS THAT THE REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED!!!
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> January 30, 1993
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> To All Our Relations
> Within the legal jurisdiction of the United States
> Planet Earth
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> Brothers and Sisters of the Belly Button,
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> THE GOOD NEWS: On January 22, 1993 Leon E. Panetta, director of
> the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), ordered that most
> "regulations not yet published in the Federal Register," be
> returned for approval of "the agency head or the delegee of an
> agency head who, in either case, is a person appointed by
> President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate."
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> THE BAD NEWS: those Bush administration regulations -- including
> a National Forest Service proposal to regulate public gatherings,
> long guaranteed under the First Amendment, on land which has been
> "public" since the beginning of this nation -- are now under
> consideration by the Clinton administration.
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> As of January 25th the government was still acting like this
> regulation is Top Secret. We've been unable to even determine
> the official designation of the regulation. It should be
> referred to as: THE PROPOSED NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE RULEMAKING
> TO RESTRICT PEACEABLE ASSEMBLIES ON PUBLIC LANDS. They will know
> what you're talking about. They also haven't been willing to
> tell us exactly what the regulation says. Our concerns are ANY
> requirements for PERMITS, INSURANCE or PERFORMANCE BONDS.
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> It is strongly suggested that NOW IS THE TIME for a flood of
> public comment. If it comes now the comment can be directed
> toward the new presidential administration.
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> SUGGESTED ACTION
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> ONE: Familiarize yourself with the enclosed materials and
> generate telephone calls. Lots and lots of them. Organize phone
> trees. Call your friends, explain the basics to them. Tell them
> to make calls. Tell them to tell their friends to make calls,
> and to call their friends to have them make calls to the numbers
> below. It is our hope that the sisters and brothers laboring in
> government don't understand what they are doing. Educate
> yourself, educate the administration; ASK (polite) QUESTIONS.
>
> AND
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> TWO: ALSO write letters to the folks listed below. Tell your
> friends to write letters. Tell them to tell their friends to
> write letters (To insure that your voice is heard also send a
> copy of your letter to Legaliaison at the above address). YOU
> HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND A PUBLIC HEARING. Note, At this time
> Legaliaison considers a Congressional hearing premature and
> inappropriate, we specifically suggest an administrative hearing.
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>
> White House Secretary of Agriculture
> Carol Rasco, ATT: Ron Blackley
> Domestic Policy Advisor 14th & Independence SW 200-A
> 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20250
> Washington, D.C. 20500 202-720-3631
> 202-456-2216
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> We suggest writing & and calling each of the above. Phone calls
> are important. Letters make a more lasting impression. If the
> technology is available, faxes also seem like a great idea. The
> more public opposition to RESTRICTING PEACEABLE ASSEMBLIES ON
> PUBLIC LANDS these good folks receive, the more seriously they
> will consider whether this is what they really want to do.
>
> Theoretically, we will still have the opportunity to comment on
> whatever regulation the government might finally publish in the
> Federal Register. The point now is to convince the new
> administration not to publish anything in the Federal Register,
> because, practically speaking, if the new administration goes
> along with the old administration and publishes this rulemaking
> in the Federal Register, that will mean -- almost certainly --
> the only recourse left is to defend the RIGHT OF PEACEABLE
> ASSEMBLY ON PUBLIC LANDS in court.
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> Some folks might have more confidence in the judicial system than
> others, and we hope the optimists are correct. Consider,
> however, that if forced to a legal defense against the
> elimination of free assembly under totalitarian regulations, the
> defenders will be opposing not only the new administration, which
> will be promulgating the regulation, but also the old
> administration, which initiated the regulation in the first
> place, while arguing before courts that hold unreasonable
> opinions (see, e.g., Herrara v. Collins, decided by the
> Supreme Court, January 25, 1993). Tough odds.
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> Thus, we conclude, it is imperative to ACT NOW!!!
>
> In service to the Spirit of Understanding
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