From: Gun Owners of South Africa (gosa@gunownerssa.org)
Sent: Thu 6/25/09 4:13 AM
To: gosa-press-list@gunownerssa.org
2009-06-25: Press Release: SA Hunters judgement
"Is it still possible for justice to emerge from the chaos in the South African legal system?"
Gunowners SA are waiting with bated breath to see whether Judge Bill Prinsloo will deliver judgement tomorrow which confirms that which we already know (and have seen demonstrated many times over the last few years) to be the case. His judgement in the SA Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SA Hunters) v Minister of Police case heard before him this week in the North Gauteng High Court may be a pivotal case for South African democracy. If His Honour finds for the plaintiffs (SA Hunters), he will be shining a bright light on the lies and deceit that the South African Police Service, and their Central Firearms registry, have attempted to use to defraud the law-abiding South African gun owners of their lawful (and valuable) possessions... Also their most potent means of self defence in these criminally-plagued times.
In the convoluted meanderings of the legal system justice is very often the sacrificial offering burnt on the altar of political expedience. In this case the implementation of the Firearms Control Act (Act 60 of 2000) is challenged because of the disgracefully inept fashion in which the Central Firearms Registry of the SAPS has gone about their duty. The FCA is purported to be concerned with the 'fight against crime', is in reality entirely focussed on already licensed firearms with which, according to the SAPS themselves, no statistically relevant crime is ever committed - in other words, statisticians consider the occurrence of crime with licensed firearms so low that they don't measure it. The FCA itself is subject to a number of Constitutional challenges on various grounds.
SA Hunters is merely seeking to prevent the imminent criminalisation of more than a million law-abiding South African citizens by this unneeded, unwanted, and unimplementable legislation. These million or more citizens are already licensed to own their firearms and have committed no crime at all. At the stroke of midnight on 30 June 2009 they will turn into criminals, subject to jail sentences of 15 years if convicted in a court.
It is up to Judge Bill Prinsloo to put a stop to this nightmarish fairy-tale of the damned.
Paul Oxley
Executive Member (Mr. Oxley may be contacted on: 082 900 8750)
Gun Owners of South Africa
PO Box 2522
Clareinch
7740
South Africa
Tel: +27-21-6894481
www.gunownerssa.org
Thursday, June 25, 2009
2009-06-25: Press Release: SA Hunters Judgment
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6 comments:
"If you will not fight when the fighting is easy and victory almost assured..."
To quote Sean Connery in "The Untouchables" - "And THEN what are you prepared to do?" Seems to me a million or so "armed felons" don't have much to fear at all. The gov't should actually be worried about that eventuality.
Except this is the same Euro-sheep strain that let Mugabe's henchmen butcher their families while their guns were locked up in safes and the keys were in their pockets. Once the machete work was done, dig out the keys, unlock the safe, and move on to the next farm. This went on for YEARS.
Armed Geek
Come to that, I wonder how much kevlar it would take to stop a .458?
Armed Geek
the south arfican whites and rhodesian whites are disarmed almost entirely because the USA, both parties, told them that they needed to embrace diversity and they had no need for defense.
the reality is the people who surround them are among the few on earth never to develop the WHEEL..
so now they are killing off each other and the whites there in the same nation that had a denmark standard of living prior to democrat/republican led boycotts of what once was a very successful state.
next time you fill out a american job application that in every case now includes a question of waht your race is, know you are next for the treatment the south african whites enjoy today..
elmtreeforging@blogspot.com
I sent an e-mail to a friend who is presently working in South Africa and asked him about this blog.
His response:
Here's what my South African buddy responded when I sent him the link. What's really comical is that it's been offered to me several times to go purchase an AK-47 with ammo in an informal settlement for around R200 ($25). Once again we see the gov't disarming good citizens that actually register their guns while doing nothing about the several million guns that are buried under shacks in informal settlements. The idiocy is incredible. Thank you very much Europeans, they are doing this because of World Cup 2010 soccer.
My bud's response:
You guys have any comments on this?
Yes, they are trying to take away our guns … f*ckers … I wish the SA hunters would win this battle.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more—we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
I never, ever get tired of that quote.
Armed Geek
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