Way back when, in the days when most commercial aircraft had propellers and a ride that would usually vibrate your dinner off of the tray if you weren't careful, it was very common for us to board a plane armed. In those days, many of us carried a 357 magnum which, because of its size, I always referred to as a "semi" concealed weapon. Nothing was ever said about guns on aircraft until some idiot calling himself D.B. Cooper managed to successfully hijack one.

Just after a couple Cooper copycats tried something similar, the frequent flyers of the Congressional class got interested. Because, if a plane they were on was hijacked, they could actually be late for a fund-raiser luncheon, a lobbyist funded vacation, or something. Can't have that. So suddenly, most Americans could no longer carry a gun on a commercial aircraft. Gun-toting on busses and trains was fine, because Members of Congress do not normally use them. Packing heat on commercial aircraft became verboten.

Ditto for bombs. No one knows of any American (except police officers) ever actually trying to board a commercial aircraft carrying a bomb. But, heck, better to be safe than sorry said the frequent flyers in the Congressional class. So, nowadays even the baggage that is checked is checked.

Many airports, like the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport, carry that trend one step further. They have money police there too. That is, if any of the airport employees see an aircraft passenger or airport visitor with a roll of cash, they call the special airport cops and the nice officers relieve that person of the burden of carrying so much cash. Then, they share part of the illicit cash with the airport employee who fingered the beleaguered person.

It's all quite legal, too -- so they try to say. You see, they're looking for illegal drugs. And money, of course, may be used to purchase illegal drugs someday. So, they take the cash. The current drug cops at the Cincinnati Airport must really be doing a great job, too. They haven't found a lot of drugs, but they have relieved a whole lot of people of large stashes of personal cash.

Apparently, the Cincinnati airport cops are not very good at finding guns, though. Kentucky State Rep. Pete Worthington (D-Ewing) tested that a while back. Worthington caught a flight to the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport with a .22-caliber handgun in his carry-on baggage. He made it to Dallas just fine. But when he tried to come back they noticed the gun. And not knowing that he was a member of the protected class, they stopped him.

Worthington says he carries that handgun (without a permit) with him everywhere, and just "forgot" it was in the bag. Also, he didn't like being stopped and bothered. So, he called his buddy Kentucky House Speaker Jody Richards. Jody Richards, also a Democrat, then called his counterpart in Texas. The good old boy system worked, and Worthington came right home.

As the story goes, the Kentucky prosecutor responsible for charging Worthington (the Cincinnati Airport is in Kentucky) said he can not charge Worthington cause no one saw him with a gun here -- no matter that Worthington admits he had it with him while boarding the aircraft. And, of course, the Texas prosecutor is not interested in pressing charges, either.

Now . . . we do not really believe that Worthington, or anyone else for that matter, should be prosecuted for something as silly as taking a little handgun on a commercial aircraft. However, because he is a legislator -- a lawmaker -- and that is the law, we feel that the State House should censure him. And, as part of his punishment, he should be required to spend a year working to have many of these stupid laws repealed. Maybe he could do something to stop that crew with badges and guns from stealing people's money, too.

Meanwhile, let this be just another example that there is no "equal justice" under the law. Congress gave us a class system. There's the elected ones and their friends, the bureaucrats, and then the normal citizens. And as we are seeing -- over and over again, and in all levels of government from the White House on down -- only the citizens are required to obey all laws.

Yes, we still have something referred to as the "Rule of Law." It's just that the Lords and Ladies of the Hill rearranged it to fit their own personal needs more adequately.

Who was it recently that said campaign contributions do not buy political influence? All we have to say about that is that person is either a damn liar or an ignorant fool.

Documents subpoenaed from the DNC and the White House by Congress show that the DNC provided the Clinton administration with a "must consider" list of names of major campaign contributors for posts in the administration.

Yeah, you read that correctly. Major campaign contributors actually put their names on a "wish list" for the position of power each contributor sought within the administration.

A memo the Democratic Party sent to the White House in December 1992 described the job candidates as "leading national fund-raisers." And, the new administration was expected to "pay off" with a cushy position of influence.

And folks, the list contained "dozens" of names, most of whom did, in fact, get rewarded with positions of authority (over you) within the administration.

For instance, John Huang (remember him?) was recommended by the DNC for a sub-Cabinet level job at the Commerce Department. Arthur Levitt wanted to be rewarded as ambassador to Germany or Mexico or a potential member of the National Economic Council, but ended up chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Erskine Bowles bought a position as administrator of the Small Business Administration -- then became White House chief of staff. Kenneth Brody bought an appointment as president of the Export-Import Bank. A few others bought ambassador positions. And so on.

To these people, campaign contributions are an investment. Either they personally get in a position to "help" themselves and their friends make money, or they "buy" the influence of someone in a position to do it for them. Again, remember John Haung and all the money laundering connections to the evil communist Chinese and their big business interests?

Contributing to Congress can only influence a few votes. Buying influence in the administrative branch can provide a whole host of immediately profitable advantages over business competitors.

The cold hard fact is that the administrative branch can change and/or ignore any and all rules or regulations with only the stroke of a pen. We citizens do not have the bucks to pay to have that done. Multinational business executives and corrupt foreign governments like China, however, do.

Of course, politicians euphemistically call these payments "campaign contributions." In practice, though, it is the direct purchase of political influence. In reality, contributors can actually "buy" laws, or positions, to control American citizens.

That might sound a bit preposterous in the United States. But the fact is that the practice has been going on behind closed doors for years. This money exchange is the driving force behind many hundreds of the rules and regulations affecting our lives. From food processing to the Freon ban, regulations were all intentionally influenced by corporations purchasing political influence for monetary gain.

The Clinton Administration, however, perfected that type of bribery to a political art form.

Those darn U-Haul trucks keep popping up all over the country. So, when the FBI released an all points bomb alert for two or more guys in a U-Haul a couple years ago, they were flooded with calls.

It was a "terrorist threat advisory," the feds said. They had reports about two men seen in a small Texas town with a U-Haul rental truck hauling something.

Wow! That sounds criminal to us on this end, too.

Then -- gasp -- the men stopped to get 30 gallons of diesel fuel. Yeah, for sure they must be "terrorists." Hell, there couldn't be any other use for diesel fuel out there in the country now, could there? Nope. They must be up to no good.

So, whatever the men were hauling in the back of the truck suddenly got upgraded to "thousands of pounds of fertilizer." Hence came the all points bulletin for the truck. Well, heck, that could be enough material to produce a bomb similar to the one that exploded in Oklahoma City. Yeah, must be terrorists, they said.

The U-Haul officials said they were cooperating with the FBI. But, as they verified, there were thousands of trucks like that on the road, and there is no telling where that particular truck might be.

Then CNN picked up the story, and the FBI had to back down a notch or two. After all, all it takes is one cop with a gun playing hero to really ruin someone's day, and thousands of people fit this profile.

Yet another FBI advisory spiced up the story by saying the truck might be carrying 4,500 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and 30 gallons of diesel fuel. So, news accounts reported that the prosecutors in the Oklahoma City case say that Timothy McVeigh used that combination of material to fashion the bomb that destroyed the federal building.

The FBI advisory asked people with any information to call in at a special toll-free number and agents urged the men who had been spotted to call the FBI or the local police "at once because of the possibility that the materials in the truck were meant only for innocent use."

Oh? They guessed that, too? Wow, there may be some intelligent life in Washington after all. . . . We, on this end of the false news stories, laughed a lot while wondering which bright light in government -- with obviously not enough work to do -- made up the rumor about that "4,500 pounds of ammonium nitrate." That was, to say the least, rather irresponsible on the part of federal agents. And, it was certainly deserving of severe punishment.

As it turned out, the two men lived in the area of Haltom City, outside Fort Worth, said Les Martz, ATF agent in charge of the Dallas division. Agents found the two men by canvassing U-Haul rental outlets and places throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area where fertilizer is sold. The men "were surprised and they were cooperative," an FBI spokeswoman said.

Bet on it! All those FBI and ATF guns would get anyone's attention. Remember Waco? They were hauling "baking powder for use as an antiseptic in scrubbing floors and tiles," a federal law enforcement official in Washington said on condition of anonymity.

But wait. . . . Hold on just a darn minute here! What if they really were hauling ammonium nitrate fertilizer in that truck? So what? That was the time of year we country folk start purchasing stuff like that. Because, the men were, by the way, in a rural area.

And what would be wrong with bringing home a few gallons of diesel fuel too? It costs more to purchase it that way, but that's their business, not the FBI's.

Are all of us to be suspects when we buy fertilizer nowadays? If so, watch for another alert sometime next week -- this time on a blue Plymouth Minivan -- because it's time to get busy here, too. And, yes, we may be getting some ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

Below are a few legal terms that seem to apply to the current news reports. These are provided only because they offer interesting insight into what some lawyers in the Department of Justice may (or should) be thinking if they read the same news reports we do.

Just for kicks, we picked the oldest law dictionary on our shelf: The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary by James C. Cahill, dated 1922. This dictionary was chosen because it was published before American law was corrupted by the FDR administration.

Conspiracy: "A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose, not itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means." Clinton, Clinton & Gore immediately come to mind when the term "conspiracy" is mentioned.

Malfeasance: "The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not, to do." When we consider the written words of the Constitution, the term malfeasance brings to mind many laws passed by Congress, many executive orders and most regulatory rules and regulations.

Misfeasance: "The performance of an act which might lawfully be done, in an improper manner, by which another person receives an injury."

Misfeasance seems to be the kissing cousin of malfeasance in that all the very same examples seem to fit perfectly. Most public servants continuously violate their oath of office.

Nonfeasance: "The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term is not generally used to denote a breach of contract, but rather the failure to perform a duty towards the public whereby some individual sustains special damage, as where a sheriff fails to execute a writ.

"When a legislative act requires a person to do a thing, its nonfeasance will subject the party to punishment; as, if a statute require the supervisors of the highways to repair such highways, the neglect to repair them may be punished."

So, were "nonfeasance" enforced properly, lawmakers not strictly enforcing the Bill of Rights could be prosecuted and sent to prison. So could any police, prosecutor or judge enforcing an unconstitutional law.

Last but not least comes a term from a thirty year old political dictionary of obviously liberal bent. We chose this book because we believe that, when the subject at hand is the behavior of liberal politicians, it is probably best to define the terms the way the liberal politicians understand them. And, this term was once a real favorite of the socialist reactionaries among us:

Civil Disobedience: "Refusal to obey a law, usually on the ground that the law is morally reprehensible. Recent examples of civil disobedience include Negro refusals to obey segregation laws and actions of anti-Vietnam war groups in refusing to honor draft regulations. Civil disobedience ordinarily takes the form of nonviolent resistance and is aimed at arousing public opinion against the law."

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