http://keepandbeararms.com/information/Item.asp?ID=3637KABA Writer Investigated for Questioning Civil Authority
Police say Investigation "Ongoing"
February 19, 2004
KeepAndBearArms.com -- Did you know that writing a rhetorical letter to the civil authorities in California challenging their hypocrisy results in a police investigation that includes not only calls from detectives but two black and white police cruisers coming to your home?
That's what happened to longtime gun rights activist and professional writer David Codrea this week. What follows is a link to the investigation-inspiring letter, a detailed description of what transpired and a description of how trying to get our own answers from the investigators resulted in unwillingness to respond to our simple, reasonable inquiry.
Before you read this, you should know a little bit about David Codrea. He lives in Redondo Beach, California with his wife and two young sons. He's been active in the gun rights community for over a decade. He's a professional gun writer for such magazines as Guns & Ammo, most recently published in their HANDGUNS Feb/March 2004 issue. He's a featured writer for KeepAndBearArms.com and has held a seat on KABA's Advisory Board for years. He co-founded Guntruths.com and the now disbanded pro gun media-campaigning organization, Citizens of America. He spearheaded the Petition for the Enforcement of the Second Amendment and was one of a handful of insiders helping hone and tighten the legal writing done in the Silveira v. Lockyer Second Amendment lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to hear. David Codrea cares about freedom, and he works within the confines of "the system" to help defend gun owners and their rights.
Earlier this week, Codrea wrote a letter to San Francisco's Mayor, a superior court judge and the SFPD acting police chief. The letter was rhetorical in nature and pointed out the inconsistency in San Fran's civil enforcement strategies. Civil authorities are sitting by while thousands of same-sex marriages are performed in contravention of State law. In his letter, to point out the hypocrisy of ignoring some laws while enforcing others, Codrea rhetorically (and humorously, might I add) asked what would happen if he chose to violate a different law -- the ban on carrying a firearm for self-defense. Read the letter for yourself, right here: http://KeepAndBearArms.com/information/Item.asp?ID=3632The story gets even more interesting....
VINDICTIVE RETALIATION FOR EXPOSING A GUN BIGOT:
Hate Mailer Claims to Have Initiated FBI Investigation
February 23, 2004
from Angel Shamaya
Executive Director, KeepAndBearArms.com
Director@KeepAndBearArms.com
KeepAndBearArms.com -- After we published the hateful anti-gun death wish of a Canadian "academic", hurled at one of our writers, we notified the sender of the hate mail that we had published it. His response to our writer was to retaliate by turning his victim in to the FBI. The death-wishing "academic" alleges that he has contacted the FBI, presumably to bring more police pressure down on someone for the high crime of writing a rhetorical, humorous email.
Below is the alleged email sent to the FBI by an anti-gun wisher of death:
-----Original Message-----
From: "Craig Levine" <dobguy@ns.sympatico.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:00 AM
To: codrea4@adelphia.net
Subject: RE: HOMOSEXEUAL MARRIAGE AND GUN OWNERSHIP!!
Dear Mr. Codrea,
This is to inform you that the Sacramento Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations has been contacted regarding your statements which you have admitted are yours. In particular:
" ... I was thinking of coming up to San Francisco ... maybe showing up at City Hall with a state-banned AR-15 and a couple 30-round magazines, and also carrying several pistols concealed without a permit."
- Craighttp://keepandbeararms.com/information/Item.asp?ID=3640******************
My spin on this... while Mr. Coderas mailing his "rhetorical" scenario
might have been unwise at worst (especially post 9/11), and that the police have no sense of humor or irony, he does raise an interesting point. That is, why is it acceptable to turn a blind eye to one groups rights being violated but treat another groups rights with threat of arrest?
Another issue is Mr. Levins involvement in this.
His 'tolerance' of gun-owners is telling.
I have little-to-no patience for gun-nuts.As is his paranoia.
I suspect that Mr. Codrea is one of many who have been posting off-topic trolls in sci.astro.amateur recently, and who have been posting messages under other's names i.e Rod Mollise, Sam Wormley etc.
And please, confine or restrain any comments about Angel Shamaya or the KABA website; I'm not interested in the messenger, I'm interested in the message.