The third paragraph from the end is what got me.

District Laws Under Attack

Washington Post

Washington, DC – District lawmakers are scrambling to review and revise District statutes after the latest legal setback to DC’s controversial gun control law.  

After years of legal wrangling on both sides, the Supreme Court recently ruled the District’s restrictive gun law unconstitutional, since as the majority opinion penned by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia states it “unfairly limits gun possession by law abiding citizens, while doing little to take guns out of the hands of criminals and oversteps the District of Columbia’s right to legislate laws of restriction beyond federal statutes governing these actions on federally controlled land.”

The statues of the District exist in a legal limbo, subject to Federal Law allowances and exclusions for federal preserves, parks, and military bases, while affording little of the statute protection that states enjoy.  Even the Laws of Self Rule do not clearly protect DC statutes and the ruling by the Supreme Court exposes the legally precarious nature of several DC laws.

The Legal Awareness Workshop, the group leading the fight against DC’s gun control laws, has targeted several District statutes for immediate revocation based on the Supreme Court’s ruling.  The laws being targeted are liquor distribution and licensing regulations, unmanned traffic camera ticketing, environmental regulations, gaming regulations, and prostitution and pandering laws.    

The District’s laws in these areas are in direct conflict with federal statutes for federal districts, parks, military bases, and preserves.

The federal statutes referenced by the Supreme Court in the gun control ruling are regulations put in place to appease local governments and US Territorial laws which conflict with federal statutes.  The allowances for significantly lower environmental standards and less restrictive laws for liquor distribution and licensing, gaming, and prostitution stem from concessions made to local government regulations in place prior to US military presence or territorial protection.  

The camera ticketing law was enacted to exempt military bases and federal parks and preserves from traffic monitoring by local municipalities.

The Legal Awareness Workshop hopes to finish its audit of all of the District’s statutes by the end of August and hopes to start striking unconstitutional laws from the books immediately.  At a minimum, they expect to secure temporarily restraining orders to prohibit the enforcement of targeted laws until they can be stricken from the books or rewritten within federal guidelines.

“The District could be facing a situation where its environment standards laws could be gutted, millions of dollars in ticketing revenue could be lost, hard liquor distribution could be a seven day a week, twenty-four hour a day service, and casino style gaming and government regulated prostitution could be legal in the District in a matter of weeks,” says Schuy Colfax, the Executive Director of The Legal Awareness Workshop.

DC lawmakers have downplayed the effect of the ruling, asking a federal judge for a stay pending the submission of a new brief to the Supreme Court.  However, the stay would only be in effect until the brief was ruled on and since the ruling was nearly unanimous, it will be difficult to overturn the ruling without significant new information that The Legal Awareness Workshop leaders say simply does not exist.

“We realize we could be starting a second American Revolution, or at a minimum, striking a serious blow to the status quo, but we believe in what we are doing.  We believe in the Law,” says Colfax.






Updated: 7:44 a.m. ET
3-32-2007
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-- Modified on 4/1/2007 3:34:24 PM

But no surprise that DC could find itself in this situation.  

Thanks for posting...

The tip-off is that it wasn't the Supremes that struck down the gun law; it was the D.C. Circuit.

However, there is little doubt that some on the far Left will believe this.

I agree about the idiots in the DC legislature, but what are the negatives in terrev’s statement? I can’t find any. Please clue me in. I apologize for the alias, but my ATF feels very differently than I do, and I really don’t want to anger her.

FUCK April Fool's day. What is the tru skinny behind all of this hoopla? I know the Moderator and he hates bullshit spoofs Come clean.

The Legal Awareness Workshop (LAW) - First Hint

The Executive Director of LAW is Schuy Colfax AKA: Schuyler Colfax - President U.S. Grant's Vice President - Second Hint

If you read the article all the way through to the "updated" tag at the bottom of the page you will see that it was update on the 32nd of March...thus April Fool's Day - Third Hint

24 Hour Booze, Hookers, and Gambling in DC and it isn't on the front page of the Washington Post and every news outlet in America - Fourth Hint

Written entirely by a guy with no real writing skills or knowledge of the issues involved at all - Fifth Hint

As for why:  Early on in my work life I had a very dignified straight-laced boss who had the misfortune of being born on April 1st.  

Every year on April Fool's Day, he would play one carefully planned joke on somebody, or some group.  His pranks were legendary and often had setups planned and executed weeks if not months in advance.

Recently this mentor of mine passed away, but in the years leading up to his death, he always had a smile on his face and always believed if you were living without laughter in your life, you really weren't living.

One of his finest jokes was centered around his retirement when he announced the formation of his "Retirement Project."  The Que Sera Sera Strategic Planning Group.  

A full page ad in the local paper, business cards, brochures mailed to his company Christmas card list, and a speech in front of the local Rotary Club and never once did he crack a smirk, never once did he blow his cover, right up to the very end...he had them all fooled.

I apologize if anyone was offended.  I apologize for getting your hopes up.  

I apologze for wasting your time, but once upon a time a great man gave of his time and helped me get my start in this world and all he ever asked of me was that I try to bring a smile to somebody's face every day.  

Hopefully today I brought one to yours.




-- Modified on 4/1/2007 4:04:36 PM

No offense intended - Please read the whole post

along with the joke.

Way to ruin a little April Fool's fun for everybody.  You could have used another title for your post and exposed the joke inside your post.  Just a thought.

I knew it wouldn't last too long, but I was hoping people would play along for a little while at least.

You're like the guy who yells out the punchline of a joke and ruins both the tellers fun in telling the joke and listener's fun in hearing the punchline.

Not angry, just a little disappointed.

Thank you. You said it perfectly! You go, dude

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...some of the people on this Board are wound just a little too tight.  Keep up the good work; I enjoy your humorous posts.

I try to bring a little humor to the board and get stomped on by two fellow baord members.

I really found it interesting that a guy posting as an "Active Pro-Rights Citizen" would berate someone for...oh, I don't know...exercising their "right" to free and unfettered speech.  Go Figure.

As for a guy who calls himself "WifeBeater," I neither want, nor need your acceptance.  Even in jest your handle is offensive to many people, especially anyone who has ever been a victim of that crime, much more offensive than an April Fool's joke on April Fools Day.

Not a sermon, just a thought.

Hope you all have a Great Day and if you have an appointment this evening a Great Lay as well!

I would really wonder about you if you wanted or needed my acceptance, LOL.  As far as my handle, I am happy you find it offensive - it is meant to be. Thanks!

If you came this far, I assume you got the joke...If not, well, it is a joke, but please don't out it on the GD board.  If it is posted as a joke, people won't read.  Thanks, and hope you enjoy.

As for how one could deduce it was a joke...

The Legal Awareness Workshop (LAW) - First Hint

The Executive Director of LAW is Schuy Colfax AKA: Schuyler Colfax - President U.S. Grant's Vice President - Second Hint

If you read the article all the way through to the "updated" tag at the bottom of the page you will see that it was update on the 32nd of March...thus April Fool's Day - Third Hint

24 Hour Booze, Hookers, and Gambling in DC and it isn't on the front page of the Washington Post and every news outlet in America - Fourth Hint

Written entirely by a guy with no real writing skills or knowledge of the issues involved at all - Fifth Hint

As for why:  Early on in my work life I had a very dignified straight-laced boss who had the misfortune of being born on April 1st.  

Every year on April Fool's Day, he would play one carefully planned joke on somebody, or some group.  His pranks were legendary and often had setups planned and executed weeks if not months in advance.

Recently this mentor of mine passed away, but in the years leading up to his death, he always had a smile on his face and always believed if you were living without laughter in your life, you really weren't living.

One of his finest jokes was centered around his retirement when he announced the formation of his "Retirement Project."  The Que Sera Sera Strategic Planning Group.  (Whatever will be, will be, stategic planning...kinda like chaotic organization)

A full page ad in the local paper, business cards, brochures mailed to his company Christmas card list, and a speech in front of the local Rotary Club and never once did he crack a smirk, never once did he blow his cover, right up to the very end...he had them all fooled.

I apologize if anyone was offended.  I apologize for getting your hopes up.  

I apologze for wasting your time, but once upon a time a great man gave of his time and helped me get my start in this world and all he ever asked of me was that I try to bring a smile to somebody's face every day.  

Hopefully today I brought one to yours.


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