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The Outdoor Heritage Act (House Bill 640) officially became law in North Carolina on Wednesday July 8 with the signature of Governors Sportsmen’s Caucus member Governor Pat McCrory. The Act, among other important measures, ends the 145 year-old ban against hunting with firearms on Sunday in the Tarheel State.
Upon signing Governor McCrory noted: “The outdoors has always been an integral part of our way of life and this bill has a number of measures that will improve the stewardship of our natural resources.”

The legislation was sponsored by North Carolina Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus member Representative Jimmy Dixon and received strong support from the Caucus Co-Chairs Representative John Bell and Senator Buck Newton, as well as Senator Brent Jackson and many other Caucus members.

“Our opportunities to promote our outdoor heritage for future generations have never been greater, or more needed than at this time,” said Rep. Dixon.

Beginning on October 1, 2015, Sunday hunting with firearms on private property will be allowed, provided the hunter has written permission from the landowner, with the following exceptions:

– Hunting between the hours of 9:30am-12:30pm, except on licensed controlled hunting preserves.
– Hunting of all migratory birds.
– Hunting deer with dogs.
– Hunting within 500 yards of a place of worship or within 500 yards of a place of residence not owned by the landowner.
– Hunting within the two most populous counties of Wake and Mecklenberg.

Beyond the Sunday hunting victory, the Outdoor Heritage Act also establishes a Trust Fund to provide for the expansion of opportunities for persons age 16 and under to engage in outdoor recreational activities, implements a “three strikes” rule for trespassers, reviews suspension of hunting privileges for negligent hunters, reduces liability for landowners who allow hunters to retrieve their dogs, and numerous other pro-sportsmen measures.

Via: http://www.sportsmenslink.org/the-media-room/news/north-carolina-governor-approves-sunday-hunting#sthash.ZdQtOyhf.dpuf

By John W. Whitehead
July 14, 2015

“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?”—Philosopher Slavoj Žižek

Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded.

All the while, the nation’s citizens seem content to buy into a carefully constructed, benevolent vision of life in America that bears little resemblance to the gritty, pain-etched reality that plagues those unfortunate enough to not belong to the rarefied elite.

For those whose minds have been short-circuited into believing the candy-coated propaganda peddled by the politicians, here is an A-to-Z, back-to-the-basics primer of what life in the United States of America is really all about.

A is for the AMERICAN POLICE STATE. As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, a police state “is characterized by bureaucracy, secrecy, perpetual wars, a nation of suspects, militarization, surveillance, widespread police presence, and a citizenry with little recourse against police actions.”

B is for our battered BILL OF RIGHTS. In the cop culture that is America today, where you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is rarely held accountable for violating your rights, the Bill of Rights doesn’t amount to much.

C is for CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE. The latest governmental scheme to deprive Americans of their liberties—namely, the right to property—is being carried out under the guise of civil asset forfeiture, a government practice wherein government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity. Then, whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property.

D is for DRONES. It is estimated that at least 30,000 drones will be airborne in American airspace by 2020, part of an $80 billion industry. Although some drones will be used for benevolent purposes, many will also be equipped with lasers, tasers and scanning devices, among other weapons.

E is for ELECTRONIC CONCENTRATION CAMP. In the electronic concentration camp, as I have dubbed the surveillance state, all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents and all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness dependent on the government’s say-so.

See more at: http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/freedom_or_the_slaughterhouse_the_american_police_state_from_a_to_z#sthash.7UbC0a0x.dpuf