Posted on 03/03/2006 10:30:50 PM PST by Travis McGee
Angel Shamaya, founder of KeepAndBearArms.com is in jail in Michigan, having been arrested for possession of firearms not properly registered under Michigan law.
Angel's friends are working to help him with this problem, but we need your help, right now!
We need character references from you for Angel. There is a form letter for you to fill out and send back at: http://www.marbut.com/angel.
Be advised that Angel's problem is happening in the Detroit area, where a strong anti-gun sentiment exists in the criminal justice system. So, we are asking you to downplay gun-rights and gun-related comments. We will NOT deliver to the court any disparaging letters about Michigan or Michigan laws. Stay on the high ground.
Please, download a copy of the draft letter. Add one sentence of personal comment if you wish - no more.
This is for upstanding, legitimate citizens only. So, we want you to add your name, mail address, and phone number to the letter, so the judge seeing these will accept your letter and will not think you are some flake.
You may email your completed letter, either as an attached MSWord (.doc) file, or pasted into the body of your email, either to newslinks@keepandbeararms.com or to mssa@mtssa.org. So we can pick it out from our many other emails, PLEASE make the SUBJECT of your email: "Angel reference." We will see that these letters get to Angel's attorney ASAP.
Please pass this on to your friends for action. We need letters from everyone who knows or knows of, and appreciates Angel.
Thanks loads for your help.
Gary Marbut, President Montana Shooting Sports Association http://www.mtssa.org author, Gun Laws of Montana http://www.mtpublish.com
Personal note from David Codrea: I spoke with Angel at length last night, before this happened. He is a great patriot and friend. WarOnGuns visitors: I have never really asked you for anything. I am pleading with you to support our brother in his time of need. I will be monitoring things as they unfold--if and when we need to help Angel with more than words, I will let you know.
Please do this support letter now--and please spread this news far and wide.
More from Nicki Fellenzer:
Folks, most of you know how decent, passionate, intelligent and dynamic Angel Shamaya is. He has committed himself to freedom, and I know of few people who are as dedicated to the cause of freedom as Angel. He is also a personal friend to many of us, and now he needs our help.
Today he was arrested, and he is currently in jail. Please read the link below and take a few minutes to write the judge on his behalf. I have National Drill this weekend, and I'm sending this from my hotel room. I won't be around much until Sunday night, but I'm counting on you guys to spread the news and help Angel through this. Please!
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/nicki/Angel.htm
The link includes an address where to send your letters of reference. Please do so as quickly as you can!
Then, I urge you to pass this email to everyone you know. Post it on your websites and blogs, pass it on to fellow bloggers and help us ensure that this gets the widest possible dissemination. Yes, this is about freedom -- but right now, we need to ensure he is, first and foremost, released and that charges are dismissed, so please toe the line on this one. For Angel.
Thanks!
Nicki Fellenzer
UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the Oakland County Sheriff to see if I could help in any way with bail. Unfortunately, the attendant told me Angel has not been arraigned yet, so there is no public information they can share, and that the best thing to do would be to call back tomorrow night. I told the deputy he had a good man in custody and to please see to it that Angel was safe.
I spend most my time here or on ARFCOM though.
hmm, I smell a coup... a coup against free speech & information & gun rights education... a lawyer backed image & gun rights laundering business by lawyers.
There should be no such thing as "registration" in this country for any firearm to anyone.
I wish we had a 2nd Amendment in Ireland!
The only reason I can see to help this person is so it didn't happen to others. I hope the NRA stays out of this. I don't want my NRA funds helping someone who doesn't support or even like the NRA.
This is looking more and more like a setup, with a personal vendetta angle against Angel. I just want folks to be aware of the case, and help out if possible. You don't need to know Angel personally to know that he's been a longtime mover and shaker in the RKBA movement. If anybody thinks a letter will help, fire away. If not, just keep your powder dry and we'll see where this goes.
do please keep me posted.
the best I can say of the man at this point is that several people I admire speak highly of him.
for me, that is enough - but I doubt a hostile government would give a crap.
"I don't want my NRA funds helping someone who doesn't support or even like the NRA."
Ditto that. The NRA has a way of selling us gun owners out and I wouldn't want the guy to be sold out, either.
The NRA needs gun control to exist
JFPO is a better group IMO
I know that you worship at the NRA Altar, but not all of us do. It's not the organization that's important, it's the right that we fight to protect. Angel is on the front lines of this battle and deserves support from anyone who cherishes freedom.
Where is the Michigan TRT? I am out of the TRT loop these days, but Angel's a player and a critical freedom resource for the good guys.
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Both the state and the federal constitutions give him an unrestricted, enumerated right to bear arms, and the city of Detroit is a political subdivision of the State.
The city cannot legally posses a greater power than that from which it was created.
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To try to prevent him from exercising his Constitutionally enumerated rights is a deprivation of rights under color of law:
United States Code TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;
If they do prosecute him, he can turn around and sue the doodle out of 'em.
Ping, in case you're not in any of the lists. Weren't you involved in RKBA issues up there?
The Second Amendment...
America's Only Homeland Security!
Be Ever Vigilant!
If they really set out to get you, they probably will eventually.
5.56mm
So you'd rather support the organization than the ideal? Come on man... You are a better person than that. I know it.
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