Weekly Guests on A Call to Rights with Steve Kates

Guest: Daniel Crocker /SW Regional Director, Students for Concealed Carry Students For Concealed Carry On Campus

AUSTIN – Legislation allowing licensed concealed firearms on college campuses has been introduced in the Texas House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Joe Driver would allow Texas residents already licensed to carry under state law to have the same right to self-defense on college campuses as they do elsewhere in Texas. “A lot of people hear about guns and schools and become alarmed,” said David Burnett, President and spokesman of Students for Concealed Carry. “The fact is that concealed carry is already an established body of law in Texas and most other states. There’s a process with age requirements, background checks and training before you can carry a handgun. If you’re mentally ill, or have a history of violent crime or drug and alcohol abuse, you can’t carry a gun. “This is about people who already responsibly carry elsewhere in the state, including restaurants, shopping malls, movie theaters, churches and banks. No one feels unsafe in those places, even though the odds are someone there is armed. Yet if a citizen walks onto a college campus, their right to self-defense is taken away.” Students for Concealed Carry got started after the Virginia Tech shooting, which the group says proved gun free zones don’t work. “Stickers on the doors saying ‘no guns allowed’ won’t keep an armed killer out of the building,” said Burnett. “Until you have a practical mechanism for enforcing a gun-free zone, you can’t tell people they can’t protect themselves.” Texas is one of nine states currently considering campus carry; similar bills are advancing in Arizona, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Florida, Nebraska and Mississippi. Critics argue that colleges are generally safe environments and adding guns would make things worse. But the group points to reports of rising crime on college campuses, noting that in addition to high-profile shootings like Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, there were more than 3,000 sexual assaults, 4,500 robberies and 5000 assaults on college campuses in 2008. The group also notes that 26 colleges in three states already allow licensed concealed carry on campus, with no resulting problems. “We’re not handing out pistols at the door,” said Daniel Crocker, the Southwest Regional Director with Students for Concealed Carry. “We’re talking about former military, ROTC cadets, professors and other mature adults with permits.” The bill has been assigned to the Homeland Security & Public Safety committee. Links > www.therepublic.com/view/story/b1e8cba1c3254ec0a6244d98208a486b/AZ-XGR--Campus-Guns http://www.opposingviews.com/i/brady-campaign-guns-don-t-belong-on-campus Read The Bill: SB 1467 > http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1467p.pdf

Guest: Betty "Tack" Blake/A Salute To The Woman Of The US Military- WAF/WASP Program Of WWII - May 08, 2010

Born in Hawaii while it was still a territory, Betty spent her early years surfing, playing sports, being a tomboy, and reading books about aviation. When she was 14, Betty and her father went to hear Amelia Earhart speak. After the speech, Amelia sought out the teenager and invited her to watch her take off the next morning to fly solo from the Islands to Oakland, Calif. Betty and her father were there! Betty had her first flight at age 15. She then began hitchhiking to the airport and doing its bookkeeping in exchange for flying lessons. She attended private schools and then the University of Hawaii, where she was accepted (as the one girl allowed in a class of ten) into the University’s Civilian Pilot Training program. She earned her private pilot’s license and flew tourists around the Islands. On Saturday, December 6, 1941, Betty was scheduled to fly a tourist business executive around the Island at 6:30 the following morning. However, he called on Saturday and rescheduled for Monday....[ LINK: http://ww2.stripes.com/specialpubs/wasp/blake.html ] Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Betty and her family awakened to the sound of anti-aircraft fire and bombs dropping. They witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor from their balcony on a hill overlooking the Harbor. Betty has enduring memories, not only of the bombing, but also of its aftermath: blackouts, driving with blue gel covering the headlights, listening to Tokyo Rose on the radio—she can still recall so many details vividly. War was declared. Everyone was needed. Betty got a highly secret job at the naval base—keeping track of all the ships in the Pacific. Three months later, she married her fiancé, a Navy ensign, whose ship had sunk in Pearl Harbor on that fateful morning of December 7. He was soon reassigned to the U.S. mainland. Luggage was almost impossible to buy, so they packed their possessions in five new military wooden coffins for shipment to the States. They made the trip in a banana boat in a convoy of ships, experiencing total blackouts at night because of the possibility of German submarines in the area.

While her husband was on an overseas assignment, Betty learned of the Army Air Forces’ new experimental flying training program that would teach qualified young women pilots to fly military aircraft. She applied and, with her impressive number of pilot hours, was accepted as a member of the first class in the Women’s Flying Training Detachment, located at the Houston, Tex., Municipal Airport. Betty completed five months of AAF flight training and ground school classes. Then she received her wings and official orders to report to Long Beach, Calif., to ferry aircraft for the Ferrying Division of the Air Transport Command.

Her first assignments were to ferry new training aircraft to bases all over America. Within a short time, the AAF opened up pursuit training schools and Betty was one of the first WASP selected to attend. There she learned to fly pursuit aircraft. She then ferried aircraft, primarily pursuits, to the East Coast for shipment overseas. To relieve the monotony, she was flying low on one of her ferrying trips. She realized she was overflying some chicken farms in Louisiana when suddenly all the chickens began “taking off.” After the WASP were disbanded, Betty married, had two sons, and worked both as a reporter and a talented craftsperson. Her bean-bag frog design was featured in “The April Fools,” a film starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve. - A sophisticated and lovely lady, Betty Blake is a ‘treasury’ of memories.

Guest: Phillip E. Jennings Author: The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Vietnam War

Introduction: The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure—at least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War. In this latest “P.I.G.”, Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most important—and successful—campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.

From the Inside Flap Think the United States lost the Vietnam War? Think again. No war in American history is so shrouded in obfuscation and myth as the Vietnam War: “Vietnam” has entered into our national memory as a byword for disaster, usually accompanied by the word “quagmire,” and the specter of the war has haunted our foreign policy discussions ever since. Left-leaning historians with a political agenda, aided and abetted by the liberal media, have convinced the world that for America, the Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure. Liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling lies and getting away with it—despite the fact that the war was televised at the time and has been the subject of innumerable books and studies.

But now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War, Phillip Jennings finally sets the record straight. Jennings, who fought in Vietnam as a Marine pilot and later as a pilot for the CIA’s Air America, shatters the near universally accepted myths and politically correct lies that have obscured the truth about what happened in Vietnam for decades.

Jennings, who has made a lifetime’s study of the war, gives you the surprising truth, and backs it up with facts that the liberal pundits ignore. He demonstrates that the United States did not lose the Vietnam War—in fact, we won it. Far from failing dismally, the United States achieved its goal in Vietnam: we stopped the spread of Communism. Jennings explains how the cultural chaos of the 1960s and 1970s negatively influenced the Vietnam War—not vice versa. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military in Vietnam, the world would be a very different place today. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals:

Who won the war? The United States military lost more than 58,000 men in Vietnam; the North Vietnamese military lost more than 1.1 million—and Communism isn’t exactly rolling up the map of Asia any more
How John F. Kennedy’s “firm stand against Communist aggression” took the form of an unclear, waffling policy that led to a series of blunders by liberalism’s “best and brightest” foreign policy and defense advisers
How Richard Nixon effectively won the war, while rapidly withdrawing U.S. troops—only to watch a liberal Congress throw America’s victory away
How liberal Democrats continue to try, outrageously, to present their scuttling of South Vietnam as moral and political wisdom

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War at last reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.

Links about this guest and the subject of our Interview: www.goodbyemexico.com www.namarama.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War www.vva.org