From: [c--a--r] at [access.digex.net] (Francis A. Ney, Jr.)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.org.batf,alt.law-
Subject: Stupid Cop Trick in Covington, KY
Date: 2 Mar 1996 11:32:23 -0500

Actually, this is a Stupid Security Guard and Cop Trick, and something that 
makes me feel really secure within a federal installation.

At the last minute, my employer sent me to Covington, KY (a suburb of 
Cincinatti, OH) on business to a certain federal building.  I spent the next 
four days commuting from my hotel to this installation, parking in one of the 
visitor's spots (after all, I *am* a visitor). 

On the afternoon of the fourth day, I got a call from the security guard.  I 
was informed that my vehicle was going to be towed because I 'parked too long' 
in the visitor spot and that 'there were other security concerns.'  The 
visitor parking spots are not marked with any time limit or other indication 
that a legitimate day-long visitor had any potential problem or needed to meet 
additional requirements.

Well, I found out why the security guard, with an IQ floating somewhere around 
room temperature, had a litter of lizards.  Up on the front seat, I have a 
cassette tape case.  On this case is a sticker, given to me two years ago by 
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, that others may have seen:  a 
yellow Star of David with the words "GUN OWNER" in the middle.    

The political message is obvious to everyone.  Everyone, that is, except the 
contract security guards and Covington's Finest, who were called in to run my 
license plates preparatory to the tow to impound.  The sticker was rather 
appropriate, considering that's exactly how I was treated.  I guess gun owners 
aren't permitted to have federal jobs under the New Klinton Reich.

Well, the end result was my van wasn't towed, and I received a temporary 
parking permit to park with the regular employees of the facility.  However, 
it left me some rather burning questions.

First:  Why did it take these people FOUR DAYS to notice this?  If there was  
        really a problem, the elapsed time was rather lengthy.  If I were the  
        mad bomber/postal employee they feared, four days was long enough to  
        do anything and everything.

Second:  I've been working in and around federal facilities for upwards of 
         fifteen years.  Are they really so dumb as to think I would risk my 
         job, not to mention five years at Club Fed for violating 18 USC 930?

Third:  It's not like this was a great big secret.  The NRA and GOA stickers 
        are clearly visible on the back window.  So why did they freak at a 
        political sticker INSIDE my van?  It's the old gun owner = bad guy =
        shoot to kill before he corrupts our children BS I've come to loath 
        and expect.

I can only come to the conclusion that some HCI fellow traveller snuck a look 
and went ballistic.  I've taken my van to a lot of federal facilities 
nationwide, and this is the first time something like this has ever happened.

Of course, I expect people like S. Shaun S., and David Dahlman of Seabrook, 
Texas, (AKA Rack Jite) as well as a few cops to gloat over this little 
incident, saying that I got my just deserts for being Politically Incorrect.  
To them, the Bill of Rights (which is really a Bill of Limitations On Federal 
Power) is Politically Incorrect. 

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Frank Ney  WV/EMT-B VA/EMT-A  N4ZHG  LPWV  NRA(L) GOA CCRKBA LEAA JPFO
Sponsor, BATF Abuse Page http://www.access.digex.net/~croaker/batfabus.html
West Virginia Coordinator, Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus
"[President Bill Clinton] was only the latest in a long line of critics...and 
as usual, his motives were suspect, being ostensibly moral but primarily 
political, aimed at increasing the power of himself and his party." 
        - Christopher Stasheff, speaking as Horace Burbage
          _A Company Of Stars_ (Del Rey, 1991, ISBN 0-345-36889-4)