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Here are some of my favorite quotes on the right to bear arms. If you like these, surf over to my fortunes collection where you can download them in a couple of cookie files.

When only cops have guns, it’s called a “police state”.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

– Robert A. Heinlein.

“The power to tax involves the power to destroy;…the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create….”

– Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”

– Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good”

– George Washington

“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”

– Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

– Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficient… The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

– Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.”

– Barry Goldwater

“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

– Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Shogun, August 1588

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.”

– Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”

– Constitutional scholar Joseph Story, 1840

“The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being…”

– J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S.

Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest.

– From the Declaration of the Continental Congress, July 1775.

“As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion to your walks.”

– Thomas Jefferson, writing to his teenaged nephew.

No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.

– 16 Am. Jur. Sec. 177 late 2d, Sec 256

“The state calls its own violence `law’, but that of the individual `crime’”

– Max Stirner

“Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!’ in a crowded theater.”

– Peter Venetoklis

…Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.”

– Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”

– John F. Kennedy

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”

– Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”

– George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790

“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves … and include all men capable of bearing arms.”

– Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788, on “militia” in the 2nd Amendment

“…quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.” [...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]

– (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca “the Younger” (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

– Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson’s Commonplace book

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

– “Political Disquisitions”, a British republican tract of 1774-1775

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.

– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787

& what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that his people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

– Patrick Henry, speech of June 5 1788

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

– Patrick Henry, speech of June 9 1788

“To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”

– George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788

“The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun.”

– Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

– “M.T. Cicero”, in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the “militia” referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms…

– Samuel Adams, in “Phila. Independent Gazetteer”, August 20, 1789

The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

– Joel Barlow, “Advice to the Privileged Orders”, 1792-93

[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

– Joel Barlow, “Advice to the Privileged Orders”, 1792-93

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

– John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.

– Attributed to Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

Every Communist must grasp the truth, ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’

– Mao Tse-tung, 1938, inadvertently endorsing the Second Amendment.

In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a ’shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length’ at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. [...] The Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.

– Majority Supreme Court opinion in “U.S. vs. Miller” (1939)

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

– Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon”, 1942

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

– Hitler, April 11 1942

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

– A.E. Van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops Of Isher”, ASF December 1942

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.

– George Orwell, “You and the Atom Bomb”, 1945

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

– Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

– Colin Greenwood, in the study “Firearms Control”, 1972

Let us hope our weapons are never needed –but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government — and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.”

– Edward Abbey, “Abbey’s Road”, 1979

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

– U.S. Representative John Dingell, 1980

.. a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen…

– Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App.181)

The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.

– Report of the Subcommittee On The Constitution of the Committee On The Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, second session (February, 1982), SuDoc# Y4.J 89/2: Ar 5/5

In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the “collective” right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of “the people” to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.

– Stephen P. Halbrook, “That Every Man Be Armed”, 1984

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you’re putting a money test on getting a gun. It’s racism in its worst form.

– Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988

I don’t like the idea that the police department seems bent on kepping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class.

– David Mohler, 1989, on being denied a carry permit in NYC

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.

– Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author, in the LA Times 15 Oct 1992

You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

– Rush Limbaugh, in a moment of unaccustomed profundity 17 Aug 1993

The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals… It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

– Albert Gallatin, Oct 7 1789

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

– John F. Kennedy

http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/quotes.html

It is interesting to note how, today,  “antiwar” organizations like MoveOn.org which had rallied against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration have now changed their tunes on both wars with Obama in the White House. MoveOn.org and many antiwar organizations during the Vietnam war, received a large degree of financial support from wealthy Jewish-Americans. In the case of MoveOn.org, huge support comes from Jewish-American financier George Soros.

With President Obama facing an Israel that refuses to comply with his wish that it halt all further housing expansion in the illegally-occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, James Scot’s book, “The attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship,” has special meaning.

The editor had the opportunity  of meeting the author at the National Press Club on November 1 7. Scott, a Charleston, South Carolina-based journalist, has a unique insight into the Israeli attack on the National Security Agency (NSA) ship during the 1967 Six Day WAr: Scott’s father was damage control officer on the USS Liberty. Fortunately, Ensign John Scott survived the attack. Thirty four of his shipmates were not so lucky.

Author Scott recounts that on the eve of the outbreak of the the Six Day War, President Johnson resceived a gift from the Jewish American community. Scott writes about a huge anti-Vietnam War demonstration that was planned to confront Johnson on a trip to New York City: “Many Jewish organizations at the forefront of the anti-war movement opted not to protest, hoping to reduce the pressure on the president as Israel sought America’s support in the standoff with Egypt.      ARTICLE

The decision to award US president Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize today (Fri) has sparked mixed reactions in Austria.

Social Democratic (SPÖ) whip Josef Cap said the Norwegian committee’s decision had stressed the American president’s “great engagement in trying to solve international conflicts”.

Cap highlighted Obama’s attempts to start new peace talks in the Middle East and his clear words on Iran’s nuclear programme.

“Barack Obama has led US foreign policies into a new era and he has given hope to the world. This has been rightly honoured,” Cap said.

But Herbert Scheibner, deputy head of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), said: “Obama couldn’t be given an award of hope, because he hasn’t achieved anything as yet.”

Scheibner – the opposition party’s spokesman for foreign affairs – claimed the Nobel Prize Committee had devalued the award’s importance with its decision.

http://www.austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-10-09/17109/Obama_Nobel_Peace_Prize_win_sparks_mixed_reactions

Romania-born writer Herta Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature today (Thurs), nobelprize.org has announced.

The writer, who was born in Nitzkydorf near Banat, Romania in 1953, was awarded the Prize for her writing depicting life under Communism in Romania.

Müller “depicts the landscape of the dispossessed with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose,” according to nobelprize.org.

Müller was born on 17 August 1953 in the German-speaking town Nitzkydorf in Banat, Romania. Her parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania. Her father had served in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Many German Romanians were deported to the Soviet Union in 1945, including Müller’s mother, who spent five years in a work camp in present-day Ukraine. Many years later, in “Atemschaukel” (2009), Müller was to depict the exile of German Romanians in the Soviet Union.

From 1973 to 1976, Müller studied German and Romanian literature at the university in Timişoara (Temeswar). During that period, she was associated with Aktionsgruppe Banat, a circle of young German-speaking authors who, in opposition to Ceauşescu’s dictatorship, sought freedom of speech.

After completing her studies, she worked as a translator at a machine factory from 1977 to 1979. She was dismissed when she refused to be an informant for the secret police. After her dismissal, she was harassed by Securitate.

Müller made her debut with the collection of short stories “Niederungen” (1982), which was censored in Romania. Two years later, she published the uncensored version in Germany and, in the same year, “Drückender Tango” in Romania. In those two works, Müller depicts life in a small, German-speaking village and the corruption, intolerance and repression to be found there.

The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while the German press received them very positively. Because Müller had publicly criticized the dictatorship in Romania, she was prohibited from publishing in her own country. In 1987, Müller emigrated together with her husband, author Richard Wagner.

The novels “Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger” (1992), “Herztier” (1994), “The Land of Green Plums” 1996) and “Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet” (1997) and “The Appointment” (2001) give, with chiselled details, a portrait of daily life in a stagnant dictatorship.

Müller has given guest lectures at universities, colleges and other venues in Paderborn, Warwick, Hamburg, Swansea, Gainsville (Florida), Kassel, Göttingen, Tübingen and Zürich among other places. She lives in Berlin. Since 1995, she has served as a member of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt.

French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008.

http://www.romaniantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-10-08/3398/Romania-born_Herta_M%FCller_awarded_the_Nobel_Prize_for_Literature_

Carinthian Governor Gerhard Dörfler praised the late right-wing icon Jörg Haider as a “great politician and generous person” as more than one thousand people turned up at a ceremony yesterday (Sun) to mark the first anniversary of the death of the former Carinthian Governor.

Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) Governor Dörfler, who succeeded Haider, and his BZÖ deputy Uwe Scheuch presided at the ceremony in memory of Haider at the site of the car crash in Lambichl in which he was killed on 11 October last year.

As a roadside cross was unveiled the governor praised Haider as a man who had accomplished a lot for the province and its people, adding that he had always considered “the little guy” as important as a big businessman.

“We celebrate together, but we also mourn together. There is no death cult,” Dörfler said.

The media said attendees had discussed a number of conspiracy theories about the real cause of Haider’s death, but the governor said during his speech that the cause had been a car crash.

One man with a tattoo of Haider’s face on his upper arm said “it certainly was not an accident” but declined to be more specific on the grounds it would be “too dangerous.”

Scheuch accused the media of having spread “half-truths and lies” about Haider during his lifetime.

He added that Haider would always live in the hearts of Carinthians.

The Carinthian hymn was sung as the ceremony was brought to a close.

There was also a Requiem Mass at Klagenfurt Cathedral in the morning, a requiem at a church in Ossiach in the afternoon and a concert for invited guests at the town’s music academy in the evening.

People also made visits to Haider’s grave, many with candles or flowers, in Feistritz im Rosental municipality in Carinthia’s Bären Valley.

Haider died early in the morning of 11 October 2008 at the wheel of his car on his way back home from Klagenfurt when he lost control of it after reportedly passing another car at high speed. An autopsy found he had a high blood-alcohol level.

Many BZÖ supporters and Haider fans remain convinced that he was murdered.

The controversial right-wing politician became leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) in 1986 and led it to a second-place finish in the 1999 general election with almost 27 per cent of the vote as a protest party fighting the dominance of the two big parties, the People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democrats (SPÖ).

The FPÖ was junior partner to the ÖVP in two coalition governments beginning in 2000.  But Haider quit the party to found the BZÖ in 2005.

Haider sparked controversy during his political career with public statements praising Hitler’s SS forces and elements of the Nazi regime.

http://www.austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-10-12/17153/D%F6rfler_praises_Haider_at_commemoration_ceremony

The number of home foreclosures in process and delinquent mortgages rose during the second quarter, while home retention actions also increased, U.S. bank regulators said on Wednesday.

Foreclosures jumped 16 percent to 2.9 percent of serviced mortgages, while home retention actions such as loan modifications rose 21.7 percent, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision said in a report.

“The mortgage data reported for the second quarter of 2009 continued to reflect negative trends influenced by weakness in economic conditions, including high unemployment and declining home prices in weak housing markets,” the report said.

The report covers mortgages serviced by most of the industry’s largest mortgage servicers, whose loans make up about 64 percent of all mortgages outstanding in the United States.

The regulators said there was a lull in newly initiated foreclosures during the second quarter as mortgage servicers worked to implement the federal “Making Home Affordable” program.

The $50 billion program, launched in March, is designed to stabilize the housing market by helping up to 9 million Americans reduce their monthly mortgage payments to more affordable levels.

The OCC and OTS said the emphasis on the program contributed to a dramatic shift in the composition of home retention actions toward lowering payments. Previously, the vast majority of loan modifications either did not change or increased monthly payments.

The weak economy continued to drive up the number of delinquent mortgages. The number of mortgages delinquent 30 to 60 days jumped 10.9 percent during the second quarter to 3.2 percent of all mortgages covered by the report.

The number of mortgages that were more than 90 days delinquent increased 11.5 percent, rising to 5.3 percent of serviced mortgages.

Separately, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday that U.S. mortgage applications fell last week despite the lowest loan rates in four months, another sign that housing will likely recover slowly from its three-year plunge.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090930/bs_nm/us_financial_regulation_mortgages

The U.S. and five other world powers go to the table with Iran on Thursday to demand a freeze of its nuclear activities, and a senior U.S. official said Washington may seek rare face-to-face talks with Iranian diplomats.

Even as they prepared for Thursday’s talks, the U.S. and its allies were contemplating new and tighter sanctions on Tehran, in a clear signal of expectations that the negotiations may again end in failure.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested all six — the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany — were of one mind on the need for Iran to meet international concerns on its refusal to stop uranium enrichment and heed other U.N. Security Council demands.

“We support what the international community has said with a unified voice,” she told reporters at the United Nations.

Iran’s choice, she said, is to agree to measures that “would guarantee that what they’re doing is solely for peaceful purposes — and the alternative track, which is greater isolation and international pressure.”

With the stakes raised by Tehran’s revelation last week of a secret uranium enrichment site, a move by the U.S. to break precedent and meet directly with Iran would reflect the Obama administration’s determination to get results at Thursday’s gathering.

Briefing reporters in Geneva, a senior U.S. official raised the possibility of a meeting between the Americans, represented by William Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs, and Iran’s chief negotiator Saeed Jalili. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the talks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iran_nuclear_talks;_ylt=Aov9Eub8XgPuMdNpHyftXzis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM3bTFuaGgxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwOTMwL2V1X2lyYW5fbnVjbGVhcl90YWxrcwRjcG9zAzYEcG9zAzMEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawN3ZXN0Z29lc3RvaXI-

OKLAHOMA CITY – The FBI says it did not edit videotapes of the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building before turning them over to an attorney who is conducting an unofficial inquiry into the bombing.

The FBI turned over more than two dozen tapes taken from security cameras on buildings and other locations around the federal building to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who obtained them through the federal Freedom of Information Act. Trentadue said the tapes are blank at various times in the minutes before the blast.

“They have been edited,” Trentadue said Wednesday.

The soundless recordings show people rushing from nearby buildings immediately after a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring hundreds more.

Some show people fleeing through corridors cluttered with debris. None shows the actual explosion that ripped through the federal building.

Trentadue said the absence of footage before the blast indicates something was on the tapes that the FBI did not want to make public.

“They don’t do anything by accident,” he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_re_us/us_bombing_video

From Straweight to Super Welterweight
Brahim Asloum
Vic Darchinyan
Dimitri Kirilov
Johnny Bredhal
Wladimir Sidorenko
Bernard Dunne
Scott Harrisson
Istan Kovacs
Alex Arthur
Nicky Cook
Julien Lorcy
Stefanno Joff
Kostya Tsuyu
Gavin Rees
Andreas Kotelnik
Amir Khan (Yes he is Caucasoid,Indians is not a race but nationality)
Ricky Hatton
Vyacheslav Senchenko
Michelle Piccirillo
Javier Castillero
Roman Karmazin
Sergiy Dzinziruk

From Middleweight to Heavyweight
King Abraham
Sturm
Armand Krajnc
Sven Ottke
Joe Calzaghe
Lucian Bute
Markus Beyer
Christian Savavia
Mikkel Kessler
Carl Froch
Bruno Girard
Denis Inkin
Karoly Balzay
Adamek
Adrian Diaconu
Silvio Branco
Fabrice Tiozzo
Stipe Drvis
Clinton Woods
Dariusz Michalczewski
Erdei
Enzo Maccarinelli
Wlodarczyk
Firat Arslan
Fragomeni
Vassily Jirov
Wladimir
Vitali
Valuev
Liakhovich
Maskaev
Chagaev
Ibragimov

Marco Huck
Gabriel Campillo
Jurgen Braehmer
Robert Stieglitz
Sebastien Zbik

Also to close this i would also like to mention that the same group of boxers in Olympics and World Championships from 2000-2009 (Milan Games just finished) has 159 medals in total for the decade!

It would  be safe to say that Caucasian-Euros (based on facts and numbers) dominated Boxing during our decade.

Kim Clijsters missed her grandfather’s 80th birthday party.

She doesn’t remember which tournament it was—five years ago, probably the French Open or Wimbledon. Back then, she was a young player chasing Grand Slam titles and the world’s No. 1 ranking.

Clijsters was again atop her sport Monday just three tournaments into her return from 2 1/2 years of retirement. She won the U.S. Open the night before, then re-entered the WTA rankings at No. 19.

But now no major, no number comes before her family.

“Little things like that are very special, because you never know how many more of those years you’re going to have,” Clijsters said.

So she’s headed home to Belgium, not planning to play again for more than a month. Her sister is due to give birth in a couple of weeks.

“It’s nice to now be able to make my own schedule, to say, ‘Look, this is something that’s really important to me and I want to be there for that,”’ Clijsters said. “I don’t want to miss it.

“That’s a nice feeling to have that I can choose.”

Her grandparents are still alive and well, neighbors to Clijsters, husband Brian Lynch and 18-month-old daughter Jada. But Clijsters knows just how fragile life is after her father died in January.

She typically gets up each morning around 7 a.m. to make sure breakfast and Jada’s bottle are ready before her daughter wakes up. Then Clijsters often trains for a couple of hours in the morning, returning in time to make lunch. During Jada’s afternoon nap, she may do stretching or other exercises.

“Obviously in Belgium things are going to be a lot more hectic now again for me when I get back home,” Clijsters said a day after winning her second Grand Slam title. “I just want to make sure it doesn’t influence Jada too much, that she still has that normal life.”

Clijsters is scheduled to compete in Luxembourg starting Oct. 19 but has yet to set her plans beyond that. All she knows is she’ll play the majors and other top tournaments in 2010.

In the past, Clijsters would enter several clay-court warmups before the French Open to try to become more comfortable on the service. She probably won’t do that anymore—she just doesn’t like playing on clay.

And she’s not concerned about improving her ranking.

“Maybe in the past you would kind of push yourself a little bit more in those kinds of situations,” Clijsters said. “That’s not something I’m going to do. I’ve been through a lot of those situations and now I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, I want to be top 10 by the end of the year.’ I can go to Asia and play all those (fall) tournaments, but I’m not.”

Clijsters retired because her motivation was sapped. Worn down by injuries and yearning to start a family, she wasn’t dedicating herself in practice the way she needed to.

Now 26, she believes she’s found the right balance—and is making the tennis part, at least, look easy. Serena Williams, one of the five top-20 players defeated by Clijsters during her Open run, called it “one of the greatest comebacks ever.”

“First you need to be happy,” Clijsters said. “As a mother now, everything around me needs to be happy before I can go out there and play good tennis and be relaxed on the court. … If all those things fall into place, then the results will follow automatically.

“That’s what happened here. It’s nice to experience tennis in that kind of way.”

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