Re: Lautenberg amendment

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A public service announcement--This is your brain on too much
eggnog.

On 12/24/07, Greg R. wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Arla wrote:
>> On 3/15/07, Chris wrote:
>>> On 3/08/07, Bryce wrote:
>>>> I plead guilty to a D.V charge in 1994. Not knowing this
>>>> stupid law would come into effect, otherwise I would have
>>>> took it to trial and won since all I did was push her away
>>>> from me after he stabbed me in the back of my thigh with a
>>>> btcher knife. Since this law came into effect in 1996/1997
>>>> and now I can't own a gun, isn't this then an ex post
>>>> facto law, which is unonstitutional. I know case law says
>>>> no, because ou are being punihed by the new law, not the
>>>> D.V. But without the D.V. the new law would not have a
>>>> recourse. therefore the new law is contingent upon the
>>>> D.V. thus making it ex post facto. Am I wrong here? Are we
>>>> going to stand and allow this blatent violation of the
>>>> Contitution go unpunished.
>>>
>>> This has been going on for 10 years. There have been a
>>> couple attempts at a repeal, but Congress does not seem to
>>> want to revisit the issue. To do so may make them appear to
>>> support Domestic Violence and Not the Constitution.
>>>
>>> Again, Write your Congress and tell them how you feel.
>>>
>>> This should be a matter for the Supreme Court, but I don't
>>> think they will ever consider it
>> This is so sureal. I am a wife of a wonderful husband whom has
>> helped raise my kids since they were very little (they are not
>> his biological). He did not have to suffer all the turmoil a
>> teenager can put on you through the years but has done so due
>> to the love that lies so deep. To get on with why I am
>> responding to your posting is that I came from a very abusive
>> marriage before I met my current husband. I was very young
>> when I got with the curr hus and thought all men hit. No
>> affence but after a battle with the x I knew no better. In any
>> event when my curr hus tried to leave during an argument one
>> evening back in 1997. I stood in front of him pushing him over
>> and over again telling him I would not stand for it. At that
>> time he pushed me away from the door saying he was not going
>> to fight with me. After he had been gone for about an hour, I
>> left and went to my sisters house. She told me she had heard
>> he was seen with another women prior to this evening. In
>> complete anger I called the police department wanting him
>> removed from our home. I met the police at my home where my
>> curr hus was sound asleep. I dont recall but am sure I did not
>> want him jailed as I know deep within that he never tried to
>> hurt me and as a matter a fact he was trying to avoid a
>> physical altercation. The police arrested him anyway. We got
>> over the thought of another women and have been happily
>> togather for about 10 years. He rejoined the Military just
>> after 9/11 and they swore him in even with this on his record.
>> It has popped up before since my husband rejoined the Military
>> but I still did not know the severety of the Lautenberg
>> Ammendment. We have kept hope alive. Last night my husband
>> shared an ugly truth that he did not want to share with me. He
>> told me that about a month ago he was pulled into the JAG
>> office and was relieved of his Military duty due to the
>> Lautenberg Amendment. Back then I never apeared in court
>> because I knew it was not right. The State picked up all
>> charges. He plead guilty not knowing he may have a winning
>> chance. OK call me a liar but I was very young and immature
>> but now my husband has to deal with it. And now it is like he
>> is being convicted twice for a charge that he already paid for
>> and one he is not even guilty of. And to think if the D.V.
>> charge had took place before the Ammendment, he would not be
>> going through this. There are some real awful people out there
>> that will never suffer this due to the fact that thier
>> conviction took place before 1996. I love him and feel so
>> guilty myself. Yes, you may not get to many wives admiting to
>> stupidity but this is just not fair. I will try to get a word
>> out to congress. Thank you for your encouraging message.
> I just finished reading your story and I feel so mad! I too had
> a story where my military career was damaged because of this
> amendment. In my case my ex-wife flat out lied about the abuse
> all because of a fight we had related to her friends which I
> wasn't fond of. She told the police that I beat her and
> threatened to kill her and all of her family. There must've been
> over a hundred cops at the house when they came to arrest me. I
> was charged with just about everything though nothing was ever
> prooven the state picked up the charges and I got screwed! I
> spent three months in the county jail awaiting trial. Since they
> were unable to get a conviction out of me they told me that they
> were going to finally release me to the Marines, once I pleaded
> guilty that was, they lied. Upon being released I was picked up
> by the Marines and spent an additional three months in the brig.
> I was eventually discharge with a Bad Conduct Discharge, demoted
> to a private a lost pay. The end result of all of this I am now
> a convicted felon 4th deree aggravated assault and after working
> for a few years in my home state on NJ where everything
> happened, I since moved with my new family to Florida and this
> backgroung has kept me from getting jobs that I've been more
> than qualify. The Lautenberg Amendment is the socialists means
> to keep people from being able to fight back when our
> politicians eventually make the shift from free nation to a
> socialist one, that's just my opinion but there are many more
> reasons for this bill than just to protect D.V victims.