How long has jpfo.org been down?

[Geolibertarian]

The web site for Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership -- www.jpfo.org -- appears to be down.

Anyone know what the problem is?

[MonkeyPuppet]

GoDaddy sucks?

[Satyagraha]

Not sure what happened.
For those not familiar with JPFO:

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_for_the_Preservation_of_Firearms_Ownership

Innocents Betrayed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp51KusLmU&feature=related

A look at genocides throughout history; and how, in every case
these genocides were preceded by confiscation of their weapons.
* The genocide of Armenians in Turkey; they took their guns, then murdered them.
* The genocide of the Ukrainians, starved to death by the Communist government: preceded by confiscation of firearms.
* The genocide of the Chinese people by their own government: murdered by starvation; preceded by prohibition and confiscation of firearms.
* The genocide of Jews in Europe by the Nazi government: preceded by gun confiscation.
* The genocide of the Cambodian people by the Khmer Rouge: also preceded by gun confiscation.
* The genocide of Ugandans by Idi Amin's government: confiscation of guns first.
* The genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda by the Hutu government: same thing. They took their weapons first.
...and the list goes on.

[Satyagraha]

Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Defends Ron Paul
And criticizes the ADL while he is at it. Apparently the ADL is getting in on the Ron Paul bashing act.
Posted under Election 2008 & Ron Paul
    "Of course the ADL’s real objective here is to force a candidate whom they see as their ideological enemy (once again, much more a matter of the eye of the beholder than of any character flaw their enemy may possess) to do a little dance for them whenever they feel like it. They want to push him through the ceremonial meat-slicer of renunciation, regret, and remorse that so many others have been pushed through in recent years. The trouble is that, like every other form of blackmail, it never ends. The instant he complies with their demands, he becomes their property, their toy, their organ-grinder’s monkey, no longer a threat to the anti-Constitutional establishment they are part of." (- Zelman of JPFO)

(continued)

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http://www.coastalpost.com/96/4/19.htm

"America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization," Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) has once again turned up the volume in the "gun control" debate. These are the folks who brought you the billboard with Adolph Hitler giving the Nazi salute. The written message on the billboard simply said: ALL IN FAVOR OF "GUN CONTROL" RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.

The reason JPFO designed this graphic message was their documented discovery that the American "Gun Control Act of 1968" had been derived from the Nazi German gun law of 1938. The late Senator Thomas Dodd, a leading proponent of the 1968 legislation, had the Nazi law translated into English by the Library of Congress. Some four months later the American version became the law of our land. The similarity in the language and structure of the American federal "gun control" legislation with the Nazi version (especially considering Dodd's intense participation) is beyond coincidence. JPFO documents the entire discovery in their first book, " 'Gun Control'ÑGateway to Tyranny."

JPFO's second book hit just as hard, and with even more unassailable documentation. It is entitled "Lethal LawsÑ'Gun Control' is the Key to Genocide." The "gun control" laws of Ottoman Turkey, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China, Guatemala, Uganda, and Cambodia are presented in their original language form with English translation. JPFO's researchers show how corrupt governments were then free to murder 56 million of their own unarmed citizens. I was able to personally hand Senator Dianne Feinstein a copy of this JPFO book. I wonder if she even cares, considering her continuing advocacy of "gun control." (I have chosen to follow JPFO's lead in placing the phrase "gun control" in quotes because what the term really means in a historical context is gun confiscation.)

Now JPFO has another publication. It is a comic book that is intended to educate children to the lie that "gun control" is good for them. The comic book is entitled: " 'Gun Control' Kills Kids." In the comic book, a friendly senior citizen named "Grandpa Jack" (a combat veteran of WW II) tells his grandchildren how they have been lied to by advocates of "gun control," especially those in the media. Apparently, the parents of the kids receiving the comic book are being aroused by the message. Sales of the other two JPFO books are burgeoning as thinking adults finally decide to see for themselves if JPFO's claims are founded on historical fact.

I decided to call Aaron Zelman, JPFO's founder and Executive Director, and ask him about the response to " 'Gun Control' Kills Kids." He told be that JPFO is shipping more than one thousand copies a day to locations all across the United States and Canada. "The response is gratifying," says Zelman. "Children are passing the comic book around to each other at school. Parents are getting their hands on copies and learning new information. The support has been 99 percent positive."

I couldn't quite believe that, considering the strident emotionalism of the "gun control" advocates. I asked Zelman if he'd had any negative response at all from the organized opposition. "Not a peep," he answered. "There is a deafening silence from Handgun Control Inc. and the major media. They can't deny the evidence. So they have to remain silent. For them to deny the evidence would mean they would have to deny the Holocaust as well as all the other genocides of the twentieth century. The message of our comic book is simply this: 'Gun control' has killed millions upon millions of innocent children and their parents in this century. When parents are disarmed there is no one to stand in the children's defense when a government goes bad and becomes the agent of mass murder. And 'gun control' advocates prove that they are not interested in saving human life by their consistent efforts to disarm people."

JPFO's comic book does not advocate a casual attitude towards firearms in the presence of children. Gun safety instruction is vital. Guns are potentially dangerous tools, like many others found in American households. Guns are a self defense tool.

The first of the "Grandpa Jack" comic books has been so successful (nearing 50,000 in circulation) that the second in the series is now being written. I can predict it will cause an uproar. Some day the Charles Schumers, Sarah Bradys, Diane Feinsteins and Barbara Boxers will have to answer JPFO. Zelman calls these people "the real Nazi sympathizers." Considering that they advocate the identical policy of Adolph Hitler, is Zelman far from wrong?

Recently a madman murdered 16 children and a teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. It is this kind of insanity, more than any other type of crime, that fuels the screams for more "gun control." Regarding the Dunblane horror, JPFO pointed out in a press release that British "gun control" had created such a false sense of security that not a single adult had any kind of implement, even mace, available to protect the children. The British policies had disarmed the law-abiding adults that might have protected those children.

I would challenge all of you well meaning, but misguided "gun control" advocates to make yourselves aware of the educational material Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership publishes. Contact JPFO at: 2872 S. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53207. (414) 769-0760.

[Satyagraha]

The Passing of Aaron Zelman, Founder of JPFO
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/37-history/5902-the-passing-of-aaron-zelman-founder-of-jpfo
Friday, 14 January 2011 14:31

When Aaron Zelman, the founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, died just before Christmas at his home in Wisconsin, eulogies poured in from people Zelman had impacted. One came from Eugene Volokh, who said that Zelman’s "most notable contribution was research pointing out the frequency with which genocide has been preceded by prohibiting arms possession by the targeted victims."

Zelman's updated book Death by Gun Control reviews the history of exterminations of unarmed peoples in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cambodia, Guatemala, Uganda, Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In Volokh’s review of that book, he noted:

The number of people killed by governments in the twentieth century is over two-thirds of the current population of the United States. As a cause of premature death, criminal governments massively outpace ordinary criminals.

A tribute from AmmoLand Gun News reminded its readers that Zelman’s seminal article exposed the 1968 Gun Control Act’s direct connection, courtesy of then-Senator Thomas Dodd, to the Nazi Gun Control Act of 1938, which led to the attempted extermination of all Jews in Germany after they were successfully disarmed: "Aaron had a take-no-prisoners way of thinking and challenged everyone from the NRA, to Washington bureaucrats to Ted Nugent in the name of the Second Amendment."

In an interview with John Birch Society president John F. McManus in 2008, Zelman said, “We’re not interested in compromise. We are only interested in the destruction of … the evil and deadly policy known as gun control.”

Zelman wrote an open letter to popular rock star Ted Nugent, noting Nugent’s membership on the board of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and informing Nugent that “the day I’ll join the NRA” is when

The NRA aggressively presses to abolish all concealed carry permit laws....

I’ll join the NRA when the NRA calls for the complete and unconditional disbanding of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE)…. As you know, JPFO has produced a documentary about the BATFE called “The Gang” for which you kindly donated footage … which [shows] how, with deliberate regularity, the BATFE criminally harasses honest gun owners…. We don’t need these bucket-headed, jack-booted paramilitary goons playing cops in our lives.

I’ll join the NRA when the NRA soundly condemns and works tirelessly to abolish the Gun Control Act of 1968. [As you know] NRA lawyers actually helped to write this piece of totalitarian legislation … a near carbon copy of the Nazi German gun laws of the 1930s.

In an acerbic letter just 11 days before his death, Zelman wrote “An Open Letter to All American Politicians and Bureaucrats,” noting acidly,

You have done absolutely nothing effective or meaningful to stop [the erosion of our Second Amendment rights]. A preponderance of the blame can be laid directly at your feet. Why? Because many of you are, unequivocally, deceivers and liars.

How can I call you liars? Upon your election or appointment here’s what you promised us: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take his obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Your oath of office is a contract, both verbal and signed. If you are in breach of that contract you are now both a liar and a criminal….

What immediate convenience or passing luxury could lure so many of you into your present and insane politically correct points of view? It must be asked: Are you taking bribes? Are you being blackmailed? What is the promise or price being offered to you to so transparently betray America?

If you don’t change course, how long do you think the American people are going to tolerate your charade of loyalty?

In summarizing his conversation and interview with Zelman back in 2008, McManus remembered: “He had the remarkable ability to look past commonly held attitudes and beliefs and arrive at what people really needed to know. Aaron Zelman got right down to the nitty gritty.” As part of the society’s educational campaign, the JBS is distributing a JPFO DVD entitled 2A for the USA; it may be ordered here.

With the loss of such a man as Aaron Zelman, a fair question now is: Who can replace him? Who can fill the void? Who can provide the incisive clarity, the backbone, the leadership, and the courage needed in this most vital of battles? Who, indeed?

[Satyagraha]

After Zelman's death, Rabbi David Bendory ("The Gun Rabbi") took over at JPFO.
I can't find much information about Bendory... a few items come up...

The Gun Rabbi Live!
http://kennblanchard.com/the-gun-rabbi-live

Don’t miss this opportunity to see and hear The Gun Rabbi
Wednesday May 11, 2011 the NJ2AS presents
The Gun Rabbi
Rabbi David Bendory
of the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
The event is being co-sponsored by “Gun for Hire” and is being held at their location at 75 Rutgers Street, Belleville, NJ 07109

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Seems the JPFO is out of commission lately.?

[Satyagraha]

Good news.. their site is back up.

http://jpfo.org/

JPFO's Rabbi Bendory at The New Jersey Second Amendment Society May 11, 2011
http://jpfo.org/rabbi/rabbi-nervous.htm




Three primary goals drive the Wisconsin-based human-rights group Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO):

Destroy so-called “gun control” (code words for disarming innocent people).

Expose the misguided notions that lead people to seek out so-called “gun control”.

Encourage Americans to understand and defend all of the Bill of Rights for all citizens. The Second Amendment is the “Guardian” of the Bill of Rights.

[Satyagraha]

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart

[Freeski]

Not sure what happened.
For those not familiar with JPFO:

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_for_the_Preservation_of_Firearms_Ownership

Innocents Betrayed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp51KusLmU&feature=related

A look at genocides throughout history; and how, in every case
these genocides were preceded by confiscation of their weapons.
* The genocide of Armenians in Turkey; they took their guns, then murdered them.
* The genocide of the Ukrainians, starved to death by the Communist government: preceded by confiscation of firearms.
* The genocide of the Chinese people by their own government: murdered by starvation; preceded by prohibition and confiscation of firearms.
* The genocide of Jews in Europe by the Nazi government: preceded by gun confiscation.
* The genocide of the Cambodian people by the Khmer Rouge: also preceded by gun confiscation.
* The genocide of Ugandans by Idi Amin's government: confiscation of guns first.
* The genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda by the Hutu government: same thing. They took their weapons first.
...and the list goes on.

I've seen that film before but it's well worth a second look, especially the interviews at the end. Gun control, or control of anything makes no sense whatsoever! First of all, who gets to be in charge? And secondly, from where do you get your authority? We need to take down the control freaks by spreading the message of freedom.