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 Abate
of Florida
Next State Meeting
Nature
Coast Bike Fest
April 15, 16 & 17
Leesburg.
9th Annual Leesburg Bike Fest. April 22-24 Lake County comes
alive with the roar of over 125,000 thousand bikers from throughout
the South. Downtown is
closed to motorcycles only!
2nd
Annual
Ride to Remember Coachman Park Clearwater
May 7, 2005 9 AM
CARRABELLE RIVERFRONT FESTIVAL
April 23-24, 2005 Carrabelle, FL Laurel wrote to share the Carrabelle Riverfront Festival with us, "an event celebrating the town's roots in waterfront
activities: fishing, shrimping, crabbing, oystering. Best fresh seafood anywhere!"
Featuring regional and award winning Artists with original works and prints, authentic custom-designed pottery, stained glass, sculpture, unique metal art, wood carvings, yard art and more Salty Dogs. Be sure to strut your mutt in the pet parade.
Prizes awarded for cutest, ugliest, best costume & looks most like owner. The festival is located downtown on scenic Marine Street along Carrabelle’s beautiful Riverwalk.
Located in the panhandle of Florida, Carrabelle is laid-back and quiet... rural Florida. Here on "Florida's Forgotten Coast"
you will find one of the last unspoiled areas in Florida.
April 18, 2005, 7:33 AM EDT HOUSTON -- With an assault weapon in each hand, rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent urged National Rifle Association members to be "hardcore, radical extremists demanding the right to self defense."
Speaking at the NRA's annual convention Saturday, Nugent said each NRA member should try to enroll 10 new members over the next year and associate only with other members.
"Let's next year sit here and say, 'Holy smokes, the NRA has 40 million members now,'" he said. "No one is allowed at our barbecues unless they are an NRA member. Do that in your life."
Nugent sang and played a guitar painted with red and white stripes for the crowd at Houston's downtown convention center.
He drew the most cheers when he told gun owners they should never give up their right to bear arms and should use their guns to protect themselves if needed.
"Remember the Alamo! Shoot 'em!" he screamed to applause. "To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
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By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer
RAPID CITY -- American Indian activist Russell Means has demanded an investigation into what he calls the misappropriation of billions of dollars on South Dakota's nine Indian reservations.
Means, 66, became nationally known in the 1970s for his role as an American Indian Movement leader. He talked to reporters Friday afternoon in front of the federal courthouse in Rapid City after dropping off an open letter at the U.S. Attorney's
office.
In the letter, Means charges that federal law enforcement officials were aware of the criminal mishandling of public funds meant to benefit the people of the reservations.
He is especially focused on the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which governs his home reservation, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
"I am demanding an immediate, comprehensive investigation into the Oglala Sioux Tribe's unlawful criminal activities, resulting in the robbing of the public domain," Means said.
Standing in front of the Rapid City Federal Building, the Oglala Lakota man wore a tan beret, navy-blue velveteen track suit, wraparound sunglasses and white athletic shoes.
Gone were the long wrapped braids, leather vests and tall boots of his younger days, but Means' signature loathing and frustration of tribal and federal bureaucracy remained.
"I'm tired of seeing my people dig through the trash piles of the reservation to eke out a living," Means said.
Means said he had taken his message to Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Rep. Stephanie Herseth, D-S.D., and expected the same commitment from them that former Republican Rep. Bill Janklow had made.
"Janklow told me if I could give him enough evidence, he would call for a congressional investigation," Means said.
Means said he had been collecting information about reservation corruption and mishandling of funds for years.
He had nearly completed compiling documents that were to be submitted to Janklow's offices when Janklow sped through a stop sign on Aug. 16, 2003, and killed Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minn.
"It was an inopportune time for Indian people," Means said.
Janklow did not return calls from the Rapid City Journal.
In 2003, Janklow, who in late 2002 pardoned Means' felony riot conviction, had held out the brightest hope of ending graft and corruption on Pine Ridge reservation, Means said.
"It was a postage stamp away from happening," he said.
The Porcupine man soon will file a petition between now and Thursday, April 21, appealing a judge's decision of the outcome of the Oglala Sioux Tribe's 2004 elections.
Means lost his bid for tribal president against current President Cecelia Fire Thunder during that election.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," he said.--------- Copyright © 2005 The Rapid City Journal Rapid City, SD
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) - Motorcyclists were rolling this week into this Colorado River resort town, where police predicted record crowds at the Laughlin River Run motorcycle rally.
Police Lt. Tom Smitley said Tuesday that crowds could reach 70,000 by Sunday for the 23rd annual event in the southern Nevada city about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
Authorities were preparing the same heavy law enforcement presence imposed after a brawl between rival motorcycle gangs left three dead and dozens injured at the Harrah's Laughlin hotel-casino in 2002. State and federal charges are pending against dozens of Hells Angels and Mongols motorcycle gang members in that case.
River Run events in 2003 and 2004 were free of biker gang violence, but Smitley said bad blood remained between Hells Angels and Mongols members.
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