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AMERICANS Please read this ---
CITIZENS OF AMERICA.ORG NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Citizens Of America a unique organization performing an
essential function in the war to retain our firearms rights is in
danger of having to shut down operations.

Q: Why should you care if COA is forced to shut down?

A: Because the work Citizens Of America (COA) has
accomplished is in jeopardy of vanishing. And COA or its
duplicate is CRUCIAL to the gun-rights war.

Q: Why is COA crucial?

A: Because other gun rights organizations communicate
almost exclusively with their membership. COA is running a
national pro-gun, pro-gun rights public media campaign.

Because COA says what needs to be said, and doesn't fear
media attacks COA is prepared to use such attacks to benefit
gun owners.

Because COA reaches out to ALL Americans regardless of
age, race, religion, or sex. And until ALL Americans grasp
what is happening and change their minds about firearms, we
are going to continue to lose our rights, piece by piece.

Q:  What are COA's tactics?

A:  COA's primary tactic is to use the mass communications
media to convince ALL Americans by touching their HEARTS
and MINDS that

-- more guns in the hands of citizens means less crime
-- anti-gunners are anti-self-defense
-- anti-gunners are usually brazen hypocrites
-- anti-gunners are harming you personally and America in
general.

Q:  What has COA accomplished?

A:  In just over FOUR months, COA has produced and
disseminated across the country FREE OF CHARGE 13 pro-
gun rights radio ads. Are the ads good? Good enough that
people are:

--   paying out of their own pockets to run our ads in their
locale
--   placing the ads or links to COA on their own pro-2A
websites
--   sending out COA updates and notices on their own email
lists
--   volunteering (via our new program) to be the collection
points for pooling funds to run ads in their own cities
--   volunteering not just money but time, skill, and services to
help us
-- notifying us that when our first print ads to appear they will
pay to run them in newspapers and other publications.
--   calling radio talk show and requesting that they interview
us, which has resulted in COA officers giving 11 talk show
interviews in the last three months (since Oct.) with more
scheduled. Some interviews were on nationally syndicated
shows (Steve Wolf's Crime Talk, Tom Gresham's
Gun Talk, Jeff Rense's Sightings, and Ron Engelmans
Engelman Overnight)

What else?
Radio station managers are running COA ads free of charge
as public service announcements. And COA has been the
subject of a positive WorldNet Daily article by columnist Jon
Dougherty.

Q:  So why is COA having funding problems?
A:  First, because COA started operations without extensive
financial backing-- just a small grant of a few hundred dollars
to build a website. And Second, because COA is still too new
to have established a large donor base to support it. From
the beginning, COA founders counted on public support to
achieve its goals and to grow.

In just four months COA's dedicated staff, its ultra-low
overhead, and its care in spending donations, along with
grass-roots help from individuals all across America, have
already enabled it to have a national reach and impact.

But we have hit a financial wall, and we need your help to
break through.  In fact we are unable to maintain even a
status quo regarding day-to-day operations. Without
immediate help we will be forced to cease all planned
projects and perhaps shut down completely. But with your
support we can instantly proceed with our plans to reach ALL
Americans with our pro-gun, pro-gun rights messages.

PLEASE CONSIDER THIS:

This email posting reaches several thousand people. If every
recipient contributed just $20, COA's ultra lean operational
budget for the coming year would be met.

More than $20 if you can afford it would be appreciated, of
course!

You can contribute by credit card or e-gold on our website,
http://www.citizensofamerica.org
Or by check to Citizens Of America, 2118 Wilshire Blvd.
#447, Santa
Monica, CA  90403.

To those who have contributed THANK YOU!

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From The 2ndAmendmentNews Team

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