QUARTER INCH OF COLD STEEL,
                       WHAT IS IT WORTH?

What is the value of metal these days?  I think we all know there is
a variation of prices depending on the type of material we are talk-
ing about.  Trying to stay consistent with comparison, I'll use the
size of one square inch by 1/4 inch thick for a standard.

Your cheapest steel for this size would cost about 13 cents for a
small quarter inch block of steel.  The next higher price might be
20 cents and the price will go up according to the different types
of metals like crome, different types of stainless, special heat
treated metals, and silver or gold.  Silver is about $4.00 per ounce
and Gold is about $350 per once.  Let us say for debate that this
quarter inch thick block of gold would be about one ounce.  If we
were to pay a machinest to drill a 3/4 inch hole perfectly in the
middle and do the best job known to man, and round off the corners,
he might charge another $100 to do this, bringing a total of less
than $500 to do this to gold and quite a bit less for these other
metals. I would like to change the subject for a short while, then
to come back and make a comparison later.

I was listening to a talk radio show with a personal interview with
James Bo Gritz about a guy named Randy Weaver that held up in his
home made cabin in the mountains of Idaho. He was surrounded by fed-
eral troops of all kinds, as they were apparently unlawfully on his
property.  They did not have a search warrant or even announce their
presence, since it might be hard to see them in camouflaged fatigues.

They shot his son in the arm, and when he ran they shot him in the
back and killed him, and the next day they shot his wife in the head
with a high power sniper rifle by all accounts at hand.  Randy and
his three surviving daughters, 16 years old, 11 years old, and the
other was 8 months old (mother was shot through the head while hold-
ing the 8 month old) and a neighbor friend, held up in the cabin
while the police tried to talk him out for eleven days.  A retired
military man named Lt. Col. James Bo Gritz, came to the scene a few
days before it was over and talked him down out of the cabin before
the alleged 500 federal troops swarmed the cabin to assault such a
criminal.

This alleged criminal held up in the cabin, was being attacked for a
quarter inch of steel mentioned at the start of this article.  He
was being attacked because that quarter inch of steel was not on
the end of a shot-gun.  He was being attacked because he allegedly
sold a shotgun one quarter inch too short (by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms) to an undercover snitch that allegedly set him
up.

What is the price of human life anymore these days?  Apparently the
price of a quarter inch of steel must be worth more than two lives,
serious injuries to two others, and psychological scars for the
survivors that will stay with them for the rest of their lives, and
think of the impression on these young girls our government has left.

What is going on in America today?  Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER.  
Hope you are not too busy when it comes to voting this year.