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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 29 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT

I'm going to the Millennium Marijuana March in New York City, next Saturday, May 6, in sha' allah. It meets just south of Washington Square Park (not in the park, the police will evict you) between 11 & 12:30, and the March to City Hall Park is from 1 till 2. Guess they couldn't get a permit to March to Central Park, again. More details at http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.com/mmm/mmm1_41.htm#ny. I bought poster board today. I plan to make the same sign I took last year, "End the War on Freedom" on one side and "Legalize Liberty" on the other. Last year I stapled the poster board to 1x5 sticks, but the cops stole the sticks: "You can't have a stick". This year I'll tape it to some foam board: light, stiff, harmless.

Million Marijuana March via Cannabis News - Million Marijuana March Update: look here for information about marches in other cities: over 100 this year! [cn]

Today's humor from The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent: The story of three teenagers who in 1942 distributed leaflets at the University of Munich opposing the Nazis. They were discovered, convicted of treason, and beheaded. They are lauded in Germany to this day. I pray that it will not become necessary to emulate them here in America. I ordered the book, The White Rose, from Barnes & Noble. It is written by Inge Scholl, the sister of Sophie Scholl, who was one of the teenagers.

Angus Glashier at Latte.Weblogs.Com - Capitalism and War: good stuff from Angus today. Check it out. [latte]

Rep. Cynthia Thielen of Hawaii via Marijuana News - Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products: McCaffrey is now pushing for amendments to the Controlled Substances Act which will eliminate importation of hemp products, or at the very least make it illegal to import sterilized seed or oil (which are not even slightly psychoactive). Ms. Thielen is encouraging people to contact Bill Clinton and their congress critters. I am constantly amazed at how far some people will go to prevent the ingestion by other people of a vegetable. [mjn]

Nice pointer from Sean Hackbarth of The American Mind:

Bill @ EWF is more pessimistic about the state of our government that I am, but after this weeks events (Elian and Microsoft) I'm sympathetic. Read his site and see how another freedom-loving person is trying to deal with this oppression.
End the War on Freedom: http://wws.editthispage.com/

Thanks, Sean.

I haven't really figured out what to do other than avoiding the primal response of killing leviathan's agents. I HAVE decided that I won't be voting in the November elections, and that I will advertise and support ideas that create a parallel, non-government, world. Also, I'll keep my children out of the government schools. I expect governments to use violence to repel these ideas. I expect them to kill and jail many of us. In the end, however, I expect government by force to go the way of the dodo. As I occasionally tell my son Christopher (and myself), "You are free. Noone can force you to do anything except fall down." Towards a world in which every human interaction is voluntary for all parties involved. in sha' allah.

Or maybe I'll just drop out of politics again and focus on writing code and spending time with my family. Naw...

I've gotta comment on Microsoft. Breaking them up would be a crime. It will do great damage to the computer industry. It sends the message that if you are successful, you will be destroyed. I agree that Microsoft has engaged in some questionable business practices, but they have pointed a gun at noone. If they continue with these practices, their business will eventually fail as companies and individuals move their commerce elsewhere. I'm sure that Linux causes Bill Gates to quake in his boots. It is a grave threat to his operating system business.

No monopoly can survive unless preserved by force. None of the anti-trust laws have ever been necessary. Using them against Standard Oil and AT&T was wrong. All these laws should be repealed.

Well, I didn't manage to stop reading Sierra Times for long, but I'm waching it in a different light. Looking for ideas for how to get peacefully out of our predicament. Please tell me if I sink into violence and hate again. Sometimes I don't notice.

Patricia Neill at Sierra Times - What Free Country Is That?: "Sure America is a free country--if Nazi Germany was free, if Stalin's Russia was free, or say, Castro's Cuba. The only difference between those countries and this is we do not yet have huge pictures of the Dictator all over the place. If Algore becomes president, I suspect that may change." Wierdo propaganda? Well, I don't think Bill Clinton has gone as far, yet, as Stalin, Hitler, or Castro. He's still gotta pretend that we're free. But Hitler was very popular early in his reign. He improved the economy. His speeches made people feel good. Drug users and dealers are to modern day America what the jews were to the nazis: someone to blame for our problems, a place to focus hate. Our legislators last year proposed mandatory death sentences for some drug "crimes". As I remember, Newt Gingrich was one of the authors of that abomination. The rule of law makes no sense if men can change the law any way they please. [sierra]

Ray Thomas at Sierra Times - I'm Afraid: "If their 'conditioning' and 'mind control' of the American people is so complete that they can get away with such an atrocity with the approval of a majority of the American people I don't think I want to live in this country any more -- but where can I go? There is no place to go so I guess I'll just have to stay here and try my best to make it better." [sierra]

Ok, I'm reading World Net Daily again, too. This addict needs his fix.

Alan Keyes at WorldNetDaily - That yearly act of civic servility: argues for replacing the income tax with a national sales tax. I agree with him that this would be a preferable form of slavery, but Harry Browne's idea is better: completely eliminate federal taxes on individuals and reduce the federal government budget to the couple hundred billion they already get from excise taxes and duties. Best of course would be to reduce the federal budget to zero and shut down the government. [wnd]

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

-- L. Neil Smith

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

-- L. Neil Smith

Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

Who is a libertarian?

Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

Concise

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair