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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 18 May 2000 12:00:00 GMT

The 50 Million Round March: Fathers for Family and Liberty. For Father's day, organize an event at your local shooting range. Your Individual Permit for This Event is a copy of the first, second, and tenth amendments to the constitution. The links on the main page are hidden in a combo box labelled "Down Arrow for Details". [sierra]

On this Father's Day, and on EVERY INSUING FATHER'S DAY, let us stand as father's for family and liberty. Let us stand with our wives, brothers, sisters, children, relatives and friends. Let us send 50 million rounds down range collectively at firing ranges all over this nation to demonstrate our resolve and the true meaning of our 2nd amendment rights. And let those politicians, pundits, individuals, institutions and any criminals who wish to restrict that right take note and receive the message of our commitment and resolve ... 50 million rounds ... 50 million rounds within a couple of hours in simple target practice ... 50 MILLION ROUNDS!

Angus Glashier says:

Whenever I can't find enough links for this page, I post this photo of Catherine Zeta Jones. It's not a good reason, but it's mine and I'm sticking to it.

Works for me. [latte]

Camille Paglia at Salon - The Million Mom March: What a crock!: The presidential race, Million Moms, Rick Lazio should replace Rudy Giuliani for Senate, Clinton's home video, virulent reader opposition to her applause of the Elian kidnapping, Rush Limbaugh as Monday night football commentator, The War Against Boys, Caligula vs. Diocletian, Clinton/Reno vs. Nero/Agrippina. Camille's last column before her summer hiatus. She'll be back in September, and "on call for Salon if major news breaks over the summer." [wnd]

As a biology-minded social analyst, I had one of my usually reliable "click" moments last week as a TV camera caught Bush trotting jauntily down the steps of an airplane and literally swaggering, hands dangling like a gunslinger, across the tarmac. The same primal principle of animal vitality that gave a still-raw Bill Clinton the juice to rout an aging, waffling, lackluster president in 1992 and then a burnt-out, snappish, half-mummified Senate majority leader in 1996 is starting to favor Bush.
Gore, meanwhile, for all his showy chest-puffing, is coming across as an effete, pretentious, mealy-mouthed candy man on the licorice umbilical from feminazi Big Mamas.
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Unlike the predatory Bill Clinton, who riffled through vulnerable women like playing cards and demanded mechanical servicing from them like nameless plumbers, Giuliani has conducted authentic, long-term relationships with mature, intelligent, feisty career women.

Amitai Etzioni at Intellectualcapital - There Is No Right to Bear Arms: Uses supreme court cases to argue that the constitution grants no individual right to firearms ownership. An old and tired argument, IMNSHO. For the other side of this argument, see Guncite's Original Intent and Purpose of the Second Amendment and Supreme Court Cases pages. Remember, the Bill of Rights grants no rights. It affirms some of our god-given rights and gives government permission to operate in a very limited sphere and nowhere else. Any federal law not explicitly permitted by the constitution is unconstitutional, hence null and void. [wnd]

Craig McMillan at WorldNetDaily - Warning: Constitutional revision ahead: A memo from President Bill concerning some small changes to the Bill of Rights. Would be humorous if it weren't so true. [wnd]

J.J. Johnson is selling a new electronic book, Cracking the Liberty Bell. There's no information about its contents, only technical details about unpacking a zip archive, and it costs $12.95. I'd pay that for paper and ink, but J.J. should take a clue from J. Neil Schulman's pulpless.com: include some excerpts and don't expect to get more than 4 bucks for your bits. [sierra]

Dennis E. Powell at LinuxPlanet - Suites for the Sweet: KOffice: A review of KOffice, an X-Windows based Office Suite for Linux. Maybe I'll try downloading and compiling it again. Last time, I didn't manage to get much to work, but the author claims he wrote his article with KWord, and I'd love to lose the one reason I have left to boot up the MacOS on my PowerMac 9500. In my copious spare time... [lt]

vibewire - The Return of Prince: Prince is once again calling himself Prince, instead of an unpronounceable symbol. Something I hadn't heard before: the reason for the symbol was to disentangle himself from a publishing contract with Warner/Chappell. [max]

Ariana Eunjung Cha at the Washington Post - E-Power to the People : A good introduction to Gnutella, how it was created and how development is proceeding. No real technical info here. [wired]

LeanEdit is an XML editor written in Java. Still beta. Max Kellerman expects to release a stable version in the beginning of June. Maybe I'll try it then. [meat]

Opera 4.0 Beta 4 is available for Windows. It now supports WAP/WML, has a full email client (used to be write-only), 128-bit encryption, and even faster than before. The download has grown 400K to about 1.7 megs. Still very small as browsers go. I downloaded it. It's definitely faster, but I can't figure out how to get the WAP/WML support to work, and it sometimes neglects to load pages. I'm going to wait until they release the final version.

Mark D. Robins of Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar at Slashdot - Our Attorney's Response to Microsoft: Anodover.net's lawyer requests information from Microsoft about their claim that the specification that they posted on the interet for their incompatibly extendeded Kerberos protocol is a trade secret. [/.]

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-- 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