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Within thirty days of ratification of this constitution all city law enforcement dpepartments shall be transferred to the sheriff's departments in their respective counties. All United States and other foreign law enforcement agencies will no longer have jurisdiction in Texas. The sheriffs shall notify the commander or person in charge of each law enforcement agency operating on the soil of Texas within their county that United States and Texas transportation codes are null and void within Texas. Sheriffs shall vigorously defend the right to travel for all individuals and shall take immediate action against any individual, whether representing the State of Texas or the United States, who interferes with or attempts to enforce any of the various "traffic laws" under the United States or State of Texas transportation codes.
Patricia Neill at LewRockwell.com - My Appalling Lack of White Guilt: Patty doesn't feel guilty for being white. She just can't seem to make herself feel responsible for the bad treatment that now dead black people received at the hands of now dead white people. Tell 'em, Patty. [lew]
Thomas Lynch at the New York Times via Free Republic - A Man's Right to Choose: Women can choose whether or not to have a baby. Men can't. Why? [lew]
As it stands now, paternity, once determined, means fiscal responsibility for 18 years -- not by choice, but by law.If they impregnate and the woman chooses to have the child, she has a legal claim against the father's earnings.
They may, of course, refuse to pay, refuse their paternity, in which case they are "deadbeat dads" or some other media-made word for no good.
Why oughtn't my sons have an equivalent choice -- say, within the first two trimesters -- to declare their decision not to parent, to void their paternity? Isn't this precisely the same choice given to women by Roe v. Wade and laws elsewhere that uphold this "right"?
Gary Begin at the Elko Daily Free Press - Road rebels remove 'Liberty Rock': Good story on the Independence Day opening of the Jarbidge South Canyon Road. [sierra]
New articles in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- IRS fine at asking questions, but not answering them - What the scum at the IRS will do if you attempt to take them at their word that the U.S. income tax is "volunary".
- Trouble on the left - Comments on the Green Party choosing Ralph
Nader as their presidential candidate.
...the so-called environmentalists are really what the folks at the Ludwig von Mises Institute call "watermelons," of course -- green on the outside, but socialist red under the skin, promoting an agenda of populist protectionism and a level of government economic oversight which would gladden the heart of Benito Mussolini.
- Most Americans should be ashamed to celebrate the Fourth - This was in the last issue of The Libertarian Enterprise. America's revolutionary war was fought over much less onerous tyrany than we now experience every day.
- What's wrong with patriotism? - A review of
The Patriot. Vin likes it; the spirit is good even though
many of the events are fictionalized.
... Revolutionary War victories at places like Saratoga and Cowpens were largely attributable to the armed amateur militia, of whom Tench Coxe (an ally of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who would later serve in the administrations of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison) was speaking when -- in his famous letter to the Philadelphia Gazette of Feb. 20, 1788 -- he defended the new U.S. Constitution, arguing:
"The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for THE POWERS OF THE SWORD ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE YEOMANRY OF AMERICA FROM SIXTEEN TO SIXTY. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? are they not ourselves. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. What clause in the state or [federal] constitution hath given away that important right. ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
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But American audiences are overlooking such cynicism and disinformation in droves -- and perhaps drawing a few even less PC parallels, one Internet wag already circulating the apocryphal response of Attorney General Janet Reno to the scene in which the evil Col. Tarleton locks a village full of patriot sympathizers in a church and sets the building afire, the chief Clinton enforcer reportedly insisting: "Those cult members locked themselves in that church and set the fire themselves; the colonel was only trying to rescue them!"
