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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:19:38 GMT
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I've been reading Doing Freedom! Good stuff! So good that I decided to mirror it. Sunni & Don have given me permission with a warning that the feds may trouble me over doing so. One of the risks of this freedom business, to my thinking, though I may not be so cavalier with a feral gun in my face. Can you say, "folds like a wet noodle". Then again, should the feds decide to threaten me with deadly force simply for speech, the revolution will be at hand. My mirror is here. Note that wws.netherweb.com is likely to change to www.billstclair.com sometime in the near future. Same bits. Different name.

I discovered in the index pages that there was a preview issue of Doing Freedom!, published on April 19. Apt choice of publication date. Check it out!

A new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:

  • The two most threadbare 'gun control' lies - 12 accidental child gun deaths a day counts gang violence for "children" up to age 19. The militia is not the National Guard. It is every adult able to carry and use a weapon.
    A word of advice to those who would deprive law-abiding Americans of their historical and unalienable right (not a "privilege" subject to license or permit or registration or taxation -- or do you propose to start having Americans apply for "Freedom of Religion permits" and "Freedom of Speech licenses"?) to keep at home and carry in their cars weapons of military usefulness, including belt-fed machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-launched, heat-seeking missiles:

    Get yourself some new lies; the old ones are wearing thin.

It's late. I may not do much of a news update today. If you're bored, read Doing Freedom!

J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - Sagebrush: They want your Opinion: an article at the Daily Herald in Utah asking whether the feds should prosecute the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade and J.J.'s response. You can also vote in the Daily Herald poll at the bottom of this page. [sierra]

We are America, dammit. This nation was founded, and will be preserved by Real Americans taking matters into their own hands. Deal with it.

You will have to kill all of us.

Hell, we weren't looking forward to a boring Civil War, anyway.

Welcome to the Sagebrush Rebellion...

Issues and Views is "an open forum on issues affecting the black community". They have changed their focus to free speech recently, however, on noticing a powerful group of people, both black and white, who want to stifle dissent. Added to my links page. I don't remember subscribing, but I got a pointer to this site via email. Glad I did.

Read all sides of the issues.

Savor our right to Free Speech, while we still have it.

While the left continues its assault on the founding principles of the Constitution, we stand firm for:

  • Freedom of Speech by opposing censorship and the overt and subtle bans on "politically incorrect" opinions;
  • Opposition to "Hate Crime" laws that are designed to protect subsets of citizens who are considered "more equal" than others;
  • Freedom of Association by supporting school choice and opposing forced busing and other unconstitutional coercions;
  • Property Rights by supporting the Second Amendment, opposing restrictive environmental regulations, and opposing "discrimination" lawsuits that have become tactics to plunder businesses for sums of money and other rewards.

Fulton Huxtable at Issues & Views - The Haters of Hate: good article on why hate crimes are an evil idea.

It is no accident that actual criminals have been chosen as the initial target of hate crime. By selecting criminals who commit heinous acts, statists have successfully hidden their agenda. It has enabled statists to smuggle into their legislation hate crime's dangerous precedent, one which will gradually spread to areas other than real crime. It will be driven by an irresistible logic: if it is right for the state to criminalize one idea, it is right to criminalize any idea.

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Since the defining characteristic of hate is the intensity of your dislike of something, the campaign by the haters of hate is really an attempt to destroy your capacity for a passionate belief in anything, rendering you impotent to oppose them. Create a nation of sheep, individuals incapable of loving or hating anything, a nation of docile, pliable people and you have the kind easily manipulated by statists.

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