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The American Policy Center is asking us to call our representatives today at 12:00 noon, and ask them to support Ron Paul's American Sovereignty Restoration Act (h.r.1146). They have what is purported to be a working draft of the Millennium Assembly & Summit Declaration, a reworked version of which the assembled leaders at the U.N. will be asked to sign this week. They have lots of articles about the summit here.
Tom DeWeese at the American Policy Center - The Real Impact of the UN's Millennium Summit: No big changes will happen immediately as a result of this week's meeting in NYC, but global government will become the new goal of the UN. Danger Will Robinson!
Ideas expressed in the Charter, including an international criminal court, UN standing army, UN taxes and a drastic change in the structure of the UN Security Council will all be incorporated into the official report of the NGO Forum for presentation to the Millennium Assembly and Summit. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will present them in his report to the Assembly. Individual plans for the separate items, like the criminal court and global taxes, will be presented in specific reports focusing on just that one issue. All will be presented as suggestions or ideas to be considered. Each "suggestion" will be accompanied with speeches and impassioned pleas for the need and merits of the ideas.
Angus Glashier has moved his weblogging again. He got his own domain, too. You can find him at www.glashier.com/blog/. His Weblog Links page has nice words about the blogs he likes, including End the War on Freedom. Thanks, Angus.
Michael Gilson de Lemos at Laissez Faire Times via FreeRepublic - The Day We Shut Down the City: I saw this a few days ago, but didn't read it until finding it again at FreeRepublic. Wow! Tells the story of how a group of students shut down the city of Barcelona by flushing their toilets, turning their lights on and off, and making phone calls. Good commentary by the Freepers.
And each gentle act of resistance reminds people that they are still people with courage. And many will repeat these words: government is an idea whose time has gone....
Comment by Lurker:
I want people to practice practical anarchy all on their own. If anyone needs a playbook they don't belong in the game. There are literally hundreds of thousands of ways to actively resist the coming times and guns may have their place. But for now instead of reading Jeff Cooper, John Ross, or U.S Army field manuals I recommend people read "The Monkey Wrench Gang" or Ozzymandas Guide To Creative Sabatoge.Noone needs to get hurt Mr. Gonzalez. If a few hundred or a few thousand creative and determined individuals decide that they have had enough and begin using toilets, crazy glue, staples, telephones, email, withdrawal from the system, and a thousand other ways I can't even think of to resist the FedGov leviathon could be brought to its knees in weeks. Or they would lash out violently. If that happened, then all bets are off and I for one would not stand idly by while non-violent resistors were the recipients of government sponsored violence.
There's a new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- Voters fail to fall for vindictive union campaign - Mary Kincaid stood up to the unions and won.
The March for Liberty is a web site organizing a protest at the Lincoln Monument in D.C. on October 7, 2000. Read the Mission Statement to get a good idea of what they're proposing.
Phyllis Schlafly at Eagle Forum - The Future Meets The Past In The Napster Case: Ms. Schlafly comes out on Napster's side. [lew]
Even though new technologies tend to disrupt current business models, legislative or judicial attempts to protect economically inefficient distribution channels are misguided.
Charley Reese at the Orlando Sentinel - Hate-crime laws create insulting inequality among victims: Mr. Reese hits the nail on the head about the real reason for the current popularity of hate crime legislation.
This bill has more to do with setting up special classes of people and with laying the predicate for hate-speech laws -- read, making a crime out of thought -- than it does with solving a real problem. There are already laws against violence without regard for the motives of the perpetrators.But what the promoters of hate-crime legislation are really aiming at are hate-speech laws. This will give teeth to the politically correct types who can then have the cops enforce their own prejudices by putting people who disagree with them into prison.
Phil Zimmerman at ITworld Forums - Interview with Cameron Laird and members: Yesterday through tomorrow, Phil Zimmerman, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), answers questions about it. Not much there yet. [/.]
SunLion's Den - Janet Reno Arrested, Facing Felony Charges: Hehe. I wish. [grabbe]
Former Attorney General Reno will not be granted bond, and will be charged with Drug Trafficking, Arms Trafficking, Trafficking in Melissa Etherridge MP3's, and a barrage of fashion-statement violations. She is the first female in American history to go from a trusted high-level Whitehouse appointee holding the highest legal office in the country, to renegade bomb-throwing gun-toting money-laundering crack-whore.
Sears Canada - Osbon Erec-Aid Classic Vacuum Pump for Male Impotence: "Guaranteed to never complain of a headache." hehe. [grabbe]
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Includes pump, carrying case and instructional video. Lifetime warranty (details with purchase).
The Misanthropic Bitch - Hate Crimes: warning, her actual title contains a word that may be offensive to some readers. If you click, it's your responsibility, not mine. A response to an article by Andy Lines in The Mirror. Good commentary on hate crime laws.
Andy says:"America hopes that, in 100 years, whoever killed Matthew will be remembered as the perpetrators of one of the most evil crimes in her history. One which marked a historic change in how people treat one another."
The Misanthropic Bitch says:
Actually, in 100 years, America will remember hate crime laws as one of the most evil acts perpetrated against her citizens. Hate is an emotion. It is something people think and feel. If nothing else in this miserable world, people should be allowed to think and feel whatever they choose without fear of being thrown in jail for it.
Perhaps, after the government has eroded most of our freedoms, we will be blessed with "nonsense" laws. If a person cannot explain his actions, he will go to jail for life. Hey, not a bad idea. We can punish all of those women who "don't know" why they had children.
The Misanthropic Bitch - Can't a Crackhead Get a Break? The bitch comments on the $2 billion anti-drug TV commercial plan that the Klintoon administration dreamed up a while back. I think I like this lady. Thanks for the pointer, Angus. Added to my links page.
The only answer to the drug problem is to legalize drugs. I'm not going to quote studies from organizations that advocate the legalization of drugs. Drugs should not be legal because it may benefit society in the long-run. Drugs should be legal for the simple fact that it is not the government's business if people f**k up their lives.If someone in Michigan ingests a lethal dosage of heroin, it does not affect me in any way, shape or form. It does not affect you. It does not affect Bill Clinton. And, most of all, it does not affect our nation's drug policy director, Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Drugs affect the people who use them. At times, there may be a trickle down effect and others may be affected, but that happens with alcohol and so far, there is no large-scale movement to return to the era of Prohibition. Lots of people have alcoholic parents who ruin Christmas each year with their, "I coulda been..." tirades and a number of people have lost loved ones to drunk drivers, but that has not sparked the emergence of a modern day Carrie Nation. Americans saw that Prohibition did not stop drinking and instead, drinking increased and an unforeseen side effect -- organized crime -- emerged. That is why most people would not support a ban on alcohol, but those same people do not see the parallel between Prohibition and the War on Drugs.
And you know what? They probably never will.
