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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:20:18 GMT

[update at end]

I finished my interface of JSEE to Jetty. A little late. Mortbay has already integrated that functionality into the product. Sigh. Well, I did learn a lot in the process. I'll compare my code with theirs, and see if I've got anything new to offer.

I started reading Andrew Galmbos' tome, Sic Itur Ad Astra. More in a week or so if I have something to say. So far, it's interesting.

Jack Shafer at Slate via mapinc - Ecstasy Madness! Concerning disinformation about ecstacy, MDMA, in the Washington Post.

There's no mistaking the warning signs. Reporting so gullible you giggle. Inaccuracies so gross you groan out loud. Sourcing so hysterical you ask if it's a put-on. You look away and tell yourself, never mind, it's only a thousand-word story on Page B2 of the "Metro" section that few will read.
But you force yourself to look at the page again, and you think of your professional duty. This is your mind. This is your morning newspaper. This is the Washington Post on drugs.

CNN - National Debt Clock stops, despite trillions of dollars of red ink: Now that it's started running backwards, they've shut down the national debt clock near Times Square. [faisal]

Mike Shelton at the Orange County Register - Millennium Crusade: cartoon commentary on the UN Millennium Summit.

"Politech [www.politechbot.com] is the moderated mailing list of politics and technology. Topics include privacy, free speech, the role of government and corporations, antitrust, and more." Run by Declan McCullagh. They have a mailing list, to which I did not subscribe. Added to my links page. [grabbe]

Ananova - 42 foot joint marks new 'Olympic' event: A joint rolling contest and a bong throwing contest were part of the Hemp Olympix in Sydney's Victoria Park. The cops were amused. "Hemp, hemp, hooray." [wnd]

Alan Keyes at WorldNetDaily - Trustees of mankind's better destiny: another anti-abortion screed from Mr. Keyes. He's like a broken record in that way. Lots of other good stuff here though. [wnd]

...Out of the depths of slavery and persecution, black Americans have been able to see, so long as they have been willing to look, the real meaning of freedom.
It's a simple thing, really. Oppression and bondage led black Americans to realize that real freedom isn't lost when the body is chained. They knew that they were free so long as they held fast to the God of justice. That's why they were able to sustain their human dignity; they recognized that freedom doesn't come from the riches of our wallets, but from the riches of our heart.

Steven Yates at LewRockwell.com - From Carroll Quigley to the UN Millennium Summit: Thoughts on the New World Order: The New World Order has been around for quite a while, but its rich proponents don't like much to be known about their doings. Carroll Quigley's book, Tragedy and Hope, which explored these doings, became almost unavailable shortly after its release, out of print with thousands of outstanding back-orders. Last week's UN Millennium Summit brought the one-world-socialist-government tyrants into the spotlight. A less sensationalist exploration of the UN's agenda than some of the articles I've pointed to recently.

Finally, there is the question of who would foot the bill for all these ventures, e.g., free education for all, universal health care, etc. That should be clear. It would be U.S. taxpayers, through the new system of global taxation. Protest, and the International Criminal Court will come after you. I suspect that this outfit, if it was actually put in place, would make the IRS look like choirboys by comparison.
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Can an agenda this vast, backed up by the quantity of resources available to the superelite, be effectively countered? It would not be surprising if some simply despaired of putting a stop to the process of centralization of power in the hands of these very few.
The beginnings of an answer may be found in the writings of the eighteenth century Scottish philosopher David Hume, if we are willing and able to take them to heart. Hume observed that in the final analysis, political authorities derive their legitimacy from those they have authority over: no group of tyrants, no matter how great their resources, can maintain themselves in power by sheer political might indefinitely. We, the people (not the "peoples"), after all, vastly, vastly outnumber the superelite who -- as the New York City summit has proven -- can fit into a large auditorium. Those in power remain in power by maintaining credibility, and also by keeping everyone else as ignorant as possible about what they are up to. Once they lose both, their fall is assured.

neatseeker is a 100% Java search engine implementation designed to operate in a servlet environment. [meat]

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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