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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Kevin Tuma - A Peek Inside the Executive Branch Washroom: cartoon commentary on Komrade Klinton's opinion of the republic. Huhuhuhuhuhu.

In interview of Harry Browne by Bob Edwards was broadcast on NPR during today's morning drive. Nothing new, but nice to hear a voice of liberty on socialist radio. Mr. Edwards asked a few questions, but mostly let Mr. Browne speak.

Keith Dawson at TBTF Blog - Introducing XNS: OneName has married XML, web agents, and contract law to provide a legally binding privacy standard for the web. It is being run by the non-profit XNS Public Trust Corporation, XNSORG. The first million applicants on the XNSORG Services Page can register a personal name, free for life. The registration page was very slow and didn't work in Opera, so I skipped it. [tbtf]

Tibor R. Machan at Laissez Faire City Times - The Hypocrisy of Drug Prohibition: Ah, if the war on some drugs had any basis in rational thought, arguments like Mr. Machan's would end it instantly. It doesn't. The war on some drugs is all about money and control.

Is it not obvious, then, that the prohibition on smoking marijuana--and indeed other drugs as well that do not outright cause someone to commit a crime--is nothing but an arbitrary and unjust policy that is furthermore also highly discriminatory? What about folks who do not wish to toast with glasses of champagne but would rather pass around a pipe or bowl? Why should these latter be treated as criminals while the former are just harmless folks celebrating some notable event in their lives?
There is absolutely no reason that justifies this policy here or anywhere else. Even the specious argument that government is supposed to protect us from ourselves does not come close to making any sense in this case, since alcohol is every bit as potentially harmful to abusers as is taking narcotics immoderately.

bob lonsberry - Ask Al Gore about Wen Ho Lee: Mr. lonsberry's take on the cruel and unusual punishment doled out to Wen Ho Lee.

Wen Ho Lee was accused of harming the Republic, of giving away its nuclear secrets. There is, now that all is said and done, no evidence that he did. But there is ample evidence that the Clinton Administration, in its efforts to prosecute and pressure Wen Ho Lee, abandoned rule of law and did great harm to the liberties bestowed by God and guaranteed by this Republic.
There was treason in this, but it was committed in Washington, not in Los Alamos.
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It was not faceless bureaucrats who did this. It was done at the highest levels of the Clinton-Gore administration. It was Janet Reno and Bill Richardson who personally decided Wen Ho Lee would be kept in solitary confinement. It was Bill Richardson who personally denied Wen Ho Lee for five agonizing months the simple courtesy of reading material.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
These are the fruits of a Democratic administration. Stalinist incarcerations and the laws of the United States suspended at the whim of an elite few.
"Wen Ho Lee" is a Chinese name.
It roughly translates to: Vote Republican.

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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