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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:22:24 GMT

Alan Philps at the London Telegraph - Palestinians 'at war' with Israel: Palestine declared war on Israel yesterday. Bummer. [grabbe]

Linda Hamilton and Larry Pratt, today at noon. Station list. 703-321-8585.

Chris Knight at segfault.org - Mafia Don Announces New Anti-Spam Venture: As a result of getting mad at the spam in his in-box, a Mafia Don begins a new venture to "fix" the problem. I don't know if this is truth or fiction. [picks]

Later that day the Don himself visited the cafe, unwilling to believe the story. Although the details are unclear, sources at the cafe indicate that the Don has hired them to build and host a new Anti-Spam site. Through a SSL transaction system, the site will accept spam complaints and credit card donations towards 'solutions to problems'. Multiple complaints against the same spammer are added to the total until an acceptable solution has been found.
Larry tells us that a typical $250 solution is a broken hand, and for $2000 all anyone ever sees again of 'the problem' are his shoes.

I've succumbed to election coverage today. Sigh...

KeepAndBearArms.com - County by County, Bush Beat Gore to a Pulp: a map colored by counties showing how Gore's votes were highly concentrated in the small populous sections of the country.

"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice. Now they're organizing "Pro-Democracy Protests" for today and next Saturday in large cities throughout the country. The same large cities that voted for Mr. Gorebachev, of course. They appear to be demanding a revote in Palm Beach County, at least that's what their example fliers say. Liz Michael is organizing a counter protest. [jpfo]

I believe we may well have two choices. We can meet these liberal tools right here, right now, peacefully, and show the whole world, which may be watching, that we defend the duly elected President-elect of the United States and the United States Constitution. Or we can allow these people to work their conspiracy to overturn an election, undermine the Constitution, install an illegitimate President whose federal agents we will have to fight violence against violence. Perhaps, by meeting these individuals at these rallies, we can possibily help avert a civil war.

Howard J. Fezell at LizMichael.com - What To Do If The Police Come To Confiscate Your Militia Weapons: good advice for dealing with the police in any situation. Don't tell them anything. Don't let them into your house or car unless they have a warrant. Don't resist physically. Resist strongly with your words.

Jerry Pournelle - Friday, November 10: This page will move here next week. Jerry talks about the election. He would be OK with a nationwide two horse revote. He thinks localized revoting is "probably the worst possible solution." He also reasons nicely that a consitutional amendment abolishing the electoral college would be very unlikely to pass the senate or the small states. But I pointed at his page because of this quote:

When I was a lad before WW II, who was president wasn't really more important than who was county sheriff. Would we were self governing again and Washington were not so important in our lives, but that won't happen either. Well, the world of technology moves along...

Behnam Dayanim and Hamilton Loeb at the LA Times - Those Florida Ballots Were Clearly Illegal: claims that Florida law demands a recount in Palm Beach County. [unknown]

Frank J. Murray at the Washington Times - Existing laws block ordering new vote: the other side of this story. [sierra]

J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - Choosing Sides: J.J. turns up the rhetoric. [sierra]

If they force their way into power:
We must refuse to remain silent.
We must refuse to support their regime.
We must refuse to submit to any illegal authority.
We must not associate with them.
We must never surrender our property.
We must never surrender ANY of our Constitutional Rights.
We must not grant them any legitimacy whatsoever.

Jefferson Adams at Sierra Times - What if they held an election and nobody came? What a wonderful idea. Not the point of his article, however. America has changed from a constitutional republic to a banana democracy. Be afraid. Be very afraid. [sierra]

More likely, what if they held an election and the dead came, some people came two or three times, some had their marked ballots mysteriously disappear before they were counted, and some couldn't figure out - allegedly - which way an arrow was pointing on their ballot?
...

Democracy: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. -- Training Manual No. 2000-25, War Department, Washington, Nov. 30, 1928 - Since rescinded

Andy Patrizio at Wired - A New Way to Look at Optical: the Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (FMD), that I last talked about in February, will be demoed at Comdex. 100 gigs on a CD-ROM sized disk. 140 gigs in the near future. Yes! [/.]

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-- 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