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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:21:04 GMT

Aquarian Perspectives Inter-Planetary Mission, the Star Doves, is a site linked from a cures-not-wars newsletter. It appears to be an advertisement for their book, but is good fun. Take with a grain of salt.

This book is guaranteed to hold any true seeker of the occult mysteries spellbound as the Celestial Hierarchy, the Confederation of Planets and the Inner Plane Hierarchy of Ascended Masters and Angels expound eloquently upon the long hidden truths of the life of Jesus/Sananda and the pre-history of our planetary evolution. The Doves and those hallowed beings whom they bring through will revolutionize and enlighten anyone who seeks to know the inner workings of the life of Jesus and the profound mysteries and heretofore unanswered questions regarding the stupendous work of Jesus/Sananda, as well as Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and those that worked closely with him from both the outer and inner realms.

The Light Party appears to be a political arm of the Star Doves. There's a very nice graphical Java applet from wjbgrafx at the bottom of the page.

UPI via Virtual New York - NYC schools nix special Ramadan prayer facilities: it was too good to be true. The ACLU bastards won this one without even going to court. The New York City Board of Education did their athiest work for them. Fie, and again Fie. [unknown]

The Misanthropic Bitch - Prosophobia the bitch sounds off on the election in her inimitable style.

Don't blame me. I voted for Harry Browne.
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By default, let Harry Browne and Ralph Nader be co-presidents. During odd months, the Nader administration can provide free and affordable housing to American citizens, and during even months, the Browne administration can kick out all of their lazy asses.

There's a new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:

Sparing us The Emperor Al - The 2000 presidential election was a statistical dead heat. Hopefully, the process will spare us Emperor Al. GW isn't much better, but he's better.
This is not merely about Al Gore -- though I'll admit there's something about a man who would pose as a fiscal "moderate" to win election from conservative Tennessee, a spoiled son of Washington privilege and wealthy tobacco heir who would turn cigarette prohibitionist and even use his own sister's tobacco-related death for political gain, a beneficiary of a huge trust in Occidental Oil stock who sidles up to the public-employee collectivists and proves willing to publicly embrace the most bizarre Luddite and Marxist environmental quackery, a man who will even modify his dress, speech and deportment in response to the way he's portrayed each weekend on "Saturday Night Live," that doesn't inspire my deepest trust.
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I harbor no delusions that George W. Bush will be a great president. I didn't vote for him. I don't even have a hankering for a great president. (Why does "greatness" always involve sending other mothers' sons to die in unpronouncable places?) I'd be much happier with a man who takes long naps in the afternoon and does little or nothing but host pleasant dinners for visiting ambassadors except on those rare occasions when the safety of our freedoms is truly at stake.
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What's most poisonous about today's process is that merely to become a finalist in the presidential sweepstakes, the press and pundits now demand a fellow have such a "fire in the belly" to control the lives of millions that he would be -- in any other walk of life -- judged certifiably megalomaniac and insane.
I believe Al Gore qualifies.
And through I don't yet have much else good to say about him, I sense that George W. Bush does not.

The LowtaxOnline TaxWire - Qualified Intermediaries: the IRS will institute new rules on January 1, 2001, that will make it harder for foriegn banks to be tax havens for U.S. citizens. It's really time to abolish this band of highway robbers. ["offshoreinsider"]

Aamer Madhani of the Philadelphia Inquirer via Cannabis News - Marijuana Advocate is Sentenced To Prison: the Weedman, Edward Forchion has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. He chose to appear at sentencing instead of fleeing to Canada so that his wife would not lose their house. He will be eligible for parole in 2 years or "intensive supervisory parole" in 6 months. All this for possessing a vegetable. [cn]

MOOT! is a system for truly secure communication. It will consist of a CD that will boot on as many different computers as possible and will block access to all devices except RAM. Everything is stored at data havens. Interesting. The goal is to make it almost impossible for anyone to retreive the plain text of your messages without your agreement. They can still jail you for refusing, but this will give you a choice. [cryptome]

RIPAPART3 is the new law here in the UK that gives the Government the right to demand the plaintext and/or keys of "information protected by encryption". This includes intercepted communications, information on hard discs in PC's, and information stored on servers. And your PGP/RSA private keys...
Laws of this type are being introduced around the world, so we started MOOT!
MOOT! is an open-design, open-source cryptography project begun to defeat RIPAPART3 and make it look silly, and to allow UK citizens to communicate and to store information without worrying about it. It will also defeat Carnivore and the Australian and proposed NZ and Council of Europe laws.
We are doing this so people can be private elsewhere than in our heads. We object to the idea that people should not be allowed to seek privacy from governments.
Eventually we intend to incorporate the knowledge and ideas learned in this project into a programme that will defeat any such law, worldwide.

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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