I'd Hire Him

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:00:00 GMT

J. Orlin Grabbe - Toronto Financial Post, Friday Feb. 23, 2001 - this is an image of a newspaper ad (121K) that I've transcribed below: [grabbe]

Employment Wanted

Former Marijuana Smuggler

Having successfully completed a ten year sentence, incident-free, for importing 75 tons of marijuana into the United States, I am now seeking a legal and legitimate means to support myself and my family.

Business Experience - Owned and operated a successful fishing business - multi-vessel, one airplane, one island and processing facility. Simultaneously owned and operated a fleet of tractor-trailer trucks conducting business in the western United States. During this time I also co-owned and participated in the executive level management of 120 people worldwide in a successful pot smuggling venture with revenues in excess of US$100 million annually. I took responsibility for my own actions, and received a ten year sentence in the United States while others walked free for their cooperation.

Attributes - I am an expert in all levels of security; I have extensive computer skills, am personable, outgoing, well-educated, reliable, clean and sober. I have spoken in schools to thousands of kids and parent groups over the past ten years on "the consequences of choice", and received public recognition from the RCMP for community service. I am well-traveled and speak English, French and Spanish. References available from friends, family, the U.S. District Attorney, etc.

Please direct replies to
Box 375, National Post, Classified,
1450 Don Mills, ON, M3B 3RS

I broke my Radio Userland good yesterday. I was investigating what I needed to do to convert the output of TheXMLFiles into my Radio blog. I was looking at system.verbs.builtins.file, a table of scripts to operate on files. Somehow, I deleted that table. Big lose! I renamed my "Radio Userland" folder, reinstalled, opened the old radio.root database, and copied the missing table from the newly installed radio.root to the old one. Radio crashed on exit and I couldn't rename the new folder, so I had to reboot. Then I could rename the new folder to something else, rename the old folder back to "Radio Userland", and I was back in business. Whew.

I would like a new feature in Frontier, a "safe mode" for each database. If safe mode is enabled, then any keyboard deletion or renaming in that database should be validated with a dialog.

Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa at Group ICZ, Prague - Attack on Private Signature Keys of the OpenPGP format, PGP TM programs and other applications compatible with OpenPGP: a PDF version of the paper revealing the security hole in OpenPGP. If someone modifies your private keyring file as documented here and receives an encrypted message sent with the modified file, they can get your private key and restore the keyring file so you won't notice the change. Includes suggestions for fixing the problem. [grabbe]

Annalee Newitz at SF Gate - The Wireless Underground San Francisco's Free Computer Networks: in San Francisco, if you have a laptop with a wireless network card, you can fairly easily find free network connections, some of them inside of corporate firewalls. Short term solution: put your wireless hub outside the firewall and have your employees VPN in. [grabbe]

But the fact remains that many San Francisco geeks with 802.11b cards are getting Internet access for free just by poking around and looking for an open network.

Jim Peron at Laissez Faire City Times - Feminism and Pornography - covers the police state tactics used in Canada against sellers of erotic material. It appears to be largely the work of two penis-hating dykes coupled with Canada's constitutional guarantee of equality instead of freedom. Strong language.

Russell Madden at Laissez Faire City Times - Shakedown - commentary on the absurdity of "reparations" for slavery.

Unfortunately, this trend shows no indication of subsiding. Representative John Conyers of Michigan has moved the reparations debate into the halls of Congress by attempting to establish a group to "study" the issue. Those Blacks promoting this legalized shakedown put their "losses" at over four trillion dollars...to be paid from the paychecks of John Q. Public. Indeed, the bandwagon has been joined by various nations in Africa who think they can blackmail wealthier nations into forking over $777 trillion (that's three-quarters of a quadrillion dollars).

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Only when they [blacks] embrace individual responsibility and move on with their lives will they find the happiness they supposedly seek. They will never find it by isolating themselves from the American ideals of liberty and opportunity. Shaking the rest of us down for a few pieces of silver will eventually leave them as second-class citizens, increasingly irrelevant in a dynamic culture. Blacks deserve better than that.

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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.

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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