Good Eggs Drink Lemonade

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 11 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT

From Linda Hamilton. Though we mostly hear about the bad eggs, most police are still good guys. This is from the Greenfield Reporter:

Police Log
Greenfield, Wed. May 9
6:31-A caller reported unruly youths walking in the roadway, selling lemonade on Federal Street. Officer sent, reported youths out of roadway on arrival. Advised and lemonade purchased.

From The Federalist:

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. -- Edwin Meese

Linda Hamilton - Slingshot - Linda is suing her first attorney and the trucker's attorney. She also tells us about J.A.I.L. 4 Judges, a legal way to get back at rogue judges.

Politechbot - Ohio journalist collective also hit with subpoena for logs - now the authoritarians want the web access logs of the Ohio Valley IMC. Can't say I'm surprised. There are a couple of posts from a guy who sounds genuinely homocidal.

Martin Bentham at The Telegraph - Fridge door opens for home deliveries - What'll they think of next? A refrigerator that can be filled with deliveries from the outside of the house while the owner is away. [lew]

Also from The Federalist:

Memo to Mr. Bush: The "Communist Manifesto" lists 10 points which Marx considered critical to the success of Communism. The last of these is "Public and gratis education of all children." Indeed, the Left's primary spawning grounds for its kind are government schools. Any effort to undermine the Left's government school "reeducation camps" will continue to be met with fierce resistance. It is time you recognize and respond to this threat by altogether eliminating the extra-constitutional Department of Education.

Commenting on gw's "Faith-Based Initiatives" plan, the Federalist has a good idea:

Memo to Mr. Bush: Rather than setting up another cadre of central government commissars, we suggest that you call for legislation which gives taxpayers the responsibility for selecting the faith-based charity they want to support, and gives them a tax credit for the amount of their support up to, say, $10,000.

DRCNet - Oppose John Walters Nomination - The Drug Reform Coordination Network asks you to send email to your senators opposing the nomination of John Walters as drug czar. I changed their suggested letter to the following:

Don't allow another lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key fascist into the office of America's drug czar. Make President Bush pick somebody more reasonable than John Walters.
Better yet, eliminate the ONDCP entirely, and the DEA while you're at it. The existence of both organizations is blatantly unconstitutional. Drugs are nowhere mentioned in the constitution. Hence, laws concerning them are entirely up to the states.

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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.

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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?

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"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."

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... 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.

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