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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 14 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT

I went to the SAS-AIM rally at the Egg in Albany yesterday. Took the whole family. Even my gun-hating wife came along. She was hoping to see Queen Hitlary at the MMM rally. As it turned out, Her Travesty was speaking in Westchester County, a long way from Albany. There was a crowd at the Egg of about 100, 3 or 4 uniformed cops and a couple of plain clothes cops. The New York Tyranny Response Team (TRT-NY) was there. The rally began with a color guard bearing Old Glory and the New York State flags. Then a wonderful rendition of the national anthem. Then the pledge of allegiance. Speeches followed. I didn't take notes.

Steven Cook at the Schenectady Gazette - Albany `Million Mom March' canceled; Police say N.J. man made threat - The forty thousand misguided moms cancelled their Albany rally because some nut called the organizer and threatened to put a million bullets into her. The idiot called from his home phone, she wrote down the number from her caller ID box, and they caught him. This is from my wife's account of the story as she saw it on the TV news. It's stated a little differently in this article. Mentions the Second Amendment Sisters counter-rally.

Elizabeth Benjamin at the Albany Times-Union - Mothers divided on gun control - a Saturday piece about the two mothers day rallies. A fairly balanced description of the two opposing viewpoints.

New York Tyranny Response Team - The TRT wants you! NYC Sat. July 14th 2001 for a protest in front of the united nations building during a commU.N.ist meeting to plan global disarmament. Details forthcoming.

"At an 11-day meeting beginning July 9 at U.N. headquarters in New York, every extremist anti-gun group in the world will show up at a summit on 'small arms,' where the delegates will attempt to create a global standard of gun control, banning civilian fire arms ownership worldwide." NewsMax.com

Wayne LaPierre at NewsMax - U.N. Targets American Gun Owners - a newer story than the link above about the coming commU.N.ist gun ban meeting in July. [max]

The stated goal of the U.N. gun control boosters is "eliminating the conditions that foster reliance on private arms for self-defense." Well, the primary "conditions" are a knowledge of history and a love of freedom.

Neal Boortz at NewsMax - Anti-Gun Crackpots Gather for Another March - The commU.N.ists have invented a bogus Billion Mom March. Neal has "Ten Really Good Reasons to Ban Guns". Well, maybe they're not so good, but they're entertaining. [max]

Guns are unnecessary. In 98% of civilian gun defenses, no shot is fired. If you are not going to fire a shot, you clearly don't need a gun. This proves that the guns are unnecessary. Banning guns will prevent these unnecessary defenses.

www.goblessyourself.com is where I got the idea to forevermore label the united nations as commU.N.ists. goblessyourself.com is also available via billionmommarch.com, which I tried before finding the commU.N.ist site at billionmommarch.org. Hehe.

AP via New York Times - Methamphetamine Labs Sprouting - they're finding lots of methamphetamine labs near Mt. Rainier. Big-time ecological damage. Clue to drug warriors: legalize the stuff and allow it to be sold over the counter. This will put the forest labs out of business overnight. Some people will kill themselves with it, but once the deaths start en masse, folks will figure out that speed kills and stop doing it. If they don't, well, survival of the fit isn't just a good idea, it's the law. I tried crystal meth twice back in 1979. A brown powder that stings when you snort it. It's wonderful. Wide awake. Full of energy. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then you come down. Royal bummer. Royal bummer. Remember kids. There are no old speed freaks.

D. Hill at Lousiville Independent Media Center - Assassination Politics 101 - Mr. Hill posted Jim Bell's 10-part essay. Worth a read or a re-read. If you're familiar with the basic concept, I suggest reading them in reverse order, 10 first down to 1. If it's new to you, start from the beginning and prepare to be offended, disgusted even, until you've had time to digest the idea. I archived all ten at billstclair.com/ap. From #7:

I do not know whether I "invented" or "discovered" this system; perhaps it's a little of both. I do genuinely believe that this system, or one like it, is as close to being technologically inevitable as was the invention of firearms once the material we now know as "gunpowder" was invented. I think it's on the way, regardless of what we do to stop it. Perhaps more than anyone else on the face of this planet, this notion has filled me, sequentially and then simultaneously, with awe, astonishment, joy, terror, and finally, relief.
Awe, that a system could be produced by a handful of people that would rid the world of the scourge of war, nuclear weapons, governments, and taxes. Astonishment, at my realization that once started, it would cover the entire globe inexorably, erasing dictatorships both fascistic and communistic, monarchies, and even so-called "democracies," which as a general rule today are really just the facade of government by the special interests. Joy, that it would eliminate all war, and force the dismantling not only of all nuclear weapons, but also all militaries, making them not merely redundant but also considered universally dangerous, leaving their "owners" no choice but to dismantle them, and in fact no reason to KEEP them!
Terror, too, because this system may just change almost EVERYTHING how we think about our current society, and even more for myself personally, the knowledge that there may some day be a large body of wealthy people who are thrown off their current positions of control of the world's governments, and the very-real possibility that they may look for a "villain" to blame for their downfall. They will find one, in me, and at that time they will have the money and (thanks to me, at least partially) the means to see their revenge. But I would not have published this essay if I had been unwilling to accept the risk.
Finally, relief. Maybe I'm a bit premature to say it, but I'm satisfied we _will_ be free. I'm convinced there is no alternative. It may feel like a roller-coaster ride on the way there, but as of today I think our destination is certain. Please understand, we _will_ be free.

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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