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People are more violently opposed to fur than to leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Sharon Turco at news-press.com - Policy lands top student in jail - Lindsay Brown, an Estero High School senior was arrested after school officials found a kitchen knife in her car. She had forgotten it was there. She's out on $2,500 bail and was suspended from school for 5 days. Estero High School's web site is at http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/schools/est/estero/. Principal Fred Bode's email is fredb@lee.k12.fl.us. The school's telephone number is 941-947-9400. The snail mail address is 21900 River Ranch Road, Estero, Florida 33928. [unknown]

Possession of a weapon on school property -- including the parking lot -- carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.

Luciani said a hearing will be set to give Brown a chance to tell her side of the story but would not comment on punishment.

Estero High School Principal Fred Bode said Brown's arrest is in line with the district's policy to arrest anyone caught with a weapon.

Mr. Bode,

I just read about the arrest and suspension of Lindsay Brown. I hope you and your goose-stepping friends are proud of yourselves. If your students are really in danger, protect them. Train and arm volunteers. Don't destroy good people because of the acts of a few crazies. Weapons-free school zones are really signs hanging on every school proclaiming for all the world, "Helpless victims inside". Don't invite a tragedy at your school by supporting this insane policy. And next time you're tempted to arrest someone for possession of a common household object, use some common sense. Your behavior in this case was dumber than dirt.

Front Sight offers free firearms training to school administrators, teachers, and full-time staff members designated as school Safety Monitors. See http://www.frontsight.com/free_tr.htm for details.

Please pass this letter on to all who were responsible for this travesty.

Bill St. Clair
bill@billstclair.com

Butch Mabin at the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star - Court: Heckling LPD not protected - Yelling while a police officer conducts a sobriety test ruled criminal in Nebraska. As George Orwell said, "All animals are equal, but some animals (the pigs) are more equal than others." [market]

AP via Fox News - Little Rock to Seize Man's Property for Clinton Library - The rapist-formerly-in-chief continues his crimes. Emminent domain has no place in a free country. It is theft pure and simple. [market]

Tom DeWeese at The American Policy Center - The Tide is Turning Against the UN - even A.M. Rosenthal, former editor of the New York Times and a lifelong supporter of the U.N., has realized that the institution has been taken over by ruthless dictators. Mr. DeWeese starts with a quote from Mr. Rosenthal and then gives his commentary. The quotes below are Mr. DeWeese's, not Mr. Rosenthal's. [market]

The liberals thought they could force the world to be good. They thought they could dictate the standards by which we would all we have to live. In doing so, they tried to ignore two emerging and essential facts of the last and this new century; individual freedom and national cultural differences. Instead of making us all the same to live in harmony, they succeeded in creating greater misunderstanding and hatreds. People resist--as they should--being stripped of their national identity and history. The result is fear and mistrust.

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The United Nations was a dream, but as its Human Rights Commission comes under control of the world's worst offenders of human rights, and as its Narcotics Control Board is manned by the likes of Iran, one of the worst drug-pushing nations on earth, the UN has become the full blown nightmare for freedom-loving individuals and sovereign nations. The UN has become the theater of the absurd that even its most devoted supporters can no longer ignore.

AP via Fox News - Ashcroft Speaks on 2nd Amendment - our new attorney general has at least a clue about the second amendment. He still doesn't understand "shall not be infringed," but Chuckie Schumer could still learn a lot from him. Are you listening, Chuckie? [market]

During his confirmation, Ashcroft said he supported the right to bear arms for citizens but added, "I don't believe the Second Amendment to be one that forbids any regulation of guns." He said he supports child safety locks and a ban on assault weapons.

There are four new articles in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:

• Las Vegas needs books - apparently, there's a shortage of books in Las Vegas'es government school libraries. The school administrators are encouraging donations of money, but Vin suggests that you send books instead.

  Donating funds for books sounds all very well, but under these conditions isn't that a little like giving free hot meals to drug addicts already signed up for Food Stamps, because they already sold their Food Stamps on the black market to buy crack? Wouldn't we thus encourage them to continue "converting" the food subsidy we already give them?

• Define 'paraphernalia' - When it was discovered that some novelty glass vials they were selling could be used to facilitate the consumption of crack cocaine, two Las Vegas convenience stores were denied liquor licences. How convenient for the mostly black neighborhood to have an excuse to lower the property value of these Korean and Arab merchants.
• 'Let's make a deal' - Vin lays into a Nevada state senator's business tax plan.

  In America, such taxes as are necessary are supposed to be capitized equally among the citizens. The doctrine that more should be assessed from those who have worked hard and gathered together enough capital to set up a business and create jobs, "from each according to his ability," belongs to quite a different school of economics, Sen. James, one which has spread poverty and desolation across half the globe in the past 80 years.

• Court limits handbilling, but splits on property rights - The Nevada Supreme court recently upheld the right of some Las Vegas casinos to restrict distribution of handbills on their private sidewalks. Strangely, only 3 of the 6 justices realized that the issue here is private property. Some thought it was a free speech case. Bloody socialists.

nessie and others at the Independent Media Center - Gun Story - nessie relates a story of someone who got rid of a crack dealer, who was apparently repeatedly raping a baby, by holding a gun to his head and telling him to get lost. Worked like a charm. The other socialists flame about it a bit.

KVMJab "is a Java Jabber client library which can be used on either Java 2 Standard or Micro Edition. It includes example programs to show usage." [meat]

Babylon Java Chat "is a client and server combo that allows groups to chat and draw over any TCP/IP connection. The client can be run either as a standalone Java application or as an applet imbedded in a WWW document. It features answering-machine style messaging, console paging, regular and private (whisper mode) chatting, and multi-colour graphics drawing abilities, including freehand, lines, rectangles, ovals, and fonted text up to 120 pts." There's a demo applet that allows you to play with it. Looks nice. Having a drawing window could be very useful sometimes. [meat]

Freenet has come a long way since I last checked it out. It now runs as a Java-based server in the background with the user interface in your web browser. The server includes a simple web server. There are now entire web sites in the Freenet. Cool. It warns you if a page contains any links to the regular web that could compromise your anonymity. freegle is a search engine for Freenet. You can search anonymously via an applet that runs over the freenet.

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