Moore's Law Marches On

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Jeff Elkins at LewRockwell.com - Faces Of Evil: Chuck Schumer D-NY - Mr. Elkins shines the spotlight on one of the senate's most evil schmucks. [market]

Occasionally I've written columns on what I like to term "Faces of Evil", those politicians whom I consider to be exemplars of government slavemasters, true devotees of the jackboot. Logically, the one trait that serves as connecting tissue for all these abhorrent insects is an overriding hatred of the 2nd Amendment above and beyond their disdain for the rest of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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A prime example, now rising to the top of the political dunghill, is Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York.

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Examine the photograph included with this column well. Look very closely at the gleeful expression of Schumer as he fires the fully automatic machine pistol that he wants his BATF bullyboys to have, but not the common citizen. He's pointing that weapon directly at you.

Jim Cason and David Brooks of La Jornada (Mexico City) via Narco News - The Decriminalization of Drugs: "An Alternative Combat Policy" - New Mexico's governor Gary Johnson is in Mexico this weekend attending the annual meeting of border state governors. On Friday, he repeated his clarion call for decriminalization of drugs. [grabbe]

The governor said that the prohibition of drugs is a policy that only generates a black market, violence, corruption, crime and damages to public health. He recalls that this was the experience with the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920s. By decriminalizing, he argues, the business of narco-trafficking would end and government resources could be dedicated to a more effective method than that which is today centered upon police, jails and militarization, toward treatment and reducing harm to public health, in order to solve this problem.

Michael Peirce at LewRockwell.com - At The Crossroads - Remember those maps with the gw counties in red and the algore counties in blue? Well, the red zone is mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more. [lew]

There are those other students as well -- the ones the schools couldn't get to. Like that kid with a bald head and an earring that I met in the local library recently. We got to chatting and I found he was here to look up information on the War Between the States. He looked me right in the eye and said, "I want to know why they hate our flag!"

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The FBI expected "good patriotic Americans" to stand up for them after their series of Keystone Cops style blunders. We didn't. Nobody did. Turns out that folks just don't think it's a good idea to manufacture or conceal evidence, or to kill citizens in the name of big government. Sorry to disappoint you people, but we were paying attention when you murdered those kids at Waco. We know you have assassins on the payroll -- and we want to see the Lon Horiuchis of this world ride the lighting. Besides, the whole concept of federal cops is un-constitutional anyway -- why on earth would we want them to be efficient? We want them gone. They want us to hate Timothy McVeigh and isn't it hilarious how all of a sudden the left loves the death penalty? I suppose the one crime worthy of death is an attack on the government -- at least in their minds. Yet a lot of us are wondering just why Janet Reno is not getting a shot of that bad medicine right along with ole Tim. Murder is murder, right?

Steven Yates at LewRockwell.com - "Let My Children Go": A Christian Exodus from Government Schools? - a long article extolling the virtues of E. Ray Moore's Exodus Mandate Project, a plan to remove the children of evangelical Christian families from "Pharoah's schools". [lew]

Government schools are not mentioned in either the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution. There is no evidence of Constitutional room for any federal role in education-whether to set up and run "public schools" or regulate other people's schools. In 1786 (the year prior to the Constitutional Convention), the State of Virginia passed what became known as the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. It disestablished the Church of England, and this did away with "public churches" there. Thomas Jefferson wrote: "To compel a man to furnish contributions for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves or abhors is sinful and tyrannical." While the Statute dealt with churches, the same kind of argument could be made for schools, which in Virginia were all private and church run. In other words, "public schools" were not a part of any original American educational model. They were not consistent with what was believed by the majority of the Framers. The government-run K-12 school system is a fundamentally renegade educational model-illegitimate in a Constitutional republic.

Scott S. Greenberger at the Boston Globe - Principal says he chose the lesser evil: He draws criticism for OK'ing fistfight - Curtis Wells, principal of Champion Charter School in Brockton, MA, home of boxing champions Rocky Marciano and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, chose an unusual method to end an argument between two students. It worked. Well. Now the socialists are falling over each other condemning his method. Mr. Wells, I salute you. [market]

John Markof at the New York Times - Intel Makes an Ultra-Tiny Chip - Moore's law marches on with a tiny one-volt transistor from Intel. Smaller transistors have been made in the lab, but this one uses standard fabrication techniques. [script]

At a technical conference being held this weekend in Kyoto, Japan, a scientist for the Intel Corporation reported that the company had successfully made a handful of silicon transistors no more than 70 to 80 atoms wide and 3 atoms thick. They are capable of switching on and off 1.5 trillion times a second, making them the world's fastest silicon transistor.

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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