Bad News and Good Essays

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 01 Sep 2001 09:35:14 GMT

Steve Trinward at Sierra Times - Christines' Story Not Your Ordinary Travesty - more on the Ore-gone government snatch-and-sell of the children of Brian and Ruth Christine. In the last installment I read they had rescued their children from the state. Now they are sitting in a Montana jail, the children are back in Ore-gone, and Ore-gone officials are slobbering over Ruth's new baby, about to be born. Edgar J. Steele, he who attempted to represent JoAnn McGuckin, has taken over their defense, though he doesn't think much of their legal chances. This one sounds to me like time to terminate the command of the entire Ore-gone Services for Children and Families. [grabbe]

Declan McCullagh at Politech - Judge sentences Jim Bell to 10 years in federal prison - 10 years and a $10,000 fine for "stalking" an i.r.s. agent. [grabbe]

Scott Cattanach at anti-state.com - Like These People Really Care About Your Children: Part III - a few cases of what government agents have done to children in the name of protecting them. If you or I behaved the same way, we would be called psychopaths. [anti-state]

If a parent responded to his kid's drug use with a fully automatic weapon, he would be called a maniac. When a politician responds to that kid's drug use with a fully automatic weapon, he is called a Republican. Compare that to how a cop or a parent would be treated for using a gun to stop the rape of a child. Almost everybody would support either the cop or the parent.

Jim Davidson at anti-state.com - The Proper Role of Government - nada, zero, zip, naught, nothing, zilch, rien, nichts. Your property is yours. If someone attempts to take it from you, it is your right to kill the bastard, no matter which funny hat or fancy uniform he's wearing, and no matter how many people voted for it. [anti-state]

Shall we believe in the UN, as if it were peopled by demi-gods? No. I refuse to worship other men. I reserve worship for God, who has demonstrated His power. To worship men would be an error.

Yet, the UN insists on respectful attention, even worship. We are told by the UN that it is time to get rid of small arms, because they are used for killing. Yet, who is at risk from small arms? Those who run governments are most at risk, because they offend against property, because they tax and regulate, because they are corrupt, because they give jobs to their worthless nephews, because they seek to interfere in the affairs of others. And it is precisely the people who run governments who are involved in setting UN policies.

If men allow ourselves to be disarmed, we will be made to kneel. A man who is armed is free; one who is unarmed is either a slave now, or soon will be. One might say that such men are slaves in escrow. Whether the kneeling is done in abject servitude, or to make some men worship the UN, is irrelevant. Men, of their own free will, may choose to kneel to acknowledge the power of God; they should not kneel against their will. Freedom of conscience is especially vital.

Harry Valentine at anti-war.com - Utopia: Socialist Paradise - Mr. Valentine reports on the commU.N.ist-certified socialist paradise of which he is a serf. [anti-state]

Dan Mahoney at anti-state.com - Reply to Private Law - a reply to Bob Murphy's Private Law article. Voluntary contracts are not a sufficient basis for law. A theory of property must first be established. Mr. Mahoney doesn't say this, but a theory of property is one of the first things that Andrew J. Galombos establishes in his book Sic Itur Ad Astra, which I still have not finished. [anti-state]

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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