Collecting Links to Arms Manufacturers
Blame
Keeps the sad game going.
It keeps stealing all your wealth -
Giving it to an imbecile with
No financial skills.
Dear one,
Wise
Up.
From Quotes of the Day:
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook
From The Federalist:
The government's chief function is extorting money from us and giving it to others. It has the power to do with impunity what private persons would go to prison for doing. It is, literally, organized crime. -- Joseph Sobran
I started an Arms Manufacturers page. This will grow and grow over time. Send URL's to add here to the email address at the bottom of the page.
The Stentorian - A Strategy for Defeating Gun Control in the United States - using the metaphor of the bayonet, proposes a way to completely destroy the Brady Bunch. Descredit the gun control movement by revealing the truth behind their leaders, defeat the gun control laws with jury nullification, convert the gun control rank and file, or at least make them into "nonfirers". FreeRepublic commentary here.
"We should stop swatting flies and go after the manure pile." -- Air Force General Curtis LeMay
Ed Apple at KeepAndBearArms.com - A Layman's short History of Gun Control in America - Victim disarmament has a long history in America, but it's only recently that it's gotten really bad. [kaba]
Michael Z. Williamson at KeepAndBearArms.com - JAIL - One man's experience of being arrested and held in jail until the charges were dropped. Not a pretty picture. [kaba]
Consider that about half of those arrested will have the charges dropped. Consider that two thirds of the remainder will be acquitted. That means that five sixths of the incarcerees, more than 80%, are innocent. Of the remainder, most are only being held for minor or non-violent charges, such as Public Intoxication or Driving Without a License. Yet these thugs treat each and every one of them, pre-emptively, as they would a murderer or rapist.
They planned to leave me in an extra day, to "teach me a lesson." They held me incommunicado, causing suffering for my family, to "teach me a lesson." Despite my co-operation, flawless manners and calm demeanor, they harassed me and threatened me, to "teach me a lesson."
Lesson learned, COs (Correction Officers). I have learned that you are petty, gutless Fascists who are so pitiful as to find solace for your own wretched lives in bullying people with problems, helpless to resist you, until they turn into caged animals for your amusement. I have learned that on the evolutionary ladder, you rank somewhere between child molesters and the bacteria that thrive in septic tanks. I have learned that if I am ever called as a juror for a criminal accused of beating one of you within an inch of your life, I'll need to see some VERY convincing evidence before I'll convict him.
How's that for a lesson learned?
Jim Lewis and Jim Peron at Laissez Faire City Times - Foundations of the Constitution, Part 1: The Need for a New American Revolution - First in a series of the sections of the new issue of Liberty Reclaimed that the Jim's were working on before Mr. Lewis died. Countries today are discussing which form of democratic government to create without first deciding the purpose of these new governments. America's founders didn't make this mistake. The United States government was formed with the purpose of preserving and defending individual liberty. The bulk of this essay deals with objections to the U.S. constitution brought up at the time of its ratification.
The Declaration of Independence established the function of government. The American consensus was that government is to serve the people, it is their creation, and it has as its purpose the protection of the rights of the people. George Washington once compared government to fire which he said is a "dangerous servant and a fearful master." The Revolution was the result of this consensus and as a result the monarchy was unceremoniously booted out of the country. With the function or purpose of government so clearly spelled out in the Declaration of Independence the people of the United States now turned to the question of what form shall this new government have. And from this debate came the Constitution of the United States.
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As I have already pointed out the debate on the Constitution was fierce. Many Americans simply felt that the Constitution did not go far enough to protect the rights of the people. They were afraid that the federal government would come to dominate the individual States. They feared that instead of being a union of free and independent states with a small federal government we would become a large, unwieldy centralized state where the States would lose their power and the rights of the people would be diminished until they ceased to exist altogether. In light of recent history it seems that these critics may have been right.
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From the very beginning the debate over the Constitution centered around one primary issue: Does the Constitution grant broad powers to the Federal government? Those who supported the Constitution said the issue was clear; no powers are granted unless specifically enumerated. Opponents of the Constitution felt that some areas of the Constitution were not written tightly enough. But interestingly no one was really arguing that the government powers should be broad and expansive. And no one was saying that Federal powers were broad and that this was good. Both sides, pro-Constitution and anti-Constitution, agreed that the powers of the Federal government should be few and limited.
Republican and Democrat Treason
This fact is a sad commentary on the current state of American politics. Republicans and Democrats in office are constantly fighting to extend government power and in their perverse drive for political tyranny they have twisted the Constitution beyond recognition. Conservatives have been pushing for broader and expansive powers, including the complete suspension of the Bill of Rights, to fight the alleged war on drugs. Liberals can hardly wait to use the federal government to ban possession of firearms, even though ownership of guns is expressly sanctioned in the Second Amendment. In the war on the Constitution both parties have been guilty of treason. And no consolation can be found in trying to make the issue one of left versus right. It is clear that both conservatives and liberals have abandoned any respect for the Constitution. They are all traitors to that document, to the Founders who fought and died for our liberties, and to the great American tradition of limited government and individual freedom. They are monstrous vampires sucking out the blood of liberty and they should be treated accordingly.
JDK 1.3.1_01 is available from Sun. This is a bug fix to the 1.3.1 release. There are Release Notes. [cafe]
