Patriots or Traitors?

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:00:00 GMT

russmo.com - Gifts from Santa - cartoon commentary on Congress' gift to the War Department.

Tibor R. Machan at Laissez Faire City Times - Reflections on Freedom & Responsibility - a good exploration of the relationship of rights and responsibilities in a free society. Why turning responsibilities into legal obligations is a really bad idea.

That's where liberty and responsibility come together -- in a free society our responsibilities must be a matter of choice. Whether we eat right, smoke or not, exercise or not, get educated, are generous and charitable to those in need or are decent to our friends, neighbors, employees, customers and so on -- all of these are not to be a matter of law but of free choice.

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When the folks criticize the free society for not emphasizing responsibilities, the proper response is that in fact the free society emphasizes moral responsibilities far more than any regimented society does. But it insists that the responsibility be a matter of the individual's choice, not fulfilled at the point of a gun. It may be encouraged through persuasion, upbringing, some measure of peer pressure and argument. If your friends misbehave, and you start hinting that that's not kosher, that's a peaceful way of trying to influence them. If you go and clobber them over the head, that's not peaceful, uncivilized.

Russell Madden at Laissez Faire City Times - A Merry Un-PC Christmas - nowadays it's considered politically incorrect to celebrate Christmas openly. Mr. Madden encourages us to ignore that folly. He, an atheist, wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Bravo!

John McCabe at loony dot org - Oops, I did it again - An account of Mr. McCabe's annual visit to church for Christmas mass.

Then, it happened.

"No other religion in the world--in the history of world religions--has a God such as ours...that he would humble himself [to such a degree] as to take human form."

I have to admit I didn't hear very much after that statement. I was too busy sautéing in my seat.

Sarah Thompson at Sierra Times - Stop the Olympic Gun Ban! - a report on Utah banning guns at the Olympics. They are even banning privately supplied storage lockers. [sierra]

Ed Lewis at KeepAndBearArms.com - Patriots or Traitors - That is the question - long article on the abomination called the USA PATRIOT act.

Remember this if nothing else: Not even the President of the United States has the authority to issue an order to any human being unless the human being is in the direct employ of the Executive Branch of the US Government as a civil or military servant to the people; and never does he have the authority to order to deprive citizens of their rights. The authority to order we sovereigns around is not in the Constitution. It makes no difference whether it is in a time of a declared war or any other emergency. If he did have the authority, the Constitution would state it. He is not a king -- he is merely an official who has the task of assuring that the rights of the individual are not infringed upon. He simply hasn't the authority to make a law, which is what an order to an individual would have to be based on.

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Above all -- and never to be forgotten or ignored -- no law by any level of government may be made that is repugnant to the Constitution for the united States of America. In other words -- and to reiterate for those in government who apparently haven't any command of the English language -- if a law infringes upon a right of any one sovereign, it is unconstitutional and no law at all according to American Jurisprudence.

"Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection and justifies no acts performed under it; No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it." (16 Am Jur 2nd 177).

Therefore, a proposed law containing even one unconstitutional provision should never be considered by Congress or State legislators or the governing body of political subdivisions as a law but should have be trashed immediately for its unconstitutionality. No word games should be permitted which lend to its passage. Furthermore, word games should not be used by any court or other entity -- including the media -- in defense of any fraudulent "law" already passed that is more or less taken as "public policy".

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The war against terrorism and for freedom is anything but that. How can it be when Congress does not even read a bill written possibly by people a decade ago that effectively removes the rights secured by the Constitution? Call Homeland Security what it really is -- Fatherland Security -- the establishment of the American Gestapo through unconstitutional laws. No more is the intent to preserve rights but is -- instead -- to suppress all human rights.

This is the set up and what will be -- except that it doesn't take into account the 25% of the people who do think for themselves, that do know the frauds perpetrated and perpetuated by the federal government have been with the intent of establishing complete totalitarian control over the people of the world. It is with those people that hope for the goodness in mankind still exists.

And, even though 25% of the military has indicated its willingness to kill American citizens who do not want to comply with unconstitutional proceedings, such as forced firearm confiscation, there is the 75% who will not. Hopefully, the 75% know who the 25% are and will work to disarm and corral them rather than the American public when the time comes.

Ap via The Winston-Salem Journal - Durham man charged with murder in shooting of suspected burglar - man hears burgler, man steps into front yard, burgler attacks man with brick, man shoots burgler, police arrest man and hold him without bond on murder charge. What's wrong with this picture? Hopefully a grand jury will sort it out, and soon. [kaba]

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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