End the War on Freedom

russmo.com - Rebuilding - cartoon commentary on who will bear the expense of rebuilding Afghanistan. Too true. Too true.

From kaba:

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. -- Joseph Sobran

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The "assault weapon" ban didn't stop the [World Trade Center/Pentagon] terrorists, Brady checks didn't stop them, the high capacity magazine ban didn't. Right to Carry would have. If it had saved only one tower and the people in it, it would have been worth it. GUN CONTROL KILLS. -- LTC Stasski, 9/11/01

Joseph Farah at WorldNetDaily - Bartlett cops out on IRS - Rep. Bartlett is no longer planning to attend Bob Schulz'es public forum on the income tax scheduled for February 27 & 28. Mr. Farah recommends that if he and the i.r.s. and d.o.j. do not appear at this meeting, that we all delay paying our income taxes until the deadline, midnight on April 15. [geneice]

So, I say, let 'em sweat for their tax returns. Don't cooperate any more than you think the law requires. If that means holding out until midnight April 15 -- so be it.

I've been targeted by the IRS in the past for political reasons, and I know how difficult it can be. I know I'm inviting more personal scrutiny once again with this column. But it's time for the American people to stand up and be counted. Count me as standing.

Robert L. Schulz at We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education - Reply to Congressman Bartlett - A long reply to Bartlett's withdrawal from the February 27-28 meeting. Worth reading. He has posted a list of 299 initial questions to be answered at the forum. Mr. Schulz requests that if the i.r.s. and d.o.j. refuse to attend the hearing that we all stop paying and withholding taxes and meet on the mall in DC to file our "blank 1040 forms in metal waste drums."

I now fear for the future of our Constitutional Republic. A constitutional crisis has now developed. Whether we have a written Constitution that protects our unalienable rights as Americans is now a question. Whether the Constitution is any more than a piece of paper is now a question. Whether we have a federal government limited by a Constitution and Bill of Rights is now a question.

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It is now imperative to summon all patriots in this cause for liberty and justice. It is time to ask all right thinking Americans to stand united and put a collective foot down against this arrogant disregard for our liberties, rights and freedoms, whether it be an erosion of our right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, our right to privacy, our right to property, our right to firearms, our right to fully-informed juries, our right to honest representation and voting, our right to a truly independent judiciary, our freedom from the influence of the "same hands" in all three branches, our right to honest checks and balances, our right to the fruits of our labor, our right not to have the government waste the fruits of our labor under the pretense of caring for us, our right to laws that do not favor public over private education, our right to home school our children, our right to have the war powers clauses adhered to, our right to have all treaties approved by the Senate, et al.

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We are calling on all patriotic Americans to help reveal the truth regarding the true limits to the federal taxing powers by standing up for our Country and its founding principles. In light of the decision by DOJ and IRS to ignore the People's fundamental, Constitutional right to petition our government for a redress of these grievances, we are respectfully requesting all Americans to:

1) Demand that the IRS and DOJ attend the February hearing and publicly answer the questions, as they committed to do last July.

2) Wait to file their tax returns at least until February 27th. If IRS and DOJ fail to appear at the citizens' hearing to answer the People's questions, we will then respectfully request every American citizen and business to defer filing of their tax returns and suspend employee withholding. The American People should not be obligated to pay a tax that the federal government will not, and cannot, publicly defend on lawful or moral grounds.

3) Stand together on the mall in Washington DC on Sunday, March 31, 2002, and peacefully protest the unlawful income tax by filing their blank 1040 forms in metal waste drums.

Claire Wolfe at Backwoods Home Magazine - Living the outlaw life: Bye-bye banking - Dave Duffy didn't manage to get Claire's latest article in the print version this time, so we get to read it on the web. Yay! Claire says why you might want to avoid banks and explores some alternatives.

Since passage of the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970, your banker has automatically, by law, suspected you of drug dealing and money laundering. With the recent passage of the USA-PATRIOT Act, your banker is now required to suspect you of terrorism, as well. Soon, all U.S. banks will profile each customer and each customer's "normal" financial activity. Their computers will report the slightest deviation to law enforcement. Something as innocuous as depositing an inheritance or the proceeds from the sale of a business could trigger a criminal investigation. After all, it's an "abnormal" activity that involves a "suspicious" amount of money.

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Anyone who cares about privacy has a hard battle ahead. Nevertheless, it's worth any effort to thwart snoops because privacy--self-ownership--is one of the two keys to restoring freedom. (Hint: Masaad Ayoob covers some practical aspects of the other.) Fortunately, with a determined effort, privacy is still possible.

Ed Lewis at KeepAndBearArms.com - BATF - Bureau of Applied Terror and Fraud - Guess what, the b.a.t.f. has no jurisdiction within the 50 states. It can legally regulate only foreign commerce. My take: it's very nearly time for these jack-booted thugs to suffer the Unintended Consequences of their actions. [kaba]

In other words, the BATF has no constitutional authority in the 50 States, commercially or otherwise. But, it does have POWER -- the power derived from instilling FEAR in the citizenry.

Bill Wilson at Loompanics - Make That Pig Squeal: Police Abuse and How to Fight It - the same old ineffective "don't fight back" stuff that I've read all over, but good to know anyway if you haven't read it before. Gives you the best shot you can get for justice in the courts, which still exists in some places, I think.

Ned Beaumont at Loompanics - Amish Power or A Conservative Anarchist's Call for Shunning - an effective way to deal with those who live off your stolen tax money. Attempt to educate them. Then shun them.

Who among us is really willing to "shoot the bastards" -- not only now, but ever? Taking up arms, then, is not only unlikely, but also foolish and wrong. Two of those ancient virtues -- prudence and justice -- that would have been important either to Cicero or to Confucius, argue against violence and in favor of shunning.

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Imagine all the possibilities...

Honest Tradesman, barkeep or deli-owner, serves every customer – except for the meter-reader, alderman, and cop who stop. As far as Honest Tradesman is concerned, those flunkies for the State do not exist. He shuns them. 'Hey, what am I? Invisible?" shouts cop or alderman or meter-reader, little realizing that he is.

Or, consider Honest Shopkeeper, who must dump the slop bucket he uses to clean the scum from the floor of his store every morning. Why does the filthy water splash upon the bureaucrat's car parked outside? Because, to Honest Shopkeeper's shunning eyes, the vehicle is not there. How could it be? The owner does not exist.

Likewise, Honest Waitress cannot serve -- because she cannot see -- the city workers who have wedged their suety frames into a booth at her restaurant. She's shunning such as suck off the tax teat, you see.

Taizo Hirose, Takahiko Hyuga, and Miki Anzai at Bloomberg News Service via The Honolulu Advertiser - Japanese savings switching to gold - In April, the Japanese government plans to limit its deposit insurance to a little over $75K per depositor. Rich Japanese with half a brain are moving their money to gold. [lew]

Angel Shamaya at KeepAndBearArms.com - Arizona Gunkit Maker Bob Stewart Found Guilty by Jury - Bob Stewart, the man who was entrapped by the b.a.t.f. because he was selling .50 caliber gun kits, was found "guilty of being a felon in possession of guns and of five counts of possessing unregistered machine guns." Most of his attempt at defense was forbidden by the judge. [kaba]

Nuclear reactors are great except noone has yet figured how to dispose of the nuclear waste. Nowhere you store it will be safe for 10,000+ years, Yucca Mountain included. But there are people working on transmutation processes to lower the half-life of radioactive waste down to a manageable time. I haven't read much of this, but a Google search for transmutation "nuclear waste" gets lots of results. Thanks to Brian Fitzgerald for the idea of what to search for to find this concept that I read about a few years back. [brianf]

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