Last Sovereign State Joins CommU.N.ist Dictatorship
Adam Beaumont and Urs Geiser at swissinfo - Government hails UN victory - Switzerland voted today to join the CommU.N.ists. As expected, 55% voted for giving up Switzerland's neutrality and sovereignty. Very bad news.
We The People's income tax trial went off as planned on Thursday and Friday. No government representatives testified. They have a short summary posted now, and promise to post more details soon. You can order for $36.95 a recording on CD-ROMs or VHS tapes.
John deLaubenfels at Strike the Root - A Freedom Lover's Rant Against the Almighty State - Wonderful! [market]
To those (and there are many today) who say that it is wrong to break any law, simply because it is the law, I would ask, is that the advice you would give to people who hid Jews in wartime Germany? Is that the advice you would give to members of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves escape in the 19th Century? Is that the advice you would give to Martin Luther King Jr., if you could speak to him in the '60s? All of these people made a conscious decision to break the law in service of a greater morality. Many risked imprisonment or death to do so.
In the light of 20/20 hindsight, it takes neither effort nor courage to applaud those in the hallowed past who resisted unjust laws. What is not so easy is to stand in the present and oppose, with courage and conviction, the brutal encroachment of government at every level into every corner of private life.
Hardly a day goes by that the news isn't filled with stories of hooded, armed thugs smashing into sick people's homes looking for marijuana. The citizens within are "lucky" if they aren't murdered in the process! These agents are terrorists, and their actions do not deserve to be sugar-coated with any other label. It is not the legitimate role of government to intervene in the personal, private decisions of adult individuals, sick or not. It is the legitimate role of individuals to assert their natural rights in such matters, and to resist unwarranted coercion by whatever means are forced upon them by the criminal thugs of government.
Mountain States Legal Foundation - Landowner Wins Big - Prevails in 'Taking' Case! - Dr. Larry Squires had his business shut down by the e.p.a. This was recently ruled a "taking", and he is due "just compensation". [market]
MSLF's victory in this important case is huge. It may be one of the first rulings in the country holding that a statute that protects species and their habitat causes a taking. Not surprisingly, many are thrilled: "Great news! [It] [h]olds promise for all of us in natural resources and agricultural production," enthused Roni Bell of LaSalle, Colorado.
Jon Dougherty at WorldNetDaily - New ad blasts Bush administration: Drug war, not youth, supports terrorism, group says - The Drug Policy Alliance printed an ad in Roll Call, the daily newspaper of Capitol Hill, similar to the Libertarian Party's ad in USA Today & The Washington Times. Text overlaid on a full-page image of GW: [market]
This month I watched the Super Bowl, wasted 10 million taxpayer dollars on a deceptive ad campaign, and shamelessly exploited the war on terrorism to prop up the failed war on drugs.
C'mon. It was just politics
The Bush Administration is blaming youth for terrorism, when in reality the drug war itself creates the illegal markets that help fund terroriswm. Our resources are better spent on drug treatment and fighting real threats to national security. Get the facts at www.theantidrugwar.com [ad image here].
Vin Suprynowicz at Sierra Times - Line up, boys, and roll up your sleeves ... - are you ready for your very own Digital Angel, otherwise known as the mark of the beast? I hope not. As Claire Wolfe said, National ID is the line in the sand. It's already half-way there with driving licenses and social insecurity. When it gets worse, it'll be time to join the underground economy, now forming at houses near you. [sierra]
John Salsgiver at KeepAndBearArms.com - Freedom of Speech: Use it or lose it, today! - an impassionsed plea to call GW and demand that he veto the Campaign Finance Reform abomination. The repeal of the right to free speech. Phone: 202-456-1414, Fax: 202-456-2461.
Regarding the Campaign Finance Reform bill, it is not a matter of whether or not the legislation is Constitutional. It's nature, essence and purpose are overflowing from the pages, in plain view, declaring that it is indeed unconstitutional. No rational person can ignore the obvious, that this is the opening volley for the eventual elimination of the First Amendment of Constitution of these United States of America; as it relates to individual citizens airing their views, their endorsements and most importantly, their dissent of government policies and, those elected and appointed officials.
Every Patriotic American bore witness to the venom that Senator McCain, his Senatorial peers and those in the House loaded into the syringe, a delivery system for tyranny. They are lustfully awaiting President Bush to succumb to the siren song of bi- partisanship; to inject the poison into the veins wherein the blood of Liberty flows. The veins are the media venues for discussion, reason and most importantly dissent, and the blood of Liberty is the sediment being carried about the body, comprised of "WE THE PEOPLE", of the United States of America. With the silencing of the citizenry, comes the strangling tentacles of despotism.
Jeff Snyder at American Handgunner - The real day of infamy? - no amount of government-provided "security" will ever make us safer. Only personal responsibility, the willingness to defend ourselves, will work. As L. Neil Smith said in 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. [kaba]
The day of infamy actually occurred far earlier than September 11. It occurred when airplanes were made gun-free zones. The track record of gun-free zones is -- how shall we say this? -- less than impressive. Post offices, schools and now, airplanes.
The events of September 11 could not have occurred but for the fact that air travelers are disarmed, and airplanes are a Second Amendment-free zone. In no other way could the terrorists have commandeered the planes with box cutters and pocket knives, turned them into flying bombs, and wrought such massive destruction of life, property and our economy.
Michael Z. Williamson an KeepAndBearArms.com - Congratulations, Mister bin Laden, You Have Won The War! - Osama bin Laden has won the war. His weapons? The U.S. government and a nation of sheep. [kaba]
I have to hand it to you, Osama, you are a genius.
I expected you to follow the initial attack with others, and thus shut down the entire airline industry. I expected attacks at the Macy's Parade and the Superbowl. I figured you'd at least have a few suicide bombers on the streets.
You did none of that. You didn't need to.
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I'm sure you'll chortle when I make the news next week. But I'll have good reason. The next person who attempts to justify stupidity with a mantra of "Nine Eleven! Nine Eleven!" I shall punch in the snoot. Then I shall kick them in the kidneys. Then I shall stomp them into a slimy spot on the sidewalk with my steel-toed combat boots. Those types of "military-style assault boots" will likely by banned thereby, but I no longer care.
