End the War on Freedom

Mike Tyson was given a license to box in Washington, DC. Vegas turned him down. It's nice to know Las Vegas has higher moral standards than Washington, DC. -- Jay Leno

The photo below is a political statement on the commU.N.ist convention on global taxes in Monterrey, Mexico. It's ten .30/06 shots from 25 yards, sitting, elbows on bench, Friday, 22 March, 2002, 4:30pm. You can order these targets here at JPFO. The U.N. must die.

From grabbe:

No Torture Please

"Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz OKs torture in USA"
--Jan 2002 news item

Torture Dershowitz, not me
I'll tell you all I know
Of freedom-hating terrorists
And poisoned H2O.

Here's what I'll say if tortured
So you can skip the rack
No shock machines: I'll spill the beans
And never answer back.

I'll finger all conspirators
Turn in my mom and fadda
Don't torture me--here's what you need:
Al Dershowitz is al Qeadda.

Could lawyer's guise conceal a spy?
Is Al the man behind our troubles?
Is Dershowitz the terrorist
That turned our Towers into rubble?

He'll at first deny the charges
But the truth is near at hand
For Harvard profs respond to torture
More smartly than the common man.

He'll admit to kissing Satan
While his testicles are fryin'
Al engineered the Holocaust
And wrote the Protocols of Zion.

Let him study the ways
Of Mossad and Shin Bet
Taste firsthand the "justice"
Palestineans get.

Torture Dershowitz, not me
Barbarism's not my diet.
Is Dershowitz so fond of torture?
Then let him be the first to try it.

--Tom Paine
--US Patriot

L. Neil Smith - Politically Motivated Book Reviews - posted at smith2004. I copied it for posterity. Neil comments on negative reviews of his book, The American Zone, from Publisher's Weekly and Book List.

Understand, I don't care how Publisher's Weekly and Book List feel about my work. I knew from the start of my career that socialists who call themselves "liberals" were going to hate every word I write, and resigned myself to nothing but bad notices. I'm surprised now and then by a good review, but in some ways those are more dangerous than bad ones, and I've never taken them seriously, one way or another.

But I must take these reviews seriously, because this is not just an instance of someone not liking what I've written. It's an attempt to make what I've written go away because -- even before the terrible events of September 11 proved me right beyond question and discredited them for all time -- it casts doubt on their fondly cherished and hysterically held misconceptions.

Dave Winer's DaveNet - Scientology and Google - commentary on two outgrowths of the DMCA: Google pulling xenu.net from their search engine at the demand of the "Church" of Scientology, and the CBDTPA. "Hollings wishes to repeal gravity."

Computers do a lot of copying, all the time, and almost all of it is non-controversial. To insert a new controller into every bit of code and hardware that does copying would be like diverting the Mississippi River to irrigate the Great Plains, another idea the Congress contemplated at one time. You can't do it, it won't happen, there aren't enough dollars or programmers in the world to make it so. Even in these tough economic times, it would be hard to recruit capable programmers to perform an act as utterly idiotic as trying to disable copying on computers.

Now the law may pass, but the future it envisions will not. The government will eventually realize that it would cripple even their own computers, so at some point they must come to their senses, and stop listening to the industry execs (many of whom are in bed with the entertainment industry) and talk directly to some scientists and engineers and find out what's possible.

Roadhouse Sierra - Letter from a Broken Heart - a letter from they-claim-to-know-not-who claiming to have been sent in the year 2018. More to come next week. Most interesting. Membership required. Get one today. [sierra]

Sunni Maravillosa at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - Re-Enter the Refuseniks: No National ID - The National ID is coming. It's already largely here. Advantages and disadvantages of operating inside and outside the system. [grabbe]

Not cooperating will be uncomfortable, inconvenient, and ultimately, dangerous for many. But remember: sixty years ago, European Jews went along with Nazi requirements for papers. Then they went along with the yellow Star of David armbands. Then they went along with being herded into Jewish sectors. Then they went to the concentration camps -- and gas chambers.

Life is full of difficult choices, and this time is no exception. But we do have a choice. In or out, private protestor or active refusenik, I encourage everyone who values freedom to find some way of not cooperating with whatever identification or numbering scheme your local Thought Police have, or are working on. As Gandhi, the Soviet refuseniks, and others have showed, non-cooperation works.

Shonda Ponder at Friends of Liberty - I Am a Criminal: My letters to Bush and Gramm - Ms. Ponder will not shut up, Shays-Meehan or no. Neither will I. If GW signs this excrement into law, I will make a point to be especially noisy on this web site about who you should or should not vote for. Of course you know that I believe you shouldn't vote at all... [kaba]

Doug Patton at Ether Zone - Criminalizing the Second Amendment - how zero-tolerance policies continue to chip away at our unalienable right to keep and bear arms. [kaba]

Americans have always recognized the necessity for firearms. For that reason, it will be the longest, most protracted battle the U.S. Government has ever waged to disarm this nation without massive force. Nevertheless, a politically correct hostility, fed by the national media, is growing-in government, in corporate America and among the general public-toward anyone who exercises or even defends the right to keep and bear arms.

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More alarmingly, many judges and legislators accepted it long ago. In their world, the Constitution is just a guide. Rather than accepting its common-sense language at face value, the judiciary can interpret it according to the whims of the day. Unable to persuade the people or their representatives of a radical position on an issue, the Left simply pushes a test case through the courts until the final arbiter of all things legal, the U.S. Supreme Court, usurps the role of the Legislative Branch by creating new law and establishing a precedent, of which there can be no further review.

Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com - Don't Aggress Against Iraq - six reasons the U.S. should not attack Iraq. Give him a minute, and he'll think of six more. [lew]

What do we need? We need a clear understanding and belief in a free society, a true republic that protects individual liberty, private property, free markets, voluntary exchange and private solutions to social problems, placing strict restraints on government meddling in the internal affairs of others.

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries - Winterset, April 2002 - a little history of metallurgy, the bolt-action 700 Nitro Magnum rifle, why Standard Ready position (butt on belt) is better than shoulder-ready position, proper placement and adequate penetration are more important than sheer power, the importance of trigger action and why naming a rifle with its cartridge nomenclature is not very informative, the purpose of a firearm is to kill, a promise to review the Taurus 45-caliber service pistol, a pistol is often the most practical defense against large animals, "as powerful as can be comfortably managed", stop the in-fighting, war is good for the spirit.

In animal defense situations you are not likely to need a lot of ammunition. If you fail to brain your animal at spitting distance, reloading is probably going to be irrelevant.

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Telescopic sights are so common today that it is practically impossible to sell a rifle without one, but a scope is not the right choice when you are trying to stop a beast from biting you. The glass sight is plenty fast enough - faster than metallic sights when thoroughly understood - but it is no help in stopping a charge, and regardless of what any salesman will tell you, it is fragile over the long haul. Besides which its lenses may easily become obscured by foreign matter under conditions of rough duty. (On the occasion of my one and only lion, taken head-on at eleven paces, the telescope was an encumbrance. All I could see through the tube was yellow fur, which offered no aiming point.) Experiences differ and we have room here for endless fireside conversations, but I do not recommend a telescope sight on a rifle intended for man-killing beasts.

Gun control advocate may have violated gun laws - Sarah Brady, the namesake of the Brady Bill, bought a .30/06 for her son, without saying it was for him, which may be contrary to Delaware state law. Didn't mention that such a law if it exists is unconstitutional excrement. I seem to enjoy saying "excrement" today. Excrement. Excrement. Excrement. [trt-ny]

"(W)hen the owner called in the checks, it seemed to me he spoke unnecessarily loudly, repeating and spelling my name over and over on the phone," Brady writes.

GW Bush at whitehouse.gov - President Outlines U.S. Plan to Help World's Poor: Remarks by the President at United Nations Financing for Development Conference, Cintermex Convention Center, Monterrey, Mexico - pretty good speech. 13 minutes yesterday morning. Ties increased aid to the encouragement of "economic freedom, political liberty, the rule of law and human rights."

The lesson of our time is clear: When nations close their markets and opportunity is horded by a privileged few, no amount -- no amount -- of development aid is ever enough. When nations respect their people, open markets, invest in better health and education, every dollar of aid, every dollar of trade revenue and domestic capital is used more effectively.

We must tie greater aid to political and legal and economic reforms. And by insisting on reform, we do the work of compassion. The United States will lead by example. I have proposed a 50-percent increase in our core development assistance over the next three budget years. Eventually, this will mean a $5-billion annual increase over current levels.

These new funds will go into a new Millennium Challenge Account, devoted to projects in nations that govern justly, invest in their people and encourage economic freedom. We will promote development from the bottom up, helping citizens find the tools and training and technologies to seize the opportunities of the global economy.

Edgar J. Steele at Sierra Times - It Takes A Village Idiot (to destroy a family) - another woeful tale of a family having their children kidnapped by the organization that is supposed to protect them. Mr. Steele didn't mention the actual correct first response to these fascists: shoot to kill. [kaba]

Monica Mendoza at the Fort-Worth Star Telegram - Expelled student allowed to return - Taylor Hess has been allowed back into L.D. Bell High School. [kaba]

H-E-B Superintendent Gene Buinger also said Thursday that the district would rewrite its zero-tolerance policy to give school principals more latitude when punishing students.

Dave Lieber at the Fort-Worth Star Telegram - Readers make their opinions known about expulsion case - not surprisingly, my letter didn't make it. But there were some good ones. Especially: [kaba]

Now, since you've broached the subject of schools, violence and humans not using their brains, why don't you do an article on the fact that there is a federal law banning guns within a thousand feet of every school? That law creates a safe zone for anyone who wishes to commit violence at a school with a gun. It pretty much assures that no one will be able to stop the evil-doer.

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