Cannabis Is Medicine. Get Used to It!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:00:00 GMT

russmo.com - Campaign Finance Reform Logic - cartoon commentary on the reason the campaign finance "reform" bill passed congress. Hehe.

www.scintilla.utwente.nl/asdfhjkl - a most creative 404 page. Hehe. View source if you get tired of waiting for the whole thing to slowly scroll into view. [brad]

Helen Highwater at Unknown News - US government tortures my husband - Harry Highwater has an recurring ulcer problem. There are two drugs that work, a green liquid available at the emergency room, but not by prescription, and cannabis (aka marijuana). Cannabis works better, much better. It makes the pain go away, completely. Why can't Mr. Highwater use what works for him whenever he wants? Because the U.S. government is into torture, that's why.

Anyone who looked into my husband's eyes on Saturday night, anyone who heard his screams -- at least, anyone with a soul -- would understand that this was torture. And it didn't just "happen." It's official policy.

Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - Gun control laws have failed once more - Vin responds to an "anonymous, tax-supported academic totalitarian" who blames him for a recent accidental killing of a 3-year-old. [market]

For your information, more than 1 million German and other European children were killed in Hitler's concentration camps because their families had given up their firearms -- and thus their ability to defend themselves against government tyranny -- by obeying victim disarmament ("gun control") laws very much like the ones you'd like to see imposed here. ...

When the tiny number of children who die in gun accidents or due to the misbehavior of madmen in the free world begins to equal that number -- after subtracting the number of children saved from such madmen when law-abiding civilians show up to the rescue with their firearms, as in the famous recent case in Pearl, Miss. -- you be sure and let me know ... whereupon I'll advise you of how many children died thanks to the kind of "gun control" that fills your wet dreams, in Stalin's USSR, in Mao's Red China, and in Pol Pot's Cambodia.

Henry Lamb at World Net Daily - Bush blocks U.N. tax plan - thanks to the Bush administration and Japanese support, last week's conference in Monterrey, Mexico ended with no taxation authority for the commU.N.ists. Unfortunately, Shrub promised to send more of our stolen federal tax money overseas. [trt-ny]

The U.N.'s quest for global taxing authority will not go away. Even though this effort has been thwarted, temporarily, the U.N. can be expected to continue its efforts to get out from under the control of the United States. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, which will convene in Johannesburg, South Africa, next August, will likely hear sharp criticism of the U.S., and more calls for financial independence for the U.N., among the many other agenda items.

Libertarian Party Press Releases - Latest increase in stamp prices is proof that it's time to privatize the Post Office - Amen.

David Goree at Liberty For All - Firepower and Freedom - In the Revolutionary War, American colonists could match the English government with private firepower. No more. It should not be that way. Private citizens should be equipped to defend themselves against tanks and jet fighters. Instead, owning weapons that could provide such defense, bazookas, anti-aircraft guns, stinger missiles, is big-time illegal. [market]

Jerry Jones at KeepAndBearArms.com - Tyranny: The Threshold Has Already Been Crossed - a detailed examination of how the bill of rights is routinely violated by corrupt government agents. [market]

The United States is not a "Free" country, nor is it governed by "The People." Only when a country founded on laws, follows those laws is it legitimate. All governments will cross the line from time to time and the people and/or laws will reign it back in. The US Government has entirely destroyed the line and the law is not enforced against it. This is defined as a "Police State" anywhere else in the world it occurs. We even send our troops to free people living in such conditions while pretending it's not happening here.

Is it too late? That's a tough one. Elected officials are no longer afraid of the law or the people. The people are uneducated and believe whatever ABC, CBS, NBC tell them.

S.2048, Fritz Hollings' "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act" (CBDTPA), is available from Thomas. This is the pre- and post-ban computer excrement on which I reported last Friday. Excrement. Excrement. Excrement.

John L. Mitchell at The Los Angeles Times - Woman Wins Medical Pot Case - a California jury has either supported prop. 215 or nullified the law, depending on your perspective. Whichever name you use, it's very good news for the side of freedom. [cures-not-wars]

Kambui said she also was ready to celebrate. Standing with cigarette paper in her hand, she said: "I've got to roll me some medicine."

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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