Million Gun March

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:25:24 GMT

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones

and:

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -- Mark Twain

and:

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Albert Einstein

Rick Stanley at Armed Females of America - 'Million Gun March' Moves Ahead! - Wow! [kaba]

The Bill of Rights Rallies demand the repeal of all unconstitutional laws at all levels of government. A petition will be started on the Stanley for Senate website, (see www.stanley2002.org), beginning April 15, 2002, specifically demanding certain unconstitutional laws be repealed and abolished before the Million Gun March at Washington, D.C. on July 4, 2003. Signers for the petition will be not only making the demands to repeal and abolish certain laws, but will be attesting to their personal guarantee to attend the Million Gun March armed with a rifle, a pistol and ammunition for their personal weaponry. The march will only be held, if at least one million signatures from Americans across the nation, guarantee their presence at the march.

ChuckMuth.com - The Liberty Compact - a little pledge for signing by all candidates for public office. If they won't sign, they don't deserve your vote. There is also a petition asking your current congress critters to sign the compact. [GOP News & Views]

I, ____________________________, pledge to the citizens of the State of _________________ and to the American people, that as their elected representative I will work to: Promote liberty, not restrict it; shrink government, not expand it; reduce taxes, not raise them; abolish programs, not create them; promote the freedom and independence of citizens, not the interference of government in their lives; and observe the limited, enumerated powers of our Constitution, not ignore them.

Signed: _________________________________________

Date: ___________________________________________

Your Name: _____________________________________

Address: ________________________________________

City, State, Zip: __________________________________

Office Sought: ___________________________________

District #: _______________________________________

Are You the Incumbent? ___ YES ___ NO

Print this page and mail or fax to:
Chairman Chuck Muth
Republican Liberty Caucus
3659 Scotwood Street
Las Vegas, NV 89121
FAX: (702) 454-7798

Russell Madden at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - Inmates Running the Asylum - commentary on the insanity of the modern tyrant in the light of the recent order by a judge for Johnita DeMatteo to quit smoking in her home or in her car because her son, who visits her occasionally, doesn't like the smell it leaves.

DeMatteo's struggle is simply one more step in the inversion of common sense, in the destruction of rationality bleeding through this country. While I support questioning authority whenever it oversteps its bounds as fervently as anyone I know, to accept the facts of this case as in the slightest manner being justified is to declare that the crazies have seized the reins and are now in charge of the asylum.

StopPoliceware.org has devoted their site to fighting the CBDTPA, the latest excrement from the senator from Disney. Rip. Mix. Burn. Jail. is a Flash animation clarifying the result of this bill should it be passed by our congress critters. [samizdata]

Wayne Hicks at Sierra Times - FreedomFest: The Time Has Come - Mr. Hicks is organizing FreedomFest, a meeting for the freedom movement.

FreedomFest will be held July 4th, 5th and 6th of this year. Harmony, the chosen location, is a mile-long valley in Northwest Arkansas, only an hour south of Branson, Missouri, and one of the most beautiful places on earth. The rolling hills make natural amphitheaters, and we're taking advantage of this fact, establishing multiple pavilions so that we can have three or more programs going at all times. There's enough room for many people who may want camp there, or bring their RV's, and still do all that we want to do.

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For two solid days we're going to have ourselves a blast, listening to music and learning about just what we can do to preserve our precious American heritage of liberty!

And then, on Saturday, July 6th, we're going to ask all of you who attend to join together to discuss and vote on resolutions that will be sent to every congressman, every senator; proposing new legislation that can restore the freedoms our forefathers fought and bled and died to leave to us, their progeny.

VIn Suprynowicz at Sierra Times - Homeland Security: Time to sweep aside some euphemisms - Tom Ridge doesn't appear to have any official function. He won't talk to Congress, and has no budget. And the military no longer thinks their job is to protect America. Rename them to the war department. [sierra]

Peter J. Mancus at KeepAndBearArms.com - This Pig Stinks! - a long account of Dr. Mancus' fight over CCW with the Sebastopol, CA chief of police. I haven't finished it yet, but it looks worth reading. [kaba]

The 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid now has a web site. You have to register to see it, which probably means Honda will send you junk mail (if you give them your real address). 51 MPG highway. $20,550 retail. Electric everything. CD player. Automatic transmission. I'm a civic fan. I have a '93 civic sedan with over 200,000 miles on it. It just keeps running.

jso888 at Slashdot - Can GnuPG Deliver? - lots of discussion of what to do now that Network Associates has stopped supporting PGP. It appears that there are good GUI front ends for GNU Privacy Guard on Windows (WinPT, GnuPP) and OSX (MacGPG, GPGMail). [/.]

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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