Mad Prophet

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 03 Apr 2002 13:00:00 GMT

Google - The technology behind Google's great results - Pigeons! Great April Fools page. [mind]

CNN? - CNN And TIME Magazine Announce Top Winners Of Fifth Annual "Journalist Award" - and a little April Fool's gift for Jerry Pournelle. Hehe. [pournelle]

Shonda Ponder at Friends of Liberty - Spoiled Brat Hissy Fit - Now that GW has signed the incumbent protection bill, Ms. Ponder promises to break the law. Good for her. [kaba]

I understand that it won't go into effect until next year. But, EVERY year during the two weeks before the election, until election day, I will be handing out flyers on street corners. I will be carrying signs, and I will have information on this website about any incumbant I feel needs to be voted out of office.

What is right is right. That bill is totally anti-free speech and I plan to break the law because the law is WRONG. I am not going to jail. I will die or I will win. They will have to tie me, gag me, and forcefully carry me to jail.

If I don't get killed first.

Jeff Elkins at LewRockwell.com - Mickey Mouse and Foghorn Leghorn - good article on the latest excrement from the senator from Disney. [trt-ny]

Formerly known as the SSSCA (Security Systems & Standards Certification Act), the renaming hasn't improved this proposed rape of our digital freedom. It stinks to high heaven, and if passed will have the effect of turning your computer into no more than a fancy digital television, pretty much under the control of so-called "content providers", media megaliths such as Disney/ABC and AOL-Time/Warner.

Charley Reese - Guns Save Lives - a review of Robert Waters new book sharing this article's title, to be published in June by Loompanics. Guns save lives. The right to keep and bear arms is a no-compromise issue. Anyone who would infringe on your right to protect yourself is a murderer, plain and simple.

This time the guy was sentenced to life without parole. I said "this time" because he had a record of felony convictions that should have kept him in prison. That is a common theme. In almost all of these cases, the bad guys were convicted felons who never should have been let out of prison, but were by a badly run criminal justice system.

I say it plainly: If you rely on the criminal justice system to protect you and your family, you're relying on a flawed system that has resulted in the deaths and serious injuries of literally thousands of innocent people who were murdered or assaulted by people with many convictions on their records. The revolving door of our prison system still has not been completely shut, though some progress in some states has been made. Even so, there are still many idiots in black robes who seem to have far more sympathy for the criminals than for the victims.

Nat Hentoff at Editor & Publisher - Most Far-Reaching Gag Order In 1st Amend. History? - One part of the "USA PATRIOT" act says that the f.b.i. can seize lists of books bought or borrowed by alleged terrorists, and the bookstore or library may not reveal that the seizure has taken place. First amendment? What first amendment? [unknown]

L. Neil Smith at Roadhouse Sierra - Break a Leg - L. Neil jokingly suggested that a friend break her boss'es legs. Afterwards he realized that maybe it wasn't a joke. After all... that's what the president would do. Subscription required. Get one today. [sierra]

You want to stamp out any possible criticism of the way you're Nazifying this once-free country? Take over as many of the means of transportation as you can, to control where dissenters go and with whom they meet. Search their bodies in every invasive, humiliating way you can so they'll understand that they're no longer sovereign beings, but government property, slabs of meat to be disposed of any way you whimsically decide. Spy on every means of communication that exists, collecting names of human cattle you don't like the looks of. Accuse those who disagree with your regime of pushing the limits of the First Amendment.

There aren't any rules, any more.

J. Neil Schulman at Sierra Times - Unholy Lands - one man's opinion of the "holy wars" in Israel. [sierra]

When the Jews now living in Israel, the Hebrews who lived there millennia ago, the Christians and Muslims who have lived there over millennia and who live there now, talk about God, they all are talking about the same God.

And if they think that God wants them to fight and kill each other over real estate, even real estate of multiple historic religious significances, they are certifiable nutballs. With apologies to my good friend Tom Szasz, I have no problem with suicidal maniacs who want to blow up themselves and innocent civilians being strapped down by strong men in white coats and injected with Thorazine until they come to their senses.

Mad Prophets Sanctuary - GunFree Camps™ - Hehe. [kaba]

Are you concerned about the easy availability of guns in our society?
Are you alarmed about "gun nuts" and other freedom wackos that the government lets run loose?
Do you wish that the government would just repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate all the guns, since sensible people shouldn't have to suffer because of an antiquated "right"?
While we can't take the guns out of society, we can take the society away from the guns. At GunFree Campstm , we create a domain of tranquility where you and your family can experience the benefits of a gun-free environment.

Mad Prophet's Sanctuary - It's Time to Decide - a challenge to folks who think the constitution is a dynamic document that can be re-interpreted at will.

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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