Ashcroft's Second Amendment Some More
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 10 May 2002 12:00:00 GMT
OQO, pronounced Oh Queue Oh, is an "ultra-personal computer". It
fits a 1 GHz processor, 20 gigs of hard drive, and 256 megs of RAM
into a pocket-sized device with a touch-sensitive screen. Neat
looking. No release date that I could find. [time]
Alan R. Weiss at Smith2004.com - Re: Atrocities In American Airports - Bravo, Mr. Weiss! Copied below in its entirety: [smith2004]
I just got back from Las Vegas.
I had my bags searched, they waved their Magic Wand up and down my body, snooped inside my shoes.
They found my wife's and mine vibrators.
"What is this, sir?" asked the ugly, short, dumpy, foreign-accented, ill-trained Wackenhut-employee "security specialist"
"Its a genuine Pearl Rabbit vibrator", I replied cooly. "It gives you multiple orgasms on 5 AA batteries. Here, let me turn it on for you ---"
"Uh, er, um, that's OK, sir", flustered the Befuddled Gestapo Agent as I reached for my property.
"OK", I shrugged. "By the way, I am noting that you have just violated my 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures", I said. "I intend of filing this with my lawyers."
The hapless drone Army dude with the interesting-looking M-16 moved closer to me.
"And you can tell the Private there that I am a citizen of the USA and am no danger to anyone except those that violate my rights", I said, LOUDLY.
They let me pass through. Barely. My wife was horrified, and I heard nothing but shit from her on the way home to Austin. But you know what - it was worth it.
Chekist bastards.
Paul Waugh and Robert Booth at The Independent -
Goodbye stars, hello stripes: The new symbol of the EU -
The European Union gets a barcode for a flag. Bizarre. [samizdata {lew}]
The new design, which has been commissioned from the ultra- fashionable Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, will bleed all of the colours of the national flags of EU nations alongside each other.
Albany (NY) Times Union - Mr. Ashcroft reaches far - more commentary on Ashcroft's proper interpretation of the second amendment. I sent the following letter to the editor:
In their May 10 editorial, the Times Union editors made a common mistake in the interpretation of United States v Miller. That decision allowed the government to regulate weapons with no militia utility. Said the other way round, it judged as unconstitutional any law restricting possession of weapons with militia utility.
Any student of revolutionary history can quote dozens of examples that our Founding Fathers intended the second amendment to apply to "the people", all of us, but I'll stick with the militia for now.
U.S. code, Title 10, Subtitle A, Part I, Chapter 13, Section 311 says:
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard."
Hence, U.S. v Miller means that no government restrictions may be put on the ownership of militia arms by a large portion of the U.S. male population. Militia members are expected to be ready for war at all times, armed with their own weapons and ammunition. Today, weapons of militia utility include handguns, fully automatic rifles, bazookas, hand grenades, shoulder-mounted heat seeking missiles, and, just as much now as in 1939, sawed-off shotguns.
If you read the first clause of the second amendment, the clause that gun haters think restricts gun ownership to the state, you'll discover that it says that "a well-regulated Militia" is "necessary to the security of a free State." Hence, restricting possession of these weapons by any able-bodied male citizen between the ages of 17 and 45 is treason, pure and simple.
